The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-27

against the railing Of the billiard table.
"ThrOWed Seben," commented TAYLOR,
and a second time took down portion
Of the blue coats wealth.
Thus 1t went. Officer Banker occa-
sionally winning, then losing, until the
excitement of the. game became per-
fectly fascinating. AT one stage of the
game. however, the patrolman's luck
appeared to change and he won stead
lily. His fellow bluecoat who had
watched the game wlhistled a few bars
of 1.-THE Man That Broke the Bank at
Monte Carlo" and advised Banker to
cash in and quit. This he refused to
do. and persisted in the play. Grad
ually Officer Bankers pile grew small
er and smaller, until his winnings and
half Of his original capital was gone.
Then he found that his dinner hour
was nearly I'D and that if he was to
recoup his lost wealth he must double
and quit. He did both, but when the
latter was accomplished the policeman
was out just SITS, as the stakes at each
pass ran up into double figures, and the
recklessness Of Bankers play soon de-
pleted his funds.
After losing his money Officer Bank
er was "staked" to SIS by Taylor and
went back to his beat to ruminate
upon the fckleness Of fortune and the
hole knocked in his savings. He took
with him, however, the dice with which
the crap game had been played, and
Monday afternoon visited Taylor with
a demand for the return Of his money.
He had broken the dice open, Officer
Banker declared, and found them to
have been loaded" He did not mind
losing his money in a square game,
the policeman asserted, but he did OBJ
ject to being skinned"
Taylor told the policeman that If he
had desired to examine the dice he
should have done so in his presence
and stated that he did not know
played by Officer Banker were the
ones with which the game had been
played. On second thought Taylor de-
clared they were not, that the dice he
had used were perfectly straight and
that he did not intend to be shaken
down. for any of the money which the
officer had lost.
This was the last Taylor heard of the
| matter until Lieut.. Babe called upon
him Tuesday in company with Banker
and demanded that he return the
patrolman's coin. Taylor stood firm
in his former decision and refused to
make any sort of settlement, declar-
ing that the game had been played
fairly and that if Officer Banker had
won his money he would not have
"hollered.' If he had lost. Taylor in
formed Lieut.. Bahe Officer Banker
would have kept his money and as long
as he had been the lucky person, he pro-
posed to hold on to his winnings, and
there the matter rests.
Mr. Taylor, when seen by reporter
for the G l o b e last evening, reluctant
ly gave the above alleged facts as
true, but insisted that the policeman
had lost his money by perfectly :egiti-
into my place." said he. with another
policeman and wanted to shoot craps.
I did not want to play with him ana
told him So but he insisted, and final
ly I got out the dice and started the
game I did not care to win his money
and If he had quit when ne was ahead
of the game, as his brother oiheer
wanted him to, there would have been
no trouble, but he kept on playing and
when he found it was nearly time for
him to go, became reckless, betting his
money at random, and naturally in q
game where man played SO eNcileoly
1 could not help winning. The game
was on the square, though, and as [
took chances on losing my money l
can't see any reason for giving up
what I won"
Now that the story has become pub
lie it will be in line with Mayor
Doran's idea of the fitness of things
to get even with the unpleasant light
in which it puts him by discharging
Officer Banker and possibly the other
officer who watched the game. That,
however, will not cover up the fact
that there are more than score of
places where gambling of other forms
as well as crap games is carried on,
and the fact will be no news to Chief
Goss when he gets back Saturday
morning, for they were all running
when he left ST. Paul to go to the
coast, and have been running ever
since the Globe ceased calling the
attention Of the public to the. matter.