New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-19
ARREST OF GAMBLING-HOUsE KEEPERS.

The smoothest scoundrels 10 this community
are PROFESSIONALLY the keepers of fashionable
gambling. houses. Mark their accurate attire
as they appear abroad in the street
their yellow kid gloves, polished boots, spotless
lirep, elegantly cut cloth. Cleanliness is akin to
goodness, but every rue has its exceptions. as
these we'll washed and well-dressed scouudrels
prove They prefer 10 keep company with "gen
tlemen;" to be well versed in the prOprietes and
cou1tesies Of society, and accordingly fashion
able mieu aid tailor are necessarily to them the
bases OF action. But that apart, look at them.
What DO they do Nothing Nay, if it were
Only nothing. it might pass in the crowd but
they live by plumber. They are literally robbers
on the highway. They inveigle their victims by
mbtifOrm wiles, and strip them Of their last shll
ling and having taken money by thousands, they
are equally prodigsl in spending it The
robber talking to Alexander said he took
poor but be was lot the less robber. So these
hell-keepers are not the less swinders because
they are profuse with a surplus. The chronic vii
ainy Ct profes SIGNAL gamblers, the fact that they
all are cheats, was fully set forth by Green a re:
formed brother of the sect He laid it down as
an axiom that any man playing with these fellows
is invariably swndtd, aud stated that false cards
were as common as players, and were especially
manufactured with marks to suit the wants of the
initiated. That any man who keeps gambling
house would stop at cheating to any extent which
COL cealment in his opinion would admit Of is not
to be doubted And yet for years, as publicly as
the transactions of the City Hall, have
gambling houses been open in this city. They
are as well known to tn, Mayor and
the police as the park, and yet they
faunt their seductions to the verdant fool or the
wesried rOue. Il this ever to end Are we to
fold our arms ard say that the gambling-house
with its perpetual robbery, Is necessary evil, an
integral part of the inevitable vices of great city
and capDOl be abolished Or are wo to remind
our magistrates that they ought to exterminats
such an evl7 But while they fail to do their duty
in the premises, ii is a consolation that the law
opens some means of redress to the victims If
these reveIs and plunderers, and that once in
while one of the deluded and stripped has courage
10 bring the gamblers to the bar Of justice. We
have already chronicled the arrest Of some of the
more notorious of them on the complaint of Mr..
Jennings 1t seems that they have been held to
ball. and that the following persons have become
bail for their appearance to take their trial:
For Pat Hearn and Alexander Edgar Charles
Wills, l9 Seventh avenue.
For Joseph S. Hal George Spear, Broadway.
For Sherlock HiHman, William e. Burdick, II Lib
er'y street.
For J.6ersen Wells and George Beers, John Kesfe,
126 Crosby street.
The highly respectable solid men who go bail
for gamblers, deserve due acknowledgment, and
we have accordingly emphasized the moral splen-
dor of their action. But now that a batch of
gamblers have been arrested, and have given bail,
it will be well to keep lookout upon the Jury,
District Attorney, and Count, and see whether the
affair is to be overslaughed for the twentieth time
again, or whether justice is to be done upon the
oily scoundrels. We shall not let the matter drop
depend upon it.