The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-08
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TALE OF A ZIG BET BY A SIMPLE
SOUL SEEKING RICHES.
Ne WI, Taxen 20 n western Union Branch
once. Heard OF Bis Bets Saw Such
Bets Made In BROKERS Hotel Room
And Ills Roll Went--Cant Prosecute

" ,be story that John f. Felix, the latest
.ir,nlo rerson b. lit his voice in a wall
.,ainst the wire tapping swindlers. told
Commissioner McAdoo yesterday IL true
4, allit,. details. then the existing classifica-
,ion. Of good things will have TO be changed
10 make room for a new class at the top.
Mr. McAdoo believes the story. But II
ia 10 be said in behalf Of the Commissioners
that he j. not deeply Versed in the customs
otnooltooms, and that the extreme unlike
Ihood u no laying down of $50, 900 at to 0
for bet m such place may not appeal
Ia him with IT. full force.
Mr. Felix. according to the tale no told
q, Police Hcadquarters. came to this
country last October He had been here
before and had married an American wife.
Mr. NcAdoo says that Felix showed him.
.af 10 bc "A man Of culture and refinement,
and the Commissioner believes that Mr..
Feli, h. connected commercially and by
family ties with several large banking con-
Germs IN ibis country and Germany.
A. rs West Twenty street. some
time las, fall. Mr. Felix opened a whole
,ae place for the sale OF zithers and auto
hams At about the same time he began
10 gamble at Lou Ludlum's. This is the rest
his story.
There came 20 him last week smooth
Individual who said
ia this Mr. Felix? I've spent lot OF
time looking for you. My name is Mason.
You remember or perhaps you do not that
I met YOU in I.udlum's. A Mr. Meyer In
troduced us. You and were the heavy
loser we both got stuck good and hard.
Err /
didn't remember your first name, and went
10 the telephone directory and found four
men there Of the name | looked up all
three Of the others before / found you
know you're sport and thought you
ought to be lei in on my scheme to got even.
us dream First Of all you want to get
$4,000 In cnsh. You can't lose it, but you
viii have to have it TO show.
Mr.. Felix didn't remember Mr. Mason.
but was glad to see him again. Mr.. Felix
seems TO have heard that banking institu-
tlons sometimes lately have lent money in
large quantities to people ITO show. AT
any rate he went to u bank and borrowed
10000 on his word that 1t would be returned
within week and without other security
Whether he told Mr.. McAdoo TINT he went
20 the bank which has recently been con-
ppicuolls in such transactions could not be
learned. and the connection Of professional
gamblers with him under the circumstances
may be mere coincidence.
Mason took Felix TO branch offlce
of the Western Union In West Twenty-sec-
ond street near Broadway. It was lovely
nlant. Felix says that there. were ten or
fifteen operators working at typewrters
and saunders and telephones. A big man
was running up and down in his shirt sleeves.
This man threw up his hands and waved
them away.
Now Mason, he yelled. don't come in
on me to-day It's no day for friendly
visit I'm busy UP TO my eyes. Come
In some day when --
Nike here's an order from John W.
Gate for d Lacy; $4,000 on Dapple
Gold: rush that Tia getting late.
Come in some day when L am not 80 busy
end ri talk TO you and maybe we can do
cuisines, But this Ia the first day and
ve're rushed of our feet. You see, the
Western Union only opened up this pool
room service again to-day and
l"George. don't you hear that order from
Mr. Hartman to Mnhoney to put SIS 900
on Sadlucee Get busy,T
bp, this isn't the time for a call of this sort.
For heavens sake, man, give me chance
to get going, Now
Mike Mr.. Gates recalls that !35 900
bet and wants $50 COO put on Topic instead!
Jump
They called me down to Dey street to-
day and told me they wanted me to make
record for myself. And I've got to do It'll
can't stop TO TOOL.
whats this,--bending over a receiver,
Joe can Mr. Vanderbilt get 10000 down
on Dapple Godl All right, Let her go'l
But after while the shirt sleeve man
quieted down and went out with them and
had drink and promised TO hold up the
third and fourth races for them for ten
minutes and furnish them with advance
news as to the winners. Mason then took
Felix 70 the Hoffman House put him into a
telephone booth and had him listen while
the voice Of the shirt sleeve man came over
the wire announcing that Mafador had
won the fourth race at New Orleans AS
tanta was second and Inquisitiye Girl was
third. Maaon then took Felix across the
hall Of the hotel into the reading room
which is occupied by Wasserman Co
as brokerage offices after market hours
and which is open to everybody at other
times
There were lot of man there. all talking
horse. A racing sheet Mr.. Felix says, wal
hung on the quotation blackboard. Mr
Felix was introduced 10 a hatless man
Mr. Lawson Greene, cashier Of the room
Foxy Mr.. Felix said he didn't want to bel
Just yet He would wait. In moment q
man az the ticker sang out:
Third race Matador winsl Astarits
second lnquisitive Girl third
There was great hubbub OF bettors
Some had lost 'seventy-fve thousand dol
lars One man owned up 20 Mr. Fell
that he had won $4,000. Mr.. Felix wal
much impressed.
Now you see how easy it is" said Mr.
Mason.
They vent back to the telephone. Agar
the voice Of the shirt sleeve man cams
over The wire telling them that Old Ston'
was the winner OF the fourth race They
dashed back. Mr.. Felix told Mr.. MoAdoS
that he took out the envelope which con
tanned his borrowed $4,000, wrote aorosi
the Hap OF 1t odd Stone 10 win. $4,000 X
Soo0p' and handed it to Mr. Lawson
Greene
SUR enough, the man at the ticker san.