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Show Gotham Fakers Reap Big Harvest wormed It out of ber. Be didn't takt any stock In the fortune teller or bet seven black curses, either, and b went right out and told a cop. That'a the way we get all these cases the people that are gypped tell jl the cop on the beat, and then wa"" hove to arrest them on warranta. We can t touch the fortone tellers except when people complain, and then tt'a too late to save the poor people's V, money. "The next day tba restaurant woman went back to the fortune teller with her $150, and along with ber aha took Mury Sullivan, the policewoman. Mary waited In the anteroom and the woman wom-an went In. Fortune Teller Takea Air. " 'Well,' said the fortune teller, 'did you bring the $400 r The woman said no ; all ahe had In the world waa $150, and wouldn't' the fortune teller t please take It and remove the seven curses? The fortune teller sold no aba would not Then ahe asked who It was the woman had brought with ber, and she said one of ber waitresses. 'Well,' said the fortune teller, 'waitresses 'wait-resses make good money, and maybe she'll loan you some to make up the a $400. Go bring ber In.' 1 "But when the fortune teller caught alght of the policewoman ahe ducked out of the back door and slammed It ' We had to get a warrant to make the . arrest" .. AU Classes Bilked by Swin-dlers Swin-dlers in Guise of Fortune For-tune Tellers. New Yofkv-It's thla time of year that the fortune tellers coma back from playing the tank town carnivals and aideebowa and prepare to reap a winter harvest from those most gullible gul-lible of creatures real New Yorkers Which led Chief Magistrate McAdoo to lean down from bla bench a abort time ago and Issue a more dire than usual warning. The chief magistrate phrased It nicely, adjuring "all confiding and creduloua men and women" to avoid swindlers In the guise of seers, seer-esses, seer-esses, and spiritualists. The fakers reap among all classes of New York society, but esiwdally do they harvest among the lower middle classes and flean their life savings. Magistrate McAdoo cited several In-atnncM In-atnncM of tha snrker season thus far. : ; ain't your And the woman aald yes, ahe bad a son. 'He will be run over by a truck,' aald the fortune teller, 'and be burned up.' "By thla time the poor woman waa almost out of ber head and crying for the fortune teller to take the seven black curses off her. So finally the gypsy aald, 'Walt a minute,' and reached behind ber for a telephone. She pretended like aha was talking to aome one on the wire. - Ten dollars a year for the cursesf she said, like ahe waa arguing with the person at the other eud of the line. 'Why, that would be seven tlmea seventy $490. No, that's too much. This woman Is a poor woman. WbatT You'll do It for $4007 All right, I'll tell her.' Irish Husband to Rescue "So the fortune teller told the woman: wom-an: 'For $400 he will take off the seven black curses, and that'a cheap. Now, you coma back tomorrow with tba $400 and we'll take off the curses.' And the poor woman went home atlll more terrified, for ahe bad only $150 In the bank. "Well, her good Irish husband noticed no-ticed how worried ahe bad been ( for the last several days, and he finally among them the prize stories of the "seven black curses" and the Brooklyn Brook-lyn political bosa who sprinkled good luck powder on the meeting room floor. It was from the dapper and dramatic dramat-ic Alfred Byrne, the chief magistrate secretary, that Interesting amplification amplifica-tion of these stories came. The 6even Black Curses. "The scene of the 'seven black curses' waa In RIdgewood, Queens. The characters Included a hard-beaded German woman who married an Irishman Irish-man and opened a restaurant ; the fortune for-tune telling lady; the Irish husband, and an honest, non-superstltlous policewoman. po-licewoman. Business had not been ao good In the restaurant. "So," aald Mr. Byrne, "thla lady went to the fortune teller. This gypsy looked her over, told ber a few nice tbinga that were going to happen to her, and said come back In a few daya. And the woman went back bard-beaded German woman, too. "So now the fortune teller shuffled shuf-fled up a deck of cards and began dealing them out. She dealt out seven all black. 'My heavens I' ahe said to the restaurant woman. 'You aee that? All black I Ace, king, queen, Jack all black. It's the seven black curses) May heaven pity you, my good woman' "You can Imagine how this woman felt by now. She pleaded with the fortune teller to do something for her. The fortune teller Just shook her head sadly. 'It's no use,' she said. 'You see the cards dealt out there? Seven of them all black. The seven black curses. There's nothing I can do tor you hut pity you.' "So she ushered the poor woman out of her place, terrified, knowing well that she would come back. - In s day or two back ahe came. She waa in teors, pleading. 'You've got to help me. The seven black curses.' Mr. Byrne said the fortune te"y haa been on ball out In Rldgewojj V for trial on a disorderly condf F charge, the only one which can f made when no money changes band ,J Thence went on to tell aboneji - v4" Brooklyn politician and the good Iuck powders. He came all the way over to the chief magistrate's office to make his complaint realizing after a while that he bad been played for a ; sucker. Waa Precinct Captain. t , "This fellow Is captain of an election elec-tion district no, I won't tell yon which party," began Byrne, "and there Is s lady captain In the same district The captatn'a wife went to a fortune teller who told her that her husband and the lady captain were a little closer than Just being political friends, and the husband went hot footed to the f-. fortune teller to Jump on her for say- mfl Ing such things. That's the way, he sold, that be came to go there In the first place. f "He got to talking with the fortune--jB teller, he said, and ahe told him about thla powder that would bring good luck when you sprinkled It around. He got to believing It I guess, and paid her $3 for a little can of it "He waa kind of embarrassed tell- Ing me all this, and I was embarrassed embar-rassed asking him If he actually fell for the bunk. So I put It easily : ' " 'And did you use any of the pow- der?' and he said yes, sheepishly. "She had told him If be sprinkled j It around In the meeting room the l ticket would sure be elected, and he did. But when he got to thinking tt I over he realized whit a sucker he'd been played for, so over he came. We got out a warrant and arrested the woman." Judge Issues Warning. ff Mr. Byrne could have gone on all the rest of the day telling such stories, 1 but these Illustrate the point In per- J son and from his secretary the chief .j magistrate had heard enough to war- J rant bla warning. lisfc 1 "Not," said Mr. Byrne, "that It will .FT. do much good, though. Ta-Sfrajd It Jj won't These poor people who fafl'Rlf "" 11 - fortune tellers and the fake spiritual- I lsta (these latter are the onea that . trim the what you might say upper classes), won't listen to any warnings. They Just say all we unbelievers are Just too prejudiced and dumb to understand un-derstand It I" - - . "The fortune teller got out ner crystal crys-tal ball and looked In It and said: 'Each one of those black curses Is seven years of bad luck. You've got a business, ain't you?' 'Yes,' said the woman. 'Restaurant business.' , 'I thought so,' said the fortune teller. 'Well, your business will be ruined. And you've got a husband, ain't your And the poor woman aald yes, ahe bad a husband. Well.' said the fortune for-tune teller, 'he will run away from you. And you've got some children. |