, 1876-10-22
JACKSON.
The Most Expert Horse Sharp
in the City.
An Exposure of His Busl'
ness Transactions.
BIG Prices Received for Broken
Down Horses.
Smart Horsemen Often Beaten Dy
the Rascal,
But They Dislike to "Squea1 anu De
Laughed At.

But They Dislike to "Squeal" and be
Laughed At.
A considerable portion of the disrepute WHICH
has of late years fallen on the tuF1, on nolse-
men, and on their sports, has como from Lie
actions of few men who have used the morse
as an accessory to confidenc gane,-not on tue
track, but in the stable, aud with mucn tue
eouipmcnr Of confcderates that charactcr1zes
the bunko-roou1.
A reporter Of TIE TRIBUNE was asked the
other day to find out something about these
sharps and their workings; and on attempting
to get "a starter" :" from a gentleman having 10
do with the turf he was met with the answer:
"Look in your own paper; look IN HE IR1b-
RNE, in the small advertisements, under the
head Horses and Carriages any Sunday, aud
almost any other day for the last year,-yes,
for the last FIVE years,-and you will get on the
track Of the game. You will find all sorts OF
horses sold as sthe property OF the late MIR.
Smith, or whatever the name may be; hunt
almost any one OF them up, and you will get on
the track Of
ONE OF THE GREATEST sCoCNDRELs
who ever had q halter in his hand, when by
rights it ought to have been around his neck"
The answer was full and complete enough,
and the reporter looked over the advertising
columns with care, and found, sure enough,
great number Of announcements OF
propcrty pnS yAA 81 the late ". Il. Wilson"
and other men supposed to h3ve departed 9. ts
or stylish coach or road horses. "The late Alr.
Wilson II seemed to have left his ''span Of T.
year-old bay mares =" at, stable IN rear OF NO:
500 Michigan avenue, near Eldridge court, and
another "lately deceased" had left another
hne specimen or two in the rear Of No. sis Wa
bash avenue.
on INSPECTION,
the two places were found to be identical, and
the cmissary went around to look over the
stock The stable was closed, but neighbor-
be be- found at No. 10 Harmon court. He was
found after search, and proved to be . stout,
rather rotund parsonage, very well dreSsea'
do Euglishman, rather on the swell lay. The
negotiations to buy a horse fell through, and
the reporter sought to ascertain from persons
WHO had traded with Mr.. Jackson
SOMETHING ABOUT Ills CHARACTER
and WAYS OF doing business.
From conversations with some twenty differ
ent people, many facts were extracted which
will be Of interest to the public, but which bad
better be put in concise. form rather than
spread through lot of conversations. It
will then be In order to say, first, that Mr. Jack
son is swindler, 4 confidence man, and, geuer-
orally, an obtainer ot&noney on the falsest of
false pretenses.
His business is to rope in young; {and some
times o1d) simpletons, and to sell them I'M
sound horses at prices which would be e1traya-
CANT if the stock were what the seller warrants
it. There are of course certain proportion OF
all the horses in the country which are afflicted
with some disease which really aisables them
from use, though it may not affect their ap-
paarance particularly. Under this head come
The windbroken, blind II the eye docs not show
too badly) and balky, the kickers and cribbers,
those afflicted with heaves, and, above all, the
"dumbics,' or horses which
GO CRAZY ONCE IN WAY.
Amy and all Of these classes are the capital in
trade of Jackson, who rarely or never has q
sound animal in stock.-in fact, sound whole
beast would be disadvantage to him, because
get it back again; for it should be borne in
mind that the essence OF Jackson's trade is to
sell horse as sound, and for sound price,
and then buy him back, after the p9r- p9
what he really is worth. This last sentence is
the whole secret OF the trade as carried on by
Jackson, and all the rest are merely appliances
or extras. In this latter class comes the con-
fcdcrate; or sometimes two-the skillful groom
and doctor-who can show q horse at his best
THE AVERAGE CASE.
commences with an advertisement, ike the one
the reader is quite likely to find in the adVertis
ing columns this morning, and when the average
reader sees that and notes that the horse is left
in care Of "John, the groom" he is very
to look at the animal. He finds
the groom, and, later. sees Jackson, who shows
him the animal in such different ways, as the
needs of the case demand; il he is selling
wind-broken beast, he cannot get wagon to
give him a trial, and the purchaser must be
satisfied to look him over; if the horse is at1lict
ed with disposition to 60 lame after few
minutes driving, he is tried half block and
| back; and SO on through the catalogue.
IT GENERALLY HAPPENS,
| while the trade is being canvassed, and
especially if the purchaser seems to fancy the
animal under consideration, that q young man
| rushcs in and says to Jackson that Mr. Jones
has sent him over to say that he will take that
horse, and that If he will send him over he can
| have the price agreed upon. Perhaps the con-
| fedcrate may rush in with a note which has
+ been left for Mr.: Jackson, and in which. MIR.
Smith hstitics him that he will take those
horses. The effect is the same, and the man
bites and is landed He takes his animal and
goes on big way rejoicing. In day or two he
comes back and
DEMANDS SATISFACTION,
which he By no means gets, and the matter ends
by his selling back to Jackson the horse at some
such figure as s25, or perhaps $50, which is from
one-fourth to .one-tenth what he paid Very
| lew men nave Tue courage TO acknowledge that
| they have been swindled, and In almost every
| case they swallow their loss and 20 away This,
perhaps, grows out Of the fact that considerable
proportion OF the young bloods have in some
| mysterious way acquired the belief that they
! know something about horse; from this class
| come the largest class of
JACKsoG's RECRUITS,
and it would be out of the question for them to
complain OF being sold, wherefore they swallow
their losses and try to keep the matter quiet to
prevent being laughed at. 1t is almost entirely
this tear Of being laughed at which has enabled
Jackson to go Oh for SO long q time in this CITY
without getting himself behind the bars Of soule
| institution sustained by the public. Whenever
a customer acts in an unpleasant manner, and
threatens the law OF the land unless he can have
satisfaction, then there are two ways out Of the
trouble: the first is to intict, or threaten to
infiict,
SEVERE BODILY INJURY
on him unless he shuts up. For this purpose
| one OF the confederates Is always a bsuiser,
| Some time ago man named Brown was engaged
in that capacity on Jackson's staff, but at pres
ent Barney Aaron, the pugiist, etc, etc, is
a partner Of Jackson's, or in his EMPLOY, and
to be hand aud glove with all his transactions,
The second way Of getting out Of any trouble is
| for the DartF. when Threatened tn cLrt ,,.& %1,o