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Show TURF EXCHANGE LOSESJTS CASE Tbird District Court Denies Application Ap-plication for a Permanent Injunction. CLEARLY AGAINST GOOD MORALS, SAVS THE JUDGE New Ordinance on Racing and Pool Selling Is Approved by the Mayor. Salt Lake City, under American administration, ad-ministration, has won another victory for civic righteousness. District Judge Morse, Tuesday, denied the application of Applcgato & Co. for an injunction to prevent the chief of police from closing tho company's turf exchange at IS West Second South street and dissolved the temporary restraining order. iBsucd last week, and this morning morn-ing the city attorney's office will proceed pro-ceed against the turf exchange, criminally. crim-inally. A complaint, qunsl-crlmlnal In natnro, will be issued against tho proprietors pro-prietors of the place, charging them with conducting a gambling house. The complaint com-plaint will be filed in Polico Judge J. J-Whltaker's J-Whltaker's court. In denying tho application for an Injunction, In-junction, Judge Morse declared that the turf exchange clearly Is against good morals and public policy. If not actually agalnHt the law. "In such cases, how can the proprietors of such a place come Into a court of equity with a request that the public peaco officers of tho city be restrained from carrying out their duties as outlined undor tho ordinances of tho city nnd the statutes of tho state and closing the placo?" inquired tho court. "They must como In with clean hands," declared the court, "and this they have not dond. The application for an Injunction In-junction therefore will bo denied and the temporary restraining order heretoforo granted will bo dissolved " Easy Oaso to Decide. Incidentally, Judnc Morse remarked that If all IiIb eases were as easy to decide de-cide as this one he would have little trouble. The mayor on Tuesday, the Inst day. approved the new ordinance prohibiting pool selling and book making und horse racing with pool selling attached, so that the city attorney's office now may proceed against the turf exchange quasl-crlmlnally quasl-crlmlnally under cither the new poolroom measure or section -I4S of the old ordinance ordi-nance broadly prohibiting gambling. Assistant City Attorney P. J. Daly, who will have charge of the case, was In doubt Tuesday afternoon as to his method of procedure, but expressed conlldcncc In his ability to procuro a conviction under tho old measure, resorting to common law to show thai tho poolroom Is a gambling gam-bling house and the conducting of such an establishment is gambling. Much credit, for the city's victory In this case belongs to the city attorney's office. |