The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-04
orti,c Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany...whnt "wirc Tapping" Is and
How IL Can DO Workcd...Do 1ar.
dclcbcn Talks about tho Persistent
Charges.

stood by Johnny Payne in dis position.
placing the guilt whcroi his inycstiga.
ton showed it to belong.
Tho Enquirer received q despatch last
evening from Dan DeEardelcben, who
il in Wheeling, denyingthat no had any
CONNECTION WITH TltEyDrslSEss.
When seen later Mr.. Payne promptly
reiterated all he had said, and further
remarks showed that tho Coyington
bool;-makers, who had i~ntrustcd their
interests to him, were determined to
push the matter to tho end. Mr.. Payne
had received 4 note IRON Supcrintond-
ent Page, OF tho Western Union, notify
ins tho Covington people. that hereafter
MCBride's room in Columbus would DO
cut of from the privileges allowed the
other patrons. Tho wire would DO ar
ranged so that any attempt 10 tap it
there would DO useless and result in i'm
mediate discovery. This was not alto
gcthGr satisfactory to the Covington
book-makers, rs Indicated by
III FOLLOWING PETITION,
Winch all OF them signed last evening,
and which will be delivered to General
Superintendent Miller to-day:
FEBRUARY 2, 1892.
J. N. .WHcr, Superintendent Western Union Itle.
graph Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
DEAR SIR:-We are satisfied that the
overlapping Thursday, January 81, was
done by parties connected with Nc
Bride & Co.'S pool room at Columbus,
Ohio, as published by the Cincinnati
morning papers to-day. AS q protection
to us we request that your wires be re-
moved IRON Mcbride 4 Co.'s pool room,
and also from the room ut Wheeling, W.
Va, in which Mcssrs. Mcbride and De
Bardclebon are Interested.
ENRIGuT & Co., Suburban.
ENKGnr & Co., White House.
PAYNE 4 Co.
SHARP K Co.
NJ. SIMoNToN & ca.
This means that the Covington people
who were victimized by the graveyard
cinch" will insist that the wires be
taken out OF the Columbus room and
that ut Wheeling, both OF which are
controlled by Mcbride and DeBarde-
leben.
EVIDENTLY THE MURPHY" DISPATCH,
which, as stated in the Enquireir's ex-
pose, was the signal to the conspirators
here that WBH had won,hhad been
followed up. 1t was stated yesterday
that inquiries had been made from Co.
lumbus ii ex-Chief OF Police Murphy,
Marsh Siddons, Arty Duffy, Detective
Bergen or Police Commissioner Dixon
were in Cincinnati on tho day-the W
II race wac won. The supposition is
that these names were used to repre-
sent the horses in tho race.
There are very few people, compara-
lively speaking, in the Wheeling COM
munity, who know enough about pool
rooms to know what overlapping
means or how it could be worked. In
the past it has beer no uncommon
thing to tap the wires in q way, that is,
to shut out q circuit entirely, hitch on
another wire, and send in false reports.
The men who realized on thisitrick,
however, had to be unknown and to
disappear promptly alter getting their
money.
NEW TRICK.
The trick worked at Covington is said
to have been there done Tor the first
time, and although n good deal has been
printed on the subject, nobody really
Knows Just how it was done except those
WHO were in the job. Il,
In the pool room rs it is run to-day,
the operator stands at his instrument
and reads of what tho wires say rs tho
account is received. The bets are made
on the list OF the entries as posted. Bet
iing continues till the operator cries,
Now, they're Off" Then he describes
the race as it occurs, just az Il spectator
Oh 4 race might describe it to 4 blind
man beside him. Tho pole horse is
named. The order in which the entries
get under way, tho standing at tho
eighth, at the quarter, every feature OF
,le run is called as it happens, the wire
leading direct IRON the track to q cen
tT9I headquarters where a man calls in
lillS same way to 4 number ofopcrators,
one Tor each different circuit. Each
operator repeats the report,thus called
ont 10 all the pool rooms on his circuit.
Wheeling is on the wire with Washing
ton City.
THE NEW TRICK.
The general opinion in that tho trick
winch Melted the corspirators $4,000
iast Thursday at Covington was worked
rom Columbus, where the pool room
y served by the same wire asithc Gov
lNGion one. The ~cuteness OF this trick
vas IN the TACT that the true report OF
Ine race rs it caino over tho wires was
repeated i'll the Covington room in
every detail. All the advantage the
SoNspiractors had was in a delay vol
seYen minutes in the reception OF this
report.
a code OF signals was agreed on be-
nlSFeAand. Tho wire leading from
loiunbus to Covington was cut of. BY
"l Independent wire an agreed message
W." teIegFaphed to tho operator at
eovihEton, who very innocently re-
peGIed 1t to the crowd. 1t was "a sccm-
HELy lnnocentinquiry whether ex-Chicf
VI Io!lco Murphy, OF Columbus, was in
I'e room ut C%ovington. BY Ii precon-
eorled arrangement this inquiry mount
10 those IN the room who werc'in the
secret that the horse WBH had Won
sae race immediately al the money
GIered on W s II was taken with avid
~; In seven minutes the bookmakers
n21 put up $500 against him 1T con
s,igerablo odds, he being third horse in
Then tho truthful report OF tho race
;%Is sent over the wire 10 Covinston, rs
m"I9 already been called out to the