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Show Gamblers Rejoice Over a Killing Murder of One of Their Number Is Toasted With. Pleasure. Pleas-ure. N' 15W YORK, June 9. An astonishing aston-ishing exhibition of joy has been noticed among many of the acquaintances in Harlem of Myles B. McDonnell over- the murder of ithc .former Aambler .,ln Albany. ' Along East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street, In the saloons nnd resorts where tho man was well known and feared, his death was toasted and It is even reported that some of the cronies of George Price, who was killed by McDonnell Mc-Donnell In 1900, got up a dinner in celebration cele-bration of the event. The gamblers never forgave McDonnell McDon-nell for shooting Price, although he was acquitted on the ground of self-defense, self-defense, lie has been mixed up In a score of lights and In one Instance Is said to have cut an ear from a man he accused of swindling while employed In his gambling house. The ear was nailed upon a wall of the room. His trial revealed the Inside fact3 regarding gambling In Harlem and caused the closing of many notorious places, much to the discomfiture of the proprietors and hangers-on. That they have lived to see themselves avenged has, therefore, there-fore, caused them much Joy. |