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Show I ANSWER MADE BY I THEGAMBLEHS Dive-Keepers Tell Why They Should Be Allowed to Conduct Dens. ARE FRIENDS OF MAYOR AND CHIEF OF POLICE Some Children Do Not Know That There Is Gambling in City. In ihe Tribunal of Justice The law-abiding citlaens ot Bait Lake H city Plaintiffs, The onion GarobllngrHousje, the 'Wasatch " Sninhling-lloue. the Green l.lnht 1 in inlill u-Hi H1M-, (hi- 1 l'"t -sti'if Gambling-House the Occidental Gain bllng-House, and other Gambling House -t Salt Mayor Rlcliard P Morris and Chief ot Police William J. Lynch, defendants, Answer. Answei in Full. Conic now the defendants in the above entitled catisc", the abOVe-haitied gum-bUngrhouses gum-bUngrhouses anawerlng by their propria-tis propria-tis and managers, and for answer to the complaint of tne plaintiffs herein, allege: First '1 hat ti c statutes of the State and the ordinances of the city are mude for tin- government of those who have no desire to break the laws and for that un-fdrtuitate un-fdrtuitate portion of humanity which ifees force ami violence '" Carrying oui irtlnw-deslgim irtlnw-deslgim Put Up Their Money. Second By way of further answer and defense, cm- defendants above named, speclflcallj ih' proprietors ami manag-ix f the said gambling-houses respectfully represent thai for tin- purpose of secur- lug (Ih- grace, loli-raiu'i- and good-will of the acting Mayoi and Chief of Police of s.-iii iaki- City, they iwoomplalnlnglj and gladly pa) into the cits out ol the meagei profits derived from tin- operation of the satii gambling-house hiK' sum of money, to-wft, tin- siiih of $29$ pejr month, for each and every of said gambllng- liouses condlictcd ami operated in de- l nance of the law, and the said defendants 1 present this an an offset ami in mitigation of am damages th. jdaliit IftV mn be found to sustain. No Foice Is Used Third .The said defendants while ad- mining thai they have during the past i i mo years, continuously, openly and fla- xrantlv violated the laws of the Slate and 1 i in- ordinances of the city, respectfully i represent that no victim i compelled to i ko aguli -l any r the gurnes conducted in .said houaCS, it) wit. faro, roulette, craps. P stud poker, twenty-one, splndlea; wheel r fortune, chuclc-a-Iuck; etc they do P not by force and arms compel any sticker H to play un or all of the said games, and the said defendants Insist that every Cttl-P Cttl-P sen is at perfect liberty to exercise his fiee will and refuse to he robbed, If at the' time he y tempted by our boomer he in Bdbei enough lo realize his eondl- Praise City Officials. Fourth The said defendant?, partlcular-ly partlcular-ly those who are proprietors and iiiHiia-gcrs iiiHiia-gcrs of the above-named gauibllug-P gauibllug-P houses, resent with emphasis the slate- P ments In plaintiffs complaint that the Muyoi- ami 'hicf of 1'ollce in Salt Luke Cltj an- not fdllfilliuK their duty as of- P fldials. The clef i ndants point with pride P to th- recorded evidence that It is al- most Impossible for a hungr and pejnnl-P pejnnl-P less man to ride Into town on a brake- heum Without heing nabbed by the police. H ibat several murderers have beep cap- lured during the past two years, uml H that now and then a man is arrested on SIlBpIl Ion of being a hold-up or thug. Some Don't Know. Iflfth Tlie defendants deny ibul gnm-bllng gnm-bllng In Salt Lake is Open and notoilous ! and respectfully s-ibniii thai there hv- M children 10 yean of age in the cits- who ; do not know that gambling exists and H that some InnOoent and tiusttng wives have never bcdn able to tell why their H h.ishamls who earn good wages come home Saturday nights without a dollar i Officials Too Busy. Sixth The defendants deny that said Mayor and Chief of Police knowingly, willf . i and negligently permit said j gambllng-housea to run in violation of I the law, and In proof of this plea in mltl- gatlon submit that the Bald officials have 1 all they can do to look after their pri vate nff, .lis am) keep vags from sleeping H In the 1 Sev enth The defendants denj that the H evil coi)eeuence.s of the open and defiant gambling In Salt Lake are well known to 1 the, said Mayor and Chief of Police, and. H on Information1 and belief, allege that H neither the Mayor nor the Thief of Police I ,ir- patrons of the gambling-houses ami H do not enter such dens of Infamy, een H in tin discharge of their duties. j Look at the Benefit. B Eighth The defendants deny thai pub lic policy demands the i losing of the gam j l-llng dt e in this city ami the driving out I of the proprietors wlio are dull) rohhinc I I workmen of their earnings. On the other ! hand the defendants allege that there r-J r-J several saloon-keepers who profit largeij H by selling the drinks that are served free H In tin- gambling dens, that numerous ie- H Murants nlghtlv sell costly meals to the H eald proprietor.-: that tli nien who profit H by the mone taken from the suckers who H go acainst a sure-thing game ppend some H of their riches other dives. Let Us Have Peace. H Wherefore the defendants pras that the H complaint of the plaintiff be dismissed and that the said rlefendants m.- ne H jidg'd free and untrammeled to filch the H wagen of any one who it foolish enough H to ent-r a gatnbllng-iioase. and that the H said Mayor and chief of Police may be H adjudged to have a lift lease upon the of- H flcs they now hold because, thev arc II friend of the ramblers , THE GAMBLERS OK SALT LAKE |