The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-25
CITY POOL ROOMS
FIGHT EACH OTHER
Forum Exchange Says the Turf
Pool Room Stole Their Tele-
graphic Service
Trouble May. Disclose Scandal
and Close Up Race Track
Gambling.

The elimination OF bitter wal
whic0 has been going on for tine pas
TWO weeks between two race track
pool rooms OF this city came yeSter
day, when detectives from the police
department searched the building In
which the Forum saloon is located and
arrested two mon. who were charged
with stealing reports on the Oakland
and Jacksonville races for the Turf
| Exchange.
The men arrested were Carl Farr
and Richard O'Conner. but were re-
leased soon afterward, when It was
discovered that there was no law un.
der which they could be punished so
long as they had not tampered with
the wires over which the reports are
received. and there was no evidence
TO this effect They obtained their re.
ports for the rival exchange by cutting
q hole in the floor of 4 room directly
over the poolroom, but IT is claimed
| that neither OF the men were telegraph
| operators and that they took the re-
ports only after they had been made
by the announcer.
Details OF the affair involve the
, names OF several prominent business
men who are said to be connected
with the exchange located in Black C
Wards Forum saloon on Grant ay-
enue. The rival Turf exchange Is
located on Twenty-ffth street II is
also limited that the publicity result
ing from the affair OF yesterday after
noon may be the signal gun for
wholesale crusade against the race
track poolrooms and that this form of
gambling in Ogden is doomed
The investigation by the police on
cials yesterday WAS made at the insti-
cation of Jimmie Dunn, one of the
proprietors Of the Forum exchange.
II Is claimed that the exclusive fran
chise for the Oakland and eastern
races was obtained by the proprietors
Of the Forum exchange and that the
reports cost them about 500 per day
1t is claimed that previous to the
second floor arrangement and tele-
phone service to the Turf exchange.
representatives OF that institution were
stationed in the Forum ana obtained
the race reports, afterward conveying
them TO the Twenty-flfth street resort
The proprietors OF the Forum are
said to have become acquainted with
this system and refused 10 allow the
Turf messengers TO enter the place.
AS the Turf continued to receive re-
ports, and even more quickly and ac-
curately than before. Dunn and his
associates had suspicious OF wire-tap,
ping
Armed with a search warrant. Chief
OF Detectives James Pender and De-
tective Burk went TO the Forum yes
terday afternoon and went at once to
the second floor, which Is occupied as
n roomng house and operated by a
man named Rogers. Rogers Is said to
have opposed the visit Of the officers
through the rooms of the upper floor,
hut they were supplied with the nee
eSsary papers in the form OF search
In one of the rooms directly over the |
large blackboard on which the races |
are marked up, the detectives found |
Farr and O'Conner For the use of |
his room the p-rf proprietors are said |
% have paid Rogers $50 per week. |
IN some unknown manner the visit OF |
he officers had reached Farr, and he
rad succeeded In cutting the telephone |
instrument from the wall and hid It
Upon investigation OF the room II
vas found that hole about one foot
square had been cut in the floor. atter
which the opening had been covered
,y rug BY lying on the floor with
IFS ear to the opening man could
lear the reports as they were read OF
,y the announcer. or even take the
a h. al. gy, 1
trumen1 If he happened to be an op
,rator. The reports were then trans
nitted to the Turf exchange by tele-
,hone.
After making their discovery Farr
md OConner were taken over TO the
'olice headquarters and the county
ttorney was summoned Proprietors
# the Turf exchange also sent Attor-
ley H. II. Henderson TO the police de
'artment to look after the interests
II their employees, Upon acquainting
imself with the circumstances OF the
ase the county attorney arrived Mt
he conclusion that, as the mon had
lot mokcSted the telegraph wire, there
Vas nothing in the statutes under
fhich they could be held and pun
she'd On the advice OF the county
hlclal, Chief OF Police Browning
hereforc released FaTr and O'Conner.
Much excitement followed the an
of the arrest of Farr and
)'Conner. and for time n small-slzed
lot was threatened. Employees and
atrons of the Turf exchange descend
d on the pool room operated by Dunn
nd his associates and started a free
Or-all. but the trouble was quickly
by the police.
The disclosures made by the police
nd the subsequent arrest oil the Turf
ttaches was the one topic of conyer-
alton about the gambling resorts last
light. and the result OF the agitation
5 problematical