ADVENTURE ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 56, 26 June 1876, Page 2

ADVENTURE ON THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.

A correspondent of the " Sydney! ing Herald," who is contributing de tive letters of a recent American ta lates the following story : —" In the; ing room of one of the Silver Palais 011 the Central Pacific Road was posit following warning : ' Passengers hereby warned against playing gai chance w'.th betting ont card monte, strap, or other games, will surely be robbed if you do.-J Towne. General Passenger Agent, 1 Towne's advice appears very salutan presumably necessary ; but it was» fortune to meet with any members f card-sharping fraternity, and I fane; game must have been played out. lieve that at one stopping-place inX (I refer to Battle Mountain) thefts organised gang of gamblers who secM sengers into their den under varfe texts, and relieved them of their reaij or jewellery. A Victorian gentleman I met was induced to pay a visit to head-quarters —an inn a few paces the platform—to look at some gold mens, and he had not been there minutes before they robbed liim < watch and purse. One of the ] styled ' Dr. Butler,' but better kn® ' Slim Jim,' generously offered to i some of the plunder, in order to P victim off by train. He, ho were! his wife forward, and preferred thei losing his passage to being robbed V redress. His efforts to obtain justice but very feebly supported by the j traie, whom he found on the Jj looming playing cards with the gr and the proceedings in the Mjlsl- - were of the most laughable description. The - orri P succeeded in getting himself tempt of Court. The twiisfacte failed to obtain from the nevertheless extorted by his pen® from the gamblers, who, to get ria°restored his property pnd paid his f®