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 pay $20000, he took a first train home, drew the money, and took the next t-ain for Hot Springs.
 Again with his new friends he LOOK off the wooden limb. hrougat out the crisp bills, the money was all right alld they l;ied to the club roof.s to convince the club management. and to take down the first installment of their winnings, the $26.000 to their credit
 There the game slipped Tlcre, at the threshold of the grasp of the easy money" it slipped away. With hut few minutes in which to walt for the money to be given him, and a due b.'l for the $26,000 in his hand, they gathered around the takIe for the has'ness transaction. r. was ex- plained tt' Fox that business was busi- ness He was to pay in the $20,0O0 he hal. to prove his credit was good for $l0,GO0 at play, and then the club was to pay him the whole back. the S26,000 or earnings, and the $20,00 he had deposited to prove he was good for losses.
 Fox paid over the money. Then the man across the table began to count out the $26,000 for Fox. Tough luck. He had only SIT, 1000 besides the S20,- 900 paids by Fox. lie would have to send to the bank An employee was called, and sent with what appeared to be check. Fox was asked for the S26,000 due bill he held, as business was business, so it could be matf a due Dill for $46,000, to be held in his hand eatil the employee returneu vita the money from the bank
 One of FoX's friends picked up the increased due bill. He held it a moment. Then he stepped back in careless manner. They were all wait ing a few minutes. Fox was seated so his back was to the roulette wheel. There was a scream of anguish His. friend who had picked up the due bill came running to aim. He tore his hair, and tears coursed down his cheeks. He had bet the s46, ,000 due bill on the wheel-and lost.
 The Indiana Club denounces the whole story as false and declares that no such thing ever took place within their club, and that 1t would not have been permitted there. The man. agement claim that Fox has either been wrongly impressed with where the incident took place, or else no such thing ever happened.
 Fox, 1t is stated, was one of the men who aided in the Kidnapping of MeNamara from Indianapolis, and is a close friend of Burns, the detective of national fame, and it is stated that Burns men are here already at his call and at work on the case.
 The story as told by Mir Fox to Attorney W. IL Martin is one that would have created distinct sensa- ton anywaere except in a community where revelations such as followed the Buckfoot race operators had preceded it, for it was here in Hot Springs that the Buckfoot fake foot race gang re- ceived their hardest blow, when all were arrested, the leader was slain in the county jail by fellow prisoner, and the operators driven to the four winds. Singularly enough it was w.. H Martin, now counsel for Fox, who was district attorney when the Buck foot gang operated here, and whose prosecutions brought that gang to Il finish in this section.
 Fox stated that he was a resident of Terre Haute and Indianapolis. His former residence was Terre Haute, but ne is now building a S40,000 home in Indianapolis, and gives that as his home. Some time ago ne fell in with some new friends who were particular ly genial. Besides they were clever. And through them he learned that at the Indiana Club in this city there was crooked roulette wheel, one inter- woven with small electric wires, for the purpose of cheating the players. The names of the friends play little part here, for they were fictitious. Through these friends he gathered. the information that there was a com bination of numbers on the roulette wheel which the house player" could follow and evidence large winnings. He also was advised that the money behind this club was of such large sum that great fortune could be won there, if player could win, with out disturbing the game. In brief, the bank roll" was unlimited.
 Then came the real reyealment. Through his friends he was later in- | formed that the crooked complex ar rangement of the roulette wheel had been solved In other words the friends had the key" and knew what numbers could be played with safety to win. This startling information was shrouded with secrecy. The op- portunity of great fortune was before l them all.
 Then came the time for play. Fox was ushered into the game. It had been explained to him that as they ] were going after big game, they would i have to appear as heavy players. IL would take a whole lot Of money FOX was wealthy, aad when he showed ln- dications of his wealth he would be permitted to play large sums. So Fox