The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-12-31
WORK SLICK game
INEW WORKERS PULL OFF Wire
TAPPING TRICK
ENDS Up With lis Cash
Wealthy West indian Visiting in New
York Meets Stranger They Be-
come "Friends" and Get Ready to
Win a Fortune, but 1t Doesn't

come "Friends" and Get Ready to
Win a Fortune, but 1t Doesn't
Work Out.
The New York Sun of Tuesday
publishes the following story Of a
"wire-tappipg" swindle, played in the
same old way on the confding
stranger in New York:
Right in the midst of District At
torney Whitman's campaign against
wireless wiretappers and their police
confederates and while Deputy Police
CommissioneADougherty's assertions
that ha would take drastic action
against such gentry were still re-
sounding, the professional gentlemen
who tip credulous persons from out
lying yparts to good things in horse
races put one over on visitor from
the West Indies, who contributed So
500 in cash to the ancient enterprise.
This was on December 2 and In
spector Faurot heard of it two days
later when L. c. Wharton, West
Indian chemist, who was stopping in
New York on his way home from
England, came into police headquar-
ters and told the story. Wharton ar
rived in New York on November 80
and went to the Hotel Albert in Uni
versity place. That same day, Sun
day, he went for walk. On Fifth
avenue he met a stranger who -bor-
rowed match and introduced him
self as Earl B. Linton a mechanical
engineer from MontreaR
The new made friends saw the
sights the rest Of that day and the
next and the next. By then they
were intimates. On Wednesday fol-
lowing they took walk and met, at
18th, street and Fourth avenue, one
F. Burke, a friend Of Linton, from
| Charleston, S. c., and, according to
the Canadian, "bear on doping the
ponies,'. Burke was feeling pretty
prosperous, having just won 500
on thes Charleston races and invited
the others to go and see how he did
IL.
They wentTo poolroom in a fur
nished room house in East oath
street, just off Fifth avenue, and
started in to break the bookies
Wharton plunged to the extent Of SIS
and wonfs5O. A second dash with
SO brought him $40 and third mad
venture of s25 netted another $50
The/West Indian thought he'd like tc
go on forever.
A little later Burke whispered that
he had a sure thing, a hummer, and
he was going to it strong. Linton
and Wharton could do as they liked
They stepped on his heels in theil
eagernese to place the money. Burke
put Up $500 and Linton $500
Wharton produced $500 in bills and
made out a check for $4,000. Moth
ing doing on the check they told him
so he hurried downtown to his bank
and came back with $4,000 In rea,
money.
Burke took the pot and gave 1t tc
Linton, with instructions to bet it al.
on certain horse for place. Whar'
ton and the plunger waited with
bated breath. Linta came back pres.
entity. He thought he had been TOLD
to bet on the nag to win and the nag
had lost and he was out $500, not
to mention his friends, and it Ger.
tainly was rought going.
"You tnick-headed, thieVing, low
down ignorant squine," shouted
Burke. 81 told you to bet on the
horse for place"
Don't talk to me that way, you
dog" shouted Linton. "I won't take
it from you or any man"
They clinched and went down In q
cloud of dust. Wharton hoped
around on the outside and begged
them not to forget they were gentle.
men. Finally Linton remembered
and getting up went away with the
peacemaker. The Canadian was very
sore on Burke and said he would
make good Wharton's losses, giving
him note for the $4,000 and then
disappearing with a promise to re-
turn and cash it the next day. The
West Indian waited two days, then
began to read the papers and hustled
to headquarters.
Lieut.. Flannelly and some men
from the East 22nd street station
have been working on the job since
Monday night they arrested four
men, though they won't say where
they got the prisoners, except that it
was near the alleged poolroom. There
they found a suitcase with the usual
wireless wire wiretappers' outfit of
Morse keys and newspapers done up
like bundles of money. The prisoners
| are:
John H. Brady, 33. bartender in
the Leland Hotel, Manitoba. The
police say he is known to them as
William Mcsherry and Franklin Hud;
son, that his picture is in various
rogues' galleries and that he has
served several terms in prison for
green goods operations. He is sup
posed to have taken the part Of
| Burke.
Charles Carbell. 43, Of 147 West
/ 9Th street, who the police say was
in Sing Sing for three years and who
used to work with Larry Summer
field. He had S1,S70 in cash in his
pockets.
James T. Burton, Of 112 West
125th street. 60 years old. and known
to the police as John J. Fitzgerald.
He also has been in prison there and
other places, the police say. He is
supposed to have been Mr.. Sullivan.
the bookmaker in the plot.