Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-10-19 | Page 8 | K. C. Man Was Shown

K. C. MAN WAS SHOWN. Ho Attempted to Cheat and Was Cheated Out of 850. Despite the fact that ho hailed from Missouri, the "show me" State, John S. Darnell of Kansas City went up against an ancient brace game In thlB city yesterday morning, with the result that he parted with fifly hard-earned simoleona. Barnctt reported tho occurrence occur-rence to the police department a.s a matter of courtesy, but as he left on the afternoon train for the coast, he evidently evi-dently has but slight hopes of recovering recover-ing his coin. According to the story related by tho victim yesterday morning, Barnelt fell in with a couple of affable strangers at the temple grounds, and after the usual liquid preliminaries, a card game was started. One of the men proved to be unusually un-usually clever with the "pictures," and amused the others by showing them a number of the tricks of the green cloth fraternity. Incidentally he explained the mysteries of the old "ace trick," a deception that had Its origin In the buffet of Noah's ark. For some unknown reason the stranger failed to make good on the first trial, and Barnett won a dollar by showing show-ing the stranger where he was wrong. Again the man tried and failed; this time the gentleman from Kansas City winning $5. Ho made several more attempts, at-tempts, but always failed, until Barnett bet $50. This time the card shark solved the mystorj' and gathered In the money. Barnett at once reported the matter to the police and then boarded a train for the coast. Xo arrests have been made.