The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . d-ling system were brought to light. Letters were found OF A DETECTIVE 389 addressed to Stone which caused the arrest of A. at his home, 3600 Indiana avenue. Thesemissives disclosed information which indicated that sev-eral successful coups had been executed by the gang andthat many more were contemplated. Poolrooms in Texasand Louisiana were tohave been cleanedout by tapping theirwires. Plans wereafoot for makinghauls at San Antonio,Waco, Houston andDallas, the poolroomsat these places beingconducted by a syndi-cate of for
The grafters of America, who they are and how they work . d-ling system were brought to light. Letters were found OF A DETECTIVE 389 addressed to Stone which caused the arrest of A. at his home, 3600 Indiana avenue. Thesemissives disclosed information which indicated that sev-eral successful coups had been executed by the gang andthat many more were contemplated. Poolrooms in Texasand Louisiana were tohave been cleanedout by tapping theirwires. Plans wereafoot for makinghauls at San Antonio,Waco, Houston andDallas, the poolroomsat these places beingconducted by a syndi-cate of former Chi-cago bookm a k e r were shippedby Stone from Chi-cago for the purposeof tapping the wires. Following are sam-ples of the corre-spondence found byWooldridge in vast volume. Would like to have you come and bring a man withyou to do an easy piece of work on a single wire. Youcan cut in within thirty feet of the poolroom and be onthe inside all the time; the easiest you ever heard of and*till easier to get the money. Would like you to come. A. J. Poindexter. 390 THE ADVENTURES AND WORK as soon as you can. If you can come wire me under thename of A. F. Ransom. Dont want you to bring Peck-ham or anyone that knows me, to this country, as I amthe real thing here. The money is to go three ways—yourself, my partner and myself. Yours truly, Frank D. Concannon. Concannon was said to be none other than other letters told of killings made in poolroomswhere the wires had been tapped. At the time of his ar-rest, Poindexter was planning to hit the poolroom atHot Springs, Ark. Here is his letter to Stone on thesubject: Heres our chance. I have entire access to W. here. I am in electric railroad scheme with Ryan,the manager (to float the bonds). Now, heres ourchance. The poolroom cable comes out of the office inrear of building. I can rent office so we can reach outof window and handle it. We can cut em off for one ortwo minutes and there will never
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