The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-15

trusted the roller and never questioned the winning number that he called out It may have been the correct one and 1t may not. We simply relied upon his hon. esty."
 This shows how easy 1t is to swindle players in a gambling house. Crooked paraphernalia Is not necessary unless the player is scrupulously careful and has an eye trained to watch every move in the game.
 But crooked paraphernalia is used. and MT. Jerome alleges there is not large gambling house in the city which has not a couple of brace faro dealers and crook ed boxes. He has a collection of crooked boxes in his office. Most of them are simply fitted with a lever in the lower left hand corner on the inner side. Pres sure on this leved widens the slot, which is supposed to admit tine passage of only one card so that two cards can be slipped out at the same time.
 There Is one box whose mystery has never been fully solved. It has two inner platforms instead of one. The aperture on the top Is a sixteenth of an inch wider at the lower end than the upper. This reveals the marking in the margin of the card and shows the dealer the following card after the top one has been moved slightly. This box is also fitted with the lever for widening the slot. The second platform is believed to be of use in get ting cards back into the box after they have been surreptitiously removed, so that those who are keeping cases will not have their suspicious aroused.
 There Is comparatively small need of crooked roulette wheels, the opportuni- ties for swinGiing being so many with out their use, as shown in the statement of the young man quoted above. But there are crooked wheels. One wheel was capture1 in raid some time ago in Brotherton's place on West | Forty-second Street. which was fitted with a thin rubber pipe, which connect | ed with a thin rubber oall set In the floor | under the feet of the dealer By press
 ing upon the ball a sufficient force of air
 would be sent through the pipe to cause l the wheel to revolve a trifie. more If the dealer saw that the marble was going to
 fall into a section of humCers that were | heavily played.
 | Another doctored wheel Is fitted with | tiny electric wire. If the ball is about
 to fall into a heavily played number the | current is turned on and the ball jumps l along a few Inches into another compart- l ment.
 l If Garfield depended upon ordinary play | and players 1t is claimed that the ex- l penses of his establishment would more
 than eat up the profits. His place and | others of the same style, like that at No | 8 West Thirty-third Street, must have 1 what Is called sucker money, that is | the play of a rich man. who wants the
 limit taken off 50 that large sums can | be wagered.
 A player of this kind is always accom- l rnpdafad xxytth Ia and ana,Nfa a
 dealers. These, it is alleged. are in-
 variably D1-,ce dealers. A single rich
 haul of Sucker" money pays expenses
 for six or nine months
 Aside from protecton money to police
 and other influential people. the ordi.
 nary expenses of Canfield's place aver.
 age. 1t Is said, close to s750 a night. The
 supper served nightly alone costs about l S250 The expenses of the Burbridgt
 house in West Thirty-third Street are l fully as great as Canfeld's, 1t being the
 ambition of the former to get the lat
 ter's patrons by lavish entertaining Tn
 less ambitious places the nightly supper
 costs $50.
 Swindl!ng operations are not confined | by any means to what are called the
 "swell' gambling houses of the city. | Those frequented by men who regard a | s bet as a plunge have crooked applI- | ances. Even in houses devoted to craps attachments are used to cheat the play i CTS.
 In place in Thirty-first Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenue where noth- ing but craps was played. a copper plate | was found under the green cloth of the l table.
 This plate was connected with a small electric battery. The dice used were partly hollow and in the interior of each was a quantity of quicksilver. The charged plate and the loaded dice were manipulated by the operator so perfectly that he could make the player lose every time he pleased.