confidence game

That we know Earp not as a confidence man but as a duty-bound law officer was his most enduring and successful confidence game.

His was the first playing on a colossal scale of the now worn-out "get rich quick" confidence game.

But this to-day was a real confidence game as you might say.

The success which at the outset of party welfare attended this legalized confidence game drew into it more and more players.

After a long trial he was found guilty of obtaining money under the confidence game.

He knew he was honest himself, and did not once suspect that the agreeable young man was playing the confidence game upon him.