Show mm BRICKS OF GOLD A confidence toe game HOW IT SUCCEEDED no sucker caught this time the gold filings were retained and now the gold brick game has been tried at denver but the fish was a little more fly by than thai our own george W and not only escaped being caught but bat actually ran away with the bait says saya the denver sewa news bill daly a confidence man well wel known and notorious throughout the west made ft a bold attempt last week to swindle W D richmond a wealthy r reaid e 1 dent tinto ol 01 cripple chaek out oat of by bv the tha old time gold brick swindle richmond Rich at first bit at the bait and then informed chief hopkins daly was led to the mouth of th the 0 trap but he be is too wary an old fox to be caught ard and at the last moments he be drew back dalys partner who exhibited the tha brick bra is a mysterious unknown and as aa the detectives were unable to solve chis hib lenta i no DO arrests wf afre re made aud rica bica mond still stia has his hia and a little experience richmond Bich mond is a mining man who in cripple creek made mada a stake of 20 he bold oat his principal interest there last week and came to denver and put up at tha windsor hotel on tuesday june 13 he was sitting in a chair in the tha lobby of that hoat hosteny eliy when smooth and scare bill daly floated in casting his hand handsome soma big bi eyes around for a bird on which ha be could feast richmond Bich mond attracted his atten attention tiou no doubt because from ap peara bearance pe arance uce he be seemed to be prosperous and he stilt still retained a portion at least of the dress drees of an active mining man after taking in the situation dal daly took a chair by the side of his intends intended victim ani boon commenced a conver batton daly is always well groomed gr oom ed of smooth address and the topic soon changed from the weather to politics then to mining and finally to mutual mu tuai experiences in mountain camps by the way said daly 1 I met mat ft a queer old codger a few days ago A regular old timer not ode one of those pioneers pion eera that you hear bear about evert day this fellow has a histo history in olden days when leadville was a booming camp he was a bold train robber he ha robbed stages and rui pullmans iman s single handed and never took less than one night in 1879 when it was dark and snowing he held up toe the Leady iUa illa stage and took only the wells fargo express box but this was enough for it contained six cold id bars weighing eighty five pounds each since sinca that time this thia man manawas waa never naver heard iles rd 0 of he ee seemed to drop out of sight eight and I 1 was surprised when I 1 saw him on antha the street the other day then he made an offer that I 1 want to accept he said that he be still had two of the gold bricks stolen from the leadville stage he only wants for the two of them and they are worth double that sum I 1 have baye bat 2000 and I 1 am willing to put that in if I 1 can get somebody to put up the other 11 well I 1 am out for the stuff staff said richmond and then daly beamed a smile bad started to 10 carefully train hir bis sucker richmond Bich mond liked his hia new acquaintance q but fortunately tumbled to his hia came but he be made up his big mind to have a little experience with the bunco man he is now highly satisfied richmond and daly parted on tuesday agreeing to meet on the tha next neit day daly ant went away to make the necessary nbc essary and richmond Bich mond at once went to the office of chef hopkins and unfolded the conspiracy which he an and d daly had formed to rob the old man out of his two gold eold bricks chief hopkins then entered into the conspiracy and detailed detective burlew to aid rich bich mond in leading daly deeper into th the trap tran on thursday night at 7 oclo k daly and richmond left leff the windsor hotel in a buggy to go alter after the bricks in a lonely spot way out on the prairie D daiy diy ly brought his horse to a stand got out and tied him to a barb wire fence then ahring richmond Bich mond to follow him the two men walked to a clump of trees near ky by soon the bricks were wera unearthed they were buried deep two inches deep in the sand and richmond Bich mond rint noticed iced that there were no cobwebs on the maund he closely examined the bullion and then suggested that he would like to take adie some lingi filings fl back with him aud and have them assayed daly produced afeie an and d began scraping off quite a quantity of the supposed gold the filings filing 3 aers folded up in piece of white paper in a particular way by daly he had in his bis pocket another piece of paper bodei in the sami same way int but this piece contained the filing of real gold the latar he handed to Ri chmand richmond Kich mond saw the tha change but did not say bay a word before leaving richmond Bich mond told the stage rob oer der he would buy the bricks if the tha tl nl ing assayed high enough with this understanding daly left in some manner he be got a tip that the detectives were onto his game and 1 la he has not paid a second secand visit to rich mond he is still in town but he will I 1 not be arrested as tha detectives have I 1 but little evidence against him |