The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-05
BUTTE KNOWS THE man
How He Managed to Get Even With a
Bunc0 Game.
Coebier WAS Going to South Africa
but He Staid in New York
to Sauar Up Some
Accounts.


BUTTE, March 4.-The following from
the New York Sua Of the i9th may bc OF
interest i'm Butte, where the hero of the
story Is well-known Charles Morgan,
the sleek. fat. sluooth-faced binco sharp.
the star performer of the troupe of COM
etlians i'm whose joint i'm Elizabeth street
Richard A. Gocbler was buncoesl out of
$1.5OO, was run down 10y och on Mon
day morning i'm the H"wcry, after "A hunt
OF nearly four months. There were four
sharps i'm thc gang that victimizcd the
BARRIER. and Morgan is the second one
that the plucky little barber has zap
turetl.
The firs, one was George Johnston, "a
wcil-known bunco sharp. He skipped
inter giving straw bail, hut Goebier caught
the straw bondsman, Louis L.. Davis. i'm
front of the Aston house three weeks ago,
and covered him with "a revolver until "a
policeman landed him i'm the TonibS,
where he is still in limbo awaiting trial
for perjury.
Morgan's business in the bunco game is
to represent himself either a. a cattle
dealer or an Englishnian of wealth, and
in both characters he prctcnds Z" bc "a
man who has been robbed of considcra-
bile money and ON the lookou, for an hon
est man, with whom To deposit Tor safe
Gocbicr was huncocd out of his Sl,JD
on November I last. in the Elizabeth
strtet JOINT. re hsu Ju>t come Oh from
Butte City, Montana. He had left his job
in the barber shop i'm Frcnch's old hotel.
in Chatham street. 10 years before. and
i'm the west. He sported diamonds and
carried n gripsack: The si.b1o Was the
amount of a check on Clark, Dodge 4
Go. that he got cashed al the suggestion
of one Davis, supposed to- be a relative of
the straw bondsman. who represented
of the First National bank of Butte City.
Morgan turned up at the joint as a cattle
handed his $500 over to Johnston to liz,
counted. Morgan fishcd up S13,uD worth
of green stuif' from q, satchel and gave
IL to Johnston to count at the same time.
He said that Johnston was the honest
man he had been looking for. There was
the usual quarrel While Morgan was
grabbed Gos.blcr's Si,JoJ aud ram of. Su-
perintcndent Murray gave Gosblcr "a head
the sharps up, but Gocbler said in a fort
night that the detective wasn't fly enough
and he went il alone. lie pnt on dis
Rtiscs, dyed his mou stachc and ran Johns
ston down i'm n fcw days. He told Justice
Hogan i'm court, though. that the man he
wanted most of all was Morgan
He saw Morgan in Ann street some time
aftcrwar1. dressed as "a prosperous Eng
i~ishnnan, but the sharper gave him the
slip before he could cover him with his
revolver.
He saw Morgan again at - o'clock Mon.
him into a roircc-and-cake saionm he
tween Prince and Houston streets. two
blocks from police hcadauartcrs. Gocbicr
blackencd with a coal dust and he had AN
" over i hia earsa He 'i ha% ls mf his sr reS"lv "1w al
home, hut he had i'm his pocket "a piece of
paper that he considered about as good
district Attorney Fellows appointing him
a special detective. MIR. Fellows gave. /,
would run i'm the whole gang of swim
oilers, mo- matter how long il took"
Goebler sat down i'm front OF Morgan al
: a table, stared at him hard "a monen to
make sure he wasn't mistaken and thcf
pulled out Mr.. Fellows letter and waved
il at Morgan.
"You gave me the slip once. d you,'
he cried, excited, 'but you can't do. b
, again. I'm the man you bunc"cd i'm tina
Morgan sprang to his feet and protc~tcs
, that tllcr. had been n mistake. lie was /;
! good deal bigScr Than tn" w,ry little cn bar
until Policeman Place came up and tool
Morgan to the Eidridge street station
. Morgan Wal taken around 10 ESSEX Mar
2 ket court without delay. and GOsblcr tols
I ! .sss Son r "a q r"n IN Ms s.e pf ns %.G b ~n
I. after for months. Morgan denied il will
. a show of indignation. He said that IN
and had never seen the coal beaver he
fore. He demanded au examination
'% Gassl ra, Wnr Se, held h" II f. si xa", 'a al,
z and washed the coal dust from his fac
and changed his clothes. Goeblcr Ina
n done nothing since November 1, In
= keep his watch for the sharpers. He la'
, intended tn GO tn South Africa to max
= some more mining investments. but "a
u has abandoned that project until u
r. catches the two other members of IL,
I gang. The one he has now fixed upon
Z Davis, the pretended nephew OF the Butt
City bank president. He is gong afte
q him with "a gun. Incidentally lac says b
will make IL hot for the fuRutivc Johnso
n and Davis other pal"
Goeblcr has since been offered s.. b
the bunco men of New York IL he woul
y dcsist i'm his efforts to hunt down I'll
y gang. Fifteen hundred dollars i'm gol,
J. was sent through u messenger to GcOblcr
e. boarding house with "a note stating IL u
intended following this cass. UP he wonl
" he unhcsitatingly killed. bsit IL he wante
y to let the matter drop he could retain Ill
enclosed s1.JuO and send "a messenger f.
$1,000 more tai "a certain place. Goebls
went and succeeded in capturing I'll. tiir
crook.