The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-22
HAS LAUGH ON MAN WHO TOLD Fellow Who Caused Raid Gets Heaviest Fine In City
 Court
Eyes Clean And Teeth Flash City Court Looks Like 2 Scene In Dixie

City court this morning resenlbled a scene from the Southland when the members of the Union Social club of 8 Bank street also known as the Social League club. filed before the oar to answer to the charge of keep ing and frequenting a gambling re- sort; also a place where liquor is sold. About 25 'gentlemen of color ivere present to answer to the charges.
 All the coiored society of Bridgeport was heavily represented. Rows of shining white worries set off in an ap- 95l cpriate background of duller colors illuminated the court room while the SsvAers responded guilty to the charges against them.
 but oh hoy the whites of those eyes flashed and the gleaming teeth scintillated, when Thomas D. Shelton, the man who made the complaint, was more heavily fined than any of tf1e others. after having vainly plead ed mot guilty"
 All the others admitted their guilt. Tut Shelton. whose complaint to the officers resulted in the raid on the ~s,J at o'cIock Sunday morning. : one of them at first said "not gull ty'' but later changed their plea to
 guilty" shelton alone pleaded mot
 I'm the man who made the com plaint," he declared. I'm not gull
 shelton was called to the witness stand to speak in his own behalf.
 We were playing poker" he ex- plained; T lost $1o or SIP and all the time I wes losing, I paid; but when began to win the others wouldn't pay. I wasn't going to stand for that nohow, so I went out and told the officers.
 I When I had a chance to win, the others counted the cards and said they were two short. Then I caught man cheating and I called his hand oh Ac,fe. Id haVl is dead But they wouldn't allow that and they divided up the money. They wouldn't pay me when I won. but they took my money when lost
 "I'n recommend to your honor that this mans fine be made heavier than any of the others declared Prosecut- ing 1Ai, AttSrney psianey to Judge + Frank Ink lice would never have heard anything about it: he's just bad as the rest and l think he ought to get a heavier dropped about foot while nothing but unadulterated pleasure lit up the gleaming conntenances Of his 20 fel- low members of the Union Social club whose arrest he had caused.
 Thomas Wilson. charged with being the proprietor. was fined $10 and costs legally selling liquor. Shelton. who made the complaint. was fined $10 for frequenting a gambling house and all the others were fined $5 on the same charge. Prosecuting Liquor Agent Merritt nol1ed the charge of frequent 5ug place where liquor is sold
 The members of the club include some of the best known colored resi- dents of the city-in fact it is the elite club among the eDlored population. Those fined in court today. besides the proprietor Thomas Wilson, were Thomas D. Shelton. Granville Stewart. Garry H. Baker. Robert Barker. Geo. W. Grace. Wdlliam Tappers. Fletcher W Logan, Charles Matthews, John Williams. William Mavick Henry Sayles ErneRt Fie1ds. William L. Gray. James B. Therineton. Charles Freeman. James Dunlap. William Cooper, OIxey Payton. Edward wash ineton. Chauncey Steadwell and AL hert Washington. Most of them sue ceeded in getting their fines paid be- fore noon time.