The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-15
GIRL ROBBED And BLUFFED.
COURT INVESTIGATES ONLY A
WOMEN'S POKER GAME.
They We're Playing for T~oothpicks In Room
at Hotel Le Barton when Pocketbook
with SIS Vanished East Indian Bel.
boy Arrested Then Freed in Court.

with 89k Vanished East indian Bell.
boy Arrested Then Freed in Court.
Miss Ada Garrett, a young woman who
lives at 100 West Fifty-seventh street,
called on Mrs. Marie Perry, who lives at the
Hotel LIE Barton, sos West Fifty-eighth
street. on Thursday afternoon. While she
was there her p~ocketbook. containing SIS,
disappeared and she had a bellboy, Ker-
reen Bux, an East Indian, arrested.
The case came up yesterday morning
in the West Side police court, where Magis-
trate Wahle was sitting. Miss Garrett told
the Court she was only II years old. She
was dressed in an Alice blue Princess gown
with lacy things frilled around the neck.
Mrs. Perry, who accompanied her friend,
is a tall blonde Of fetching appearance. The
two attracted the attention OF the court
room full Of people when Miss Garrett made
the complaint.
She said that she was an Oklahoma girl
and was visiting friends at 100 West Fifty
seventh street. While she was at Mrs.
Perry's on Thursday afternoon with sew
eral friends OF Mrs. Perry she laid her
pocketbook on the table. Bux, the bell
boy, served ice water. she said, and after
ward she missed the pocketbooG.
Bux was defended by a colored lawyer.
Magistrate Wahle asked the young woman
some what sharply how she knew the bellboy
had taken the pocketbook.
1T isn't possible that anybody else could
have done it. she answered, emphatically.
We'll, two or three Of the women present
were strangers to you" the Magistrate
put in. Anything is possible in New
York"
The negro lawyer faced Miss Garrett and
shot this question out at her suddenly:
Didn't you forget to tell his Honor that
you ladies' were playing poker at the timer"
Miss Garrett blushed rosy red and 40
did her blond friend. Both we're evidently
taken by surprise. Miss Garrett hesitated
in answering. 1t was plain she didn't think
it was any Of the Magistrates business
what they had been playing, and Mrs.
Perry looked spunkily at Wahle.
yes, answered Miss Garrett, ~hesitating-
ly. Three Of us we're playing just for
fun, with toothpicks for stakes, you know.
1t wasn't for money, not a real gamblely
game. We we're passing a duh afternoon
away What has this to do with the case?"
The colored lawyer fired another question
at Mics Garrett and she turned on him
like a fash.
What business have you to be asking
me such Questions?" she said, plainly angry.
Il am not used to being addressed in that
manner"
well" said Magistrate wahIe, this is
interesting. must know more about this
poker game"
The two young women looked uncom-
Portable. Besides the court attendants
and the lawyers, who pressed forward to
catch every word, the rif-raff of the court
room stared them out Of countenanoe and
grinned at their embarrassment. When
| Miss Garrett hesitated in answering, Magis-
trate Wahle pressed her sharply.
She said that II was true they had been
playing draw poker, but IL wasn't for
money n that there was all there was
to it.
Mrs. Perry took the stand and Magistrate
Wahle said;
.soh-h, madam. you've been playing
poker, have youP"
yes" answered Mrs. Perry, biting her
lip Inc turning very pink.
Tel me who was there. l must have
the names" said the Magistrate.
Mrs. Perry hesitated about that. She
had no lawyer to advise her that she was
not obliged TO answer such utterly immater-
ial questions, and she was overa wed by the
Magistrates blum manner.
There was a nurse from Roosevelt
Hospital she said slowly.
The other names, madam said Wahle.
SGive them to me.
well, there was Mrs. Merrill and Miss
Griffith of BROOKLYN, Miss Aldine, iaiss Gar
rett and myself" she replied. After we
had been playing a while my friend dis
covered that the pocketbook was missing"
Magistrate al let up on the two young
women then. Without further considera-
tion Of the case he discharged the bellboy.
Miss Garrett and Mrs. Perry left the court
room indignantly, stared at by the Ioafers
and made the targets Of hardly inaudible
jokes.
Afterward Magistrate Wahle declared
that he had a perfect right to question the
women about the poker game and TO obtain
the names OF those playing.
How did l know that one OF the women
there didn't steal the p~ocketbook?" said
Wahle tartly.
Miss Garrett and Mrs. Perry were at the
Hotel lie Barton yesterday afternoon.
They were mad all through over the treat
ment they got in court.
Il Just wish ! had that negro lawyer in
Oklahoma. I" said Miss Garrett. why, just
think Of the thing. What right had the
Judge to ask US What We were doing in a
private house2 II just wasn't n Of his
business, the old smarty. Besides." she
concluded, Il just loet $50 on the street re-
Gently, and l think he might have helped me
get my pocketbook back"
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