CONVERTED GAMBLER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 292, 19 January 1910, Page 7

CONVERTED GAMBLER.

EXPOSES ALL THE TRICKS. YOUXG MEN WARMED. American gambling "crooks" are fleeing from New York to London, Paris, and other Continental cities. So says Air. John P. Quinn, the converted gambler, who has come to England (reports' the Sunday Chronicle) under the auspices of the International Anti-Gambling League, to lav bare before the eyes of young men the snare of the fowler. The relentless campaign against them in New York City has made that place too hot for them* Some of them have been driven to commit suicide by the constant harrying of the police and others who are seeking to suppress gambling. Less than a year ago the famous '■Policy King," a notorious American gambler, too his life. lie left estate to the value of £1.000,000. TWENTY -Fl\E YEARS A GAMBLER. Mr. Quinn has come to England to assist in a vigorous campaign against gambling that will soon commence. His particular part in the programme will be to "show 'em how it's done"—to enlighten the "pigeons" as to what is in store for them when they fall beneath the talons of the hawk; and on the principle that the old poacher makes tile best gamekeeper, Air. Quinn is particularly well fitted for the part. For twenty-five years he was' one of the most notorious gamblers in the States, and' in the course of the campaign will demonstrate all the innate crookedness of the gambler's art. He has brought over the innocent-looking dice which will always fall as he demands, the rouge-et-noir table whicu will always race the pool for the gambler, and the cards which invariable put him in possession of a winning hand. "I'm just going to show the boys the kind of reception that is awaiting them if they take up gambling," said Air. Quinn. "During the past twenty years I have travelled about all over the States and in Canada exposing the methods of the gambling sqiuule, and .I'm proud to say that tens of thousands of young fellows have thrown up the game as' a consequence of what 1 showed them. One might have preached to them for a year on the folly of gambling without distracting their attention from the gaming table, but when the hidden things were made clear to them they just realised what greenhorns they had been."