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Show SWINDLING CHARGED BY CHIEF OF POLICE Alleged Bunko Men Are Accused of Defrauding Michigan Man Out of $7200. Chief of Police J. Parley White has sworn to a complaint charging Richard Agnue and Charles Barrett with' swindling Alex McKenzle of Calumet, Mich., out of $7200. The accused men have been held under $2500 bonds since August 7r while Chief White and his force have endeavored to arrest three accomplices. McKenzie, the alleged victim of the plot, asserts that he arrived in Salt Lake May 26, and while here made the acquaintance ac-quaintance of Donald Munroe, who said he was a retired druggist. Munroe, it is alleged, won the friendship of McKenzle and together they visited the grounds of the City and County building. Here they found a purse. In the purse was a bond for $50,000 and a check for $n2.50 and the address of the owner, who resided at the Kenyon hotel. McKenzie and Monroe took the purse to the owner. A. L. Whitney, who thanked them and explained that the purse contained con-tained the key to a mining deal whereby, bv buying mining stock at $1 per share they could sell it for $2.25 a share. McKenzie Mc-Kenzie became enthusiastic, went to Michigan, sold his holdings, and returning return-ing with $7200, bought shares of the stock with it. The alleged bunko- men then lured McKenzie to Los Angeles, it is paid, where he discovered that he had been tricked. Chief White then learned of the affair, brought McKenzie to this city and arrested ar-rested Munroe and Whitney, whose real names are said to be Richard Agnue and Charles Barrett. |