The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-02-10

quiry of Judge Fulton that sweat
ing" meant looking on"
There was no attempt 10 conceal
the sale of the whiskey, said Martin.
and all a person had to do was to
ask for corn" Four places were
operating at Dillard. he testified. and
there were booze joints" in all of
them and also in one rooming house
there. Martin stated that he saw
Deputy Sheriff's Ballew and Ward
drinking at gambling joint operated
by Jack Farrar. but on cross-examina-
ton testified that he did not know the
contents of the receptacles from which
they were drinking. In submitting the
question as to the contents of the
receptacles. Attorney Champion stated
that Ward has never been known
to have touched a drop Of intoxicating
liquor in his life"
Martin Visited Places.
During crossexamination. Martin
further testified that he also had
been drinking and sweating" at the
joints and occasionally playing. When
asked as TO why he had never re-
ported the existence of the gambling
joints to Lem Bates, city marshal
of Healdton, Martin replied that Lem
was there and knew it and that was
the reason he had not informed him
Of the conditions.
against Buck Garrett as man but
as an official.
During the 1921 World series. said
Martin, the baseball returns were re-
ceived in the rooms over the Southern
Cafe, and $50 people were there. There
was gambling paraphernalia lying
about exposed to view
Guards at Joint.
That there were two men on guard,
one at u "push-button" ana another
at the door at the foot Of the stairs,
was the testimony offered during the
afternoon session of the hearing by
Grover c. Dunham, one Of the owners
of the Southern Cafe, over which 1t
is alleged a gambling joint operated.
Dunham stated that one Of the guards
sat behind the cigar case in his es-
tablishment, while the other was at
the door leading up to the gambling
den overhead. The purpose Of the
push-button, he said, was presumably
TO warn the operators Of the gambling
house of a threatened raid SO that
they might be enabled to clear away
evidence. The button was behind the
cigar case. Dunham has been con-
nected with the cafe. he testified,
since January !. 1921, and during
that time, he said, never saw an
officer go up to the gambling rooms.
He knew of only two entrances to
the place he said, one of which was
through the door Of his cafe and
then through q side door and the othre
through a door in the rear which was
always barred. Those who entered.
he said, usually came out the same
way, namely through the front OPEN
ing. He stated he knew Of no place
where the paraphernalia could be con-
cealed in case of raid. Dunham
named "Pinky Smith as the man who
had charge Of the button.
Kendall Ran Game.
Through the testimony Of p. H.
Cain, gauger with the Westheimd
and Daube interests, and Frank Ed
diagton, former agent with the Mag
nolia Petroleum Company. the prose
cution attempted to prove that Dep
uty Sheriff Horace Kendall had been
in charge Of stud poker game at
the Southern rooms. Cain testified
that he saw a man whom he thought
was an officer sitting behind a bank
roll at the game and that some time
later on the street. a man pointed
him out to him as being an officer.
Cain could not recall the name. but
described the man whom he had seen