Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-20
HANDBOOkS NOT FAVORED
ANTI CAMPAIGN CON-
TINUEs TO SPREAD.
Chicago Police Chief Puts on Lid and
Warfare Is Being Carried on
in Ireland.

Washington has no corner on anti-hand-
book campaigns. The warfare seems to be
infectious. In Baltimore there is said to
be next to nothing doing and in Phila-
delpha the game is played with less open
defiance of law than Of yore. A Washing
ton man, who has been inclined to put
down dollar OF two on a horse once In a
while said today that he failed yesterday,
after repeated trials, to find means for
getting small sum over to Baltimore in
time to play Ella O'Nef, an to 1 shot,
In the third race at Saratoga.
Baltimore seems to be almost tight
az Washington" said he. Several men
used to make 1t a business to take bets
over to the Maryland town from Washing
ton. but they've all quit. Besides they tell
me they can't get any more bets placed
over there"
Cleaning Up in Chicago.
The first of the week saw a new deal in
Chicago, when Chief of Iolce Shippy is
sued order which has put the whole
handbook outfit out of commission. dis
patch from Chicago says:
Fully 1890 handbooks were closed, &C
cordng to estimate made by a number
of the Tennes- Brookman-O'L eary combina-
ton There is absolutely nothing doing at
Mont Tennes' big clearing house, and not a
single race result Is received by telegraph
or telephone The handbook trusts leased
wire, for which 1t pays s19,6sO year, is
Idle and the army of telephone clerks, sheet
writers and the like are taking a rest.
Activity in Erin.
Handbook making Is not entirely an
American evil. 1t has been fiourishing
abroad. and recently the Dublin police
started out on a campaign which has pro-
duced results. Dublin newspapers received
i,,
of several persons In the "city betting
prosecutions" as they call 1t over there
The methods employed to dodge the law are
explained in the following extracts from an
account of the trial of Mr.. Mathew Keat-
ing, owner and occupier of the licensed
premises 10 Mabbot street, who was charged
with using those premises for the purpose
of money being received by him as the con-
sideration for an implied agreement to pay
money thereafter on a contingency relating
to horse race, contrary to the 10th and
18th Vic. chap, 10"
How John Put Down a Bet.
John Crozier, Spring Garden passage,
In reply to Mr.. White, said he remembered
being In Mr.. Keating's public house on the
Derby day; got glass Of porter and paid
for 1t. Mr.. Heating was behind the coun-
ter. Witness wrote on a piece Of paper the
name of a horse. put Is Cd into it, and
handed 1t across the counter to Mr.. Keat-
Ing The name of the horse was Wool
Winder, and he backed 1t to win. There
were several other persons in the shop. Saw
another man hand docket with silver in
It, backing Orby. to Mr. Heating, who hand
ed both documents to another man.
Witness further said that on the 4th
June he had Keatng's house under obser-
walton, and said forty men entered 1t be-
tween the hours of II and l: 80. On the 5th
December he saw seven men enter between
o'clock and g. and on the 7th he saw 234
men enter 1t. On the 10th April he saw
man write something on a slip Of paper,
and he heard him say 40 shillings," and
he then handed the docket to the defendant
Heating"
Indictments Wait on Baker.
The United States grand jury has, it is
believed, found true bills against two al
legged violators of the pool selling law of