The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
PAID in BILLS.
When Gamer Had Given
Seven for Drinks Saloon
keeper Caught On.
THEY WERE ALL COUNTERFEIT
The Mans Grip Contained a
Big Wad and a Motley
Collection.

| lie was dapper in dress and general "a D.
pearance and when he entered the sasson
/ the barmaids sized him up as a likely
| chap. The proprietor, John Rurode, like
| all Hoboken saloonkeepers, can be very
polite to prospective good things He
beckoned to one of the sprightly maidens
to relieve the gentleman of his satchel.
But the gentleman said the grip was not
| heavy and that he would leave it on his
| lap. He took a seat at once of the round
tables and invited Sallie Freewall, one of
the barmaids, to join him in a glass OF
lager.
A second and third round at his ex-
pense were forthcoming and he rendered
a two dollar. bill in payment He con-
| tinued to buy drinks and call for expen-
sive weeds.
| The proprietor in the meantime was en-
gagged in playing a game of solitaire with
the greenbacks in the drawer of the cash
| register. Why the benevolent stranger
should offer crisp 81 bill in payment for
1 every round of drinks was beginning to
puzzle him. He kept slyly watching what
was becoming of all the silver change the
stranger ought to have. Finally some
thing dawned upon the boniface's slow
| moving intellect and he abruptly ceased
| his game of solitaire. Leaving instruc-
| tions with his bartender to keep an eye
| on the dapper gentleman entertaining the
barmaid, Rurode slipped from the saloon.
He hurried to Police Headquarters and
| held whispered conversation with
Roundsman Owen Kilduff.
Ten minutes later Kilduff and three
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| the table at which the barmaid and her
| host were seated. Sallie gave vent to a
shrill Teuton scream and the stranger
jumped up and grabbed his satchel He
| tried to make for the open door, but the
| bluecoats had him on the floor before he
| had shifted yard. The satchel was
wrested from his grasp, and while two
of the cops hustled him to his feet an
other took the bewildered barmaid by the
arm and told her to accompany the party
to Police Headquarters.
There the proceedings were explained
The stranger had been passing off counter
| felt bills on the saloonkeeper, who did not
| become aware of the fact until he had
made change for the seventh time. The
stranger described himself as Richard
| Gamer. forty years o,d, of Passaic.
1 When the grip was opened Roundsman
Kilduff made the following inventory of
| its contents:-Three counterfeit SO gold
! certificates, three counterfeit $40 bills;
nineteen counterfeit 81 bills, one can of
tomatoes, one can of coffee, one can of
condensed milk. The presence of the three
latter articles in the bag puzzled the
police. 1t is probable that he bought
\ fhan1 In, ordey- IN phanpa hills
| The arrest of the barmaid was made to
prevent friends OF Gamer from buying her
off as a witness against him. 1t was she
| who took all the bills to the counter to be
changed and her testimony will accord
ingly be important in his prosecution.
The police later learned that the prisoner
had an account of $1,000 to his credit in
the Title Trust Company of Passaic. He
was arraigned before United States Com
missioner Edward Russ today and re-
manded for examination.