Millionaire and Gambler.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7723, 27 January 1905, Page 4

Millionaire and Gambler.

SEQVTCL TO A LOSS OF £IO,OOO. I The most notorious! gambling-housv keeper in Xew York; Richard Canfield, against whom legal proceedings were first taken many months ago by Mr Jerome, the District Attorney, for violation of the State laws, was arrested on the afternoon of December 7th, together with his manager, Bucklin. They pleaded guilty, and were lined £2OO each, .which was promptly paid. 1 This is an unfortunate event for Mr Reginald Vanderbilt, and other j Wealthy men, who wero known to have lost very large sums m Canfield's establishment, and who exhausted every effort to avoid giving evidence in the case for fear of exposure. • Air Jerome declared last May that Mr Reginald Vanderbilt's visits to the place had cost him £IOO,OOO. The young millionaire's efl'orts to avoid the subpoena practically banished lirin from Kcw York for a ' year. He visited the city rarely and 'by stealth, and mice wore a disguise to bailie the process-servers, i The relentless Slate Attorney, on learning some months ago that Mr Vanderbilt proposed to go to Philadelphia by steamer from Boston, sent detectives on board the boat to jvatch day and night in the hope that stress of weather would bring .it within the three-mile limit. | As a matter of fact, Mr Vanderbilt had no intention of going to | Philadelphia. Heavily ■disguisul in ,a motor outfit, he slipped into New York, spent a day with his mother- | in-law*, and returned across the ferry to Jersey city being nised.Mr Jerome 'then appealed to the State Legislature, which passed a law requiring Canfield's patrons to give evidence as to the gambling that went on. The law was declared to be constitutional after a long legal fight, and to save his patrons from'humiliation Canlield threw hinv IseU on the mercy of the Court.