The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-17

ter c. Adams had declared him
self a bankrupt directs attention
to the curse that is commonly be-
lteved 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 G. Adams Is son Of Al j.
Adams, the policy king" who, start
ing MS earning life as a brakeman on
railway train, ended with a fortune
OF $2,000.000, extorted from the poor
and credulous in policy shop.
Adams, after serving a term in Sing
Sing for sWindling, said angrily to a
friend, who wished to effect a recon
Citation with his alienated family:
Don't talk to me about them.
hate them ali. They waste my money.
They'll never have any luck!"
The man whose heart was flied
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, it's 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 a
hot April sun, or a soap bubble van
ishes when blown by an impatient
child. He has gambled away a gamb-
,er'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
abroad, intending TO go upon the
stage, and a score of INSCRIPTIONS
managers 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-
titution which followed, said, None
but bad luck follows gambling"
Pat Sheedy, gambler of internation-
al notoriety, and friend Of the late
big Tim" Sullivan, of tragic fate,
said while the gambler lay on his
death bed: mo boy ought ever take
any but the straight road. Nothing
but bad luck waits for him IN the
other" Pat Sheedy died poor Her
man Rosenthal left his widow in act
uai need The dissipating of the
Adams millions is but another proof
of the truth that is in common saws.
Trace the inescapable truth In the his
tory of Al Adams and his family.
Cursed His Partner.
Wnlie Al ADAMS was q brakemen on
q freight train Of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad. dissat-
fsfied with his lot and seeking even
then what he called easy money" he
met Zachariah Simmons. Simmons.
watching the gigantic system of theft
of Boss" Tweed, conceived the idea
that another means of building I'D g.
fortune could be devised by wiring
ing the pennies from the roor and
ignorant. Simmons established 4 pol
Icy business, and. recognizing In
Adams soul as INSCRIPTIONS as HIS
own, took the brakeman into his pol
icy shop. Adams was from the first
blind to the misery his penny viIlainy
wrought in wretched homes. He only
knew that .hese small. trickline
streams formed a river OF gold that
emPtied into his pockets. Taught
well by his instructor, he soon pushed
Simmons out Simmons left cursinp
Adams:
Make the money" he said as he
slammed the door until the copper
pennies on his former partners table
ratified. and may 1t choke you." 1t
did. In way, for as Adams fortune
What the poatoSfce Doe.