The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-29
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U.S. SENATOR LOST $4,000


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many don't want 10 pay" customer that
Richard 4. Canicld numbered among hia
, gambling patrons. So was u youth. under
q, whose relatives deCidrd that n would
I've better 10 make a settlement with thu
peachblow vase collector than to rcfyias
altogether. Tho senator tried to mako q
settlement hut failed. and presumably paid
in full after considerable discussion ~ 10
terms.
Who the senator Is, or, for that matter.
who the youth ia, is The carefully guarded
secret Of Garfield and a few others. WIN
took particular pains to preserve 1t inviolate
yesterday at the trial, before Supreme Court
Justice N%ewburger and a jury, Of the suit
brought by John D%elahunty, Canfield's
former lawyer and intimate friend, to re-
cover payment for services rendered the
gambler during the eighteen mont hs imme-
diately following the famous raid by Jerome
on December 2, 1902, at 5 East Forty-fourth
street. The names are kept out by CON-
sents but anybody is at liberty to guess.
The Senator, it appears. wed Garfield
some 500 600, partly money lost at the rou-
lette table and partly money borrowed.
The youth owed $500, 900, all said to be money
lost trifing with Dame Fortune. Each had
given notes to secure the Indebtedness,
notes which Garfield and his manager, Dave
Bucklin. treasured as the apples OF their
eyes. After the Jerome raid first the
youths friends and later the Senator's law
yer, came round to see what could be done.
The youths friends began with an offer
Of $50 900. They finally paid up $3.50 900
cash. The Senator offered $50 900 for his
note. Garfield sent him word that 1t was
all or nothing. He is said to have ao-
cepted the inevitable.
DELAHUNTY KEPT ALL THE DOCUMENTS.
The scurrying TO cover of the Garfield
Bucklin combination right after the Jerome
raid was told graphically by Delahuntys
who directed the retreat with all the legal
tactics at his command. The pitiful pleas Of
Bucklin to be kept out of jail, the prayers Of
Garfield for the maintenance of his pres
tige" as a gentleman gambler, were all
poured into ~Delahunty's ears, in letters, in
cables, in words innumerable And he had
kept a record Of every plea, the original
of every document.
Delahunty told how he had saved from
the Jerome clutches the 81 ,00O, 900 or more
Of securities that Garfield had in safe de-
post vaults. And when questioned about
Canfeldis income he said that the gambler
had told him that his business Melted him
$500 900 a year and that he was worth over
SIS, 1000, 600 In actual property, Of which at
least 81 600 600 was in real estate here and
at Saratoga. So he could afford to wait
a while for some Of his customers to pay.
A OF RECKONING FOR JF
Many letters, cables and kilograms to
Delahunty from Garfield and Bucklin were
put in evidence yesterday by Edmund L.
Mooney, Delahunty's counsel. In one Of
them Garfield speaks of a day of reckoning
for jerome and some others, should he get
out OF the trouble he was in over the raid. In
another be refers to the exhibition "Mr W
had made Of himself in connection with the !
John Doe hearings started by Jerome to
bring about Canfield's conviction as O
gambler.
The identity OF "Mr. " was another
secret. None would admit that it might
have been Reginald Vanderbilt. who was
said to have lost a very large sum in Cam
fields one night, a sum said to have run
into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A subpoena was issued for young Wander
bilt in the John Doe proceedings, but he
kept out Of the jurisdiction, mostly in an
automobile, until things had quieted down.
Garfield sat In court beside his counsel.
George Gordon Battle and j.. Snowden
Marshall. Behind him sat Bucklin, at the
afternoon session. To look at, Garfield is
anything but the accepted type Of profess
sional gambler. His square, clean shaven
face is mobile enough but expressionless
most Of the time. As his letters were read,
however, he seemed more nervous, and
fiddled with a lawyers bag in front Of him,
or tapped the table with a pencil.
His white four-in-hand tie, white shirt
and cuffs set of with plain white dress studs
and cuff buttons, formed u contrast with
his dark cutaway suit. Not spark Of .iewelry
appeared about him.
Bucklin was dressed more gayly and
fondled an umbrella, the stubby handle of
which crept between his teeth az some of
his lptters IN Delahuntv wara road Hi
facial control is not as good as Canfeld's
and a flush mantled his cheeks frequently
as the testimony turned all eyes smilingly
in his direction. The asides between Can
field and his man were many and loud
enough for all sitting near by to hear. z
RAID WITH LEoAL SUPERVISION.
Delahunty's testimony opened with a
relation Of the Jerome raid on S East Forty
fourth street. Delahunty has known Can
field for fifteen years, and whom Canfeld