The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-12
Law TO bare
SECRETS OF
BETTING KING
Arnold RothStein Estate
May Be Millions or
Nothing.
STRANGE TALES AIRED
Gambler Ever Ready to
Take a Chance on Any
Proposition.
STRANGE TALES AIRED
BY MAX BUCKINGHAM

NEW YORK, Nov II. - The law
which never was able to find out
much about Arnold Rothstein may
have its chance, now that he is
dead, for the law will be asked to
settle up the confusion of Roth
STEMS estate.
Arnold was the enigma of the
sporting strata of New York life
and he died just as much an
enigma, his lips tightly compressed
over the secret of who shot him
after that stud poker game in the
Park Central hotel week ago Sum
day night.
While Inspector Coughlin of the
homicide department sought two of
the gamblers for questioning as to
Rothstein's last big game-when he
lost and signed I. o. Us for more
than $300,000-his mother, Mrs.
Essie RothStein, will ask the district
attorneys office to take complete
charge Of the gamblers affairs.
There may be millions. There
may be nothing.
Bet ON Anything
For Arnold Rothstein mace mill
lions and Arnold Rothstein lost mill
lions, because, as the Broadway say
ing went:
"See Arnold, he'll bet on any
thing"
There is one hope that some of
the confusion about the meticulously
dressed. quiet-appearing-yet ex-
tremely colorful-gambler may come
to light.
They say Arnold Rothstein had
many strong boxes.
The district attorney can enter
them if he takes charge of the az
fairs, and maybe some of these
questions will be cleared up:
what happened to $500O,000 in
securities that Nicky Arnstein was
convicted of stealing?
What happened to other securi-
ties that defaulting young men ad-
mitted taking, only to be freed when
Rothstein interviewed?
What was the secret behind the
famous world series of 1919, when
the Chicago White Sox tossed games
to CINCINNATI
What happened in the last world
series the Boston Braves were in,
when Rothstein won 100000?
What is the history of many Of
the big horse races of the last dec
ade when Rothstein plunged and
won?
Many Strange Stories
The tales about Rothstein are
many. He was one of the CLAM
orous characters in this city filled
with glamorous incidents. Up along
where those of the sport
ing fraternity can be found, there
was no real mourning that Roth
stein had died.
"He loved to collect and he hated
to pay-so he died." one man said.
And thus they spoke of him. But
there is no question but what he
was missed, and here a week after
his death the crowd of the upper
town still delighted in spinning
yarns about Rothstein.
They told, for instance, of the
time Ann Nichols was trying to pro-
duce "Abie's Irish Rose" She
get backing. She finally
went to Rothstein He asked how
much she wanted. He was told.
He gave her the cash---for Roth
stein didn't like checks and always
carried a roll" that totaled we'll
into the thousands. They say he
was offered a cut on the profits, but
came back:
I'm a gambler. 1 would rather
loan the money"
Helps Produce Show
They tell of the late Con Conrad.
He had dinner with Rothstein and
hummed over a few lyrics he had
composed for a show.
why don't you get it produced"
the gambler asked.
mo money" was the prompt
reply.
Rothstein told Conrad to draw on
him and he would take a cut in. the
profits. That's the way Keep
Shufflin" came to be.
There was a horse named SidereaI.
It had promise. That's about all
that can be said. A friend kept
Rothstein advised Chart after chart
vas made.
Sidereal was started at long odds
and Rothstein went down, every
thing he had, in bets from Tia
Juana to Montreal.
Sidereal won and Rothstein won
The most money any one man ever
won on one race-$800 1000.
"Your Sidereal wasn't so very bad,
hank you," Rothstein told the
friend who had kept him advised.
That was all.
Another story they like to tell on
concerns return of some
If the securities Nicky Arnstein was
to have stolen. The story
AN not be confirmed, but never haJ
,een denied very emphatically.
Rothstein said he could return
he securities for 100000. Police
aided Arnold.
They found plenty of securities,
,ut not the stolen ones.
Rothstein raised his price for re-
turning the securities just a half
million dollars and the story is that
he securities we're returned and
Arnold was paid $2,500,000.
His estate is said to be $4,000, 900,
,ut the wise boys" say Arnold
wasn't that smart. His real estate
were mortgaged and his
loans and debts were
ertifled only by q nod Of the head.