The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-10
ONE VISITOR
 LOST S20,OOO
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HIayllg tue game under the dtrec- ton of his new made friends, and or- eiating through a scheme or secret directions. he played the roulette chips fast and furious, and it was not long until he had stacked up S2600O win [ler. Then he got the tip from one of the friends to quit. That was enough money for the present. They would cash the chips, and try the game at | some later time.
 Fox and his friends went to the proprietor, he states, to get the cas for the $26,000 winning he had made, and he was looked on with suspicion. The manager was not so suave and | gracious as on his reception. But Fox had the chips, and urged that they be casaed
 "I VIII not cash the chips now, ? Fox said the manager told him. q do not know that you would have paid if 1 you had lost.v
 But gave my check for the ~ay" l answered Fox
 Yes, but the check might not have been good We might have been deal | ing and taking a chance with our | money against nothing. Suppose we would have won S26,000 from you in checks, how do we know it would have been paid"
 But I have the money, and could have paid it." answered Fox. | Perhaps you have, and perhaps. | you haven't he got in reply. | After much controversy 1t was agreed that if Fox could show in cash the sum of $20000, of his own money, that he could have paid if he had lost. the S26,000 wirsnings would be paid 1 him That was last Friday Fox found | the solution of the situation satisfac- tory. He would get on the first train, aurry to Indianapolis, get the s20,00O, and come on back here at once show the money in bills, and then cash the l $26,000 winning he had made. l Fox returned here Tuesday and went 1 to the club room with his friends and tae money. With the craftiness of a man afraid of crooks. which he had not evidenced before, Fox brought the money in his wooden leg. He had thirteen one thousand dollar bills and | four bills of the denomination of five hundred dollars. This was $15,O10 of | the sum, and these large bills he hid away in the hallow of his wood en limb. Than he had a bundle of bills, tens twenties and fifties, which
 made up the other $5,000, and com | pleted the sum he was to show at | the club.
 Surrounded by his friends Fox went to the club to get the money through showing his $20,O00. He laid out the bills on table, and they were count ed. The money was right. Tlen he 1 says one of the club men turned to the club strong box and began count ing bills. They sat about a table in the gambling house. Finally the man who had been counting the bills turn ed and said:
 There isn't but S17,000 nere hn bills. You will have to walt awhile until we send to the bank and get some more money"
 And then casually, as if sending out for postage stamps, the man wrote what appeared to be a check, called a club employee. and sent him out to get the money necessary 10 make the $26000 payment.
 Fox said they all sat about the table and talked Just before the man was seIN out, however. Fox said ;he manager turned 10 him, wrote out club due bill to Fox for S46,000 the sum representing what Fox had paid
 in to show his good faith, and the
 S26,000 ne had coming to him in win nlngs. The due bill was presumably to give Fox something to hold until the settlement was made and as tAey
 were all awaiting sesuement, Fox
 gave no particular heed to the due bill
 Cne of his friends reached over and picked 1t up, but even then Fox
 gave little attention to the incident,
 until about five minutes later, when
 Fox said the friend came crushed and
 crying into the room where they sat, after he had stepped out into anoth- CT gambling room.
 My God, l have lost the due bill, the friend shrieked.
 Fox was astouaded, but did not l grasp the full situation, until several
 minutes later it was explained to him that his friend had picked up the due bill for the $46,000 had stepped into
 the room where the roulette wheel was. had been tempted to play, had
 singled out few large wagers, and
 had lost the entire sum Of the due bill.
 Fox was n-plussed. Not alone
 was the sum of sz6,000 he believed he had won, gone, but the $20,000 he
 had been induced to put up as show
 of good faith, was gene The due bill was gone The friend" had played and lost all.
 It did not dawn on Fox that he was 1 tffe victim of a conspiracy for some time. but when it did, and he realized that he had been worked on for some time, that the whole affair was pre- | arranged in order to get him to bring $20,000 to the club to be taken from him, and that his friends" were real ly confidence men. in with the play. ne hastened toA Attorney w. H. Martin and laid the circumstances before him.
 Slayin is the manager Of the lndiana | Club, and he joins the owners in the positive assertion that Fox did not lose anything in that club. He is well 1 known among the sporting fraternity, and is said to stand well among all the business men who know him.
 He was here during the past winter l season. and it is said never was