OCR Text |
Show HE BROKE THE BANK. Observant Mr. Jaggers Took $400,000 From Monte Carlo. The history of the Yorkshireman who netted, it Is said, $400,000 after a month's work at Monte Carlo, is one which can never now repeat itself. This enterprising Mr. Jaggers engaged en-gaged a staff of clerks, who noted hour In hour out, day in and day out, week in and week out, the result of every gams and every roulette table. The figures were tabulated and Jaggers found, as he had hoped, that each roulette rou-lette wheel possessed a bias. Certain numbers came up and certain cer-tain combinations occurred more frequently fre-quently on some wheels than would be the case if the mechanism ran true. Jaggers and his staff staked accordingly, according-ly, and, with the aid of a large capital, capi-tal, soon cleared $210,000 profit. Their plan was then discovered, and the wheels altered so as to be Interchangeable Inter-changeable from table to table. Jaggers, Jag-gers, not knowing that the wheels were now shifted nightly, continued playing on the system, and promptly dropped $40,000. Like a wise man he stopped and set' himself to the task of discovering what was wrong. He soon did so; discovered, dis-covered, too, that each wheel had soma distinguishing mark, so that he could recognize it whenever it was in use. Tracing his biased wheels daily from table to table, Jaggers was rewarded by recouping his loss. Finally, the casino mechanics de viBed a plan by which not the wheeli but the compartment of the wheeli could be interchanged. Movable partitions parti-tions were too much for Jaggers. Ha paid off his clerks and returned to Yorkshire to enjoy the fruits of ob-servatlve ob-servatlve faculties. New York Journal. |