The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03

came along, ana mighty gooQ rue IL was, at that. The new arrivals brought 1 in, and they all brought yellows. too, af- ter observing that the perfectly calm and. collected woman at the table had chosen chips of that color.
 The woman's manners were gracious ness itself. She wouldn't let the men around the table put themselves out of the way in the least for her, and before l. began to deal she produced gold bound tab book of celluloid and little gold-mounted pencil, and thus indicated that she was going to keep her own cases on the game-which she did. There were seven players seated around the table, and four or five mak- ing bets from behind the chairs. Most of them were fellows who had been playing bank ever since they learned how to whittle, and yet not man of them observed what was coming off at the woman's end of the table, any more than I did myself. She played until nearly one o'clock in the morning, and yet, as say, nary one of us got next to her. I noticed that frequently, when had half slid the cards out of the box when all was set, the woman had hab- | it of reaching over the table and sort of fumbling the set stacks on the various cardus, but I attributed this to wo- mans peculiarity and said nothing about it. was dealing without look ] out that night, the lookout who served on my watch being sick. ,r
 "The woman in the game played on, as I say, for nearly three hours, scarce ly ever saying a word, keeping her own tab and winning constantly. She played singles exclusively, coppering most of the time. When she pushed | her chair back she had my table | trimmed to more than six thousand dol I lars. Z
 The Portland tfain is due, she said, looking at her watch, and I must be leaving. I have been very lucky, have I not?'
 Remarkably lucky, madam said I, and I was wondering ,what Jeff Hope
 well, my employer, would say-he was out of town-when he got back and found out that a woman in picture hat had shredded his game for that nif- ty bundle of money.
 T cashed her in, and, with gra- cious smile all around, she gathered up
 her lace train and made her royal Eswish and frou-frou out of the room, all of the boys gazing blankly after her as
 if she had been from another planet
 Two days later the conductor of the Overland dropped in to play few
 turns before going out again. <,
 !. Say, he said to me before buying
 chips, T dropped Mrs, Kathryn Gun
 ningham into town the other evening
 from my train, and hear she got into you for few and the conductor passed me the grin.
 Little matter of six thousand or SO. told him. Is that her name-Mrs l Kathryn Cunningham?
 ," 'Uh-huh.' said the conductor. That and Sacramento Kate and Magnet Kit I ty and a few others that she's picked ur l along the coast. Fooled you for six
 thousand, you say? Say, guess Kitty
 must have worked the magnet on you
 And that is exactly what Sacramen-
 to Kathryn had worked on me--the
 magnet. The magnet was dead new one out that way then, and that was the only excuse I had for not having got next to it. Mrs. Kathryn Cunningham
 widow of Jack Cunningham, who had run the biggest faro game in Sacrament l to, was the woman had heard good l deal about, but had never seen her I until that night when she had zephyred l i'll and helped to pull the props from un- I derneath the bank for which I was deal- ing. Those little eccentric moves of hers in carelessly passing her hand around the set stacks on the cards just as was in the act of dealing were un-
 derstood by me after that little tall, l with the conductor.
 "The woman had held tiny magnet pirched in the hollow of her right hand and when she got the lightning flash at the cards as slipped them out she would simply pass the hand with the magnet over her coppered stacks. The metallic markers would fly off the stacks and stick to her little magnet,
 and thus the stacks that had been cop. pered were uncoppered and left open when she got the eagle glance at the
 cards coming out of the box and saw
 that the coppered cards were coming | out on the winning side. The fact that I had no lookout that night made the game easier for her, but, at that, the magnet stunt has been workwed since | by scientific men when spies on the out side as we'll as lookouts have been watching the layout. Mrs. Kathryn Ct,i,o,,ir yhar, otheryjsa Sacra n1ento Kate and Magnet Kitty, was early enough on the ground with the magnet dodge to pick up very large amount of money with it before the word as to her scheme was passed up and down the | line. She was burned to death in her swell home in San Francisco only few years ago."--Washingto Star.
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