The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
HARD LUCK STORY Of
YOUNG WIRE TAPPERS
Two Boys Begin a Big Winning
Which They Finally
Lose

Hans J. Mo1lander. Of Buffalo Lake, ar
rived in st. Paul yesterday and is stay
ing with w. B. Dixon, North Western pas
senger agent of the Milwaukee. Mr. Mol
lander is racing some thoroughbred stock
at the meeting of the Crescent City
Jockey club at New Orleans, and has been
spending week at the Southern race
track watching his two-year- r-olds work,
and having the pleasure of seeing his main
handicap horse, Capulet, run second twice
with good odds about him.
Yesterday afternoon he recounted a
lively experience that two stable boys
connected with his tablishInent earlier
Christmas week:
'The boys went by the names of Slim
and The Kid, and when my trainer found
that they We're getting a trifie too wise
for our stable he tied dangler to them
and spoke quiet word in, the ear of the
judges SO as to insure their expulsion from
the track.
.They were like whole lot Of people
who work around race track and would
rather beat somebody out Of So note
than make $25 by some legitimate
means. This was one Of the reasons for
the cam
''They finally appeared at Baton Rouge,
where there is a large and prosperous
poolroom, and as funds were extremely
live one. In some mysterious way they
managed to get hold of some good
clothes, and as both were active they gave
the impression that they were pretty wise
and able to get along in any company.
Meet Their Man
''The afternoon of the first day they
were in the capital city of Louisiana they
ran across the very man they wanted. He
was from up country, and had just enough
experience with the turf to make him
want to know more, and the ex-stable
boys were just the professors to impart
certain costly kind Of knowledge to
him.
Neither of them knew the first thing
about telegraphing, but that was not nee
essary in order to make their victim be-
lieve they did. They told him they were
the originators of the peanut switch
short circuit or something of the kind.
and made him believe they had solved a
plan to tap the race wire and get the re-
the room got them. They worked it very
carefully and landed their game as nicely
as one of our own trout fishermen could
bring to net a tWo-pounder.
They selected a room across the street
from, the pool room and were fortunate in
being able to see the board from the room
by the. use OF a pair of binoculars: This
room, by the way, had door leading out
of the rear of the lodging house. All the
equipment used was dilapidated tele-
graph seunder and key and a few yards
OF WI. wire
the fields were small and the favorites ap-
parently outclasSeS their fields. Nearly
any day at the track it is possible to pick
one such race, but they waited until they
found a card admirably suited TO their
slim was the operator who tapped the
wire and The Kid was the outside man
who was to help place the trustfu1 pa
'.The plan they used was charming in its
simplicity.
Pass the First Race
.'They merely overlooked the first race
on plea that the wire was not working
properly. and when the second race was
called Rownette, a good handicap mare,
was put up the hottest kind of a 8 to S
fayorite.
"As soon as the second betting had
come in and been posted Slim solennIy
gave out the important information to the
live one and The Kid that Rownette had
won.
1.-The live one was a little skittish, but
under the urging of Tho Kid he did man
age to. bet $500. This was disgustingly
get out of it, The live one had about
So, 600 with him and The Kid naturally
wanted him to bet the whole bundle.
.Rownette won the race all right, and
perb. They roasted their meal ticket and
called him all kinds of rough names, and
made him thoroughly sorry that he had
mistrusted such a chance to make a for
tune.
"The next race was for three year-olds
who had never won a race. and Slim prov
identially discovered that the wire was
not working properly. They decided to
wait for the next race, which was four
horse affair ata mile and a furlong. In
this event The Temptress outclassed the
field and looked to have the race at her
mercy. She opened up at to 5, and in
the second betting came in to 10.
"Slim handed out the wink, and gTaveiy
announced that The TeMptress had won.
"This tiuse there was no fooiing, and
The Kid grabbed big handful Of bills
from the hand OF the 1--we one and dragged
him along to the ROOM They reached fbe