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Show i CT k Rill- Wa HA I ! i r& ? 1 I fc"ce (II IB I 1 1 I i l ih - r ' titec Confidence Man Swin- g dies Convention Visit- gthc ors With Tickets. 'W W &lalty Chicago. Juno ?. A typewritten re- pre quest of "Please adVt bearer to all !wr sessions" on monogramvjied paper over f tho forged signature Oi President if Taft, it was learned laet lght. had t tlta been tho means employed 'by K confl- vstiig dence man to swindle more them a tf&n1 score of convention visitors during the i&sl. day. M'"oc Josiah Hnrtnetl, who wore a G A'. jfj ,-v R. button and said he was from Ar- .jjun kanaas, presented one at the Coliseum Amt and later told the police that he had Mpo paid $10 for it to a man who claimed (fi t to be a peraonal friend of the presl- ii-ac dent and said Mr. Taft was Indignant '"fend because so many of his good friends ,vne had been shut out of the big meeting. fcht "He explained to me what a grand fj( man President Taft was and that I ..jfldli was making a mistake In shouting for ' j'ai; Rooseelt. Then he said he would be unable to use the ticket and olfered ,'g to let mo hao it for $10, which I i!?ar gladly paid," said Hartnett In explain- s'i-'nxt ing the swindle to the police. Investigation by the police showed b. 1 that moro than twenty of such pass- .mua ports had been presented at the varl- rij,a ous doors. iljjjt |