The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-13
SQUEEZING THE SUCKER.
Continued from Page 16.)


of the little finger as l am
passing EN- back to you. Turned the
middle one-see Then l drag the
eye, get the sucker interested so he
don't notice If a sucker insists on
shaking from a box and handling the
dice himself we slip him loaded dice
out of our pocket. Top and bottom
is a strong game if a mans got the
right people," in a half affectionate,
" elective tone directed against my de-
predatory remark that | didn't think
much of it. You can win a lot of
money at top-and-bottom. You can
turn 5000 and $1,000 tricks on it. I've
seen three thousand dollars won at it
with three one-dollar phoney rolls
one dollar bills stuffed with tissue
paper. But not with them rough and
tumble surething rats you've got out
here. Them rats would win breakfast
money on a stuffed Doodle for bank
roll.
"You don't get none Of your high
class men out here. Kid Sullivan? He S
nawthin' but moll-buzzer. NJ, o, dou-
BILE J, moll, that's it-womans name,
one of them female pickpockets-re-
member when women wore long pock.
cts YOU could slip your hand down in
and get her purse easily. That's all
Kid Sullivan is. He'd steal a pocket
handkerchief-rob poor working men
If Their weeks wages.
'Whan you rob a working man you
distress that mans family. A high
class man never distresses a mans
!! family, and he'll see that a mans got
car fare home and his hotel and bag
gage paid for. Them rough and tum-
bic SUR thing rats would let a man
walk into the bay. With a high-class
man l could have forty or fifty dollars
lynn there on the table, I could trust
'em with $4,000 and it would be safe
Them high-class thieves and scratch
ers-thats a forger-why, they would
1t think of touchin' nawthin' small
any more than a high-class gambler
; lCok at yaller chip. They couldn't
afford to- 1t would disgrace them with
their own class They don't touch no
body but rich merchants and brokers
and bankers who won't be distressed
by it. They live in swell apartment
houses and hotels and don't associate
with thieves and pickpockets like then
rats here. They wear silk hats anC
fine clothes, some of 'em change Otter
as high as three times a day, a com
plete set of clothes. They're Jay
Pierpont Morgans! They're the kin,
turn $3.50, 900 tricks like that one of l.
Briton-I think that's the name-th
cashier of Massachusetts who lost tina
;, amount on three throws of the dice
In New York right on Wall Street a
the busiest time of the day you wi
see heavy butcher wagon lumberin
along. Presently man coming alon
the street with sack of $500, 900 i
gold is seen. The next he's at tn
bottom of the wagon with two men o
top of him. That tip was got on tn
inside of some bank. Them rough an
tumble rats couldn't get tip like that
that takes a man who looks and talk
like a gentleman. It's got so no,
in Wall Street that during bankin
u hours there's a dead line with dete,
tives and police on duty, and no ma
who isn't known can get inside thu
line without a pass!
1--WE haven't had any high-class me
since Jimmy Hope In the mornin
the bookkeeper saw some plaster c
lis desk which puzzled EN- and S
Q they sent for Chief Lees. That nigl
they caught Jimmy Hope as he Wa
trying to get through the ceiling whel
he had drilled hole. That was tive
ty years ago.
Now all we get out here is a lot
low thieves and pickpockets compos,
of ignorant Swedes, Americans al
Germans, men from the timber camp
5. walters and hotel porters-the lowe
class of confidence men who have g
duped themselves at some time pr
vious and broke into the game by re
bling other poor grangers or har
- working Swedes on match, topaz
a bottom, and who travel a circuit fro
San Francisco, Sacramento, Portlan
i Tacoma, Seattle, Victoria, Vancouv'
Il Denver, st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Louis, Chicago, and other Eastern C
les, back again to Salt Lake and L
h Angeles, with a sprinkling of high
Il class bunko men and confidence m
n g,,o1, &c gold by{oly ~. Y,aU-off ropofra