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Show PHIL FOOTK" UKAiTKAUS. The ytipirl lo the I.lllle r'racai In a I'll; lliiiibllng lien. The hearing of tha charge against Phil 1'uotv, the local sport who about n week ago made an unexpected call at the gambling roomoverBcbade's saloon, on Main alreet, and decamped with upwards of 1100 belonging to the players, play-ers, took place at II o'clock this morning morn-ing lu Commlsdoner l'ratl'a court. There was a large aasemblago of the gambling fraternity of the city, and qulteanumtarof wltnesre bad been ubpu'naed to give evidence, Including the three men who were yceterdsy afternoon flued by the commissioner for their slisre In tho gambling proceedings pro-ceedings ou tha occasion of the alleged robbery by Foote. The prosecution was conducted by County Attorney Murphy; the defendant de-fendant waa to have been represented by Judge l'owcrs, but lu his absence and that of his law partner, Ogdeu Hllee, Attorney Hamilton aitieared for the defense. When the case waa first called on a abort conference ensued between tbe rcejerclhe attorneys, and then the defendant de-fendant and Mr Hamilton had a ero-longed ero-longed conversation in private, but eventually the prosecuting attorney (though the defendant, Ihrouili Ills counsel, bad expressed his rcadlnese to waive examination) said ho desired to proceed. And an tho wltueiuee about ten In number came forward and were sworn. Their testlmouy, In the main, waa that wheu Footeeutered tbe gambling den lie looked pals and excited; that ho carried a re volver In his band; that, without presenting It at anyone, he dellbrralely walked up to the table, took a sum out of the drawer ust In front of one of lhe" rlncljials." walked ou tolhe next drawerand did the asiue thing, then proceeding to a third he repeated tlin operation. When Tho. McDcrruolt, one of tho propilelora of lbs establishment establish-ment (aud b whom the complaint vtaanowaworn to), expostulated with l'uote, the latter answered angrily, "(1 d you, McDermott, do you think 1 amgclng lo starve;' This remark Is upioeJ lohavs hail reference refer-ence to the aum of money which lbs defendant lost In the "den" at an earlier sttco of the day, lie being coustiiueutly left "atous brake." The rly waa completely takeu by surprise sur-prise by the action of Foote. and a he carried a revolver, no altemjt was made to prevent him leaving the room, from which he quietly departed after taking what lis wanted. One of the objects of the cross-examination waa svldeutly to show that Foots was the worts for liquor at the lime he eutered tbe place, aud that lis merely wanted to get back aomeatleait of the money which had previously been extracted from blm. Tho cass waa In progress at noon. |