Better known as “The Yellow Kid,” Joseph Weil was a Chicago con artist in the 1890s who swindled people for over half a century. Starting with small cons and escalating to large-scale deceptions, Weil masterminded schemes so creative that one of them inspired the plot of a Hollywood film. 

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