The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-19
AFTER THE GAMBLERS.
THE GRAND JURY MAKING 1T
LIVELY FOR THEM.

Five Indicted But Only Two Caught
The Others Skip With the Banks"
Funds-The Days of Big Deals over
in Savanuah-The Authorities Keep
Too Sharp q Lookout for the Game
to Run Successfully.
There is quite a furry among the sport
ing fraternity since it has leaked out that
there we're five of them indicted by the
superior court grand jury last week for
gambling, and one for permitting
the dealers to occupy a room on his
premises. All the indicted parties have
skipped the city but two, who were arrested
on bench warrant and gave bond in the
sum of 81, 900 each for their appearance in
the superior court.
Sam Titcomb, Jack Monahan, William
McKenna AID Massey Massart are the par
ties wanted Massart, who is said to have
dealt what is known am ng the fraternity
as stud poker" got wind Of the investiga-
ZION by the grand jury and skipped for New
York. IltcOmb, 50 the boys say, was dea,-
ing faro, and thinking that # he were
brought before the court again it would go
hard with him, vent off On a pleasure tour,
and it is claimed was seen III Atlanta last
day morning and weut to Charleston. He
had been indicted at a former term Of the
court, filed an exculpatory affidavit, prom
lsed not to violate the laws again, and got
on with light sentence, 50 that under all
the clrcums auces surrounding the case be
evidently felt that a visit out Of the state
at this time would be opportune.
SKIPPED WITH THE DOODLE.
From information that has leaked out it
appears that Monahan, who remained be-
hind, Jared the worst, as one Of the refu-
gees Is said TO have taken all the money
that was in the pool, which it is claimed
amounted to about S425, on the
day the game was broken up. One Of the
dealers who is said to have decamped with
the funds Of the 'b4nkn was as anxiously
looked for Saturday night by his friend
and alleged partner" as by the court
officers.
There's no use talking" said one of the
fraternity yesterday the days of big deals
are over IN Georgia. You can't even run
a ten-cent ante with dollar limit any
more, among gentlemen. Respectable gam
bling Is sat down on, but the skin games
and The wheels of fortune are running in
hair dozen places or more and nothing said
about 1t. What show have the boys now,
when they bring man from New York to
Savannah on q requlSltion for playing a
little game Of Stud poker, yet cashier can
rob bank or a state officer can plumber a
state treasury and 60 over to Toronto aud
laugh at you. It's no use; the boys have got
to let up on it, OF the first thing they know
it'll be $1,000, and Il job on the chain-gang.
They'll have to quit or do their playing at
the clubs"
THE PRIVATE SNAPS.
'You don't mean that they run games at
the clubs, do yOup
"You might set it down that way.
don't say they have the Doodle up; but they
have the cards and the poker checks, nj
between gentlemen you know it is not alb
sOlutely necessary to show up the sinners
till the games off. OF course they play
What's the matter with the card parties at
private residences with 50 much "A corner
Just to make the game interesting YOU
know Oh, no, you are a blessed Innocent,
you are, if you think all the gambling is
done by the professional gamblers. How
many professionals do you sup
pose there are in Savannah Not
ten, and they dasn't run game.
Once in while stranger drops in and
runs bank between courts, and the boys
call around and bust it to sorter keep their
hands in, but they amt playing much the
past two years. The boys had no business
to run the game here during court without
being little shy about it. But it was
cheap game and they wasn't earning salt,
and got reckless"
1t was reported last night that one of the
court balliffs returned from Charleston yes
terday after a fruitless effort to find Nc
Kenna, and very much chagrined that the
trip had been q failure Friends of IitcOmO
say that he can't keep away from Savan-
nah, and that there is no use Of spending
money to hunt him up, as he will soon get
homesick, and when he makes q raise he
will come homo and face the music. He has a
wife and child, the latter only a few months
old, which are malnsprings that it is be-
lieved will soon bring him home.