The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-28
TIE TURF.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.-The
racing stewards of the California
Jockey club have made a report ex-
polling Jockeys Jerry Chorn, Hippolyte,
Chevalier and Little Pete the Chinese
plunger, for conspiracy to defraud the
bCokmakers. Dow Williams and his
horses are warned off the track and
permission to ride is refused Jockey
Hinrichs. 1t is not known exactly how
much Little Pete made out of THE
scheme, but as he was in the habit of
betting from $1,000 to $4,000 on a race
and nearly always won, the amount
probably runs high into the thousands
CHICAGO, March 2T-Five bucket
shops were raided last evening by de-
tecfiVeS from the central station AS
result Of the raid thirty men are NV
under bonds to appear before Justice
Glennon today. The specific charge
against them is a violation of chapter
SS, section 1877, of the Illinois statutes
keeping a common gambling house.
LIVERPOOL, March 27-The grand
national steepdechase of $500 sover-
eigns was turnover the Antree course
today and was won by Nh de G.. M.
Campbell's The Squire, Father OFlynn
second Biscuit third.
Alpheus led from the start and held
decided advantage during the first
round of the course. When turning out
of the straight the second time around
Alpheus boltsd and Rory O'Moore
went to the front and led his field I'M
til opposite the stand on tine far side,
when Biscuit assumed the lead. About
two fences from home Biscuit gave
way to The Squire and the latter COM
ing ON swiftly, passed the finish a
length and a half ahead of Father
O'Flynn, who passed Biscuit in the
straight and secured second honors by
a leangth and a half also. The rest
of the field were strung out.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.-The
Examiner says this morning: One of
the most successful plots to defraud
the public has just been unearthed by
the board of stewards Of the Pacific
Coast Jockey club.
1t is known positively that three
jockeys at least entered into a con-
spiracy to defraud the public, and their
agent was Little Pete" the famous
Chinese plunger.
The premier of the jockeys who have
been riding at Inglesde and the Bay
District track is implicated. He is
Jerry Chorn, the colored boy who has
been riding for the past year for the
we'll known bookmaker, Barney Schrei-
Der. The other jockey is young Chew
alier.
The board of stewards will not di-
vulge the names of the other Jockeys
and persons involved, but when it is
known they have in their possession
an affidavit of one of the parties con-
Tossing not only to his own guilt, but
exposing that of the others. the sig
nificance of the Investigation can be
appreciated.
President Williams and the board of
stewards have been suspicious of GER
tain jockeys and parties for the past
three weeks. When racing began sew
eral days ago at the Bay District, they
watched the actions of the parties they
had under suspicion; in fact, they had
detectives employed to shadow them.
The detectives watched the jockies
night and day and discovered several
of them were in the habit of visiting
Little Pete's shoe factory on Washing
ton street On Wednesday night,
March 1S, they paid a visit to the
headquarters of the heather plunger.
The next day the judges, stewards and
detectives were on the lookout.
Everything satisfied them the next
day until the betters opened ON the
dash over the inside. This course is an
up-and-down-hill affair and just the
thing to make raw work rather easy.
Nephew, with Shaw up. opened up
as a to / favorite: Jack Richelieu,
with Jerry Chorn up, as to second
choice. Chevalier's mount, All Smoke,
opened up at 8 to l. These were the
first, second and third choices, while
Sea Spray, with r. Isom up, opened
up at 4 to 1. Strange to say, Little
Pete started to bet heavily on Sea
Spray He bet hundreds on him in
every book and soon Sea Spray receded
13 to 5.
The race was run and Sea Spray won,
upsetting the judgment of the form
players or talent. All Smoke, Cheval-
ier's mount, was bad fourth, while
Chorn's mount was a bad sixth, being
beaten twenty-five lengths.
President Williams and the board of
were then convinced that
Job had been perpetrated, but decided
to continue their Investigations. Other
things occurred to confirm their sus-
Chorn, Chevalier and other
jockies rode exceptionally bad races ON
horses that were favOrites or second
choices On all such occasions the de-
tectives ruled that these jockies that
rode SO peculiarly bad made visits the
previous night to Little Pete's China
town shoe factory. They also noted the
fact that Little Pete always made a
big plunge the next day ON some horse
not ridden by Chorn, Chevalier or the
other jockies implicated in the scandal
and that the nag invariably won