The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-02

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!. Red $3.50.
"Pll just let you have little change
| Red, said he, land il you think yo1
can run that up into lanyard, g.
ahead. But I'm going to handle thi
for you the right way You're not tie'
enough in your ways to have such
vast sum on your person all at one ant
/ the same time.
'Donnelly didn't demur much. Tn
$3.50 was a huge sum in itself for him
and he of course knew that Schneider
would do the right thing with the mair
bunch. AS matter of fact Barney
5 deposited the $4,000 the next day to thu
credit of Donnelly's old mother, ant
Schneider and the old woman were the
only people who knew anything about
that end Of it for long time after.
ward
I'VE all gibed and roasted Red about
the delirium tremens we foresaw fol
him, and when he didn't turn up at the
track at all on the following day, neces-
stating the turning Of his dog robbing
work over to another man, there was a
lot of talk about the tremendous bar
rel-house foot Red must have gone down
camping out. When we picked up the
papers on turning out the following
morning we found a scare head story
in one of them relating In great detail
and elaborate diction how one Mr.. John
S. Donnelly, gentleman well known on
the Western turf, had swatted Ed. Me-
Guckin's faro bank, over in East St.
Louis, to the tune of $4,000, playing
steadily, without meals from o'clock
on the evening Of Monday until II o.
clock on Wednesday night, when Ed
turned the box on him and announced
that it was all off for the present. We
all shouted fake' when we saw that,
but couple of us hoped into cab
and crossed over to McGuckin's place
| to see If there was anything In the
yarn. Well, there was everything in
it. We found Ed holding his fevered
brow and mumbling deep, dark things
about damned vagabonds slipping into
his layout and running shoe tongues up
| into leather factories. We expressed
| our sympathies with Ed, for which we
came perilohsly near being kicked, and
| then we went back to st. Louis to hunt
up Red. We went over the barrel-house
route with a fine-t tooth comb, but no
Donnelly. Then we decided to drive out
to his mothers little shack. Our route
from the levee out there took us through
the downtown district, and we both
saw Red on the street at once We drew
up alongside of the curb, and called
him. He was cold sober, and he had
$16,210 in bills in his inside waistcoat
pocket. We asked him where he was
going, and he nodded in the direction
of the SWEETEST tailoring establishment
in st. Louis. We went along with him.
and it was one lovely sight to observe
the fabrics Red picked out wherewith
to ornament his long, 1.-THE person. He
ordered a dozen suits, and then went
we with him to the haberdasher' He
was all for green and yellow neeckties.
pink-striped shirts, and that Sort and
we let him have his way. Then he be-
came sleepy. We threw 1t into him
pretty hard about that big bundle Of
money he had on him, and he finally
consented to come along to bank with
us and deposit $4,000 of 1t In his name.
We tried to hold out for having 1t put |
in his mothers name, but he wouldn't |
stand for that. After leaving the bank |
Reds eagle eye caught sight Of the |
shiny things in a jewelers. window, and |
he decided then and there that he
couldn't sleep without having the third
finger of his left hand made conspicuous
by three-karat blue-white stone, for
which he coughed $780, That left him
with about $1,000 in his clothes, and we
dragged linn then into the cab and drove
him cut to his mothers little old shan
L., 4 A.
with Barney Schneider about the $4,000
by that time, and the to-do she made
over her bye Johnnie was worth the
ride to see. When we told her about
the other huge bunch that Red had
copied and that we had plunked it into
the bank for him, the quantities of
corned beef and cabbage which she
threw into the pot for the dinner which
she wanted us to remain to share with
her and her phenomenal son were amaz-
ng.
''Wel Donnelly astonished us all for
4 couple of weeks by his extraordinary
conduct. He would ride out to the
rack in hack, with a git-stamped'
cigarette in his face, attend to his job
lis usual around the betting ring--that
$, he'd supervise, for he quickly ac-
simulated staff of worshipping touts
ind hangers--on-and then he'd go up
nto the grand stand to exhibit his cake
walk clothes and look at the races. He
Iidnt put bet down on a horse for
wo weeks. He remained pretty sober I
ii the time, too. We joshed him about
he frigid pedals he had suddenly got, .
'ut he only passed along with the re-
mark: Tn letting em run for O'Tlah- I
rty. Nothin' doin'.'
1--WE waited for the crash, but it 6
idnt seem to come on schedule time. ,
me afternoon he called me aside and s
bowed me his handbook. 1t showed an {
additional deposit of $1,000, making the /
otal $4,000 s
When did you pick up that new I
dip" I asked him. v
:" Went up against the wheel at Ter
une's last night, and yanked it out In h
hree hours he said. 6
When did you learn to play rou- f
.tte?' / asked him. v
Last night he replied. h
along toward the end of June Don n
ely turned UP at the track one after n
DON with light in his eye, He went Z
ut into the paddock and spent three "
uarters of an hour looking at a horse e.
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