The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-29
Pinochle Winnings sasred.

Has a wife any moral or legal right
wins at pinochie Even In this day.
to a part of the >uey her husband
when the sutfage problem appears par
amount the question of a woman's In
terest in her husband siioniionoo ioimm
terest in her husbands pinochle WIN
nings, in mank districts of the city,
transcends that of the hight to vote.
No wife has ever declared Tor ashore
of the pigs knuckle. pilsener, ono
gone a success; then why should she
have any part of the money? =
The argument over this led Jacob
Hatzel to attempt suicide YESTERDAY py
| shooting himself. He was willing TO
die for pinochle if necessary, but he
would not give up cent of his
pinoch e money.
All pinochlers will reverence Hat
eel whether he dies or lives, but the
doctors say he will not die. Within
Hatzel there burns the rea- nre. 10
| him there is no music so sweet as
hundred and fftyq trumps falling by
| the side of a hundred aces; no JOY SO
great as count of two hundred ana
| fifty and the yell that m"Ioule loses
his me d!' in a four-handed game.
| For twenty years Hatzel has follow
ed the game. At that time he gave up
being janitor and turned the job over
| to his wife, while he sought the soliace
of the game. not of kings alone, but
| of kings and queens, OF royal mar
riages and diplomatic sneak leads.
Too strong to work, the old man
knows every rule of Prof. Rudolph
Wassengerbers "Guide to JOY" apd
Gotlieb Schoenenhauser's. How to
Twin Without Trumps."
Hatzel is 6S years old. and his wire
is along toward that age They have
been living with their soma George
and a married daughter at 1914 Sec
| ond avenue. Saturday and Sundty
were good pinoch days for the ole
man. Yesterday he was filled with JOY
Twice in the course of the night before
he had laid down melds that had wor
the game. His lead of trumps at tbs
proper time had also been effective.
i Then, i nadition to this joy of {
pinochler, after paying for his drinks
he had separated his opponents from
80 cents. which he Jlngied anou. unit
the sound aroused the attention o.
Mrs. Hatzel.
at want some of that" she said.
my pinochle winnings" no, said ia
cob. "You have a good job that gav'
you, jaintress of the building here
I work so hard for? Do you think it.:
easy to get five games out of sever
when you are playing against mai
what can meld like Gustave Sulzen
meyer, or a pinochler that is a way
making sneak leads like Max Frogen
lichter? No, Eighty cents is littl
enough for a man to get for har'
nights work, wit ha partener tina
team hold nothing"
| Mrs Hatzel was insnstent, but Jaco
thought of the ard work he had put Il
ind remained firm. Pressed to the ex
l IRENE for a division of his winnings
: he cried out that he WOULD fool ther
all
e "I1l show what a pinochle playe
|. cal do" said he, and shut the door
his room The next minutet he ha
D shot himself.
An ambulance took him to Be 1evu
o Hospital. But 1t is said he will live
n NAV again. His resolve to dierathe
e then surrender his wonnings CON
r mands the admiration of ever
pinochle player and will encourae
: those who in a moment of weakness
: have yielded and divided at home
q New York American.