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He was born in Montgomery County, Missouri to Edwin Samuel Eames, an immigrant from England, and Cora A. Calvin of Ohio. He came to Grand Junction from Telluride in the early Twentieth century. He ran a gambling hall called the Biltmore above the Merchant's Cafe in what later became the J.C. Penney's building on Main Street. He was said to have been a very generous man with his money, donating baskets of food to hundreds of residents over Thanksgiving....
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He frequented the Biltmore gambling club on Grand Junction, Colorado’s Main Street. There, he witnessed the death of J.W. “Big Kid” Eames, owner of the Biltmore, at the hands of armed robbers.
3) Wagner
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A banker who stole money from the Chase Bank in New York in order to fund his bank in Telluride. After getting out of Federal prison, he worked as a dealer for J. W. "Big Kid" Eames in the Biltmore gambling parlor, located in the upstairs of the J.C. Penney's building on Grand Junction's Main Street.
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He was born to Charles "Chalk" Dinkins and Margaret (Hyatt) Dinkins in Salida, Colorado, and grew up there. According to US Census records, his father worked as a steward for the Elks Club for many years. His mother was a homemaker. He became a machinist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad as a young man. He moved to Grand Junction sometime in the 1920's or 30's, where he was the co-owner of Costanzas Liquor Store. He married Bernadine Goe in...
5) Jake Fleagle
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A member of the Fleagle Gang. With his brother Ralph and, at times, Herbert Royston and George Abshier, they robbed several banks around the West, including the First National Bank of Lamar. After fatal shootings during that robbery, the whole gang was hunted down, with Jake being the last man found. During the manhunt, Jake reputedly spent some time in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he frequented the Biltmore gambling club operated by Big Kid Eames....
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A California inmate in San Quentin Prison who was paroled by his mother into the supervision of Charles Lumley in Mesa County. With the help of two fellow parolees, Tommy Humotoff and Otis Slane, he started the COPECO dance hall in the 1920s, in an old barn and packing shed owned by his mother. The facility had been used previously by Elmer Craven for his COPECO fruit growing business in the Hunter District (According to D.A. Brockett, Sadler ran...
