J

A common scheme of street theft, and false pretenses. A police officer, properly qualified as an expert on 'bunco' schemes, described the so-called 'Jamaica Switch,' as follows:

'A. The No. 1 Negro I will refer to as the sailor, stops an elderly white man and gives a conversation similar or in scale to what Mr. Griffin [sic] described, in which he will talk about how he is a poor old Negro. He says he is from Jamaica or Martinique or one of the islands down there. He has been left this amount of money, that the captain keeps the money and he is ...