The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-22
Confidence Men Will Not Be
Allowed to Stay Here.
aEaP:nc A HARVEST IN POKER
yousg Man From Pennsylvania Re-
.orts the Loss Of xl20-Played
seven Hours and q half--POlice
Run Down the Observation-Disclosures
Heavy LOSSES Come TO Light-The
Old Lock Game Good for 3s.So.
Chief Of Police Reed issued an order last

Chief OF Police Reed issued an order last
ngat, directing detectives and pstfoimen
"a agres, all confidence men on sight. Il
moan business said the ehioz. Men
gbo make their iiving by skin games can
not stay in SEATTLE
When confidence operators are caught
,asy viii be put in the lower jail. and
their allowance OF food will not be ex-
tended much beyond bread and water.
This order was brought about BY reports
o. s.Iock game which netted the oper-
ators sI.50. and three poker games. which
tsited from So up to yl2o
Yesterday afternoon about i O'Clock
fnsly dressed young man. OF apparent in
telligence. rushed out Of the Metropoie
house. corner OF yegier way and Second
ayense. and told Detective Powers and
PAuolnan Hamilton that he had been
robbed OF SID in a poker game. The Off
GERS FASTENED up TO the room. but found
that the alleged guilty party had fed.
without even taking his aatchei, etc.
Chief Reed Instructed Powers and De-
fecfiye corbeit to watch the house. IN
Ill probability someone would be sent for
the saiehel. After while they saw a
man enter the hotel Experience told the
officers that he was t8e Haaa 10 watch.
After a while he came out and went up
the street. lie WAS followed. Soon he
was joined by a heavy. thick-set man.
Powers ard Corbeit arrested them and
took them to police headquarters. They
gave their names as John Il. Ludwig. a
bartender. and T. ]. Collins. a travelling
man. Collins said he represented q Den-
yer liquor house. Collins had 81, and
Ludwig $685.. On Ludwig were two
tickets for Alaska ono for himself and
smother for a man named Young Col
Ins said he WIS rooming IN No. II Fer
tuson mouse on First avenue.
Chief Reed sent the detectives ,hero on
we superstition that the man who got the
money from the fine appearing Young man
would be waiting for his satchei. The the
cty worked out. q. Y. Young who saws
ne ~ hardware man. but a fine poker
payer. was reclining on a sofa. He was
taken TO headquarters Young told the
chief that II was true he had been nlavinsr
poker with the young man and had beaten
MIN out OF $40. Il did not have TO cheat
aim. said Young. "Ife did not know the
game. and when he got even a pair his
hands frembled SO that I could read him.
met him during the early hours of this
morning and we went TO the Union saloon
70 nave a game of seven-up. We did not
get third man 10 play and so went to my
room and played from i'm the morning un-
fii about 1880 o'clock lie did not know
the game and ] won so from him. Then
ne wanted his money back Young was
locked up.
The Young nan WIS then called I'm and
required TO tell his story In full He said
that his name was Robert IittIefinger. He
came here from Pennsylvania and In sport
Ing around went broke. His brother sent
hkn draft for $50. He got some OF his
th'ngs o1t Of the pawnshop and went out
70 zee the town. He met Young. who in
Nissd him 10 Join him Ina a game OF seven
III al the Union saloon. Tho game fen
Through and then he accepted IN invitation
~ J eiins room. They played poker from
alirut I o'clock in the morning until 1880
and Young Won $3.50 This WAS all the
n2n i.iitietinger had. and he asked
seung 10 give II hack Young said he
would not do that. bat he would pay his
hctel bill Lttleiingsr said his hotel bill
WIS paid, bat he wanted his money. Young
wphld not give Il Ia him. SO he ran far A
policeman. Chief Reed released Collins
lasi night and held the other two.
John Green. a midde-aged man with a
red face and chin whiSkers reported 20 the
police yesterday afternoon that he took 4
hand In poker game at Third avenue and
SPRING street and lost ST.