The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-29
SPIRITED HIM AWAY
GAMBLERS TAMPERED WITH JUS
TICE AND WERE FINED.
BRIBED COURTS WITNESS.
ROsENTHAL AND HENDERSON PAID
$50 APIECE For CONTEMPT.


Fraternity ArraiEned in Court
Arthur McWiIIiams Told of the
Paying to Him of $2O-ROsentha
and Henderson Declared Gift Was
an Act of Charity and That The,
Did Not Know the Lad-ROsenthal
Furnished Him with n Heart Il
Heart Talk, in which FatherIy
Advice Was Given, Along with this
Money-Wanted Boy to Turn over
New Leaf, He Said.
Guilty of contempt in that they spir-
tied away a witness whose presence
before the grand jury was desired. and
for whom a subpoena had been issued
Doc Rosenthal and Mai Henderson
members of the gambling fraternity,
were yesterday fined $50 each by
Judge Barrow in the Superior Court.
That rules had been issued against
and served upon the two men was an
nounced in the Morning News yester-
day. They followed a statement under
oath by Arthur McWilliams, the 49,
year-old boy, with whom they are al
legged to have tempered and who disap-
peared after a conference with Rosen-
thai and Henderson. Judge Barrow
made it an order of court that the
statement of McWilliams should not be
made public until the appearance of
Rosenthal and Henderson.
McWilliams was arrested by the sher-
ifs officers Friday on a rule issued
by Judge Barrow Immediately after his
disappearance. The young man appear
ed in court with counsel, w. F. Slater,
Esq, and made a statement that put
Rosenthal and Henderson clearly in
the light of having played games with
a witness under subpoena, and that,
too, knowingly. He had been sub
poenaed to tell what he knew of the
running of a keno room and answered
the subpoena. He was not called on
the day first summoned in, but was in
structed to report back a week later,
and was told upon that occasion he
would be expected and must be ready
to testify.
McWiIIiams' story.
The young man, under oath, said
that on the night following his APP
pearance at the Court House, he had
been approached by Henderson on
room. He declared that Henderson had
told him that he better jump out be-
cause the man who ran the gambling
house was going to have him indicted
for gaming. McWilliams wanted to
avoid the disgrace of arrest for gam
bling and as the men painted to him
the picture of shame he remembered his
mother. and decided to accept their
rather alluring offer of $50 to leave for
parts unknown, for good and all time
The young man said that Henderson
accompanied him to Rosenthals hang
out, where there was more talk, after
which Rosenthal gave him 500, the un-
Outstanding being that he should leave
town. and that in short order, too.
All of these things McWilliams re-
peated yesterday in the presence of
Rosenthal and Henderson and their
counsel. Robert L. Colding, Esq He
had been made. he added, to sign a
paper held by Rosenthal which in eff
feet was an admission that he had
violated the law by gambling. The
understanding was that the paper
was to be used against him in the
event he should return to the city
and only after he had signed it in the
presence of the two defendants was
he presented the $40, according to his
own story.
The young man stated that he went
to Macon where he secured employ
ment. In some manner he got wise
TO the fact that the two men had been
'four-fushing," but decided to write
to Rosenthal. He wrote asking if his
return to the city would injure any,
body, and stating that if he received
no reply in two days he would come
back. Rosenthal has never been con-
victed of stupidity and the boys mis-
sive was not answered. All of these
facts were brought to light in putting
the case up to the defendants.
Gamblers Advice to Reform.
Rosenthal and Monahan both denied
that they had Intentionally been guilty
of contempt. They did not know Nc
Williams, they said, were not proprie-
tors of the gaming house in which he
claimed he had lost his money, and that
which was to have paid his mothers
house rent, and were not aware when
they talked with him that he was I'M
der the courts subpoena. The defend
ants stoutly denied that they had
frightened the boy, or had advised him
TO skip out and avoid publicity and
prosecution by appearing before the
grand jury.
They had committed what they be-
1ieved was an act of charity. Rosen-
thai told of the paying over of the $40,
and of a heart to heart talk with Nc
Williams that followed. When he
learned that the boy had, in a gaming
house in which he had no earthly in
terest, and from which he derived not
one cent revenue, lost 500 that had been
given to him by his mother to pay for
the shelter over her head for a month
his heart was touched. Not only did
he refund the money that had been
won by another. but he took a deeper
interest in the case.
In fatherly way he advised the
young man to begin life anew and
leave off all bad habits. To shake off
his environments and start afresh, he
said, could be easily done in another
city where his wild ways were not pub
lie property. The gambler stated that
he talked earnestly and seriously TO
McWilliams and felt that he was do
ing a young man not out of his teens
from ultimate ruin and disgrace. He
told the court that ii was not the
first time that he had done such stunts
and that on numerous occasions of a
similar sort he had gone down into his
pocket and relieved distress. He had
acted with McWilliams, he said, just
as he had acted with other boys and
had no idea that the lad was under
subpoena. Rosenthal said that he
made It his business never to gamble
with boys and that the giving IF the
money constituted an act of charity
Judge Barrow paid careful attention
10 the statements made by the defend
ants, and said that he had heard that
Rosenthal was charitable in the man
ner the defendant had related on the
stand. lie did not consider, however.
that the gamblers had successfully an