Eastern Colorado times., 1912-07-26

out the true criminals. saves the life
of an innocent man.
CHAN wooLEY,s STORY.
II was the principal figure" said
Chan Wooley. "in what was known as
the Dobbs Ferry mystery. and II had
not o good strain of blood in me
somewhere, an innocent man would
have suffered severe penalty. and
there were certain circumstances
connected with the case which might
have resulted in his being put to
death.
''The man who makes his living out
Of thievery, II he wants to be sue
cessful. must always have his eyes
and ears open for tips. The tips that
he gets may sometimes be like the
tip from the race track tout, but to
get the most out of the business
everything must be followed to the
end. My old side partner was Andy
Spangler, who was the son Of a
preacher and we'll educated, and we
went into trade together AZ card
sharps
ANDY and had many trip on the
Mississippi in the days when the
high rollers used to put up cotton
crop on single deal, and with all
our cleverness we sometimes got the
wrong end of the stick.
ut got tired Of being sport with
an income, and when got good
show drifted back to New York and
went in with Andy and Billy Peters
in the gambling business. There
wasn't any protection from the po-
lice then. All you had to do was to
throw open the shutters and begin
business. We started two places;
one at the corner of Sixth avenue
and 28th street. to catch the hotel
people. and the other at the Bowery
and Houston street, to cater to the
dead game sports, who were ready to
shoot at q moments notice. We made
money fast, and Andy and left the
running Of the houses to Peters. who
had the reputation Of going on the
level, while we tried the Wall street
game. This was game, and the
first one we had ever struck, where
we were the suckers. They got our
coin as fast as we put 1t In, and when
our luck was the worst, Peters gave
US a ripping dig, by skipping away
with the bank-roll. which was big
one, because the games then were
run without limit.
while I was trying to pick up
something out of the wreck. and kept
the game going ON borrowed capital.
met q young fellow named Robert
Temple. the son OF banker. He
came to me with a complaint that
the house owed him $500. He
claimed that he had won that amount
while Peters was in charge, and did
not dare dispute 1t, for we had not
made It known that Peters had given
US . cold shake, AZ, II we had done
that, we would have lost our custo-
mers In night. Gamblers are a su-
perstitious lot, and none of them will
play in house where the bank-roll
has been stolen. Temple seemed to
me a pretty good fellow. and l paid
him his money. He played steadily
for couple Of days, and got the
money back and more with 1t. had
that he lived in Dobbs Ferry. in a
splendid mansion. Judged that he
was the black sheep in the family,
for his brothers were all in business.
he told me, and he did nothing but
blow in an allowance which he re.
ceived from his father.
During one Of our chats he told
me that his father kept a big bank
roll In his safe at home. and the only
reason he gave for It was that the
old man was getting cranky. I be-
came deeply interested in the story.
owing to the hard times that had
struck the firm of Wooley & Spengler,
and tried to get Temple to fix limit
on the old mans pile. He couldn't
or wouldn't do 1t, and sent Andy up
to Dobbs Ferry to take look at the
Temple mansion, to hnd out what
sort Of prospect there was for an
exchange Of the Temple bank-roll.