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Show Skin Game. Tun Ri:im;iilican- has for some time been familiar with the facts involved hi that unfortunate alf.iii in which the late Peter Alllcck was robbed of $1000, but out consldeiatlon for tho family who deslied to Invoke the aid of the law and If possible bring tlie shaipcr back to Logan before the facts weie made public, we have refrained from making mention heietofore. However, How-ever, through the laudable enterprise and get-it-lirst policy of that other paper in Logan which occasionally wakes fiom Its constitutional apathy to score a scoop, the matter has now been made public and we feel obligated obligat-ed to give rather than suppiess the details. As tho story goes, one A. Norman St. Claire icglstered at the Eagle Hotel sometime in April, rcpiesenting himself as a llrst-class mlnd-readcr, second sight man, revealer of the past, picsentand future and all-round heal-ci heal-ci equal to Lydia Plnkham's Pink Pills. Ills wonderful feats soon attracted at-tracted attention and he built up an excellent trade. However the gentleman gentle-man was a smooth guy, and after big game. It is presumed that some unprincipled un-principled local celebrity and candidate candi-date for service In tlie State pen, cited cit-ed victims to hhn and in the course of tlie business finally landed the old gentleman Allleck. Mi. Allleck had been a most conscivative business man and had amassed considerable of tills world's goods. Having leached a time In life when he had evci) ica-son ica-son to expect an culy summons to the gieat be)ond, Mi. Alllcck still desired to icmalii to enjoy the fiults of his life of haul work and on the lepiesent-atlon lepiesent-atlon of St. C!ah e that he could furnish furn-ish him a belt which would give him a lease of life foi another scoic of )c.us, the old gentleman forgot his usual business sagaclt) and cntcicd Into dealings with this unpiiiiciplcd scoundiel. The sharpei icpiesented to Mr. Alllcck that a certain kind of belt was necessary to bring about tho promised longevity, and that tho old man would have to put up $1500 for It; that. Its magic power came in the fact that It was to be made of $20 gold pieces all of a certain date. Mr. Allleck was to furnish the coin, pay $100 foi having the belt made, and then weai It about ills waist. On May (Ith, Mi. Allleck was Induced Induc-ed to pait with the $1,000, and iccelv-cd iccelv-cd in letuin notes for $l,fe00. Of couise the sh.upei was nevei seen by Mi. Allleck aftei this time and the notes will nevei he paid llcfoieliis death Mi. Allleck and Mis Secrlst went to Salt Lake Cit) to see if tlie) could Hud tlie missing gent, that peisou having said that lie would go theie to have tho belt made. The) didn't Hud him, and Mi. Affleck's Af-fleck's death came u shoit time aftei. It seems that tho fellow was thoi-ough thoi-ough in hiswoik, having cntcicd into an agicemcnt with ids clients that none of them lecogule hhn on the sticets, It Is said that each tlmo he was seen on the sheets his appearance appear-ance had been changed bv a dlHetent suit of clothes, and not hifiequetitl) tho use of such facial make-ups as mustaches and wigs. Tho sons of Mr. A flleck have made every endeavor to get the olllcials on tho tiack of tho shaipei, but 'tis said that tlieio Is no law to covor tho case, and ho Is left to go his way to skin other victims. |