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Pages past, April 3: 'City slicking' was serious crime

On this date ...

1932: A man accused of “city slicking” had been arrested in Hot Springs, Ark., after a Clovis cafe owner reported he’d been tricked out of $95.

George Johnson of Clovis told police the stranger had approached him with a story claimin...