Missing $10,000.00 Bill

[jeff of pa]

The Semi-Weekly New Era​

Wed, Jul 20, 1904 ·Page 6

 

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[Mackaydon]

My first job after school (never shown on future resumes for obvious reasons) was to be blackjack shill at the Nevada Club downtown Las Vegas--adjacent to the Golden Nugget.. Across the street was Benny Binion's, Horseshoe casino. Just inside the front entrance of that casino was placed a display of 100- $10,000 bills. It was a great marketing ploy; customers would be 'baited' off the street just to come in, see the display and/or be photographed next to it--as shown below. Great memories; thanks Jeff.

Don in SoCal

 

[robertk]

The sad part is, depending on when the missing note was issued, it might not even be worth face value these days.

 

[Mackaydon]

Moffet is still a big name in Colorado.

Don.......

 

[DizzyDigger]

Don, I remember the Nevada Club quite well..been on that corner many times when visiting Vegas. What does a "blackjack shill" do? Are you the guy out front trying to get people into the casino?

 

[Mackaydon]

Dizzy Digger,
Here's the AI Overview of a casino shill:
"In blackjack, a "shill" refers to a person employed by a casino to act as a player in a game, often to keep the game active or to create an illusion of a lively atmosphere. Shills are essentially professional "gamblers" who are paid to play with casino money, and they are not allowed to bet on their own or keep any winnings."
Don in SoCal
PS: The best shills were attractive women who would act as regular customers but, if fact, they were employees placed at vacant tables to attract other gamblers. We were given a certain amount of chips to play with until at least two other players sat down to play; then we would more to another vacant table and repeat the process--all the while learning how to deal--my next job. So the next time you see an attractive lady playing blackjack by herself, use caution since your attention may not be on your cards but on her--as the house expects.
Don....

 

[Red-Coat]

Fascinating story. The robbery was on 29 March 1889. The following day, a police description of the robber was released as: “Age 32, height 5 feet 8 inches, swarthy complexion, weight 140 pounds, heavy brown moustache, badly sunburned, Derby hat, light-brown overcoat, wears a long-linked plated chain.”

When the bank first opened, this man asked a cashier where he could see the bank president David Moffatt (also president of the Rio Grande Railroad) and was told he was in the railway president’s office in the Cheeseman block.

Later that morning he entered the railway office and asked to see Moffatt on important business. He was admitted to a private room and outlined that he had discovered a conspiracy whereby the First National Bank was to be robbed of a large amount of money.

Moffatt told the man he was too busy to discuss it at the moment but invited him to come to his private office at the bank at 1 o’clock. The man turned up at the bank, introduced himself as “P.M. Wells” (a false name) and asked Moffatt if cashier S.N. Wood was in, but told he was at lunch. He then asked for a blank check with which he would demonstrate how the robbery was going to be perpetrated.

When the check was given to him, he laid it on the desk in front of Moffatt, said “I will have to do this myself," pulled a large revolver out of his coat pocket and held it to Moffatt’s head. He then said [words to the effect of]: "I want $21,000 and I am going to have it. I have considered this matter and the chances I am running and the consequences if I fail and am arrested. I am penniless, and a desperato man, and have been driven, during the past week, to that point where I have considered suicide as the only means of escape from the poverty and misery in which I exist. You have millions, and I am determined to have what I asked for, or your life. If you make a noise, call a man, or ring a bell, I will blow your brains out and then blow up the building and myself with this bottle of glycerine [which he then pulled out of another pocket.] Now take your choice!"

Moffatt began to argue but was told he had two minutes to fill out the check for $21,000 or be shot. Moffatt filled out the check, was marched to a teller’s counter at gunpoint (the gun concealed beneath the man’s coat) and ordered the paying teller, a Mr. Kelly, to get it cashed. Moffatt was then marched back to his office but, after three or four minutes, the man became impatient and ordered Moffatt to summon the teller. Moffatt complied and instructed the teller to bring the money into the office but, as the teller turned back towards his counter, the man added that in addition to bills he wanted $1,000 in gold coin.

After the money was brought, the man left the office, backed out of the bank’s front door onto the sidewalk, raised his hat and disappeared around the corner. Moffatt then raised the alarm (none of the bank employees had noted anything particularly suspicious until then) and a man hurrying down the street pursued by officers was arrested, but released after Moffatt was asked to identify him and said he wasn’t the robber.

 

[jeff of pa]

the sad part in 1904 a Fellow could Spend the Whole day at a saloon
Gambling, buying Beers , 10 cent Cigars & 50 Cent Whores for everyone & Still have a Probem Getting Change for a $10,000


btw too many hits: 152,217 matches for "$10,000 bill" in the Following 100 Years (1904 – 2004} to Try & Trace it through News Reports :

 

[Red-Coat]

Apparently, the robber was later identified as Tom McCarty and, after leaving the bank, he had handed the money to an accomplice, Matt Warner. Both escaped, by losing themselves in the busy crowd on the street.

Still at liberty, McCarty and Warner together with McCarty’s brother Bill enlisted the help of a then 23-year-old Butch Cassidy for a robbery at the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colorado on 24 June 1889. They got away with another $21,000. Despite their identities being known, no-one was ever arrested for either robbery and the men went on to bigger robberies with various outlaw gangs.

Tom McCarty fled to Montana in 1893 after a bank robbery in Delta, Colorado where he had shot and killed a cashier. He settled in Montana, working as sheepherder but was killed in a gunfight in Bitterroot County in 1900.

Tom McCarty:

In 1896, Warner had been involved in a gunfight where he shot and killed two men and wounded a third and was arrested after a shoot-out in Vernal, Utah. Warner claimed ‘self-defence’ at trial but was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released after serving three years and four months, with the Utah governor issuing him a pardon on his promise to go straight. In later years he was elected justice of the peace and then served as a deputy sheriff.

 

[KYgotGOLD]

Dizzy Digger,
Here's the AI Overview of a casino shill:
"In blackjack, a "shill" refers to a person employed by a casino to act as a player in a game, often to keep the game active or to create an illusion of a lively atmosphere. Shills are essentially professional "gamblers" who are paid to play with casino money, and they are not allowed to bet on their own or keep any winnings."
Don in SoCal
PS: The best shills were attractive women who would act as regular customers but, if fact, they were employees placed at vacant tables to attract other gamblers. We were given a certain amount of chips to play with until at least two other players sat down to play; then we would more to another vacant table and repeat the process--all the while learning how to deal--my next job. So the next time you see an attractive lady playing blackjack by herself, use caution since your attention may not be on your cards but on her--as the house expects.
Don....

Thanks for the tip 🫡

 

[goldnugget]

I was in Las Vegas in 1967 and viewed that Display . It was on my 21st Birthday and making $24.00 every 2 weeks in the Military Great Memories . stayed at The Sahara and Liza Mannelli was the The Show Entertainer , I still have the Dinner Menu