The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, April 22, 1920, Image 3
A GAMBLERS LEGACY.
^|A Life Story Well Worth Reading.
When a man dies unexpectedly his
affairs crystalize into a rigid pattern
traced by old letters, keys in his pockets;
of clothing left hanging over a
chair; by half- emptied bottles on
^nhe dresser; by telephone numbers
jotted down on the back of a soiled
envelope; by pictures and trinkets
in the till of a trunk.
So it was with the gambler in the
accompanying story. When he went
to bed that night?with a thousand
poker plcyig?the next morning it
ran through his tired brain ? he
probably expected to sleep ten or
twelve hours and in the morning renew
his active life. But he died of
heart disease brought on by 30 continuous
hours of poker playing. The
next morning it was too late to sort
out the letters and papers, destroy
traces of little indiscretions. It was
too late to gather up the loose ends.
He left?a gamblers legacy.
On the afternoon of Monday, November
24, last year, a professional
gambler of Kansas City sat down at
a poker table and broke the seal of a
new deck of cards. He played all
* that afternoon and night and all the
next dayf pausing only to take sandwiohes,
coffee, and whiskey from a
Japcnese servant's tray.
At 8 o'clock Tuesday night, after
^ 30 hours continuous play, he count- J
% ed his money, pushed t>*c* nis cmur,
hade the other men around the table
good night and went cut. He walked j
aeross the street to a hotel, where he
Hired, got his key at the desk, went
to his room on the third floor, undressed
and went to bed. Three hours
later he was dead of heart disease.
What does a professional gambler
leave behind him when he dies?
Floyd Jacobs, county administrator,
who took charge of the gambler's
property the morning after he died,
found the gambler had $1,800 in
cash and $1,800 in liberty bonds in a
safety jleposity box in his hotel. Bank
books showed he had $9,500 on deposit
at a down town bank. There
was a 1 1-2 caret diamond ring, worth
about $1,000 on the dead mah's finm
ger.
A man who had known the gambler
in Qmaha told the administrator
the gambler had a large amount of
money ?estimated at $60,000 ? in
currency in a safe deposit box in
an Omaha bank several months ago.
Investigation revealed the gambler
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had made a trip to uinamt Ail IUC |
fall, returning with the currency to
Kansas City. Like all big gamblers he
lilted to handle money, and he preferred
to keep his "bank roll" where
he could have reedy access to it, instead
of investing it or depositing it
in a bank. So he rented a safe de?
posit box.
When the public administrator
aB opened that box at a bank that day
after the gambler died there was no
r currency or papers of value. The adit
minlstrator learned that % man sale
V be the gambler's partner had visY
ited the box early in the day, but the
p partner insisted he . topjt pijt only a,
few papers," cbncernlrig the partner,
ship that belepsed. t*. him. u
e Where is the $60,000 which the
gambler brought from Omaha? The
mystery of its disappearance is one
of the interning things he left behind
him.
There are three claimants to tbe
estate; the relatives of the man's
dead wife, who live in Denver; a
Kansas City woman who says she was
his common law wife, and the partner,
who seeks a half-share on the
basis of business partnership. If the
gambler had made a will it is probable
he would have left his property to
none of them, but to a fourth- person
?a manicure girl in a downtown hotel.
As yet she has brought no claim
against the estate and it is probable
she never will bring one. The gambler
had said they would be married
in December. That was one of the
tragedies he left behind.
What else did he leave?
When the coroner had finished his
work in the gambler's bedroom the
morning after he died, the administrator
began his examination of per^
sonel effects of the dead man. In a
bureau drawer he found more than
1m fifty envelopes containing weekly
^ bills for room rent from a large hotel.
Receipt stamps onHhem showed that
almost all of them had been paid on
the date rendered. He was punctual,
methodical.
There were letters, correspondence
with business associates in Denver
and Omaha, postcards from a woman
who was spending a vacation on a
farm. One letter was from a lieutenant
in the army stationed at Camp
Taylor, near Louisville, Ky.( telling
of a big stud poker game in which
two young millionaires from the east
were "easy picking.''
The lieutenant told how easy it
would be to trim the millionaires with
marked cards, and asked the gambler
to be ready to take the train for
Louisville when things were "ripe."
"It would be a shame to let money
like this get away," the lieutenant
wrote. "You could win $1,000 at a
sitting. A chance like that doesn't
come often." He inclosed a code for
use in exchanging telegrams.
In the gambler's trunks the ad^
ministrator found more striking evih
dence of his life, as well as an explap
nation of how he managed to accu*
mulate $60,000 in currency. Attached
to an old vest was a complicated
pok^r "hold-out," a device for slipping
cards up the sleeve and conceal^
ing them for use in an emergency.
The holdout was equipped with delicate
springs and adjustments. A
slight movement of the knee would
bring the extra cards instantly into
play.
There were twenty-five or thirty
decks of marked cards, a machine like
a tobacco cutter with a razor edge
lor trimming tne edges ui ecu us.
There was a eatalouge from a firm in
San Francisco listing more than seventy
five crooked gambling devices?
from a tiny thumbband prick used tc
scratch a rough spot on aces, listed
at 50 cents, to a combination poker
and dice table with electric wiring
'and holdout attachments, which sold
|for $350.
In the game which the partners
ran in the upper floors of a small hotel
here, the sky was the limit. Their
"customers" were farmers and stockmen
aQd oil men from Kansas, Oklahoma
or Texas. Whatever elements
of mystery surround the gambler's
death, there is no mystery in the way
he built his fortune.
In one of his trunks was an inter
esting collection of books, 'mere was
an old family Bible inscribe^ on the
fly-leaf: "To Dear Mother, Christmas
1898." Here are some of the books
which he had possessed:
A little Book of Old Time Verses.
Science and Health, with a key to
the Scriptures.
Illustrated South America.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Collected verse of Rudyard Kipling.
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! Thanatopsis.
In a small pasteboard box was a
collection of newspaper clippings,
mostly poems. They were bappy-go
lucky little poems, full of the bubble
philosophy of life. Here is one exI
tract: m
Oh, I worry over this thing and I
worry over that,
But I notice when the atmosphere
is cleared.
That the bad luck I had looked for
didn't come and knock me
flat;
And I didn't have the trouble that
I feared.
This is another:
A little bit of life, a little bit of love,
A little bit of happiness ana money;
just to shove
Up the hill and over to make our
journey sweet?
And yet we do not ask too much, we
say to all we meet;
Not much, not much, only all there is
Of richness and of beauty in a world
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I the better. That was six years afS
| and I am still here and am a w?H
strong woman, and I owe my life td
CarduL I had only taken half the
bottle when I began to feel better.
The misery In my side got less... 1
continued right oc taking the Cardul
until I had taken three bottles and I
did not need any more for I was well
and nerer felt better In my life... I
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-Xorta, each mouth? - Or 'do yen fail
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I Perhaps the gambler had clipped
them out himself; but it seems more i
likely that his wife clipped them and
sent them to him in her letters, for ,
some of them are underscored and in
terlined with remarks. At any rate .
he saved them, and there they were .
when the public administrator and
his assistant searched through his
trunks.
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The gambler's money probably will
be divided between the claimants who
are scrambling for it in the courts,
but his real legacy is found in the object
lesson which he left behind him.
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