Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-12
Guilty Pleas Refused.
7 Ordered 10 Stand
Trial as Gamblers
Speciol DiSpafch 10 The StoF

Special DiSpoteh 10 The StoF
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. IL.
Trial Magistrate j. Ralph Abel
yesterday rejected guilty pleas by
two men accused as gamblers and
ordered them to stand jury trial
during the st. Marys County Cir
cult Court term in September.
The court invoked the seldom
used procedure after States At
torney John H. T. Briscoe said
Maryland's law gives the State
the right to accept or refuse adj
missions of guilt in such cases.
Defense attorneys contended that
rejection of the guilty pleas vio-
lated the defendants constitu-
tional rights.
The action means that race
betting charges against John
Roach of Mechanicsville and
Nanny Horowitz of Lexington
Park will not be placed before
the grand jury. Instead their
cases will be listed on the Circuit
Court docket for trial before petit
jurors.
Police Raid Six Places.
The two men were among "a
arrested August 2 when State
police struck simultaneously at
six alleged gambling spots in a
county-wid cleanup. Detective
Sergt. Murray E. Jackson said
yesterday total of $2,862 in cash
was seized. along with miscel-
laneous gaming equipment, in
GLIDING a sawed-off shotgun.
Sergt. Murray was in charge Of
a six-month investigation which
preceded the raids.
Three more men said to be
owners of buildings housing gam
ing operators were arrested
Thursday and charged with per-
hitting gambling on their prem
Uses. They were Hiram Millison
and Ernest Slusser of Lexington
Park and James Cochran, one of
the owners of Esperanto Farms
on the Patuxent River near the
Naval Air Base.
Fire Destroyed Building.
The main building at the hotel
resort was destroyed by fire be-
fore the raid. Police said evidence
against Cochran was obtained be-
fore the structure burned. The
three men were released in $500
bond each for hearings August Is
Three men seized in the Angus
2 raid were not charged and one
accused of possession of numbers
slips was freed yesterday because
of insufficient evidence. He wa:
Archie Ford of Lexington Park.
Four other defendants were al
lowed to plead guilty and were
fined a total of 5000. Their names
and the fines imposed were Her.
bert Wise, jr., 5000; Mrs. Marge
Walters, 5000; William George,
$3.50, and Edward Thomas. $3.50.
Hearings on race betting charges
against Foley Drury. Leo Walters
and Alan Fisher were continued to
August 81. Authorities said Fisher
has been linked with a national
bookmaking syndicate.
Jury Will Get Cases.
Cases against remaining de-
PENDANTS, all of whom are said to
be connected with the numbers
racket, will be presented to the
grand jury. Attorneys said num-
bers charges are subject to the
State lottery law and cannot be
tried in the lower court.
Three alleged numbers law vio-
lators, Louis Copsey, Steve Dulin
and Harry F. Bell. waived pre-
liminary hearings and eight others
were held for the grand jury after
introduction of State evidence.
The eight were picked up at a
Hollywood (Md.) building which
police said was one of the head
quarters for county numbers men
whose annual take they estimated
at 100000. Slot machines, now
legal, gobble up another half mil
lion, they asserted, and book
making. dice, roulette and other
forms of gambling trim the coun-
tvs pocketbook still further.
Others Held for Jury.
Held for the grand jury as a
result of the Hollywood raid were
j. Walter Norris, said to be the
owner of the building. and Ben
jamin Sacks and William Sacks,
brothers, both of the TOO block
of Rittenhouse street NV, Wash
ington.
Also, Truman E. Wood and four
colored men, Heartic L. Taylor,
Edward L. WEIGH, William H.
Barber-Bey and Dennis White.
Washington police said William
(Whiskey) Sacks, now listed as
minor figure in the numbers game,
was a big-time bootlegger in the
| prohibition era.