New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-19
ARREST At VOYAGE END.
But Alleged "Card Sharp" Who
Held -Four Aces Was Set Free.
NO POLICE CONTROL ON HIGH SEAS

NJ IOLICE CON L hOL ON HIGH SEAS.
Before the gangway could be pushed aboard
the Kaiser Wilhelm II, when she was locked at
Hoboken yesterday, man ran to the saloon
rail and shouted to the customs people on the
dock: card sharps and swindlers aboard! Send
the police to the gangplankr'
Half dozen men ran to find Patrolman Rich
ard Winters. whose post is at the dock. Before
they found him there was a lively scuf1e be-
tween the man who had cried out and another.
a tall. distinguished looking man. When the
gangway had been run aboard the two still
tussling. fell into the open arms of the officer.
To the policeman the man who had hailed the
customs officers said he Robert P. Hill, Of
the American Finance Surety Company. Of this
city and Washington. D. c. His opponent said
he Morris Levry. a mining expert, OF the
Murray Hill Hotel. At the hotel later it was
said he not known there.
AS Hill was charging Levry with swindling
him at poker two more well dressed men ran
down the gangplank rushed through the crowd
and leaped the customs Enclosure. They got
away. Hill and Levry were taken before Re
corder Laverty. When Hill made a formal
charge of 'swindling on the high seas" against
Levry the case was turned over to United States
Commissioner Russ. The commissioner decided
he had no Jurisdiction over the case, and the
two men were taken back to Recorder Laverty,
The court was closed by this time, and they
were taken to Police Headquarters. When Re-
corder Laverty was found he telephoned to the
German Consul General and the New-York po-
lice. He found that there was no law under
which he could hold Levry, and discharged him.
Levry thanked the. recorder for discharging
him, asking if he cLuId not make counter
charge against Hill for carrying concealed
weapons and threatening his life on the high
seas Hill must be crazy, he said I'VE were
playing poker, and he suggested that the limit
be taken off. / agreed TO it. When beat his
four kings with four aces he went up IN the air.
Hill got me out the deck and, showing gun
under my nose, wanted his money back. 1
thought he would shoot, so tried to bluff him
out Of it. You wouldn't shoot anything said.
Then he put his gun up, but had to keep out Oh
his way for the rest OF the voyage"
According to Hill the voyage was far from
dull so far as the smoking room was concerned.
The first night out from Plymouth" Hill said,
'Levry started to play euchre. He had two
companions who affected not TO know him. The
next night Levry started poker game. One Of
his friends suggested a 50-cent ante and a 81
limit We played awhile. and we both raked in
z pot. I then suggested raising the limit to 50,
and Levry said. Take it Off We did, and when
called him on four kings he threw down four
aces. I lost $3.50 that deal but stayed IN
the game. Since landing I have learned that
I4evry and a fashonably dressed woman travel
ba ok and forth on various steamers"
When searched at the Hoboken Police Head
quarters Levry had only $40 with him He ad-
rnitted THAI he crossed the Atlantic four or I'VE
times q year as & mining expert.