The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-07
D0N'TMIND THE FINES
But GAMBLERS DISLIKE COURT
ROOM LECTURES.
THREE FINED IN CITY COURT.
JACOBS, HYMAN AND sTERNBERG
PUT Up 81 900 AND COSTS.

The Trio Arrested Three Weeks Ago
on Warrants Issued by Magistrate
Wickhnm and Then Pleaded
GuiIty-Thc Story of the Warrants.
One of the Men said He Didn't
Mind Paying the Fine. but object
ed TO the Accompanying Lecture
From the Bench-He Was Relieved
of This notwithstanding Total of
Gamblers Fines.
Three Savannah members of the gam
bling fraternity were fined by Judge Nor
wood yesterday afternoon The men were
Samuel Sternberg, Samuel Jacobs and
Samuel Hyman. Sternberg was fined $500
and costs and Jacobs and Hyman $3.50 and
costs each. In each case the alternative
sentence was fixed by the court al six
months on the chain-sang.
II was A dainty little comedy all the
way through The warrant and bond in
each case came from the court of Mags-
trate Wickham. From these documents
it appears that Samuel jenkins turned up
before Magistrate Wickham on April 10
and made oath that two days before, on
April IS, each of the three defendants
did keep and maintain gaming house"
On the faith of the affidavits thus made
the magistrate issued warrants and
Sternberg, Jacobs and Hyman were ar
rested and gave bond.
On the warrants Jinkins' address is CIV
en- as No. SOL Olive street. The city d.
rectory shows that this is the residence
of Hagar Jenkins, colored, but Samuel
jenkins, also colored, and described as
driver for Smith & Kelly, lives few
doors down the street. How Samuel
Jenkins colored for there are no white
men of the name in the drec-
tory, came TO know so much of
the operations of the gaming houses
and how it CHANGED that he swore out
the warrants must remain a matter of
considerable conjecture.
On April 10, as further appears from
the entry on the back of the information
filed by the solicitor general, each of the
accused men, through their attorney
Mr.. r. L. Coldins, pleaded guilty and
threw himself on the mercy of the court
Since then things have wagged along
TO sentence, for some reason, following
Immediately these pleas of guilty. In
the meantime the gamblers have awaited
the day of reckoning with some de-
gree of trepidation.
1T is not, said one of them, that /
mind so much giving up the dough; /
can go in that little back room up there
and come across without a SILVER. What
makes me sore is to have to stand 10
before the judge and listen to long
talk about the evil of my ways That
sort of thing gives me a pain"
1t is pain they were spared yester-
DAY, for none of them actually faced the
court and listened to the imposition of
sentence. If they were anywhere about
they did not come into the court room
MI Colding was there to represent them
The fines were about of the size usually
assessed for the kinds of gambling rooms
the defendants conduct. The scale has
been $3.50 for ordinary poker rooms $500
Tor temples of fortune-or misfortune a
trihe more elaborate, and $1,000 for very
large gambling rooms, keno joints and
policy lotteries
The gamblers have been rather heavily
punished of late. Within the past three
weeks they have paid fines and costs ag-
sregating nearly or quite $500 and it is
understood there are more to come OF
Inc hnes imposed all but one were in the
CITY Court. Julius Rosenthal was fined
sl,UO by Judge Falligant and Joe Harris
was fined $1,000 by Judge Norwood last
week. Both of these cases were reported
in the Morning News In the City Court
about three weeks ago a bunch of writers
was nned In the aggregate $1,000 and
costs.