Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — Gamings Paraphernalia. [ARTICLE]

Gamings Paraphernalia.

“I am interested in a mail order business in expert dice and card work,” said a Chicago man. “We sell furniture and furnishings of all kinds for club bouses and other places all over the country. There is a big business in loaded dice and marked cards and other trick devices to gather in the coin, but I have yet to see a roulette wheel which is not operated on the square. It is impossible to make a roulette wheel which is crooked and which will bear inspection. One hears stories occasionally of wheels that are arranged with electric wires or with little pins to keep the ball from dropping into certain slots on the wheel, but you can put them all down as false. If a man could invent a machine which would assure him that the ball will fall on a certain number or even on a certain color or on odd or even numbers, he would never have to work again. But It cannot be done. In large cities gambling is protected by the police and nothing of that sort would be allowed. Where skin games are In operation the favorite trick ia to sell short stacks, nineteen instead of twenty, but no live man can be fooled on that nowadays.”—Milwaukee Wisconsin.