| Show PAIR COMPLAINS S Of Bur BUNCO CO SAME South Say SLY They Were Victimized to t the Tune of Taken in by two men in what the Ute police say sa Is one of the oiliest and most worn out confidence game sume In Inthe tho the history of crime W V M Burnett aged 25 r anti and Ezra about 30 walked Into the police station last lisl night to relate an adventure where whereby whereby whereby by they were the losers to the tho tune of moro more than According to tho the story told tho Wo police by b tho the two men mon they the hail hall from South Car Carolina Carolina Carolina olina an dare daro on their way WilY to visit isit friends and relatives ves in Porterville Calif As the tho train on which they were travelling last night was about to 10 leave Salt Lake a man whom neith neither er or of the tho knew laic boarded I the train and before It had gone farhad far farhad I had succeeded in making himself well acquainted He seemed to be an agreeable personage and the time three became good friends by the time thin city was reached Arriving In Ogden Burnett and aunt claim that tho the stranger on learning that they the wore were strangers in town and had no place in fn i ito to go offered his hla services as guide in showing them the viaduct which were I accepted As the tho three were stand standIng standIng Ing lug on the long bridge another man happened along alonS apparently by bi accident acci accident dent and joined In tho conversation l The latest appeared to the two travellers as and greet green according to the tho story they ther told at atthe atthe atthe the police station After the four had talked lanced d for several minutes the affable stranger from Salt SaIL Lake Take suggested on tho limo that they start a n game of matching coins with wilh tho the farmer and try and win some money mone from him Accordingly the tho th game gamo was wan started and about the time the Salt Lake 0 person had corralled in hard cash cosh belonging to Burnett and Ogle Ogie burg time the two became suspicious and started an argument ar During the i course of tho the healed heated discussion that followed the Salt Lake man managed j to slip away awn into tho the railroad yards ards and after arrer minutes of wrangling wrangling ling lInS as to the best method to pursue I the two travellers and the farmer decided to look up an nn officer and place I j the matter in his hands As the tray trav travelers tea elers were still sUlI strange to the city dt tho the farmer to pilot them to the most likely place to 10 timid find a n police policeman man With trusting hearts and an empty pocketbooks the tho two followed his I lead first to the time Ogden river and not finding a policeman quartered in this vicinity back hack again to th lh street stroet and Wall avenue In the darkness at this point while the two unfortunates were straining their eyes I to discover n a cop the farmer man managed ned aged to lose himself and after several seNal moro more minutes of wasted effort lu In vain ly I trying to find tInd him tho the two betook themselves to tho the police station While a fairly fairl good description was furnished of or the stranger from Salt Lake Labe and tho farmer person the police say sa that it would fit JQ out of lOo men met and have little hopes of or cap capturing capturing turing luring the thieves who are aro believed to lo have havo been heen working together Tho The victims victim after being assured that all 1111 possible would be dond to recover r oer their money mone but that small chances existed e repaired to their hotels wis wiser wIser er or In the ways of o men and shorter in the purse lurs |
