GAMBLER’S END.
DEATH CHEATS GAOL. CHICAGO, Oct. 11. Death cheated the prison bars alter John Worthington, the so-called “Wolf of La Salle Street,” had uoen sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. He leaves £500,000, the result of a life as a gambler and broker who carried on frenzied finance operations. Often he was only a jump or two ahead of the detectives. His solo legatee is his daughter Alice, known as the cinema actress Jane Allen.
Worthington returned from Mexico, his last place of refuge, on a stretcher. American Federal agents had been constantly on his trail there, but for £5 in gold he obtained from the chief of police a bodyguard of five men to help him keep more than a million dollars cash. A lucky five dollars bet on a race track started him on his gambling career, as he used the funds to open a brokerage office. Ho lived for ten years in Birmingham (Alabama), where ho became mayor, and was president of twenty-seven banks.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 276, 26 October 1925, Page 2
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