Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-09-10
HYPNOTlZED TIE DEALER.

a North Dakota Gamble Who Had
Things All His Own Way.
GRAND Forks, n. d., Sept, Quite
a connection was raised in sporting
circles a few nights ago by n stranger
dressed in the garb of n country mer-
chant, winning at a single sitting
50, 300 in Charlie Martins gambling
rooms. Last Friday evening what was
presumably a country merchant
dropped into Martins place and gazed
around at tho gamblers. lie appeared
to be greatly surprised at the extent Of
the gambling that was going on. lie
was of medium height, rather slim,
high forehead and bald head He was
smooth shaver, with eyes deeply set,
and which shone with wondrous
brightness. lie tried his luck
at different games with
varying success. Finally he
stopped at the roulette table and
placed 81 on seventeen. The little
ivory ball spun around a few times and
dropped into thirty-eight- lie did not
appear to care about gambling my
more and went into the saloon adjoin-
ing. Soon the gamblers began to go
out for lunch, and he returned to tho
wheel where he sat down and began to
play light. The oom was now cleared
OF all the gamblers except the man at
the wheel. The player glanced into
the mans face and his eyes fairly
glistened as meanwhile ne placed
money on different numbers. A few
men who had either gambled their
money away or were out of luck gath
cred around the player. seeing that no
was beginning to play high. They
noticed hat the man at the wheel
appeared to be under some in
i~luence, and was acting contrary
TO his desire. lie would whirl the
little ivory marble and. regardless
of the fact that the player was losing,
he would pay the bet in the same ratio
as if he had won The on-lookers, of
course, had no sympathy with tho
house, and they watched in silence.
When the last dollar had been taken
from the drawer the player thrust the
money before him into his pocket,
never taking his eyes from the wheel
mans face, and vanished through the
door, which is the last that has been
seen of him. The instant he was out
Of the room the mau who manipulated
the wheel reached his hands I o his
head and ~shuddered. When ho dlscov-
cred that the till was empty his ex-
element knew no bounds. lie swore
that he had been knocked down and
robbed, but he was informed by the
~bystanders, among whom were several
well known citizens, that such was not
the case, but that he had been paying
off bets the past twenty minutes
in a very reckless manner, and that he
had not been robbed, only cheated.
lie could not be made to
believe that he was SO careless as to
give up about 81, 800 unless he had
been put under some magic spell. and
those who were present are firm in
the belief that the gambler was really
hgpnotized. There was n little show
going through the country giving per-
f~ormauces a few weeks ago, and the
principal attraction was the mesmeric
feats performed by n man who was
billed as Professor Rodeau This show
vent to pieces recently at Arvill, and
IL is the opinion that the player was
none other than the professor. but as
there is no one here who knows him
this cannot be verified. The game
goes On as usual and the man who pre-
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