Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-13
FRUITS OF GAMBLING.
The Last Of the Active Participants in
the DOran-Flynu Fsud Departs
From His Haunts.
How Two Desperate Factions Have Come
to Grief or Left for Other Parts to
Begin Lite Anew.
special to the Gazette.

| special 70 the OaAttlts
HoT SPRINGS, ARK July l. Jas
X. Lane, for years leader among the
gamblers Of this city, left to-day fol
New York, completely broken finan'
cially. The history Of Lane is closely
linked with that Of the gambling fra.
ternity Of the city In all its varied as.
poets for the past ten years. General.
ly he has been successful and most OF
the time
COUNTED HIS WINNINGS
by the thousands. He figured promi-
nently in the recent feuds here be-
tween the Doran aud Flynn factions
"a friend Of Flynn aud the hacker
Of Doran, and to these men
he now attributes his financial
ruin Years ago he and Flynn were
partners. Finally Flynn drew out
and Lane continued the business
The night after Flynn's withdrawal
80 the story goes, Lanes house made
large winning from wealthy st.
Louis merchant which aggregated
10000. Flynn, on learning of this
fine luck, claimed and demanded
HALF OF THE WINNING
and upon Lanes refusal to disgorge
Flynn overturned his tables and
smashed up the place in general, and
forbade Lane to run Douse in the
town. His desperate character de-
TERED Lane, who Is not "a
fighter" as that term is used
among gamblers. He closed his two
houses in this city and left. Flynn
held sway ia the valley and subjected
all gamblers to respect his will. He
was called 1.-The gambling king of
the valley. He declared that no man
should run gambling house in either
OF Lanes places. and the consequence
was they remained unoccupied aud
profitiess to him. In the fall of 1888
Lane returned to the city and about
the same time 5. A. Doran appeared
In the valley. D)rAn soon
OPENED A GAMBLING HOUSE
in one OF Lanes houses and the trouble
between him and Flynn began, which
terminated in the bloody battle on the
9Th Of February, 1884, between him
and five followers on one side and
Flynn and two brothers on the other.
the particulars Of which are well
known TO the whole country. Lane
was generally recognized as the hacker
OF DOran, and since then has rapidly
declined. Doran and the other bloody
men, save possibly one exception,
proved costly friends to him. They
10 BLEED HIM
until all OF the $40, 900 in money and
5000 in property possessed by
him at the beginning OF the
hostilities have been swept away.
Indeed ruin has pursued
al OF these bloody men. Two of
Flynu's brothers were shot down in
the fight, and one of them instantly
killed Four others, known to be al.
lied to the Flynn party, were subse.
quently run out of the city by citizens
aud the police The sheriff OF this
county also identified with Flynn,
died soon after the culmiuatiOn Of the
feud, and Andrew Bruou, president of
the Hot Springs National bank, a
hacker of Flynn's, broke the bank
and
FLED THE COUNTRY.
Flynn, who was reported to he worth
10000, ia broke and a wandering
gambler away from his family, who
still reside here. The Doran party
soon quarrelea among themselves,
and Dave Pruitt was shot nigh unto
death by Ed Howell. Subsequently
Howell was killed by Chief of Police
7. G. Toler in self-defense, while still
later Chas. Foulk, alias Chas Watson,
also allied to this faction, was
KILLED BY A POLICEMAN
here. The others are now scattered
over the country, hard up aud in con.
slant dread of their lives.
such are some of the re-
suits of this notorious feud
experienced by the participants them
selves. The people OF this city rejoice
in the absence of all OF them, while
peace, order and perfect quiet now
reigns where formerly there was CON
a. ~ an.