Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 4, 1920, Page 2

{ { | | » PAGE TWO HAD SURE THING AT STUD POKER Wealthy New Yorker Said to Have Cleaned Up an im- mense Sum. PLAYED WITH MARKED CARDS Victims Finally “Got Wise,” and Evened Things Up Slightly by Ad- ministering a Beating After Ex- posing His Game., New York.—A group of screen.mag- nates |nd/ music publishers along Broadway has been fleeced out of $850,000 by a wealthy manufacturer with a deck of marked cards, whom they admitted to their private games. He was finally detected and thrown oeut of the house of the man who caught him. The World prints the story, calling the fleecer Mr. Trimmer and the other man Mr. Screen. It as- _serts it has their real names. For a considerable time a group ef twelve or fourteen men, all of ample weans, have been playing stud poker. The Wealthy Victims. There were Mr. Screen, & big picture promoter and the husband of one of the prettiest and most talented stars; Mr. Flickers, of equal rapk in cellu- loid productions; Mr. Circuit, who ewns a flock of theaters; Mr. Ragg, who receives immense royalties from Ris song comnpositions, and others quite a8 well known in their respective felds. Last summer, at Far Rockaway and Arverne, their ranks were augmented by Mr. Trimmer. He is a manufac- turer on an immense scale of a certain article of women'’s wear, and is gen- erally known as a millionaire. They Thought jt Was Luck. Mr. Trimmer’s “uncanny luck,” as the other players called it, was notice- able from the very start. In one ses- slon, for Instance, which began on a Saturday night and continued into Sunday, he cleaned up more than $40,- 900. The daring of Mr. Trimmer's play was what interested the others more than anything else. He would make bets against seemingly impossible edds—and win them. Mr. Trimmer always knew what the ether fellow's secret card was, when he was the dealer, and he always won. Also he always knew, when he held the deck, what card his opponent would get next, and what card he (Trimmer) was going to get next, for his cards were what is known to gamn- blers as “readers.” A Transparent Mystery. The design on the back of them— " which meant nothing to others—told him exactly what denomination eacl pasteboard was. At last, suspicion intruded, and one of the other men at a party which Trimmer had arranged pocketed a deck of Trimmer's cards and took them to a professiongl gambler for ex- amination. “They're readers,” sald the profes- sional. At the corner of each card, on the back, was a design composed of four fleur-de-lis—the three leafed flower of France. If the right hand petal of the flower at the upper right hand of the group was heavily shaded the card was an ace. If the center petal of that par- ticular flower was accentuated, it was & king; if the shading was on the left hand petal it was a queen, Even Deuce Is Protected. There were four flowers, each with three petals. The shadings, therefore, stood for 12 different cards, according to where they were placed, these cards ranging down from the ace to the deuce. 1t no petal was shaded the card was the deuce. . ‘An exposure was planned at Screen's house. There were elght players. Trimmer, on a few hands off square cards, lost $650. Then he produced a deck of his sort. As soon as Screen saw the marked cards he exposed the cheat to his guests and proceeded to beat Trimmer up, winding up by throwing him out of the house. PATCHED 28,228 PAIRS PANTS “Aunt” Sarah Jennings, Aged 65, Says She Will Never Sew An- other Patch. Sunbury, Pa.—“Aunt” -Sarah Jen- nings, aged 65, who patched 28,228 pairs of trousers since she went to work as a seamstress at the Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows’ orphanage ‘mear here sixteen years ago, has re- tired and will live at Meshoppen, Pa. She says she will never sew another patch. “Aunt Sarah” is believed to be the champion trousers mender in the state, and she asserts that no other woman ever “half-soled s0 many pants.” When she went to work among the 200 orphans there she started to keep a record. She has also mended 27,500 pairs of stockings, made 2410 boys’ blouses, 1,206 nightshirts, sewed on 80,000 buttons and made 4,810 pairs of garters. . 1 Refused to Speak. Leavenworth, Kan.— A Russian, who has not spokeu a word since he entered the federal prison here April 4, 1919, has been released. He is Kasteriis E. Kubilious, who was con- ‘victed at Eau Claire, Wis., under the esplonage act. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER | . ; COUNT FIFTY! NO « . . Missing New Yorker Found in Qveralls at Avalon —_— AN FRANCISCO.—Clad in overalls, Jordan Lawrence Mott III, is said to have been discovered at Avalon, Catalina island. with Mrs, Frances Hewitt Bowne, with whom he eloped from New York in’1912. Before his elgpement the grandson of the founder of the Mott Iron” works, New York, occupied nearly a whole floor of the Ritz-Carl- ton hotel, He was attended by a valet and a squad of chauffeurs, and lesser functionaries. Since his elope- ment with the beautiful wife of Wal- ter Bowne, a wealthy resident of Flushing, L. 1. Mott is sald to have received $947508 from his father's es- tate. Nevertheless he is making a liv- ing as a boatman for tuna fishermen. Ifor his boat he gets $20 a day. Mott married Miss Carolyn W. Pitkin, South Braintree, Mass., by whom he had a son. When he met Mrs. Bowne he forgot his family ties. In May, 1012, he and Mrs. Bowne fled for Gibraltar in a British freighter, Mott signed as purser on the boat, the Indradent, and Mrs. Bowne as stewardess. The young man’s father, then living, was furious. He gave his son’s closest friend, Hector Fuller, a letter of credit for $10,000, with instructions te follow the pair to the ends of the earth. Luck was not with Fuller. He was delayed in Paris and arrived at Gibraltar after the lumbering freighter had left. A chase to Hongkong was fruitless. When found Mott flatly re- fased te return home. Mrs. Bowne's husband s said te have divorced her at Trenton, N. J., in September, 1913, while she was in Japan. After Mott appeared in New York at the settlement of his father’'s estate all trace of him was lost. ‘When he was found at Catalina island he is reported to have said he had reformed and was devoting his spare time to writing. ANNOUNCEMENT. Miss Nellie Hinkiey will held a spring opening Thursday and Friday afternoon of this week from 2:00 to 5:00, at her dressmaking parlor, 701 America ave.,, at which time there will be a display of samples of the very latest in fabrics for the spring and summer frocks. The ladies of Bemidji are especially invited to call at this time and inspect the line. 1d4 NOTICE OF HEARING. State of Minnesota, State Secur- ities Commission. In the matter of the application of J. C. Hallum, A. M. Sundheim, et al., for certificate authorizing Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Pu- posky, to transact business in that name at Puposky, Minn. ‘Whereas, an- application has been made, pursuant to Chapter 86, G. L. Minn. 1919, for a certificate author- izing the persons above named to op- erate a State Bank at the place and in the name above mentioned. Now, therefore, pursuant to the statute in such case made and pro- vided, notice is hereby given that a hearing on said application will be held before the State Securities Com- February 17, 1920. During the past |Mission on February 23rd, 1920, at year I assessed the personal property | 9:30 o’clock a. m., at the offices of in thé city, and endeavored to do so|the commission, State Capitol, St. impartially and without prejudice.|Paul, Minnesota, at which time and This year real estate is to be assessed |Place the commission will consider and the experience I have gained|the application and hear the appli-* during the past year would prove cants and such witnesses-as may ap- valuable in the work to be done the pear in favor of or against the grant- coming year. The same care taken ing of the application of said with the personal assessment would | proposed bank. be shown the coming year. I trust| Objections to the granting of the that my work has merited your con-! application shall be in writing and tinued support and that I may re-|shall be signed by the objectors and ceive it. shall specify the grounds on which 15d2.16 the objections are based and be filed with the commission prior to the time of the hearing. A copy thereof shall I be served on one of the applicants jat least three days prior to the date of the hearing. Dated January 29th, 1920. STATE SECURITES COMMISSION, By Chas. J. Andre, Executive Officer. 2d23-24 A. Brose TOBACCONIST 400 Minnesota Avenue Keeps the best stock of Tobacco in the Northwest, also Pipes. We do Pipe Re- POLITICAL ADVERTISING. (Inserted by W. C. Klein, in his own behalf. To ve pald for at the rate of 10 cents per line.) To the Voters: Having filed as a candidate for re- election as City Assessor, I take this means .of asking the support of the voters at the election to be held WM. C. KLEIN. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT. (Ingerted by L. F. Johnson in his own behalf and to be paid at the rate of ten cents per line.) (Commission Seal) pairing. Announcement. 5 I hereby announce myself a candi- date for re-election for the office of Mayor of Bemidji. I understand that it has been reported that 1 had withdrawn, but I wish to assure the voters of this city that I am out to win and will stay in the race to the finish. Your support at the polls is earn- estly solicited, and I feel certain that the citizens of this city will be satis- fied with my administration the com- ing year, should I be elected. 124 2-16 L. F. Johnson, Mayor. PINIONS agree that the record of this es- tablishment is one of service perform- ed. Those whom we have served will tell you that we fulfill our obliga- tions and that we are thoroughly trustworthy. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT. (Inserted by T. J. Welsh in his own behalf. To be paid for at the rate of 10 cents a line.) 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See, taste, smell, feel the “real tobacconess” in Velvet Why, you can almost hear it. Velvet's the tobacco you can judge with your eyes wide open and specs on. There’s a whole lot in Nature’s way of making good tobacco better. And it’s all in Velvet. Here's to a full pipe and a friendly one. Loprntguus il —the friendly tobacco e g WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1920 ( DAILY PIONEER |