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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2544, 3 July 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

EXPENSIVE BRIDGE. The ocean call for police to bo held in readiness to arrest six gamblers which was sent from the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. when she was more than bUU miles from New York, had a somewhat lame ai- unexciting sequel upon the liner’s arrival at her pier. Captain Cuepner’s wireless message had fired the imaginations of the newspaper sub-editors to' such an extent that 'everybody expected that the detectives would find that the cardsharpers had fought their captain with pistols, but had been overpowered, manacled, and incarcerated in the ship’s hold.' All that everybody could discover was that there had been , some gambling m the smoking room and that the .osors had TO a South American mining engineer, named Bruckmann, _ hifed tliat ho had boon swindled ertof no while playing bridge. Be “ straight to the captain and asked him to compel the return r of his money. Captain Cueppers invited_ the other layers to givo up their winnings, but they refused,,saying the game bad been ' llth square. Mr. Buckmann thereupon demanded that the police should ho called in, hence the despatch of the Marconigram. When the shore was reached Mr. Buckmann declined to make any complaint, and his fellow, card-players, giving freo expression of their buinion ‘ of the mining engineer, wci*o v 11 slllowbcl to .depart.