El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-24
FOUR BUNCO
.STEERERS
Are Carrying On Their Work
Quite UnmoIested.
THEY WORK IN MEXICO
And Hence Cannot Be Touched On This
Side, So the Police Say.NTheir
Jobs Are Notorious.

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Jobs Are Notorious.
That the town is being worked by q
gang OF buncO steerers there ia nc
question. Complaint after complaint
has reached the HERALD and 1t has
been quietly looking up the truth OF
the various charges.
| There arrived a short time ago four
educated bunco men, and fortunately
stationed on the other side of the riv-
er. The readers of this paper have
long heard of "Curley" Sullivan but
the work accomplished by the new ar
rivals places "Curley' in rather a dim
light In "bunco" circles.
One of them is fat individual of
blond tendencies possessing an elabor-
ate display of ''bunco" vocabulary,
| while another, somewhat thinner, but
taller. wears the same uniform. That
they have several uniforms there is no
question because business Ia very good
and they possess the means with which
to buy very fancy adornments, but the
cOuntenances must remain the same un-
less nature is kind enough to present
them with boards few weeks hence.
Beginning at the top deck, however,
1t is necessary to state that the leader
of those doing business on this end of
| tall and for the past several days he
has been attired in q black arrow
tailed coat and differs from his COM
panions only by possessing q blonde
mustache.
They all bear an appearance which
attracts attention and they take psrti-
cular pains to impress upon those
whom they approach that they are
new arrivals and want to be shown the
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the river which they have heard to be
very attractive and naturally they
want to see them. By this means the
"sucker" is worked and by this means
he is relieved of his money.
A HERALD reporter this morning APP
preached an officer and in regard to
the matter he said: "We are power
less: we know that they are bunco
steerers but from what I can learn
the river and the only thing we can do
Is to look wise and say nothing. We
know what they are doing but as we
are unable to suppress them under the
present laws, would it not be an honor
abe act for some ofthose who have been
worked to make q proper com plant
and stand by it? Those men to
whom you refer have all
kinds of money and we cannot arrest
oaSAh VI VIC ChoTRO VI VdRT6uCy. w ny.
let me tell you. The people of Ell Paso
must take this thing in their own
hands. 1 will willingly admit with the
HERALD that this gang has control of
the town. What can we do? Give the
police the proper authority and we
will suppress this gang. In my esti-
nation "Curley" Sullivan WAS never
one-half SO dangerous as is the present
gang which is now robbing the people |
of this city.
''We know of several people whom
they buncoed, and the necessity of tell
ing people to look out, but the people |
should feel a little of the necessity of |
this important duty them
selves. We are doing all we can but if |
the law will not allow US to go farther
what can we do? We |
know of people who have
been robbed on the other side of the
river, but what can our chief dol?
Nothing. We know that the town is
over run with the worst class of bunco
'teerers but they are doing their work
n Mexico so what can you expect
rom us?"