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The Daily Dispatch: November 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Texas Wool. (search)
etion, and the astonished customers, without waiting for an opportunity to "go another hundred on the queen" or to "copper on the ace," got out of the way by the most practicable method — the rapid use of their egos. The houses visited were John A. Worsham's, on Fourteenth street, Edward Monteiro's, in a building owned by James H. Grant, adjoining the Spotswood House, and Murphy & McCann's, rear of Exchange Hotel. The parties arrested were John A. Worsham, charged with keeping and exhibiting John A. Worsham, charged with keeping and exhibiting the game of faro; William Burnes, similar charge; James, slave of Edward Monteiro; James McCann, for keeping and exhibiting faro; Benj. Deyrout, employed for that purpose by James McCann and Jesse Murphy; and Matt, a slave, who seems to have been doorkeeper of the bank last named. The news spread rapidly to other similar institutions, and lights were extinguished in such haste that it is doubtful if the cash accounts were squared in every instance. A large amount of moveable property was capt