Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-22
=" FIxfsev A ROULETTE WHEEL.

10TH DuH, VI 1uuuuy Weth, lcllS buG III
genious process by which Red Leary,
Big Frank Mccoy, (the Delaware Bank
robbery, anditheir gang of crooks took
the sum of $4,000 from Long Branch
gambling den:
To beat gambling house by under
handed schemes is an almost impossible
thing All the important gambling
establishments in this part Of the coun-
try employ men to look out for snch
attempts, and the number of times when
faro cards have been "fiXed,n cogged
hazard dice substituted, roulette wheels
"corked," or any similar games played
successfully by gamblers against "the
house" can be counted on the fingers of
one hand. The gambler of to-day must
depend on his luck to come out ahead
of the cards, the dice or the wheel.
One of the few schemes and perhaps
the most successful ever perpetrated on
a gambling house in this part of the
country, was worked in Phil DAYS.
place at Long Branch, known as Monte
Carlo, Jr., by gang of crooks headed
by Red Leary, since killed on Sixth
avenue by = brick which a companion
of his tossed in tho air, and by big
Frank Mccoy, the bank robber. The
game was roulette, aud, although the
account Of 1t ever was made public, and
even the chief loser the late Charles
Frederick Woerrishoffer, a well-known
banker of this city, never knew Of the
crooked work that lost him $4,000 with.
in three hours
When Leary, Mccoy, and three others
one OF whom is well known bunco
man, arrived at Long Branch one day
that summer report got abroad that
they were going to make an organized
attempt al rob0ing the big safe in Monte
Carlo, Jr. Every night five guards slept
in the gambling house with loaded shot.
guns 81 their heads, but they might hsve
spared themselves the trouble. The
five crooks would come over in the after
noou, lounge about the house until
evening, when they would play, but
no, heavily, and generally lose. They
always played roulette. There came q
nisht, however, when they stopped
losing and won enough to make up all
their losses ten times over. On the
afternoon previous Phil Daily had noticed
Mccoy and one OF the others taking a
great interest IN the roulette wheel and
said 70 Major Crump, whose duty it
Vas 10 i1,ok Sae tables over aud see that
everything vas right before play began"
These fellows are up TO something
I sei-S they're gcgzs to try and plug 10
sSe.s U the Numbers in the roulette
Ecsel Adj zhsu play the adjoining
-1-l-erse Lock oGE that the wheel isn't
.Grass.
Cru1p examined the wheel with par.
ln:l4Ir .4r. taa1 evening, but found
1,Gt-1E wrrnE Mccoy and Leary
mint c,sus around, bot two Of their
gals -9:- And shay cegln playing heavily.
4.rly-l ia zazIis 1lIza M. WoerrishofFar,
Wa Wis 1 cuuz=ar1 customer. came in
LII 81 AVN On the other side of the
Er,sel .9pnai7s afl TWO crue1s.
t.IllL In g-iug - win tonight
IL sla. .: Fr11E SuVIer, who was
,r.up6tr 50 1is ala. et+Ivs ne a thou
irl. -i1-Irs' Egrtn Ut chips. III play
Z L-l= Z.
e. eerIn II -Zr.1Izz go O. each Of
Lie 1tu.er5 Lrt wltcEest ais coin dis
Iegailr wIzh1Gs winning His 81, 600
LII. E1r. = LIE mere saEn- 10 Ec,z and
r4La1sr : al:r q h1,t 5arusfi 10.
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II az crGg-5 ti8 ssf.,luG sdlu4arG DOT
Ar -isT1- "a t1zpa. Thirty dTas. ..s.
Tlsn : III 4, VIII 81nn IIrIars 11i.
5,I1 I.a saraud 5.iuuHIlld waus M
VIZ Ct liIf i15r wiulIuuU either II, .,s,.
1I-ling ~. '-illl ls peraistsit, .1aialar
zlal -le mex wulIin snnn gaui IA Wv
la-ri. MaalwhEte tIe Gr1GiIa az ~.
sller 8ine It tsiG wheel ware ria9t-r
heavily Gu Nos. : AMI II, sn zie fr46
7vsi7a, wiiiGh pays > &c :, la6 Gu fis
middle sailunn, which cgYs "a. At.1..;
lnd they vars winning gu ~. v5Eh ss-
uia-ka1le pEraisJsucy Il IrsI..lT II
W1gr-ishofsr, l5 ais It1er sn,t VIZ
lnaiar Af.sr h.a ftsn zlS.sy.nt =!
1ad g0ue anf hia nlmher4 GL4 ant
shown up cuca,. Banker " eer-.iI... See
said &c Snydsrs
well, FauL, thers'I aa LUCK s.r IL
Ed-niuhG I've Loaf bdGGG on z a.4 IL
lld that 1 enough for me sTs1i.z. TEA
isn's their aight su. II ~ 90. ag1lz
JG.morraw'
The luck Is at tie eGhsr ED, r..
piled Snyder '''fhaaa fs.loVA o. the
other end ara hitrilg "a ka-t %
The two crooks played 90, AID still
they w5n- Each played The lIll.t every
time on the middle cGlGn1 gaG the frat
u, and 80 ~ every tdrn AZ the Wheel
en- numbers Z and I, AID SO remarkable
waS tdeir luck tna5 other smaller czliore
! players began " follow them with M
results 10 the hank When finally
Major Crunpr WAC was spinuiug the
/ wheel, called the last turn, the two men
| were about $40 600 apiece ahead. They
and the rest Of the AcCoy-Leary gang
eft Long Branch On tae following day'
/ When the wheel stopped SNYDER leaned
over TO Crunp and whispered:
Neither 8 nor 10 has turned up once
Tonight There's something wrong with
| the wheel"
Can't bee" returned Crump. az
looked i; over carefully before the game
began. III swear there isu't cork ip
the Wheel
We'll, let's look il over" suggested
Snyder, and the two began 10 examine
the wheel. Their investigation failed to
discover any number 6 or 10 on the
wheel. They tried again and found two
number 80 and two lis. Over number G
a square OF very fine tissue, the exact
counterpart OF number 8, had been sci
in, and in like manner ii had been sub.
stituted for 10. Besides doubling ths
two numbers this put one extra chance
in the trst twelve and two chances IN
the middle column. Crump turned L
Snyder:
Now l get onto why those fellows
pounded the same numbers righ
through" he said. "They must hay,
liked the wheel this afternoon. It's a,
pretty piece of work as I've ever seen
but it'll never go again here"
DAILY himself was summoned to ex
anime the wheel. He declared that no,
| even the begt-tFained ave nouId -. i :