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Show ie them, and while near the supposed sup-posed victim, placing a tortoise in the bed. The reptile would crawl between the sheets and ultimately touch some portion of the body of the person. With a scream that could be heard all over the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, the paralyzed individual would suddenly recover the power of locomotion and rush out of the room. One man, thus detected, severely beat the surgeon for the toss deceit he had practiced upon him." Children are often tr, simulate serious injuria H come remarkable actors bt' negro boy of four, whose 1 were paid many clafm8 for1 injuries to him, was final ?-j ed by an offer of a prize I ren who could run fastest m"11-he m"11-he forgot his brolten f00t , otlC! jured spine and won ,h d only to ha his surprised' Mlt' drag him away, thrashin, route to his home. 1 e THE lyWEAUGHINEMJGHMn MEDICAL FAKERS Traumatic fakers are what medical men call those crooked individuals who simulate an injury in-jury which they claim happened to them through no fault of their own and for which they demand exhorbitant damages and threaten lawsuits. The extent of this everyday every-day deceit is enormous. The manager man-ager of one bus line in New York told me that if it were not for this type of claim, usually settled for approximately from $50 to $100, as a nuisance value, his organization or-ganization could profitably operate oper-ate for a much smaller fare. Among those fakers may be classed those who walk into a dining room, order food, create a scene, and when a crowd has been attracted, remove from their mouths bits of glass, broken dishes, dish-es, or perhaps a part of or an entire en-tire tooth all of which was inserted in-serted in the mouth before they entered the establishment. The restaurant management is then charged with injuring the quasi customer, and in a few days a lawyer makes a demand for settlement, set-tlement, usually accepting a small sum. One of these women, in one day, played this game in six different restaurants, but unfortunately for her, the first and the sixth eating eat-ing place was owned by the same company and the general manager was in both branches when this female swindler startled others by her screams. She was arrested and later confessed to being a member of a gang which specialized special-ized in holding up popular and crowded eating places. "It is wonderful how quickly pain and injuries disappear," said an old railroad surgeon, "once a claim against my corporation is paid." He finally found a way to short-circuit these claimants who sought damages for alleged injuries injur-ies received, by calling to exam- |