Evening star., 1954-12-12
Notorious Gambler
Meets Team Which
Sent Beord to JuiI
BY jack Jonos

SSUl DSUIU 10 JUL
By Jack Jonas
Emmitt Robert Warning, q
Georgetown boy who moved
farther north as his enterprises
prospered, goes to Baltimore to-
morrow to battle with an old
enemy in an unfamiliar arena.
Warning. who has been the
subject Of many gambling in
vestigations but has never been
convicted of gambling although
his attorney once characterized
his as a fair and honest gam
bler"--faces trial In U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District Of
Maryland on income tax evasion
charges.
1t will be a strange experience
for Warning, whose previous
clashes with authority have been
confined to the District. His
only big defeats have come from
Uncle Sam. the parsonage he
faces tomorrow in Baltimore.
|. Specifically, Warning is ac-
Ecused Of evading $4,000 in Fed
eraF income taxes in l947. He
reported an income of $29, $50
that year. The Government
says he should have reported
STAT .967.12.
Warning was indicted last Feb
ruary Is, nearly six years after
the Government became inter-
ested when internal revenue
agents found $250,000 in War
rings safety deposit box. War
ring pleaded not guilty to the
charge on November 3.
The plea was entered after a
series Of legal maneuvers, dur
ing which Federal Judge Calvin
w. Chestnut refused to transfer
the case to Washington, and the
United States Court of Appeals at
Richmond refused to order the
Judge to transfer the case.
United States Attorney George
Cochran Doub, who handled the
recent income tax evasion case
against another Washington
gambler, Sam Beard, will be in
the courtroom against Warning.
| Formidable Combination.
This combination-Mr. Doub
and a Baltimore courts enough
to breed caution. It was this
combination that brought Boards
downfall, and saw him whisked
of to Atlanta even as his appeal
for q new trial was pending. II
Warning will be represented by
G. C. Al. Anderson and James
s. Morrow, jr.. Baltimore attor-
] neys, along with Mr.. Ford, who
has represented Warning for
years.
Mr.. Doub has maintained his
usual silence about who will be
called as witnesses. But it ap-
/ pears likely that among the stars
will be Samuel w. Ford and r.
Russell Kennedy, jr., revenue
agent and special agent respec-
lively for the Internal Revenue
Service. Those two men handled
the technicalities Of the Beard
case, and are the men who did
the spade work for the Govern
ment in the Warning case.
Warning, although never In
serious trouble on gambling
charges. once served two con-
secutive prison terms as a result
Of tax difficulties. One was on
q charge OF conspiracy to evade
/ the tax laws, and another in
connection with jury tampering
while being tried on the first
charge. Both terms came after
guilty pleas in 1899.
Warning, q 49-year-old bach
elor who looks much younger,
lives In comparative quiet at
5000 Macomb street NV, q
home he bought In 1885. When
agents were investigating his
finances preparing for the 1889
trial. he told them:
You know where I am every
night at 5000 Macomb street.
l I haven't been TO q show for over
la year. I run into them
every day. people wanting money.
When you are working and they
are not. your friends always try
to get money out Of you, and !
would rather put 1t down q sewer
than give 1t to most Of them. J.
III don't 60 anywhere. I don't
buy expensive clothes. *. I
don't have no expenses with
girls.
Warning was born IN the Foggy
Bottom section OF Georgetown.
October "a. 1905. went TO gram
mar school. graduated. and at
is began driving q mule team
for his fathers barrel business.
IN his early years. Warrins