Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-01-30


The new Beaver Head mines, 400 miles north
OF this place, are at present attracting good
deal of attention in this Valley. have con
Vrrsed with a number from there. They all
speak well of the mines and many are going
ack IN the Spring, some are starting now
great many gamblers are at present in the
city. They follow the soldiers hcrc--came
to prey upon them. Yours, . ..... +.
...... . DAN DE GUILE.
HOW GAMBLERS Ros TEyEurs VIC
TiNsS-AN hNTAiAs sfENG DlsCOVE-
RN.
l:...s -. From the Cleveland Herald.
The Cook gambling affair has led to some
Important disclosures in the affairs Of the
sporting fraternity" but nothing that we
have seen or heard OF equals in interest
discovery madeitIt lis city yesterday.
Conilsk, one oi the men concerned in
'heecing the paymaster Cook, was frequent
visitor to this city, and occupied rooms in
the third story of the Parsons block, on SUI
pcrior street. lie had contracted debts here,
and yesterday an attachment was issued
against the property in his rooms. Sheriff
Lewis and ID putty Sheriff Whitney went to
serve the attachment, and in the course of
their researches made some rich discoveries.
The rooms occupied by Conlisk on the
third floor consist of a sitting room, where
the gambling was done, and a bed room
The sitting room was furnished in the usual
manner, and had faro table near the win
dows, and a draw poker table in tho center
OF the room, with chairs placed to each.-
The walls and ceiling Of the room are paper
| co with paper OF a star pattern.
Directly over these rooms are two small
rooms, also occupied 10y Coulisk, but not
furnished. A portion OF the flooring has
been removed i'll the room immediately over
the gambling room and small holn bored
through the ceiling OF the room below, above
each OF the tables. As the holes come d.
rcctiy through the center of a star pattern in
tn" paper, they are scarcely distmgulshaple
from below. Each hole is SO placed as to
enable person applying his cye to it to look
directly INTO the hand OF the player seated
III the chair below.
An ingenious tclegraphc Signal machine
was discovered communicating between those
hoes IN thu room above and the chair of thu
gambler in the room below. A wire, having
handle near the hol,, passed along bptw, en-
the flooring Of the room above and the cul-
ing OF the room below 20 the corner Of the
gon'bing room and bedroom. 1t enters the
bedr"om and pa SIS down in the corner
'ng concealed by strip Of board nailed
u q T. p red over. ltthen passes under
til iioor oi TN gambling room to the table,
were small piece oi the flooring has been
yut away close BY the table leg, where the
leit loot OF the gambler would be placed
whilst playing Th,re it terminates in
spring and hammer, concealed by the car
pct. ...
The method Of rliing this invention 70,
roOhng 10y machinery seems to have been as
follows: The victim to be operated upon
finds TWO chairs drawn up to the table. In
one OF these the gambling thief seats him
seIi n once, placing his foot over the tele.
graph hammer. The victim is Obliged to
taxi the other, which is placed in the proper
phcc in the room above stretches himself
on mattress, with his eye at the pccp-hole,
and ono hand grasplng the telegraph handle. |
AS soon as he sees the cards he telegraphs
their description according to an arranged
code of signals by pulling the handle, when
the hammer strikes the d, ed number of
iapS on the soul Of the gamblers boot or
slipper, tac sound being mullled by the car
pet. OF course 1t is easy to see that the |
man who sits down to play with such gam |
bier is robbed as surely, completely, and !
systematically as if he had been bound hand |
and loot aud delivered over to Il highway
man ard OF the two robbers the highway. |
man would be the moIr decent man. ,..
Thesc rooms have been occupied at yari |
Gus tines 10y Conlisk, Major Brown, and
other gamblers reside UtS an non rrsid, mis-
Of this city. Some highiy respectable citizens
that zoe could nd1le have visited these roems
ard havc undoubtedly fought the tiger"
without shadow of chance against it's
teeth and claws
There are other rooms in the city used for
ga bling purposes which are frequented by
some OF our best citiZ ens--who would dread
to see their names published, and whose
names If published, would starte and shock
their friends and the public. Are there no
"telagraphs in those roelns :? a .a... ...
There is a law in Ohio against gamblers
and gambling. After such disclosure as
this the public have "a right to demand and
will demand, that the law be put into force
with rigid impsrtiality The breaking up
of den of negro gamblers will not satisfy
the law or public sentiment The rooms /
where our business men, confidential employ
eeS, and the men who hold the morey be-
longing to cur brave soldiers, are systemat.
lcalIy robbed under The pretense of play ing
games Of chance must be suppressed, and
the robher. gamblers arrested and dealt with
to the utmost extent OF the law. am
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