AMERICAN STORIES
... A SWINDLER SWINDLED. II Hungry Joe waa one of the most notorious swindlers in New York, and on one occasion he gob bold of a good subjcct in a ranchman from Texas named Benjamin Ashley, who was on his way to England. Joe got 4,000 dols. out of Ashley at poker. As Aehley bad to go to Europe somehow or the other, he offered to give Joe and his partner a mortgage on his ranch for 4,000 dola. ...