Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-10
THEY PLAYED POLICY
Some Slim Excuses offered by Two sus-
pected Parties.
On. Went to viYs,na to Attend .
Funeral and the Other Walked
for His Health.

Under Judge kimbaffs ruling in alleged
| vagrancy cases involving the going across
the river and gambling a number of per-
sons who attend the races are Migrants and
they are liable to be arrested at any time
during their numerous trips to the place
| where they bet their money. The ruling has
been made in cases Of poor persons going
over the free bridge to play policy. and in
a number of cases the judge has said that
persons who make habit Of going over to
the policy shops day after day come within
| the provisions Of the law.
'"rhey are idle persons" said the Judge.
who probably does not understand the men,
tai strain under which the gamblers are.
They are persons Of evil ife," the Judge
| also says, land their associations are evil"
AS heretofore printed in The Star, Police
man Bradley is detailed at the free bridge in
Georgetown, and yesterday he made three
arrests suspecting that the persons arrest
ed had either played the seductive game
| for themselves or others. One of the pris-
oners was a colored woman, named Cecilia
| Dodson. She was dressed in silks and
satins, and was just returning from a
| funeral in Virginia, where, as she said, she
had attended the funeral of one of the
brothers in the Good Samaritans. Cecilia
| is Good Samaritan, and she exhibited her
| badge to Judge kimball While over the
river she played cents In the policy shop
And she also told the court she had played
before, as she wanted to raise money to
| pay her rent.
According to the evidence Of the officer
Cecilia has been going over the river twice
a day, and yesterday, when he arrested her.
she pretended that she knew nothing about
| policy. 1t became necessary to take her to
searched her. While being searched she
| threw away row of numbers. On her
letticoat the officer found these numbers:
1-S-16, 4-10-6S, 10-1G-45, 59--16
H.
| Of the garment. She first said 1t belonged
| to her daughter, and later she said she bor
rowed 1t from neighbor.
When questioned by Judge Kimball
| Cecilia said she had attended two funerals
| in Virginia during the past week, and each
| time she tried her luck at policy.
Judge Kimball. commenting on the case,
| said he would hold all these frequent visit
tors to the policy shops as coming within
| the provisions of the vagrancy law.
These poor people," the judge said. "are
| going to these places and spending the
| money they will need this winter. They are
| throwing away their few pennies with an
| idea that they will get some return for their
| money, but 1T Is nothing but game of rob-
| berry, and they have been lured into 1t be-
| cause of the temptation, as they imagine.
| to get a large sum of money. Women,
children and old men have been enlisted in
| the service, because of an idea that they
Will not be prosecuted.
But said the judge, this business has
poor people understand ii the better"
Cecilia was required &c give security
in the sum Of 500 or go down for thirty
days. the Judge telling her that a repeti-
ton of the offense will be punished by a
more severe sentence.
Amos Brown, a colored hoy out of job
who has been seen going over the bridge
almost every day, was pext tried. but the
police failed to connect him with the policy
busin ess. y Il
Il have been going over there to work at
odd jobs was his statement.
The judge required him to give his per-
sonal bonds and he promised to keep off
| the bridge
The third member of the trio arrested yes
terday was an old Irish citizen named
Daniel Noonan. The officer said he had
seen Dan go over the bridge twice a day
and had seen him enter one of the policy
shops. His excuse, said the officer, was
that he went over the bridge twice q day
by order of the doctor.
And this was his excuse to the judge
Il never played policy in my life," said
Dan to the court.
why do you go in the policy shops?"
"Only walk In and look around"
why don't you so out northwest" the
judge asked.
THE hills are too high for my sickness"
But there are valleys in that direction"
the judge told him.
Daniel was required to give bond in the
sum Of $50 or go down for thirty days.