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Show l.llirtf '"I'M 1 :i f -n i : DYA l Strindter S5? !' 1 An entirely new and successful swindle, by hl-h It li known flvo Cincinnati firma haro been victimized, has bien rcportrd to Chief nf Detectives Detec-tives llaien. and tho ufflrera aro now tr)Ing to locate the pirty who his been working tho scheme. Its ery simplicity simplic-ity Insures success almost every time, tho crook managing at tho samo tlms to keep himself ao well In the background back-ground that tho pollco haro not even a description ot him. Tho scheme Is this: Tho man first obtains tho namo I and address nf eomo workman cm-1 ployed In a large establishment Ho I generally selects ono who Ucs quite I a distance from his placo ot employ I mcnL Tho next step Is lo go to n telephone, tele-phone, call up tee establishment and ask the party answering tho telephone to cither call tho workman or tnka a message to him. In either case, tho message Is that socio member ot tho family hss been seriously Injured or taken III suddenly nnd that tho work' man Is wanted at his homo Immediately. Immediate-ly. The result Is that tho workman hurries homo. During his absenco another an-other telephono call Is sent to tho place. Tho party working the awlndta represents himself ns tne uorkman, and sas owing to tho scrlousnesi of tho wife, mother, child or whoever li upposcd to bo Injured ho must remain at home aeveral daya. He adds that ho must have money, and requests his employer em-ployer to give what Is duo him on ti.o week's work to a messenger to bo tent at once. Of course, tho firm agrees, thinking 1U employ, li In need nnd when a messenger boy calls no question Is asked, but the wages duo Is handed ocr In an envelope. Instead In-stead nf tho workingman lending for It It develops an hour or 10 after - - - ww w WW w v a when Ike roau re urns lo tho calab-llsaramt-tlut tN 1, y WM gem i,r acme nut he dm. n t know, and gen-craltr gen-craltr from some ilown t wn store. Tho swindler -,t, ,. ,liun,yi j, tno boy for .eliienng the message, nnd lo ' well aay before the workman has re- I turned from his nome, where, ot I course, the suppohcd accident or aim den Illness had tint been huard of. Tho complal-ts to t hlef llazen coined five days. ikflMnj that the swindler work cd his time su-reirulv nl teait nnea t" " " surrefKniliy nl lealt nilCO each Uty. The smalli at amount he obtained ob-tained wis f,, 11 . highest 115. Tho firms Meg cump slnts aia tho V. M. , Iwson Tin snd Japanning Company, U 8. Sthrelbcr fc Bun Company, Iron manufstturers, the I.unkenhelmer llrass Foundry, the Btrobrldge Mtho-graphlog Mtho-graphlog Company and tho Cincinnati Tin tad Japanning Company. It ll nut unllkily that mora com plaint) will bi received In other cities, althouth the iwlnuier haa displayed such sbresdntts that ho may haro also beta smart enough to get out of the ttii before tho trial gets too hot, Tho only p'ace, thus far, whero tho swindle filled, is the Itobert Mitchell FurnlWre Compeny In Cincinnati. An I employs was notified that his wlfo was I 111 and requested him to hurry homo. He did 10. Halt and hour later tho I telephone message requesting that his I money to glrrn to a messenger boy was received and the boy appeared. Tho bookkeeper suspected that all was not right, detained tho boy nnd notl-' fled police headquarters. Dclectlro Decker then went with tho boy to where the man who had sent him was to meet him, but tho swindler was shrewd enough to not bo caughL lie bad become auspicious because of tho long .tlty and gut away. |