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A GAMBLER'S LEGACY. A Life Story That is Well Worth Reading. When a man dies unexpectedly his affairs crystalize into a rigid pattern traced by old letters, keys in pockets of clothing left hanging over a chair; by half-emptied bottles on the 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 hands and jackpots running 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 tne letters and papers, destroy traces of little indiscretions. It was too late to gather up the loose ends. He left?a gambler's 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 day, pausing only to take sand" ' wiches, coffee and whiskey from a Japanese servant's tray. At 8 o'clock Tuesday night, after 30 hours of continuous play, he counted his money, pushed back his chair, hade the other men around the table good night and went out. He walked across the street to a hotel, where he lived, got his key at the desk, went to his room on the third floor, un-" dressed and "went to bed. rnree nours later he was dead of heart disease. What does a professional gambler leave behind hitn when he dies? f 'r 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 deposit box in his hotel. Bank books showed he had $9,500 on deposit at a downtown bank. There was a 1 1-2 carat diamond ring, worth about $1,000 on the dead man's finger. ' A man who had known the gambler in Omaha, told the administra tor 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 that the gambler bad made a trip to Omaha early in tbe fall, emptying his deposit box there and returning with the curren* cy to Kansas City. Like all big gamblers he liked to handle money, and be preferred to keep his "bank roll" where he could have ready access to it, instead of investing it or deposit lug it in a bank. So he rented a safe deposit box. When the public administrator opened the box at the bank the day v after the gambler died there was no currency or paper of value. The administrator learned that a man said to be the gambler's partner had visited the box earlier in the day, but the , partner insisted he took out only a few papers, concerning the partnership that belonged to him. Where is the $60,000 which the gambler brought from Omaha? The mystery of its disappearance is one '? of the interesting tMngs he left behind him. There are three claimants to the 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 aginst the estate and it is prob able 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 personal effects of the dead man. In a bureau drawer he found more than fifty envelopes containg weekly bills for room rent from a large hotel. Receipt stamps on them showed that almost all had been paid on the date rendered. He was punctual, methodi. l Uctl. There were letters, correspondence with business associates in Denver and Omaha, postcards from a woman who was spending a vaca..?n 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 (Continued on page 3, column 1.) 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As county chairman I desire to cal the attention of the Democratic voters of Bamberg county to the rules of the party, requiring reorganization of the Democratic clubs and election of delegates to the county convention. Pursuant to the rules of the party all clubs are requested to meet on the fourth Saturday of April (April 24th) at 4 p. m., at their regular meeting - place, for reorganization, at which time, in accordance with the rules, the following named Qfficers should be elected: A president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and treasurer, a registration committee, an executive committee, and such other committees as the club may desire, each committee to consist of not less tnan tnree meniDers, ana aiso a member of the county executive committee; and at the same time the club is required to elect delegates to the county convention, electing one delegate for every twenty-five members and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, based upon the number of votes polled in the first primary of the preceding election year. The number of delegates for new clubs will be based upon their enrollment at the time of the club meeting. In accordance with the rules of the party, the county convention is called to meet, at the court house, Bamberg. S. C., on the first Monday in May (May the 3rd) at 11 o'clock a. m. Petitions having been filed with the county executive committee by memI bers of the party to establish a club to be known as "Little Swamp Democratic Club," with its voting place at Little Swamp School House; and another to establish a club to be known as "Embree Democratic Club," with its voting, place at Embree, the members of the party in reach of these respective places are requested to meet at the time stated, at these respective places and organize a club, electing the several officers and committees required by the rules of the party, above set forth, and also a member of the county executive committee, and also elect the number of delegates to the county convention required by the rules, as above set forth. 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