Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-03
nuNco sHARps AGAIN.
This Time They Are More Successful
with Their Game.

with Their Game.
A second attempt to fleece unsuspecting
southern residents of large sum of money
was made by green goods" men from
New York in this city Wednesday week.
This attempt proved far more successful
than the first, however AS stated in
EVERY EVENING Monday week, a dapper
young man from New York attempted
the game upon Il. A. Taylor of Sussex,
Va, but Mr.. Taylor was quietly informed
of the 'bunco steerer'sn little game by a
reporter before the swindling scheme was
carried out. The result was the impostor
took the next train for New York, while
the Sussex merchant, after receiving a
tip from the reporter, returned to his
home a wiser man.
II now seems that not only residents of
Virginia received letters and circulars from
these impostors but numbers of them were
sent into South Carolina and other south
ern states. and in several instances the
swindlers have been successful at their
game. Among the residents who received
these circulars were ID. II. Eaton and ii. A.
Boyle of Beaumont, S. G. The circulars
stated that the impostors were in possess
sion of thousands of dollars in greenbacks
just issued by the. United States treasury
department, and they signiiied their inten-
tions of disposing of them for a ridiculously
small sum in gold. One of their glittering
offers was to sell $500 worth of bank
notes for $3.50.
This offer caught the eye of the unsus-
pecting southerners and they made ar
engagements to meet the men in this city.
Messrs. Eaton and Boyle arrived here on
Tuesday at noon and put up at the Merritt
House. They at once notified the green
goods men in New York by telegraph of
their arrival here
On Tuesday night man signing him
self wv. II. Herr, Altoona, "a" also APP
peared at the hotel and was ushered into
the presence of the southerners. He told
them that the man who had agreed to
meet them here had been taken suddenly
ill in New York and was unable to put in
an appearance. The stranger volunteered
to conduct them in the morning to New
York. The scheme was the same as at
tempted upon 4. H. Taylor by the bunco
sharp from New York on Saturday last,
but who was foiled in his schemes.
Early Wednesday morning Messrs.
Eaton and Boyle, accompanied by the
sharper, who registered from Altoona, but
who arrived from New York, as it was
afterwards learned, OH the Norfolk express
at midnight, Tuesday, left for New York.
The men were taken to the haunts of the
bunco steerers. 1t is the old, old story. The
green goods" men secured $3.50 from the
southerners and in return gave them a
small box which they supposed contained
the $1,000 in bank notes, but instead of
that contained brick.
On their way to the CORTLAND street
ferry one Of the sharpers approached them
and said: you have counterfeit money in
that box. You had better get out of this
CITY," The terror-stricken ruralists made
haste to cross over to the New Jersey side
to take the train for Wilmington, when
another bunco sharp in readiness there
approached them and said; 1.-THE govern
ment detectives are after yon for counter
feiting. You had better leave here at once."
And the victims did so.
Another man, Van b. Salter of Beau
fort, s. c., person the impostors at
tempted to inveigle to New York, heard of
the experience of Eaton and Boyle and
returned to his home. One of the impos-
tors was here to meet Salter on his arrival,
but the latter would have nothing to do
with him.