Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-09-13
GAMBLER PLUNDERED.
His Safe is Emptied Of Nearly One
Hundred Thousand.
A CHURCH MEMBER TOOK 1T.
The Remarkable Life That Hollingsworth Lsad-Hs
Was Leading Ligh. in the Episcopal Church.
Sons Very Astounding RsvslatOns-A
Very Cool Piece Of Plundsr.

city, the man who has been able to deal faro
when all other faro banks have been COM
PEELED 10 close, the man known far and
wide as "a thigh roller" has been done"
"Done" is an expressive sporting term
Used in this connection it means that John
DAILY is poorer to-day by many thousands
than he was ten days ago.
Robbed" is the word that is spoken by
those who talk of the matter who are not
included in the class known as sporting
men,
From the safe in Daly's gambling palace
No 80 West Twenty-ninth street, was
taken last Friday night a sum of money
estimated at from S60,0 to Sl00,O
1t was in bills-in cold, hard cash. 1t
made roll larger than mans head, and
the bills were big ones, and tightly packed
at that.
The man who took them-who was he!
Mono other than William S. Hollings-
worth, Daly's manager, man living q
double life. Church member and seeming
ly respectable citizen twelve hours In
day; custodian of the money OF gamblers
and interested in a resort where thousands
of dollars have changed hands the other
twelve.
John Daly's loss has been the one absorb
| ing topic among the men ABOUT town, the
followers of horses by day and players Oh
faro by night, for the last week. They
have wondered how this cool bettor, this
master of the art of winning other peoples
money. this clear-headed business man now
he of all men, could have been made VIC
| tim. A.,
1rhe subject supplauted the interest in the
entries for the races, and even in the CID
hons -McAuliffe fight. Nobody would ever
have dreamed that any man weuld get the
better of j ohm DAILY in the matter OF money
Yet one man has-the man Holnhgs-
worth. s...,
| Dalvis safe. of which he held the comolna-
tion. and used 1t, or the greater part OF IL, 10
cover losses in Wall street.
II was said last night that when Daily de,
rnanded its return HollingsW0rth oraved
him told him that he was rightfully enti-
ria.7'lo ii and dared DAILY to go 10 court
Whyl
Because, il is whispered, any action Of
| that character on his part would involve
persons of prominence In the administra-
! tion of the city OF New York.
He VINO can maintain gambling house
even when the hue and cry against gam
bling is loUdest and strongest cannot az
ford to appear in public courtroom as a
complainant against one acquainted with
his affairs.
Those who know DAILY and Hollingsworth
and who know of this affair are as silent as
| the proverbial clam. They will say abso-
lutely nothing about IT,
When l spoke TO several of them last
night they merely stared. They looked as
if they could speak volumes. Oneof them,
however, came out of the shell far enough
to observe that there was "h-l TO pay.n
| learned, however, that some OF the
money taken belonged TO bookmaker and
to some fortunate ones who had made win
nings and had given them TO DAILY TO keep
| for them. John Daily as trustee Is as
solid as the Chemical bank.
Hollingsworth. it appears, had long had
access TO the safe. Many of Daly's depos-
| itors gave their money TO him, but DAILY
was responsible for 1t.
| After the game was closed on Friday
night and Daily mad gone-he usually re-
tires early-H5llingsw is said TO have
| taken the money. He did not flee 10 Can
ada, as many thieving bank cashier has
done.
No, according to all accounts he took the
money home He must have remained up
all night, for it is said that he was seen in
! Wall street early the next morning. Pre-
sumably he took the money down town
with him TO make good his margins.
| 1t is said that he was bear on the rising
market. He sold stocks and they advanced.
He is reported as arriving at Days
| Twenty-ninth street house early Saturday
! afternoon Daily was there and had been
| hn cnfn a bQd "A
shortage.
Upon Hollingsworth's arrival there was
| a scene Daily demanded an accounting.
HolEngsworth said:
"Well you can have one"
81 want it now,n said DAILY.
al took no more than what belonged 10
me- Hollingsworth is quoted as saying,
'.and,n he added significantly, ''if you
don't like it you know what you can do"
DAILY probably did know what he could
| do. But he has done nothing
When went TO the gambling house last
night a colored man answered the bell.
could see through the inside glass door
rear parlor, brilliantly lighted. Yet the
house was perfectly dark from the outside.
as Mr. DAILY herep' l asked.
Mo- the servant replied, hes gone 70
the fight"
SIS Mr.. Hollingsworth, his manager,
| here.h i Quered.
@No.n was the curt answer" ''he amt
got any connection with this house no
moren
II is hard to believe that one whose
figure is as familiar in prominent Episco
nal church in this city as the surplice OF
| The rector could be so closely allied with
Famous gambling resort as that OF john
DAILY. .,.,,u
Rut this Is the case with BILLY" Hol-
lingswortb, who for years has been resi-
| dent of Harlem, and 70 all appearances
| deyout worshipper at the altar OF St An
drevs' Episcopal church, at lz7th street
and fifth avenue, of which the Rev. DR..
George r. Van de Water Is the rector.
There were and are Harlemites who
knew the true business of William s. Hol-
lingsworth. Notwithstanding the directory
for 1891 and previous years enrolled him as
resident Of the city in this wise:-
Holliugsworth. William S, Brushes, 20 w.
B'way, b. 22S LeroI ay-
Those who knew that the brush busI-
ness was simply a subterfuge winked the
other eve, placed their index fingers On
their noses and said-nothing. The true
business calling Of BILLY" Hollingsworth
was even known 70 goodly proportion Of
of the attendants at St Andrews Episco-
pal Church too. but it behooved them for
various reasons 70 say little more IL any
thing than those outside OF the pale Of the
church
Hollingsworth Is q man of slight figure,
much below the medium height, and Q
head somewhat larger than Is generally
poised on q man Of his size. In complexion
be Is decidedly light, with peculiar blue
eyes, one OF which Is In soms way asaloteds