The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-11-18
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Ihe CINCINNATI Gazette is making
determined opposition to the gambling
houses of Cincinnati, and is censuring
the Mayor for not suppressing them.
We fail to see in the Gazette any opposi-
ton to the liquor establishments, which
are a thousand times more dangerous
than the gambling houses. 1t is said
that there are 200 gambling houses in
the city, and 5000 liquor houses Now
if it is right to permit all who desire to
do SO, to sell and drink liquor, in order
that personal liberty may not be in
fringed, what right has any one to say
that men shall not have the personal lib
erty to amuse themselves by gambling
We do not intend to say anything more
about the liquor business now. 1t is 10
use. The business is increasing in
fearful degree, and will work its own
cure in some way. But we will close by
publishing the following, taken from
only two numbers of the Gazette:
About 9 o'clock last night, in saloon
atthe corner of Sixth and Harriet streets,
Thomas Gilroy and his son, Peter Gilroy,
got into fracas, growing out of an old
grudge, with young man named John
Sparks. The result was that the elder
Gilroy knocked Sparks down, and the
younger gave him stab with a good
sized pocket-knife, in the skull just back
of the ear. The knife blade was bent al
most double. The wound is not dan
gerous one. Both the Gilroys were ar
rested and taken to the Third Street
Station-house. The elder was charged
with assault and battery, and the son
with malicious stabbing.
In Miller saloon, on the Reading road,
just north of Montgomery, about half
past seven o'clock last night, difficulty
occurred between Luke Drant and Philip
McBrau, in which the latter was vietori-
Gus by the use of a knife. Drant was
cut severely in several places.
Oliver Moore alias John Jones, and
man named Jacob Hass, who were living
in the house of a saloonkeeper on Free
man street, have been on spree for sew
eral days together. Yesterday they con-
tinued it, and in the evening Moore went
in to the apartments of Haas carrying a
how it could be done, he discharged sew
eral times into the bed-clothing. He
then sat down and threatened everybody
to shoot the first person who came into
the room. The wife of Haas, with her
two little girls, ran out of the house. In
the Wantonness of his drunken folly
Moore then deliberately cooked the pis-
tol and fired at Hass, the ball striking
the latter in the abdomen and producing,
it is thought fatal wound. With the
words, I'm shot" Haas sprang up and
ran out of the house. He ran along two
squares before he found couple of pa
trolmen, who returned with him to the
house Upon arriving at the entrance
they found Moore still holding his
drunken vigil with his loaded revolver,
ready to shoot any who attempted to
enter. After some persuasion they pre-
vailed on him to lay the weapon down,
whereupon they entered the room and
secured him. Haas accompanied the
party to Oliver Street Station. Neither
of the pair was sober yet, and the officers
did not pay any attention to Haas state
ment that he was shot until he had re-
peated it over and over again. A physi
clan was called, who indicated his opin-
ion that the wound was mortal. Moore
gave his name as Jones at the station,
and his real name was only ascertained
by an examination of some papers in his
possession. He is cigar-maker. Haas
is laborer, and has, as was limited,
wife and two children.
The following gives the termination of
the last named case:
Last Friday morning we gave in the
Gazette an account of the reckless shoot
ing of one Jacob Haas by a man named
Oliver Moore, alias John Jones, in
the family rooms of the former over a
saloon on Freeman street, near Lincoln
Park. Moore. who is q cigarmaker by
trade, had in company with Haas, been
ON spree for several days. They had
rooms in the same building, and Moore
was possessed of considerable money; so
their spree went on without interference
from the landlord, although Haas wife