The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-15
"WIRETAPPERS" TAPPED Him
RIFT AFTER YIELDING $500 MIR.
DELAURAY GOT TO THINKING.
Thought Aloud TO n DaZed Cop About
the Young Men VINO wanted Him
TO Cover His Losses With 1000 and
the shop where Great Men Made Bets.

10 Cover His Losses With Oh, 900 and
the shop where Great Men Made Bets.
Constant De Lsuray, Brooklyn candy
manufacturer, walked up to policeman
at the Manhattan end Of the Bridge. yester-
day morning, and said:
Il came over to see about betting IS, 900
on the races through two young fellers
who tell me they've got a sure way OF beat
Ing the poorooms Maybe I'm being
buncoed. What do you think about it?'
The policeman looked him over IN dazed
eort of way, and called pair Of detective
sergeants who were near by De Lauray
told them that he had already lost about
5000 through his overlapping friends
there one OF the hardened sleuths grew
faint) and that he had been advised to put
up 5000 more to recover his losses. He
went on to tell this tale:
About the middle OF August he met two
young men whom he knew as Frederick
Harris of 232 West Seventy eighth street
and John Ryan Of 40 Amsterdam avenue
They got to talking about racing. De
La,iray said he told his new acquaintance
that the candy business wasn't paying
much in these days, and that he would like
To make a few dollars making bets on the
races.
you've come to the right people. We
have friend who Is an operator In clear
ing house for the poolrooms. The racing
returns go to the clearing house first, and
our operator friend always knows the re-
Gllts several minutes before the pool
rooms He puts us wise, we get our money
down and there you are"
De Lalray was impressed. He made an
appointment to go with Harris and Ryan
to the clearing house and to put down big
bet If the thing looked good to him. On
Aug. ls the pair took him to SO West Twent-
third street. There, in big room, dozen
men were industriously writing or talking
over telephones. Every now and then
somebody would rush in and yell excitedly
q commission for big bet.
field for John W. Gates" cried the first
John A. Drake bets $4,000 on Afri-
cander,' said a second. appearing out OF
breath
replied to the Drake bettor' penc'ilins a
A little later man came in and an
nounced that e. f. Smathers wanted $4,000
on Ora ziallo.
Give smathers bit the best Of the odds,
Frank" the sheet writer said to him.
'Smathers is a good feller.
De Lauray was impressed with all this,
He had $4,000 in his pockets, but It seemed
insignificant in comparison with the lordly
bets being made all around him. =,
When one OF his acquaintances suggested
that he make a bet, though, he hauled
out the 81, 1000 and handed it over. 1t went
on Major Daingerfeld, whom he was
assured had won. Pretty soon man at the
telephone announced that there had been
a mistake over the wire. Africander was the
winner.
De Lauray felt badly about it, but his
friends told him that the wires had been
crossed. Such accidents would happen.
they said.
next day. That time he dropped u 800
The next day they let him win small bet
but q few days later he dropped $500
Then his friends had the nerve to borrow
$3.50 from him ito pay the telegraph oper'
ator,' they said.
On Sept he met Harris. and Harris told
up that was q sure winner. He wanted De
Lauray to get IS 900 and have q try. De
Lauray said he would.
But on the way over from Brooklyn to
where I'm to meet EN-, at Church street
and Park place said he to the cops. i got
30 thinking"
The detectives were too dazed TO think
but they acted. They walked behind him tc
the meeting place and nabbed Harris ano
Ryan. They will appear In Jefferson Marke,
court this morning. Capt. Cottrell OF the
Tenderloin station went around to the ad.
dress In Twenty third street and found
twelve telephones, eleven dead and one
live. Not a man was around the place. II
was a phony room in every sense OF the
word.