Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1915 — VAGRANT ON TURN OF CARD [ARTICLE]

VAGRANT ON TURN OF CARD

Gambler Was SBB,OOO Ahead Whan Single Turn of Card Took All and Hs Became a Tramp. San Francisco. Jambs Parkhill, one-time owner of a $200,000 bank roll and the Bank Exchange faro bank, Deadwood, S. D., who has the reputar tion of making the largest wager on the turn of a single card ever risked ir. the Klondike region, stood before Judge Deasey, tattered, unshaven and broke, charged with vagrancy. It was in 1898 that Parkhill sat in a poker game with "Red” Macintosh, Bill Richards and Frank Hull, all big money men in the Klondike. They were playing in the Park Train saloon, and Parkhill, who stood $68,000 ahead of the game, bantered Hull for a $50,000 wager on the turn of a card. Hull was game. The stakes were put up. Hull, who had the first turn, turned a queen, and Parkhill lost his $50,000 on a seven spot. He told the court that he had toured the world since then, but his life had been a game of ups and downs, with about seven downs to one up. He was begging when arrested. When freed by Judge Deasey he said he would get out of town as quickly as he could.