The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-02-14
SssMSHIP FAKERS.
cafd- players Who Fleece
s1engers En- Route.
A Fhirs and Under the GuiAe
\ ek Money Travelling for
Asure Police Omciaps
Account.

| nw many million dollars .
| ron BY Q coterie of gamblers
| thing men who infest
| teamships and transconti-
| abroad lines it is impossible
| III to estimate, but
| ty q big ocean liner which en-
fashionable vogue reaches port
" this side of the Atlantic or
r without furnishing a tale of
Enbling carried on during the
1.-THE smoking room, writes .
srk correspondent of the Tri-
many Of these tales end also
tatement that there was moro
suspicion If not actual proof
kedH play, and the number Of
v would be much greater if
not for the fact that the VIC
4 selected with discretion, and
be vast majority of cases men
I'D rather lose a few hundred
than face the publicity which
ollow their accusation of un-
b. The police know nearly all
rators who fleece ocean pas
in the smoking rooms, but are
able to s'put them where they
This is owing to two rea-
Ie of which is the difficulty of
a complaint made against the
while within the jurisdiction
= metropolitan police. The other,
1Aore startling reason, is the ac-
lis from Capt. Titus, the CHIEF
stives, who says that many of
wards of the liners stand in
IAie sharpers, even carrying
OF marked cards, and the
Jul do the same on the railway
sblackleg'' players are divided
10 classes, ~deepwater gam
1.-THE steamship operators) and
oss road Fellows" (the railway
In both cases poker is
ncipal game, the stronghold,
III other games may be resorted
pway Of variety, when the sus-
lIof the victims are aroused.
men are all capital entertain
hey are the life and the soul
company. They dress
Md look well-better than they
IN he police pictures, where they
under the stress of disadvan-
circumstances, and in the
u,ood coinraderie which prevails
\ ship ii Is easy for them to get
lifted VIII the jovial good fell
type of man who makes the
victim to fleece, and the one
AIkely to':squeal" when the oper-
{has been completed.
II H. Allen, assistant in the bu-
rrecords at the New York police
larterg, has made a study of the
.ers.
Iare glad to have an opportunity
ing this matter and of warning
public" he remarked the
day. .tOf course, the public
heed the warning. but we can't
hat. Some fools seem to enjoy
fieeced, 1t is only once in
that we get a 'squeal,' and
v one victim complains hundreds
I. About a year ago the presl-
!! of the steamship lines INDUCED
ne talk about stopping the swim
I games, but I don't think any
came OF it but talk. One of the
.stions made then might well be
"a out. 1t was that the detective
aus Of this and of other countries
d furnish to the steam ship liEes
ographs of the professional cara
IS. simple but effective. for each
Ter should hate the 'rouges gal"
,he first thing these professional
lJlers do when they get aboard
on aboard the train (they feel
/. secure aboard ship is to become
'ainted with the crowd. They gen
II pass for high rollers or sports
81 firsfsrate business men with a
sof money, who are off on Vaca-
and willing to pay for little fun'
OF them some time ago repre-
I'd to his fellow passengers that
ias the king of the Klondike' and
i of them believed it! The SUB,
fof i little game was introduced
hem cautiously, by suggestion
4 than plain hint.
may state that they never worH
Isl They work generally in cou
and only one Of them is winner
otber cusses the luck and won
AZ hispal's winnings just as hare
nv Of the real victims do and M
" fhe croE d .GT, the scent II the!
Get angthins,sdrong But he Il
pxpert dealerSShd on his tlimhan
4 Ills partner wins every time III
vs. him the cards, you see, even l
Iissnself mas nothing but a bobtalie'
+ 81 ansace high hand Of rags an'
Ities. The dealer in the workin!
lbinati0n never wins the money
rnoaIes will take turns about a
n,ne or will work it judiciousiy
IS is win without arousing suspi
tnn Suddenly. If the man tina
II wereto win every time, then tn
"a would yell foul right away
Who IS going to suspect the pool
oeent dealer, who has given him
lhe horst hand in, the bunch
Iail< they do not try to make but on
S al 4 voyage, but that one will ne
n from $500 to 5000 to great man
,,Sands. The man who representa-
Iseif to be king of the Klondike
! swindIed a real, bona tide coun
/. had been finishing his musict
'cafion on the other side. 1t
even to us experience
,cenen to. realize what amaZln
Is some mortals be. The king c
4zlondike made a bum out of tha
nj ali right. He was stranded :
v York"
Pure water.