New-York tribune., 1906-10-02

were foura In Adams's rooms He said later that
among the papers were many notes and cancelled
| checks showing that Adams had lent enormous
sums of money recently to financial institutions
| and firms in the Wall Street district
From the papers l found in Adams's rooms "
Coroner Hamburger said. II know that Adams
must have had several millions when he commit
| ted suicide His property apparently consisted
| of stocks bonds and real estate. Notes and can
ceIled checks for sums OF more than $40 600 each
were plentiful. / shall not give the names OF the
fin lncial institutions and firms appearing on the
| checks at present. feel sure that the suicide
| was not caused by business losses"
adams feared another term in prison and that
was one reason for his suicide" said Captain Bur
seind Some OF the papers 1 in his rooms
showed that he had been connected with a chain
| of bucket shops that had failed or had been
driven out OF business. he knew that an inves-
| tgation was being made as 20 his connection with
the bucket shops
WILL FOUND AMONG PAPERS.
4 Will of date found among the
| papers 1t had been drawn by Albert J. Adams.
~ who acted his fathers personal attorney.
Charles F. Bauerdorf, of No Ill Broadway. was
| named executor of the estate in the Will
of the will be made public. but it said
there earlier WILL which Adams made
Just before he Sing Sing in April. 1903. to
serve his sentence.
| bands body was removed yesterday morning, ac-
companied by her sons. Albert and Louis. and her
! unmarried daughter. Miss Ida Adams She said
was the only reason she c9uid give for his suicide
She and other members of the family had been
street | a new home at No Al West End ay yei,ue
Albert & j. ADAMS "a od M ot who o as sb0 e.
affairs. The funeral OF Adams will he private A
70 Of na the family % SsG tnat bT Wireless @
graph % her fathers death.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Albert J. Adams was sixty-fve years old lie
was a native OF Rhode Island. and he began 10
earn his own living honestly as a brakeman the
| New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad. He
| quit honest work TO become runner in this city
for Zachariah Simmons. the inventor of the policy
| game AS Simmons the game 1t was not quite
much Of a robbery when It was controlled by
| Adams. but the chances Of winning were Away S
| small Adams was not content with handling the
/ manifold sheets and making the fake drawings
/ through which Simmons taking money from
| many poor people afflicted with the gambling
| craze. He used the psraphernalia OF the game 10
start secretly policy shops OF his own. and when
! Simmons died hs able to control the policy
game in all parts of The city.
Adams policy games according TO a system
which made It impossible for the countless play
| ers TO win much. From hundreds Of small cigar
shops in the city. where he had agents was
| drawn daily a food of wealth consisting largely
| Of the pennies Of children. who were encouraged
| TO risk them in the hope Of winning dollars
Thousands Of poor families were deprived OF their
| small resources in that way.
The games controlled by Adams fourtshed for
| years. winked at by the police. 1t was not until
the late Captain F. Norton Goddard organized the
Anti-PoIicy Society and devoted most or MS
| energies 10 a fight against Adams that any I'M
preston could be made Even then II was neces-
sary 10 have the Penal Code amended by special
act of the Legislature before convictions OF
| Adans's agents could be obtained. Captain God
| dard undermined his own health in his hght
/ against what he called the meanest ropoery OF
| the poor known. Charles > MacIarlahe'
| CaptaIn Coddards chief aid in the fight as super
| intendent of the Ant-Policy Society. was shot
dead in tho Criminal Courts Building by William
| epeucer one OF Adamss runners. who had peen
! convicted.
| CAPTAIN Goddard pressed the hght until he OBJ
| tanned evidence on which Adams was indicted and
| convicted. That put an end TO the policy games
| which Adams controlled. When Adams was SEN
| fenced on April q. 1903. to eighteen months I'M
prisonment in Sing Sing, Justice Scott said to him.
Your operations were OF the mean and sordc
| crime and sorrow which can never be atoneo I0r
nor 6otIea out Won me ave been the mainsprng for
many years IS one that appeals 70 class OF people
| who have little to lose and cannot AFFORD TO lose
that
| HIS REAL ESTATE DEALS
| While Adams was making millions IN his policy
games he invested his gains in real estate. buying
| property largely in the section west Of Seventh
avenue between sth and 34th streets. That sector
| OF the city was dead for years, but while
| Adams was in prison his real estate was nearly
doubled in value by the boom due TO the plans fol
the Pennsylvania Railroads terminal in the secuoi
where he had the largest holdings AT tho time o.
! his death Adams stIl owned the following prop
critics: ,,, ~ oo
West 2sth street. No. 2S West $oth street No. % g
west 31st street No 4l3 East S4th street. No ~
East S5th street No. i! East s7th stree No 20 81
Eighth avenue No. $50 Eighth avenue No. ~
Eighth avenue. No. 26 Eleventh avenue, No ~
West 45th street. No. 269 West SD street, No 20
West 57th street, No. 464 Amsterdam avenue NO =
| F3owerv No 1921 Lexington avenue. No 81 Secon'
aTenIe N0 1I6l Second avenue. No. 2499 Secon'
| avenue No 719 Third avenue, No -? seventh ave; ave
| nue. No. 375 Seventh avenue and No 55S Eshu
. | -
Adams also owned the King estate property "a a
| Paterson y. J.. for which he paid about s9nV
, | IIis Investments in Mexico mining properties ar
, | Of unknown value at present