Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-24
GAMBLING GOING
ON IN SAL LAKE !
Crooked Devices in Operation For
The Accommodation Of
Strangers.
THE POLICE MAKE DENIAL.
quite Easy 10 Dig Out Wheel and Box
And separate Victim From
His Money.

FL Police officials are emphatic in the
declaration that there is no gambling
going on III Salt Lake They do not
pretend to say that poker games are not
In operation in nearly every saloon and
cigar store In tile city, but they insist
there are no regular gambling
houses where the whirr OF the little
wheel and ball and the click OF chips
are heard.
The police say that, If there is any
gambling of that kind they don't know
1t.
Bless their innocent hearts, Of course
they don t!-perhaps.
Last evening the News" stated upon
Information believed to be reliable that.
about 10 days ago, a young man went
INTO g. gambling house on Commercial
street and was trimmed by roulette
and faro beautifully and departed
minus iS1,500, 1t was admitted in police
circles than such q loss had been heard
of within the time stated but it was de-
MED that a wheel or faro layout was
in operation Acting upon a tip given
by a News reporter the place was
visited yesterday afternoon and the re-
port came back that nothing but dust
was found.
1t is hardly likely that the owners
of the outfit would show the officers
where the property was secreted.
| Every gambler in Salt Lake knows
that IN the cellar under the police sta
ton there IS a crooked roulette wheel,
a faro layout and a policy wheel with 2
lot of other gambling junk. The stuff
was at one time very valuable, worth
probably 81, 500. 1t was contiscated and
stored away In the damp old basement
where the delicate mechanism will be
warped and ruined. 1t might just as
we'll be used for kindling wood for all
the good 1t Is for gambling purposes.
Owners of such property are not anx-
,ious to have it confiscated. hence their
hesitency in showing the police where
it is.
RETIRED GAMBLERS STORY.
There are retired gamblers in Salt
Lake who profess to know whereof
they speak. One of the most prominent
In the city stated to the News" that
10 days or 50 ago q young man from
| the south lest 81, 500 in a Commercial
street dive by the roulette and fare
route, OF course the wheel is not al
| ways turning. Some men are partia
| to poker. Others like something more
exciting, such as spinning the little bal
around the numbers on the wheel OF
| laying q bet on the next card tho
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| Those who like that sort of game car
get it in Salt Lake according to the
retired gambler referred to.
He said: IF a man wants game
of that kind md who has money t.
| lose comes to Salt Lake, he soon finds
out whore he can be accommodated
| The outfits may be covered with dus
! and all that sort of thing but It IS
easy to knock OFF the dust and oil the
machinery just for the accommodation
Of the guest. The gamblers can dig out
the outfit for a couple Of hours or SO
and put it away again until another
sucker arrives on the scene. This sort
or thing is going on in Salt Lake.
A few months age the News called
attention to the presence in this city OF
such gambling devices. The statement
was denied. but a few nights later
gambling house was raided and a
crooked layout was conflscated and Is
now stored at police Headquarters II
will not be long before another raid
viii be made and gambling devices are
confiscated.