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Show GOTHAM GAMBLERS OVERREACHED OVER-REACHED THEMSELVES Changed Enacting Clause of Special Bill, but Timely Discovery Defeats Aim. J ' NEW YORK. March 30. Considerable Consider-able stir has been caused by the discovery discov-ery at Albany that a change had been made In the enacting clause of the Walnwright bill, framed with a view of compelling patrons of gambiing,-housos gambiing,-housos to testify against the keepers. Tho bill was an exact copy of District Attorney Jerome's measure introduced In the Senate by Dowling and was to take effect Immediately. The assembly assem-bly Codes committee, to facilitate matters, mat-ters, took up the Wainwrlght bill and while dlscuss-lns It. found the date of enactment had been changed by an unknown un-known penman, to read "effeclive September Sep-tember 11, 1904." The chairman declared de-clared that nothing would avail the plotter as the committee will consider the Dowling copy Instead of Assemblyman Assembly-man Walnwrlght's. |