Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-10

was robbed of several thousand dollars,
which went into the Golfers of the book
makers.
The cases of John Dougherty and Ber-
nard Ward are still occupying the atten-
ton of the police and the courts. These
men are accused of robbing the Marine
Fire Insurance and the accusa-
ton has timely interest from the fact
that both men played the local races
heavily.
The dramati close to the career of A.
j. Bergman as a plunger at Ingleside
perhaps has been forgotten. In the dark
record of crime that the local race track
has given to San Francisco such AFFAIRS
are numerous enough to be forgotten
quickly. Bergman was b~ookkeeper for
the California Ink He thought
he was a match for the book makers at
Ingleside. He robbed his employer. of
S., 900 and is nov serving a term of three
years at San Quentin. a..
Claus 1sakson furnished an example
similar to that of Bergmann. Isakson
was the secretary of the Pacific Rolling
mills. He was caught in the net of the
book makers, robbed his employers Of.
$ 5000 and fed from the state. He has
never been captured. Al
Women as well as men have been
caught in the trap that the race course
managers have been permitted to set in
the city. Hundreds of women are daily
in attendance at the Ingleside racing
course. Many of them gamble heavily
and the record of some of them tells the
pathetic story of the sources of their
money. Mrs. Elizabeth Shields. who is
now an inmate of the county Jail, is one
of the unfortunate victims of the book
makers. She learned the desperate game
gradually. She began with small bets,
then increased her wagers until all she
possessed was hazarded. Then she lost
and to obtain more money with which to
gamble she set fire to her home. She
pleaded guilty to a, charge of arson. Her
alleged accomplice is; Henry Beacon, who
is still held to answer.
Mrs. Kate Malcolmson is another wo-
man who was blinded by the book makers
until all her money was gone and she re-
sorted to the commission of a CRIME to
obtain more. She is now u convict, serV-
ing a term of five years at a quentin.
She set fire TO her home on Taylor street.
She was caughbT land convicted. When
asked what she ntended to do when she
was released from prison she replied
calmly that she intended to play the
races.
Mrs. Eugenia SCHUYLER, who was ac-
cused of arson, but was eXOnerated in
court of all guilt, declared to Fire Mar
shal Towe that she found the keenest
enjoyment in playing the races. These
women are types of the women who may
be seen any day in the grand stand at
Ingleside. -..r.
Perhaps one of the saddest of all the
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race course and their conclusion at the
morgue is that of William J. Lyons, who
was employed as a trusted bookkeeper
by the Pacific Gas Lyons
was led gradually into the game that
thrives at Ingleside. He won and then
lost. He robbed his employers to re-
cover his losses. He los again and stole
more. His thefts became SO great that
he was forced to falsify the books. Hav-
ing ~falsif1ed his records he was forced to
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fire to the safe. He was $4,000
and IS, 1000 short in his cash. Detection was
certain and he fled from the city. The
next day he was found at Berkeley dead,
with a. bullet in his brain. The searchers
found twenty-sfx poofsstickets in one Of
his pockets. Lyons had played the races
to a finish. "
The story Of Oscar Anderson is a short
one. He robbed Charles Nelson of $500 q
month ago and disappeared. The book
makers have the money. .... @
Robert Lawson is perhaps not yet fOF-
gotten as the young man who was clever
enough to impose upon E. M. G~reenwaV,
Lawson vas an inveterate gambler at the
race track, and consequently needed
money. He sold Greenway some bottled
water under the pretenSe that 1T was a
liniment. That offense was unpublished,
but it was not long before Lawson needed
) more money" The races are hard to beat
as they are manipulated on the local
track. Lawson Forged the Ilalle u Mllie
& LUX to a telegram and hlched several
hundred dollars from local firms. He was
arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced
to serve a term of two years at San
Quentin. His place of residence was
changed to the COUNTY Jail, where he is
, now imprisoned. In his conviction the
local race track lost a patron and a
victim. .., .r, . ..
Daniel Lynch, young fellow who held
creditabIy a position as ~bookkeeper for
the firm of Anderson & Co., ship chand-
lers, is another convict at San Quentin
who owes the ragedy of his life to
Ingleside. He was led to gamble on the
} races, embezzled 81 200 from his employ
ers and is now serving a term of i'm
prisonment of three years.
Bayard SaVilfe was one of the pets Of
the book makers. He vas not o nly a good
fellow, but a good thing, and for his good
fellowship to thefcrafty gamblers of In
gleside he is now serving at San Quentin
a term of IA years for forgery. Saville
played the races heavily and lost. He
practiced a forgery upon Mrs. Bell, was
caught and then convicted.
Il Henry Sloan, who was notorious as a
gambler at the race track, is also at San
Quentin for a term of ten years. He
/ found it necessary to commit forgery ~
play the game. Sloan is we'll connected
in this city and New York, but he was
utterly ruined by the masters of Ingler
side. :"
!, The race course never showed itself
more conclusively a feeder for the peni-
| Tertiary than it did in the cases of Ste
: phen Rosenbaum. DR.. Starke, W. F.
Rodgers and son, h We're all sent to
d. San Quentin prison as the direct conse-
quence of their operations on the race
course. These men had played the races