Evening star., 1935-05-02
DICE ON EXHIBITION
IN TRIAL OF BEARD
Loaded Cubes Seized in
Raid Demonstrated
to II Jurors.
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He said that particular cube, when
rolled by an expert, upon a suitable
surface" could be relied upon to show
O two, oposite the heavy five side.
The trial promised to continue into
next week as it moved into the fourth
day, with the testimony of Deyoe oc-
cupying most of this mornings Ses-
sion.
Among Office equipment taken in
the raid on the Beard establishment
in the Mather Building were numer-
Gus racing" slips, alleged numbers
slips, a half dozen telephones, an
adding machine, table tops contain
ing elaborate telephone connections
and huge cartons of blank slips, Office
records and papers.
Attaches carried these bulky ar
ticles into the court room, where they
were identified by Deyoe, tagged and
numbered as a Government exhibit
and moved to make way for additional
paraphernalia.
Government Wins Point.
Defens, Counsel Sirica objected
when Fihelly asked the vice squad
sergeant to identify several packages
of numbers" slips found in desk
drawer in the Beard offices. Sirica
said the Government could not prove
the slips were used in the numbers"
game for gambling purposes. Justice
Cox ruled Deyoe could testify regard
ing them, but that the evidence would
be stricken if the Government does
not prove its gambling charge.
Deyoe qualified as an expert" on
the game through having testified as
to several thousand numbers slips"
at almost score of trials. He said
the typical numbers slip contained the
initials of the man who wrote 1t, OF
the player who made the bet. the
amount of the play and the numbers
played upon.
While the trial was in progress thi.
morning, the juror whose illness forced
him to withdraw from the case Tues.
day came in and shook hands with
Justice Cox. The former juror. Louis
G. Bates, explained he was much I'M
proved and recently was discharged
from Casualty Hospital. Both sides
have agreed to complete the trial with
only II jurors.
Deyoe Describes Raid.
Deyoe testified further as to the
raid on the elaborate suite OF the
National Amusement Co. He sale
United States deputy marshals hac
been given a commissioners warrant
by Lieut.. George Little of the vice
squad to arrest Willie Carroll. ALA!
George Harwood. The latter was moi
on the premises. He was the only
one of IA persons indicted whU was
never arrested.
Deyoe said he obtained no answer
to his knock and broke the glass pane
from the door. reaching through the
opening to unfasten the lock. At the
second door, he said. there was peep.
hole. The sergeant testified he
chopped through a panel near the
floor and through the opening saw the
feet of several men. AS he crawlec
through the opening, he said, the mer
appeared to be cutting of the tele-
phones on an elaborate switchboard
The sergeant urged them to desist
by lightly tapping one on the toes
with his ak.
During the cross examination, Sir
lea asked the Government witness il
he always carried an ak when he went
to serve warrant on citizen in some
place of business.
Well" Sergt. Deyoe replied. my
experience about these kind of places
Is you've got to knock your way in!''
Four C0rroborate Deyoe.
The testimony of four members o
the vice squad who followed Sergt De.
yoe to the stand was largely corrobora
tive of that given by the sergeant
The squad members were William Nc
Even, Robert Egan, Oscar j. See ant
Roy E. Blick
The officers told how they descend
ed hastily on the Beard establishment
forcing their way in from two insid'
doors to find the Is men leaving tn,
large central room of the suite ant
crowding into smaller room.
Most OF the witnesses recalled tina
Beard had admitted he was in charg
and passed among the IL other men
adnonishing them to tell the polio,
nothing but their names and ad
dresses.
Describe Layout of Room.
The squad members confirmed
Sergt. Deyoe's Identification of alleged
racing and numbers slips, charts
papers and Office paraphernalia seizec
on the premises. They described the
layout of the large room, three walls
Of which we're lined with telephone
switchboards, while long table stooc
against the fourth wall
Blick testified that after the rait
he took several bets telephoned by 6
person who identified himself as mo
58." Blick wrote out "one dollar OF
1ndent, one dollar on Apple Junior
and one dollar on the nose of Run
ming Wind" The slips which HI
penciled were admitted as Govern
ment evidence.
Egan told of talking to a woman
over the house phones just after tn,
raid. The woman talked very rapidly
and the offioer said, 60 slow, I'm ney
on this side Of the table" Tn,
woman said she had never "had an,
trouble being understood before" ant
hung up.