Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-10-02 | Page 2 | Bunco Plot to Get $300,000 Prevented

10 1 71 t i BUNCO PLOT TO GET of j PREVENTED I I c r Nevada California Hunting J vt F Confidence Men en Scar Scared d. d A i Out of Scheme Schema tl is 4 1 f t By 8 United hm x i RENO BENO Nev 2 Authorities of 01 two t states sought a ring of dence men today after a well laid t i plot victimize an elderly couple coupler r iI i had been frustrated l Mr and Mrs Max User Liser of VIe Vic f 1 toria tori B B. C. C were were about to turn over is 1 their savings of ot when thea the a bunco men apparently became sus IUS- of police pollee surveillance and andi f i tied lied officers said I Clarence chief of the Call Call- fornia criminal al Identification bua bu bul u- u l a reau worked with Nevada officers In tn fc ferreting out the ring and they fl fr said an an arrest was expected soon loon j i The had been selected as i victims of the old empty purse racket In which a man overjoyed t f by bythe the return of ot his missing billfold to r had offered to let Jet User profit in la abetting a abetting af f betting ring riDS authorities explained t User Liser was about to turn over his money moncy to them to establish finan- finan 4 dial cIa responsibility when the men disappeared