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Show OLD-TIME GOLD BRICK GAME IRKED ! JEWELER SUPPOSES HE IS BUYING BUY-ING GOLD FILINGS. j Pays $5,100 for What Proves to Be' But a Poor Alloy of , Brass, i Worth About $3.50. I New York. June 29. The old-time gold biick game, which was so well known In the middle-west two decades ago, has been worked with remarkable remark-able success, according to a current police report, right here in New York City. Joseph Satlew, a jeweler In Seventh Sev-enth stieet, whom the police class as one of the most knowing men in his business, has 31 pounds or brass filings fil-ings to represent a cash payment of 5.1,100 by him. Working the game In the. same old way, a Russian peddler, wno had sold goods lor tho Jeweler, showed him some glittering metal flllugs which hs said he had scraped from a large gold brick in the hands of two strangers. The jeweler assayed the filings and found them to be pure gold, lie fell I into the trap easily, for he asked the ptddler to effect a meeting between liini and the two men who had the brick. The result of this, and other meetings, was that the Jeweler assayed assay-ed a number of parcels of filings which 1 were said to have come from the gold brick, and became so satisfied that he ' was getting a bargain that he paid the men $5,100. When Tie got the heavy bag of filings home, he discovered discover-ed that they were composed of a very j poor alloy of brass worth about 'i 50. |