The evening times., 1895-10-25
skET'sHOPS MUST GO

District. Attorney BIrney Orders
a Warrant to Issue.
F STREET DEALER ARRESTED
Kapel Kurnlsky Taken Into Custody
by Detectives-Charged With yio-
jatfng the Gaming ws-Prosecu-
tiOns BASED Upon Decision in MIL
1er's Case-Eifect of the Action.
District Attorney Birney has declared
war on the bucket-shops.
he Is determined to rid the city Of the
large number now In existence.
The method by which II Will be done is to
direct warrants to be issued for the pro-
prietors.
They Will be brought into court and tried
for violating the gaming laws of the Dis
trict.
This action is taken In view of the re-
cent decision of Justics Bradley In the
Fred. Miller case.
He Is confident that convictions can be
obtained aud that the evil Will soon be
wiped out
To-day he directed a warrant to be t.
sued Tor Kapel Kurnisky, the proprietor
OF the shop on + street. near Fourteenth.
Mr. MRNEY's OPINION.
In speaking of the matter, Mr.. Birney
said:
Bucket shops have become so common
in this city, and they are conducted in such
eminent violation OF the law, that we are
determined to break them up" said the
district attorney.
I'VE are warranted. believe. In going
ahead on the ruling of Judge Cole In the
case OF Frederick Miller, who was indicted
for setting up gaming table in conducting
bookmaking at the Bennin race track, and
who subsequently plead guilty, when he
was released on his personal bonds. At any
rate we will pursue a vigorous fight against
the gaming shops.
At this time IL is believed that there are
at least thirty bucket-shops in the city.
and it is said that the amount of money lost
in one day in them is greater than that car.
ried across Long Bridge to jackson City and
the race track dives in one week.
HE HAS BEEN THERE.
A gentleman remarked to-day. who has
lost $50, 600 in "buiiing and bearing"
My experience has cost me a pretty
pile, and believe there is no greater evil
Inenacing the community than these bucket
shops.
THE very fact that there Is a seeming
respectability about them tempts many a
man who would not go Into gambling
joint or Infamous dive to go In and try his
luck. 1t is simply useless to try to win
| when the quotations are manipulated by
alleged brokers'. whose wires do not run
outside of their offices, and whose commits
sion IN the long run eats up everything.
.'0ut OF the humber that are now ope-
rating in the city there are very few that
have any financial standing at all, and are
liable to go under at any moment. Carry
ing with them the money in their care
before the spectators have had chance
to lose II.
There is no greater reform that The
Times could support than To rid Washing
ton OF the bucketshops. and am sincerely
glad that Mr. Birney has at last called
halt to IL. IL should have been done
long ago"
TOO QUICK FOR HIM.
Mr.. Kutntsky was arrested this AFTER
noon by Detectives Quinian and Heian
on q warrant charging him with keeping
"bucket snop' at No. 1881 F street.
The two detectives have been getting
information in regard to the place for sew
eral DAYS and the warrant was sworn out
for him yesterday. Kurnisky began to close
out his business as soon as he found out
that the authorities were going to put a
stop to it, but they were too quick for him.
Mr.. Kurnitzki closed his office on last
Saturday. and has wanted to sell out. 1t
has gone ha nj with good ma ny concerns in
this business In the past six months
Mr.. Kurnitzki has had few customers
and got behind. He was formerly near
Seventh and F, and sold out there to sat
isfy his creditors.
There are sui abogt twenty concerns
along street between Sixth and Four
teerth doing Il ticker" business. II the
district attorney can make a case aga inst
Kurnisky it may close all of them and
sndt ouj this KIND of trading in Washing
ton az ~effectuaIly as pool selling and
racing have been stopped.
There is a tleast one decision of a Fed
eral court to support Mr.. Birney's position.
This was rendered by the late Judge Bax-
ter, OF Nashville, in the case of victim
OF Chicago house, who lived at Owens
boro. KY. Judge Baxter's opinion in the
case took strong ground against such deal
ing as was opposed to good public policy,
and. in effect, gaming.