Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-11 | Page 20 | "Phony" Jewelry Men Doing Good Business

"PHONY" JEWELRY MEN DOING GOOD BUSINESS Peddlers of "phony" jewelry are doing do-ing a rushing business in this city and the polico are making every attempt to bring tho illegal selling to a stop. During, tho past week thero has been a number of arrests on this charge, and 011 Saturday two men wero taken in for tho offense. Most of the men captured selling cheap jewelry aro men who aro drunkards and do it to obtain moncj-to moncj-to buj' moro "booze." They will buy the jowelry for a few cents and then pick out some country "gent," tell him a hard-luck story and sell tho jewelry for various prices, according ac-cording to how cleverly they can tako tho man in. At 5:35 o'clock Saturdav afternoon, Detective Price arrested W H. Price, a bricklayer, 4S j-ears old, and put him in tho city jail on tho charge or violating the license ordinance. Whilo walking on his beat on Stato street at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night, Policeman Simpson discovered Frank Howard, 32 years old. trying to dispose of somo cheap rings, aml'locked him up.