Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-31
SLOT MACHINES.
Police Make a Raid and Gather
in Gambling Devices.
Well Known Saloon Keepers will Appear
in Court This Morning Slot Machine
Crusade Not Aimed at Candy. Gum. mu-
sic or Picture nIacbines-

The city police and detectives made
raid on ten saloons yesterday after
noon about $3.50 O'Clock and captured
ten slot machines. The necessary war
rants were sworn out about 4:3O o'clock
before Police Justice Taylor by Detec-
tives Heppel, Childress and Snowden,
These warrants were put in the hands
of officers and the raids were made at
the same hour.
The places raided and the officers
doing the work were as follows: John
Il. Jones, GiS Church street, by Detec-
tive ChildresS; j. w. Hoffman, SO Com
mercial Place, officer w. l.. Stephens:
u. ID. Henley, 80 Union street, by Ofi-
Ger Mears; ~. r. Hudgins. so Camp
bells Wharf, by officer Gray; w. b..
hudolph, ZIG Church street, Sergeant
OF Detectives Heppel; w. B. Rudolph,
800 Church street, Detective West; r.
j. Maibon. 4lO Church street. Detective
Snowden; Eugene Rhea, 494 Church
street, Sergeant Beane.
All The gambling devices were car
ried to the police station in the patrol
wagon. The warrants were served on
the propretors. and they went TO DO
lice headquarters, where they were
bailed III the sum of $50 each for their
appearance in Police Court this morn
ing. The charge against them is main
tanning gambling devices in the shape
OF Slot machines.
WITHIN BAN OF LAW.
The kind of machines seized are
clearly under the ban of the law. as
they are the common, well-known
style OF nickeI-in-thc- slot devices, in
to which players bet their nickels on
certain colors. turn the wheel. and win
in the rare instances when the indi-
Gator stops at the color played. Sew
eral OF them are the owl machine.
This is one of the most popular. 1t
has five colors to play with nickels-
red. black, yellow, white and the
owl" The two former colors yield up
dime If the player strikes them, the
yellow pays % cents and the white SO,
while "thc OWL" OF which there is but
one on the wheel. pays out in the
pocket twenty nickels If the player is
so lucky as to win on this play.
THE TRIAL TO-DAY.
The saloon-keepers arrested yester-
day will be arraigned before Police
Justice Taylor this morning. The min
mum fine for the offence of keeping
one OF these gambling devices is s25,
tho maximum 500. One OF the men
arrested declared yesterday that there
are a large number OF other places in
Norfolk in which there are slot ma
chimes and policy playing parapher-
MALTA, and he expressed surprise that
there was not more general raid.
Police Justice Taylor said that IL tes-
timony to-day showed the existence of
other gambling machines. he would Is
sue warrants for the proprietors.
MACHINES NOT BARRED.
In conversation with Chief OF Po-
lice Kizer last night. he stated that
the present crusade Is directed only
against gambling slot machines, and
not against machines that produce
music and do not offer money in
ducement, machines that show pic
lures or machines that sell candy or
gum. He has consulted the City At
torney and Commemorative Attorney
on this subject and they unite in CIV
ing the opinion that these classes or
machines last mentioned are not un-
| lawful. and can be licensed under the
city ordinances.