Deseret Evening News | 1901-08-19 | Page 9 | Mr. Smooth

MK l I V S C Clarke Tells fels a 1 Plea Pleasant sant salt Little Fairy Talc Several merchants of ot the city cl are mourning the tact fact that they met let V C Clarke a n man Ian lan with wih a 1 smooth tongue and a n feasible advertising who pot gOt away avay with a u few tew hundred dollars from frol them He lie le purported to represent the Journal of ot Commerce Commee of ot Son Sati Fran Francisco I FrancIco rn cisco cIco and solicited advertisements for fora fr frn br bra a n coast edition l which was to be published He lie Il would have hac dune done but bet let ter than he did were wore It I not for Cor the fact tac that his hil game was wa blocked by lack of ot time and material Ills His IB collections I amounted to a It few hundred dollars at ol the tho most mast and ant not several thousand as lS has hiss been beon stated He lie le Is la well wel known In other cities as aR a swindler and crook and Is said to have hare worked the same samo ime game In Bo ton and In Los Ls Angeles