The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-21
RUINED BY PICKING WINNER.
HOOKKEEPER'S SYSTEM" FAIL
ING, he STOLE PAYROLL.
Lad OF 10 Arrested Going TO See Girl He
Was 10 Marry-Piunged on FavOPites
and ~LOst-Then Switched at the wrong
Moment Torture OF waiting for Police.

LAD OF 10 Arrested Coins 70 zee Girl He
Was 10 MArry-PIunged on FaVOPites
and LOst-Then Switched at the wrong
MOment-TOrtuFe OF waiting for Police.
Having picked a winner at twenty TO one
with his entire weeks salary or the horse
the very first time he ever played the races.
nineteen-year-old Milton z. Mobiles Of 800
West listh street concluded that keeping
books was too slow for him. He would
take that s42O and play a system, and while
his fellow clerks we're ~plodding along for
the same little old salary he in a couple
oS wears would be a second Pittsburg Phil
So he tried IL,
He was a prisoner in the Tombs police
court yesterday morning, charged with
stealing a payroll OF $3.50 from the Union
Printing Company at is Vandewater street.
Something had gone wrong with his system
and. his original capital having been wiped
out, be had decided to take a place as book
keeper again, but only temporarily.
He worked for the Union Printing Com
pany two weeks. when OH September S he
was intrusted with $3.50 to pay on the
employees.
Having studied the dope" continuously
IN his craze to play the ponies. he nae picked
the nlEnI DtlOlc VIA NAlC W NCIy
conservative bets. They simply could not
lose But the money-where was he to get
that The opportunity came with the
~pavroll. 1t was only 1 p. NJ. and he had
plenty Of time TO slip around the corner to
a poolroom. The selections were in the
first three races-so he could play them,
rocket his winnings and be back in time to
nav of the hands.
The boy might lust as we'll have burned
the money. The first bet Of %SIO0-fOr he
was a plunger having lost, he doubled
the amount. That was part Of the system.
His horse was beaten by a short head. In
despair he tried TO break even by putting
the last hfty-dOllar note on a six to one shot.
Profits were not to be thought OF then,
but that $3.50 had to be returned or 1t was
the Tombs for hin
They got away together and when the
horses were called turning into the stretch
his was leading by three lengths. That
was what the man with the megaphone
said Then came the long pause which
has turned many a head gray in a pool
room and the winner was called. OF course,
il was the favorite this time. the boy having
plaved the two favorites in the earlier
races. each being beaten by a head. and then
switched.
His money gone and nothing else TO do,
be remained to see three more favorites
win and went home figuring out what a fool
he had been to switch. That last fifty
parlayed on the four final favorites would
have mounted into $SSS. as the odds were
9 tn 5. even, 3 to 5 and l to ?. CursinR his
luck he dared not &c back to the Office and
since then he has been living a life Of tor
ment lodging the police.
Detective S%ergeants Summers and Brown
got him at Eighth avenue and lIsth street
on Wednesday night. He was on his way
10 see a young woman whom he was TO have
married next spring. By that time he
thought he would have money enough TO
marry.
Young Mobiles took his arrest calmly.
Magistrate Breen placed his bond at 81 500
for examination next Thursday afternoon,
but he had no bondsman and was sent TO
the Tombs.
Il guess I'm up against it, /" he said. Il
might have known that il was impossible
to beat the ponies. But wish | had stuck
10 favorites that afternoon. Long shots
are for suckers anyhow, that is. If you amt
in with the wise Ones"