The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21
MADISON AFFAIR
HAS NOT ENDED
Pool Room Conducted Yester-
day as Usual
ELEVEN MEN UNDER BOND
Citizens League Determines to Turn
the Matter Over to the Grand
Jury and Let the Courts
Settle the Matter.
ELEVEN MEN UNDER BOND

St Louis, February 2O--The war on the
Madison, Ill. poolroom has not ended.
A meeting was held today by the Bush
ness Mems Improvement league of Madi-
son and it was decided to continue the
fight vigorously.
A decision was reached to lay the en-
tire matter before the grand jury and
to take it up directly with the purpose of
putting stop in a legal way to the al
legged official connivance under which the
poolroom has been run.
The gamblers declared that operations
at the room Will be continued today while
the citizens were equally determined that
the poolroom would have to be closed.
The four members OF the citizens posse
who were arrested on charges of breach
of the peace have been released on bond.
1t Is now definitely stated that the
wounded In yesterdays raid number six.
No one is fatally hurt.
All Make Bond.
Victor Schiller and eleven men asso-
oiated with him in the Madison poolroom,
arrived in, Madison this evening and went
at once to the office Of Police Magistrate
Gibbs. where they gave bond In the sum
of $500 each for their appearance Feb
ruary % FOR preliminary hearing on war
rants issued February 10 on AFFIDAVIT of
Chief of Police Patrick McCambridge,
charging them with maintaining gam
bling house. The men are
Victor Schuler, Chatfield Brooks, E. c..
Bruno, Lee Wagner, George zeller.
Charles fielding, Joseph Young. Joseph
Graham Joseph Warner, Eugene Wall
and E. w. Hilker.
Started for Pool Room.
After giving bond, the men started for
the poolroom The fact that the warrants
were issued ten days ago by Mccain
bridge, and that no apparent effort had
been made to serve them, caused consid-
cradle comment In Madison when 1t be-
came known. 1t was half an hour later
than the usual opening hour when the
party reached the poolroom. which they
Immediately prepared for the crowd that
came on the Illinois Central train.
One of the employees put up the en-
tries and odds on the first race and i'm
mediately the money began to flow into
the Golfers of the pooroom.
Chief of Police McCambridge and ex-
Police Magistrate Street were present in
the betting shed and the bar.
Soon everything was running as usual,
except that additional zest was given the
afternoon sport by the relation of hui
morous incidents of the afternoon before.
The entire affair seemed to be regarded
as joke by the patrons
Warrants were issued today by States
Attorney Brown for Patrick Mccain
BRIDGE chief of police of Madison; sPo-
licemen William Street and John Meehan
and twelve other men, charging partei-
patton in the riot at the Madison pool
room yesterday evening. Aside from the
names of VIII Coyle, son of Mayor
Coyle of Madison, and John Paul. State 8
Attorney Browns father-in-law, the
names of the twelve men for whom war;
rants were issued were carefully con-
cealed. Each warrant carries six charges:
Assault. carrying concealed weapons, as
sault with intent to kill and main, as .
sault with a deadly weapon 1ourishlng a
deadly weapon and rioting.