The Washington times., 1922-10-20
FIRST GAMING
CASE RESULTS
|N.C0Nv|CT|ON
Edward Waters, Found Guilty
Of Operating House. Gets
Six Months Sentence.

Edward. Waters was today found
guilty Of unlawfully promoting and
operating a gambling house in Ar
lington county and sentenced by
Police Justice William /. Cloth t.
six months In Jail.
Through his attorney, Carl Bud
wesky. OF the firm Of Davis and Bud
wesky. of Alexandria, Waters noted
| an appeal to the circuit court
Judge Samuel G. Brent later an
nounced that he had set the trial
Of Waters for October 26.
Waters is the first 10 face trial
Of several men arrested In connec
tion with the recent drive on alleged
gambling houses In Arlington county
James M. Doherty, who was jointly
indicted with Waters. apd is thr
!, owner Of the house whefe Waters
was charged with conducting games
failed to appear for trial this corning
Doherty Case Wednesday.
Attorney Budwesky submitted a
| certificate signed by DIR. Walter A.
Warfield, which stated that Doherty
was suffering from an old afflictiou
and was unable to appear. A con.
tinuance was ordered, and the case
will be tried before Justice Cloth on
wednesday next.
George w. Matters, who was in.
dicted for his alleged connection with
the Hilltop Club, Is to be given a
hearing this afternoon.
II had been anticipated that those
ndlcted Tor connection with ALLEGED
gambling houses would be taken Gi.
fectly before Circuit Judge Brent,
but he has ruled that the cases
should take their regular course
through Police Court, and In cases
of appeal be sent to his court.
Counsel for Thomas Worland and
George Matters today notified Com.
honwealth Attorney Frank l.. Ball
that they would enter a protes
against the burning Of the gambling
equipment seized in two alleged
gambling clubs earlier In the week.
Mr.. Ball had planned to destroy the
apparatus tonight at q bonfire on
the yard Of the courthouse. He an.
nounced that the demonstration had
been postponed until a later date.
Four Witnesses Heard.
Only four witnesses were heard to-
day in the case against Waters.
Special Officer y. w. Welsh testi'
fled that he found Waters a.. the
andria, but inside the county Of Ar,
(Waters) was the proprietor Of the
place and that he rented 1t from
Doherty.
Three rent receipts signed by Do.
herty and made out to Waters were
offered in evidence. They were
seized in the raid on the place.
Welsh also identified playing cards,
dice. crap table covers and other arti'
cles taken from the Doherty estab'
lishment.
Bruce Smooth. a special officer
corroborated the testimony OF Welsh
He said he did not see any gambling
games in operation at the establish
ment. but had talked with Waters
and had been told by Waters that he
was renting the place from Doherty
he owner Of the property.
John Wise, who visited the
Doherty house last Saturday night
| testified that he shot crap there
and won. In the presence OF the
court, Prosecutor Ball 'lrapcd one
OF the crap table covers over q
table and the witness demonstrated
how the game wns played, showing
how certain numbers printed OF the
green table cover won varying
amounts.
Big Crowd at Place.
Wise testified that the crowds
were SO dense in the establishment,
that II was necessary to push side
wise up to the table in order to lay
money on a certain number.
Adams Howard, a Washington
newspaper man. testified that he
visited Doherty's establishment last
Saturday night, and found at least
300 men In the place, all playing
crap on specially constructed craI
| tables.
Howard won IS. he told the court
There were no other games in op
Grafton at the time, he said.
None of the witnesses saw
Waters In the house during the
progress Of the games. they testified
Attorney Budwesky told the cour
that the accused would offer M
defense, since, he claimed. ther,
had been no proof offered to show
that Waters had got a "rake-off'
from the alleged gambling. games
He must derive some benefit from
theA games. Budwesky contended, tc
be found guilty Of operating a gam
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