News Never-before-seen notebook of Titanic card shark who targeted richest passengers

[Jason D. Tiller]

A professional card player targeted millionaires on board the Titanic to swindle them out of their money.

Never-before-seen notebook shows how Titanic card shark targeted rich passengers

The card shark's target list is now up for auction.

metro.co.uk

Note: The word appears to be 'Millwaukee", not 'Millionaire'.

 

[Chris Coles]

Yes it is for sure. Terrible journalism.

From wikipedia: "In 1901, Hays left GTR to serve as the President of the Southern Pacific Railway Company but returned to the company in January 1902 as Vice-President and General Manager. In October 1909, he was appointed president of GTR, which also gave him control of its subsidiary railroad and steamship companies.[5] These included the Central Vermont Railway, the Grand Trunk Western Railway, the Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway, the Detroit and Toledo Shoreline Railroad, the Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway, the Southern New England Railway Company, the Canadian Express Company, and several others."

I would suspect that it was a reminder of a trigger topic to be used to strike up a conversation with Mr Hays.

 

[Thomas Krom]

We know that one of Brereton his friends, Harry Haven Homer (1871-1939), was targeting Howard Brown Case (1865-1912) based on that on-board the Carpathia he told Mrs. Emma Lillian Hutchison that he was playing cards with him in the first class smoking room during the collision.