The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14
HUNT FOR GAMBLERS
= ABOARD VATERLAND
Uoboken Detectives Are Called
Down the lay by Wireless
Alarm for Sharpcrs.
THEN LOSERS COOL DOWN
Biggest ship Completes Second
VOYAGE West With Card Game.
tffording Excitement.

tn. new Vat,rland biggest steamship
In line void which got in last night on
her second westward trip. brought story
a. Hrd game which started reports
oy.r tr, ship that there were cardshsrps
aboard caused one fist fight in the cor
rd.r OIL the T. d elk and brought two
Hobo'l,u detectives down the bay IN re-
spon.y @, wireless calls.
Til, 20. ub q started early Friday morn
lng. There was a party OF sew n or eight
me- ~ she card room. Just below the
smoking room. all playing a game called
IRo.ky Mountain BAL Money changed
minds naf Ia just what extent there was
A variance in the stori.s =, some OF the
nlrr3tgrs putting the amour. at $1,000
ana t'.r. Ht very much less.
som. body among the losers announced
ths hc thought the game was no; on tie
sQuar and tina the corners OF certain
lmpo FAINT cards show "a Signs OF having
len turned down. The game broke up In
A ruW and wen tn payers l.tt the
room on, ut those who had suggests ina.
The gam vas crooked mt one OF tIe
wine ~ he stepped out Of ths elevator
on th. T. deck. Accord. ng t. the wit
ness. b. kno- krd the slcc sssful player
down af,er repeating his clarg =. Stew
il was reported to Capt. Ruslr.
Bright iui eur,y yesterday five men
Who ,a they had lost In the game got
tos, ,nrr aud wrote "A letter to Capt.
Rus,r telling him that In their opinion
they had bsen made the victims OF card
sharYs an his boat. The matter was
turned over TO Stan Capt. Won Miibon
who tt the relu, - OF the complain m.
IN; d wireless ~. sSige to the Hoboken
dot nA.at "a =
Vatcr.aud ut quarantine. Meanwhile
warning gus We're posed.
Detectives Weinthal ana Garrick went
down the bay and boarded the Nater'and.
The compliments ana three men whom
,hey accused were invited to the chill
drens nursery as n convenient place TO
talk matters over and the Diet ctives ques-
tlona- both sides.
One ~ the men complaining said that
he mad lost $3.50 In the game. 4 second
,sd be- los; $3.50. but that he hadn't
paid It because he thought the game was
Gro, ked The detectives heard that there
were further losses, but these we're the
only ones they ran to earth. The three
men accused said they were business nj n,
two of them i'm mercantile lines and n
third In the real estate business. They
denied that they were card sharps or pro-
,essional gamblers, and said they were In
the ime for the fun they could get out
Of II the same as their accusers were.
The detectives doing the quest on'ns
have been meeting Transatlantic ships for
one pu! pose and another Tor u good many
years and neither had ever seen any one
OF the three accused.
The d tectives finally told the losers
that they would take the three IN n to
.he station house II the losers would make
a complaint sgains them. This the losers
refus d 20 do. The d tectiv then said
they could do nothing and dropped the
mater.
n, affair was brought TO the attention
also ~ he immigration officials and they
looked M the three m n accused ana
found al thre were American citizens
ard that there was nothing for them
10 do Tho man who had been knocked
down had no complaint to make against
N. man who had punched him.