The Charlotte Journal

THE FRUITS OF GAMBLING.

We have been in possession for some days past of the circumstances connected with a case of high-handed swindling, which occurred some two weeks since in one of the numerous "hells," which, notwithstanding the praiseworthy efforts that have been made to suppress them, we regret to say, yet infest our city. A young gentleman from the country lately came in possessed of about $12,000, and was induced by one of the many pigeons connected with a gambling house in Calvert street to visit it, and in one short night robbed of his entire patrimony. The pigeon it appears, succeeded in finding out his circumstances, and in the most ingenuous and friendly manner entrapped him into his den, where a costly entertainment was set out, of which he was invited to partake. After supper he was freely supplied with champagne, and, when sufficiently under the influence of inebriation, the game of robbing commenced. They succeeded before morning in not only getting all the money contained about his person, but actually secured his checks for the entire sum of $10,000, which he had some days before deposited in bank. He was not suffered to retire at daylight, but detained by force until the opening of the bank, for fear that the payment of the checks might be stopped by himself or friends. At the hour of nine they hurried to the bank and drew the money, and are now rusticating throughout the country on the fruits of their villainy. One of them, we understand, purchased at auction one day last week a fine house, for which he paid in cash $12,000; another left such business in the early part of the week on a visit to the Virginia Springs. The sufferer is a nephew of one of our wealthiest merchants, who, we understand, had intended to take him as a partner in business.

—Baltimore Clipper.