Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-25
RACE HORSE MEN PULLED. Charged With Violating the Gambling Laws. SWEEPSTAKESNOT ALLOWED
  That Is Gambling, But if the Club Puts Up the Stake it Is All
 Right.
WEEPSTAKES NOT ALLOWED

New York, Oct 24.zzIf the police could have transported the horses that ran at Morris Park race track this afternoon to Essex Market court nothing would have been needed to hold a second edition of the races. There were judges, book makers, speculators and clerks of the court there, but all wore an air of deep gloom, for they had been arrested at the conclusion of the seventh race by Acting Inspector Mccullough and central office detectives on the charge of violating the gambling laws.
 Lawyers Bejamin Steinhart and Julius Lehman went to the Essex Market court this morning, accompanied by George T. Henly of Brooklyn, and on behalf of the people of the state Of New York swore cut warrants for the arrest of Samuel B. Lawrence, John Doe, Richard Doe and others on four different charges of vio- latng the gambling laws
 The affidavit by Henly as against Sam uel B. Lawrence in charge of the Vest chester Racing association and others, all legeS that they participated in scheme by which the owners of the horses, o- year-old foals of 1892, get a chance in the distribution of a stake which is made up of $100 subscribed by each owner if his horse was entered on or before Au- gust 15, 1895, and subscriptions of $15 from each owner who did not enter his horse until October 5, 1895, the combinations 10 be formed into one pool, and the. West chester Racing association would add sum sufficient to make the gross sum of said pool or stake amount to $3500, and said pool or stake would be distributed or paid to the owner of the horse that should win the said race after deduct1ng $500, which should go to the owner of the second and $200 which should go to the owner of the third horse; that the different persons should have knowledge of the entries until the day they closed and weights to be carried by the horses, which was a scheme to equaliZe their chances of winning, were not to be known to the owners of the horses until three days prior to the running of said races, and that every owner will abide by cer- tain rules. known as the rules of racing. The complaint further alleged that sam uel B. Lawrence, as the Westchester Racing association, received $l00 from one John Rogers as the entrance fee for sl horse called Lucania, running in the Withers stakes, and he violated sections 944 and 1852 of the penal code relating to gambling.
 The complaint against the other men, Richard Doe, John Doe, etc, was that they aided and abetted Lawrence in the violation of the law. The warrants that were then issued by Magistrate Crane were gwen 10 ActlnS lHSpeCtoi noNai- tough to execute, and with that intent he went to the track, accompanied by the detectives. That he did not arrest Law renee is due to the fact that the latter could not be found there.
 Shortly before 5 o'clock Magistrate Crane was notified that the arrests had been made and that the prisoners were in custody. An hour afterward the fol- lowing were arragned In court: Judges Robert w. Simms of New Orleans and Clarence Mcdowell of this city, clerk of the course (alleged by the complainant, Henly, who said he was pointed out to him as such), Christopher J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn; Alleged Bookmakers Perci- val Nagle, Sigmund Ashmann, Henry Stokes, Leando Jones, Alexander McIn- tyre, William H. Davis, Henry Harris George Kunzman, Ralph Art John Ma gle George Marks and Joseph Sturgis.
 Mr Lawrence, it is thought, will sur render to the court tomorrow morning. A number of books alleged to have been used by the defendants were seized. but they were for the most part blank. Mag istrate Crane fixed bail in each case in the sum of 5000 and set the examination of the defendants for next Tuesday. Ball was furnished and all the prisoners were released Lawyers Steinhart and Leh- man state that the violation of the law consists of the running of sweepstakes; that is to say, races in which certain amounts are put up by horse owners in the nature of wager, whereas if the racing association had offered a prize by themselves it would have been consti- tutional