Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-10-02
Telephone Men
Tell Jury Of
BedrdLayouts
RecoIl Carrying Out
le45 Orders Against
Service to Gamblers
By Jack Jonas
Stor Stoff Correspondent


BALTIMORE, Oct. "A Fed
eral Court jury today had an in
side look at Sam Boards WASH
tngton bookmaking establish
ments through the eyes of tele-
phone men who went there on
official business.
United States Attorney George
Cochran Doub told Chief Judge
William c. Coleman that the
telephone men. questioned yes
terday, were called as witnesses
to give an idea of Boards bust
ness during the time-1944
through 1947-he is accused of
evading SIG million in income
taxes.
William M. Seibert, a Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
employe. said he made a service
call at State Wide Sports News
Distributing Co., 3701 Bladens-
burg road, Colmar Manor. Md.
in 1945.
Beard met him at the door, he
said, escorted him into a closet
and through the closet into a
large room. There, Mr.. Seibert
said. he saw five headset tele-
phones arranged around huge
table.
Adding Machines Below.
He and Beard went into the
basement. Mr.. Seibert continued,
where the telephone man saw
adding machines and a man
seated at a table counting money.
William j. Toole, another tele-
phone company employee. said he
called at Boards Colmar Manor
place on March Is. 1945, follow
ing an order to withdraw tele-
phone service from known gam
blers. Mr.. Toole said he went
there to begin taking out the
telephones.
MIR. Toole said that, as he left |
that day. Beard boasted:
I'll be operating again with |
in a half an hour
Mr.. Toole testified he then |
went to Capitol Heights, Md, |
where the telephone company
then had business Office, and |
conferred with the business
manager. In that conversation,
he said, decision was made to
check on telephones in certain
private offices at the w. M. & A.
bus terminal at 4421 Southern
avenue. Bradbury Heights, Mo.
Beard at Door. /
Mr.. Toole said he went to
third-f1oor Office there, !
knocked at the door mad Beard
answered.
How the hell did you find |
me so soon?" he quoted the gam
plef as saying.
The telephone man testified
the companys original installa-
tons. with telephones in three
offices, had been torn up, and
all the telephones moved into
one office These telephones. too,
were grouped around a table and
equipped with headsetS.
A man seated at the table, Mr..
Toole said, was porting over a
scratch sheet"-a paper listing
horse race entries and odds at
various tracks.
Jurors See Checks.
The jurors-and the Govern
ment-got their first look yes
terday at some of Boards can
celed checks, when the checks
were put in evidence by defense
LAWYERS. The defense lawyers
contend the checks, totaling more
than $4,000, should have been
deducted from the Governments
figure of about $4,000 for
Boards 1914 bank balance.
Five of the checks, made out
to Nat Farber, one-time Pitts
burgh gambler. totaled $23.370.
Another, made out to the late
Louis (Rosey) Rosenbaum, once
termed "Bookie King" of Gin
cinnati. Ohio. was for $2,062.
Others listed these payees and
amounts: Ross Williams, SASS:
Joe Rich, $4,000: A. M. Stone,
$2,225. and Collector of Internal
Revenue, $1.620.
Following the testimony of /
the telephone men the trial
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