Show ONCE GREAT RIDER CONFESSES THEFT Grover Grovel Cleveland F Fuller Liller Fa Fa- F Famous a- a moos Jockey Steals Cheap Wa Watch tc m New Xe York Jan In IS-In IS In a broken voice an and with tears trickling down own his cheeks cheoles Grover Groer Cleveland Ch Fuller once rated as tho the greatest Jockey jocke in America and possessor of ot a a. fortune estimated at more mote than stood before Judge Ju ge In the court of oC general sessions cs lons and pleaded guilty to stealing a watch Moved roy ll Inthe by In bythe bythe the story tor of the spectacular success and downfall the court reman remanded him to tho the Tombs to await sentence intimating in intimating intimating in- in to those around him that he could not find It in his heart to deal ver very harshly with the former idol of the tur turf Fullers Fuller's downward plunge be began an soon after he hall had recovered from front the injury received in a jam on the Jamaica Jamaica Ja Ja- maica track In 1904 at the finish o of on one of oC tho races in which he lie was pilotIng pilotIng pilotIng pilot- pilot Ing Willful one OIle o of Big Tim Sullivan's Sullivans Sullivans Sullivan's Sulli Sulli- vans van's horses HI His Injury kept him from the saddle from that da day on and lured by the white lights of Broadway Fuller began to set a 1 pace In dissipation tion that surrounded him with the usual crowd of good fellows and turned turnell his real friends awa away He lie went through his In wine women oilmen song song- and null tho clatter of or varl- varl colored chips From time to time ho got Into trouble through h drunkenness On each successive c aI appearance p In lit court it was 1 learned how rapidly ly y his fortune was di disappearing For the last three years Fuller has been down an and out living on the tho charity charit of hl his former Cormer friends and tho the odd o d sums suns he could pick pickup pickup up in various ways His Ills honesty honest was never nc qu questioned however howo until th the theft of or the tho watch that brought him hinn before the court court- |