Show CAREER OF one of the greatest gamblers dead interesting incidents in the life ofa sporting man recalled ered gainsborough picture aided guerin to escape chicago the grim reaper in the last two months has called upon three of the greatest gamblers this country ever has known to cash in their checks th term cash in their checks is biot used with disrespect or death for had either of tho trio dan stuart AI smith or pat written this story it would have been the most natural thing in the world tor them to have used the phrase of the trio the last to die probably was the most noted char acter true smith and stuart were well known in this country but operations reached out into branches 0 life that the others never invaded and made him a character ot worldwide reputation all were con necked at times with pugilism and horse racing smith was the stake holder for several championship at fairs and was an authority to whom lund reds of matters were left for set when there was any doubt about a bet stuart came into aromi nence when he pulled off the corbett fitzstmmons fight was one of the early backers and friends of the mighty john L sullivan known on three continents tor his gambling and participation in sports first gained prominence in those walks of lite in chicago he egan his career as a gambler at about 16 he was 59 years of ag when he died in the good old days of mike mcdonald and the in chicago he ran gambling house lere one of these was on clark i street near where the morrison Morr lson hotel Is now when these days came to a close breedy left for greener pastures and since then he visited many lands beyond the seas but before bis change played in big games of chance every where and there Is not a town in thi country where his name Is not known at one time he was known as the greatest faro player in america but he had to give that up because the proprietors of the banks would not let him play this was in the after that he went to cairo and opened the palace he opened hi house and the grand balls of pasha as he was known became fa for years be lan the palace which was the for mer home of ismael pasha was the man who restored the famous gainsborough duchess ot devonshire portrait to the world ot art after it had been stolen and missing for 26 years the picture had been bought by morland agnew at an auction sale for 52 and arrangements had been made to have a celebrated engraver make a plate some CO had been subscribed toward the project when the english public was astonished and horrified with the news that thieves had broken into the house where the portrait was kept and had cut it out of the frame and all trace was lost tor as years to be sure detectives had become convinced that adam worth one ot the most inventive and daring thieves of modern times had engineered the theft and controlled the portrait but nothing had come of it however the detectives had asked to assist in bringing about the restoration of ofle if the occasion offered another thing which will make remembered in the police ind criminal world is the act he was the man who engineered the escape of ed die guerin from devil a island in the french penal colony off the coast ot africa guerin was a chicago product and achieved international tame as a bank thief confidence man and all around crook finally the french police au thorit les caught hold of him and sent him to the famous african prison island so far as known was moved by no motive except pity for the american at any rate he accod the impossible and i lanned matters so ce beerly erly that guerin get away from the island made his way to the mainland and finally got to alir was known as a equale gambler and it Is said that this cost him one of the largest gaming houes ever built in the world ahls wari his cairo establishment |