The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-08
WOMAN GAMBLER
Worked Ocean Liner With Partner,
and Was Caught Cheating.

From the New York World.
The chief excitement on the rough trip
of the Kaiser Wilhelm H. ending yester-
Gay morning, was the maiden appearance
on an ocean steamer of the professional
woman gambler. She Is a rather slight
woman, dark. attractive. stylish. appar-
entity domestic in her tastes, and quiet
like one who has tasted of social gaye-
ties and is glad to settle down."
There were $50 cabin passengers, includ-
ing many of wealth and pinng for diver
sion On the second day out game or
twenty -hve-cent poker was started in the
Vienna cafe, ON the top deck. The con-
tented little woman and her companion,
a big, handsome blonde Englishman,
booked under the name of T. j. Dalzell
her husband, sat in the game. So did
four other women, but the Englshman
and his wife did all the winning.
The cafe is used by both women and
men. 1t is in dark weather the most
cheerful room in the ship. AS the game
progressed some sat drinking coffee and
chocolate and others reading.
The game had gone on for about three
hours when one of the women sprang
to her feet and made a sensation by ac-
CT sing the woman In black of cheating.
Everybody dropped his coffee spoon or
book and arose to watch the unusual
scene Things were becoming interesting
Some of the escorts of the women who
had been playing championed the ac-
cuser. They charged the self-composed
woman of signalling to the blonde En-
glishman. He became indignant and Of
fered to meet the men outside, where
scores might be settled as men among
themselves settle such things.
Everybody looked at the little woman,
the only one who had not arisen. She
calmly shuffled and played with the deck
and looked bored. She even invited the
other women to try their luck at bridge
and not mind the squeal Of the bad
loser" Stewards and officers of the ship
appeared and restored quiet.
The blonde man--it was said he greatly
resembled a gambler named Mckay, who
several years ago played cards on a
Cunarder with the Earl of Roslyn with
disastrous results to the noblemans roll
did not make himself prominent after
the exposure.
Passengers who compared notes found
that the tail man and the woman in
black" had invariably won through a
system of signalling to each other. One
woman had lost $50 to the woman, and a
man and his wife who had played with
the strangers had lost $40.
The next day after the sensational cpl
sode the following notice was posted by
Captain Hoegemann in the saloon:
'As a result of certain things which
have come to the knowledge of the cap
tain, passengers, especially women, are
warned against playing games of chance
with strangers"
The suspected couple were the first to
quit the pier yesterday morning. They
appeared to carry all their wardrobe on
their backs. The customs inspector
couldn't find anything worth mention
ing in their luggage" The man wore a
big, fur-lined coat, and all the baggage
they both had was a small valise. the
contents of which ratified
With this trip of the Kaiser Wilhelm
II. certain women-unless they promise to
abstain from cards-are to be prohibited
from travelling on ocean liners, together
with a couple of dozen men known to the