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Show SWINDLERS GET AN EASY $50,000 F'lTTSbl'KU, April 13. Charles J. Flshel. a roflrd shirtwaist manufac-turT manufac-turT of New York, and who now resides re-sides In Mount VernOn, N'. Y . today confldod to detect I ven that he bad been elavtfly Bwlodlad f iso.ooo bs n (rung of rnnf hit-nrf in n and women and "wire tappers. " nshcl Im ita id to have told the de-tCOtlves de-tCOtlves that he iuitiw hre In hope of recovering wlnnlnns from horse r.H'i-s. nmounttng to $2OO.0Oi, and on whlrh he had wngrred more than $00,000. The ''wire tappers," l-'ishel declared, did nut niei i him here .is expected. He mtends. he addeil, in pi. n e the matter mat-ter before Pollci dmmlaaloner En- light of New York -till i i i 1 1 i i , ,i 1 1 He f,rt iin-t ths Strangers In Tampa. Tam-pa. wlni- h- sld, he was introduced introduc-ed to a man posing as Robert '. Nor- f ton. supposedly a wealthy oil operator 'of Cleveland, and to another who way said to be Charles IJerger, a broker, of hi-,iko and New York. Both were I ttCOpmpanled by women said to bo their, wives, Klhel Stated. The parties later lat-er met In Havana where, after a few visits to the track, the strangers wr.n Fishers confidence After he had been I Induced to Join the combination in uag'-rlng on the race.s. lie was Inform-I ed that he had won $200 uoO, ho con-! jtinucd. Rut before he could collect' he was required to show that he had . sufficient money to pay the bookmakers bookmak-ers In case he had lost. The men ro-j turned to New York where Plshel handed over his $."i0,ooo. By arrangement with Norton and Berber, he said, he was to meet them at the hotel here where they would! put up their $50,000 each Pishel and j his cousin, an attorney, arrived here, and wnued three dns with no sign I of the others, except for a message suvlng Norton and Berger could not arrive for several days. .Mi. PJshej then decided, after con- sulfation with his son, that he had, been duped. J |