The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-11
WAS A GOOD THING LIKE FELIX
j. y. CARTY OF PHILADELPHIA
GAVE HOTEL GANG $4,000.
Tells II Through Lawyer He Set on Their
Tran When They Got Him Last October
lie Looked So Easy They Gave Him
Money at Tirst--But II Came Back.

trail When they Got Him Last OctoDeT
lie Looked So Easy They Gave Him
Money at Tirst--But II Came Back
John Eugene Felix will have TO make
room on the top tier of good things for
Philadelphia man. Through his lawyer,
Joseph Marx, j. F, Carly, collector for
railroad supply house in Philadelphia,
reported at Police Headquarters yesterday
afternoon that he had been trimmed for
$500 on Oct. II in room In the Firth
Avenue Hotel by three tapless wlretappers,
who he thinks are the same who got Mr.
Felix's $4,000 The room in which the
trimming was done Is that used in stock
Exchange hours by Wasserman Co..
brokers, IN which Felix also lost his wad'
This Is the sorrowful tale that Marx
tells OF the trimming Of Carly
On Oct II. last Carly WAS in town on
business and stopped at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Early in the afternoon he went
into the bar 10 take a drink. When he
paid for 1t he took out OF his pocket roll
OF bills as thick as his wrist. He skinned
OF yellow one with G on the back and
handed it TO the bartender.
Three we'll dressed. amiable looking
gentlemen drinking cheeriully at his right
hand seemed to perk up quito bit when
they caught sight Of the roll with the 500
wrapper Soon afterward they started
an argument among themselves as TO which
was the better horse, Waterboy or McChes-
ney, and they grew quite heated about II.
A tall. heavy man. whose description re-
sembles very much that of Mr. Frederick
Lawson Greene Williams, now indicted for
H.. -. ar-ff
OF Waterboy.
Occasionally the men glanced inquir-
ingly in the direction Of Mr. Carly, as II
they thought his opinion would be worth
having. He got interested. joined in the
talk, was invited to have a drink, had 1t,
took another and was invited to take
walk along Broadway with his new friends.
They were gone for an hour. returning
to the Fifth Avenue Hotel about $50 o'clock
In the afternoon quite mellow; at least Mr.
Carly was.
'The social BILE three took him into what
earlier had been the brokers's office. Clerks
were hopping bout busily and tickers were
clicking Mr. Carly opened his eyes. Mr..
Vanderbilt, Mr. Gates, Mr.. Drake. Mr. Thomas
and others were sending In orders Of 500
at crack to bet on horses Of their selection
that IA. the busy clerks we're calling out
these orders to one another 1t sounded
fine to Carly.
Come, put bet down. said the big man
who looks like Frederick Lawson Greene
Williams to Carly. TRY your luck. These
people have inside information on the
ponies, and l don't think you could lose
II you wanted TO- We beat an right along
Carly put up 500 on a TO shot at New
Orleans Pretty eoon somebody rushed
up to him and handed him $500 in real
money and told him the horse had won. He
had bunch to quit right there, but the
persuasive voice doomed again in his ear.
Make q sporty let, old man! You zee
how easy il is II YOU win you might re-
member your friends
Carly took out the whole roll, his 5000
plus the 500 he had won. and put it on
horse whose name has escaped him since
his bereavement He waited while Up
came sad faced clerk. Sorry, sir, but
the horse lost by an eyelash. mere whisker,
"a II were. Come back again and you can
make that up easily enough.
There wasn't suspicion or doubt in
Carty's mind then he says. His three
friends condoled with him They sympa-
thized; indeed they were deeply grieved
and concerned and hoped the loss would
not enbarrass him. In that CASE.
The chief steerer. bass voiced man,
reached suggestivey toward his pocket
Carly said no, it was too bad, but every
man had to take a chance and he guessed
he was a sport anyway.
All this happened between $50 and
O'Clock, Carly says The next day he
went back. but couldn't see any faces he
recognized His three friends were not
there and nobody seemed TO be making
bets. He got suspicious and told a friend
about it. He was told that undoubtedly
he had been done-done 10 a turn. Then
he went to Lawyer Marx and told him to
do what he could for him but to keep his
name out Of the newspapers. He was a
man Of prominence, he said, and news
paper notoriety would be injurious.
Marx investigated but couldn't get
line on the transaction in the brokerage
offices until John E. Felix told the poics
about a similar misfortune. Then, on
instructions from Carly, he went yesterday
afternoon to 800 Mulberry street and put
the case in the hands OF the police.
The sergeant on duty who got Marks
description Of the men who took Carty's
money. told him the men locked up for
buncoing Felix were almost certainly
those who got carty's cash.
Carly lives at 545 South Forty-ninth
street. Philadelphia and ia there now. He
will DO in this city on Tuesday 10 meet
Commissioner McAdoo and try TO identify
Frederick Lawson Greene Williams and
Christopher Charles Toppin Tracey as the
men who victimi9ed him.