Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-15
MANY ARRESTS MADE
ONE HUNDRED AND SIX PRoPRrE-
TORS OF SLOT MACHINES
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
BY THE POLICE LAST NIGHT.
The Warrants Were Issued ny Chief
Ciemans and Are In Accordance
With the Law Against Gambling
Devices-Names # the Prorrietors
Taken Into Custody.

Quite a raid was made by the police
on the slot machine proprietors last
night, and eighty-three arrests were
made. The warrants were issued by
Chief OF Police Clemans in accordance
with the ordinance prohibiting gam
bling devices. The raid was made in
various parts Of the city and as a result
of the arrests the session of police court
this morning will be a busy one.
The warrants were Issued by Chief
Clemans in person, under the following
section OF the ordinances:
Sec. 4S:-"It shall be unlawful for
any person whatever 70 keep or ex-
hibit within this city any table, instru-
ment, device, or thing, used for the
purpose of gaming, or on, by or with
which money or other articles may be
lost or won. to keep within this city
any game OF chance or skill, by or al
which any money or other articles OF
value may be lost or won; nor shah
it be lawful for any person to keep a
room, building, arbor, booth, stand,
oAGu, NASSl GRAFT Ol Hpdl, OF 10 TShL
the same to be used or occupied for the
exhibition or keeping of any such
table, instrument, device or thing OF
for the playing therein or thereon OF
any such game"
The parties upon whom these war
ant were served are as follows:
Jack Arthur, John Kindleberger, A.
j. Tolbert, John Stein, John Bartollis,
Mary Letzkus, H.. Stoltz. j. ]. Killeen,
p. J. OMaliey, Finnegan, John Loomis,
Max Beuter, John j. Sheekey, Gund-
ling & Carenbauer, A. Shram, Louis
Trosch, Buckley Jones. Gus Matthews.
Owen McKeever Morgan Bros, John
Cochran, Winterhalter Bros. Harry
Bearley, Herman wicker. Frank Hem
mis-, William Walker, John Beautter,
William Mclaughlin, William Smith.
John Kline, Berkeley Bros, Valentine
Leibold, William Mitchell, Berry Bros,
Pat Duffy, Fred Goldstrom, Otto Fish,
Charles Harbrook, Fred Biery. John
Hook, Andrew mckinley, Gus. Denker.
Tom Mclaughlin, Jake Stenefnagie,
AlonZo Rust, j. Gavin, r. Walther,
Frank Ruff, Martin Flynn, william
Knoke, August Meyers, Jake Detweii-
er, William Horstman. August G. Mey-
err, Edward Hofreuter, A. ~Jungnickic,
j. Hazelet, Charles Oberman, William
Hortenstein, Mike Agnic, Sam Kline.
Herman Coss, Joseph Ko-n, Phillip
hobart. John Salinski, Louis Blschon,
Edward Radcliffe. Mrs. Haus. Max
Sonnefeld, Fred Weidel. Joseph Bishop.
Joe Barum, Wilkie & Tyson, J. Hoosc.
Barney Stubs, A. T.. Robrecht. II.
Michaels, Huseman, J.. Mcnamara.
John Sigward, Finnegan Bros, Ernest
Hartman.
All these cases will be disposed OK
In Police Court this morning.
At three o'clock this morning TWEEN
ty-three additional arrests, making one
hundred and six In all, were reported
as follows:
Boadwing & Snider, Bader & Maur-
er, Mclaughlin Bros, Bernard Mehen,
w. b. Howell, Charles Bauers. Winder
&Parker, John Robrecht, Oscar Gard
ner, Mrs. Mary Miller, Jake Wilhelm,
Henry Bieberson, c.. Hinkerman.
Marcus Kelley, Gotleib Harding. Otto
Tyson, p. j. Gavin. Joseph Weisger-
Der, Ben Wilkie, Tom Halpin, Harry
Joyce, Neil Quinn, Frank j. Healy.