The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-08-30

ILl-GOTTEN GOLD GONE,
SWiNDLER DIES A PAUPER.
Edward SchlcsinEcr. Who Helped
Dupc Thousands, Dies at Race TraclS
Where lie Had Bccu Earning
a Bare Living.


| New York Aug. 29-Wth more than $780,
| Geo of his ill-gotten gains as a partner in
| the William r. Miller Syndicate. Edward
Schlesinger fled to Europe on the first alarm
| when the money mill" at williamsburg
| was exposed. A few days ago he died Il
| miserable death or the Ostend race track,
where he had been making u bare living as
| u miserable tout.
+ He was friendless, alone, penniless and an
| exile from every country where he cared to
live
AS many indictments were found against
him i'll Brooklyn as against Miller and the
short Splurge he made i'll Paris whence he
first fed, awaited him nothing. He was
ruled off the French turf and driven out of
the country by the secret police, together
with other American crooks. y wanderer
for years his death came perfect eX-
ample of the old-time adage about ill got
ten gains.
Schiesinger used to be Il bookmaker on 4
small scale When he was without bank
roll he became simple tout on the race
tracks. At intervals he was a frequenter of
bucket shops, where less capital is required
almost than in the poorooms. In Lyons
shop he met William l.. Miller when the
Williamsburg youth was dreaming out Il
system 10 beat the stock market.
District Attorney Clarke of Brooklyn, who
indicted Miller and Schlesinger, always
maintained that Miller thought out the Sd
percent scheme himself, and that the 9TH
orS rung m on him when they saw how
last the money was pouring i'll from TIE
dGpes who jumped AT the get-rich-quick
offer.
Schlesinger did not come into the Frank
I'm Syndicate scheme until October IL, 1885,
SAID District Attorney Clarke. This was Il
niue more than a month before the place
was closed up Schlesnger was not q spec
uiator-not even Il bookmaker. He was sim
ply a ragged race track tout.
MILLER LET IN SCHLEsINGER
Miller had started the game and he only
let Schlesinger III when the flood of wealth
pouring in on him broke his nerve, and the
nights spent without sleep because he had
TO count SO much money made him a phys
icai wreck. Added TO this was the great re-
sponsibiiity. and he felt that he must share
thls with somebody or he would become in
sane. he took in Schlesinger, giving him a
appetite and color.
There was never any pretense OF max
ms any Investments. Only one investment
was made in the whole course of that 81
tle *i,SSo flyer that Miller made in the mar
Bet; There was left of it IS cents after the
zeal had gone through
At 10 o'clock at night after closing the
DOORS Miller and Schlesineer would start
IN to Try TO count the money, for the iivi-
coupt and divide. s. Tor Milier and 81 for
Schlesinger. until utterly tired out, and
men men they would stack the great bundles of
bills that were left and measure them. nv
the bulk they would try to tell what was Il,
the stacks, and Miller would take a stack
twice as bulky as that which he gave to
prG There is ua,,,, big saloon and hotel in
me-. Was known He stopped there to
every night and exchange them for hills Of
larger denominations. The proprietor was
SURPRISED to see Schlesinger with SO much
times. Schlesinger said he had n natent
cement out of which he was making a
fortune:
"Goslin was not In the scheme until after
wards. During Miler's trial he called me
up on the telephone and said he had lot
oil information which would be valuable to
me L told him / would not see him excent
IN the presence of the Chief of Police, and
those circumstances
I'M, mnen schlesinser went TO the money
nis,r ne at, at once assumed charge OF the
ment house in Floyd street Miss Agatha
To mao charge OF all the typewriter girls
I Idllee years ago schlesinger, Miss Reed and
youli +. Morn were registered at the lead
lilg ho,el IN Alexandria. Egypt. Then they
started up the Nile. They still had nlenty
IN IN I NO. notWithstandns that Schlesinger
IN the winter had established a reputation
as plunser at the European gambIinn re-
sorts. e5 ie-
SCHLESINGER GAMBLED HEAVILY
IN october of last year. as the result of
investigation into certain turf scandals, the
French Jockey Club took action which re-
suited Ii the expulsion from France of
seven Americans and one Englishman.
Among the seven We're 'Solly'' Schlesinger
and Bismarck korn, ''Solly' was tie
franklm syndicate man and Bismarck
h,n ,l-,S
whom SchlesingeT had let in for a small
share of the Franklin Syndicate loot.
When Schlesinger first fled from this
country he went to Baden Baden with his
Satchel full of sreenbaCks and remained
there for several months. until he learned
ma! mat Miller had been sentenced 10 Sing Sing.
Ihen he wrote to a friend here that he
contemplated coming back to New York
He was advised not to-
From Baden Baden he went to Ostend
ana there became associated with some of
the leading members OF the summer
colony. He spent money fast and furiously
in the hope that he would ultimately win
1t back, but he learned at some cost that
there we're others at OStend for the same
purpose. He spent and lost about siO1slo
there, and then went to Monte Carlo to get
IN his endeavors to at least break even
he lost his last penny. The director of
the Casino advanced him $1,000 through
tn the references of friends, and with this
on the races Then he went into the turf
swindle which resulted in his exile from
France and landed at ostend again
For years Schlesinger lived in the hone
that he might return to New York All his
old associates in the Miller swind,e turned
their backs on him. however, and he had
no chance of obtaining a promise of i'm
munity from prosecution. So he fingered
on In poverty until he finally died and was
buried from the public Inorgue.