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136Chicago Dispatch. 8 CROOKS AT WORK Short Change Men Use Buffalo Bill Tickets. Capt. Shippy and Lieut. Bonfield Know Billy Beecher's Gang of Crooks Are at Work. They Secure General Admission Tickets to the Wild West Show, and by Representing Them to Secure Reserved Seats Find Buyers Who are Fleeced--Bonfield and Shippy Make Damaging Admissions--Big Ed Price, Bunk Allen, Gil Fitzgerald and Other Notorious Crooks at Work Without Fear. Those who witness the mimic warfare at the Wild West show between the Indians and the pioneers, in which the rascals are repulsed by honest men "under command of Buffalo Bill," little realize that a real warfare is being waged between other rascals and honest men in which Buffalo Bill is as ever on the side of the people and fighting for the people's rights. Billy Beecher's gang of circus grafters saw in the Wild West show an opportunity for a summer's engagement and Billy went to the managers of the show with a proposition for the "grafting" privilege. This was refused and Beecher went away vowing that he would do business anyway. Since that time he has with a gang of smooth men successfully victimized verdant strangers by selling them 50 cent tickets of admission as reserved and even box seats. This caused considerable kicking, in every instance the victim abusing the management of the show for the swindle. | 136 |