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Show Nat Brown's Big Winning1. (Memphis Scimitar.) "One time in the wicked Jast. when gambling was the rule and not the exception excep-tion in Memphis, Xut Brown, a. well known gambler of that day. stepped lnt a big house of chance on Marin street, played a gam of solituire, arose and left the place $-t-) better off than when he entered it. "Those were days when money could be won on any old game," said Detectiv Butinghaus, who was reiatiog the story. "But you don't mean to tell ua that Na-t really won Slfct on a game of wiitaire, do you?'' inquired an amazed auditor. "That's what I said," replied the detective. detec-tive. "It was this way: A short time before be-fore Nat went into the place a party of men had been playing seyen-up at one of the tables for $10 a game. t I "In the wind-up Jim Laning wai $2& ahead. Jim had bean shuffling on a news- I purer. and as bill after bill yassad from I the other players to him he placed them I together under the paper, until the sum , amounted to $265. At the conclusion of the game he aroe "and left the place, for- getting to pocket the money he had won. I "In a few minutes Nat Brown dropped in. He was dead broke, and unable to I enter a game, so he began playing soli- 1 taire. Of course, he discovered the money and. being broke, took it. "Nat then went out and attired himself. s in apparel tit for a king, and it was two " l weeks before he told about lindins Lan- ing's money. I "By that time the S-G5 had passed to other hands and Laning wad hopelessly out that amount." 1 |