New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-15
THE NEW SYSTEM OF BETTING ON RACES
THE CASE AGAINST THE CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY

CIuB-rHE JURY TO BE CHARGED TODAY
The trial Of the Indictment charging the Coney Island
Jockey Club with allowing poolseing on us race u"oA
at Sheepshead Bay practically ended IN inc hihs'
County Court Of Sessions In Brooklyn yeseruay'
Attorney Ridgway made the opening address to the
,urv He said that the club had two systems
recording bets and when they were
Illegal changes were made to evade inc e'er VI '
law and yet violate Its spirit The were caed
and the probable odds were posten ou. 'hc
nopev bet inst as under declared unlawful
Evidence given regard to the incorporation Oh inc
club BY Deputy County Clerk Barnard Chlei OF foce
Y McKane Coney Island testified TO going TO the race
track purchas pool ticket from comihis sohe''
Us ask ed where the ticket he said that he had
left II at home he corrected this statement ana sa
that had left it in the DstrictAttorneys once out W
Attorney reminded him that ne hao oeeh ou " hoop
II carefully at the trial. and MI Mchahe then
felt sure he had left II at in Gravesend The DIS
trictAttorney wanted him TO get it. but the conhse
for the defence to save delay produced o'ahA
ticket which answered the purpose in his evidence Inc
witness the horse did not win anu nc got no ony
back for the S. he invested. 49, , ,,,, $50 ,,
A. Wright Sanford Of the Jockey Club was next
place club where The betting was none c %
Dasa pa,d their way into and went where
@ s TG we're nS obliged Sp but
they Gould receiving per cent As soon no
S up s sSo%sS the d
eeause 'Hs n %Sn'Y not ne been %'a placed
S1Ss Thsh to sss BEST and
fecy legal All the pooseng apparatus had been removed
from The track and stands for combination betting were
strictly hidden. commissioners were SIMPLY
brokers people who did not know each other 10 pet
fhe police instructed TO see that me
betting was strictly accordance with the RUE anu
special men appointed that bets were not regis
| tered or recorded. - x,,.a
George Dram OF the Society for the Suppression OF vice
testified visit at the race track IL June ne went
The betting and made bets the odds being cried ont
recorded The only dlHerenoe p1twee e
old and the OF selling pools was that before e
men booths and they had simply laoies
The crying out the odds and the pets were IT,
| corded. NJ j. Sullivan gave similar evidence 49,, 49,, =,
Robert Pnkero we'll known detective stated that ne
OF his officers employed at the track 10 prevent
the reg sterng recording of bets contrary TO law An
called to the witness chair but when II
had not been 10 the seepshead BAY track
Ior a wear and not quertoned. James n key
one the commissioners under the new system cstneu
that he paid the TO make oral bets al te u
no violation OF the laws against gambling being allowed me
only records the receipts Tor money gwen 10
persons Offering The prosecution then ed AMI INC de
fence they would rest also as they only witnesses
they Sanford and Pnkerton had been ceh
| by the prosecution. 49,, =, ,,no
motion to the Indictment denied by Judge
who said that the case must 20 70 the Jury Alr M
counsel up The case the courI au
journed. Judge Moore will charge theJury today.