| Show DEATH WARRANT IN TURN OF CARDS aged gambler lets cards decide question of life or death and death wins detroit mich william mccry was sixty lity five alve years old and for 52 years he has made a more or less precarious living by gambling gambl lne from frisco to new york and even in europe he had often declared his belief that thai a min man shoula should die when when he reached the age of sixty flie five A few days ajo he passed this mark an inventory of his worldly goods showed he was worth exactly 72 cents besides his poor clothing cloth lne lie ile decided to let the cards determine rhe should continue the game or arquit quit ile be locked the door of his room in and dealt the cards VAN on the floor lay mccay dead if it came red the game would go on it if black it was finished when his landlady forced the door of his room she sow saw a pack of cards on the table with the eight of spade s face up on the floor lay Ic Cay dead his throat cut with a razor |
