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Show Gl!S OPENED CURBSTONE OFFICES WHERE HE SOLD JOBS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN. He Prospered Until an Indignation Meeting of the Unemployed Ex-' Ex-' posed Hie Grafting Methods. Gus Christon. formerly a hot tarn ale merchant on Grant avenue, was brought into court this morning by Oflicer Cooney. on suspicion of his having been Indulging of late in a bit of high finance. Gus is a Greek, and a number of his countrymen made complaint to the officers that ho had been obtaining money from them under un-der promiso of employment. Ous, it seems, told his friends that he could securo them profitable employment em-ployment and would willingly do so in consideration of a slight remuneration. remuner-ation. They inquired what amount of capital would be necessary for them to Invest in a good Job and their benefactor bene-factor told them that $3 a head would be about rlcht. Three friends volim- teered at once and turned over the money as instructed, but tho Job was not forthcoming. They waited around Gus headquarters, headquar-ters, which were of the curbstone variety, va-riety, near the corner of Twenty-fifth street and Grant avenue, for several days until the idleness began to pall upon them. Gus seemed too busy with his other prospective customers most of the time and rather neglected tho ones who had "put up" first. Finally an Indignation meeting was hold and tho embryo employment director was arrested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Gus pleaded not guilty to the charge when arraigned in police court, and the court, after hearing tho testimony of Officer Cooney, ordered the defendant defend-ant held under bonds to the amount of $10. The complaining witnesses stato that Gus painted vivid pictures of work in tho hay fields and recited tales of the agricultural supremacy of nations until they considered him more or less in tho light of a saviour of his people, ' |