FREAK FRAUDS EXPOSED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 12

FREAK FRAUDS EXPOSED.

The New York correspondent of "The Times" telegraphed on August' 3: —Tho freak exhibitions at Atlantic City, having contravened the Sunday ordinance, Were raided by the polico yesterday. . Tho'freaks obeyed-•marching orders, and found their rt-ay to the colls, where a striking transformation took placo. Tho leopard changed llis spots, and tho Ethiopian lus'skin, if tho diverting accDulit of the seizure may bo trusted. "The Wild Man. of Borneo," whoso specialty was biting steel bars and carrying off small children into his native, elciiient, "suddenly became tamed; the. human monster, with the legs of a mule, who''.had "puzzled all the scientists of Europe," resumed the.artificial extremities-be wears when not on- exhibition ; tho denizen of the Afridari forests,' who- subsisted upon ,snakes aiid wild grasses,' meekly ato sandwiches'; tho tattooed lady, marked when a baby with the ihdoliblo sign of her tribe, washed off tlio indelible tattoo witli ii Spongo; the bearded wiman changed his skirts for tho masculine habiliments which ho wears* off duty; and ''tlio beautiful Holentf," famous as'a fat lady,' shrank' to ordinary proportions after . the police matron had removed several pillowj £rdm..iior iorstau