The evening times., 1895-10-31
THE GAMBLERS
Alexandra County Grand Jury
at Last Takes Action.
TIMES EXPOSE Is FRUITFUL
The Notorious Men who Have Been
Conducting the Oak Grove and
Hades Resorts VIII he Tried In No
vembcr-SpeciaI States Attorney
Marbury VIII Prosecute Them.

The grand jury Of Alexandra Comfy ID
now IN fair way TO rid Virginia Of the
! horde of gamblers. touts, thugs AMI thieves
| who have made Jackson City. RosIyn ami
| the race tracks places of Infany = nd public
I reproach.
The war of The Times against the gam
bierS at Jackson City and at RoSslyH was
pushed with much yigor last summer and
| with such detail as to time. plac Ci-cum-
! Stance, and persons that thc grand 1ury
| OF alexandria county acted promptly yes
tertia ayreturuing gindictuients gainst everaI
OF the gentlemen Of the green cloth who
were named last summer in The Times
public indictments.
The men indicated are John Heath. sr.,
John Heath, ir., James Heath, Edward,
Heath. Charles Heath. James Davis James
Lee Farnhaul, Harry Riley, Jack Walsh.
and Robert Slater.
In addition TO this n true bill was re-
turned against John Heath. sr., for selling
liquor on sunday.
Several of the names OF the Indicted VIII
be recalled, as those published by The Times
when ii made its expose of the gambling
dens at RoSSlyn or more definitely the oak
Grove a nj UadeS resorts lust a cross tl, river
from the Georgetown University.
COLLECTING THE EVIDENCE.
At these two places a Times man found
two houses in full blast, with everything
wide open, stud horse poker. crap. straight
poker. faro, keno, roulette. and all the other
technical names under which the process
OF robbing cailow youths and green grown
men is conducted. Whisky was flowing
as freely as the tile Of the Potomac and
the revelry was several stories high. At
one table in the upper room Of one Of these
dens there We're eighty young and old
men playing keno, the lower floor being
devoted to the card games.
Whiie all this w3s going ON there Were
in the room the representative of The
Times and several agents Of .h,. Beard
OF Trade, both agencies actine separately.
The Board of Trade, through Mr.. F. l.
Moore. chairman of u special committee
to suppress these evils. digrSte, the in
formation II obtained and sent IL to the gov
ernor OF Virginia, who promised ~ soon
as his attorney general got back from "a
country town that he would have him
break up the whole business. So far as
the pubiic has been informed the attorney
general of virginia is still ut The country
town attending to business of State.
WHAT THE TINES DID.
The information gathered by the Board
of Trade and that of The Times, which was
published on the morning after the dis
coveries, have evidently been now con-
sidered by the grand jury of Alexandria
as to what view the jury would take or
The cases. 1t will also be Remembered
that the Board of Trade secured the assist
ance of the District Commissioners. who
authorized the detail of special officers,
and n raid was made on the dens after III. =
public exposition of names and place by
The Times.
The result Of this raid was the capture
Of several bushels OF poker chips and other
paraDhernalla OF 4 first-class highway rob-
berry joint. This was the property Of
Mcssrs. Nelson and Foster. whose names
were also published in The Times, and VINO
were indicted some time since. Their
case will come up at the approaching term.
TO BE TRIED SOON.
The evidence was sent to the grand Jury
in the Heath ct al. cases by the new common
wealth's attorney. Leonard Marbury. who
VIII doubtless make a reputation III The
cases. as he is determined to convict the
whole gang or those OF them who remain
in the county
Judge Chichester, it is said. is also anxious
that the county be rid of the blot which
those chevalers d industric have put upon
1t for it will he remembered that when
the matter was being agitated daily by
The Times. he was in favor of getting
q special grand jury to get the cases 10
trial promptly.
Tie trial of all the cases in which trus
bills have been returned will he had a. the
November term of court.