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LAS VEGAS AGE
12/2/1916

GAMBLING CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM

CONDUCTOR TOM PAYNE KILLS HIMSELF AFTER LOSING HIS MONEY AT GAME.

    At Caliente, about 4 o'clock Thanksgiving morning, Conductor Tom 
PAYNE came to his caboose after spending most of the night at the 
gamling table.  He roused his brakeman, Bob PETTIBONE, asking if he was 
awake.  Receiving an affirmative reply, PAYNE disrobed and got into his 
bunk.  Shortly, thereafter PETTIBONE heard a shot. He got out of bed 
and found PAYNE in his bunk with a bullet hole over his heart.
    Arrangements were quickly made by brakeman Bob PETTIBONE and B. F. 
DRAPER to bring the injured man to this city by special train. Here he 
received the attention of Dr. HEWETSON and was made as comfortable as 
possible.  Owing to the nature of the wound, PAYNE was taken to the Good 
Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles Thursday night on number one. It was 
reported that he had a possible chance for recovery, but death came at 
7:30 Friday evening.
    Tom PAYNE was very well known in this city having worked out of here 
for the past six or seven years. With his wife he resided in one of the 
Woodard apartments. His worst fault is said to have been his weakness 
for gambling and he is said to have threatened suicide before as a 
result of his losses at a game in Las Vegas. After shooting himself he 
is reported to have made the remark, "I thought I was some gambler, and 
I was as long as my money lasted." His life is but one more added to 
the long list of those who have gone down to death as victims of the 
lust of gambling since the present law was passed by the state 
legislature.

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LAS VEGAS AGE
12/9/1916

CARD OF THANKS

    Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 7, 1916.
    Whereas the Almighty Ruler in His wisdom has seen fit to take from 
our midst and Order, our beloved brother W. T. PAYNE, and
Whereas we feel that our Order has lost a good and faithful member, the 
community an honorable citizen, and this order a dutiful, conscientious 
Brother, and
Whereas we wish to extend our sympathy to the wife and relatives, in 
this their hour of grief and affliction,
Therefore, be it resolved, That the Charter of Bullfrog Division No. 
520, Order of Railway Conductors, be draped in mourning for a period of 
thirty days in respect to our deceased brother, W. T. PAYNE; that a copy 
of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the Order and a copy 
forwarded to the bereaved wife.
                C. O. SNYDER
                R. H. POTTS
                N. J. GILDNER,
                        Committee