Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-24
NOT GUILTY" IS P[EATOGAM|NG
 CHARGES
DEFENDANTS APPEAR IN COURT AND FURNISH B ALL NDS; NEW CHARGES FILED AGAINST THREE.
(From Tuesdav's Daily.D

Nearly all of the men who were hit by the informa tions filed last Friday against the alleged gamblers, appear, ed yesterday afternoon in the Superi- or court, and entered pleas of not guilty when their cases were called. Several of the defendants will appear IF court this morning and enter their pleas. Those whose bond was fixed yesterday, and the amount of the bail, were the following-named: Charles Scholey, S50; Barney Smith, S750: Robert Brown, $500: ]. R. Halbrook, $500; Robert Birch, S50: Mat Welsh, $500; Mat Shea, Sl,000: Carl Arm strong, $500: Charles Sanders, $500; Worth Rybon, S50; Frank Wilson, S50, and Bert Harris. S50.
 Three of the defendants were yes :erday served with additional war rants, charging them with other of lenses aside from those alleged in the original informations. Barney Smith is charged in the second information with conducting a stud poker game at the Palace in this city on or about the 18th of October, 1917; Mat Welsh is accused of running a stud game at his place on October 18th last, and Robert Birch is accused in the new charge ot operating a stud game on May ?. 1917.
 Edward Bell. one of the men charg- cd with gambling in the first lot of informations, got wind of the impend- ing arrests, and cleared out of the city before the officers could obtain service on him. The three propriet- ors of the game which was said to have been running in the St Michael hotel building. also became frighten- ed. and left the city some time during Friday night, selling their stock of cigars and soft drinks to a nearby dealer
 County Attorney Neil C. Clark stated yesterday evening that more informations would be, gotten out within the next few days, and that his office intended making a big effort , to stop the epidemic of gambling which seems to have broken out in all parts of the county.
 Sent to Florence.
 Jesse McDemon. alias George Will . Hams, the negro who was arrested in this city some time ago on charge of passing fraudulent checks, entered plea of guilty before Judge Smith yesterday morning, and was sent to the State prison for period of not less than one year nor more than l two years.
 Stay of Judgment.
 The attorneys representing the 1 -,1o 4La nf McMahon, yesterday made a motion asking the court for an arrest of , judgment and also asking for new trial Both motions were over-ruled . by the court, but when the attorneys ! made motion for stay of execu- . ton, the court granted them until . November 1lth. The case was re- gently decided in favor of the defend . ants, and was the outgrowth of a dis . pute over the title to some mining claims in the Jerome district
 Divorce Granted.
 William \. Mccall was yesterday [ given a divorce from Beulah Mccall, ! the complaint having alleged deser- i ton. The defendant did not appear to contest the case
 Two Want Divorces.
 Grace Bottari yesterday filed suit ! against John Bottari, asking that she | he given a divorce on the ground of desertion. The couple was married . in Los Angeles in February, 1915, and . the defendant is alleged to have abandoned the plaintiff October Y, ! 1916.
 Mrs. Ada Burrow charged in her complaint that Lauson Burrow was cruel to her, and that he once or twice beat her and was otherwise very cruel to her She seeks a divorce and ' the custody of their two children. Grace, aged F, and Armond, aged Q The couple was married in 1904, and . separated in February, 1917.
 MUST HAVE COAL