The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24
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ing Senator Danfcld himself. They had reckoned on
Gg S w ny 5e@ a g @ s ao M m eS
staring bankly about and still nsanely twisting the
roulette wheel before him
Kennedy advanced toward the table with
which he had seized from Of our men. a well
directed blow shattered the mechanism of the delicate
wheel,
49, "DeLOng. he said, 81 m not going to talk to you
like your old professor at tho university like your
recent friend the Freuchman with a system. This
is What yone have been up against my boy. Look
tangled and twisted series Of minute wires and electro
magnets in tho broken wheel before us. Delicate
blow of his axe, Craig disclosed wires running down
through the leg of the table to the floor and under
the carpet to buttons operated by the mau who ran
..Wh,what does it meant asked DeLong bankly.
''It that you had little enough chance to win
at straight game of roulette But the wheel is very
rarely straight, even with all the odds in favor OF
troed Others are mechanically controlled by what
sometimes called the mule s ear, and other devices
the little ball into any pocket the operator
desires. Each one Of tbosc pockets contains little
is connected with button under the carpet and
battery The other set IN the black pockets is con;
is not really of platinum. Platinum is non-magnetie
1t is simply soft iron hollow ball. plated with plat
attracts the ball and by this simple method it is in
the power Of the operator to let the ball go to red
control the odd evcn and other combinations from
other push buttons Speei? errangSment took care
machine in the whole place. might almost say tho
whole city. The whole thing is crooked from start to
finish-thc men, the machines The
''That machine could be made TO beat me by turn.
ing up a run of IL any number of times red
black, odd even, over is or under is any
thng2p
Anything DeI,ong''
''And ] never had a chance, > he repeated medita-
lively lingering the wires ''They broke tonight.
Danfcld-" DeLong turned, looking daSedly about in
the crowd for his former friend, then his hand shot
into his pocket, and little ivory handled pistol
flashed out Danfield, your blood is Your
head. You have ruined me -
Kennedy must have been expecting something of
the sort. for he seized the of the young man.
weakened by dissipation, and turned the pistol upward
as if it had been in the grasp of child
a binding flash followed in the farhest of
collect my own wits another followed in the opposite
corner The room filled with dense smoke.
Two scufflug at my feet. One Ken
nody, As dropped down quickly to help him saw
that the other Daufield. his face purple with
the violence of the struggle
.sDou L be alarmed gentlemen I heard Conpor
shout. sEthe explosions only flashlights of the
official police photographers We have tho evi.
demco complete, Gentlemen, YOU will now go down
quietly TO the patrol wagons below, two by two, II
YOU have anything to say, say it TO the magistrate of
the night court, -
% Hold his arms Walter. painted Kennedy.
I did, With dexterity that would have done
credit pickuoclet Kennedy reached into Danfied
pocket and pulled out some parers,
Before the smoke had cleared and order had been
restored Craig oxclaned. ''Let him Up. Walter Here.
Del4onq here the l. o. L. S against you. Tear
them up-tbcy not debt of honor,
Copyright, 1912 by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi
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