Show aw W IT WAS WORKED IE WAY OBRIEN GOT OUT OF MR PECK OF ALBANY A slick stick game came that rooted a respected and nil iclet elt new york state ilow litow the king of ilinko ft iian handled liel ilia II 11 li I ottery bunkker odrien obrien stands at the beadon head of the bunko men of the united states and lii bi atory story of how lie grot got from john II 11 peck of albany gives an tin insight into the working elet details alls of his profession it eo go happened that the jury did not entirely believe his story and he lie was convicted and sentenced to Dann dannemora emora tor for ten years for robbery while he lie asserted that ho be was guilty of nothing worse than grand larceny ili ain theory of delenie de tenie was that lie ht had bad got ot his from peck by playing ft a bimble bunko game and not by force or robbery at all to prove this he be went on the stand and producing nil nit the implements of the game lie the judge as well aa the district attorney and the jury adriena OD OB riena story was that he and post were the ope operators acors they had marked peck aa as a man who was anxious to make money and had a fair amount to invest post called on peck and introduced him I 1 self aa as a nephew of erastus corning one of the mot most prominent citizens of albany and the owner of a good deal of property young corning said wild that he wanted to buy a house on the highest point of clinton avenue in order to get his wife away from thern the malaria alaria near the river peck had bad a house which he lie was willing to sill sell for la 10 lie ile and corning walked dup up to the louse house and arid on the way n ay back corning sug that they stop in and see the agent for a new lottery company who was trying to establish an agency in albany for the sale of tickets corning e explained x to peck that the tile new slew company would deal much more liberally by its customers than the Ioui louisiana slana company and that he be thought home bo in 9 money could bo be made by investing I 1 in the lottery as he be had bad already made mado name monse himself bl melt 1 peck went in with corning Clorn and called on obrien 0 brien who explained to them that he was tho the agent fora fera new lottery which was dealing very liberally with wilh its customers aa As one of the state agents with a power to I 1 conduct small drawings himself he lie con ducted a few for the benefit of acornl corning 9 who bought a one dollar ticket and won w on A few hundred dollars which waa was promptly paid with the exception of a small balance bala which went over to the neit next day the lottery was conducted with a pack of forty eight cards in eight sets running from one spot to six spots on a it card the tile investor bought a drawing for one dollar lie ile could draw eight cards and the spots would amount to something between six and forty eight if the spots amounted to six ho lie got a prize of the same hame prize was given for the maximum draw of forty eight the prizes diminished to the intermediate numbers which only entitled the drawer to another chance obrien told 0 peck that ai as ho he was a friend ofir of mr cor ninga nephew he did not mind explaining that it was not the object of the new lot tory tery company to make any money at first but to encourage people to buy tickets and make inake their money afterward that was the reason that they had only one blank in their drawings draw ings and that every e cry other draw entitled the investor to a prize or another draw drair obrien bad the bunko chart on the table in front of him it was about as large as the side of a newspaper folded once there were numbers on it fr feromone from omone bno to forty eight printed in red ink with the amount of the prize which each number entitled the investor to printed in black alow the number in one corner corne of the chart was the number twenty eight with the inscription under tinder ft it not riot as prominently printed as the amount of the prizes under the other numbers but still quite plain and legible 11 yon you lose ILI all 1 I 1 I 1 inba in faba center of the chart char was the number 27 07 this number was called the grand conditional advertising prize obrien I 1 explained that this prize was offered only once in a city and then to some man of high personal and business standing who would let the fact that he had ddn won it IMS be known in order to draw other investors no qualifications wro required from other investors but any man n who was a candi date for the grand conditional advertising 10 prize must prove that he was s as worth at least that much money peck thought that this was n better bus iness than belling houses and he be made an appointment with corning to call the next day and qualify him himself elf for the gr grand and conditional advertising prize in the meantime he be experimented as an ordinary investor and won forty dollars which was pat paid le 0 1 lie next day corning and pock peck called on obrien and peck produced worth of bonds and other securities obrien said sald be had no doubt peck was w as good for as the word of erastus Corn comings ings nephew was sufficient for him but the rules of his company were strict strict and he be could not make that an exception even in the case of so estimable a man and and one eo so highly indorsed endorsed indor sed you sec see mr peck said obrien we are bitting sitting here as gentlemen and arid I 1 know that it is all right but I 1 must comply with 0 the rules of the company and bee the money peck then went down town and had a bank give girg him on his note he ite took this back to the house and drew his blis ards which amounted to twenty seven in the number of spots so that he lie was en titled to the grand conditional advertising ls prize but lie produced his money and mr obrien started to count it but finding that tooke took ome some time said he would take pecks word for it of course you on understand mr peck 11 he said that this prize has to bo e drawn twice to become the property pro pirty of tho the owner peck had bad not exactly understood that but he lie understood that obrien would fix f ix the cards so that they would come out 27 7 again and he let his money stay on the board this time the cards came out 1 83 3 instead of 27 obrien pointed to the pa pass pas s age under the 28 you lose all and pocketed the 10 I peck lack was rattled by what had taken place corning coming was very sorry and told peck that as soon as he could get down to the bank the next day he lie would take out and gie give it to peck to make him I 1 good peck felt almost satisfied with this as he be was forty dollars in on the money he bad had already won and he knew that the promise of any of the Corn comings ings was good tor for several peck and rid corning coming started to walk up to pecks house and corning left peck at his lis 11 steps then peck began to think as he i t testified on the trial 1 I began to wonder what would be become come of my if it he sir Li erastus rastus Corn comings ings nephew after all 11 lie ile kept on woud wondering ering all night the next day be he found out new york bun sun |