Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-04
SUCKERS
NICELY HOOKED
IN Los ANGLES
The SorrowfuI Tale OF the Ter
ritory Bunch That Went Up
Against the Film FIam in the.
Angel City,

There's a sucker born every min
ute said a fine old CRATER many
years age. lie was right about the
quantity. but there's a lot about the
quality the old sport didn't live to
know. For instance. to catch a sucker
YOU have to find its habitat and nsh
for II. Some suckers leave the water
and go Hopping across the land in trail
of the bait-then they are called
lambs" or HOLSTERS" A high class
lamb is called a goat" But in all tho
encyclopedias, dictionaries or CUFF OF
the profesh.' we fail to find the dcfint-
tien for a sucker that leaves his home,
goes hunting for the fisherman, swal-
lows hook, line and sinker and leaves
his card beside the breakfast table
plate saying he had been there once.
Therefore people are rather at a loss
as to what to term the bunch of Ari-
zonans who cropped their wads into
the hands of those amiahle sure-thins.
artists, Homer Du Bois. $. j. Spires
and Joe Wiley, formerly of Tucson
but who latterlY have run a gambling
hell at Venice. near Los Angeles. Maj
urally when the game was rapid hast
Thursday night II was discovered that
It was crooked. The faro layout con-
sisted Of marked cards. The Los An
Celcs papers say the roulette table
was also fixed. The Arizonan soft
things never had a cnanee on earth.
They walked right in, were bunked,
then turned around and walked right
Out again. Being from Arizona thcy
wouldn't squeal- Last springs SUITS
will do for them this fall and besides
that. one can always wear a straw hat
in Arizona.
There were five Tucson easy marks
who went all the way to California to
go against a brace game. There were
thirty Arizonans from the tefritorN.s
less cultivated centers who did the
same.
The amiable Mr.. Du Bots Is well
and unfavorably known in Arizona as
are his pals. Mr.. Du Bois stopped in
the Tucson Jail last summer because
he tried to run a Joint" A fourth one
Of the gentry gave the name of II. X.
Fisher, and showed four ancient IL
eenses permitting Fisher to run a rou-
lctte wheel in Benson, Ariz. The real
Mr.. Fisher departed from arizona to
the sound of a pistol shot some years
ago, hut trifles like that don't bother
and Homer and ~. J."
The bunch of gamblers had things
nicely fixed in Venice. "Du lBots al
ways did know good whtsNey,a said q
leading sucker. There WAS lots of
good whiskey In the joint, lots of beer
lots IF everything that makes a sucker
reckless. me sfdtlitE anu ititihb u
the FISH" and lambs was done artts-
tically. The Joint was Incorporated
as a club. You had to go In with a
friend ana they registered you for flu
ture uso. The register was captured
IN the raid of the police and a partial
list of Arizona good things fell into
their hands. .
The Los Angeles papers give a good
description of the raid. Gilded youths
Arizonn Hrood things" were
rounded up with the crew Of ram
blers, but later were let go. Next day
the gamblers got out on bail and it's
a pretty safe assumption thai they are
now trekking for Nevada. They had
intended to go there anyhow, but the
raid came "A day too soon. some or
the best known men In Arizona are
among the list of patrons on the reg
Doubtless they were saddor men
before they left the joint. Maybe
they are wiser men now.
Maybci