Show 0 7 07 7 40 a 1 confidence men find their victims more easily in cities than villages in the old days it was assumed that the hicks from tho 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 arc more fools and suckers born right in the big cities every minute than 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 there with greater success than they ever knew when they followed circuses and carnivals carnival i and posed as farmers from over in potter county at the county fair almost anything will do to hook a on nowadays they will bite on the most absurd propositions 0 henry wrote many stories about people who were swindled some ot of the victims ho he told about were rural characters but in many of his tales he states plainly that the biggest fools a are re right in the cities and be singled out broadway and wall street as the easiest so numerous alethe are the swindles which are being reported to the police of our big cities in these days that it would take a telephone directory to list them A typical case has just been reported by the washington police you ton 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 w woman oman of tho the house interested in having her fortune told the gypsy assured the woman that she was about to benefit by a rare stroke of luck as the mystic powers were at work all around tier her anxious to help her if sho she would only show her own falth faith 11 in order to prove her faith she was asked to give the gypsy a 10 bill which the gypsy was to take to a nearby near by church where a bless ing was to be given to it then the gypsy was to return and give back 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 if she had had more money in the house she would probably have lost it rath pathfinder fInder magazine |