The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-08
THE CANISTER.
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Lost In
Faro Banks-WheIe a Chicago Official
Deposited the Citv's Money.

Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Lost In
Faro Banks-WheIe Chicago Official
Deposited the Citv's Money.
From the Chicago Tribunel
Mr.. Bits about three years since
Won H6llen commenced gambling at the
Hankins Brothers place, in Clark street
jeff. All and George Hankins were all
there then. George switched off from
them about year ago, and set up for
himself over Browns building. Won
Hollen gambled in both places, but
mostly in JEFF S.
R.-How much have you known him
to lose9
Mr.. Bob, as much as 100000 IN
jeff alone, and several thousand IN
Georges. He lost from 81, 900 to 81. 500
nightly. He would play until he lost
all the currency he had, and would then
draw check for any sum he wanted to
settle the deficit with. They would never
let him go until they had filed him full
of wine and liquor and plucked him to
the last dollar.
R.-Did Won Hollen go into the rooms
voluntarily, or did they entice him
there?
Mr.. B.-Sometimes he went himself,
generally when tight, but oftener he was
taken in by John McOmber, brother
in-law of jeff s, who attends to the bank
ing, and always went with Won Honen
to his Office and collected the money due
on the checks. I dealt out the cards at
the faro table while he played. [ know
it as q fact that Won Hollen lost $50, 600
in cash, and checks for So, 600. Do you
recollect the talk in the papers about
Buffalo Miller's losing thousand or two
last fall, and what hullabaloO there was
about counting the money in the county
treasury?
R.-Yes, I do.
Mr.. B.-WeI, the next day after the
publication of that business, jeff. Al,
McOmber and Coyle, dealer there,
thought the papers would raise such
row that it would lead to an investlga-
ton into Won Hollen's matters. They
talked over the business, and concluded
to send for Won Hollen, who had kept
away for some time on account OF the
talk. It was on the 23d of November,
think, when Won Hollen came into the
rooms, and after some conversation re-
ceived from them checks for $3, 6OO.
| h.-dOW muCu w JOu OAAhN VI
Hollen lost in all?
Mr.. B.-About 5000, ZOO. They got
him so drunk he didn't know whether
he won or lost. When he was sober be
wouldn't play; and they knew thell
game, you bet.
R.-Do you think any of the othe1
officials knew about Won Hollen's gam
ing practices?
Mr.. Bot course they did. Si7
months ago Comptroller Hayes received
an anonymous note stating tnat Vol
Hollen was losing large sums of money
Hayes called him into his office. and ex
pressing confidence in him, handed hin
the letter. It wound up by advising the
Comptroller to examine Won Hollen''
accounts. Won Hollen acknowledged
to Hayes that he did gamble, but sait
that he wished the Comptroller and hi
friends to understand that he had means
of his own. To substantiate this h
pulled out lot of express package
marked with sums varying from $500 tt
1000, and said he received them from
his brewery at Naperville. Then Vo1
Hollen went right over into jeff Han
kins', and pulling out the Identical en-
velopes bearing the express company
marks, told how he had fooled Hayes
OF course Won Hollen didn't let on tina
he was gambling on the city's money
but we knew it around jeff s.