THE COLORED, CURLY-HEADED CHARLATAN

NZ Truth, Issue 89, 2 March 1907, Page 8

THE COLORED, CURLY-HEADED CHARLATAN

Fails to Accept John Norton's Challenge. The Great " Jap " Scientist " Does "a Bunk." Who Is Carl Zeno? v •■= ' ■ j : „ . • . i«Xttith H Tells His History—Sentenced at flewtown—Learns the "Art" m Hobart—Slips His Partner, Shrader—Settles m Melbourne— '■■■•'■:.< tlited/as a, Co-Respondent—Marries a Bookmaker's Divorced Wife—Conies to Sydney—Success- '' ....... folly "Skins" the Silly. / $ fligh Priest Stripped of His Glory before the , • l Eyes of His Victims. ■ • * '■■;•■';■■■•■■ "<:"■"■*■ .-:'- (From. Sydney "(Truth," February 17). '\: ■

i ' :<t l;'d6n't helieve. ili !'*" *i won't foeI li6ve ; ii;!" : "Dirty Johnny Norton, again \ >r These, and such like, were ithe expressions that fell from the lips, ofr-the dupes as r they read, re-resbd, and .talked , over the article m last issue exposing , the. methods of that curly-headed cozener, ... Carl Zeno.;,Tlie dupes— the D6sageirs of Darling and the-Pefes of Potts r Pbint^-the sil-. ily: sovereign -. a time; snobbesses— equally with poorer five-bob sisters .; 6^- the humbler, parts of the qity/and;, suburbs-rS^ssiety, high and . lpw— w^re allrstunn^at the attack upon .■■■■''.. ..;. V „"? :' ;; ' / ''' ■'•' ■ ■■: ■ *.• ; • M THEIR /HI^H PRIEST; ; the marvellous Magician, tlie Great •♦ < Japanese. v Sci^iitist;'^en| Commercial -I^gs, Pr6fi^sipni?ti ; PeerS; So-, ciety Sultans— i9ihed;'^quia]lly vicious-, ly m the declamatory 'denunciations of the petticoated peeresses against 'John Nortorf's ■ audaCrtjriin ■ daring to assail the wonderful wizard who had revealed' to .them' their •• dearest ' desires.-. The humor of it ! : The' pity of ; it . that there should, be sb many mugs m Sydney— mugs who pact* up their superfluous wealth to ' any char-, latan or ," take-down » Their latest idol; Zeno, ( has made a profitable hardest; of Mate out. of the foolishness of men and ' women ~ who" should have known better. : Not. only did . Zeno get. the ear 'and the coin of the mugs, rljut he seems vto hav^ ■ ; PULLED THE LEG' ' $i : a 1 ; silly ■ section of the- daily press that has lately been run- upon hybrid 'American lines. That it • entailed either trouble or tin m so pulling .the strings as to get a, couple of pbiumtis of. "boom" material published; m the organ referred to, may be best understood ..by.po^wnerci'alm.en: ■who have heard of iiie"extraordmaTy '■ '- incident: of', the, "hust^r"' and . ; -<sfis-. "dual contracts" during the;,;,;i)ast wepk: With this remark ibyVHbhe way we drop the silly sheet's -. tw.CHc6luoin puff of the charlatan ajaid' reyjert to' the take-down himself j',\ So that those self^elected, double-dyed . mugs, Who still sw£ar by ,Zeno may not have a leg to stand on' we propose to ' tear, the mask r|.gii.t off their fallen idol. /This alleged ''thougttt reading" we have shown to be • the most mond sMtfus^^tol%ff£; now shalltifeprove : ■■I this^gentlemianly Ji&p, tbis gre^jt Sci- ' enjbist, ' ; t6 be' nothing but a vile seducer, a gaol bird, and, unkinetest cut Of all— .■■ ■;.:• ..•'•; ■;. . -:^-.v:. - : ; A QUARTER-BRED CHOW. .the : question is-?-Who 3s, Call Zeno ? ."Truth" can fortunately answer the He is a quack and mbuntebiank of the Wcist desciaj^aoß. (Like all slimy reptiles,; he has left' ills'. -trail behind him. ,