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Show LANDS IN JAIL, , NOT "EASY ST." Clever Wire-Tapper and Confidence Man Arrested While Waiting for a "Lit-tie "Lit-tie Ready Cash." CHICAGO, Feb. P. William Clark, alias Conway, said by the police to be one of the cleverest wire-tappera in the country, and well known as a confidence confi-dence man. was arrested yesterday by detectives, who caught him as he was waiting at a window of the Illinois Trust and Pavings bank. Clark had a victim in tow in the person of J. W. Thorne, and was to have been given considerable money in return for "inside "in-side information on the races." Thorne early in the dav had been ta-ken ta-ken through several rooms in the West ern Union building by Clark, who told him that he was "in need of just a lit tie ready cash to make a good thing work." Clark went from room to room, it is said, and after showing his new acquaintance the many instruments, de clared that he was in possession of a scheme which would "land them in 'Easy street.'" Thorne had seen an advertisement and was suspicious of his escort. "Meet me in the Board of Tmd- building," said ( lark, as he extended his hand. "You will not reet having hazarded the money. I will see v.tu in a few hours. ' ' Instead of waiting for the arrival of headquarters and told his storv. Two detectives took up their position in the dot,- lives to, k iif their i . - r i . m in the bank, while Thorne hurried awav to keep his appointment with ('l.irk. "To gethrr thev entered the bank, ami went U the v. mdow cf a pa:nj teller. It was while several "yellow hark.-.' ver eing handed to Thorne iiy fie cahii r that the detectives stepp, d up ail.j seued i i;.rk. |