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Show Cisco, where It dawned upon them that they had been the victims of a huge swindle, COST til $10,090 TO MEET THE SWINDLERS HOW A SAN FRANCISCO MAN WA3 FLEECED BY QANQ. Cramer Bet Large Amount on Unknown Un-known Pugilist at Their Persuasion, Persua-sion, and Was Swindled. San Francisco, Feb. 27. O. L. Cramer Cra-mer of this city, mentioned in the diary kept by the gang of swindlers arrested ar-rested by the postal authorities In Llt-. Llt-. tie Rock, Ark., yesterday, paid $10,000 ' for the pleasure of meeting them. Cramer, Cra-mer, who owns the Malta Apartments here, was attracted by an advertisement advertise-ment published in a local paper In : July, 1906. telling of a big fortuno that ! could be made by backing a world-beating world-beating unknown pugilist. Cramer . answered, the advertisement and was told that by betting $10,000 on the unknown, un-known, he could clean up a fortune, aa a socond rate fighter had been persuaded per-suaded to He down to him. The match was to be pulled off lu Seattle, and accompanied ac-companied by his fotiner bookkeeper, Cramer went north with tho money. The flght was arranged as scheduled, but it had scarcely proceeded two minutes min-utes when the unknown began to froth at the mouth, Cramer and Cluto were to'd by the swindlers that the man they had backed back-ed was dying and they were, advleed to get away to escape arrest. Accepting . $50 each they-returned to San Fvan- |