The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-12

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What really happened, learned later.
was this; Freedman was broken ~ har-
nesa, and AZ soon ~ the stewards began
an inspection 81 what was probably the
genuine Cataract the harness vas put
on Freedman and he was driven out
the hack gate Tie was far away from
the course before the Detectives reached
the barn in their search for the second
horse, and Of course the negro rubber
could deny that there ever had been
a second horse. for care would undoubt-
edly b. taken not 70 have them both
on the track az the same time
A few months later, early the next
spring 10 be exact. was standing inside
the Neptune avenue gate Of the Brighton
Beach track I heard a fOOtEtep behind
me and. turning around. looked the mys-
teriOus gentleman Of the Cataract episode
/ full in the eye He was minus the dyed
chin Whiskera. hut there was no mistaking
him Even the plain hand ring OF gold
which had hs,eu noted the autumn before
was still on one % his fingers.
@He opened his mouth a couple 81 times
~ though about IN speak, hut finally de-
cided that conversation was not the order
~ the day he sauntered through the
/ gate and beaded down Neptune avenue
| toward COney Island. A few minutes
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| scraper. a hottie Of body waah and rub
I hing cloths came through the gate and
/ looked around anxiOualy.
Have you seen Mr.. Johnson he asked
No was my reply. experimenting the
answer With the query. What are you
doing here?'
We're going 10 work the mare. re-
piled the youth hesitatingly.
After waiting few minutes the lad
stepped outside and | vas right at his
heels. The mysterious man vas up the
avenue a quarter Of q mile, making signals
wildly. and the hoy With the bucket broke
into a run. Looking toward Sheepshead
Ray, discovered a mare oantering toward
me. She had a linsey over the saddle
and thu boy on her back drew rein az the
Eats where ! stood. ~ though about 70
enter A whistle from the man In the road.
however. accompanied by furious beckon-
ingn. caused the boy 10 gAllop Oh, but not
until had obtained good view Of he
mount
'Shs vas a smart looking bay mare. EVIL
IDENTIFY about four years old. The Boule-
ward saddlepath was In ~ good condition
a. any raSstrack, and before could neach
the trio they had stripped the linsey from
the mare and shs bree1ed toward Graves
end The boy with the bucket ran after
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car going 20 Coney Island.
After a vigil Of perhaps an hour Supt
Clare and got aboard Smith street. car
going toward the city and there was our
man In the corner with his hand over his
face. He eyed Ne now and then. but
finally, "a the car nsared the village II
Greenhelds. no walked over. and calling
me by name snRrled:
stable night over there, pointing
to a ham In the rear OF roadhouee on
OCEAN avenue.
We Lost no time in getting in touch With
the late Robert PinkertOn. and he sent
a detective and Photographic 70 take
a picture u the mare for the purpose II
Identification. A. the man had had no
opportunity % do anything wrong In the
Cataract Freedman case he could not
he punished. He was. however, ordered
to appear before the Jockey Club. where
he inpudently told Assistant Secretary
Daingerield that he would send him word
when he would cut loose the next good
thing he had bottled up.
1T IL generally believed that this same
man was the chap who pulled nh the
Fiddler coup az Morris Park the last wear
We raced az the Westchester course
The horse had been identified. that IL
the genuine Fiddler had hen vouChed
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another horse went - the post and wOn.
The winner " mat race was a high
beaded hay gelding and he hire a sirik
ing resemblance ~ = horse named Hiram
johnson that had won a race few months
before az New Orleans. Hiram Johnson was
a lighter hay than Fiddler. but you know
peroxide ACCOMMODATES wonders. and the
real artists in tho ringing game can
color a nag any shade YOU desire. This
particular horse. which disappeared five
minutes after the New Orleans raos. was
known az MacNamara in California. and he
figured in Montana and Alabama also
Il remember the time the gang bought
Tanner from belong. broke in listener
1T was common report that a BROOKLYN
mans check for ts.OOO paid for the big
hay gelding II wasn't month bsfOre
Tanner appeared AZ Latonia, the track
opposite Cincinnati. A. Polk Bargett and
won a race that cost the bOokmakera
and pool sellers throughout the country
very dear.
The Brannon brothers. Who had been
mixed up in other Affairs Of the same char
acter. we're implicated and suffered the
penalty n expulsion. That was a time
the crooks got the money but ] recall
another Occasion when they got the
pool tickets and nothing more
by GlenKarry that Denny Higgins owned
and raced at one time. Higgins sold
him On some folks who we're racing at
Gloucester near Philadelphia The horse
was the last thoroughbred in the world
that you would expect anybody 20 at
tampt % ring He was % unusual mould.
big bodied and short legged and In addi-
ti0n he was bad actor ~ the post.
The thieves dyed his brown coat
chestnut and siH months later showed
up az the ROby track near Chicago
Dick Dryer was starting then and he
gave the Rad actor a dozen chances before Z
he sent the field away, with the ringer
left az the post That was one time the |
burglars got left
-All the above bears OFT the conten- |
ton that racing was never ~ carefully /
safegua rded az under the Jockey Clubs |
iuri-dictinn.- concluded the veterinary. /
ssnd the element that acted OBVIOUSLY |
has apparently forsaken is former /
fields and turned % other and. trust |
more honest occupations. II n a striking 1
fact but nevertheless truth that II
the real condition ~ Affairs could he
learned in nineteen or u twenty Gases
hack Of the man or men who operate in
these ringing cases are 10 he found men u
supposed rrspectabiIity who furnish the |
money 20 finance the plan
They buy the horses. paw the stable
hills and bet the money in the hundreds
Of poolroOms with which the country IL
cursed and when the trail gets hot .
they hribe their tools 20 keep Out 81 tho
way. The conviction u one u these
something for nothing lawyers. real estate 4
men or capitalists. for you find them all .
eager 10 venture their money on anything ,
that promises big returns and small /
chance Of discovery. would be 81 untold .
benefit n the community az large.
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