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Show What Constitutes a Gambling House. i Judge Sutherland, at the New York court of general sessions, recently pronounced a decision which, if enforced, en-forced, will bring a majority of saloon keepers under the general head ol gambling house keepers. A beer naloon proprietor was convicted of keeping a gambling saloon and sentenced sen-tenced to pay a fine of $25 aud to undergo thirty dayB' imprisonment in the penitentiary. His oflense was this: A couple of sharpers enticed a German youth into the defendant's saloon and engaged him in a game of cards, by which they obtained all the money he possessed $149. On the trial the counsel for the accused raised the point that his client could not be convicted of keeping a gambling house, as the place kept by him was an ordinary lager beer saloon, and the accused could not know that the parties present were playing for money. In pronouncing sentence, Judge Sutherland said that as the money had been lying on the table the accused must have seen what waB in progress, and it was his duty to stop it. "Those people," said he, "who carry on the Bame , business must be made aware that when they permit people to play for monev in their saloons they are prac tically keeping a gambling house, and I now k rule." - . |