"BOSS" CROKER

Southland Times, Issue 18844, 9 June 1920, Page 2

"BOSS" CROKER

! mhnfvlfbf orhy won tor | NI.W YORK, April 13. I Mr !{’'•!»ar»' Crow, th:- turnier Tammany h-'-’der, whose IV-i’inc has b.---n " tmiated as r':-:n as £2,0 ‘TO-00, has revealed to hF friend.- at I V:.; Beach, l-’ioriOa. the talc of hi wernc- and fondly ".raidis, du t i t; g which, ho says, ho was toec---d for a ’>•: I me to live entire]-,- on tor winning.--of his horses. .;.'r ( inker asserts that had it not been 'or the Ih-i-by winner Orhy he woo.ld have | unable to live, .'dr (.Volf r, whose mar j ■r.mte in T ; |:-; to Sh-id.-h l-kim-nebon, -aid I ’>■ he an yitf'-a, r; i.lp-d in times- j i 'V. In' : of’s o.'o, ; In j; ve 1.-.-.l di .-Jar"! in- I ! a'kin ft-on Id- •]- • wifo lie egre<-!. through i 1 hj:- -nr. 1’ ditr,’, to pay £Tu.)O atorndiy for | , the r r'-.rorl of her :md the chil-'ren. lie dame. i|i ( .»! r.ny time hj? was wurth the ’ f*-rt vne hi-; children say lie was, and assart-- ’ t!v: ins efforts to hern op the payments to .In-. Pr-t wi:e and enddron emberra- ed him to cch ;oi < j tei-t that once lie had no ( nan t/ in the hark. | -Mr '.V-dc-T 'ac'dis in language !o-.:’ed with il' itho.- law dai'-o; ;, : ot years he pot hi-’ j sons in ih< way of iirufii; much money, j ’row he it; ferret led with the A’-.-hbi-hrm of j who had tnarrted a yut in in a New '/'(irk ! riding academy while her fa'b-i- wa- in lie 1 , i:aid, to c i>(•• if! an annalntent and remarry, am! bow wh.cn he sn;'-rstcd that Ins son-- : ■ should repay some of !:;s ativance.s lie was j j met w : lh a peremptory refusal. j ‘Sf.WTT) BY TilN DMRBY.” I Mr Crokcr says tint if was about the time he won the Derby with Orhy in If)Of I ! that he was i n tile deeoeip finaneia.! .straits. I !"I w-.s ivt-ky, ’ ho -ay -. “Or’iy advne made i line Wd!) every year, and had it not been i for irin I t’mi't know how I should have got, along. "1 h;at lock with other horses, ton. I had a mare called ]>e.n.-!iee th-t I bought | for (500 and I made £3OOO within three i months. She was a Hlly ruing in a rare I for a (500 stake. 1 told her owner that i my en'ry was sure to beat his, but to make j certain I would buy his. I “?he showed up so well on trial that 1 I withdrew my home and won £ISOO with her at 20 to 1. Then L sold her for a big price.” Mr Crokcr says that his present fortune is not more than £400.000, and that he has made most of it at Palm Beach in real estate since he married his present wife. He , meets the allegations of his children that he [is tinder the domination of his wife’s mentality by saying that when he married a second time his wife was not aware of his means. ‘When we married,” Mr Croker says, “she did not know about the Irish estate. She knew I had some funds but did not look on me as a rich man. 1 told her I had a little ‘shack’ in Florida and called it the Bathhouse.” Asked how much he had at that time, Mr Crokcr said: “Only Glencairn, my Irish estate, which cost £30,000, £IOOO in cash, and the Florida property.” He concluded that shortly after he was married and while he was ill his wife negotiated a sale of land netting £IO,OOO.