The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-09
REFORMED GAMBLER.

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 shows How Easily the Unwary May be
 Robbed.
 New York American.
 John Philip Quinn, the reformed gambler. who for the past seventeen years has been using all the tricks he learned in the wayward days of his youth to prevent young men from fall ing into pitfalls. entertained a large gathering of clergymen and represent ative business men yesterday afternoon In the bureau of information he has opened at Forty first Street and Broad way.
 Before these men Mir. Quinn expos ed the tricks of the calling he once followed. Men who have played the roulette wheel, sat in poker games. shaken dice and gambled with cards in other games, were shown just how easy 1t is for the professional gambler to take the money of the ordinary man. no, matter how wise the man thinks he is. Gambling said Mir. Quinn to his audience, lis worse than drinking, be- cause man will do things to get money to gamble that he would not do to get money for anything else under the sun. Gambling should be made a felony in this State, as it is in Mis- souri, In Ohio and Indiana the man who loses money in a gambling house can sue the owner of the property.
 If gambling is made a felony in this State. as 1t should be and as I hope 1t will be, 75 per cent. of 1t will be wiped out. What does Richard Can- efild care about $1,000 fine? But he would care about a term in prison.
 Assails Racetrack Gambling.
 'T also believe if 1t is wrong to gam ble outside of a racetrack it is wrong to gamble within a racetrack."
 It is the intention of MT. Quinn to ing all forms of gambling a felony in this State
 Mir. Quinn, with his paraphernalia, demonstrated how a nickle in the-s slot machine could be operated so that "capper" could win and the outside player lose. He explained the manner in which the strength testing machine was manipulated so that no one but the confederate could strike hard enough to win.
 After manipulating a roulette wheel so that 1t came either red or black, as he wished, the lecturer dealt poker hands to persons in the crowd. and called the hands as they lay face down on the table. Faro, he said. was a complicated game. not easily under stood, and if he showed the crooked SlQe or IL the duuleI1Ce HllSnl De pug zled. He then demonstrated how cas- fly 1t was for a dealer with a sanded box to deal d crooked game of red and black. skeptical one in the audience played red through whole deal. but never once did he win. Another man tried switching from red to black. heart to a club, and so on, only to find that the dealer prevented him from winning a bet.
 Shakes Five Aces Ten Times.
 With the dice MT. Quinn permitted every one to shake. and then. after the dice were placed in the box, threw five aces in one throw. not once, but ten times.
 "I never teach any one these tricks" said he, because while I assail the character of no man l might teach them to some man who in an hour of ad- versity or because he was bad, might become a thief. In church clubs have showed some responsible man how to do them, but I knew then I was car rying on a good work. I frequently go to the homes of fathers and for the satisfaction of their boys who are just beginning to go around demon strare to the young man how the pro- fessional gambler f1eeces the unwary ="
 MT. Quinn has written book, enti- tied Fools of Fortune" which he has dedicated to Charles P. Johnson, for mer Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, who passed the law in Missouri mak- ing gambling felony. At the exhi- hition he gives daily every one is well come. particularly young men.