The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-11
1t Tells How Restaurant Proprietor
Entertains Some Fellow Greeks
and is Taken Into Their
Syndicate.
DAYTON AND TORONTO
All These Cities are the Scene of Diff.
ferent Chapters in the Story, and
the Epilogue Is at
Clinton.

Three Greeks met one Greek and
then came the change in the owner
ship of a prominent Keokuk restau-
rant.
The details include the old race
horse in the brush swindle and a
bank cashier behind the cash regis
ter in a cafe for awhile, according
| to the story told here, while the for
mer restaurant man waited in Day
! ton, Ohio, for the other Greeks to
come there from Toronto to divide
big profits with him.
| Nick Syngle graduated from the
bright lights of Broadway and the
.smart restaurants of Fifth avenue,
where he became skilled waiter, to
the position Of the owner of some
restaurants hereabouts, the chief one
being in Keokuk. He was successful
and made money.
He came to New York from Greece,
where the men have their. eye teeth
cut at an early age.
They Were Not Pikers.
| One day recently, the story goes,
a couple of other Greeks called on
Syngle here and engaged in plea
SAINT conversation during which they
displayed $4,000 in bills and spoke
of how easy it is to make that much
money if one knows how and makes
the right connections.
Since they were all fellow country
men, they finally agreed to take
'Syngel into their syndicate, if he
could duplicate their $4,000. Thu
scheme was the old horse race game,
with inside information, horses that
go lame in the home stretch, or what
ever other details seem best suited
to the particular matter of separat
ing victim from his money.
The story relates that Syngel had
$4,000 in a certain bank which he
checked out, to make the major part
of the amount required for the OPP
portunity offered him.
In Canada and Ohio.
He went out Of town to borrow
$4,000 more to make the total of
$4,000 required from another bank
The scene Of the story then is
moved to Toronto, Canada, where
there is a race track and pool
rooms and other appurtenances of
the game. 1t shows Syngle and the
Greeks there, the other Greeks being
augmented to three by that time.
The race was run with the $4,000
of Keokuk money on it. Then the
scene of the story shifts again to
Dayton Ohio, and the scenario shows
the Keokuk restaurant man waiting
there in a hotel for four or five days
patiently for the arrival of his part
ners who had told him to go to Day
ton and stay until they brought his
share of the large profits.
A Change Of Fortune.
The next scene Of this motion pic
ture drama shows the cashier of the
out of town bank in charge of the
cash register of the restaurant, the
bank having taken possession OF it
under the security given for the
$4,000 loan It made the proprietor.
Then the restaurant quickly
changes management, changes its
name, changes its entire organiza-
ton. and with new owners flourishes
as before.
But Syngel departs sadder man
and with less confidence in fellow
Greeks and race track results manip-
.ulation.
His detectives found one Of the
trio of Greeks at Clinton the other
day, but that one could not disclose
the whereabouts of any Of the $10,-
400 and he was not arrested.