Evening star., 1911-08-17
Betting IN BIG PRINT
SHOP TO Be STOPPED
Arrest of Go-BetWeen to Be
Followed by Expulsion,
It Is Claimed.

To the fact that the government print
ing Office has so much work to do at
present that many compositors are
working overtime. several employees of
sporting proclivity may give their thanks
that they have A job to keep the wolves
from their doors.
The day of reckoning is 10 come, how
ever. for the men who persist in betting
upon horse racing Their reprieve is ex-
tended only to that time when they can
be spared without crippling the output
of the big printery.
Public Printer Donnelly, following tho
disclosure that handbook was being
made, and the arrest and confession OF
his part a go-between OF Charles W
Fisher, negro employe, is bent on draS-
tic measures to clear the government
printing office Of a practice found unde-
Sira BILE in government departments. Ills
investigation, he hopes. Will result in put
ting a stop forever 10 the handbook busl-
ness.
Fisher, found with discriminating papers
in his pockets. finally admitted, in the
course Of a process Of sweating, his par
in the handbook transactions. lie also
done business with him.
Detectives Weldon and Burlingame
Yesterday afternoon made the nrst al
rest as result of the public print
ers Investigations. Charles w. Fisher,
forty-five years old. whose nome Is
1447 @ street, was in the Police Court.
this morning TO answer charge OF
making a handbook on the races. the
hearing was postponed to give the de-
tectives an opportunity to pursue their
investigation and make additional ar
rests.
Fisher was employed in the govern
ment printing office as a messenger:
Some time ago he was suspected OF
being implicated in the handbook busi-
ness not as backer. but as GO
between. taking bets from persons en-
ployed in the Office and delivering
them to men who made a business of
accommodating those who wanted to
chance getting money from the gam
blers.
Betting Slips Found on Fisher.
Tuesday he was marched into the Office
Of the public printer. Fisher declared
he was innocent.
He was ''sweated' and put through the
third degree" Government printing Of
fee officials took from him $12. He had
the money attached to short slips OF
paper, on which appeared the names o.
race entries on the track at Hamilton
Ontario Papers taken from him lndi-
Gated a total Of eight bets.
Fisher. although suspended Iuesdas'
returned to the printing office yesterday
and saw some OF the men from whom he
had accepted bets. 1t was about a:3o
O'Clock when the detectives arrested him
He revealed to them the names OF a
dozen or more men who had placed bets
through him.
After close questioning at the detect
ives office Fisher was taken TO the hrst
precinct station and locked up. This
morning in Police Court he was formally
charged with being a handbook man. II
was set out in the information that he
had accepted a bet of dollar from John
w Shaw The hearing was continued for
q week.
That the arrest Of Fisher is only the
beginning Of the investigation, which will
probably be followed by several addi-
tional arrests and possibly number OF
suspensions from the government print
ing Office was the statement made today
by one of the investigators. Public Print
er Donnelly was not certain this morning
just what will be done to those men who
patronize handbook men.
The public printer cannot afford TO Grip
pie his force at this time, he said. Many
ccmpostors are now working overtime
because of the great amount OF rush
work. He has made up his mind 70 take
drastic action. however, and thinks the
investigation that Is now being conducted
will put stop to handbooks in the office
| in the future.