The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-26
TO STOP GAMBLING
GRAND JURY SAYS VICE SHOULD
BE SUPPRESSED.
SEVEN TRUE BILLS RETURNED.
AGAINST GAMBLERS, PROPERTY
OWNERS AND RENTING AGENTS.

thai Indicted for G2mbling-oWn-
ers aud Agents of Property Used
for Gambling Purposes Also In
dicted-AH Gave BOn5-f<iIey As
sauIt Case Not Observation-Disclosures
Testified That They Were In
structed 10 Play Hands-OR With
the GambIers-Chief of Police SUM
moned. But Could Not BE Found.
AS a result of the investigation by
the grand jury yesterday afternoon,
seven indictments were returned
against the proprietors of the keno
room on Broughton street. in which
the shooting of Constable Kiley took
place, and against the Owner of the
property and the renting agents.
Indictments for keeping gambling
room were found against Julius Rosen-
thai, Mai Henderson. Cad d. Bryan,
Jr., and Jack Monahan, the four being
indicted jointly. A second indictment
was returned against Mrs. Anna NJ.
Heron, Horace Rivers and c. H.
Giboes, they being accused of know
ingly renting the property where the
of gambling.
The indictments were returned
shortly after o'clock, after an inves-
tigation lasting more than three hours.
Judge Barrow issued bench warrants
which were placed Immediately in the
hands of Chief Deputy Sheriff Sweeney,
with instructions to place the accused
in Jail In default of a $500 bond in
each case, the same to be qualified
and approved by the sheriff.
All of the accused gave bond, those
already under bond, julius Rosenthal.
Cad Bryan and Jack Monahan, being
required to give additional security.
They are now under $1,000 bonds each,
the amount of bond in the assault case
being 1880 They had apprehended
the action of the grand jury, and were
prepared to furnish such security as
the court directed.
Gambling Feature Came First.
As forecasted in the Morning News,
the gambling feature was investigated
in every phase by the grand jurors.
while the case for which the witnesses
were supposed to have been subpoe
naed, the assaulting with intent to
murder Constable Kiley, was only in
vestigated, in so far as it related to
the gambling feature.
AS a result of the investigation the
grand jury amended it's general pre-
sentiments, so as to incorporate a rec
ommendation on the gambling ques-
ton. 1t reported that it had found
from the investigation that the police,
though admitting their knowledge Of
the existence of the gambling room,
claimed to have no authority to break
them up, but on the contrary, said that
when they reported the matter to the
chief of police. they had been instruct
ed that it was the business of the de-
tectives to stop the evil.
I'VE feel" reads the presentment,
that this is a state of affairs that
should not longer exist, and that all of
the officers of this county and city
should work together for the suppress
Sion of vice"
When the police claimed before the
grand jurors that their hands were
tied under the direction of their chief,
the foreman Immediately had a sub
poena issued for Supt. Reilly The
jury wanted TO obtain from him a
statement whether the claims made by
the officers that he had instructed
them to leave the matter with the de-
tectives, had any foundation. Several
deputies were despatched. but they
were unable to locate the chief
Fifty-four Witnesses Summoned.
The investigation began at o'clock.
Fifty-four witnesses of all sizes and
ages and conditions in life-rich men,
poor men, bachelors and married men,
working men, business men, clerks
and mere boys-each in possession of
subpoena to appear before the grand
jury to tell what he knew of the case
OF the state against Doc Rosenthal
ct. al, charged with assault with in
tent to murder.
They waited in the corridor and the
rooms near the grand jury room while
the investigation was in progress. 1t
was remarkable how many of the wit
nesses could conceive of no reason why
they should have been subpoenaed.
Some of them declared they didn't
know a game of keno from fan-tan,
and never gambled, but had on the
eventful night just dropped in for their
first time. Some maintained a signifi-
cant silence, and paced about the cor
ridors awaiting their turn. Two hours
after the investigation was COM
menced, eight of the fifty-four wit
nesses had been examined. The agita-
ton of the silent ones simmered down,
and one by one they found places to sit
down or stretch out, for it looked as if
the investigation would last all night.
Ten Witnesses Examined,
After the tenth witness had been
examined, however. the others were
dismissed, the grand jury having Sc
cured sufficient evidence upon which
to predicate true bills and frame a
recommendation to be incorporated in
its general presentment After brief
consultation the indictments were
signed by the foreman. and the mem
bers of the body returned to the court
room.
Among the principal witnesses before
the grand jury were Jack Monahan and
T. ]. Iowett, both of whom are now
under bond for gambling. They were
arrested on the night of the assault
on Constable Kiley. The investigation
not being directed toward a disclosure
OF the facts surrounding the assault,
but toward the gambling feature the
questions propounded had little bear
ing on the Kiley case. but were in
tended to elicit answers relative to the
proprietorship of the institution and
the ownership of the property.
Several others now under bond were
subpoenaed, but were not used as wit
nesses by the grand jury. Among these
We're Will Hills, Albert Fabian, a ne
gro employed at the keno room; Ed
Mehrtens and j. II. Smith. A sub
poena was issued for Peter Smith, but
II was learned that he was i'll at his
home.
hiley Shooting Not Taken tip.
No investigation in the Kiley case
was instituted. The repOrt that E[iIev