Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-30


self bankrupt directs attention
to the curse that Is commonly be
lieved to Turk in gamblers gold The
money that is earned by gambling
never Sticks" according to a com.
mon adage, and by another we are
Informed that what comes easily goes
In the same way.
Walter C. Adams is son of AL J.
Adams. the policy king" who, start
Ing his earning life as brakeman on
a railway train, ended with a fortune
of 100000, extorted from the poor
and credulous in a policy shop.
Adams. after serving a term in Sing
Sing for swindling, said angrily to a
friend. who wished to effect a recon
ciliation with his alienated family;
Don't talk to me about them.
hate them all. They waste my money
They'll never have any luck!"
The man whose heart was filed
with hatred for his own, and who
cared nothing for the poor families
whom he had made poorer and more
wretched, died by his own hand less
than seven years ago. Under the
curse that turks in gamblers gold and
the family curse he uttered the mil
lions he accumulated by fraud are
melting away much faster than gamb-
lers' gold usually vanishes. For, be-
sides having the rate of vanishing of
gamblers gold, dishonesty won and
accumulated at the expense of misery
in wretched homes. its speed in dis
appearing is doubled by the. curse of
AL Adams himself laid upon whatever
his family handled.
Sons Share of Millions Gone.
After seven years, Walter Adams
share of the millions has gone as
late winter SNOWFALL melts under
hot April sun, or a soap bubble van
fshes when blown by an impatient
child. He has gambled away a gamb-
ler's gains.
The share that came to his daugh-
tiers has gone by way of their several
husbands, for each has had two and
one has been twice divorced the 9TH
er was divorced and separated from
her husband. What remains to one
of them will soon be dissipated in the
great white way. for she has gone
intending to go upon the
stage, and a score of INSCRIPTIONS
will star "Al Adams daugh-
ter" as long as rag of her fathers
money remains.
Mrs. Lillian Rosenthal, mourning
over the murder of Herman Rosen-
thai and grieving as much at her des-
Tuition which followed, said, None
but bad luck follows gambling"
Pat Sheedy, gambler of internation-
II notoriety. and friend of the late
big Tim" Sullivan, Of tragic fate,
said while the gambler lay on his
ieath bed: mo boy ought ever take
my but the straight road. Nothing
out bad luck waits for him in the
'ther." Pat Sheedy died poor. Her
nan Rosenthal left his widow In act
lal need The dissipating of the
Adams millions is but another proof
# the truth that is in common saws.
Trace the inescapable truth in the his
DRY of AL Adams and his family.
Cursed His Partner.
While Al Adams was brakemen on
freight train of the New York. New
iaven and Hartford railroad, dissat-
SIZED with his lot and seeking even
hen what he called easy money" he
net Zachariah Simmons. Simmons.
the gigantic system of theft
( BOSS" Tweed, conceived the idea
hat another means of building up a
ortune could be devised by wiring
lg the pennies from the poor and
ynorant.. Simmons established a pol
" business, and, recognizing in
dams soul as INSCRIPTIONS as his '
wn, took the brakeman into his pol {
y shop. Adams was from the first {
ind to the misery his penny vfllainy
rought in wretched homes He only '
new that these small trickling
reams formed river of gold that f
nptied into his pockets. Taught I
ell by his instructor, he soon pushed O
mmons out. Simmons left cursing i
dams:
Make the money" he said as he t
ahmed the door until the copper a
,nnies on his former partners table n
tiled, "and may it choke youi" 1t ii
d, in way. for as Adams fortune b