Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-11
ANOTHER MAN
sADDER BUT WISER
i p. Lee OF North Carolina
DMcwhirtered" Out Of s12o
BY Bunco Men.
cor HIM TO MATCH NIcKELS'
wealthy Miner with hoIl Proposes
Game with Chances in Favor OF
,.c-old story--rwo Arrests.

,,, Wild desire to get something Tor
- ,yas the cause of another bum
VIC Yesterday afternoon, and to-
4 dsv a gO-year-old youth named h. =
W. f,om Gates, n. G., is sadder but
~. ,onr odds wiser He is also
,hont $40 According to his story
=, 400. the victim yesterday afternoon
,ounle OF clever crooks who man.
osed to separate him from the money
hy the old game of matching nicke's.
,rha ,vo men who, ii Is alleged. turn
% The trick, were placed under arrest
,a,o IN the afternoon They gave the
mos of F. NJ. Walsh, aged 20 yetcrs,
.rd George Morgan, aged so. The lat
,nr clsims TO be railroad engineer.
vonng Lee arrived here from North
Carolina last Sunday and was on his
way TO Los Angeles. He decided to
stop off in Salt Lake long enough to
take in the sights and from all ac-
counts he got his moneys worth.
Yesterday he was sitting in the lobby
Of the Cullen hotel taking things easy
,,ban n Young man strolled in and
took a seat near Lee He began talk
ing 10 the young stranger and asked
him II he knew where the postoffice
was Lee did not know. The late ar
rival asked Lee where he came from
and upon being informed he told Lee
that he, too, was from the south.
INTOXICATED MINER.
Then the new acquaintance proposed
.T lna
postofflce. They arrived here in due
time and then walked down the street
called Postoffice place, or Market
street. Arriving in front of the l. o.
0. f. hall they noticed an old man
stagger out of q doorway. He jostled
against the two young men and then
said: Beg pardon" The old man APP
peared to be badly intoxicated. He
struck up conversation with the two
and explained that he had been down
in Arizona where he had made for
tune in a mine that he and a young lad
discovered. He said his young partner
had died Of fever, and that he was
looking for the boys mother to give
her part of the fortune. Lee claims
the young man who accompanied him
to the poftofflce was Walsh, and that
the old man was Morgan. The latter
stated that he had lost $500 on the
wheel of fortune.
THEY MATCH NICKELS.
Have You ever played the wheel of
he asked. They had not.
Walsh explained that it was against
he law to gamble but that he had
Matched nickels. After some further
ak the three began to match nickels
md the old man lost 50. He asked to
be excused until he got bill cashed.
He drew from his pocket o roll of
While he was gone Walsh
proposed to Lee that they Skin" the
old man out of his roll" Lee con-
sented and it was agreed that one
would turn heads" every time while
the other would turn tails" Upon the
nurn of Morgan he became reckless,
betting 800 and 5000 at a time. In
short order he lost $500 to Lee. Then
ne demanded to know if Lee lost could
he pay. Lee exhibited s120. The old
man counted it and then handed IL over
TO Walsh to count. While the latter
vas handling the money another man
came out of the /. O. o. #. building
and threatened to arrest the crowd for
gambling, Then the old man and the
young man ran away, taking with
Them the $500 and also the $500.
MEN ARE ARRESTED.
Lee reported the affair to the police
and they advised him to walk the
streets and try to locate the men. This
ne did and succeeded yesterday after
noon in locating Walsh at the Knuts-
ford hotel, Later he saw Morgan and
both men were placed under arrest,
Lee positively identified the men as the
ones who bilked him.