Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-26
GAOEK FINED $50,
COMP PLA|NANT ALSO
State Street Hotel Proprietor
Pleaded Guilty to Keeping
a Gambling House.
RECORDER SHOWS FEELING
Says He Hates ''SqueaIer" and
Proceeds to Punish Man
Who Made Complaint.

Gambling house keepers and
gamblers were treated alike when
they came before Recorder Pickers-
gill last night for punishment. Jo-
seph Gadek pleaded guilty to keep
ing gambling house at his Hotel
State, 1,009 State street, and was
fined $50. Charles Dacis, of 1853
Ridgeley avenue, Railway, who ac-
cused Gadek and his son, Andrew,
and another man of attacking him
and robbing him of $3.50 Monday
night, was fined $50 for beng a pro-
fessional gambler. Andrew Gadek
pleading guilty to charge Of COM
mitting assault upon Dacis, was held
under bail to await the action of the
grand jury.
The charges arose out of an al
legged attack upon Dacis in Gadek's
hotel Monday night. Dacis repeated
his story in court last night as he told
it shortly after the assault. He de-
clared that he had come to Perth
Amboy to discuss some contract work
with 'Gadek, that the hotel proprietor
had invited him to sit In poker
game, that he, Dacis, had won about
$75 and that he had been assaulted
and robbed of $3.50 as he left the
hotel premises. He testified that
Gadek, his son, and third unknown
man attacked him brutally, that he
was showered with blows and that
his trouser pocket was torn and his
roll of money, SIS he had previous
ly and SIS, which he won, taken. He
declared that at first 1t seemed as
though the elder Gadek was trying
to save him from a drubbing, n1t
later, he claimed, the hotel propfie-
tor broke in with the other two and
pummeled him.
Former Recorder Henry w. Kehoe
made a remarkable plea for Gad sk.
He showed by cross examination that
Dacis was a gambler, that he hed
twice been before the criminal conrts
of Railway and that he was not GER
tain who took his money on Mon
day night. Mr. Kehoe said he was
certain Gadek did not get it. AS for
allowing gambling In his place, Mr..
Kehoe said he could not understand
it,. He warned Gadek some weeks
ago and now he was at loss as to
how to plead in the matter There
was no Justification in 1t and he
would run the risk.
When he had concluded, Chief
Burke announced to the court that
as chief Of police he would have to
make charge of keeping gamb-
ling house against Gadek. The ho-
tel proprietor pleaded guilty. Re-
corder Pickersgill then asked his
counsel if he should dispose of it,
or allow it to go before the grand
jury. In accordance with the re-
quest made, the recorder passed SEN
tence, stating that Gadek would have
to pay a fine of $50. That penalty
was considered light, when compared
with a similar case which came be-
fore Judge Daily recently, when the
accused was sentenced to a year in
states prison.
Just when it was thought the
hearing was over, the recorder turn
ed to Dacis and said:
"As for you, you are fined $50
for being a professional gambler.
God Almighty has no use for a
squealer and neither have I. Maybe
you can get away with squealing In
Railway, but not down here. You'll
both stand committed to Jail until
the fines are paid" The money was
turned over to desk sergeant, there
by enriching the city to the extent of
500.
Andrew Gadek said he had as
saulted Dacis after Dacis had been
warned to stay out of his fathers
house. The accused youth said that
he had beaten Dacis about eighteen
months ago and that Mrs. Gadek had
beaten him, in an effort to keep him
out OF their home. This Dacis de-
MED.