The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-09

Two Hundred thousand Dollars Lost ir
Faro Banks-WheIe Chicago Ohcisi
Deposited the Citv's Money.

Two Hundred thousand Dollars Lost iH
Faro Banks-Where n Chicago Onlcis1
Deposited the Citv's Money. fa
~ (From tho Chicago Trbune.l
Mr.. BIS about three years since
Won Hollen commenced gambling at the
Hankins Brothers place, in Clark street.
JEFF, AL and George Hankins were all
there then. George switched off from
them about q year ago, and set up for
himself over Browns building. Won
Hollen gambled in both places, but
mostly in jeff Is.
R.-How much have you known him
to lose? 49,. =.
Mr.. B.-Oh, as much as $4,000 In
Jeff's alone, and several thousand IN
Georges. He lost from 81 900 to 900
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
there2
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 Hollen
to his Office and collected the money due
the faro table while he played. / know
it as fact that Won Hollen lost $50, 600
in cash, and checks for SO, 600. Do you
recollect the talk in the papers about
Buffalo Millers losing a thousand or two
last fall, and what hullabaloo there was
about counting the money in the county
treasury
R.-Yes, / do.
Mr.. B.--Well, the next day after the
publication of that business, jeff, AL,
McOmber and Coyle, dealer there,
thought the papers would raise such a
row that it would lead to an investiga-
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. 1t was on the Odd of November, ]
think, when Won Hollen came into the
rooms, and after some conversation re-
ceived from them checks for SO, 600.
R.-How much do you think Vor
Hollen lost in all9
Mr.. B.-About $500, 900. They got
him 80 drunk he didn't know whether
he won or lost. When he was sober he
wouldn't play; and they knew theil
game, you bet.
R.-Do you think any OF the othel
officials knew about Won Hollen's gam
ing practices2
Mr.. B.-Of course they did. Sil
months ago Comptroller Hayes received
an anonymous note stating tnat Vor
Hollen was losing large sums of money
Hayes called him into his Office. and ex
pressing confidence in him, handed hin
the letter. 1t wound up by advising the
Comptroller to examine Won Hollen'l
accounts. Won Hollen acknowledged
to Hayes that he did gamble, but sale
that he wished the Comptroller and hi
friends to understand that he had means
of his own. To substantiate this b,
pulle!. out lot of express packages
marked with sums varying from $500 t.
81, 200, and said he received them from
his brewery at Nsperville. Then Vol
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
blt wa knew IL arOund Jeff q