The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03

or ratified a, dice box.
AFTER BIG GAME.
He went to Europe in May last IN the
Paris, which had among her other pas
many men of wealth. including
George Gould and Charles T. Yerkes.
Two young club men of this city were
forced by accident to share a cabin with
the sharper. He introduced himself as
William Carroll Woodward. and his in
t~elligence and geniality made a good
impression IN them. With little ac-
quaintance with the world in which he
is SO pronounced a figure. the club men
did not n that the man with the
closely cropped. pointed beard and with
the dark, restless eyes, was the last man
in the world they would have chosen as
a cabin companion.
He readily won their sympathy by say
ing that the unwarrafted jealousy Of
his wife, whom he loved and adored,
had driven him abroad so that he might
try n forget her. He had not spoken
to her in a year, he said, although they
had lived together all that time. Being
chatty n agreeable, he soon made a
number Of acquaintance among the
other passengers, some of whom gave
him letters of recommendation to be
used in London.
A nice little poker game. with a 80
cent limit, Just enough to make it in
teresting," as Woodward remarked. was
soon arranged. The club men, two other
New Workers, a theatrical manager and
a guileless-looking old man, who had
announced that he was a wealthy re-
tired miner, and who apparently didn't
know the first thing about the game,
formed the party with Woodward.
The old man lost with startling regu-
iar1ty, but SO did most of the others,
while WOODWARD raked in pot after pot.
But one day, as he was dealing, one of
the club men saw hin pull out a king
from the discard and add it to his hand.
The young man dropped out, and on his
advice his friend did the same, although
he had three queens. Then the discov-
erer of the fraud told Woodward he had
three kings in his hand, and so it proved
to be. But Woodward was not a whit
disconnected, even when the club men
arose and left the table.
How much did you lose?" Woodward
asked the New Workers a few hours
later, saying he would settle at once.
He readily acknowledged he was a card
sharp, and with pride announced that
he was the cleverest in the business.
The men did not know what to do, shar-
ing the same cabin with him as they
did. but finally an anonymous note was
sent to him, warning him against play,
ing cards further. He showed the letter
to his cabin mates. remarking, IF 1
knew he man who wrote that I'd do
him up, sure"
He was particularly angry, because it
was his great desire to draw Gould and
YerkeS into a game, saying, They'd
never know what had happened to them
II l could get them to play" Simply
because he had formed a liking for a
Staten Islander, from whom he had won
5000, he returned it to him., telling him
he had Won it unfairly. Being unable
to play cards, he showed the club men
how he could manipulate them, and told
thnnN NJ ~ vrnr {Nvx~ 49, n 49,
marking that his body was covered with
the scars of many Wounds he had re-
ceived.
DO l carry a gun?' he said one day.
I hardly ever do. My favorite weapons
are a piece of lead pipe and a box of red
pepper. It's a much better combination
than a gum"
DICE HIS FAvoR1TEs.
Although his skill at cards was re-
markable. dice were mis- favorites, and
for hours at a time he would throw
whatever combination was called for.
II have spent" he said. two hours a
day for many years perfecting myself
with dice. and 1 can do what 1 choose
with them. They are more valuable
than cards, and I'm sorry that they are
not popular in England"
He admitted he had his in
England all planned, and the subse-
quent developments proved thai this
was so. Shortly after the trip across the
sea Woodward blossomed out as t
Hon. Lionel Musgrove," with a large
furnished house in Stanhope Gardens, a
fashionable KensingtOn quarter. With
him, posing as his secretary, was Frank
Taylor, who was really Frank Tarbo,
one of the leaders of the notorious
Johnny Irving gang, which terrorized
this community some years ago. Tarbo
had with him a woman known as his
wife.
THE Hon. Lionel had several stylish
horses and carriages. an extensive ret
inue Of liveried servants, and hi lived
and entertained on the most lavish
scale. Dinner parties were frequent,
and such was the riotous order of these
affairs that the attention of the police
was attracted to the place, and orders
were given that 1t be watched carefully.
1t was. and one night, as a policeman
was passing the house. the door was
opened and a young man in evening
dress was flung down the steps by some
one from within, h Immediately
closed the door. The policeman found
that the young man, who was under the
influence of liquor, was badly hurt, and
he was taken to the earest police sta
ton. There it was found that he was
the younger son of a very wealthy fam
lily.
His statement was a surprise to the
officials. He said he had visited the
house from which he had been so vio-
lently elected every night for a week,
and that in that time he had been
fleeced at cards out of the enormous
amount of $500, 00O. He had denounced
the men who had beaten him, and one
of them had kicked him in the face.
breaking his jaw.
Woodward and Tarbo were arrested,
n then they offered the young man
$4,000 not to prosecute the case. AT first
they were allowed to remain at large,
without any bail being required. but
afterward they were put under bonds.
The police earne that the two men had
been in Paris, Berlin and Monte Carlo,
n had made enormous winnings in
eac place.
Then other victims became known.
among them Samuel Lewis, a well-known
money lender of London, and who has
the reputation of being the keenest of
his class. He refused to say how much
he had lost by the sharpers, but it is be-
lieved to be a very large mount. An
other man. who is well-known In Lon
don, lost to the men $50, 900 in one nights
play in the Langham Hotel.
The matter became so warm for the
men that they jumped their bail and
had left the country before their escape
became known A man who sells must
cal instruments. and who had sold a
guitar to Woodward, for hich he for