The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-14

of ?, 4 and 6. A high dispatcher, therefore. cannot throw higher than 3. Therefore, using one genuine die and one dispatcher in an infinite number of throws. the sharp will average 30 per cent. better than his opponent. That is advantage enough to make a killing every time the sharp, rings in in his crooked dice.
 Loaded dice are made by drilling out two adjacent spots or pips at one edge os the die, filling in the cavity with mercury and cementing it up fast. | These dice have one disadvantage. | They will not spin, and any person who | is on to this defeat can easily discover If a loaded die has been rung in on 1 him.
 "This defect led to the invention of what are called electric dice.' These I dice are made of celluloid. Inside is fixed small bar of steel. "The table on which these dice are used is so constructed that, immediate l ly below it's surface and within the thickness of the wood itself. there are | concealed several electro-magnets At l some convenient spot in the table, at the back of a drawer or elsewhere. the battery supplying the current is hid- I den.
 "The key or push-button controlling l the current takes the form of a secret \ spring in the table leg, so placed as to I be in ready reach of the operators knee.
 "The result is obvious. Among the dice in use is one of the electric variety. When the dupe throws them he has to take his chances as to how they will fall. and as long as the sharp is win- ming he will do the same. But when he begins to lose, or if he is not winning fast enough to suit him, he presses the secret spring with his knee when it is his turn to throw, and the false die turns up a six.
 | "The magnets. of course attract the steel disk inside the celluloid. die, and the pips bring on the side opposite the disk, the six naturally falls face up- ward. All that the sharp has to do is I to press the button; the electricity will do the rest.
 "Unfair dice are seldom submitted for 1 inspection, particularly those of the dis patcher kind. Therefore they are al- ways introduced into the game when the play is occupying the dupe's un- divided attention and their manner of introduction is known in the gamblers vernacular as ringing in
 This is done at the moment when the
 dice are taken up in order to throw into
 the box. It is only possible to change 1 ora thn .fha,., oIIoruaa +o fall into the box in the usual way.
 Suppose that two dice are used in the game. The dupe throws the two fair
 ones. The sharp, however has false
 one concealed in his right hand, held in the thumb joint. He picks up the two fair dice from the table, as in securing, and allows one of them to fall into the
 box. Then of course, he has two dice in his hand-one genuine dice between his fingers and one false one held by his
 thumb. -''-"~
 At the same instant that the first die is allowed. to fall the false die is l dropped into the box also. When the false die is released the two fingers
 holding the second gnuine die are turned inward and the die is taken into the
 thumb joint in the position formerly by
 the false one.
 The whole of the manipulation is per formed in the act of throwing the dice into the box. The false dies is dropped into the box and the genuine one put ir it's place at the root of the thumb in one
 movement only, and the exchange is in.
 stantaneous. It requires a great deal
 of practice. however. before the move.
 ment can be made so as to defy detec- tion.
 ''The great point in the sharD's favor
 in this, as in all other manipulations, is
 that his victims are not expecting trick cry and, consequently, do not look fol it.
 "The sharp who has mastered the
 knack of securing and ringing in
 does not need to practice any other
 form of manipulation. He is wei equipped for campaign, and if he uses
 his gifts modestly and does not resor
 to trickery too often in the same game he is pretty sure to last It is the greedy sharp that invariably comes tc
 grief, Your genuine chevalier d'indus
 trie never betrays himself cheaply."- Morning Telegraph.