The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-08-06
A STRANGER FROM FREEpORT.
How a Chicago Gambler Fell a VIC
tim TO a ssPOrk ,, Deal,
From the Chicago Tirnosn

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Usually professional, dyed-in-the-
wool gambler is the hardest man to beat
in the wide world. He divides his fell
low-men into two classes, and in his
terse and epigrammatic.lang he calls
them suckers and thieves. He
thrives and grows fat on the one class,
and it requires all his alertness to keep
from being robbed by the other His
perceptions are so sharpened that he can
distinguish an honest man from knave
at glance, but occasionally he gets
picked up in most scandalous manner.
A case of this kind occurred in Chicago
day or two ago, under the following
circumstances:
A short time since strange gambler
of much plausibility and fine address
came to town. He circulated among the
brethren, and soon ingratiated himself
INTO the confidence of the gentlemanly
and urbane proprietor of castle de-
voted to speculation of dubious char
acter, located at no great distance from
Calhoun place. In due course Of time
he developed his plot. He knew man
in Freeport who had 81, 900 to invest in
the banking business faro banking),
and if he, the plausible stranger, had
another 81, 600 ne could go in with him.
He represented the Freeport man to be
a rank sucker, whom it would be base
fattery to call an illustrious "gilly. .
His plan was to borrow the 81 900 from
his new-found friend, who would come
down to Freeport, and in the absence of
the native win out the entire bank roll.
his own 81 900 and the natives $1,000.
and divide. This is an old trick among
gamblers, and the gentlemanly capitalist
knew it could be worked. He knew,
too, that the stranger and the Freeport
man might be " standing in 2" to rob
him, but he came to the conclusion that
his new acquaintance meant to do the
"square thing with him. He accord
ingly advanced the 81 900, but in order
to secure himself he sent trusted ally
to go and look after it. The partner
was to telegraph the Chicago capitalist
when it was time to come down to Free
port with his old white hat and win out
the roll. In order that there might be
no unpleasant complications, the tele-
Id1u was 10 Oe WOfucu : LII is a 8OOu
time to buy pork" The capitalist
waited anxiously for electric instruction
to invest in pork, but, instead, there
came letter from his agent conveying
the sad intelligence that one day, while
he was out eating his dinner, another
man in white hat had dropped in and
won out $4,000. On his return he had
demonstrated with the Freeport
"sucker and the chance acquaintance,
but had been scoffed at and reviled. and
threatened with corporal punishment if
he did not vacate the premises forth
with. To make a long story short, he
had been incontinently bounced" and
was even then on his way to Chicago.
He did not know how he was going to
get home, but if his shoes held out he
would be due in a week or two.
The public need feel no alarm about
the agent. He will eventually reach the
city with his mournful story Of the sud-
den disappearance of the $1,000. The
Chicago capitalists faith in human
nature has sustained a severe shock, and
he will make no further investments in
pork or in plausible strangers from
Freeport.