Daily Republican., 1882-11-24
|T6l GAMBLING CASE.
-,,Ts OF TEE oEEI0ERS I1
kTbhES11 ar POLICE AND
TIE MAYOR'

officers ~ ~. !, case. made the IolloW-
ke gaubllpss y the reporters, with
sassnent,Ss ,sat 10 the they Be published.
rslasssns. sn.s 'uS officials expressed Their "
Aoi the tnSI1 10 swear to the truth Oh
|stlr .tSSSy SyicEers made his S'A'em'n'
sod sniSi niabt of BlAke's arrest Officer
DO the ny I vent down Front street;
fo1nd hat ,S the trouble was and ne
My NO "l his way l want to ia IL WIZ
step sui@ ant Of the crowd with
4 Wepss V hat he had been into
Hes he s1i% lOst what money no had;
fes anu Sad been trying to whip him
they nsI u had cut at him with a ra'
bere anu il.r.ed nn together up French
Ws,S We S second and the crow l fol,
toTSIJd ordered them back and asked 9d
oSst he wanted done. he
tklsy WI wa" Pete Blake arrested for
y, ! wITI ' Gambling house ! said. !
pn9S 9..t him without o warrant. |
tNSS NloSs' where can l go to get a
TtpllseG' 7 said, You can 60 to the
rAA" IA said, win you go with
\ SSt : ,spllsd, 'Mr. Canneu Will gol
Twill stay here
n.y., WI, to a question BY . reporter,
lat,d positively that shookleS was
I dlanrc; cannon said that he came up
~, s,II With Shockley, and found
y sIsiip MI the office. shockley was
Snasr SD,Ss a arrest, neither Was he drunk.
uIu't ,SS cSisf that he wanted to swear
.nS s."Ut U- for the arrest Of Peter s.
!. VstI tOr Essbing q gambling house;
" SGsrSisi nj Of Police then took up tfe
y a"0 GuiS and said: Officer Cannon and
lSISO aSi.v came into my Office about 10.
S S'sIcck. Cannon said 'onlei, te'S
oV.CS wsnts to get out a warrant l
,WSot's the matter with him !?
,t,sv aid he had been In Blake's
~ aitI KAT evening and they had beat
y ont tI n bis money. He had kicked
sIs Ts' chen Il somebody, q forget the
Y. %Iv voT assaulted him, and he threw
\ ovar war chair, and then one OF the
\, OrUi Sut At him (shockley) with q
', IA said he wanted warrant
w., ~ Peter s, Blake for keeping a
uS,ro mi house and added, "lf you
\ @ now yon can get them" 1 consld-
the matter over we'll, and then
MI with Officers Mcconnell and
MON @ We met Vickers at Second
Walnut streets. Things looked
N then, and said we had better go
h and sse what the man has to say
Mars was left down there. l came
II to the Hall with Sergeant McCon-
He went round on his beat 10 see
men, When got to the ottce
oOklsv was gone. After waiting
sre about ton minutes, he came 6acs
ssid he wanted o warrant for Peter
make. l telephoued to the mayor tt
sOW If he was In his Office he said hi
d | told him q man wanted U U
par ont warrant against Peter 3
lke for keeping a gambling house
assaulting him, l said shall
Ch the man round ?" he said, "Fetcl
IN around" | took Shockley arount
asmayor and he said that he wanted
swear out q warrant against Peter 5
hike for keeping a gambling house.
The Mayor Questioned him in regar'
the gambling and he said that
Ame Of Carls was played, for which
Ne proprietor took two cents Toll o
Ch man, on draw-board, that was
mink what they called it. Pete
Blake, he Said, had the sweat cloth
mother party took the draw-board TO
be game aL cards. There were
ozsn or so betting on it round tn
Weat-Cloth. The man went on to to-
e mayor of this game. The mayo
sked If any ether party had seen 1
Npd he said there were fifteen or twent
there at the time when he wa
ehuCked out" The man was swor
nd the mayor read out the warran
Ihe mayor asked Shockley to sig
iS name; he said that he couldn'
Prite very we'll and would make h
bark, Then LIE said, "Mr. Mayor, that
Pc place where these bargains an
h.eS are made with people of m
OlOr" The mayor said, "We've notl
ng to do with politics. l went baC
pt the office and met Sergeant McCo
ell and officers Adams, Zirby. Ke
sdy and Cannon. We met, 1 think,
econd and Walnut. l left Otic
lckers with Adams, Kennedy Ar
lrby on Walnut street; myself, St
eant Mcconnell and Officer Canno
rent down on Front street; got wit
\ tho door of Peter s. Blake's barb
lopi his son came to the door and
galEed In, right through the barb
hOp 10 the back room. There sto
Fetet 8. Blake with his dice-box in
hand and the board and cloth in fro
q him. Some of the men round t
loard had mon sy in their fingers; o
Them said There's the chief"
Bake looked up l said to him az
variant against you sworn out
rAcCkley." put the men in a Ii
lAdmarched them to the hall. Th'
vas NJ question asked at all by me,
regard to Peter s. Blake. One day Il
sssk, this man Shockley came to
once, called me out, and told me u
rsIer :. Blake and ex-Chief Of Pol
naxWell were trying 10 put up q
~ me. / said, "what are they doing
nsSaid that Peter s. Blake was at
1UuSe on Monday night talking to hi
asked him what number his ho
way he said 712 Orange street.
1Aid That Blake wanted him TO say t
soS out the warrant for him and
.aemayor, and that he was arres
aIu taken up there and forced to
wnat he did do. Blake wanted him
say that, and he said that II he did
suat, they could have nae arrested
making a false arrest. On Tues'
Ilght, the l4th Of November, about
S w man Cannac, known as Win
nyers and Blake went TO his, She
,oys hou e, and took him, Shock
p'uno pplouno to Maxwell's house. Peter
Dlake wanted him to sw ear that ne
arrested ard taken to the hall and
"nlei Hawkins posted him to swear
warrant against Peter s. Blake. I
~ sald that Maxwell told him TO
aAs ne was arrested there and take
y. .ae nal, and told Shockley that / CT
~ 'ae chief for false arrest. He
~ sSas Maxwell told him that he CT
a.. a. u all right with the Avtorney.(
tnis was the story that Shockley
p me- | told him not to mind what
r nlake said, or anybody else, that