Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-01
SEQUEL to Halloween CeIebra-
ton Develops Today.
"COON CAN" AMONG GAMES
Police Make Raid on Green Cloth in
Southwest Washington.
WOMAN GIVES THE ALARM
Evidence Conflicting and Case Dis
missed-Crap Stunt Interrupted.
wagonload of Witnesses.

Halloween celebrations in tho third
and fourth precincts were marked by
All unusual number of raids 10y the po-
lice Crap games. poker games and
brand-new game, called coon can, were
disturbed by the policemen, who filled
Judge KimbalTs court with defendants
and witnesses this morning.
Sam Richards. colored, invited few
gentleman friends to attend the Halloween
festivities at his home. IL was testified that
no provided green cloth and a pack of
cards but no beer. So the gentlemen dis
tributed themselves about the green cloth
TO disport themselves I'm the pleasures of
coon can The principle of this game
was described something like this: Every
gentleman gets few cards from the
dealer, and a widow" Is laid on the
table. face down. Tie dealer then picks
up one card from the widow" and
the man who comes nearest To matching
il wins the trick. There are variations,
IF course. but in the end the gentleman
with the least tricks tolls down to the
corner with an empty can and returns
with enough sea foam TO wet the clay
- the entire Halloween party.
Woman Shrieks. Game Ends.
Sans friends did not finish the game.
according 10 the testimony n woman
next door was heard to shrek Police"
some one snatched up the green cloth. the
cards flew around thick as the falling
leaves of autumn. windows smashed and
into the room, already packed to the
limit, crowded from all directions Police
men Kite. LOoper. Jones, Stuart. Smith
and Sergt. Lake. All of these swore the
Halloween party was playing poker for
money. but the invited guests said they
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case was dismissed.
Sunday morning very early sleuthing
party. composed of Policemen Kite, Pier
son, Hilton. Russell and Cole, cruised
around to a place an AZ street. where
young chap was Ioafing in front of a shoe
shining parlor. II is said he was look
out The sound of revelry from within en-
ticed him from the post of duty for
minute and the sleuthing party entered
the place in four different ways-by doors,
windows and hole i'm the roof They
caught sight of participants in spirited
game of craps. in which young colored
woman was rolling the bones and call
ing:
Come on. YOU seven I done got TO
get ma babe pair o. shoes"
Lights Extinguished.
Suddenly every lamp in the place went
out. and five burly policemen found them
selves in a struggling mass of escaping
tering the room by the hole in the roof
dropped feet foremost onto the young
woman and nabbed her, the other raiders
grabbed promiscuously i'm the dark and
two policemen caught each other and
had terrific fight. Despite the diff
culties. the officers dragged out wagon
load of witnesses and charged Melville
Jordan, who is supposed to rent the
place. with running a gambling game
All his witnesses were in court this
morning. but Melville did not appear
and consequently forfeited his go
Another little party was that conducted
by Oliver Adams. colored. of : Snow
court. Sunday morning. before sunrise
Oliver and ten friends were sitting in q
poker game where they used cards that
run as high as the twelve spot
The hands were high and exciting.
Every time a man would fill the crowd
would roar. and a straight caused so
much commotion that they walked the
babies block away. Once when Oliver
laid down hand composed of three aces
ana two kings. they nearly had to buy a
new table. so hard did all hands pound.
Policemen Break In.
All this time Sergt. Brown and Policemen
Scanlon and Young were peeping through
the blinds. At an opportune moment,
when the table was piled high with coin
and all hands We're striving to open with
pair of jacks or better, the walls
seemed to cave in. and in spite of a stren-
uous attempt to get out by way of the
trapdoor made for such emergencies
nearly every one was caught. Mr. Adams
was sentenced TO six months i'm the work.
house.