"A man may outslick them on a rum deal or steal their gal and they may let it go at that but when their treasured cribbage board is hijacked it simply means pistols before breakfast and may the best man win."
We've been roamin' newspaper archives finding cribbage stories and this is A Gem published July 26, 1930 in "The Times Herald" at Port Huron, Michigan. Here is the link to the original article. See below the graphics for an interesting sidebar story.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83670286/jailhouse-cribbage-board-swiped-1930/
We went roaming to attempt to find a photo of prisoners playing cribbage but had no luck. We did, however, find this truly interesting spin-off on Cribbage called "Crooks."
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