The evening world., 1912-01-24
life Is Honey One Day."
Said Louis Kom, "Next
Day Nothing"
WAS ONCI: BIG WINNER,
Buys Revolver With Money
He Borrowed Yesterday
After Last Hope Vanished.

Destitute. SICK and deserted py friend.
OF othsr and prosperous days. Louis
Korn. an old-time bookmaker and gam.
bier. shot and killed himself early to-
day In his cold. dismal furnished room
At No. ?s West Tbirty-ssventh street.
on tho moor beside him persons who
heard the shot found a scrap OF paper
bearing this scribbled farewell mes.
q
Tn all II. I might - veil end
10 eli. no money. A G.Lmblsr's life
10 honey ons aay aad he . day
nothing. ! was born Sept. ~, 1854.
In 1orsytA street. n the on Tsnth
ward. LOUIS xo11.
The down and out gambler shot him
self IN the mouth as hs stood by the
window. The Coroner's Physician VINO
examined the body n committed II 10
the xorgue said the man wal ernaci-
ated fSm . combination Of disease ana
starvauon
In the Aayp whcn racing waD flouriah-
ing In and around Now York Korn flour
ished. Hs was q mssnher of the Metro
politan Association wfAlc he eshdOsn
ftVnrcd In big tdunSes he won a lot Of
money n spent II. When h Law killed
horse racing in New York Korn. VINO
had been a gambler from bovfood and
wAs utterly incApabte Of making . living
In n other way. found aArnsaIf thrown
on tho Tcnd~r1o.n with hundreds IN ths
samc position
he LoNo HOPED THAT nAclNo
WOULD De AGeUMGo.
For some time after the A~nti-bsttins
bills we're passed the bookmaksrs
fondly imagined that these bills would
be repealed and that racing would open
up again on the old lavish scale. Tho
wish wk father 10 the thought with
them. AID Korn wa n Of the many
who waited for n resumption Of Loo&.
making.
The xaanblerw like Korn were tte laOt
70 wake w to the feet that sacinG N
New York was dead. In the mean.
time they had spsnA The rOsrvs they
had sheld from their rs0s track win.
ninss. Korn had snoush lsft to start
. stvd poksr room IN seventh avenue
And no ava we'll thsrs tor . short time.
Then some lucky DaaysS wandered Ia
and cicAned him out.
Korn then dnfted into the life Of
q penniiess gambler. Now md then
he got bold Of a little money and
made . winning that kept him In
atrluence FOR q few days. Most Of the
time he was hungry. On warm after
Moons he stood on the Tendc rioin cor.
ncrs with others of his kind. AZ night
he Junk Into gambling houses and
waited hours and hours for some
lucky player "a give him n stake"
Az his clothes began to advertise his
poverty he was not welcome In the COM
pany OF the prosperous. The men who
had been his associates on the race
tracks. and had kept their winnings did
not recognize his timid greetings. The
men who had known him on the race
tracks and did recognize HE greetins
were a. poor as himself. Some few
! friends kept a roof over his head and
saved him from absolute starvation.
The recent cold snap was very hard
OH Forn. lie had a savernous cough
that cRused men TO turn and look al
him. lie needed medicine and warmth
and nour!shing food. and the chances
against securing them were moro than
100 to I. Yesterday afternoon he Dor.
rowcd money enough 10 purchase 4
revolver IN n n wnshop, lie huns
around The tendcrloin until nearly
o'clock this morning, when everything
closed up and then went to the plRc,
he called home and counted himself
out of the game Of lie.