Boonville Confidence games or fraudulent checks ordinance (§ 14-51)

Every person who, with the intent to cheat and defraud, shall obtain or attempt to obtain, from any other person, or persons, any money, property or valuable thing whatever by means or by use of any trick or deception, or false and fraudulent representation, or statement or pretense, or by any other means or instrument or device, commonly called "the confidence game," or by means or by use of any false or bogus check or by means of a check drawn, with intent to cheat and defraud, on a bank in which the drawer of the check knows he has no funds or by means or by use of any corporation stock or bonds or by any other written or printed or engraved instrument or spurious coin or metal, shall be deemed guilty of an offense.