Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-10-31
A DENVER GAMBLER
TELLS ABOUT OLD-TiME DEVICES
OF TWENTY YEARS AGO.
A Man Who Had n winning" Way
About Him-How GrsenhorHs We're
Eelib"rateIy Robbed The
ITick Discovered.

places where the IcuderfoOt was bcguilcd
aud rohlcd Of his all The most not, rious
pihre wa, tie 10 m run by liil aud 'ly
/ ord. They didn't run am thing hut
pokrr.ruoms but many poor devil with
a taste for the game was rntCed in there
and robbed,
How was il do e."
Il will tell you rerf he hangers
on around the rooms WAS Enmb or
named cry evils .rrry Wa Crooned
thrOu. h0uL lie couldn't pay lar
game II he wanted ln lie had bis
cappers aTounl town gathering up Inc
unwary. Tie always bal his particular
seat nj table aud the mun who sat op'
ppSiie to him was always i.Cycti before
he got up
';YI"NIXI" Wa.
~Everyth'ng appare' tly was on The
suune. bul il WASH l. Jerry h1d winning
way about him in more ways than one
lie never went for anything but Dig
game lie would get around fellow,
propose quiet game of draw, lase him
to his room aud the two would sii
down h. a table in room 10y tiemscl Is
Jerry had his COZ fcderale. however. aud
had him slalioied in The loft Immediately
abu the table There was n small hole
in the ceiling where the fellow could see
the suckers la ID. Then there was an
ingenious system Of wires arranged by
which slgI ais could be given
The signals were all gwen on the sole
of Jerry loot. There wa, hole in the
moor rs well as in the ceiling Jerry
would place his foot over the hole and his
pal would work the wires They hid i,
telegraph :, STEM One tap would mean
some u.ng, Two something else 50 you
sec that the watcher coull keep ,'G7ry
correctly informed Is 10 what the other
fell held 10 was q dead sure tho :,
aud cry made mint OF money.
allow WAS his trick disco, cred
~ Tryau. named Fam ed struck
Fen er with 5000 lie played bank
heavy ana won SluU more. cry
taos eel h!m for game rf draw and ram
cuusetted, The first night erry lost jus;
enough TO make the Texan think thai he
was the boss poker player in the world.
The next night they quit even. The night
after erry started In TO win the pile but
luck was against him lie cuuldn hold
anything lie knew il was use ess 10 try
and sack the cards, because cid would
have discovered that aud there would
have been n shooting scrape In snite 0i
signas cry quit loser that night, but he
dIdn give up lie tackled Ieid again
the neat night and won right along.
NrIHIN & iurNSJ.
-lle had won S4G,OOO of the southern
er'S money aud was laying himself out u
win the rest of it, lie uked IN pot o.
$1,000 and had dealt the cards himself
Re d hail oHly about 81 $50 left
~le got IN hand on The draw and
Jerry got lu! hand also, bs tai. hand
being lar-er Than Reds The betting
commenced and cid had every cent ol
hs none" up ~ Ia" call iCfprc tho
Gu DIS were sht " h,i told Jerry To | o.
o. awhile lie drew revolver aud lad
il on the liable. sill retaining bod Of H.
however
~'pon show your band yet. be said
9 very cent baN IN the world is on that
table / don know which one has the
best hand, but do know there has
been Chgaiug done somebody has given
my hand awaE That somebody Is over
US. II everything IS square Sou won't
object 10 my shooting through the cell
ing. II there is anything crooked ui
course you will Object
= ed Jaised his pistol aad cooked il,
Jerry dldn say anything. but grablc
kCids arm, hut too late. The gun went
OIL. ThuIe was a howl aud scampering
hCaTil and fall in the next room.
"'Therc, said ED, 4 know you wcr,
rolbiug me didn't kill that fellow, bu
/ wish bad Now you Just hand bach
every cent Of my money. II you don I
will put d hoie through you big enough
for dog 20 crawl through.
'erry was gaac but cid hal tn
drop CA hun Il Inc was forced IT, CAV,
back every cent he Lad won.