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Show New Way to Get Rich Quick. "Wireless wire tapping" is the latest development, develop-ment, but cot iu the lice of electrical intention, however. It is merely a new scheme of fnm-1. A victim has exposed the modns ope?.i-di. liu it on u not be said ihat be has laised himself iii public pub-lic esteem or provoked even sigh of syini.it!jy for his unliieky plipht. ike most other "good things,"'this -wireless wire tapping" comes from New York City. A fellow with a desire to get-rich quickly fell in with a con-liding con-liding gentleman, who told him of an easy wuy to beat the men who conduct a literary bureau for those who like to risk a ten-spot now and then on the eonduct of the ponies. This man with aspirations aspira-tions for sudden wealth managed to scrape together $50,000, according to his story, but just why a man with that amount should have aspirations for greater wealth when he did not know how to take care of what he had he did not state. With this sum of money he went to an alleged telegraph office and heard a busy man calling out various sums to be invested in the aforesaid literary bureau by men of more or less note in the business world, and also telling that certain horses had won races, with the additional information that the news had been intercepted in-tercepted before being given to the bookmakers. It all appeared regular, or rather irregular, and so the fellow decided to place his foO.OOO at odds of six to one on a "sure thing" that had just won a race in New Orleans. He knew, or thought he knew, the horse had won, and he also thought he knew that the bookmakers did not know. With visions of what he would do ou $300,000 dancing through his excited brain, the man with the f.spirations for wealth walked over to collect the money, only to find that the horse that he thought had won did not win at. all, and his $50,000 was gone. His "advance -information" had merely been the wireless fabric of a pipe dream, or words to that effect. He had attempted to pluck the golden Heece and had himself been plucked. He did not let concealment prey on bi j damaged check book, but told the police. Hence the story of ' wireless wire tapping." Wire tapping is in itself a feerious offense, but tapping without wires, when the party tapped would have been a tapper himself, has not been catalogued in the book of crimes. "Wireless wire tapping" may, however, be classiiied as about the easiest way known to make monej- off the fellow who wants to get rich quick. |