A Fakir Works Catholics

A FAKIR WORKS CATHOLICS

PRETENDS TO BE A STUDENT FOR PRIESTHOOD

Worked Port Huron Before Coming To Ann Arbor to Secure Money in This Guise

The suave and oily tongued fakir, who operated extensively in Port Huron last week representing himself as a Catholic clerical student and working on the generosity of members of the faith, is now carrying on business in Ann Arbor.  His regular stunt is to visit the priests in every city and try to enlist their sympathy.  It is said that he often gets letters from the priest in a town for the purpose of securing work and then goes from house to house doing the rest with his silvery oratory.  He averages $1 a family and the police say he has been carrying on his graft for some time.

Saturday morning this prize faker worked a Catholic here for several dollars.  He is about 25 years old, six feet tall, of slight build and of clerical appearance.  Deputy Sheriff Gillen is on his track and calculates to land him before he carries on his business much longer.