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Show "MAGIC" BOOTMAKER ISJJNDER ARREST Matthew H. Hilgert Is Remembered Remem-bered Here as Selling Shoes at $100 Per Pair. Dispatches from New York announco tho arrest of Matthew H. Hilgert. formerly for-merly of Salt Lake, an alleged maker of "magic mechanlco-physlologlcnl boots," on a chargo of practicing medicine without with-out a license. He and his chief assistant, Dr. Albert Whltohouse. an osteopath, were each held under 5500 ball for examination. exam-ination. Made Costly Boots. Whatever tho valuo of the handiwork turned out In Hllgerfs shop, ho was able to securo fabulous prices for his wares, It being alleged that somo of his millionaire customers paid from $1000 to fSOtt per pair for the "muglc" bools ho sold them. Well Known in Salt Lako. Hilgert wns well known in Salt Lake, having conducted his peculiar business of making boots and shoes from ensts, for seven or eight years. In tho Miller hotel building. Third South and State streets. His display window, filled with wax and plaster casts of all sorts of foot deformities, deform-ities, was long an object of curiosity to tourists and strangers. Ambitions Roso High. Thcro were not enough wealthy customers custom-ers here to afford Hilgert the field ho sought, $100 per pair being nbout the bC3t he could do with his Suit Lako trade. But from all that can bo learned ho built up an Immense business In New York. Smooth as a Talker. Men who remombcr Hllgcrt's mothods of doing business here did not view his departure with regret. It Is said that he cou!d talk almost any man with tho money mo-ney Into paying $1C0 for a pair of shoos worth about J10. and after tho articles were delivered could coax the customer Into puttlne up ?25 or $50 more for necessary neces-sary alterations, |