New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-26
WIRE TAPPERS FOOLED
BY BALTIMORE DELEGATE
CHICAGO Man Puts Up $4,000
Draft to Bet on a
"Sure Thing"
IT WAS ONLY STAGE MONEY
Victim Was in Party with Such
Unsophisticated Persons as
"Hinky Dink' and Bath
house John"

When r. J. Buckley. an architect, with
Offices at No. 80 East Van Buren street
Chicago. returns home he will have an
interesting tale TO tell of how he fooled
bunch Of wire tappers in New York
while en- route to Baltimore as dele
gate TO the Democratic convention.
Mr. Buckley arrived here last satnr-
dav and took r, ms al the King Edward
Hotel. at No. l55 West 46th street He
was with such innocents as "Hinky
Dink" and "Bathhouse John That
afternoon as he was walking up Broad
way he was accosted by a man VINO
introduced himself as P. J. Wilson
furniture dealer in Detroit, and said ne
had formerly lived in Chicago wilson
proposed that they take walk to see
the sights" and Buckley acquiesced. In
42d street. between Broadway and sixth
avenue, they saw man standing IN the
hallway Of a house counting a roll OF
bills which, according TO Buckieys
story, was "big enough TO choke
moose"
Wilson exclaimed: Il think I know
that fellow His name is Sandford' ana
he won Sl25. 900 on a bet in Detroit. he
gave my uncle, George Harvey, check
for $4,000 and put him on Easy street
They crossed the street and spoke 10
sandford, who seemed TO know Wilson
! sandford said that he belonged 10 a
sure thing" racing syndicate, and sug-
J gested that Buckley and Wilson enter
the deal Buckley pretended to ran
for the deal Each put up 81 and Sand
ford disappeared, returning in few mo-
ments with the information that they
had won at to l. Sandford then said
he was going to clean up" $2JO,0OO be-
fore the night was over. but Buckley re-
fused TO bet again. Wilson put up 70
more and won $50, and Sandford said
that he had made 5000 on his own bet
Wilson then suggested that they visit
| a gambling house and see some real
playing the ponies" They went 10
house in 10th street, and after little
argument with the doorleeper the Chi
cago man was admitted on Wilson's rec
onmendation Buckley said later that
the house was filed with racing charts
and all sorts of gambling paraphernalia
| Sandford came over and whispered
that he was going TO bet Slo,UD on
Marie T., and Buckley made draft on
| a Chicago bank and put up $4,000
more. In q short time word came that
Buckley had won $4,000. The cashier
Of the gambling house appeared and be-
gan 10 count off 800 bills, when he re-
marked that he did not know whether
Buckley's check was good or not. Buck
lev invited him around to his hotel,
where he said he could prove that his
checks were good.
once out Of the gambling house he lost
no time in informing the police and
stopping the $4,000 draft. Three de-
tectives were detailed 10 be on the watch
for the gamblers when they appeared at
/ Buckley's hotel.
Yesterday morning Wilson appeared,
| but Sanford did not show up. With
| Wilson was another man, who said his
name was Henry VI. Wilson, a hotel
clerk They were seized by the detec-
tives and taken to Police Headquarters.
where Henry VI. was held as suspicious
person and the other Wilson was held as
one Of the principals in the scheme.
When the two Wilson's were arraigned
| in the West Side court before Magistrate
! Butts they were both charged with
grand larceny. They were held for ex-
animation on Thursday in $1,000 bail
| each