EXCITING CARD DRAMA
STILETTO PIERCES ACE IN PLAYER‘S SLEEVE GREEK SHARPER EXPOSED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.58 p.m. BUKARE-ST, Friday. .An exciting drama was staged in a fashionable card club. A visitor, who was believed to be a distinguished and wealthy Brazilian, was playing with phenomenal luck: Suddenly a Spectator, 23. young Rumanian aristocrat, drew a. stiletto and drove it through the player‘s sleeve, pinning his arm to the table.
In the ensuing uproar, it was found that the stiletto had pierced an ace and several court cards hidden in the player‘s Sleeve. The cheat disappeared. He ha§ since been identified as a. Creek cardsharper.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 9
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