Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-07
GAMBLERS TRICKED
Two Alleged New vfitain hanipulat-
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 \ few days ago couple of well
 dressed strangers entered the Connecti-
 cut hotel on Center street and engaged
 n suite of rooms. They were not com
 mercial men, nor did they seem to have
 any regular line of business by. which
 tEey were making d living. They ap.
 peared to be gentlemen of leisure, dis
 played lots of the coin, smoked good
 cigars and drank the best mixtures.
 They gave the impression that they
 were in Waterbury looking for some
 thing in which to invest Il few thou sand. As affairs turned out they were
 here looking for something. and Il good
 thing, but they came to the wrong city
 to work their gold brick game.
 \ day or two after the two landed Eere, one of them, who appeared to be the business end of the pair, dropped il,to H. B. Loucks's stable and asked for the proprietor. Mir Loucks was there and the stranger said that Jim
 White, livery man in New Britain. wanted to have him drop in and see him and also to unfold to him q scheme by which he could make $250 in less than one hour. The stranger then un- folded his little gold brick fairy tale.
 He, the stranger, had man at the Connecticut hotel who had in his pos session $500. This man was anxious to play game of poker. and it would be just like finding it for the two, mean ing Mir Loucks and himself, to fleece the other chap of the $500. He brought him over from New Britain because ne did not want to work the game where l!e was known, and he came to Mir Loucks because he was recommended as straight fellow by his friend White in New Britain. What he want cd to do was this. Tn order to show that Mr Loucks could not lose any money he would loan him $lO0 of has money to get into the game with. He admitted he was a professional gam- bier and could easily fix the cards so that LOucks would win the whole $500. He would then take tEe sucker who had been fleeced out of the city on the first train and would return the next day and would then expect his half ot the $500. That was why he was told to come to Loucks because he knew he would be sure to get that $25O when he did return.
 The scheme looked very rosy, but. Mr Loucks told Mir Gambler that he was not doing that kind of business and that he was barking up the wrong tree. He also iDtlmatcd that if there were any suckers like that living in Waterbury they ought to be tested for their sanity Mir Gambler persisted that everything was on the level as far as he and MT Loucks were concerned. but the local liveryman told him to take tue first train back home and get the haysecd sifted from his locks. That ended the matter so far as My Locks was concerned, but not so Mir He was out after the coin and he would find! some one to take the bait.
 \ barber not q thousand miles away from the, green was the next party to whom the scheme was unfOlded. He pretended to bite and made an appoint. ment with MT Gambler and the sup. posed sucker who was to he fieeced. Before going to the Connecticut. how ever. Mir Wise Barber gave all his money to the proprietor of the shop in which he was employed. turned over all his iewelry. and then was ready, foputhc,lattle The game begans and for the first few hands Mir Barber won. however, the $10O given him by Mir Gambler dwindled until he had but $5 left. They were playing for table stakes and when the barber came to that last & he was given d hand calling for four jacks. He bet bier and Mir Sucker raised the game until it would have forced Mir Barber to put an even hundred dollars to even IHll the hand. The barber showed that lie knew what he was doing. He said to the two that the game was table stakes. He had his last or rather their last S5 on the table and he wanted a show down. He got it and saw that one man had four aces and the other a straight flush. The barber simply smiled as he observed the hands and arising from the table bid both of them d pleasant farewell and hoped lhty WOULD elJoy tIe Huuuteu tHcs uau W on of their own money.
 The two were not to he outdoDe, however. and finally they landed what they thought was a dead sure thing. They were up against Il man just as sharp as themselves. however. and be. tore that game was over. and it was very short one, the two alleged New Britain gamblers were done to the lueen's taste. The hundred was hand. cd over to Mir Waterbury sharp one and the game began. In the first few hands the Waterbury man won, Of rourse. and he made the betting big rnougb 50 that the pots were very juicy. When he was ahead in the of $SO a knock came to the door and the Waterbury man was asked to step out to see a friend who wished to speak with him. He steppe,l put and he never stepped back. and he had q gay old time on. S1S0 of good mGmcy easily earned. The last seen of the two gamblers they were making tracks for the New England station, and probably they have caught the man they want right in their own