The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
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street That particular locality, it is
said, was agreed upon because both
the bookmaker and his friend, to whom
the scheme was first suggested, knew
the character of a large class of people
in Williamsburg, and figured that these
people would furnish the Syndicate"
with some business from the start.
The business was started, and it ran
along quietly for several months. At
first. Miller was able to attend to all
the money that came in. Later, as
the result of liberal advertising, the
receipts began to increase, and a
man whose regular business is that
of a bookmakers sheet writer, or
cashier. was sent to Brooklyn by the
bookmaker in Manhattan, to look after
a certain number of books which have
never yet been seen by the police or
public. The books seized by the police
are now said to have been chiefly dunn
my books. Judged from the way they
were kept they were dummy books, or
those backing the syndicate" were
willing to take almost any kind of an
accounting of the concerns receipts
and expenditures Bookmakers are
not usually so easily pleased. The po-
lice are informed. however that this
sheet writer was able at the close of
each days business, to show to his
chiefs lust how much money had been
taken in. how much had been paid out
and what it had been paid out for.
About Oct. ! the business of the con-
Germ began to boom and large sums of
money came in. On\and after that
day, it is said, another employee of the
bOokmaker, known on the race tracks
as the Outside man" for a bookmaker,
carried the bulk Of each days receipts
to the office of the bookmaker in Man
haitian, from where they were taken to
a bank and deposited. 1t is said that
Miller's share OF the receipts was very
small as compared with the amount
divided between the bookmaker and his
friend.
In the final division of the profits the
bookmaker's- friend, a man who super
coded Miller as, the real manager of
the business, appropriated the largest
share He has disappeared, and he
took his money with him. The police are
informed that the book maker sailed
for Europe with his wife on Wednes-
day The bookmakers sheet writer dis
appeared about the same time as the
bookmaker's friend The only persons
left in town, in fact who knows about
the inside transactions of the syndi-
cate is the bookmaker's Outside
man." who is said to have carried away
the money from Floyd street. He is
now under surveillance.
AS for Miller. the tool, the man who
was sent to the front by the princi-
pals, it may be stated that he is en-
joying the best of health and is as
as he can be in the Cir
cumstances. He is not in Montreal or
anywhere else in the Dominion of
Canada. If it were absolutely neces-
sary for his family, for instance, to see
him, they might meet him at the end
of not more than a two hours journey
from the city hall. The police rather
feel sorry for Cecil Leslie, the alleged
agent of the syndicate, who
was indicted by the Kings county grand
jury along with Miller. They feel salts
fed now that Leslie hadn't really any
more to do with the business of the
concern than somebody in the South
Sea islands. To have heard Leslie
talk, however, especially after taking
three or four cocktails, one might have
imagined that nobody but he had any
thing to say about the syndicate or its
business.