The sun., 1889-11-20
WHAT OF THIS BUNCO MAN?
rHrRH OWE IN MARION STREET But
THE POLICE KNEW OF HIS ARREsE

Ne was Caught by = swindled countrymau
ana Then Taken 60 the Mulberry street
station, According TO Witnesses In the
NeiEhborhoOd-Ths Police Ignorant.
About the only object of interest in Marion
.,rest IA A little dilapidated store that crouohvs
undor the uptown half Of the dinRy fve-storI
tsnement at No.17. On an average OF about once
IN every week or ten dRys the window OF this
little store 10 unshuttered, the door is opened
and shut many times In day. and there is an
Irregular stream Of men passing to and fro.
The neighborhood is dirty the building is suR-
aestlye OF nothing but toll and trouble, and the
Nttle children whose curiosity compels them to
loitor about the store during its brief business
DAYS are very much soiled. But the appear
ance Of the mon who kept the little door work.
ing at odd times was better than the average.
and a person meeting them In a fashionable
locality would see nothing about them to
Indicate that they lived elsewhere What the
interior Of the store contained It was impossi-
bic to learn yesterday. for at present 1t Is In
one OF its periods Of inactivity and the window
IA covered with shutters and tho door 10 pad
locked Everybody in the street. except per-
hsps the policemen who patrol It, know the
kind OF business that IL carried on there. A
little boy, so small that he has to stand on tho
tins Of his toes to look into an ash BARREL was
asked what kind Of men rented the store. He
looked at tie reporter In great astonishment at
such ignorance and then said
"Thems buncoes."
Tho storekeepers and others living In the
street or doing business there were found to be
as familiar with this fact as the little boy. and
whenever they see the place closed they con-
clude that the out-of-town man whom they
saw led into the store the day before has been
robbed OF Considerable amount Their
knowledge OF the character Of the men who
rent tho store is positive enough. and they are
full OF interesting incidents concerning them.
but every person. with one possible exception.
whom the reporter talked with was loath to
say anything about It They all frankly ad-
mitted that their reticence was due to a fear
Of the police. When they were asked what
possible connection the police could have with
sden OF thieves they shrugged their shoulders
and said that the police could annoy them
great deal II they wished to. Il was owing to
this fear that a clear statement Of the follow
ing occurrence could not be obtained, though
many OF the persons living In the street were
familiar with 1t in a general way Neither
upon the police blotter OF the Mulberry street
station. according to Police Captain Meakim.
nor in the memory Of the Captain himself is
Snd ooeT on Saturday morn
man mai can came &c out q Centre street and moved up
euar % countrsm eS man % in tow. Tne latter % wore I
remarkably long oyerc9af; full gray beard
u bis ss ne and vem
III as Of sS BE- se eso S1s
Raer T 1 DsaSFS
dropped his bag. and seizing the bunco man BY
The SSE q him The
rough way ne was being handled he called for
Tf9 pure srit and a h1ns I ! Sn; no,,..oa ~ a,t-
pSSe of rs.r az &ao0 on srse
semo gp and arrested The bupeo man. Even
thsn the eopMntrymSn M Eouldn't release him.
MISsr9 S0er par
Ice station. The neiahbors say that the bunco
UPON upon REQ reseiSins lis money back eonsenteG Gto to
drop the matter. This 10 one side Of tho story
and here 10 another version OF It. given by
man Who appears to have seen the whole oc-
- Ne; a Nerion, ssrSst Il the eeedqqarteSss Of
day they caught countryman and beat him
?ut Of $500 The coqntryman did not complain
@ th9 police ct the time. but he waited about
6os s 2Boat qn oScoR i se saw %a the bu1co
man coming down the street. The ,coHntryman
dropped his valise. and began hammerinG the
sf t over ysS sao EaSdS AaS Sh fs PGss s Th
Just ct thls moment the foreman Of the gang
o. men working on the new building, who had
his men over with picks and shovels. They
Tho countryman then picked up his valise and
street police station. About five minutes after
this this man called on the buneo men. and fifteen
ss sfS had EEs
said that the 'ofiee" OF The bunco men was not
street gang which robbed Richard Goeber Of |
NNy ier nRe s EaS0h sfset
fair the Marion street place was closed. and 1t
has only been opened since then on few oc- |
Another business man said that the police
man who made the arrest was known as Bill.
Sh' s%E9 Wss aS
osPd 4 FL Ssss sst RisA tn was
& registry either on the last Friday Or 4as.
srss Sad nsEep f any
bunco mon hung out in that neigh borhoodh
Of course the bunco man was arrested"
map Brought his prisoner down Iari9p street
and passed through Broome street to Mulberry
n Ff as Ssy !" ina RoGSa aSa ss% h@
distinctly. don't know who the policeman
=, The owner Of the building at IT Marion street,
Frederick Geiss. . William street butcher. said
ne didn't know who the tenants In the building
we're Henry Points. the housekeeper. keeps a
packsmith shop in the cellar OF the downtown
bali Of the building. Ho said. through an in
lerpreter, thai the store was hired for a ticket
99lnoe that the prese Mt tenants have been there
I9r two months. and their rent was paid up to
ne nrst OF next month. He didn't know their
} Capt Meakim was inclined to laugh the M after
'G He said positively that nobody had been
h ,shafss. fs. As we; asted 4 his knowledge
enough to warrant him in making ouch
statement without referring to the blot
er He said that It was and that there
lad never been. TO his knowledge. a gang OF
'qnco men In Marion street. There Ia scarcely
business man in he street who is not aware
hat the store at II Marion street is. or was
lntil recently, the headquarters OF a gang OF
'unco men. THAT a countryman assaulted a
(unco steerer there on the last Saturday in
october. and that policeman led both the
ountryman and the bunco man around to the
dulberry street police station. These facts
Vere learned without difficulty Us soon as II
gas made clear to the persons possessing the
niSrmation that their names would not be
'ubshed.