The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-26
LED by F R|END,' IS
SH0RN OF $4,000.
Broadway Tradesman Victim Of
Roulette Game Which Diamond
Broker Proposed.
s4,1oo LOSSES AT POKER
Herald Square Business Men Are
Flceced in Quiet Way With
Same Gem Dealer.
NEW YORK, january ..

NEW YORK, January %.
Sporting men along Broadway are just
now excited over the details of the sport
, ing transactions of n diamond broker
within the last month. 1t is whispered
3hat the man, aided by professionals, /"
induced friend OF his TO visit specially
prepared gambling house In which the
friend lost $50, 900 at roulette.
1t is further whispered that the same
broker, after losing $500 in another resort.
had $4,000 restored to him through a third
person, and as for his poker playing there
are tales innumerabe. The most promi-
nent of these are the experiences Of John
j. Reisler, proprietor of a large barber
shop in Thlrty-fifth Street and Henry
Ascher, head of a large detective agency.
Relsler lost $500, and Ascher has papers
drawn In a suit to recover $4,000 he lost.
Reisler is not going to sue, because lie
used forcible means, by which he was en-
abled to get his money back. Ascher has
been told he cannot recover n penny.
The name of the business man who lost
5000 at roulette is not given, but he is
said to be one of the wealthy tradesmen
north of Herald square, along Broadway.
He had long been II friend of the broker
who told him at last Of the quiet esab-
lshment run as club in flat uptown
Tho business man was assured that it
was an easy gang.
Instead of that the game was lmpossI-
bic. The wheel was crooked" and the
player had only the chance the dealer
chose to allow. The victim, excited py
early losses, plunged deeper and at last
found himself . heavy loser
Used Gold Decks"
Rciser and Aschcr declare they lost
their money because the broker intro
duced into their quiet little game" a
stranger who afterward turned out TO be
one Of the cleverest card sharps In the
country There were three sessions be-
fore the two outsiders became aware OF
the skill of the stranger The games
We're played in the rear of a small shop
in Sixth Avenue near rhirty-sixth Street.
Rclsler won S2T5 the first time and then
went again. This time he lost the $500.
Aschen had bad luck from the start. The
stranger would deal high hands to his
confederate. stack the cards. and he
varied this with an occasional cold" deck
substituted at an opportune moment.
After the game and checks had been
given for the losses and the checks had
been paid, friends began TO Intimate that
all was not right with the stranger. This
led to an investigation, when he was fullv
identified He made no particular con-
ccalment of his part.
1t is my business" he said cooly. Il
thought most everybody along Broadway
knew me. 1t was simple matter OF bust
ness. was hired for the occasion
haven't got the money now. You can get
nothing from me; look after the diamond
broker
II was Immediately after this that Refs
ler recovered his money. Almost coinci-
dental with this was his cncouter in
restaurant in Sixth Avenue with Joseph
Schwartz. who by another coincidence
happens TO have been in the diamond
business.
Schwartz has had lengthy experience,
ana he is known to the police of other
cities. He attracted attention in 1905 by
bringing suit against an alleged gambling
establishment in Iioboken, asserting that
he had lost $4,000 at roulette there after
being druggcd. He never recovered the
money He was not in town yesterday,
but was said to be at Lakewood
Woman Gets $500.
Il nm going to recover that money!
said Aschcn yesterday. CAS- 1t was, q
game l supposed between friends. we
never dreamed there would be any crooked
work and was therefore an easy vic
tim
1t was in gambling house in West
Twenty-fifth Street that the broker is al
legged to have lost $500 The next day a
relative demanded $4,000 of the managers.