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Show JAP PLATED IN HARD LUCK Gambles Away Overcoat, Steals Another, An-other, Loses That. Goes to Jail i harlea King, a Japanese, played In hard luck Saturday night. Superstitious gamblers would rny that the 'Jinks" pre-Vented pre-Vented him from winning. King thinks it a case of b Ing up against It, pure and simple, and declares If he could have found another overcoat he would have won out. According to thn statement of the officers, offi-cers, King started out early In the day to buck the tiger When his money was gone he pawned his overcoat and bucked again Then he stole another coat, It Is alleged, from the Wasatch club gambling house and huckc-d the tiger a third time. Each tlmo he was unable to ride the bea6t to a successful finish and Just to prove that the kibosh" was upon him without a doubt an officer picked him up and booked King at tho station on a charge of petit larceny When KlnfT looks over The Tribune this morning and seea that the grand fight against the gambling hells Is still on. he will softly cay to himself that henceforth hence-forth they 111 have to count him out when making up a list of suckers |