The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-10

quest of the police and that this
work was performed by DR.. O'Shea.
GAMBLING IN PLACE RUN
BY CHIEFS BROTHER
Probably the greatest surprise Of
the afternoon was caused by the
testimony of James Wilson, paint
err and decorator, who told Of gam
bling twice in the gambling house
operated in the rear of the Havana
cigar store on Sprague avenue. He
said that the proprietors of this
place were Denny Sullivan, BROTH
err of Chief Sullivan, and Tom
Dickey, who conducted the game.
In two sittings Wilson lost $95. He
sat In a poker game that run all
night the first time he played
there. This cost him over $40. He
went back on Sunday afternoon
and sat in a stud poker game for
the purpose of getting even, ana
instead made another donation Of
over $40. The two games were run
by Tom Dickey as game keeper,
while Denny Sullivan was stationed
in the CIGAR store in front as sort
Of lookout" Dickey passed from
the poker room to the front of the
cigar store for cigars. Wilson was
assured that he needh ave no fears
of the police; that everything was
all right In this respect.
When Wilson entered the gam
bling house the first time he found
the poker game full handed, with
seven men seated around the table.
He didn't know any of them, with
the exception of Dickey, but re-
called that one was a cook and an
other a clerk in one of the large
retail stores. Wilson, after stand
ing around the room as wall
flower" soon was given seat, and
then played until morning. He said
that there was no hole in the table,
that instead of operating kitty"
the game keeper cut each pot in so
many checks; he estimated that
the rake off, for the house
amounted to $40 an hour, and that
the house "copped off" $50 for the
nights work. Checks were sold in
denominations of cents, so cents
and $3.50 and that it required IS
to sit in the game.
Wilson testified that he after
ward learned that he had been
cheated in the stud poker game
through the fact that two of the
men. against whom he played were
house men," or in other words, in
terested in the play. He said that
these men afterwards told him that
he had been a Sucker" and that
they knew his hole card as soon as
he did himself. Wilson said that he
| was a game loser and did not report
his loss to the police.
TRAGEDY IN ELLIOTT CASE
Next was taken up the story of
tragedy in the Elliott case in which
the criminal operation was per-
formed on Rose Elliott. Mrs Gladys
| Britton of Hillyar dtestified that
she resided in a lodging house at
E115k Sprague avenue last March
at the time the Elliott girl came
there to be relieved of her troubles.
She knew nothing about the steps
leading to the employment of Mrs.
Mary Kelsch, the midwife, who was
charged with having performed the
abortion on the Elliott girl. The
morning following the commission
of the crime Mrs. Britton saw the
body of the child wrapped in a
towel and resting on chair She
saw a blood clot on the child's head
that looked like it might be a hole
in the head. She did not know, of
her own knowledge, what had been
done with the body, but she was in
formed by one of the women pres
ent that Mrs. Kelsch had burned it
in the cook stove. Mrs. Britton said
that she heard Mrs. Nellie Pearce,
who is under 5000 bond as a prjn-
cipal in the abortion case, say that
she had paid Mrs. Kelsch $25 for
performing the operation and that
Police Officer Glider contributed be-
tween $3.50 and SO of this money.
Glider was to pay Mrs. Kelsch the
whole $25, but did not have the
money at the time, and has not
since repaid the loan he made of
Mrs. Pearce.
Mrs. Britton testified as to Gill
der's efforts to get her out of the
country after he learned that the
story of the criminal operation had
become public. This was immedi-
ately after Mrs. Britton and Mrs.
Nellie Pearce had@ been taken be-
fore the prosecuting attorneys
office.
Bowman, proprietor of the gro
Gerry store at Fifth and Fiske, in
Union Park, testified that John T.
Sullivan had called Rosie Elliott
over the phone and that the Elliott
girl had called Sullivan number
of times in the grocery store. This