The Sharper Detected and Exposed

n of roulette-Hunt for dupes-Opening of "tripots," or low gam

and Plato have been thus honoured, or rather dishonoured, and how it comes t

wing are

amed Apoulos, was admitted into the Court circle, where he played with such succes

was taken "flagrante delicto," and condemned

at the time, and, ever since, simi

tells us that, "Souvent ce sont les noms qui décident des choses." Many who d

ased, by the establishment in Paris of two public gambling

ately; most of them had no arranged method of proceed

f cheating was sti

s. The cleverest amongst them met, invented new man?uvres, and clubbed together to cheat thei

favourite games of that period, and being much in

to the fashionable hells, and which the public believed they

in which the black divisions were larger than the white ones, so

derstanding with the attendants at these hells; but

eased at length to such an extent,

ure, these men knew, that the number of dupes in the world is without limit, and that th

newly arrived in the capital; 2nd, Barristers coming out of court after having gained a suit; 3rd, Successful gamblers who had w

candal, that upon a representation made by the police, Louis XV. ordered both the H?tels de Gèvres a

rt the Greeks; they opened low gam

on their track, and wage

a host of swindlers, alarmed the dupes, whose fears began to be aw

heir former home in the capital; when the Government, in urgent want of money, established Frascati, and the rival houses in the Palais Royal. O

beforehand been cleverly calculated, produced an immense revenue

, until forced to take notice of them by the clamours of

had always been a centre of attraction, appeared also to vanish. I say the gang seemed to vanish, for, if roulette has be

to their cost, that these insatiable birds of prey ar

, "How are they

r than ever. Forced to mix in society, they know the necessity of being perfect in their u

t men; so that they may know them, if not by their faces, at least by some characteristic s

ifficult to sketch their features, so numerous and varied are they. I think it

Greek, or sharper of

ek of the mi

of the low ga

due;" so let us begin wi