Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-31
JUDGE PH|LPOT
REYOKFS LICENSE
ISSUES ORDER DIRECTING THAT
MAIN STREET SALOON CLOSE
ON MONDAY.
GIVES HIS REASONS
Says tircumstantiaI Evidence Was
Sufficient to- Warrant the
Order.

Judge c. NJ. Philpot yesterday is
sued an order revoking the license
of Senyard and Belzner, local saloon
lists, who We're cited 10 appear in his
court and show cause why their IL
cense should not be cancelled for per-
hitting gambling in the building oc-
cupied by them as a saloon The
order of Judge Philpot reviews some
of the testimony submitted at the
hearing in his court and he gives
his reasons for his action.
The order does not become effec-
tive until Monday, owing to the fact
that the firm has some perishable
goods on hand that Judge Philpot
will permit them to dispose of be
fore closing the place. There may be
some legal steps taken, in the nature
Of an appeal, by Attorneys Danaher
and Danaher. representing the sa-
loonists, but nothing has been done
along this line as yet The order of
Judge Philpot follows:
IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY
COURT.
In the matter of the revocation of
the dram shop license issssei 10 Sen
yard and BelZner at No - ain st.
in the City OF Pine Bluff, sauty of
Jefferson, State of Arkansas.
On the Goth day of August, 1911
and in pursuance to communca-
tion from T, Havis Nixon, Prosecut-
ing Attorney of this district, the
Court issued citation to Fred Sen
yard and William Belzner, partners
as Senyard & Belzner, to appear in
Court and show cause why their said
dram shop license should not be re-
voked for the reason that gambling
was permitted in the building in
which said dram shop was situated,
and on said date came the State by
the Prosecuting Attorney and the
said Senyard & Belzner by their At
torneys, Danaher & Danaher, and the
Court, after hearing all the evidence
and the arguments of counsel doth
find the following facts to be: That
on or before the 18th day of August,
last past, one S. c. Cross conducted
a gambling house over'the dram shop
of Fred Senyard and William Belzner
of IN al, in nf
Pine Bluff, County of Jefferson, State
Of Arkansas, and that on the 18th day
of August, 1911, the said place was
raided by the Chief of Police and his
deputies, and on said day game of
poker was in progress, the same be-
ing game of cards played for money;
the testimony further shows that on
other days games of poker and other
games had been played in said build
ing since the granting of the dram
shop license on the 1st day of Janu-
AIRY, 1911; that the said Fred Senyard
and William Belzner, being the own
ers of said dram shop, and the said
Fred Senyard being the owner of said
building in which said dram shop is
situated, and in which said game of
they were in the habit of sending
drinks up to persons playing in said
card games by means of dummy
waiter, and that by reasonable dill
gence, if they did not know gambl
ing was carried on in the rooms above
said dram shop, they could have
found it out; if the proof in this case
would have shown that the card game
on the 18th day of August, 1911 was
the only game of poker played in
said rooms over said dram shop, the
Court would not have taken any ac-
ton in this matter, but the testimony
shows that on numerous occasions
poker and other games have been
played in said rooms for money, and
that the said Fred Senyard will Will
liam BelZner have been guilty of al
lowing a gambling house to be per-
mitted to run upon said premises
1t is, therefore, by the Court order
ed and adjudged that the dram shop
license granted by this Court on
January /, 1911 to Senyard and Bell
ner at No. 1877 Main Street in the City
of Pine Bluff, County of Jefferson,
State of Arkansas, for the year 1911,