The Ottawa Free Trader

A heavy bluff,
One of the heaviest bluffs of the year was made by a sly young man Thursday morning. He wanted the gold watch offered by Kusel & Co. very bad, and, as he held a ticket on the watch (not the winning ticket, however), he carefully erased the original number on his ticket and substituted the winning number, 757. This he attempted to sell for five dollars to Joe Boissenin at Boissenin Bros.' saloon, but Joe didn't bite, arguing that a man who held the bona fide winning ticket on a fifty dollar watch would be a fool to sell it for five or even for forty-five dollars. The young man then went down to Kusel & Co.'s and presented the check. Dory suspected a trick at once, as the ticket appeared to have been altered. Closer inspection proved that the number written across the ticket in red ink was different from the figures, and this proving the fraud, the young man quietly made his exit.