The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
Berlin. Rome, London or St. Petersburg

Berlin. Rome, London or St. Petersburg with any amount of jewelry or money on his person. Cincinnati Kid'' is said to be one of his most valuable assistants. '.The Toledo Punk" christened Frank yaois, is said to be a general sales agent for the gang" sort of travelling fence." who knows whom he dare trust In the matter of selling stolen goods.
 Strange as it may seem, Eddie Guerin, once a shining light in his peculiar world, has sunk low. in the estimation of crim- inals and is by no means on an equal footing with those whose names are above mentioned He Is a sort of leader among the cheaper scrowd, pickpockets and the | lil1e,S who frequent that unsavory section known as Aldgate. below "The. City," the reiuvenation of 'rhe Seven Dials
 Gang which dates back to the times of which Dickens wrote. Guerln promised Inspector Stockley that he would turn | square, if he was allowed to remain here, and as a matter of fact nothing has been proved against him since he managed to beat the extradition by means of said | to-be perjured evidence to the effect that he was English-born. Ills friend, Dutch | Gus,' another New Yorker, is the presi- dent of the association of pickpockets
 who work the "Tupenny Tube" and the
 Underground railway. sThese are all En- glish thieves whom Gus has trained. George Bernard Shaw has made another failure here. He has written play upon the life of Shakespeare. called '"The Dark Lady of the Sonnets." To judge by the reports of it, it is one of the tiresome lit- | erary practical jokes of which MT. Shaw has become proud and the public has be- come sick
 Among the visitors here recently was an American whose name is said to be l Wills D. Danbro who, thanks to the | tables of Monte Carlo, Is 264000 richer
 The first day he played he. risked e1200
 and won heavily. He continued, and at one time had credit balance of f93,000.
 From that moment his luck turned, and
 he won and lost from a12,00O to a16,000 a day. He finally decided that he had
 passed the maximum of good luck, and so 1 let well alone. For ten consecutive years
 he has been to the Riviera in the summer and autumn, when the hotels are quiet ! and one can give proper attention to the l game. Systems are the products of over | heated. brains and cranks," he said l "Whenever you have luck, follow 1t up That has been my success. have spent
 six months at Monte Carlo, and according
 to one of the directors of the bank, 1t Is
 the one and only case in Monaco history
 
 six months play. People who have been
 lucky at the game invariably. have won | 1t during short visit. Hiram Maxim s
 system of doubling would be all right if there were not limit of a240 at the
 bank. At one time had won over aao,- 900 and after had lost it nearly all my | luck came back As soon as my success was known in Monte Carlo I received
 hundreds of begging letters and requests | . ,ioI,T sess. Other people, again, asked me to finance their systems I could not help giving thousands of francs away to those | beggars. have invested my winnings | in gilt-edged securities.
 l Keir Hardie, a labor member of parla ment has investigated at Cownbach tho allegations of assault by the police there. | He says undue violence was used. Wo-
 men and children were assaulted. Mothers
 who went to look for ther children were knocked down. A most searching inquiry | by the government, he said, was neces- sary, and if the government did not or der this, he would raise the question in | the house of commons. It Is probable that the whole history of the Welsh min
 CTS strike will be inquired into.
 | Such is the lure of the variety stage that l a daughter of famous house and the bearer of a famous name, has recently become an artist" Her relations are fu
 rious, and their great fear Is that her
 real name will leak out, or worse still,
 be advertised in huge letters. For the
 present the little miss is content to hide
 her identity, but if success does not come
 quickly she threatens to try to work up | d boom by stating who she really is. In these advanced days, when women of title I L. uIf...
 ders why the girls relatives should be
 so unhappy. Far worse things might
 happen to their name. For instance, she might surrender it and accept in return
 the name of some nobeman, and the po- | sition of wife to him.