Worked The Same Racket

The Battle Creek Moon gives the following account of a woman who will be recognized by our city officials as' one who worked practically the same "racket" here a few weeks ago, until the authorities fouud out her niethods, when she silently stole away, to work some other city : "Last week a woman who had a large excresence, veighing several pounds, growiug from her breast, was in the city working upon the sympathies of the charitable ladies. She claimed to live between here and Climax and that she was a soldier's widow. She said that she had been to Ann Arbor and had a cáncer removed and showed the alleged scar. She was desirous of raising money to go to Ann Arbor again and have the excresence removed. Her neighbors were taking care of her children while she was absent. She needed assistance. The ladies became interested in her case and went to work raising money for her. It is said that she succeeded in taking about $30 out of the city, besides a new pair of shoes and a new dress, which were given her. It has since been ascertaiued that the woman is a fraud and that the excresence is her stock in trade. A gentleman wrote to Ann Arbor to the medical department and received a reply that no such woman had been there. The woman is a fraud. It is too bad that well meaning and charitable people slipuld be imposed upon by such frauds, when there are so many cases of deserving destitution that really need the assistance of liberally disposed citizens. 4