Telegraph Office Scene in the Movie "The Sting"

Around 1973 a popular movie, "The Sting" with Robert Redford and Paul Newman came out. Redford and Newman were con artists. Part of their scheme involved making their target think they had advance horse race information from Western Union. That is, someone from a WU office would secretly pass along the results of a race upon receipt a few minutes before WU relayed the results to local offices.

To convince their target, the con artists "borrowed" a Western Union local office for a few minutes. They pretended to be painters with an official work order and marched into the manager's private office announcing they had orders to paint and began to set up. The manager went out to the front office while they worked. Then one of the painters posed as the office manager. The con target was brought in through a rear door to meet the fake "manager" so the scheme appeared ok. As soon as that was done the painters took off. The real manager came back in thoroughly puzzled.

It was a good movie.

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