The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-07

ONE GAMBLER UP
BEFORE JUDGE
Frank Moore Accused of Keeping
the Green Light. /"
DISCRIMINATION is CHARGED
POLICE ARE SAID TO BE PRO
TECTING FAvoRITEs.
DISCRIMINATION IS CHARGED

he CASE OF the STATE OF OIdn
against Frank Moore. charged
with keeping gambling house,
went TO trial in the city court before
Judge Diehl yesterday afternoon. At
the conclusion of the hearing his honor
announced that he would reserve his
decision until Monday.
The chief witness against the defend
ant was Ed c. Penrose, a reporter.
Penrose was in the Green Light gam
bling house at the time il was raided,
and was a witness of the proceedings
inside after a knock at the door had
announced the presence of the police
outside.
The question in the case of Moore
was the fixing Of the ownership of the
gambling house. Penrose testified that
when he was in the place gambling was
going on, and that when the police
knocked on the door Moore gave the
orders to cover up the tables and put
away the money in the safe. Police
officers testified that when Moore was
arrested he had told them that the
place was his and demanded that they
secure a warrant for his arrest
Employe Tells Different Tale.
To controvert the testimony of Pen
rose the defense placed on the stand
~
The latter swOre that he was the man
who placed the money in the safe and
that Moore had nothing to do with it.
His memory failed him at frequent in
tervals. When asked by Assistant City
Attorney Schulder why the money had
been placed in the safe, Stanley an
swered that he did not think it right
10 leave it lying around on the tables
When the whole police force was com
ing into the room. He was asked sew
eral times regarding the amount of
money in the safe, and at last ssr-
castically remarked: There might
have been S1,000,000. but / don't believe
there was quite that much there"
With this the prosecuting attorney
gave him up as a bad job.
Judge Diehl took the case under ad-
Nisement until Monday, and Moore was
then placed on trial on a charge of
gaming. Peurose was a witness in this
case, and when asked what the crap
table in the room looked like, said that
as far as he could see, it was a table
with a railing two inches high around
It, The railing around the table in
question is eleven inches high Moore
was found not guilty of gaming.
Discrimination Is Charged.
After the trial of the gambling cases
yesterday several knights of the green
the why and wherefore of the police
raids. One of them. who is interested
in a gaming house. said that he be-
lieved that Chief Paul was discrim-
mating against some of the houses and
was shielding others He pointed to
the fact that the Green Light which
Is on Commercial street, has been
raided twice in two weeks, while other
houses operating on the principal bust
ness streets of the city have scarcelS
been disturbed. He said that he under
stood the chief had told the proprietor
of the Green Light his place was too
prominent, and used other words to
the effect that the Green Light should
pose as a scapegoat for the other
houses.
There's another strange thing" said
the sporting man. THAT is the So
called raid on Gibson's gambling es-
tablishment on West Temple street. AS
! understand it. a lone sergeant went
over there. knocked on the door, was
= admitted by a porter who knew him,
and arrested James Bensley, the only
man besides the 'Chink' in the house.
May Have Been Notified.
Now. why was it that Gibson and
French Patsy and the rest of the
bunch were not there? Where were
the players? At the same hour the
night before there was a crowd in the
house, among whom was a young cap
italist of the city. who is going the
pace pretty fast if l do say it. He
was playing them high, and there are
others who frequent the place and play
for all there is in sight; but on the
night the house is raided what do we
see? No players and no gamblers
only one old man sitting by the fire
and reading a newspaper. 1t may be
all right. but I've got a bunch that
Mr.. Gibson received an informal no.
tice that a fine was 10 be collected
from the house, and that as it would
not be proper for the proprietor TO
come, as in the days of old, to the
police station and pay it, a raid by one
man would be organized instead. Glib
son not being fool, the tip goes out
TO the patrons not to come around until
the raid has come off. The gamblers
don't mind paying fines, but they think
that all should be treated alike. Other
houses are running absolutely Undis-
tuTbed."