Show GAMBLERS ARE FINED BY COURT COURTw i w E Holden Keeper of the Game Receives 1 00 Fine and Boosters 25 WILL DIS DISCHARGE HARGE JAPANESE CHIEF SHEETS SAYS THAT PRO PROPRIETORS CANNOT BE FOUND Sentence was passed yesterday by Judge C B DIeM upon upon William E Holden Edwad Edward Blackburn N P H and W H Bare who ho were found guIlty or of gambling in it room D F Walker building Holden who was caught the cards was fined or days In the city jail and andI I 1 ne he other three were boosters employed by the house were fined 25 in ea h case T Ito a Japanese taught aught sitting in the game was used as a witness by the prosecution and it Is that he will be discharged today When the cases were called by the clerk of the court Attorn Attorney y Ben John Johnson son fon counsel for the defendants made the statement that these defEndants ad been that poker playing would be allowed by the cl city adminis administration restrictions defendants Mr fald keep An pen open house hous and nd when the detectives came they were ad the men were arrested and to the police polke station Three e of nf them were re afterward released on their own recognizance and they have no attempt to evade the law or leave the city The offense they corn com committed was not The game was private ind nd the OI oy Y gambl gamb i g done in inthe the tRe pa was around a Ol oer er table In n lew of this I that the ourt imP impose H a lI light ht fine Against the Gamblers Assistant Ci City Daly denied the statement made by Attorney John Johnon fon on that the present administration al 81 low lowd gambling in any form and said that it was prosecuting every case in which it could secure Evidence Ir passing se sentence Judge Diehl Diehi sahi 1 that hat he had bad heretofore established a precedent in gambling cases of inS ing Imprisonment He said that in elm sim ply pty imposing a fine in these cases that it vas not a 2 p precedent For the fe ree ond offense he said imprisonment nt i Would be the sentence of the thc court He reviewed the testimony of the enee and in Holden charged with keeping a gambling house Slid said that in view of the fact that he be had ch charge re reIf of If the game gime and was dealer the law w was brOAd to hold him as the keeper of the game Mystery of Ownership John L Gillham and W W T Golson who vho were arrested n the rooms of the club and who gamblers say y are the tbs proprietors of the place are sun still at I arge No C complaints were filed against j them CHef George A Sheets tallied I Ito 14 to them the a of f theIr ar arrest arrest rest and allowed th to go on their own OWl recognizance Detective Doe Doc Raleigh their cs and stat states he was unable to connect them with the place Chief Sheets said yesterday that they the detectives had bEen unable to find 4 cut who ho ws running the place When ask d if he knew who ho leased the rooms orns jn In the D F Walker building he said Mike Kennedy leased the rooms about two years a ago o The contract is isHill Hill in hI name hut but he sold BOld out there Ume ago The place has bas changed bands several times Umes and we were un nfl to th ownership to either Golon or Gillham The rooms in the D F Walker build ng are tow Jow The furniture nl sideboard were taken o out t in broad t and sold t a toTe store on State street ChIef Sheets furnished this but said t that ha t he hd not worked or the case to 1 lind nd O ou t vho ho sold the tf furniture |