The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-26
Big Gambling Game on South Court Street Raided-NegrOes Charged With Assault to Murder II. Caught-Another Negro
 Almost Kills Himself.

Eventful was last night in the po- lice department, and for the first time In some weeks they were enabled to get in some fast work, that speaks well tor the Chiefs selection of his men.
 Captain Smith started the excite- ment with a nifty little raid on South Court Street early in he evening. He took Officers McMahan and Hudson and paid a little call at the rooms on the third floor over Gibson's saloon. When the visit was over the evenings en- tertainment ended. for the captain brought away all the pretty things he found in the rooms as souvenirs Sou- venir sone consisted of thirty dozen decks of cards, the second, which might be called Exhibit B. was dainty little leather cup with twenty sets of dice, and the third article of war was a box of 500 round things about the size of a 50-cent piece, made out of guttapercha and colored most beau tifully. Some were vivid scarlet. others a dainty, diaphanous dark blue, and the rest were all delicately white.
 The evening had been so pleasant that Captain Smith decided to ask the gentlemen who were in the rooms when he called, Messrs. W. B. Dripe, George Champion, VIII. Whatley and c. F. Lytle, to come around to his office and register, as little memento of the night, and then when they had all signed their names on the register, he asked some of their friends to write their names on separate pieces of pa" per that to the writers are valued at some $50 each.
 The peculiar part of the evening was that, or rather 1t was said, two gen. tlemen had called earlier at the rooms and had brought with them 6Oo or those round white metal things that one has to pay for a bottle of beer in certain places, and bec;Gse they had shaken little square pieces of bone out of box, had had to give away the 500 round things. But they seemed to like 1t, and went out and got 400 more and came back and shook sthe little leather box some more and gave them away, too Then they had gone out again and came back with only six ot the round things, and it had so pleased the people in the rooms that they gave back the first 300 round metal things and 200 more. These gentle men left before Captain Smith called, and the Captain says 1t is too bad he missed them. When the four gentle men who came to the ofiice with Cap F tain Smith left, the Captain extended them a hearty invitation to come around this evening and discuss the matter with his friend. MT. Baber, and they said they would
  turned up was Will Wimbus. negro. who told Policeman Shelly he came from Americus, Ga., worked in Mont gomery at the oil mill, but couldn't for the life of him, tell where the mill was or who was the boss. Shelly thought this so peculiar that he in- vited Will to come up to police head. I quarters and tell Sergeant Happy" about 1t. Will declined the invitation and receded very suddenly down the alley back of the Greil building. where the conversation had been held, Will not not familiar@with the neighborhood, and ran into the fence beside the Lou isvilIe and Nashville Railroad under mass. He struck the fence, breast high, turned e semersault, and fell twenty feet to the Belgian block paw ing below, dlslocatings his leg and breaking in half his, what City Phy- sician called "osanamanatum," which.