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Show v Swindled -by a Buckeye. IH Special Cable to The Tribune. AMSTEHDA.M. Jan. 22. A Cincinnati O.', ni.'in, who griidnts. is badly v.uiued bv IH a firm of Jewelers here, who are out IH t-omething like ?l.00u through his ac IH iualntinne. tie earn'- hero showing ere- IH dentkils in his name from the firm, whose eonfldcitial agent he sulci he wis a passbook ef the "!) t N'atiomil linn!;, Clnchuuitl. nnd various other papery, .-ill In Ills name and apparently In good or der. lie bi)Ught eighty-four .stone-, weighing togeilier seventy. four carats, :!0.U0i) flnriiii-. and paid -for them in tw? checks for .11 ono aud one for r.'inO drawn on a London bank and duly .signed by the Cincinnati firm an I iilinselC. The oheok-s were declared forg-cries, forg-cries, but not until after the man who .squints had laken his departure with the IH l |