The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-09
GRAND JURY
PROBING! Deep.
Determined TO Make it Hot for
Norfolk Gamblers.
TRIAL IS CALLED LEI !. FIAsc o
Hour of Raid on Alleged Gambling.
Place Regarded as Made at Time
When There Was Little Show
of Getting Evidence.
TRIAL is CALLED a FIASC0.
Special Dispatch to The 1imes.)


NORFOLK, VA, April S--R. A. Mapp.
commonly called Tobe Mapp. was ar
| raigned in the Police Court this morning
for trial on the churge of unlawful gam
ing. Mr.. James NJ. Thompson. Of the
Norfolk Dispatch. was. with his counsel,
Mr.. w. II. T. Loyal, present. Common
wealtfls Attorney Venabe was also Oh
hand. Mr.. Venable stated that the war
| rant upon which Maps place was raided
yesterday was merely q search warrant,
| and he, therefore, could not be tried on
it. but said the grand jury would later
| indict Mapp on the charge of unlawful
gaming. Pending this N1app was released
on bail in $1,000. Mr.. Thompson, by coun-
sci, said that the Dispatch was not re-
sponsible for the arrest and prosecution
OF Mapp, havin merely printed the story
that gambling was going on in Mapp's
Granby-Street place on the night OF March
29th last. He said the Commonwe S
Attorney caused the warrant to be sworn
out upon information furnished by Mr..
| Crown. acting reporter for the Dispatch,
and that EIr. Venable and Mr.. Crown
acted upon their own Initiative in the mat
ter Of the warrant.
REGARD IT A FIASCO.
All Norfolk Is talking of the ra1ding of
| Maps place and the flasco. which APP
parently followed, and there is a mighty
| bad smell in the air. The time chosen
| for the raid, e week or SO after the al
legged offense, and the hour, in the after
| noon. are held to have been inopportune
| and to have enabled the accused to have
| made away with all evidence Of gaming
I which might have been exhibited In the
parlor previously. It is said about town
| that according to the report Of those
who should know there We're recently IN
| the place rafded several hazard, roulette
! and other devices upon the more or less
| eccentric action Of which money might he
| lost or won.
The truth is that Norfolk Founders
have come to look upon the anti-vice cru
SADIE as likely to ecil in a t1asco. Nobody,
however, doubts that the grand jury
| means to make things hot for the gamb-
lers if they can obtain evidence upon
which they may act.
Public sentiment strongly sustains those
| who are trying to break up gambling,
but the knowing believe that Mr.. Mapp
might as we'll have issued cards for an
| cat home on the afternoon of April 7th
and invited the police
IN DEAD EARNEST.
The grand jury this afternoon indicted
Mapp, who is charged by them with OPP
Grating gambling tables. The jury at >
O'Clock adjourned to meet at 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon. Prior to adjournment
summonses were issued. which indicate
that the jury are probing up the gam
bling question. Among those for whom
summons were issued is Mr.. w. Lind
say Bibb, good government candidate
from Norfolk for the Legislature.
Mr.. Bibb is, it Is stated. supposed to
know something about gambling in Nor
folk, because one Barnes, of Accomac
county. who recently charged Mr. Bibb
with stealing $500 from him. said they
1,o fooathpr visited r. number. of
bling houses on the night before the
complainant missed his $3.50. Mr.. Bibb
was exonerated Of the charge of the
theft