The broad ax., 1907-01-26

On or about the middle OF Septem-
Der 1905, the Chicago Tribune, Rec
crd-Herald, the Chronicle and in fact
ali the daily newspapers in this city
contained long accounts of the police
raid which had been made near that
date on the Hotel de Moore or the
Turf Exchange which was at that
time conducted by Col. Pony" Moore
at III 2lst street; who was for a
long time known as the King or the
Lord Mayor of the Red Light Dis
tr:ct," at the time referred to the
Chicago Tribune in writing up the &C
count of the police raid, claimed that
Col. Pony" Moore was the leading
Negro gambler in this city. that he
conducted one of the worst dives that
ever existed in any part of the coun-
tIy; that the most depraved women of
both races hung out in his vile resort
and so on.
The Daily News presented its one
million readers with a large picture
al Col. Pony" Moore, and what it
was pleased to call his gang of crap
shooters, right on its front page, the
picture and everything the daily pap
ers had said in connection with the
police raid, seemed to tickle the van
ity of Col. Pony" for he did not at
tempt to bring suit against the Chi
cago Tribune, or Daily News or other
daily newspapers for calling him the
leading Negro gambler in Chicago"
neither did he attempt to enter suit
against John NJ. Collins, Chief of Po-
lice for stating in his interview which
appeared in the daily papers to the
effect that Pony Moore conducted
one of the very worst gambling dens
in this city, that he reflects no credit
on the Colored race" or words to the
same effect:
But when The Broad AK, made its
appearance Saturday, September, 80.
1905 containing our comment on the
police raid. Col. Pony" Moore, ex-
claimed to several Of his friends that
he did not care what the newspapers
published by white men had TO say
about him but that no Negro editor
in this city could citicise him in the
columns of his paper and continue to
do business; that he would spend one
thousand dollars and either drive Jul
ius F. Taylor out of Chicago or send
him over on the North Side for sew
eral years or down to Joliet for the
same length of time, where he would
be compelled to wear a striped suit;
and early on the morning of Novem-
Der l6, 1905, the writer was hailed in
to Justice Willis Melville's court, at
West Grossdale, charged with GRIMM
al libel by Col. Pony" Moore, our
bond was fixed at five hundred dol
lars which was promptly signed by
our Attorneys Coils. A. d. Cash and
Robert NJ. Mitchell. and Justice Mel
vile who is ten thousand times more
dishonest than the year is long, under
one pretext or another against the
bitter protest Of ourself and our at
tOrneys, continued the case each week
from the 18th of November, 1905 to
Feb. 10, 1906, and on that date he de-
cided that he did not have sense
enough to render an opinion one way
/ CT another on criminal libel, and to
the great joy of little pin or brain
less headed Edward E Wilson, and
Col. Pony" Moore, who seemed to run
Justice Melville's rotten court with a
high hand, the unsavory country JUS
tice held us over to the grand jury.
at the same time signing our own
bond for Eve hundred dollars.
In the meantime Col. Pony" and
little Ed. Wilson hit upon a new plan
to crush out The Broad AK, and to
compel us to give up the ghost, and
they laid their wires to have the pap
er excluded from the United States,
mails, utterly failing in that direction.
then on March 5th 1906; they had us
yanked in before Justice Rhodes 3sth
and State street, charging US with at.
tempting to bride Grace Raymond and
Hattie or Addie Game. by Offering
them money to sware falsely against
Co. Pony" and on March IL the case
was called for trial, and our Attor.
Leys Coils. Cash and Mitchell, chang
Cd from Justice Rhodes, to Justice
Adams. who after carefully listening
to all the evidence in favor OF Col
"Fony" dismissed the case without re