Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-04-06
Alleged That Hundreds Of Thousands
Were FIeeeed Out Of Wealthy
Men Of the Metropolis.

Whcu thVy ho'N INV thNS h"FS Shot
ted like friends and as II they en-
joyed each others company. But
that does not soothe the feelings OF
Mr.. Garfield or close up any OF the
holes in his pocket.
A quarter of a million dollars for
defense! Think OF It, But lat does
not cover all the direct and indirect
loss which Garfield has sustained.
From the day Jerome put the brand
of crooked gambler" on Garfield
there has o been a card turned or
a wheel spun in the gambling house
next door to Delmonico's or in the
palace in Saratoga which he owns.
1t is true the gambling house in West
F~orty.fifth street which he owns, and
which is conducted in the name Of
William Coe. has been doing busi-
ness, but the revenue from this
source has not been as large as In
former days. Men do not like to
play against brace" games, and the
charge has been made that, skillful
as was the brace" dealer in Can
fields house next door to Delmonico's
Mr.. +. A., the star dealer in the
West Forty-ifth street place, is even
more adept.
Some idea of how Garfield has had
to shell out money may be gathered
urka. ~ L. uatI that fnrDnDr Snnrlmp
Court Justice Fursman is credited
with receiving a fee of $4,000 from
him. Former Gov. Blacks fee is said
to have been the same amount. John
b. StaEchfeld got as much or more
for the argument he made before the
Court of Appeals. Aside from these
great pleaders Mr.. Garfield had 9TH
er legal advisers. Senator Bracket
has been his counsel In Saratoga
county for a long time. and John
Delahunty has had general charge OF
his legal affairs here. Then there
were assistants, such as Taylor l..
| Arms and George b. Curtiss. A per-
son who ought to know says $4,000
was spent by the gambler on the ap-
peal alone, outside OF all that went
to the lawyers.
And while Garfield has been scat.
tering money among the lawyers with
lavish hand little has been coming
In to him.
Although no business Is being done
in the Fourty-forth street house the
expenses go on the same as ever. The
full staff of dealers is under salary,
and every man Is ready to resume
work at short notice. The expense OF
this establishment is enormous. One
man gets $4,000 a year, another gets
SIC, 1000. and there are a dozen 9th
ers whose salaries will average S..
900 a year.
On the Saratoga club house Can
field spent approximately $6O,Ooo last
wear before he knew he would not
be permitted to open. He was there
all season with all his assistants, and
he entertained visitors royalty, but
not n penny came to him from faro,
roulette or any other game.
Saratoga meant an expenditure oil
more than $4,000 TO Mr.. Garfield
in the year 1903. Ordinarily he could
look forward to the Saratoga season
as certain to bring in 100000 OF
100000 to him. Ordinarily he could
look to his East F~orty-fourth street
house to bring in from 100000 to
100000 a year profit to him. Now
these sources of revenue are cut of,
and he has only the Coe house to
fall back on.
Garfield has been hurt far more
than can be measured by money. He
never can recover from the igrominy
of being proclaimed a thief and an
ex-convict. Rich men will not play
in his houses. Some might go there
once or twice should he by any chance
resume business, but II they lost
| they would have a lurking suspicion
they had been cheated. and they
would fight shy of the game again
Realization of this has been with Can
| field night and day. He has posed as
the gentleman gambler He had
made it a practice never to appear
| until 6 D. m. and then in a dress suit
He has been the entertainer. the
suave receiver OF the visitors TO the
palace of chance. He has not dealt
faro. That was for his hirelings. He
has talked art and books. finance and
poetry with his friends.
The bitter charge of Jerome cut
him to the heart. Within the last
year and a half he has changed more
than his friends care to acknowl'
edge. Formerly he was a temperate
man. Today. II Is said, he is not.
Some day the public will wake up
to the full importance OF the Garfield
case, and then they will realize why
Jerome has kept after him so per
| sistently."
This statement was made yester'
day by a friend of the district attor'
ney.
More is involved than even some
of the lawyers appreciate" he con
tinued. IF Jerome succeeds In get
ting his bill through the legislature
and | don't think there's much doub'
of that now; he will have accomplish
ed more toward handling the gamb
ling situation in New York than ev
er was done before. He has gone u
the root of the trouble which has con
fronted the police and the prosecu
tor. He has provided the NEAR tc
overcome IL.
The trouble heretofore has beer
to get convictions in gambling cases
on paid e~vidence-the evidence o
detectives or others sent to work vi
a case against the house. Courts an,
juries have been shy about accept
ing such evidence.
"Jerome's bill makes 1t ~obllgator!
for patrons of gambling houses .