Show r THE BUNCO STEERER Verdant Green of California i Visits New York SOME OF THE FEWEST CENSURED For Gross Negligence In the HatterThc Sil cott Steal and Amount John Theodore Theo-dore Wild Handed + 1 Special to TnE HERALD Examiner Dispatch New YORK Dec According to the Sun Californians cannot always be sure of justice jus-tice in New York A story was pub lisbed in that paper on November 20 which told how a gang of bunco men played their business right in the rear of Mulberry Street police station known to everyone but the police and how a countryman who was robbed of 200 hung about the place until he saw the man who had robbed him and caused his arrest It may be remembered that Police Captain Meakins said that the blotter in the station house contained no record of any such arrest and denied all knowledge of any such gang as that which worked in Marion street The following letter which came to this F office on Wednesday cast some doubts upon the accuracy of their statements SAX FRANcisco Nov 2318S9 To the editor of the Sun SirI received a copy of your paper dated November 20 from a friend of mine P F Ferrigan of SO Duano street and I was glad to see that your paper was beginning begin-ning to expose the bunco steerers and your police department as I happened to be one of the victims On a short visit to your greatcity last October I was first stopping at the Astor house when I first arrived there and then I took rooms at the Hotel Everett for a few weeks I got buncoed in the same place Marion street out of COO When I reported to the police they wanted me to put up a 5 4000 bond to stay there and prosecute the partiesso I came at once to the conclusion that the police and bunco men stood in together and so I left for San Francisco with my family after borrowing what money needed to take me home The detective that had my case is named Hotaling I remain yours trulyArthur Arthur McGurren 434 Pine street Mr McGurren says he was robbed in October Oc-tober about amonth before the robbery of the countryman The circumstances attending at-tending the robbery of Mr McGurren were related yesterday by his friend PF Ferrigan Mr McGurren was born in this country but he has lived in San Francisco Fran-cisco for twentynine years and has adopted a mode of dress sufficiently at variance with that of the typical New Yorker to make it apparent that he was a stranger here He left Mr Ferrigans place in Duane street and started up Broadway to walk to Waverly place near Canal street a well dressed man seized his hand and shaking it warmly asked how Mr Johnson John-son was Mr McGurren explained that his name was not Johnson He told the stranger who he was and where he came from The stranger apologized and disappeared disap-peared Two blocks further up Broadway another man grasped his hand and addressing addres-sing him by his proper name asked him when he arrived from San Francisco What Dont you recognize me asked the fellow Why I used to be the cashier in the First National bank of San Francisco Fran-Cisco 1Ih 1cGurren intite1 the fellow into a saloon and while they were drinking he asked his companion what his name was Im just going up to my printers to get some cards was the reply and if youll come along Ill rive you one I am anxious to have a little chat about California anyway any-way wayMr McGurren agreed and he was led to 17 Marion street Mr McGurren followed fol-lowed his conductor into a back room and sat there for several minutes I listening to his acquaintance as he told of the vast sums of money he was making in the woolen business in Connecticut Connec-ticut The bunco man was a fluent talker and he held Mr McGurren spellbound The conversation was suddenly interrupted by the violent entry of a man who threw three pool tickets on the table and in a disgusted tone stated that he had just lost 32 too on a baseball game This man pulled out about two hundred dollars in bills and saidothat was all the money he had left Mr McGurren laughed at the bills and displaying dis-playing two gold eagles said Thats the kind of money we have in California The sight of this gold was too much fcr the bunco men One of them sprang at McGurren and seized him by the throat and held him while the other rifled his pockets of all the money he had Then the men dashed out with Mr McGurren in hot pursuit pur-suit He got as far as the door when a man who had been standing behind the counter when Mr McGurren entered closed the door and detained him until the two thieves had an opportunity to escape Mr McGurren related this stirring adventure ad-venture to a sergeant in the Mulberry Street police station who put Detective Hotaling on the case Inspector Williams said yesterday that the handwriting was in the handwriting of Sergeant Golding The sergeant in charge of the police station yesterday refused to consult the book containing con-taining the record of complaints made in October |