Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25
Saloon Man Accused Of Aiding in
System of Gambling on Races
Which Is Said To Be Flourish
ing in the Barrooms of the City.
Sporting Character Held on Com
plant Of Two Men Who Claim
to Have Been SwindIed-PoIice
Ordered to Make Deep Probe.

Chief Of Police Beavers, opening a
new war. with race track gamblers as
his target, slapped at Charley Jones,
a well-known sporting man, when it
was announced Saturday night that
rigid investigation of the connection
between bookmakers operating in At
lanta and saloonkeepers would be be-
gun at once.
Jones is charged with having played
a spectacular although very quiet part
in gambling operations that have cost
scores of Atlantans hundreds of dol
lars. He is accused of having tele-
phoned information OF the races at
Charleston to "bookies' in his saloon,
the Rex, who used it with deadly eff
feet before the results became gem
eral knowledge
Both Chief Beavers and Chief of
Detectives Lanford admitted Satur-
day night that they have nothing
against Jones at present other than
mere suspicion. and said they do not
charge that Jones knew of the uses to
which his information was being put.
Jones Wires Denial.
II was indicated by both officials,
however, that the investigation of the
alleged gang must necessarily center
around Jones and his work with the
long distance telephone which is in
terpreted to mean that strenuous eff
forts will be made to connect Jones
with the gang
Jones wired from Charleston, where
he is said to be attending the races,
emphatic denial that he is In any way
connected with any bookmaking OPP
erations.
Il DO not now have, nor at any time
in seven years have 1 had, anything
to do with any book in any way" he
wired, and IL that fellow Phillips
named me as having anything to do
with any books, he is nothing but a
lying crook
"curIy" Phillips Held.
Chief Beavers started the fight
against Jones as the result of a state
ment which detectives claim to have
secured from F. j. Phillips, better
known as Curly" Phillips, who is held
on bonds OF 5000 on charges of vio-
lating the anti bookmaking ordinance
and carrying concealed weapons. A
revolver was found in his pocket when
he was arrested
Phillips was taken when a long
shot against which he had laid 20 to
won and he lost 800 He had bet
with a printer, and the printer says
Phillips WEIGHED"
Another printer also claims to have
been victimized by Phillips in the
same manner and for about the same
amount.
Il don't mind to lose a bet so
much" the detectives say one of the
printers said, but / do hate to bet
and win and lose all at the same
time" The police refuse to divulge
the names of the bettors.
Chief of Detectives Lanford de-
clared Saturday night that Phillips
named Charley Jones as the source of =
all his information regarding the
races, through which he was enabled
TO lay bets against long shots and
win them before the results of the
races became generally known The
Chief declined to say whether Phil
lips had indicated whether Jones knew
of the uses to which his information
was being put.
Results Phoned to Saloons.
According to the police, Phillips
said Jones sends the result of each
race to his saloon on Peachtree as
soon as the horses flash under the
wire. From the Rex the information
is telephoned to other saloons
throughout the city where the book
makers congregate. Phillips is said
to have operated in a saloon on Ma
rietta street
While the investigation which
Beavers and Lanford have undertaken
v Ill center around Jones and his Hex