Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-12

veet tn ~ had expended me 81 90 hs
had ven and owed the wheel $1,000
For this he promptly paid his check
Ter NJ geo, without appearing to realize
what he had done. He went to his
hotel, and the next morning the check
was sent in to bank in q large city.
Philadelphia, but nothing was realized
| as the tre2sureF's friends stopped nav
ment, and served notice on our LAWYERS
that they were prepared 10 give us le-
| gal battle. We gave up the fight, but
the treasurer lost his place on the rail-
road.
A Deacon FIeeced.
"One of our most persistent custo-
mers was q Baptist deacon named R..
He seemed fascinated beyond measure
with the game and in one night lost
$4,000 and gave his several checks on
q Jersey bank and paid them rather
than submit to the scandal a law suit
would cer.ainIy involve. He did not
court investigation. Another Baptist.
who was treasurer of coal company,
lost $500 at a single sitting, and after
paying his first check of 81 800 went to
law about the balance and under the
charge of Judge Thayer escaped pay
ment. And, perhaps, you think a bun
co Joint does not cost money. | had
my costly equipage, pair of black
horses and a $4,000 laundaulet, to keep
up, and paid my lawyer $500 for col
lecting the Baptist's check for $780,
and i always wondered why the legal
gentleman, who is the keenest of his
kind. did not keep the $500 and give
me the 5000. 1t was amusing to hear
the Baptist brother explain to the
court and jury how he played the bun
co game; how he drew prizes till he
had won $1,000 and kept on playing till
he had S2,S60 down and on the next
turn of the wheel everything was
blank. Even the amiable Judge laugh
ed, as dla the jury, and the learned
Judge told the jury in his charge that
he thought $500, already paid on the
first check, was enough for the good
old man to pay for one 'bunco game. 1t
is safe to say that the aged Biptist
played Bunco no more.
Sharp Capitalist.
II had charge of the department of
| the seashore, as Cape May and Atlantic
| City was called, and the only serious
| drawback as to making great games
In the summer of IS was that rich
men rarely travel with much money in
| their clothes. And the bunco chief can
rarely get his victim to draw any con-
siderable sum of money at his hotel. 1t
excites suspicion. In the month of Au-
| gust. my last campaign, | met charm
| ing old gentleman, retired capitalist.
! who, as the sequel showed, was quite
as cute as l was, though he had never
seen card table in his life, and as
quickly as i can tell the story to you.
my delightful old mercantile friend
was out just $4,000 Without demur-
ring he sat down and wrote out his
check for what he had lost politely re-
questing that | would not use it for a
day or two. To this I assented with a
mental reservation. The first train in
the morning found me on my way to
the Office of my counsel, intent on col
Letting my check for $4,000. But my
seemingly innocent friend was too
soon for me. He had reached the bank
at a. m, interviewing the cashier, a
PERSONAL friend of his, and at his sug-
| gestion drew every dollar he had in the
bank, and turned it over in large en-
velope to the cashier, who placed it in
his private drawer Promptly at 10 a.
M. when my counsel's clerk hustled in
to the bank, armed with his check, en-
! dorsed with my counsel's name. and
reasonably sure OF his game, he was