New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
HELD AS WIRE TAPER
Fifth Prisoner Taken on Com
plant of Easy SOuthernerS.
HAS RECORD, POLICE SAY
Declares He's a Spectator and
in Honest Betting on Races
Picks a Winner Often.

Still another venerable innocent was
scooped yesterday by the police in their
investigation into the fake overlapping
game by which Or. ]. w. Powell and his
friend. Kirby Cleveland Sudbury, OF VIII
mlngton, n c.. declare they were done
out Of s25, 900 The fifth man to be ar
rested said his name was William Hunter,
that he was seventy years old and that
he lived the life OF a peaceful Spectator
at No 42l West l56th street.
The police interpret his speculative oc-
cupation as playing the races. and say
he is well known to them az 10 Eaton.
According TO Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty, he is a clever swindler with
prison record his speciality being fake
horseraces and przetghts. whereby. they
say, he has separated as much as $1,000
at one blow from men who trusted him.
He was taken to Police Headquarters
yesterday and lined up with ten men.
Sudbury. one OF the compliments in the
present case picked him out without hes
itation as one OF the men he saw in the
fake poOlroom in SD street which he
says was conducted as part Of the scheme
W tOHNIilNt MN was Oi NiiN 'ii''NS VA
a profitable wire tapping game.
This man was called doctor in the
pOolroom." Sudbury told Dougherty. and
pretended to lose 81, 900 on a race"
This loss. 1t was explained. Sudbury
said, was due TO the fact that the doc
tor" was not on the inside and was just
betting on his luck. Eaton. as the police
persisted in calling him, despite his prot
estations that he was really William
Hunter, had card In his pocket bearing
the telephone number OF Charlie" Con
dorf, one OF the other men arrested in
the case. lie admitted he knew both
Gondorf and his brother. but said he had
nothing TO do with their overlapping
game.
The gentleman must he mistaken,
Eaton said suavely. There may be other
men resembling me. I'm not the only one
with white hair and a beard. / am sorry
the gentleman lost his money, but had
nothing TO do with it.
When Dougherty asked him what he
had been doing he said he was specu-
lating on horses, and managed to pick
winner often enough TO get along com
fortably He attributed his acqua intance
with the GOndorf brothers 20 the fact
that men with the same interests-name-
IT, honest betting on horses were la
bic TO know one another
The police took few specimens OF his
handwriting for purposes OF making sure
their Identification Of him. They say that
in 1880 he went TO BIsckwelrs Island for
ten months for petty larceny. He was
held Yesterday In The West Side court In
$1,000 bail for examination on Tuesday
on a charge of completely in a wire-tap-
ping game.
Or. Powell came 10 this city last night
from Wilmington 10 assist his fellow
victim Sudbury. IN telling the police all
he knows about the AFFAIR and 10 back up
his identAcatons.
Charles Bradford. who says he is a
commission agent was locked up last
night IN the West 6Sth street police sta
ton by Detectives Wilmer and DAILY, Of
CommI Ssoner Dougherty's stan. The po-
lice say that the man was arrested for
the heecng Of Kirby Cleveland Sudbury
and Dr. j. W Powell. but they refused
20 say .u iIst what way. Bradford, who
il known To- the police, was taken in
charge A. he was getting out Of "a taxi
cab in front OF the Hotel Aston shortly
before midnight He IL hfty years old
and gave his address as No. 1876 Broad
way.