A NEW CONFIDENCE GAME.
The worsfc.confidence game of the season was practised on a minister a few days since by unknown parties. A couple — apparently a gentleman and lady — went to the house of a Qnincy divine, armed with a marriage license, and requested tho minister to marry them. The ceremony was accordingly performed, according to the latest fashion, when tho bridegroom asked the clergyman how much he charged. Three dollars. A twenty-dollar bill was handed out, and the bridegroom received seventeen dollars in change. A few moments' conversation and congratulation followed, when the happy couple prepared to depart ; but tbe bride, who was evidently a little awkward at the business of handling a train, displayed a pair of boots. This naturally aroused some suspicions of a trick. Accordingly some of the household watched tho pair as they left the parsonage, and had the satisfaction of seeing the woman disrobe in an alley, and come forth as fine looking a young man as one conld wish to see. The reverend gentleman who made them man and wife examined his twontydollar banknote, and discovered that it was counterfeit. But bo has not yot fonnd the confidence man who passed it on him. '* Whisky straight" often induces a crooked coarse.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 3
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208A NEW CONFIDENCE GAME. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2639, 6 October 1877, Page 3
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