Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-08

disgrace It VIII bring mis- mother. He
says, She thinks I'm an angel
The woman's coming in In a few
days and we three are going to fix 1t
up. She must get her money. The boy
is to repay her and I'm TO advance him
the money. The kid sees he's in wrong
and he says he'll go straight from now
And IL he Will 60 straight he ought to
have the chance"
Cadle grew 70 manhood on his parents
farm at Fredericksburg, Ind. about mid
Way between indianapolis and Louis
Vile. He was appointed a deputy IN
the of ec Of the State fish and game
commissioner when J. Frank Hanly was
Governor OF Indiana.
II later became a travelling salesman"
said Cadle, but somehow with the lure
Of poker and the grip Of the craps games.
legitimate business became dull-to0 dull
Gambling was easier and had more
thrills. And suckers We're numerous.
Why not make IA business of gambling?
OF established sior machines I'm cities
In southern Indiana and IN bordering
parts OF Kentucky and Illinofs-mnchiaes
liked to return big and certain winnings.
They called me the Slot machine king
Around French Lick and West Baden my
slot machines lured visitors who courted
the chance for easy money. They never
got II from my machines. or course they
won sometimes, but n they kept az H.
the percentage was so much against them
that they played it all back into the ma
chine
Profits were enormous. wanted a
little gambling class and established
games at Louisville and indianapolis. No
limit tn either Whatever n man wanted
he could get. / have thrown craps for
thousand and more. and won as much
betting I could come on four.
The sucker at one game may be the
wise boy at another. In the toyns Of
French Lick and West Baden. l used 10
watch wise professional gamblers. sup
posedly schooled In all the ways Of the
crooked business trying 90 beat my slot
notwithstanding TO win tho big prize
when the machines were liked against
them
"The crooked gambler IS tho one easiest
skinned at the other fellows game.
bought q pair OF crooked dice from n
man one time and he told me that the
dice would work but that Id have TO
practice with them. He sent man
around 10 trim me--and he did trim me.
The dice were crooked. but they wouldn't
do the thing I was betting they would
do"
Cadle in the hey-day Of his sporting
prosperity operated the wine room over
,.i- aai81 saloon. \ here he as a derclict
of the sporting world. later served rs
porter His wilcroom was the rendezvous
for the painted lady and her paramour,
for the woman forgetting her duty to her
husband and her family, for the young
woman making her first misstep, and
the young man taking his first fling.
Wine, women and song destroys sail
Cadle. but for me. II was the booze and
the women. win me. as what the Scotch
man Harry Lauder tells about 1t was q
Pift'-the drinking The brain became
dulled and the business went. The gam
bling cunning was lost-the cunning to
deal a card or roll the dice.
1T was the old story. The ship was
wrecked and there was naught for me.
but the job as porter, salary IS a week
and drinks. And then the word from the
physician that six months would be about
all for mt.
81 went home to die-home to mother
and father. with my wife and two chill
dren. Certainly It was an ignoble re-
turn. But the parental welcome, The
prodigaI son is always welcome. Mother
had prayed for me all those years, as
mothers are eternally praying for erring
soma!
Though your sins he as scarlet she
said to me. and followed her quotation
with He that can take away your sins
can heal you. Put your trust in Him
"As | wept in mothers apron that
day, I saw the light and vowed that
whatever / would do from that time, If
the Lord would let me live, would be in
His name"
After some months on the farm, Cables
health returned sufficiently 70 permit him
to go back to indianapolis to make his
living. He went first to the winerooms,
and the gambling houses and the saloons
met his friends and told them of his
resolution for the new deal
Every one of these fellows grasped my
hand and told me they were glad for