Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . hat it will be necessary to pay the freightbill. Unfortunately the sharper does not happen to have theneeded amount of money in his pocket at that moment. Sohis pal will ask whether his friend cannot favor him by ad-vancing the money with such ample security. If the dupemakes this loan, he will get a counterfeit invoice or a lot ofworthless stuff for his money, unless he is willing to accept assecurity a package of bonds or stock certificates of no
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . hat it will be necessary to pay the freightbill. Unfortunately the sharper does not happen to have theneeded amount of money in his pocket at that moment. Sohis pal will ask whether his friend cannot favor him by ad-vancing the money with such ample security. If the dupemakes this loan, he will get a counterfeit invoice or a lot ofworthless stuff for his money, unless he is willing to accept assecurity a package of bonds or stock certificates of no men make a practice of carrying about in theirpockets parcels of such w^orthless paper, and the bonds, whichthey use as traps for gulls, are technically known as confi-dence bonds. Sometimes this trick will be slightly varied bythe substitution of a bogus check for the bonds or invoice, butthe dupe will not be a penny the richer by this exchange. Naturally the sulTerers at the hands of these confidencemen will make bitter complaints, and it is a black day for oneof these rascals when he comes within reach of one of his vie-.
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