Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-05-14
swindling by Machinery.
Wo do not know who is the inventor Of

w . 90 nOG kNOW VINO Is LlS lufcHLUl vi tuC
system of machinery described below, but he
or they managed to obtain possession of large
sums of money by the operation of it, which,
fortunately for the Government, was nearly
all recovered. We once read an account of
machine, used in Paris gambling house which
operated by smothering the " unfortunate,for-
tu0ote' winner after he had retired for the
night the top OF the he'd, wherein he was
reposing, descended by screw working through
the ceiling above, and thus eXtinguished him.
The apparatus was detected by one person
who refused to be put out" and he escaped
by the window and brought the detective to
the house Immediately. Modern gamblers are
more polite !; they are averse to the shedding
of blood, and therefore cou6ne their irrepressi-
BILE genius to simply robbing without the pos
sibity of failure Annexed is description
of the apparatus used in Cleveland, Ohio, 10
rob Paymastcr Cook, whose case was recently
noticed so generally by the press. ConiSk,
one of the men concerned in " ileeCing' the
paymastcr Cook, was frequent visitor to
Cleveland, and occupied rooms in the third
| story of the Parsons Block on Superior street.
The rooms occupied by Consk consist of
sttingroom, where the gambling was done,
and bedroom The sitting room was finish
ed in the usual manner, aud had q faro table
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o"'ti ~, ~ roo, o,9 loJ
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SIS "'uG' 'nI ''o'. .u ,,noo e ,bo aoo,inC.
ta- i,ao,, o,t o,oo, oIosa Nv the table loer
ds petIl .I 0I' t fant Of t5o C6,rbISr wonId be-
"1a5 ,Io,inl, TbnTa Il terminates in
pa ",'''3' - oonooaIol hv tho Garnet
Ld .,oI ",'1' r or;nl. t1is invention for rob
~, l;,,an saoHos +o hove hean as fol-
plna ~ 'n"C - Lo or1oroted nnon finds
wv ol..ir, a-o,.n',n to tho table in one Of
Is, ' t;of GOATS himself of once
'~ISoinc. If7 r1ot G@or tho tolcrroph hammer
'!,o ,,i,,;, : o}rol ~ taI,c tho other which
1"T ''o3'- .,+,, - nostion for nloviro
.,,, =, ocd,,,iino in tbc room above
In' $500 ~, -oattrass with his nro
'.' et,''o' Ii~ ,5 a~o hard croso;n,e tho
Y ~ ''.~ r. I,m, nto 1,o1a ig 90 nloroa that
SC,a, Iao ,,r {;ror.c 3ny,a irfo the hand Of his
~ G,.I ''g 1H - 5o saos fh'. cards he tclo
e..,r,hs 4bofr 5ascrir,foo according to an ar
6'"P'2 '"o'I H. .,,rIf.,,, tho Lo,,dIo
ranged co'c u S ',.s y" I .'', ro5 nn,aior
"noH '''e 'l',''''' oo,,,,iar,, hoo+ or
o. ra5 % 'ne So'1 - ,..' ,b tI,o "
,,ot nf course i ie easy to see that the man
p~ rho si,o down ~ NAV with such gambler is
rnIJod os snrn}y roInnIetcIv and systematcal-
10 os # had been honnd hand and foot, and
j.I;-.onoa o-or IN q biybwevma and Of the
t,,., r,kI,or, tho bi,h5yavman would be the
,,,a~o docont man
= vii TINS ba seen that that the gambling
mind is is, cGnol to ali emergencies. There arc
gamblers in this city, and it bohoovcs those
Sarsons who are fond Of throwing away their
5rooncy 70 consider the above paragraph well,
for ,bcy he not robbed through the agency
IF the method described, they may be assured
| thot some other nlan equally forcible, will be
nnt in rroctice whereby thew are surely, but
not not sjowIv M denrivcd of their money. We read
in the e. Vicar of Wakefield that poor Mo-
sas lson of the ycarl was badly taken in by
a sharner who represented himself as of the
reverend " nersuasion." and did the inexperi
enced vonth ont Of promising colt which the
worthy vicar hoped would bring him large