The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-24
TRICKS OF POKER SHARPERS.
GAME on A MISSISSIPPI BOAT
THAT ENDED WITH PISTOLS.
TIVE Gamblers WIN . keen.E,ed o
Cfederate a system OF signals That
worked Weil-One Fraud Detected
AsktIfui Handling Of Pistols Afterws ard

Caleb Mix, the veteran bartender on the
river packet hatcher. but 'twasn't nc
arrange thing for EN- to work alone.
.Just nachully they found IL easier to
NAV skin poker with q pal than twas all
nv their l~onelies, a n when ] seen a man !
Lnoved was q crook, settin' In with four
or FIVE other men with the cards an chips
in front Of EN-, Id always look at the others
urttty sharp TO see which one was his pal
There was one combination. though,
shat come ON the River Belle, one day at
Helena. that were a little the slickest ever
cot a line on. II were after ole CAPT
barker died, n Cap'n higgins was runnin'
her, n Cap'n higgins were gettin' to he
ipbwn rs one o the easy marks,
He didn't last long. for the gamblin'
IN his boat got to be one o. the scandals o.
she river. The trouble were, he were too
easy. | don't reckon he stood In with the
gamblers. but he either hadn't the sense,
or he hadn't the sane to stop 'em. an while
he lasted the gamblers sure had a harvest.
This here combination that come aboard
A. | were sayin' at Helena, want no or
binary partnership. 1t were a gang. for
there WAS three men into it. an the third
man. bein' a rank outsider as he 'peared
20 he, were the most dangerous PROPOSE
ton I ever seed in a poker game for he
didn't PLAY, an 40 fur as anybody moved
Sn not5in' IN do with the game.
- soon ,hs Lull three come aboard. Two
ON I knowed for gamblers. They was
LIN pi.mnre Pm Little Rock an his pal
t. D,ctnr ,ba, was nne a. the Arkansas
CITY crowd afore him an Bismore M
!, !" M ~ travel toge,her
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