Show WIRE TAPPERS HIT POOL ROOMS HARD Heat Bent 1111 In Sum Variously Vail Vari 1 Irom S I lo to Half Hair a n Million i N New cw w York Jul July Tho i.-Tho 0 Tho slickest swindle that has been put through Inthis inthis In Inthis this ctt city since Pete Delacey and half hate a dozen of oC tie the bl biggest est poolroom operators were swung for a half a million dollars through the tile holding hol ln back of the returns of th thin coast races I went through as greased this afternoon and amid as a result the big bl poolroom proprietors proprietors' were beaten out of a n sum estimated at from was the theold theold theold to lo half a million The game gamo old familiar tapping wIre one only that this time lime the time wire was vas really leally tapped In the second race at nt Windsor there a was vas a 3 to 1 shot shul Attention who seemed 2 to to so I O far outclass his field that oven evell at these short prices down the New York plungers put large sums of or money mone on him When wires vires the flashed over the thc result was wal Beau Deau Brummell against a whose who l' l chances chancOs chanc chanc- hall hail been freely laid was es Os s S to 1 winner and Attention inthe In Inthe Inthe as the thc given gl the place po position When hen the poolroom poolroom pool pool- sheets looked over their room keep keepers rs they discovered that the winner vinner had been well played and that t they had to pay payout out large amounts to comparatively comparative There was no ly Iy unknown players suspicion that all nil nila a was vas not riot right however however how how- were ero prom promptly JIll ever evel an and the tickets cashed and amid the betting belting begun besun on the 11 next ex l. l Investigation III Set on ott Foot When hon the result of the third race raco shot was given ghen Attilla a to four but hut before C tho the winner In lii as tent wa was and the thc re result had been beon confirmed a a. man who cho had hall hind had hada hinda paying off begun heun Attention went Into Inlo a good bet on a on Barclay street and announced announced an an- poolroom wires that the newspaper ne of or the tho ho winner Attention as gave gae and showed Beau DeaU Brummell Drum Drum- an 2 second race raco finished second The having mell mehi as along alon to lo nil all of the sent sont word wOld was were held up Investigation In In- In- In grid and all nil bets rooms mons an revealed the fact that At At- third race but hut the hall hail nol not won on had finished second to Crow Crow- she that the bets bels betson belson then said paid The rooms shale shade and started an investigation on Attention that revealed veale tho the fact act which r gation gatlon alIon somewhere the wires ha had been tapped tappet outside of the tile city lost Is hard hartl to tomy amount was What the pool poolroom to the nature of say my as owing are arc q the lie proprietors 1 room route out of the limelight limelight lime lime- de desirous of keeping talk Those rhose back backof backof decline to light and In cashed however I ICor scheme of the In all nil the larger for Cor good amounts In und arid also alsi New Ne York l poolrooms SchenectadY It Is I Albany and Troy roy that tho tIm wire tappers asserted o a-o good lay day of or it although althOu h must have a it before the time tho the dis discovery CI of the cashed game ganie cost COtt them thum I beta had lial winnings been s and saved some of or their add additional addition poolroom people from Crom tonI hen heavy al ni lo losses e |