Mar 8, 2021
“TOURIST IS SAVED FROM BUNCO GAME,” The Province (Vancouver). March 7, 1931. Page 1. --- Confidence Trick of Neolithic Ancestry Was Almost Successful. ---- Watchfulness of police on Friday saved an elderly Englishman in Vancouver during a world tour, from being swindled out of $25,000 in the ancient "wallet game."
The intended victim of the "bunco men," whose names are withheld by police, arrived here on the Aorangi from Australia. While on shipboard he met the "affable stranger," who became his companion in Vancouver.
The usual "con" man patter and paraphernalia came into the fleecing proceedings on schedule. Police, somehow, heard of the predicament of the tourist, and rescued him in time to save his money.