In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot
dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they
claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon's seat empty and
none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a
new player to take Fallon's place and staked him with the dead man's $600.
By the time the police had arrived
to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings.
The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon's next of kin – only
to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon's son, who had not seen
his father in seven years!
(Source: Ripley's
Giant Book of Believe It or Not!)
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