Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-10-29
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house. Riley had sold his saloon AM
spent all his money to secure the escaps
Of Virgins. He had hired notorious
character named Bill Bean to take the
fugitive to Evanston, Wy. t., On horsr
back, as from that point he could
East in safety. On the night thAt Bel
was to have taken Wiggins away the
ter asked Riley to give him his pistola
he had only two Of his own, and
wanted another for Bean, whom
expected to fight for him il neceasa
Riley refused at first, as the pistol
an old friend, but finally yielded
Wiggins' opportunities and handed
the weapon. The moment Wiggins
the pistol he became almost insane
passion, and, aeizing Riley tbrus
muzzle Of the cooked revolver down
laiter's throat till it nearly choked hi
Before Wiggins could carry out
threat to blow the head of his parins
Bean and others interfered. and Riley
made his escape He at once went l6
his lodgings, and, getting another pia.
tol, rushed back to the cellar, but "
gins had set out on his journey and tfs
edy was averted. 1t subsequently trs
pired that Virgins was jealous or ri
whom he suspected Of paying attenE
to his inamorato while he was hidi
from the officers Of tho law ii the celia
After escaping from Utah Wiggirs couis
not rest. He soon made his whereabouts
known by several daring escapades, and
was finally arrested and taken back ~
Salt Lake. He again escaped, and some
years after he was shot in row in New
Mexico.
Riley moved to Nevada from Salt La
City, and figured in that section Al
monte gambler and hard case general
He finally descended on San Francisc
and, in conjunction with Charles Merton.
better known as Boston Charley. swell
mobsman, now serving term in an East
ern penitentiary, opened the first bunco
shop in San Francisco The establish
ment was located at the corner OF San
some and Pine streets, and did thriving
business, capital being furnished by some
business men Of the city. While in this
avocation Riley, alias Foster, fell despe-
ately in love with sixteen-year-old gir-
Of Hebrew descent and finally married
her, despite the opposition Of her par
ents, when she was scarcely sixteen years
of age After this exploit he settled
down to the comparatively quiet life of
faro dealer, in which profession be b.
came paralyzed under remarkably strange
circumstances. One night when dealing
"a iyer'' d gambler won eleven straight
bets. Foster, for by that name he was
then known, burst into the widest pro-
family and wound up his exhibition "a
anger with the wish that he might Be
paralyzed if the man won the next bet.
The man won, and as the faro box drop
ped from the nerveless hand Of the
dealer the players looked at him II hor-
TOR, for he was stricken helpless with
paralysis Of the left side Some time
after the broken-down despersIdo, no
longer a stalwart specimen Of humanity,
but poor cripple tottering on crutches,
was committed to the almshouse by his
wife. It seemed impossible that he could
ever again return to the world, but the
tremendous vitality Of the man brought
him back from the jaws Of death; and he
is again struggling for living, cripple,
sustained only BY the hope that he may
somehow regain the affections Of his
former wife, now separated from him By
divorce and married again.-San Fran
cisco Call.