The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-27

car. So humiliated was he that he went
like a meek and ordinary citizen and
told his troubles to the central police.
There he was not given the usual corr
signment of hot air. that is tossed out
to suckers" who have lost on sure-thing
games, but within two hours after he had
made his visit to detective headquarters
Capt. Colleran had two of the right men"
behind the bars.
The prisoners gave their names as John
Talbot and Charles McMurtry. They VIII
be taken back to Indiana to-day. The
farmer" with Aliens $500 is still at
large, but the police say they are on his
trail.
In his saloon in West Adams street Az
len yesterday told how he came to DO
bunkoed as follows:
First, you must understand this: Any
dub can bunko a friend. There's nothing
clever in that. Well, this here fellow
Talbot was a friend of mine. He's an
old-time CRATER. All last summer he
and 1 were on the road together in a
private car following circus. We skin
ned suckers together all the season. l
allowed him to handle the money, and l
did the fixing never counted tho
money and sometimes he handled as
much as IS, 900 in one day.
After he split square on that deal l
thought Of course he was on the level
and when he comes to me with propo-
sition to go down in Indiana and trim
mark takes him up. like to twist
coin out of a sucker as well as any man
in the business, so 1 takes a thousand
of the dirty green and pulls for Indiana
just for little sport.
when l got down there I was intro
duced by Talbot to two strangers. one
of them was McMurtry and the other was
supposed to be handy pasteboard mixer.
Well. we fixed up faro layout and we
put this sticky-ingered guy to dealing
was supposed to be a dead swell sport
and come in with my long green and boost
up the limit after they had the mark
in the game see?
Everything went lovely, and pieW
into the game at the right time, but l
noticed the mark was unusually game. l
suspected something then, but Talbot sald
1t was just like getting money from home
so l touted the mark along at a racy pace,
but when the blow-off came lost.
nearly dropped Dead for there was about
5000 on the board.
"Of course, the mark quit the game
asked Talbot what he meant by letting
the sucker get my money, and he saiu
that the dealer had accidentally got MS
dates mixed and slipped the wrong cara
out of the box. tried to get the sucker
in the game again, but he was TOO WISE
so came home.
But that wasn't the funny part OF H.
At first I thought 1t was an accident.
but after rubbering around l found tha'
1t was all put-up game TO get my
money. You see Talbott had II nNeu
with the mark to split with him. but the
mark was a wise guy and Kept every
cent OF the coin he got. So you see MIS-
ter Wise Guy Talbot got off in the lake,
Hes a rat. that Talbot When ha'
him arrested he says: Come on, now
Bunk and be a good fellow. You needh
lose anything. You have got plenty OF
friends. Let's go out and skin them.
THAT amt my style. IT'S just as
kFay. any dub can skin friend and "nsh
I 90 out 10 skin a sucker ] want 10 skll
him on the square. II am not clever
enough 20 skin him without having
friendship drop on him why he Is welcome
90 keep nll the coin he has. But this hfID
Talbot I'm going 20 put through The ropes
n can. His friend that got the m"h'g
IL al right though 1 would like 10 kno"
him. think ] cou.d use him