AN ATLANTIC GAMBLER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 April 1901, Page 4

AN ATLANTIC GAMBLER.

Mr Henry T. Paisley, for many years familiar to the saloon passengers aboard Transatlantic steamships, on which ho unostentatiously plied his profession as a gentleman gambler, has ended his life by morphine at the Bellevuo Hospital, says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." Few of Mr Paisley's fellow passengers on the American and Cunard liners suspected that their agreeable and courteous acquaintance, a typical merchant in appearance, derived his income from the manipulation of cards. In his last illness Mr Paisioy told something of his life. To Br Barclay, who attended him. he said he had made many a big haul out of his secret system of poker for the seven years he had been crossing the ocean on big passenger steamships. He had all the comforts, and "lived high with money to burn." His plan was to make casual acquaintances, and propose a game of draw poker, after opening a bottle of wine. Sometimes he would get the steward to have an especially tempting dish prepared, and invited a chance friend to join him, but he revcr played more than one or two games of poker on a single trip, always worked alone, and had no confederates.