The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-18

that was the reason for the delay in
opening the door.
Began TO Play Cards.
Then they began. to play cards.
They had hardly started till Morris
said, 'Will You not give me handp
They said. NO. the doctor and [ don It
care about playing with strangers.
Norris then said, 'Oh, YOU might let
ME have a hand until tho colonel re-
turns; If he is only going to be = few
said the mining expert, If the doctor
agrees | don i object.
"Tben Morris said: Give me SO
worth Of chips, and the mining eX.
| pert showed across a lot of chips to
him. He got hand dealt to him and
began TO play. At the close of the
| first hand he won $40 He turned ia
my brother and I and said: This will
stand a good dinner TO US He paid
| back the $40 of, chips to the mining
expert. and said be won $40, The min
ing expert said: mo. it is not usual.
1t would be very unfair for you TO go
away and not give us chance Nor
rig said: L don t mind it. / would
rather see my friend taking hand.
Morris said IT was quite easy; be would
show us. He said Here are $50
of my chips, and if ycu loose it wont
matter. j said: No He said
Look here, there is the whole $40
worth. You play, and I will guide
you. He gave me the Fchips.
thought there WAS no harm in this. and
] lifted the cards.
. Game Was Started,
Immediately the game was started
the Doctor rushed it up to $40 and the
other man rushed it up so many dollars
and the whole pile was showed in. He
bid higher sum than had been bid
when Morris was playing. He did
not put in any money, but showed for
ward so many chips. The mining ex-
pert showed forward double again
what the Doctor had done, and they
said I had to shove forward all that
had. Morris said that was all right,
and | said: rs that all. No, he
till YOU see theirs. The Doctor led
OF with something again. and it came
around and it was $50 bid this time.
/ said WASH t going to put down any
money. Morris said he would put down
the money, and brought out some bills,
The mining expert said: No, none
of that. IF your friend is going to
play this game, he will have to put
down the money himself Norris
right. You put down the money. You
are bound to win that money back.
/ had $50 bill in my pocket. ] put
IL down, and Immediately afterwards
they called the game again. This time
1t was higher bet, for $500.
Put Up Thousand Dollar Bills.
81 said would not put down money.
The rest of them were not putting down
money, but chips I did not know if
they could be covered. The Doctor
then got very indignant aud brought
out a check book and said he would
put up a check. He said he was we'll
known and his check could be cashed
anywhere The mining expert said
a roll OF bills. l hadn't enough l
knew I had three single hundred dollar
bills and L knew that ! had only a
thousand dollar bill and / took 1t out
and put IT down. The next thing they
had jumped it up about $500 and there
was not enough lying to cover the next
call and | had to draw another thou
sand dollar bill. Morris all the time
was very much excited. The mining
that If ! did not meet the call he would |
scoop the deal. / put down the |
dollar bill and the doctor
reached across and scooped the $4,000 !
and he said that he had won, I said !
it was downright robbery, a swindle. l !
called out to my brother to bring au |
officer and Morris heard it and said: (
1t IS swlndle. | will get an Of |
icer.'
1.-The mining expert went over to q |
vallse and opened it and took out re-
volver and put it IN the table and |
after he had done that, back came Nor
rls with two men. | asked, Are you |
aud they said, Yes, tell me |
your troubles, and one opened his |
coat and showed me a round badge |
with Police on 1T. | thought it
fellow opposite had got $1,000 of mine
and he looked over at Donaldson and
said, Give me the $1,000. -
Replying 10 Arthur Brown, McWhir. |
ter said that he had since identified r.
of Donaldson as the man
who got the $4,000.
In answer to Mr.. Variau, who ob-
lected TO the answer to the question,
cWhirter sad he had not seen Don |
aldson, but that he had seen his photo.
graph.
Handed Money to Policeman.
McWhirter, continuing. said ."Dou.
aldsop handed back the thousand dollar
pills to the policeman. Then the po-
lIcenlau SAID that we bad all been
gambling and did we realize the pen
atty, FOR gambling III the State of
Utah?
Later IN the evening the policeman
with the star gave the name Of Hemen.
way. Hemenway said there has been |
too much gambling going on here and
we were all 20 consider ourselves un.
der arrest and would he call a van
The doctor and the expert said thev
were well known IN the town and il |
would be a great blow to Col Rice and
scandal and the policeman thought it
would be better to take us mn in
patches and not IN crowd 10 the police
station He turned TO Morris. who was /
rolling about in MS chair, saying what |
. disgrace it was and what would the
Colonel say He said, Now don t you
90 to skulking or | will shoot you. !
The policeman had revolver. Then |
he turned 70 the doctor and said, "T !
vii take sou, and to Morris, and |