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Show IS DECIDE TEST SLOT GI8AR JMIE CASE j District Court Must Say il' t Contrivance Is Ganihling Device. The llomenway & Moser cigar slot machine case against the city reached the third district court Saturday on appeal ap-peal from .lust ice of tho Peace Stanley A. Hanky's judgment ngainst the oil v. Actiug upon tho hcliet that tho machine, ma-chine, valued nt $10, vas a gambling device, Chief of Police Samuel M. Bar low duly 1, last, ordcivd Patrolman Thomas Simpson to seize it. llomenway llomen-way iJc Moscr promptly brought, suit in Justice Hunks's court ' recover thy macliino or its equivalent in money. .Ins-tice .Ins-tice Hanks, in effect, held I hat tiic machine ma-chine is not a gambling device and the chief of police had no right to attempt to confiscate il. The city now appeals lo tho third district court. The defendants are Chief Harlow. Patrolman Pa-trolman Simpson and Desk Sergeants Joseph Pugsloy, John Lonzi and Harry Spiers. |