Show GAMBLERS RELIED ON PROTECTION Chief White Tells Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion Impression Prevailed Things Were Squared I KENYON HEARING UP Proprietor Says He Allowed Games Because He Was Misled as to Situation Gamblers In Salt Lake L. were led cd b by Attorney y Harry 7 T Robinson and nd Jim Donelson to believe that arran arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- c- c ments had been boen made with the tho elt city ad administration ad- ad ministration under which the they were to tobe tolie be lie permitted to do business without police Interference according to statements state state- ments made mado to the thc city commission yesterday yesterday yes yes- cs y by Chief J. J Parley White Whito In the tho courso course of oC a hearing on the tho application of or Joseph Carney for renewal o of tho the Kenon hot hotel l license Tho renewal was b by the tho mayor maor on recommendation recommendation of Chief White on the ground round gambling g had been permitted there Following the tho hearing hearin the commission commission commission commis commis- sion took the tho matter under advisement Chief Chiet White said ald on taking office he learned that a general Impression prevailed pro pro- railed ailed about the ell city that gambling W was to be permitted I On mal making ln Inquiry I found the gamblers samI sam gain I bIers implicit in their belief beller that the they were not to be disturbed said s tho the chief When hen I attempted to learn the source o of this Impression I was vaa In Informed informed in- in formed that the thC matter had all been arranged hy by two men Jim Donel Donelson In-I In on and Attorney Harr Harry J. J Robinson The Thc gamblers understood that these men had squared things things' with the tho admin admin- When I learned this I held a conference conference conference con con- ference with Mayor Ferry and under orders frem from him summoned all known gamblers amblers to the city courtroom an anthe and the mayor and myself made It plain to 1 them thorn that gambling was not to be countenanced I In defense Mr Ir Carney told the tho commission commission com corn mission he had been misled Into permitting permitting permitting per per- rooms in the hotel to tu bo used by gamblers He lIe said he came caine to Salt Lake a stranger and took teok possession of or ortho tho the hotel hotel la May 1 If It allowed renewal o of his license ho said he would see to It that gambling was wa not permitted In the house Police Officers J. J G G. Smith and G. G I L. L Miner testified to having found gambling Jam gain bling blin games Eames in progress In the tho hotel and arid to having arrested the participants who pleaded guilty and were fined In Inthe Inthe Inthe the city court patrolman William Hurst told of having taken a bo boy l 1 15 years l' l cf ef a ago e efrom from the game ame on the mezzanine floor loor on September 1 12 W. W H. H Matthews manager of or the hotel hotel ho ho- tel tel aid eaid a a. sign was displayed in tho the card carll room on the tho ground floor forbidding forbidding forbid forbid- ding gambling He lie said tho the card ta tables tables tables ta- ta bles were moved to the mezzanine floor noor en n account of repairs being made Inthe in inthe inthe the poolroom ad adjoining the room whore where the first arrests were made Mr Ir Carney Carney Carney Car Car- ney said Id however that tho the t tables bles were moved upstairs at the suggestion of oC CoL C. C A A A. Birtch one of or tho the men arrested arrested ar nr- ar- ar rested and a a. man named Mitchell who was as running the game same because bec they said there was less likelihood likelihood that they would be disturbed there thoro Finally becom becoming Ing suspicious suspicions us of ot as assurances assurances ns- ns given b by the tho gamblers g that th the police pollee would not disturb them Mr tr carrie Came said ho conferred with Chief WhIteS White and on being Informed by him that gambling was not permitted he said he told Mitchell to suspend opera opera- |