Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-06-27 | Page 8 | Sure-Thing Game Worked on Three

SHI ME r IKB1TKE The time-worn sure-thing games . still reap a thriving business; this . time it is not the dollar-matching x game but the freight-bill trick. The .. sympathetic victims were three ad-'. ad-'. venturous young men from Idaho; the friend In need was a "horse buyer" y and naturally was from Idaho too. The horse buyer had a carload of horses to be shipped to New York City. He felt in his pocket and to his great surprise had only $100, and the freight on the horses was $145. "Let's see; what can I do?" he mused. The Samaritan Sa-maritan look on the faces of the three youths from the Gem state was too convincing to be passed up The very look In their eyes told him that he could make friends with them. He tried it, succeeded; told the young men that he had a carload of horses to be shipped to Now York thence to Europe and that he needed three more men to go along and help watch the horses. The boys volunteered; were accepted. But where was that remaining re-maining $45 to be secured. ' If he could just get that amount until his freight bill could be receipted, then he could draw a draft for the entire amount and reimburse the lender. Would the boys from Idaho lend It to him? Sure they would. The ?45 was soon made up between them and turned turn-ed over to the "horse shipper." They arranged to meet at a certain restaurant restau-rant and there receive the $45 back and their ticket to New York. The boys wero at the restaurant at the appointed time, but lo! the shipper didn't arrive and hadn't arrived up to noon today. The Idaho trio began to wonder if they had not been, "fleeced." They quietly left the restaurant and have not been heard of since. Their names could not be learned.