The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-11

level-at least with his employer--its the
man who deals faro in gambling house.
There's absolutely no check on him. as
there is on a bank clerk. unless it might
be by spoilers. and it wouldn't take Ions
to get on to them.
The proprietor of the house goes
away, maybe at ten O'Clock in the eve
ming. leaving $4,000 in the bank roll: he
comes back at twelve and there may be
half that amount or double il. IL his
employees were crooked they'd find IL
an easy matter to do him any night.
Well, Johnny Hopes dealing I'm swell
house close to Broadway. and the old
man his dealing somewhere in Jersey. If |
knew what Bill the Brute claimed to
know about stuff put away in country
churchyards I'd let either one of those
men in on it
DO the bank cashiers and high class
embezzlers add much to the social tone
Of the placer asked the visitor.
Not now said the ''lfer" drearily,
They've deteriorated. the same as the
experts that work rom the outside.
Ferdinand Ward was a very interesting
man. They set him to work helping the
prison bookkeeper. but he couldn't keep
books worth a cent and had no head at
all for figures. | guess that must be SO.
because he didn't save a dollar out OK
the millions he got away with. He learn
ed the printing trade here, and made
living out of it for some time after he got
cut.
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and very much OF gentleman. lie kept
to himself generally and never had much
to say to the rest of US. Well. I'm sure
l don't blame him, because the society
here, even in the old days. was never
what you could call exclusive. and he'd
been used to the best in New York.
There was a fellow here for little
while who put on considerable front in
Broadway. l was told. calling himself
Baron Gruenbaum. and claiming 10 be
connected with swell families in Austria.
The striped suit brought him down to
his natural level. while Weeks was al
ways the gentleman in manners. no mat
ter what he wore. I've been told that
Grusnbaum fooled some OF the nobs in
New York for a while. but the keepers
knew as soon as they saw him shaved
and with the stripes on that It wasn't
the first time he had been behind the
bars. l think he's doing time now in
Missouri for some trick he turned in St
Louis"
II suppose" remarked the visitor ten
tatIveiy. that there's no department Il
the prison that's better from the social
point Of view that the Others"
Il think" said the ''ilfer" though;fuiiy.
that the condemned cells are apt to run
a little higher than the rest. especially
when you got Young man lise Moiin-
eux there; and then the insane asylum
often robs us Of some Of our best people.
Hope to land there myself eventually and
renew my Acquaintance with one Or two
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