The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-03
HOW BOOKMAKER'S ,,,v
WIFE GOT AWAY

Nr,y ORLEANS, La, March 2.-ohe
,ha oo,nic reliefs to the hard TnoneJ
grind of the betting ring during 'hs ~
rent week was the sensatlonni =, .u. '..n.ar
ton OF Booknlaker phil y Mel > :" i nv
oa,nnaipn On last Tuesday. Omen Is a
,..ail known character In the professional
turf world When he Is Wihner' nv
WORE swee ter souled or witter Hipernlail
Gala the sea o. life. But when luck ooss
not break well for him the farther a"ns
frn,r hin, the better for ones own sel'
O,Ee,l was a lion In the field ehc iCs.
about New York last summer. iie 5 slai . .su
in on q shocstring and ran u NO 20, o one
proverbial tannery. QUITTING 81,
,,.,,nnr an the summer season about nc"
vor,, he hied himself and booking Gre"
10 This city for the winter racing. Wih,
,,f,g n little and losing a little, y Ne''
fnmod himself about $1,000 to the good on
tho onening days OF the Mardi Gras car
nival Then came Waterloo. Day after
day he lost until $4,000 was charged 70
the losing side OF his ledger accouh. u.
Now comes the Ingenious haho VI e'''
woman. .,o,o
"Phil, luck ia against you ana there
Ia no use bucking It." declared MIS-.
o,NeI one evening after particularly
had day. and as the two were canvass
ing the situation as they sat IN the TO-
tunda of the new st. Charles Hotel.
wow, you mind your business. Wen
stick and get out or go broke, retoItea
o'Neil. Other words followed, and Mrs.
O'Ne,l retired from the field OF wordy
| warfare thinking hard. Z.
| The scene shifts and the curtain rises
on the next act. At 10 o'clock next morn
ing Mrs. ONe always the banker, Is IN
| front OF the banking house wherein the
! O'Neil funds are kept. Demanding the
| entire credit balance OF their account.
totaiing some $500. Mrs. O'Neil received
| the game and departed. Mindful OF a
| day when her husband might requlre
spare money she left to his credit Just
| s225 With the money Mrs. O'Nel .betooR
herself to the railway station. and In q
brief moment she and the family treas
| airy funds were swiftly beating" bacli
to New York.
About the noon hour O'Neil was at the
| bank as usual for another draw on the
O'Neil joint account. Then came the sad
news Of the account having been closed
out and the going away OF Mrs. O'Neil
That afternoon O'Neil came to the track
| side without bank roll. He told hi:
clerks the true story and they smiled In
a smurky way. The other bookmakess
laughed. O'Neil said II am not going
to book this afternoon" Then the nath.
raj question was, 'Why?' Because my
wife won't let me-" sorely and very
1. dryly he spread the Joke. At last re-
ports O'Neils s225 was fading away ant
thought Of getting railway ticket tt
New York, where a wife, a home. an.
the remnants Of a shattered bank rOl
awaited him filled his mind to the ex
clusion OF everything else. He'll be bal
on Broadway ere this reaches the read
er's eye.
Another amusing episode In the Bours
has to do with the Raffles craze. w. X
/ Carruthers, the New York newspape
man, brought the mysterious one to thu
city in connection with a circulation
scheme of n local newspaper. Carruther
advertised the fact Of the intention o
his protege to visit the betting ring OF
'some day in short while" In SOM
manner or other the rumor in effec
that he would be In the ring on las
Thursday gained currency. A mob 0
people came into the enclosure looking
for Raffles. Punger Whitley" Langdon
who had come through the Raffles frenz
in New York last year, Informed two D
the NETS that Bookmaker Fred Coo
had Raffles working among his crew
In ten minutes q curious mob of 500 me-
& stood jammed around the booking stan
of the Missouri odds puryeyor, The NOR
Cook tried TO stall the Raffles hunter
away, the more steadfastly did the,
| conflde In Langdons tip. At that Coo
got about $1,000 moro money to the las
two races OF the day than he would hav
otherwise. Landon's joke was, after al
lucrative. though embarrassing in resul
to Cook. At night the new 81, 100000
Denechaud Hotel and the st. Charlie
Hotel paddock" find hundreds and hun
dreds Of Raffles enthusiasts trying
find him in the hopo Of getting the san
reward. Some Of them gave up the ide
| of locating winners long long ago.