Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-02
FUNNY SEQUEL
To POLICE RAID
Suspected Club Visited and
Gamblers Found to Be In
nocentIy Employed.
WARNED BY SIMPLE DEVICE,
Some of the Patrons Were SO f1us-
tered, However, That They Held
Magazines Upside Down.

On Saturday, Chief of Detectives Ed
Janney secured from County Attorney
Hanson a search warrant, permitting
the officer to lawfully enter the prem
Uses of the Occidental at 1915 east
First South street. Tho purpose was
to raid the place--upstairs-in the hope
OF finding a bunch of gamblers prac-
Using their nefarious trade. The war;
rant was placed in the hands of De-
teetive Dick Shannon, and he, with
number of trusty officers. descended
upon the place, confident OF big haul,
press notices and promotion. But 1t
seemed they reckoned without their
host and met with sorrowful disap-
pointment.
When the officers. headed by the
genial Dick, finally got to the upstairs
rooms they found everything quiet
and serene. Several men were play
ing pool. while others were gazing IN
tently at magazines, papers and books.
AS to gambling, why, there was Moth
ing doing-of course.
IT WAS so SIMPLE.
The officers did not know, and per-
haps don't know yet that they were
observed long before they began to
The club proprietors have sim
Pile little contrivance for the pur-
pose of seeing who climbs those
stairs, but the officers did not know 1t
! and therefore wondered why II TOOK
the doorkceper so long TO turn the key
in the lock midway on the stairs be-
tween the ground floor and the nrst
anGlng. But, bless their innocent
| hearts. II they will but read this little
! tale they shall know.
Tere is a door half way up the
stairs. This door is kept locked all
/ the time At the top landing of the
stairs there is large and well pol
| ished mirror facing the stairs and re-
| ilecting a full view of, not only the
! stairs bat even the sidewalk in front of
! the saloon. Facing the mirror ON The
| second floor are the club rooms.
HOW IT WORKS.
| Now. when the visitor ascends the
stairs and bumps up against the door
half way up a buzzer buzzes and a.
the buzz of the buzzer lookout II
the Club rooms peeks through small
i holc IN the door and gets n line on TN
mirror at the head of the stairs ant
said line and said mirror throws no
4 Election of the stairs, ground floor ant
! sidewalk in front OF the saloon
The lookout therefore knows who II
coming Whether the visitor Is n clul
member in good standing, butter in
or a "hycop." This is what happened
Saturday night to Dick shannon anc
1 his assistants.
Were the officers admitted Certain.
| ly! Why should they be kept out
/ They had q search warrant
when the officers arrived In th'
Club rooms there were number OF
4 men present. Some were playing pool
/ others were conversing about the
weather and some were reading De
tective Shannon strolled over to Ia
BILE at which were seated three or foul
men intently interested in articles L.
ma sazines one member of the clul
did not even look up he was so taker
up with an illustrated account of tn
doings of the Pacific feet under com
mana OF Fighting Bob Evans
STORM WRECKS FLEET.
Great storm we had-eh?" remark
ed Detective Shannon TO the reader
"Storm? What storm?" asked tn
CLUB" member, II didn't know VI
had had a storm"
"Wen, Il must have been bad one,
replied the detective. Il see 1t turne'
the ships upside down."
The Club" member discovered N
had been reading upside down ant
quickly reversed the magazine. No ar
rests were made.