Item - Metropolitan Pen Pictures: The Hotel Swindlers

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 25 no. 40 — page 3
Alternate Title:	The Hotel Swindlers
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXV, no. 40, August 18, 1870 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	August 18, 1870
First Sentence:	I went one evening to meet a country cousin at one of the largest hotels in New York.
Last Sentence:	They embrace the agents who thread the crowded hotel corridors and vestibules, as decoy-ducks for fashionable gambling-houses; well-dressed sneak thieves, who, with a display of familiarity as though they were regular boarders, move through the upper passages, on the look-out for unlocked doors and temporarily vacated apartments, and what they may lay their hands on; hackmen and porters in league with regular thieves, and others; but a description of these will come more properly under another head.