Bamboozler Anthony Blum

The mining towns of the West had an oversupply of con artists in search of suckers. After two years of delays, a shameless scoundrel named Anthony Blum, accused of fleecing the local Catholic priest, Father Debruycher, out of $5,000 on a “Sure thing” gold mine in Gleeson, Arizona, was finally brought before the judge. He’d just been sworn in to testify when suddenly he collapsed on the floor. The judge shouted, “Is there a doctor in the courtroom?” By strange coincidence there wa