Arizona republican., 1904-03-10
PAYMENT was STOPPED
J. Butterfield Repented of 5000 Worth
 of Fun at the Capitol.

There have been variety of svs- tems invented for the plundering Of
 games of chance from the outside of
 the table But when they have been
 put to the test it has been discovered
 that all of the systems have sand holes
 in them. But the system of J. Butter
 field. a baseball player, is apparently impregnable. The. only trouble about
 it. and that can hardly be called a de- feet. is that it cannot be worked in 1 the same place very often. and beside 1 it robs the operator of the reputation of being a true sport. dearer to the gambler than his winnings. Then. too 1t is apt to involve a law suit MT. Butterfield is in the midst of one which { Is causing him a great deal of annoy ance. A suit was filed against him In the district court yesterday by p w. Butler, proprietor of the Capitol saloon. for the recovery of $500. At the
 same time Mir. Butler began garnish-
 ment proceedings against the Phoenix National bank. where Butterfield had stored his wealth.
 The night before Butterfield was in the Capitol endeavorinE to impoverish the games, but with ill success. In a little while his ready money was all gone and he issued a check on the Phoenix National bank for S2GO. IL was not long until that sum had been | transferred to the inner side of the 1 table. and then he drew another check 1 for the same amount. That went the
 way Of the other and third check for | S2G0 was drawn. cashed and the pro- ceeds disappeared in the tigers maw.
 MT. Butterfield believed that the 4f Al. .n- not his night to break games.
 Yesterday morning MT Butler took i the checks to the bank and learned that MT. Butterfield had already been there and had left instructions that they were not to be recognized. It was then that MT Butler began to get ready for litigation. The excuse of ] Butterf1eld for the dishonoring of the checks is that he was not in a proper frame of mind when he issued them. He said he had not been in the habit
 of playing and that on that night he
 was induced to go into the Capitol by an old man and try his luck. The
 game and the bar filled him with ex- citement and other things until he lost all idea of the value of money.
 MT. Butler says. on the other hand
 to his misfortune. that was not the first appearance of Butterfield at the Capitol. He had been playing far ahead of the games for about forty days and forty nights; the night on which he welched was his first bad
 one. Others said that they had seen him there playing frequently. but they could not say as to forty days They had less interest in the games than MT. Butler.
 The payment of the checks has been refused by Butterfield on the ground | that the checks were issued for the payment of a gambling debt. If he can establish that fact. MT Butler will have to pay the costs. But the plain tiff claims that the cashing of the checks was entirely apart from the gambling tables; that good money was
 given for the checks; Butterfield might have lost it afterward or he might not
 have lest it. The question for the
 court to determine is the degree of
 intimacy of the relation between the
 bar over which the cash was passed to
 Butterfield in exchange for the checks
 Butterfeld had intended to leave the city within a day or two, but he will have to remain, or at least this money
 will have to remain until there is a determination of this suit.