Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-14


About 10 o'clock last night a representa-
tive of the RECORD UNION called at the
station-house and asked Chief Jackson to
be allowed to see Mr.. January. The Chief
said, "All right; we VIII allow you to see
him, but we will inform you beforehand
that this entire matter has been worked NJ
by my force under my directions and the
State nor county officers were aware of the
stealing of the special deposits until we
put them on their guard, We have been
shadowing young January for the past two
weeks, and during that time it would have
been impossible for him to have left the
city, even in disguise"
The Chief then directed Turnkey Rider
to bring January from his cell to the
private room in the Chiefs office Officer
Arlington, the Chief and the reporter were
seated in the room and moment after
January was brought in. He greeted the
reporter and the officers with q pleasant
Good evening and taking a seat very
composedly lighted and commenced smok-
ing a cigar. The reporter informed Janu-
airy that he had called to ascertain whether
or not he had anything to say regarding
his incarceration. He said, Yes, | have
considerable to say" He then started in
by stating, Like many others, he had
been ruined and had brought disgrace an /
poverty upon his wife and little one, and
his fathers family, through the vice OF
gambling He said'he started on the
DOWN ROAD TO RUIN,
Gambling, year ago last July. "Unfortu-
nately for me, my wife at that time went
off for months visit. As natural conSe-
quence had plenty of time on my hands
and got 10 loafing around town, and finally
coming across poker game, where they
were playing a y 80 limit, | took a hand
and lost | became infatuated with gam
bling and lost all the time, for always
PLAYED with men who were smarter in that
business than | was. played every night
for month, ami hardly slept any during
that time. After my wife returned the
same fondncss for the gaming-table held its
sway. staid out late nights, sometimes
ell night, and as an excise TO her would say
had fallen in with friends and was drink
ing. Soon | became 50 welded to gambling
that | could not wait for night to come,
but would play on afternoons at the private
club-room in the rear Of the cigar store
in the Cosmopolitan building, on the north
west corner Of Fifth and X streets. ! would
play till II or - o clock at night. and many
times would not 60 home until morning.
continued nj this high pressure until Jan
uary, and recorded heavy losses every night.
The game of stud-horse was then COM
mcnced, and began to play in money on
that When Isadore Cohen started his
cigar store ON } street, between Fifth and
Sixth, next to Gruhler'S saloon, the
PRINCIPAL ATTRACTION WAS sTUD-HoRsE,
And played and continually lost there
until two or three months ago, when | quit
PLAYING there for month During that
time, however, | played 4 few evenings at
Ed. BuSh's cigar store, on J, between Third
and Fourth, and at Zeke Walters club
rooms on X. between Seventh and Eighth.
/ always PLAYED 10 win, but always lost
never Won but once. and then | beat Il
theatrical man ont of considerable coin at
dice-shaking After making that winning
went down to my old haunt at Fifth and
X and bowed all had IN at poker. In
fact, lost from 500 to $500 every night
played
He was then asked by the chief how he
managed to steal the money, He replied
:. Nv dear boy. that was the easiest thing
in the world | never touched any of the
State funds, but confined all my pcculations
to special deposits made by County
Treasurers. When | wanted some coin
| would wait until my assistant stepped
out into the hall, or to another
room in the building. ! then would
open a sack and fill my pockets, tie
it up again quickly, and when he
returned | would be found at the same
work and in the same position he left me.
When ! got out of the office, and III some
locality where | would be unobServed, |
would count the money and see how much
I had taken. On the next opportunity /
would change the tag on the sack TO CORE
spond to the amount remaining. Some
one informed my father that | was losing
money at the gaming table, and he became
somewhat suspicious, and questioned me
regarding my losses. | denied it.
CHANGED THE STUBS
To correspond to the amounts in the sacks,
and then insisted on his having the Con-
troller examine the coin and books. The
State funds were found by the examiners to
correspond with the Controllers accounts,
and my father, finding the special deposits
to agree with the tags, all his suspicious
were allayed, and for time the entire mat
ter was dropped
The Chief of Police asked who of the
special depositors would be the heaviest
losers?
january leplleu ne Vlu iiot KNOW, Dit
presumed that the Treasurer of Mendocino
county would. You see," he replied,
we do not keepa separate sack fer each
depositor, but tits all put into a sack loosely
together until it amounts to $4,000 then
we take another sack, and so on. The
money took was in three sacks,
it being over 1000 and less than $4,000.
When the Governor asked me the other
day how much money there was on special
deposit l promptly replied about $4,000.