Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1913 — Loses His Money at Old “Odd Man Wins” Game [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Loses His Money at Old “Odd Man Wins” Game

K KANSAS CITY, Mo.—lt may be that A E. Peyton immolated himself as a sacrifice on the altar of Protection of Fall Guys the other morning. If so, he did it without knowing it. Anyway, he followed a smooth person who had assisted at his flimflamming out of $l3B, and had the same arrested just before noon. The police believe they have acquired onehalf of a “matching” combination that has cleaned up from two to three thousand dollars around Kansas City this fall.

Peyton came to town from Hugo, Okla., accompanied by some money and reserve funds in the shape of a couple of express money orders for SSO each. He immediately started out to see the sights. He got as far aS Ninth and Main streets' when he saw a stranger, who looked him over slightly and then Introduced himself as Frank Kent.

They talked and walked. Finally the conversation got steered around to the subject of gambling. By that time, as coincidence would have it — or maybe it was Kent —they had reached the bluff that overlooks the depot And right there appeared another stranger. Anyway, he was strange to Peyton, and Kent didn't seem to know him, either.

Then they got to matching dollars; Now, it is an established scientific principle that when two expert matchers collaborate to “trim” a terfium quid, or third person, the T. Q. inevitably gets trimmed. The process is painfully simple. The game is “odd man wins.” The two collaborators so arrange it that when one has “heads” the other has “tails,” or vice versa. So one of them always wins. In the space of thirty hectie minutes, the man from Oklahoma had been separated from S3B in money and the two express money orders; total $l3B. ~~

But the man. from Oklahoma felt a trifle resentful. It even occurred to him that something had been done to him. So he just walked along behind the stranger called Kent until he saw a policeman. Then he had Kent arrested.