The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
BUNKo POKER.
The Victim Does the Agreeable and
Loses $4,000.
From the Denver Republican.


From the Denver Republican.
During the past week a gentleman from
California has been stopping at the
Brown Palace hotel. Last night he left for
the East. Besides possessing the desir-
able qualification of being extremely
wealthy, this gentleman is also the hero
of a halr-raising bunko poker game. He
lost $4,000 over table between o'clock
one Saturday afternoon and o'clock the
next morning, but kilograms sent out to
country banks early on Monday managed
TO stop payment on about one half of the
checks that he had given out during the
game The funniest part of the whole
story is that with three men working
him, the victim himself proposed the
game and introduced the three steerers to
each other, all of which was part of the
play.
The gentleman was stopping at little
seaside resort eighteen miles out from
Los Angeles, and while there met man
representing himself as an official of the
Canadian Pacific railroad on his way to
San Francisco on business. For two
days the pair chummed together. An
other guest arrived from Chicago, who
also made known the fact that he was
destined TO San Francisco. 1t is supper
tluous to relate that the strangers we're
atfability itself. Anxious to make things
pleasant for his friends, the old gentle
man introduced one stranger to the
other, seeing that they botn intended re-
naming at the hotel over Sunday, and
then going on to San Francisco The
newcomer was in the boot and shoe line
Soon there was another arrival, and he
proved high roller. He was a stockman
returning to his ranch from market. and
he had roll of bills as big as his head
He ordered everything and paid in big
bills. There seemed TO be nothing less
than tenner in the whole lot II did
not take him long to get acquainted with
the old gentleman. He got acquainted
with every soul about the place before he
had been there night-al but the Cana
dian Pacific man and the boot and shoe
man. When he did meet those two wor-
thies, it was through the medium of the
genial old gentleman.
With such good fellows around him a
poker game was the only result, and soon
it was going. The railroad magnate did
not know much about the game, the boot
and shoe man hoped it would be a small
limit, and the stockman did not care how
high 1t went-the higher the better for
him, he said. So the game started 1t
opened at 3 o'clock that Saturday after
noon and was still going at the next
| day. Then 1t ended. The old gentleman
was out 800 in cash and $40, 600 in checks.
The stockman had not a dollar of his big
roll left, which was easily $4,000 and
| he, too, had given checks for SIS. 900. The
| game had simply been rip-snorter, and
! everything went
! 1t was the stockman who threw up his
! hand. He said he could not stand it any
| longer. The three agreed to give him a
/ revenge game after dinner, and so the
matter rested for time. When dinner
was ended a note was handed to the old
/ gentleman signed by the railroad mag
J nate, expressing u regret that a teleg gram
( had been received necssitating his going
/ TO san Francisco without DELAY. and that
/ the boot and shoe man had decided to ac.
/ company him. With the wing of a bird
! the old man few to the apartments OF
his fellow sufferer, the stockman, and re.
/ cited the facts within his knowledge
/ 'Bankoed, said the stockman land there
upon a plan was made to head of the
! pair. kilograms were sent out to all
/ the country banks on which the checks
! had been given, they being scattered to
! places where the players had deposits
I These the old gentleman himself fled
| at the telegraph Office, while the stock.
/ grower fastened to the police headquar-
/ tiers to invoke aid from that source.
! Now let US wait till tomorrow, -
| knowingly said the stockman, land we
will save all money and most likely bag
! our game"
Monday morning there was another
surprise awaiting the now thoroughly
/ surprised old gentleman-the stockman
was missing. He had been in the deal
I bigger than any of the trio His roll had
been good only for a hundred or so, the
balance being counterfeit, and he had re-
I NAMED behind to keep the old gentle
man of the trail while his pals cleared
out.