The San Francisco call., 1913-07-17
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The books OF the Kingston club,
seized by the police at the order Of the
district attorneys once. were returned
Yesterday BY Chief White before the.
district attorney had had an oppor-
tunity to examine them. White was
asked yesterday afternoon why he had
let Them go out of his possession and
he.naively replied:
:Bepause Argyle asked for them
They had been lying around here for
threc Gass
As soon as Assistant. District st.
torney Cotton learned of the CHIEFS
strange action. he ordered him to get
the books back at once. Cotton also
Immediately took away from the chief
s.tlle books of ali the other clubs and
locked them up in his own Office, where
there is no danger of their being re-
: turned to the proprtetors of tie gam
bling clubs before they can be ex-
amined by the district attorneys staff.
.Eza mination Of the books of some
Of the other clubs discloses the fact
that Police oHicer: Julius Hiatt besides
being 2 member of the Waldorf gam
bling club. has his name on the mem
bership roll OF the. Tahoe club. Whether
or not.ft appears on the rolls Of any
other clubs has not yet been ascer-
tafned.
MAY 81 BPENA4 POLICEMAN
+ So far as can be learned, no charges
have been preferred by Chief White
aga inst officer Hiatt But it is not
Improbable that the district attorney
may summon Hiatt as witness against
the W-aldorf club when the case Of
John Barneburg. president Of. that club,
comes up for trial.
Yesterday afternoon the cases OF the
more. than 800 gamblers and gambling
house keepers. arrested in ne big raid
last Saturday night, came up before
Police Judges Deasv. shortall and
cFist sitting en- banc Fhe feature Of
the. hearing was that the various at
torneys for."the gamblers demanded
and were granted separate jury trials
for each of the defendants If these
cases are all tried before juries it Will
take many months to dispose of them.
and it seems hardly probable that it
VIII be possible 10 obtain juries for
so many trials.
The first case to be tried is that Of
John Barneburg, president of the
Waldorf club. the place where Michael
Atcbity lost all his money and iewelry
and made his sick wife and . year old
daughter destitute. This case is set
for next Tuesday afternoon. at 2
O'Clock
NEW CHARGES FILED
= Assistant District Attorney Ferrari
explained that the defendants had
a greed to a substitution of charges of
conducting a gambling game and OF
Visiting a gambling place for the
! vagrancy. charges. Attorneys for the
defense .corrobora ted this statement
and the Judges ordered the substitu-
tion made and the new charges filed
TTennessey tGen said that It was the
purpose OF the defense to enter pleas
of not guilty and to demand jury
trial in each case. The defendants
would however he willing to agree
with the district attogPey for the trial
OF one case first others to be
placed on the reseriS list and the de-
PENDANTS not required to come into
court until their own cases were called
for trial The other attorneys backed
this up and it was SO agreed.
POLICE vENIRE
Frank Hennessey objected strenuous
Is TO the court allowing Chief of Police
White to select thefjuries.
fudge Deasy. however. refused to
listen to dennessey's demand that
Sheriff Eggers be directed to choose the
veniremed. saving that lie was sure
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