The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-08-02
WORKED A PLAN
TO BEAT ROU-
LETTE.
Two Clever SwindIers Drop Into
Reno and Make a Killing in
Gambling Houses.

Two of the cleverest of the many
gamb ers who have invaded the west
md as the result of their play at the
ocal roulette wheels the owners are out
more than a thousand dol ars. That
they made so light play here is pr
sumed to have been prompted by .-.eir
desire to get to San Francisco withou
attracting suspicion.
They left Reno as quietly as they en-
tered it, and 1t was not until Monday
hat the proprietors of the gambling
houses discovered that they had been
taken in. Last week several of the
wheels made losings, and their owners
by chance met Monday and in compar
ng notes found, that the winnings had
apparent been made by the same man
A description of the men also devel-
oped the supposition that they are mem
bers of a gang of gamblers who recent
Iy cleaned up 100000 in New York $780,,
700 of which they secured in the famous
Garfield gambling house.
The Reno knights of the green cloth.
hose interested in the games. are con-
graduating themse yes that they got O.
so light as the work of the swind.ers Is
such as to almost defy desectioor. eve
# the dealer of the wheel is conversans
with itse modus operandi.
The device used by the men who are
described as the nroverbial tall and
short man. consists of an invisib steel
wire which is attached to the cuff and
extends about twelve inches from the
land.
One of the men plays the high num-
oers at the end of the wheel, while lie
other makes a few small bets on the low
aumbers. At the same time when the
ball comes around to his side of the
whee. the side oppos te the dealer, he
casually shuffies the chips and lowering
mis- hand to a position where the invis-
BILE wire will obstruct the passage OF
the ball, the litt sphere falls into one
If the numbers that have been played
heavily.
But few gamblers have ever seen this
levice worked, and were 1t not for the
TACT that the swinder who first perfect
I'd 1t was detected by the merest chance,
ne might still be grating the game
rooms In New York.
He took money away from Canfie.ds,
The much patronlzed resort OF the
wealthy men of the country. with such
rapidity that the owner commenced to
believe that his luck had gone back on
him. That he could not win, eqcn with
, sure percentage In his favor. But the
device was put out of commias'cn che
evening when bright little fellow Gea.-
ing the wheel In one of Canield's rooms
caught a chance CLINT of the nominally
invisible wire. He reached aero 70 the
whee. and seized the wire. breaking 1t
of.
The swindler. after the proprietor had
been called. in an offhand way, observed
that the wire must have stuck to his
shirt In the laundry. But that put a
stop to the breaking up OF Can tcld .
business and the dealer who detected
the device was handsomely rewarded.
AL. told. as near as could be estimated.
the swindlers took ss0O.OOO away IRON
three New York gambling houses.
Since that time. being unable to .per-
ate in New York and have dropp,l ir,o
Reno.
1t is believed that the two nan who
made the winnings on the Reno rouette
wheels are the men who worked the
scheme in New York. 1t is firm'y es-
tablished that one of the men r aged
with the original New York produc-
ton" .t