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Show TOO MANY "FOURS11 IN GAME Quartet of Big Hands Within Fivo Minutes Min-utes Onuses Trouble. I'our hands of four of a kind each produced within five minutes in a poker game led to the arrest of Henry Burgess, Bur-gess, a negro, of Addison street, near faoventcenth street, Philadelphia, who I was before a magistrate, charged with conducting a gambling house. James A. Robinson, a vorj intelligent intelli-gent negro, of Alter street, above Nineteenth, Nine-teenth, wns tho victim of -the exceptional excep-tional poker hands, and caused the arrest ar-rest of Burgess. "They flashed four hands of four of a kind each on me within five minutes," min-utes," said Burgess, "and then 1 put a live-shooter on the table and told them that the next man who turned up a four-of-a-kind hand would get some five, of a kind." The aleged gambling house was in Seventeenth stroet. near Lombard, and Bobinson said that, although ho often played poker there, ho never won. He Faid that, despite his losses, he thought tho game was "on the level" until the four big hands were produced so rapitll against him. |