Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-27
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p ~ ing Poker.

!, hours Yesterday Judge G. M.
-. ritv Attorney sorrells, Mayor
' " Jordan and~members of the City
,, y, il heard testimony in the coun-
ss .o,,rt, when senyard and Beizner'
Wv, .o,oonists, answered a citation
~. directing them to appear there
wv how cause why their license
~ Ia mt be revoked, for being al
-. that they knowingly permitted
s in their building on August
-,aon poker game was raided
~ :. After hearing the evidence
WI argument of Attorneys T. Hav1s
r Nv and NJ. Danaher, Judge Phil
:. +oot the case under Amusement.
Instruct Attorney Nixon commended
A.t the law has always been that If
. man to whom license was issued
knowingly permitted gambling in his
.,.co of business or the building be
..ounied. he would lose the right to
all lionor and that the law provides
,1.t he should forfeit his license. He
,,pued that the law became effective
Without any clause or agreement IN
mo issuance of the license, when the
oom;ng law was violated. The
cnunty Judge. he said, inserted the
c,ause to charge saloon men with
the duty of seeing that no gambling
tcok Mace in their respective build
ings and that the gaming laws were
enforced.
Mr.. Danaher said that it would be
unfair and unjust to Senyard and
Belzner to revoke their license even
II there had been games, unless they
knew of the gambling, and that the
court ought not TO take away their lie
epse unless the evidence submitted
yiction in a criminal prosecution for
knowingly permitting gambling on
their premises.
A large number of witnesses, in
Guiding the saloon proprieters, were
heard. Owing to the large number OF
interested spectators at the hearing
the session of e court was held In
the circuit court room.
Arthur Young, the first witness, tes-
titled that he was in the poker game
on August IS, that was raided by the
police. They had just been playing
about thirty minutes, when the po-
lice entered. He admitted that drinks
he'd been sent up to them from thu
saloon below on the dumb Waitel
every fifteen or twenty minutes
They played pitch for drinks at the
start. he said, the poker game re
sulting. He said he did not know
how the drinks We're ordered. He ad
unitted he had played poker and pitcl
in the same room several times thi
year. He said S. c. Cross, the gam
Keeper, was present on the day of tn
raid. He said Cross had charge o
the game. On cross examination wit
ness said he never saw Mr.. Senyar'
nor Mr.. Belzner upstairs and neve
saw the drinks when they were take
or the dumb waiter. The dunn,
waiter was not in the room wher
they We're playing.
d. c. Wilcox who has an office il
the Senyard-Hicks building, testifie
mat ne had seen men play pitch Their
dozen times, that the door was ope
whenever they played; that he sa'
an old dumb waiter in one of tn
rooms, but did not think it was eve
used. He said he had never playe
III the game, but had stood by an
watched it several times. He admit
cd having seen Cross lock and III
lock the door of the room, adjoinin
MS office. He did not know whethe
tne men were playing for drinks {
not. Once saw a man with two DO
lies OF beer in the hall. Witne'
never saw senyard or Belzner VI
STAIRS. He did not know that gan
was On in the building the day of tt
raid.
horace Holmes admitted that
was one of the players in the poke
same. Cross, he said, was bankil
TIE game himself. He said a viii
Alah waited on the players. but 9th
witnesses testified that an old negr
named Bill" waited on them. N
MONIES says he did not know t
"hite man who apparel to be assis
ing the game keeper.
). c. Cross. who said he has liv
IN Fine Bluff 81 years, admitted tn
MS business was gambling" !
SAID he was nreson+ IN A,.,,s. * q,