LAST CARD LEWIE

Southland Times, Issue 18821, 14 May 1920, Page 2

LAST CARD LEWIE

£70,000 WINNINGS AT POKER. The gambling fraternity of New York’s “While Light” district- is much concerned at the influx from some unknown source of quantities of "marked ' cards. Complaints June been reaching the authorities for weeks about the appearance of cards the \alue of which is readily apparent from the back to a player familiar with them. The most common pattern is one with fleur-de lys cornets, the delicate shading indicating the value of each card. The latest sensation came to light recently by the surrender of Louis Krohn-bc-ry, a wealthy manufacturer, on a charge of obtaining money by cheating at a game of chance. Krolmberg’.-. accusers, his former friends, were accustomed to participate in poker at his home, where their host invariably supplied the cards. They allege that the total losses to Krolmberg arc "£70,000. This is the second time Krolmberg has been involved in similar circumstances. It was said in the newspapers last January titt;* ho had been forcibly evicted from a poker parly on New Year's night at the home of Mr Joseph Bchcnek, I lie husband of Miss Norma Talmaiige, the famous film star, after Mr Schenck had exposed him. In the lates;t case the evidence of Krohnberg’s former associates tells how he was given the name of “Last Card Lewie” as the result of his uncanny luck in last-card draws. In one instance, it is stated, the jackpot had £3OOO in it, but Krolmberg, with a pair of threes:, refused to divide the pot, knowing that a pair of aces was held against him, and insisted on drawing the last card. He drew another four, making two pairs against his opponent’s pair of aces. In an affidavit one of the players says that he took the cards to an expert, who discovered that they were marked.