. The street railway review . its workings, proving that the totalizer couldbe set back without any injury whatever to its mechanism,after which he would take a position on the line uponwhich these five men were employed, secure their con-fidence and give all the information necessary to securetheir arrest with the devices in their possession. Hedemanded $300 down when he showed its workings, and$200, when the job was finished. The company did notbite. A day or two after his interview, it was discoveredthat Mason had offered to several of the men the samething, asking $10 each for the devices
. The street railway review . its workings, proving that the totalizer couldbe set back without any injury whatever to its mechanism,after which he would take a position on the line uponwhich these five men were employed, secure their con-fidence and give all the information necessary to securetheir arrest with the devices in their possession. Hedemanded $300 down when he showed its workings, and$200, when the job was finished. The company did notbite. A day or two after his interview, it was discoveredthat Mason had offered to several of the men the samething, asking $10 each for the devices and explaininghow nicely they could be worked. The company then decided upon his arrest, hoping tosecure his stock in trade which had never been exhibitedto the officials or any of the employes. This was accom-plished after considerable difficulty but nothing was dis-covered except letters and papers showing similar prac-tices in New York and Boston, and several first classletters of recommendation from responsible persons in. WILLIAM MASON, ALIAS LANGLEY, ALIAS DEWOLF. Tried to sell Devices for beating Fare Registers. these cities, which letters it has since been learned arebogus. Mason was sentenced to jail as a vagrant, there beingno statute covering a case like his under which a severerpunishment could be inflicted. Information has beenreceived that he has operated with several accomplicesin the east and succeeded in securing several hundreddollars from a New York city road with the same tacticshe used at New Orleans. A positive statement that registers can be tamperedwith, accompanied with the bold offer to demonstrate thefact, coming from a shrewd and well appearing man, iscalculated to excite the keenest interest of any manager,and it is upon the doubts he is able to raise in the officials minds, that this fellowpractices and endeav-ors to secure a cashretainer, and thenleaves for other New Orleansstreet railway offici-als have the greatestconfidence in the fa
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