The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-10

From Gossip in the Washington Capital,

From Gossip in the Washington Capital
In New York the profession within whose
precincts the red and black striped tiger
disports his sinuous body and elongates
his ivory chip claws has of late been sub
iected to such unpleasant activity that pub,
lie sentiment is disposed to pillow 1t up and
SOW 1t with salt.
The event in sporting history OF last
week was the opening up before the courts
of the career of one of New York's most
aristocratic young gentlemen in his assault
and battery, with bad results, upon the
naturalized animal of the jungles,
From his account, and the circumstances
attendant upon his experience, it is safer
business to hunt the tiger in East India
than to fool around it in civilized commu-
mites. The young gentleman is fine
looking fellow named Walter Barnard,
son of the venerable and eminent
Judpe Daniel Barnard of Brooklyn. He
had fallen by the wayside, and his father,
with Roman firmness, decided to prosecute,
notwithstanding the unwholesome publicity
of his honored name. A private examina-
ton was held last week in the Tombs police
court. The room was filled principally
with sporting men, interested actual IN
in the case, and those interested collateral
w in the results. Mr.. John Graham who
appeared for the prisoner, began the exam
nation by asking young Barnard when ne
first confessed to his father that he had
been deceiying him. The witness replied,
"On Sunday March 90
"You are employed as trusted COM
panion more than AS an assistant OF your
honorable father?u Mr.. Graham continued.
"Yes, SIR
"And in that position you availed yours
self, on Saturday, March 81, of an oppor-
tunity to abstract valued papers from the
office, take them to gentleman who would
trust you because of your father, and Dor
rowed money on them?'
"Yes"
''Now tell us what you did that Saturday
morning."
81 went to the Mechanics bank and got
81. 500 from the cashier on the representa-
ton l made to him. had besides that
about $50 of my own. went to the office
and left at about noon"
"Where did you go them"
etc No. s, Barclay street"
GLOW long did you remain there!"
''Until 10 o'clock"
"Do you mean to say, sir, that you re-
manned ten hours i'll that gambling house
without leaving?"
81 do. 1 kept playing, and as | lost
heavily, I continued, hoping to get back
what could" -,
Didn't you eat anything all that timer
"Yes, q sandw ich and bowl of soup
"And you lost your money!
"Yes, about $1,000. Then l went to
No. 3, and, as last resort, | went to l39
Fulton street where l lost everything
had"
Mr. Barnard, how much of your faith
er's money, or how much of the money in
trusted to his care, have you lost in gamb-
ling?'
"Seven thousand four hundred and fifty
four dollars, besides eighteen hundred of
my own
''You did not lose all that in one day."
''No, sir. In the past six months that
1 have been visiting the gambling houses"
"You are well acquainted with many of
the best games in this city?'
"Yes have played good deal"
''Then you confess that for the past six
months you have been deliberately robbing
your father, and had you not by some I'M
to make a sudden confession, you might
have brought his honored name into dis
grace~
81 knew 1 was not a lucky gambler; but
there was wild infatuation for me in the |
game. Of course I did win sometimes. l
began playing in October, and until I at
last confessed to my father had won alto
gether about 5000"
''You have sent letters to the different
gamblers you played with, telling them that
unless they returned to you the money you
lost with them you would take both civil
and criminal proceedings?'
81 have not, Sir; but 1 believe m father
has"
"And several have been frightened into
paying back some of the money!
II believe, sir, that some fifteen hundred
dollars has been refunded"
''Mr. Graham, facing Justice Otterbourg,
asked for further adjournment. 'This is
an important case," he said, 'where we are
threatened with both civil and criminal
proceedings, and we must therefore ask for
time to guard against any error.
81 will willingly grant reasonable adj
journment," replied Justice Oltenberger,
'but this morning the District Attorney
sent for the papers in the case, as he wants
to present it quickly to the grand jury"
The case was postponed until Monday,
when it will be recalled. 1t affords an in
teresting and warning fact for the consider
alton and study of the youth of the coun-
try The moral to be drawn from it is that
that the less one has to do with the cards
the wealthier and better his condition will
be. 1t is easier, far easier, for camel to
pass through the knee of an idol, than for
a human being to reach ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
from card playing. In the long run it
amounts to about the same thing with the
winner as with the loser; poverty walks be-
hind improper wealth and overtakes it with
a speed that distances the best time Parole
ever made. The money won at a game is
Dead sea financial fruit, and ashens almost
at the touch. Of the millions of gamblers
since the day when the soldiers threw dice
for the bloody garments on calvary, down
to this time and land SO faro than day, not
a corporal's guard have lived or died in
wealth, or even in actually comfortable Cir
1t is a law of nature as firm,
stable, solid and immutable as the face of
the sun, that all things in discord with
natural reason should end in dissonance,
and all things achieved unnaturally shonld |
be lost The gamel wealth is as
-he drunknrd's Observation-Disclosures to be
followed by a terrible reverse reaction.