The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-06
RA|OfD THE GAMBLERS
The Police Arrested the Pro-
prietors Of the Combination.
DOOR WAS BROKEN OPEN
The Mayor 0avet the Order Upon Hear
ing the Pitifui Tale OF Mra Joseph
shannon, Whose Husband Gam
bied Away q Months Wages.

Under orders from Mayor Harrington
the police raided the Combination gam
bling house I'm North Main street yes
terday at h~alf-past 8 o'clock and ar
rested the proprietors. Ike Morehouse
and Henry Aibertson and Ave inmates
OF the gambling rooms, who gave the
names OF Aaron Young. Henry Renkin.
Charles A. -Fraleigh, William Woods
and Al. Stack.
The raid was a result of a decision
reached by Mayor Harrington yester-
day to enforce the anti-gambling law
and hut up the gambling places In
Butte for good or at least as long as his
administration lasts. This decision was
based upon a complaint made to the
mayor during the day. Mrs. Joseph
Shannon, the wife of a miner employed
at the High Ore mine. called on Mayor
Harrington about noon and told him
her husband had gambled away his
whole months pay at the Combination
gambling house. She said he same
home with him time-check day before
yesterday. 1t amounted to $73. She wa
anxious to pay her monthly bills and
sent him down town to get the check
cashed. He failed to return. and know
ing his weakness for gambling she
came dow town and went to the Com
bination to look for him. She saw the
games in progress but did not find her
husband. and was told by an employee
of the house he had gone home. She
went back home and at 3 o'clock in the
evening her husband showed up. She
asked him for the honey and he told
her he had gambled II away at the
Combination.
Mrs. Shannon was heartbroken. for
she could not see h she would do the
coming month Thinking she might re-
ax-4s tho Snaanx ahA rors v-A1ea~1axr
morning to the residence of Proprietor
M~orehouse n asked to see him, but
was denied admission. and then she
visited Mayor Harrington. Between
her sobs she related her story. and
Mayor Harrington assured her he would
take vigorous measures against the
gamblers, but told her first TO try again
to recover the money. She went to the
Combination and saw MIR. Morehouse.
but he refused to do anything for her,
claiming he had nothing to do with any
gambling house. Mrs. Shannon inform
ed the mayor of the result OF her
efforts. He had formed his decision in
the meantime. and calling In Chief of
Police Mulholland, Captain
and Sergeant McGrath. ordered them to
raid the gambling house.
The officers proceeded at once TO the
Combination and without any Warning
broke i'm the door. The room was filled
with men ana the tables were running.
but at the first sound of alarm everyone
in the room was on his feet and not a
soul was playing when the officers got
inside. but the dealers and casekeepers
were at the faro tables. There was a
wild rush for the door as the officers
entered. but no effort was made to stop
any except those the officers could see
had been playing n the proprietors.
They were all taken to headquarters.
and complaints were filed against More
house and Albertson for owning the
building and against the others for
playing. The bond of the proprietors
were fixed at $500 each. and those of the
others arrested at $50 each. Morehouse
and Albertson signed the bonds and all
were released.
In one of the faro tables running at
the time of the raid the officers found
$50, and in another $51. In both were
complete faro layouts. The whole
equipment of the place was confiscated
and will be destroyed.
In speaking OF the raid Mayor Har-
rington said: Il may be misunder-
stood. but l can't help 1t. This woman's
story has opened my eyes. for / know
that If this woman's husband gambled
away all his earnings 1 know there are
many other wives and mothers who suf-
fer d~eprivations from the same cause.
I came TO the conclusion hat gambling
should cause no more suffering while I
am mayor. II I a help IL. and I shall
see that the law In enforced in future.
If anyone attributes any other motive
for my action they will do me a great
injustice