Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-21
GIVES DETAILED
NOTES ON GAMBLING
DEFENDANT is SAID ~ JUDD Ts
HAD KNOWLEDGE OF GAMING
IN kAlsER's PLAcE-THE Evl
DENcE IN DETAIL.

Stato IN the PniIlipe custer case,
II. D. Judd this morning went Into
tho history Of gambling In ottum-
wa IN an exhaustive manner,
pointing out the various places
where gambling was permitted.
In being cross-examined, Judd
acknowledged receivina $225 from
George WolIett for stopping the
prosecution Of WoIIett during the
early part Of this year on the
charge Of gambling.
The witness also swore that In
the Kaiser cigar store on South
Market, a company Of gamblers
were talking about winning and
losing upstairs in John kaiser'a
gambling place and the convefsa-
tion was heard by Mayor PHILIPPE. q
In telling OF the gambling places
IN ottun,wa, the witness gave mi-e
mute evidence Of what each place
contained In the way Of pararher-
,aiia. He also told how entrance
was aatnsd to many Of them.
AT q banquet sseld I'M ttlg. 9:.f..,sr-
sner place on East Second atrs1i. = \
policeman was said by Judd %
have been one Of the banqueters,
This happened, said the witness.
\ when poker games were N pro-
aress.
Henry David Judd, star witness foI
the state in the Phillips custer care
underwent q gruelling cross-examina
tion by Judge Mitchell this morning
and the rapid-f1re cross questioning
of the mayors attorney made the wit
ness decidedly uneasy. It developed
in the hearing that Judd had accepted
money to the amount OF 1925 for try.
ing to squelch the gambling case
against George Wollett.
The witness went into the history
OF gambling in Ottumwa to great
lengths. and he has been directly ex
amined by only one side to the contro.
versy. When the attorneys for the
plaintiff secured the witness this after.
noon, more sensationa, Developments
are expected.
The evidence given this morning
by Judd was most damaging to Mayor
Phillips, but the witness Judd, who
was thought to prove the star for the
prosecution, bids fair to be OF greater
value to the defendant.
Says Mayor knsw Of Game.
In the course Of his answers to the
questions put to him by Judge Mitch
ell, Judd stated .emphatlcally that
Mayor Phillips knew OF the gambling
going on in Kaiser's place. After ex
planning now one could reach the
gambling rooms by going through the
toilet in the cigar store on Soutt
Market street, Judd stated that John
Kaiser, Sumner, Grow, Bill Darner
Shields, Sam Coleman, w. III. Hillery
Abe Lafferty, Perry, Swede Henry and
himself talked about winning and los
Ing in the presence OF Mayor Phillips
and that he knew the mayor had
knowledge of the game upstairs.
He also acknowledged that the same
sympathy he showed for Violet was
not shown for Ben Holly because the
money consideration was not forth
coming.
He told Of a gambling room in tbs
Billy Murray saloon on West MAR
street. where he had played. and re
cited the incident of the local gam
blers forming a trust and operating
over the Derby saloon. The O'Brier
and Griffin place under the Sax build
ing corner Of Main and Green streets
was also. told about just before the
noon recess.
The hearing OF the Phillips custer
proceedings resumed at 9 o'clock this
morning before Judge X. e. Willcock
son with Judd on the stand. The wit
ness was not to have been brought OF
before today but was reached last even
ing owing to number OF witnesses be
ing absent because they figured on no
being called. The direct examination
OF the witness by Attorney Fletcher
was completed last evening when the
court adjourned about $3.50 and con
tinued for about an hour this morn
Ing. The locations of gambling house!
in Ottumwa during the summer. fal
and winter of 1902 and 1908 were
brought out. Among those he men
toned was that of Frank Erbachel
beneath the Ballingall hotel. where
he said the place run wide open fol
six or eight months the last time, anG
before then for several years wher