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Show UU ' PROVES EASY MARK - FOR CONFIDENCE MEN i Salt Lake. Sept. 9. The game oi the professional "confidence" man. his wiles and how he leads tho unsophisticated unsophis-ticated into his carefully planned traps, was exposed in all its technical techni-cal points yesterday aflafnoon when M C. Smithson of Good Sprlncs, New, son of a wealthy mining map of th it state, and who was sight-scolng In Salt lake, tcld S. M. Barlow, chief of police tho story of how he had been "rolled" for $37 by three clovor crooks yesterday afternoon TJie victims declares that he confidence confi-dence men flashed as much as $2,000 before him ant only Induced him to show his own mono by a clover ruse. Tho police have a good description of the crooks and nre scouring the city in search of them Mr. Smithson left Salt Lake last night at 11:45 o'clock for Portland, Ore., where ho will attend at-tend school. "I met one of tho trio in the writing room at the Hotel Utah abput noor yesterday," said Smithson Ho was going to the Salt Palace and I offered of-fered to accompanv him. About three blocks north of tho Salt Palace on Main street a man came toward us from the south and asked wheic thc Salt Palace was I told, him ii was 'right ahead' and ho said that If wc were going that way ho would accompany accom-pany us ' "While wo wore walking down the street the second man took from hh pocket a roll of greenbacks which I eould see wore real and In which he said was $2,000. Presently both men hepan to match dollars, until tho first man suid that he was broke. Tho second man then approached tue an 1 said: '"We'll tench him a los-on for gambling You take this dollar and match him.' , Ho nlfio gave thc fl-U man a dollar. Thc threi of us hosni matching dollars and in mt moie than three minutes I had won SG. Thc man with thc bank roll then assumed n caieless manner and sa'.d 'IJM match you for S1.000,' He closed 'Ills tnnl over a dollar ond I eloped mine auto matically Then we opennd, out hands and he said that I nad wou "He was about to hanj me a $1,000 greenback, when he bald " 'Wait, maybe vou haven't got a thousand dollars. Let's see how muh you have got "Not knowing exactly what I was doing, I took $37 from my pocket. Then tho second man said. 'No. I won.' With this he took j the monov from my hand. At th(8 , point a thin man came up the strce' J and spok to tho (wo mpvp who had fieecod mov The three Jmen walked down thc street" cfi" |