Show confidence men find their victims more easily in cities than villages t in the old days it was assumed that the hicks from the sticks were so easily fooled that it was a simple matter to sell them a gold brick or string them on any sucker game recent developments have disproved this old belief now it Is found that there are more fools and suckers born right in the big cities every minute than could be found in a days search out in the wilds of the mountains or the great open spaces of rural america the truth Is that the swindlers lers of all types have crowded into the cities and are operating thore there with greater success than they ever knew when they followed circuses and carnev 14 and posed as farmers far from over in potter county at the county fair almost anything will do to hook book a ci tylli on nowadays they will bite on the most absurd 0 henry wrote many stories about uple who were swindled some 0 of f the victims he be told about were rural characters but in many of his ta tales leg he be states plainly that the biggest fools aie right in the ci cities tle ar ard J he singled out broadway and wall wal street as the easiest so numerous alethe are the swindles which area are being reported to the police of our big cities in these days that it would take a telephone directory to list thom them A typical case has just been reported by the washington police YOU yon would think that people who live in washington with every opportunity to know what Is going on in the world would be proof against confidence games but not so recently a gypsy woman fortune teller called at a home and got the woman of the house interested in having her fortune told the gypsy assured the ohp woman that she was about to benefit by a rare stroke of luck as the mystic powers were at work all around her anxious to help belf her if she would only oaly show her own falth faith in order to prove her falth faith she was asked to give the gypsy a 10 bill which the gypsy was to take to a nearby near by ch church where a bless ing was to be given to it then the gypsy was to return and give back bach the blessed money to the woman the woman fell for the offer but of course the gypsy never came back perhaps the victim was lucky after all for it if she had had more cadney in the house she would probably has hav lost it pathfinder fluder magazine |