The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-12-18
Gamblers and Gambling.


Gamblers and Gambling.
Wellington would not of course be
able to maintsin its claims ss an aspi-
rant for city honors unless it had its
gambling hells as well as its other pla-
ces of resort, for a certain sort of gent
ry who have learned that it is easier to
live by their wits than to earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow, and
so an upper room i'm Union Block has
| been fitted up for the occupancy of GER
tain ''lewd fellows of the baser sort"
where they ply their nightly games,
while more stupid and industrious peo-
pie are engaged in honest sleep.
Experience has shown that such
places are a good thing to have in q
town, they are so refining and elevat-
ing in their tendencies, and many of
our young men with enterprising pro-
cliviti q, are not slow to avail them
selves of the opportunity to turn an
s'honest penny" into their pockets by
more expeditions and less laborious
method than earning it. We would
not like to intimate that those VIII o FREE
quent this room for the purpose men,
| toned are disrcputable in character, for
the truly good and fashionable of our
select circles, sometime admit them to
their homes and our daughters join
with them in social pastime and the gay
dance, and to admit such an Inference
would not be altogether comforting to
| our self-respect. 1t would hardly be
fair to charge that all who frequent
this room are as bad as those who have
been detected in practices not approved
by our code of social morality, though
they do put themselves on terms of So
oial equality with them. There must
OF course, as the old adase has it, be
honorable men among thieves" or do
we forget, and is IL 'honor among
thieves" which last is not so comfort
ing, but probably nearer the truth.
But this is not what we started to say.
A man by the name of Calf, a resident
of Ashland county, paid our town VS.
it short time ago and was introduced
by one of the noble youths of welling-
ton to an upper room where money is
made easy, where it is. supposed ten
men can shut themselves in and by sue
cessful business manipulations. all in
due course of time come out with more
money than they had when they went
in. Our friend went I'm with Sl2o and
after a few hours had lost s25, and ra-
NOR has il that the remainder was deftly
abstracted from his pocket by one James
Adams and John Kunz, (no relation to
our barber, however,) while he
was engaged in his games. At the
close of their evenings work, one of
this precious pair had s43 and the other
S45, ard as there was probably not $40
in the pockets of both at the beginning
and they had gained but s25 in their
games, and possibly they not all OF that,
they found themselves in the very un-
fortunate and suspicious condition of
being too rich.
Both were arrested and the evidence
being sufficiently strong Mr.. Kunz was
put under $500 bond to appear at the
Court of Common Pleas, and James
Adams was first put under bonds of the
same amount, but by the efforts of his
counsel 1t was reduced to $500 and lie
then billed his client. Kunz could not
furnish bail and accordingly was lodged
In Jail.
The night after his trial, Adams
with confederate, visited n house
where GalC was staying, and proceeded
to demolish him, but the outcries oft
female portion of the household bring
ing n large number of the town peo-
pie on the premises, obliged them to
desist and leave for other and unknown
parts.
We have no disposition to prejudice
these cases in advance, but we cannot
refrain from giving the opinion that
justice is sometimes quite rs commen-
dable as mercy. When man has re-
peatedly shown himself to be wicked
and dangerous, especially when intoxi-
Gated, it is about As well te let him take
the penalty of violated law as to try to
help him evade it or get around it, or
make it light and easy for him. We
have no patie nee with that kind of sent
imentalism that lets ones pity overcome
every attribute of justice.
Criminals are not ordinarily made
better by suffering them to escape de-
scryel punishment and in the good
time coming when public sentiment has
reached such stage of advancement
the penalty will overtake the criminal
with the certainty of fute and they will
have no encouragement TO take chances
with crime by the hope that soft
hearted people will condone their mis-
deels and allow them to go free.
The delays and crooks and turns AMI
evasions and escapes OF the law give
large room for hope to the cvil-dispos-
ed, that though he sin he shall go un-
punished, and to an extent hardly
dreamed of encourage Iawlessness and
crime.
Society has soi.le rights in SUCH cases
and when counsel protect their clients
from injustice, their duty has been
we'll and faithfully discharged, and any
effort to protect them from well merited
punishment not only does harm to the