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A Confidence Game.Ed Miller was arrested late this afternoon on the charge of playing a contidence on a venng man named Frank Carson. Miller and a companion met Carson and learning he was anxious to secure work, oilered to get him a job. Miller represented himseli as a brakeman and his * ompanion called himaeii “conductor. They worked their game well and succeeded in fleecing Carson to the extent ol abo^t V\J before be discovered their trick. They ob-tained the montj by representing that it would be necessary ur them to buy a watc~ and lantern for him before he could get the
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Kansas City Evening Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Tue, Jul 14, 1885
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