Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 2 | Officers Trap Lleged Bunko Gang at Work

TRAP I BUNKO I FANG NG AT WORK ORK I I Outfit o Members s of dmit Fleecing Montana Montanan an n Out of in Dor Dol Dol- i ar r Matching Swindle I Arrest st of ot four alleged bunco men menti meny ti y before noon ROOn today culminated era eral hours watchfulness maln- maln ned aed by by members of ot the police deI de- de I ment and th the Burns Burnt al Detective agency for the ap- ap hension of ot four characters who s1 lIe ed have been preying on I augerS in the city for several f woof ot the men in a severe grill- grill f f IIii Chief of ot Police Joseph aft I E. E office a few minutes aft aft- th lr arrest are said to have adU ad- ad U ted they had swindled Tl R. R D D. mot of Broadview Mont out ott of ney In a dollar matching game gamet fr refunded t f to their victim in office h en were booked under the esC Jenson 47 N. N Stratford I Lewis Foster 24 and George Hips 2 23 25 Foster and Phillips are I Jo to have admitted their guilt returned to U the form former lOr jarL PLAINT AINT ISSUED ew tv w minutes after their arrest f i in the city cUr Jail four r men were named in a com com- Issued at the county attorI I where Mears went with ar officers he arrests were ma made e on West Ves th near West Tern Tem street by lieutenant David H. H Irton head of the eq squad squal a 1 I lUNeve A. A A A. A Reese and Al AlJ J hard an operative e of the Burns ye e agency They are believed bellev l a been en route to the Hotel Ii til it t the time with Mears in Ifor for the purpose of closing a Mears would have 1 out of hi hii hia money oster and Phillips it is claimed L lears with them and were Dicing east on South Temple street and Stratford were wing rong them In a luxurious closed 7 mobile with the probable In Info In- In fo t L picking up their friends 1 tor i and Phillips together with rf DRAWS GUN I to the charge of r f being I ember of ot Ute the alleged bunco gang oT faces a charge of resisting officer According to Reese neese started to arrest Jenson Stratford the former refused f t top P hIS his machine until the oUtdrew oUt oW- rEdrew drew idrew his Ius gun and enforced the theer er el l hine Jensen Jenson was driving Sj license plates 19 9 which sued to C C. F F. Denison p dk apartments Fourth South and andi andrt i rt t Temple emple streets ea's ars ara told the police that he ho met tour of ot the men Thursday night Pacific system station ly after alighting from a train Jos Ix Ios s Angeles lie said he lie had hadin I in Iii California California- for the past year ear ILas was en route to his home homo In Int Itana t lana a at the time n tars ars' connecting train necessitating I ing IW stopping over o in the tho city hours during which time ho he persuaded to remain over night enter into the supposed bunco s today at what the scheme of of fleecing stout out of hi his money was the hue hus far have ha been unable to tom tomine tm m mine no ne but hut while the scheme was Is up Mears was end en- en dpn d n the dollar matching games J parted with each han xan was vas fixed by Judge dge Fred Crockett at 1500