The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 5

TELLSHOW SUCKER _ FAL NTO TRAPS Frank Thompson Forced to Plead Guilty to Fleecing Man Out of $60,000. AIDES GAVE HIM AWAY. “One Is Born Every Minute 2 Willing to Take a Chance,” He Says. That there is a sucker born every figbt, capturing the sucker, who was not given his liberty until he prom- ised not to make any kick. Fake foot races and other athletic events ‘were pulled off in this style, with great profit to Thompson and Als wang. A wealthy dentist of this city, who ‘was looking for easy money, lost | $4,000 in an endeavor to get $30,000 on | ® crooked transaction, He was picked up in the lobby of one of the d= way hotels by one, of Thom " men. It took two wdeks for the gang to formulate @ plan to get the $4,600. One night the dentist was told that if he would put up his money he would be let in on the ground floor of a big opium smuggling operation. “The stuff is on the Canadian shore Waiting to be carried across the Ni- agara River,” he was told. With three members of the gang the dentist went (o Niagara Fails, He was shown a number of cans, all of which contained the contraband #0 he was told, and arrangements were |made tn his presence with two boat- men to transport it to the American jside. In midstream a power launch filled with uniformed mea, presum- ably Custom House officials, pursued the two boats, and in order not to THE EVENING W KING Of ‘GRIFTERS’ peuedo police in unttorm raided the | rest asd Sepaeeeieen Each can contained nothing but dirt and water and a weight so that they would sink “Big Sam” Giroux, the last mem- ber of the Thompson gang to hold out with a plea of innocence, changed GIRL UNHURT IN LEAP re | FROM FIFTH STORY U-BOATS DELAY LINER, | t No. 624 West ‘ One Twenty-third his plea before Judge Rosalsky in Ste a General’ Sessions to-jay. Bentence|4s She did It to Escape From| germine sabmari will be passed on him Feb, 7. Giroux] — Man Who Was Forcing © in Sea War Zone, who represented himself to be Cor nelius Vanderbilt at | Thompson's “gambling parties,” pleaded guilty to the charge of grand larceny in the first degree. ;|KILLED BY SUBWAY TRAIN. No One Saw Van Gelder Throw Self to Tracks. | A man who, from papers tn his pook- ets, wae Harold Van Gelder of No. 453 East One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Street and employed on a lighter of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, was killed early to-day by a jsouthbound subway train @ few feet north of the Thirty-third Street station platform, No one saw the man, who wan about twenty-clght, throw himaeit to the tracks. . STE Burglars Get $1,000 tn Stamps, (Apeata) to The Braning World.) H dr fr er u of Capt. Cooper, are searching Upp salesman. of No. 163 West One Hun sult of the story told by phy, a sulesgirl, after she had jumped scratch on her face and dishevelled, asked Policeman Hayes of the get a doctor for her after her fall. @inute is an old saying, getting troor each day, according to Frank ‘Thomp- oon, the sure-thing gambler, now In the Tombs awaiting sentence before Judge Rosalsky for fleecing a St. Louls pawnbroker out of more than 960,000 in @ fake faro game. Thompson has lived, according to hie associates, all bis life by his wita, inventing ewindles to help the “grifters” separate the man willing @ chance from his bank . istics on file in the office of Assistant District Attorney James O'Malley show that Thompson ‘and the gang cleaned up nearly half a miliion during the last ten years, ‘Those figures come from members of Thompson's piraticai crew, who like rats di orted the sinking ship and furnished the District Attorney the necessary evidence to force Thomp- on, their leader, to plead gullty. it was not unt!l Thompson read in The Evening World yesterday that old “Doc” Edes, the crooked faro dealer of the gang, had confessed and shown the prosecutor how the] victims were fleeced by the manipu- | lation of the crooked deal box that ‘Thompson capitulated. Thon he was told that the other members of his wang had, to save their bides, fol- lowed in the footsteps of Edes and would, their chief stood trial, tes- tify against him Yes go, Thompson, according to t District Attorney O'Malley a wiretapper, inde- jendent of but working with the G &: brothers, Charles and Frederick. ‘when the Legislature, seven years Ago, put a stop to that game by amending the law so as to overcome the McCord decision of the Court of Appeals that all litigants had to go into court with clean hands, Thomp- gon branched out with a new scheme. In. bis mind he organized the Grand National Club, a sporting organ! tion composed of multi-millionaires, with palatial gambling houses in this city, Saratoga, Atlantic City and Palm Reach. He employed cappers in every city of importance to hunt up wealthy suckers and jure them to this city under the pretense the bank roll of the club fould be obtained by the bribing of, the dealers. In one in- stance, Thompson. according to the rosecutors, sent a special train to ittsburgh to bring on the scion of a wealthy family who had thousands to spend and didn't care how he spent it. It was in this way Thompson's gang fleeced Henry Gallant, the St. Louts paewnbroker. When suckers were few for this game Thompson and his gang worked ther games to get easy money. One the informers has told Mr. O'Mal- Yey how a wealthy resident of this city, of sporting proclivities, lost $15,- 000 on @ fake prize fight pulled off py the gang in a Westchester barn, The wealthy one was induced to put up the money on the pretext that he could bet it at five to one on one of the fighters, arrangements having been made to have the other fighter lay down. Just after the fight began _——— 0 <> 0 <> (0 )<ED- O SRD 0 <DD> (<0 <---> 0-0 (0) Do Tired Eyes Compel You To Lay Aside Your Book after reading a short time? If 20, it means that your cyes need glasses to avoid possible injury caused by eye strain. 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