CONVERTED CARD-SHARPER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8943, 18 December 1907, Page 6

CONVERTED CARD-SHARPER.

London, says au English paper, will shortly be startled by a now autigambliug crusade conducted on striking originally lines. Mr John P. Quiun, wlio is the'inspiring force of the National Anti-Gambling Association of America, has come to England'to carry on the campaign which he has now'been waging for nineteen years. Mr Quiuu, who came over on the Lusitania, aud gave several lectures aud demonstrations on board the liner, was himself for twenty-five years a gambling sharper, and knows every trick of the nefarious trade. His conversion came about in a curious way. He and two friends, travelling from St. Louis to Chicago, were arrested in Indiana on a charge of robbing a man of 3000 dollars. They happeued to be quite innocent. But the detectives got up a case iv order to get a reward, aud Mr Quinn and his friends were sent to prison. While there Mr Quiuu found au old Bible, and lie told his interviewer:—"! read the story of Paul aud Silas iv prisou, aud that same night I was converted. I prayed to the God of Paul and Silas to prove my innocence, and three days later the guilty men were arrested, aud we were*released. "From that day," he went on emphatically, "I have not betted a peuuyoreven played a game for fun; I have consecrated my life to God's service, and to an effort to save young men from a vice that dishonours God and degrades men, using the machinery I had as an objectlesson that no man could misunderstand. "