Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-20 | Page 6 | That Wire-Tapping Proves a Hoax

THAT WIRE-TAPPING WIRE PROVES A HOAX I Police olice Investigation Shows the Butte Poolrooms Were Wei-e Not Vic Vie tin zed The story of an enterprising gambler tapping a tele telegraph raph wire somewhere between Salt Lake and Butte and using his information to mulct one of the Butte poolrooms to the tune of 1200 on a 40 to 1 shot turns out to be a hoax A police investigation of the Butte po poolrooms shows that only a small amount of money was placed on the 40 to 1 horse Luke Warden for a place and show