The San Francisco call., 1897-08-18
Marin County's District
Attorney Wants His
Scalp.
SausaIito Peace Officer Ac-
cused of Standing In
With Gamblers.
Warrant for the Arrest or william
Dorpoer Placed In a ConStable'S
Hands for Service.

SAN RAFAEL. CAL, Aug. IA war
rant for the arrest OF the Marshal OF the
town of Sausalito, John E. Greed, was
sworn out to-day before Justice OF me
Peace Edwin Gardner by one OF the Morse
detectives who raided the faro game In j..
f. Slinkey's Ell Monte Hotel in Sausalito.
Creed Is charged with ialllng 10 20 MS
duty as an officer in not informing against
the proprietors or players. The com piaih'
states the following:
That one John E. Creed, at and before the
filing OF this complaint, IN the .own " oau, nd
neglecting to inform against persons VIOLA,
ting the provisions OF chapter lo Oh Title
of the Penal Code as follows, TO VII:
The said John E. Creed was on the Ith OF
August, 1897, and ever since has been ana
now is a police officer OF the town of Sausa-
Ito. oo,
and in the said town of Sausalito one William
Dormer in the presence ana under the OBJ
seryation of said Creed, was engaged III car
rying on and conducting game OF faro 1or
money and other representatives OF value In
violation of the provisions etc., OF the fenal
Code
That said Creed on said 9TH day of August,
1897, did then and there willful,y and un-
lawfully refuse and neglect to inform against
and prosecute said William Dormer for the
violations OF the Penal code above mentioned,
and since SAID DAY mas W1ll1uiy anu
lawful refused TO inform against ana prose-
cute said William Dormer.
The warrant for Creed's arrest will be
served tomorrow. 1t is now in the hands
OF Constable Cannon of San Rafael.
Creed will offer a novel defense. He
will state that he was in the faro room and
played the game, but that his purpose in
''bucking the tiger" was to obtain evil
dence against the proprlHt ors and players;
L Iad
the entire outfit; but that the District
Attornev got ahead of him, much to his
disgust.
William Harrison, one of the proprie-
tors OF the poolroom running under the
name OF Harrison & Co. in Sausalito, was
in San Rafael to-day. He protested
against the publication in morning pa
per that accused him of having been at
the bottom of the raid recently made on
the faro, crap and roulette outfits in that
town. :,
at not only reflects uuon me" said he,
"but it tends TO give one the i'm preston
that District Attorney E. B. Martineli is
standing in with me and Is under my dc
tation. That is not true.
e. B. Martinelli, Marin County's Dis
trict Attorney, said:
at is not true that Mr.. Harrison was in
anv way connected with my action In
about it, and any assertion to the con-
trary is false. planned the raid myself
and Carried it through without the assist
ance of any Sausalito people.
warrant was sworn out before Justice
Gardner this afternoon for the arrest of
William Dormer. He is charged with
dealing faro, and deputy left with the
warrant to arrest him. Dormer is one of
the owners of the game that the District
ATTORNEY recently raided so successfully.
When the players were arrested 1t was
Dormer who put up the cash bail on
which they were released.
When the ca es OF the arrested gamblers
were called to-day before Justices Rodden
and Gardener the accused men were rep
resented by their attorneys, and each on
en- tered pleas OF mot guilty. and asked
for Jury trials.
The complaint against ]. E. Slinkey
will be sworn out to- morrow. Slinkey
will be prosecuted under that section of
the code that holds the lessee of the
gam blers' retreat liable to arrest for al
lowing gamblers to play or rent apart
ments from him.