New-York tribune., 1903-04-10
GOT HOSTETTER DRUNK
Robbed zcith Trick Wheel in Can
fields, the Charge.
SAY BUCKLIN HAD 100000 NOTE.

Sa1 BOChL1N HAL r9O,UUU NOl L.
According to Police Chief Murphy and De-
tective Pearson, of Jersey City, David w. Buck
lin, against whom there is indictment for
running Richard A Canf1eld's gambling house
in East Forty-fourth-st., was arrested by them
at the request of the authorities here because
he had at the time note of Theodore Hostetter.
the young plunger, now dead, for $4,000, which
he had obtained after getting Hostetter drunk
and cheating him at faro and roulette in Can
fields place
These assertions are contained In the answer
of the chief and detective to Bucklin's suit for
So, 900 damages charging them with falsely ar
resting him. The arrest came at the time of the
secret inquiry conducted by District Attorney
Jerome before Justice Wyatt to get evidence
against Canield's place, and also at the time
when Bucklin was being examined in the pro-
ceedings which led to his Indictment. 1t was at
of the hearings in that case that Jesse
Lewfsohn refused to answer questions about
Canfield's which he contended would incriminate
him. contention which recently upheld by
the Appellate Division. 1t was also these pro-
ceedngs which resulted in the subp9naing of
Reginald c. Vanderbilt and other prominent
men to testify to what they knew about Can
fields
At the time of Bucklin's arrest it was sup
posed that District Attorney Jerome feared he
was trying flee the jurisdiction of the court.
and hint that the police had information that
Hostetter had lost part of the fortune he spent
in racetrack and gambling house plunging in
Canfieds place dropped.
Now for the first time the charges that Hos
letter was made drunk and then feeced out of
$4,000 in Canf1eld's place by Bueklin become
known and they are probably part of the testi-
mony brought out at the secret hearing whose
sessions and outcome have been kept secret
1t was only recently that the bringing and
settlement of a suit against the Hostetter estate
N Pittsburg, supposedly for gambling debts. was
made known 'Davey" Johnson. of this city,
vas the plaintiff in the action. which was set
led before coming to trial. it was said, for
515O0 Johnson denied that it was for money
ne had won from Hostetter at gambling. assert
ing that he had acted the plungers betting
commissioner, and sent large sums to him which
had never been repaid
1t was well known that Hostetter was a heavy
drinker and that he had lost large sums in the
various gambling houses in this city. Still more
recently men who looked like gamblers appeared
in the United States District Court in some
proceeding which involved the HOstetter estate.
When fnforma ton about the case was asked
these hurried away, and it was intimated
that whatever it was it would be settled out of
court This was thought to involve another
gambling debt incurred here.
The answer filed in the United States Circuit
Court at Trenton says that Bucklin is COM
mon thief and gambler; that he had been ar
rested in Rhode Island and in New-York for
gambling and Illegal practices and was the
manager of the common gambling house of one
Richard Garfield, of No D East Forty-fourtn-
ST." and also the manager OF "a common gam
hing house owned by Garfield at Newport. at
which places criminal practices were carried on.
games of chance, dishonest subterfuges. etc.
under the gufse and appearance of gaming were
fraudulently and unfairly carried on by means
Of so-caIled trick Wheels fake faro layouts,
false and cogged dice" and other fraudulent
and dishonest devices, both mechanical and by
seight of hand
Continuing the answer charges that on April
liz 1902 Theodore Hostetter was enticed into
one of the so-called private rooms OF the gam
bling house by persons under the control and
5iract,on of Bucklin and with his knowledge and
conniyances and, in pursuit of a scheme pre-
conceived by him to cheat and defraud' was
nIied with strong drink, and, mentally incapacl-
+a+ed while in that condition. says the answer
Hostetter was lured into playing roulette ana
eo~o the games being frauduently and dishon-
estlv carried on. and that as a result the PLAIN
tiff and his agents took from Hostetter a GER
tain negotiable note or bill of exchange signed
nv Hostetter In the sum OF S9oo"o ana bearing
date on or about April 10
II ,s averred that Bucklin had the note on
January 90 In Jersey City. and that he was
.,ing to make away with it. and did convey 1t
s,,rrantitiously a confederate
while the Garfield and Bucklin proceedings
o on il was charged that Garfield made use
ne crooked gambling appliances and card sharps
~ Naacfng patrons of his house