The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-15
THE DALLAS HERALD. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY Is. 1880

said would not prefer charges against Nor,
ton or any one; said | would not call upon
| Arnold or any other policeman, as wit
nesse; have borrowed money frequently from
Craddock, Fendrich, Brownee, Bohny; never
from Campbell or Kain, except one time,
nor from any of the other gamblers; Mr.
BohDy never read me the ordinance on
gambling, telling lie | was fning gamblers
too low; don't remember that he ever did,
went to Bohny, after ordinance wentinto effect
and asked him what ought to be the fines of
prostitutes and gamblers; he said he thought
| ought to fine the prostitutes about ST 80
and the gamblers Sl0 don't know that the
committee called my attention to the fines,
but that some of the city officers did The
last sentence WAS afterwards stricken out md
the following substituted: | think Judge
Hurt Marshal Morton OF Gibbs called my
attention to the fact that was filming under
the wrong ordinance | consulted With
Bohny MS to whether | should raise the fines;
knew there would be no costs after May
lst; the highest fines imposed upon Migrants
is $40; don't know where Mr..
Campbell is; Zimmerman said that he
WAS not authorized to say who md paid for
the clothes, but afterward said Ksin ha told
him some Of my friends mad furnished The
money, or made the present; did make re-
quest of Morton to close certain gambling
houses; | issued nm order Changed to made
reQuest to close certain gambling houses;
did not object to Marshal Morton closing ali
the gambling houses. Do not membe the
precise time when Billy Kain first opened
gambling room and Morton closed it, and did
not know that protr0cted meeting Changed
TO if any was gong on in the church in the
rear, nor do remember whose house il was;
| remember somebody inviting me to u
champagne supper at what he called his bust
ness room; ut that inc | did not know who
the parties were; | did not attend
the supper; about II O'Clock |
went into George Brownlee's saloon to get
drink; no, believe it was a cigar, snd asked
number of gentlemen to Join me, which
they did, Billy Kain came in Anal spo 6 of the
supper that had taken place 10 the adi ,iniuc
room, and asked us to 90 in and take glass
OF wine with him Lobody was in there but
a negro boy, who was cleaning up the house
| drank about one halfa glass of ne, when
retired; do not remember of ever having
said anything to Billy Kahn or anybody else,
except on one occasion when Rain asked
(added or some other gambler me whether |
had given Morton a written order to close
his house, and told him that if he had been
50 informed by Morton to have him produce
the order; told Marshal Morton as came
to court, that | noticeda keno room, and de-
scribed it as being in the rear of n saloon
kept by u young Jew Changed
to Hebrew; also one in the
rear of Brownee's saloon, and requested
him to see it, and told him that ought not to
be tolerated, but must be stopped believe
there were two saloons, one Just right be-
Nond there; heard the next morning that the
marshal had closed vii the gambling saloons.
did not object t. him closing the Others nor
never had, but told him the best plan would
be to close the worst first added: that we
first stop public gambling and retire il AS
much as possible; that it WAS impossible TO
stop it entirely; Ksn & Campbell and all
the other gamblers opposed my election,
added, MS far ss knew at the time or since(:
was iusugusated in 1870; think the trouble
about closing the gambling houses occurred
about a year ago or more; since then the
couAeil investigated the matter and disposed
of it; do not remember (added
at this time) how KAN added
or any body else) knew the fact
that had suit of clothes at Zimmermsn's
except that had spoken oft or that some
gentlemen among them, Kenneth Rayner and
DR., Keller who were in there at the time when
ordered the clothes, and think they exam.
ined them, and | asked (added atlerwards)
number of gentleman to 90 in and examine
the clothes l bad selected Ksia may have
been among the number.
This closed the mayor examination. Sew
eral other witnesses were introduced by both
the prosecution and the defence, but so
crowded are our columns of this issue tina,
we are compelled to defer publishing the re-
mainder of the testimony until our next is
sue. The INVESTIGATION closed last evening
after three days sitting of the committee.
The cas- was submitted without argument
and the committee will report at the next
meeting of the city council, when that body
will act upon the matter. What it will be |
remains to be seen.