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Show v--,oiio iiiuCiii iiLUOI S:lt L:!x Gamblers Discuss the Question of What a "Drace" Box Can Acccmplisb. ' - - ' X i. ' -t r . 0 WORK OF THE BRACE BOX EXPLAINED. - - This determination of.tbe carta can be done only by the highest grade . of experts in "brace box work." and those folk pet good money. That. however, is only the preliminary step. , The tlealer must make the cards come out of the box the way he wants, or the house loses. The "brace boxes arc so arranged that by pressing a spring in the side of the box the' Of! slit widens just the width of one card and two cards are slipped Cut to- ' gether. They are laid down as one card. STATEMENT OF AN .EXPERT GAMBLER. - i .(5 ; How can a man lose 1106,000 in five' Besides this) they are marked upon- the rights'" play at faro? edges by a slight groove, so that he can . ' Tb.1 Question 1. just now disturbing wyB eU yrun,,?D biS. flf Ier. . . . the card as it lie la the box Just what District Attorney Jerome of New York, i and he must make some explanation of his statements, casually dropped, at a bearing tn his bill to force witnesses to ! testify against gamblings bouse before .'. legislative committee at Albany. He 'refuses to disclose the name cr the party par-ty who lost this amount of money, but insists that It has been done, the victim " f being up against a "brace" game. New Tork gamblers doubt the story. . " and say that a loss like that is some-" some-" ; thing extraordinary, and must have oc-: oc-: curred In a house where there was no limit on the amount of the stakes. They say, however, that it would be ' impossible to lose $405,000 in five nights' play, which would- be at the rate of ' '. J81.0O0 per night, where the play was honest, even no limit was placed on the amount of the wagers. - Losing?3000 an Hour. ' Members of the Salt Iike gambling ; fraternity believe otherwise. - (t J-fcj"Why. I saw a man in this towi ;Tild one of them to a Telegram report-Vr report-Vr this morning,. "who lost $25,000 within three hours In a house where there was a limit to the bets. It seems to me that if a man couia lose that amount In Salt ' Lake, it would be an easy matter to lose four times that much in a big city like New Tork. ' " "There are few such losses in hls- tory," he said, "such as District Attorney Attor-ney Jerome tells of. though taleo have been told of ancient knights who hazarded haz-arded a principality o the turn of a die. The young Prince d Bragance Is said to have lost $300,000 in a single night's play at the Vienna Jockey club. But nobody ever saw the money. There are no such high plays at Monte Carlo. John W. Gates was reported once to 1 have been fleeced1 out of $110,000 in a Saratoga gambling place, but whether the boisterous laughter that followed, an inquiry as to the facts reflected the millionaire's- derision at the idea of any one fleecing him. or merriment over the loss of so trifling a sum, has never been There is another question .that arises out of Attorney Jerome's story. How could such a robbery be perpetrated! ..Victim Should Get Wise. ' In what manner can a professional gsmbler deliberately rob a man o $81,000 a night for five nights without the victim discovering that he is being duped? ' - . It was a hard matter to find a man In Salt Lake who was well enough posted to answer this question and explain the trick. An expert when found was reluctant to do this, but finally gave out the following upon the promise that his . name would not be used in connection with it: . . , "The theory of faro is this: A full deck is shuffled. There are fifty-two cards in the deck, and they are placed Jn a little German silver box. They are face up in the box, and. of course, the top card is exposed. One side of the box is open.- In the top of the other - side is a slit Just wide enough to permit one card to be slipped! through. In f (laying the top card is slipped off and aid about ten inches from the box. This nhows, sav, a king, and- that is taken ta-ken oft and laid upon the top card. This leaves, we will say, a seven exposed, and the seven wins. The king, the first card to show, loses. .1 '"By coppering the king that is, placing a small black checker on your bet on the king you win, as you then betithat the card will lose. If you cop- perithe Beven yon lose. Two cards of tbfame denomination, showing togeth-eiis togeth-eiis a 'split and the house takes half of all the bets. 'That Is the game. Now for the crooked methods of playing It. ' In the first place, stripper are used cards cut so that they are of uneven widths,- top and bottom. After shuffling such a deck ar.d stripping them, a dealer knows pretty well how they will run |