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Show JlILLIOHAIRE SPORT - LOSES A MILLION !!: :-: lifSIHGLE YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH ; Rapid Career of "Toi,' : Hostetter Revealed by ?. ;; Suit Against His Estate i j, for Borrowed Money.1 ?EW YORK, Feb. 12. The suit of' : David C. Johnson against the estate of s Theodore Hostetter, the Pittsburg mil- .i lionaire Who died last summer, revealed 0 MILLIONAIRE GAMBLER'S LOSSES IN YEAR.. ' .. - . Total losses in twelve months, l,0O0,0OO., ' Pitched pennies for $1600 a7 spin. x . Bet $1000 a game on polo at Narragansett Pier. " Won 130,000 on the second election of McKlnley. " ' Lost $36.000 .at roulette In one sitting at Richard Canfleld'a, s " Lost $620,000 at odd times to David C. Johnson. i 3 x . - 1 ....... 1 th fact that Hostetter lost nearly a million dollars in a year in gambling in New York. , This is how Hostetter lost his money: ioCheck book stubs show he lost '$636,-V '$636,-V 27" rambling in New York the last year .VoChis life.. ' 4H lost' thousands of dollars inash, '--J ? ""fctng altogether about $l,000,000,,gone -V-tfv-gambling. 1 AMI. "t lie paid" Dave Johnson for gambling --debts $620,000, and a suit for an addi-. addi-. . tional $115,000 gambling debt has Just been compromised. It was made up of a note for $10,000 and checks for $70,000, $10,000 and $15,000. ' .UxT- JIe lost thousands in Canfleld's and WUaly's. ;y -,.TH,S beautiful home, broken up through , nTs gambling fever. ";-Johnson admitted that he had col-i col-i thirsted $115,000, but denied that it was - entirely a gambling debt. Most of it, 'iie-said, was borrowed money. I HoBtetter a Sport. v-ciiic Aiijuaiiiieu vw ill i uu xiua- e,t years a&." W Johnson. . "He was a very young man -then with f H' kinds of money and the Instincts of Z'.Z a sport. He would bet on anything , -. from a dog tight to a boiler explosion Z. , and he bet them as high as the cat's back. . . '!V became Tod's representative in V sporting circles. I was his betting comer.; com-er.; missloner in a majority of his ventures and he trusted me as a friend. I re-parded re-parded him as one of my best friends. )I!'r wben he wanted to gamble with me I - r gambled with him. I have matched him .Z pennies at the Waldorf-Astoria for ... $1000. ' 'I admit that Tod gambled with me. ..X would give him any game he wanted. rZ.."?rJ.a it was a hard matter to trail along .. with him, because, as I said before, he i."Wj1Jras lucky. In the last national election .-Jib, won $30,000 from me, betting-on Mc-Ktnley. Mc-Ktnley. J;::-r-Well, when Tod. died he owed me ;t!.000. Purely for my own protection 5!ad without the slightest Idea of taking the matter to court, I put my claim ...Agalnst the estate In the hands of Howe & Hummel. They sent the claim to their correspondents in Pittsburg, with injjtructions to present it and get a settlement. set-tlement. . ..jAoy-Was Borrowed. "J"'W9 came . to a settlement without -fty difficulty. It is not true, that there .tn as compromise. - As I- said "before, .jyiost of the money.. due me had been , 3 borrowed from me, and it was a debt as iegitlmate as any business debt could But there were gambling debts in ..Vf account, and for that reason I would rather have lost the whole busi-aiVS4 busi-aiVS4 tban bring suit in a court of law. ( -tVl advised him in many beta and tielped him with a lot of money, but it -I??-'l$rhard to keeD track ot a man wno f. ."would bet $1000 a ame on nolo at Nar. rfgansettr Pier. That was what Tod -used to do." r .f; 1 . Hostetter died, after a brief illness. jua;inia Park avenue sanitarium. He had ' Pnt the greater part of bis time dur-tU7 dur-tU7 tne twe,ve months preceding his iTeth in New York , gambling-houses. rvcBssides the sums shown by his checkbook check-book stubs and the notes and due bills , -J by him and. since settled, he lost Tarjre sums in cash. When It came to settling the estate it was found that one of the items upon wbich the administrators were called iTIJwt?11 to advance cash was a note for ..115,000, presented by D. C. Johnson of fsM'Sisyr York. iln going over the accounts of the mil- -"itf0alre it was found, according to the '-'-'."tubs In his checkbook, that Hostetter Jtrad already paid to Johnson more than E20.000 for gambling debts, and it was -imewn that other large amounts had . " gone for the same purpose. Johnson was over half a million dollars dol-lars to the good, but ' there still remained re-mained uncollected a promissory note "for$10,000 and checks for $70,000, $20,000 'TaftS. $1.5,009. ' . |