The sun., 1900-04-30
WOW $4,000 WITH A ;LOzENGE.
The Trick with which o Bankrupt Ss"o'''
Heat New York Faro Dask.

SPOKANE, April 2s--"Fifty dollars on the hish
card" exclaimed the new arrival In cutaway
coat as he appropriated n stool at one OF INC
Owls faro games Catching an approNns
glance from the manager the dealer calmly
placed piece OF blue bone worth about 'hree
cents upon the high card" and dealt Inc
stranger won and he was sufficiently oonyeSaht
with the amenities Of faro TO make RENT OF
showing a so bill before he began rnking IN .ne
blue checks tho dealer had placed ut MS op-
posal
Just another glimpse Of that hfty. saio
Manager Charles Rich Thenewcomer held the
bill aoft with one hand while he plnoed several
bets with another The inspection proved the
genuinencss OF the money and a. the manager
YEARLY walked away he muttcred These
chubbers are making my hair gray
Men have won money from faro games when
they did not have a cent In their pockets. con-
tinued Rich Not so often as stories say they
have. but just once in long time. you know.
There used to be an old New York resort NJ sis
Broadway. II was just after the Civil War that
the place reached the zenith Of its glory and
much OF Il, prosperity was due TO It's being
iavorite haunt OF Southerners, many of whom
made desperate and generally futile efforts to
recoup their fortunes. Among the most con.
slant visitors from tho South was man named
Petubone. He had been planter. but the war
and what had been sporting proc!ivities when
he was wealthy changed 10 daredevil gaming
The night he went broke we all felt sorry for
without funds. and fearing his despondency
might take a tragic turn, the ma anagement
handed him fifty. stipulatng that none OF II
prudence requires preventing man from using
your money tn win your money
The New York house used ivory checks and
To- l.aa sl,nt, dolIn Sl.y-
posing. however. a man had money on the aoe
and two aces showed up. they gave the player
check about half the size Of the original one in
splits occur. Nearly month after Pettibone
had gone broke he sanntered leisurely into the
hall and for long time watched the game.
those small split checks hiding itself behind the
king A. that card had just won. he took the
hall check and put whole one In its place
that was made for the next three turns doubled
his money. After that he PLACED II between the
queen and the jack and they won straight
through.
'Petibone was the owner Of all those stacks
OF checks and he kept on increasing them regu-
larly during the evening In the morning when
We came to count our cash We found small
peppermint lozenRe among the stack Of half
checks II was too late to prove anything then.
and we were compelled 10 trust to poetic JUS
played every night and in the course Of q
couple of weeks he had won o. io,OOO One night
after he had won big stack OF checks and had
Cashed In he got into conversation with a stock
broker, and for few days he went the pace on
the street pt a pretty good gait. Meanwhile We
had been discussing hi. deception. but we Ind
not mentioned II 10 any except the persons
interested in the house
After Pettibone had lost every cent he had
and had pawned everything valuable 10 get
wine. which TO him was one Of the necessa ries
OF life, we saw him come souching In one even
ing. He stood Watching a game and made no
attempt &c. play until the players crowded one
another Then he put another one of his pep
permint lozenges IN thel same spot he had put
the other one upon which he had won so much
money.
the collar ard suggested 10 him that he had
better leave the room and never come back and
the dealer reached over and copped the
lozenge as souvenir OF the man who had
tried 10 beat faro bank without having a cent
TO risk "