Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — The Sharpers Foiled. [ARTICLE]

The Sharpers Foiled.

The three-carders, generally speaking, are excellent judges of character, and are seldom mistaken in their man. Sometimes, however, their judgment is at fault, and the apparent fly they entice into their parlors proves to be a tarantula. The other day, at Battle Mountain, they allured a German from the East, who exhibited a large roll of greenbacks on the platform, into the spider's nest. The “ drunken man” was on a big spree when the expected victim entered, and was losing money on every bet. The German declined to bet, and to get him in the notion one of the cappers gave him a twenty-dollar piece on which to try hit

luck. He placed it or a card and won. Pocketing the forty dollars he refused to bet again and walked oat of the house, followed by the cappers, who insisted On getting the money back. The German drew a large-size revolver from his pocket and, assuming a defiant attitude, said: “You speak to me I put you so full of holes you don’t know what you am. lam an old California and know all about your tricks. You take me for an emigrant you make fools mit yourselves.” The three-carders discovered that they had caught a Tartar as they saw their would-be-victim board the train as the conductor shouted “ all a board” and leave them lamenting.— Sacramento Union.