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Show FLEECING A LAMB. The Innocent Loses a Half Hundred and Then Sets Up a Bleat. Nineteen gay and festive habitues of a gambling house, which is conducted in the rear of the Mirror saloon, were arrested last night on complaint of a drunken telegraph operator by the name of Junius Howell Bright. He claimed to have laid $59 at intervals on the green cloth, .and it disappeared. The gamblers, on the other hand, assort that Bright was drunk when he entered tho place and had $7. He won $50 from that amount but remained long enough to "drop" himself. Police court was in session between 11 and 12 o'clock last night to hear the case, and Bright, who is thought to be mentally weak, acted very queer. Ho wanted to compromise with the gamblers gamb-lers if they would refund the $50, but the prosecuting attorney and Judge Lancy said that the case would bo tried inasmuch as Bright had caused their arrest. The young man commenced to abuse tho prosecuting attorney and tho court was obliged to threaten him with imprisonment if ho could not behave himself. At midnight nothing definite had been arrived at, and Judge Lancy postponed further consideration of tho case until today. He remarked that in such cases it was generally much easier to secure tho attendance of tho gamblers than of tho alleged victims, and he therefore announced that he would require tho complainant to give bonds in tho sum of $250 and allow tho parties arrested to go upon their own recognizance, after exacting a pledge that each one would bo present at 2 o'clock. Shortly after tho arrest the proprietors proprie-tors of tho saloon, Jamos Flood and ,kAmos Moser, appeared and gave tho following names of tho arrested parties: par-ties: Henry Moore, Albert Stranger, John Allen, John Foote, Edgar Foote, Edgar B. Johnson, James McDonald. James Jones, Alviu Davis, Leonard Smith, James Madsen, Petor Larson, Goo. Piper, Roo Frazior, John- Clark, John W. Mackey, Joseph Henderson, Thomas A. During and Louis P. Brown. |