Show SLOT MACHINE LOOTERS HELD r r Two wo Nabbed in Market Ask Speedy Sentences on Burglary Charge It may take tak a crook to catch 8 a rook crook crook but it al also o takes a crook to find ind find finda a slot m machine chine Joe Nelson 32 and Willis Nelson 2 1414 HH McClelland street languished In n the county jail Thursday facing indeterminate prison sentences for lor second degree burglary The Nelsons were captured at a. a m. m while looting the H. H E. E Barber market at 1207 1297 Ninth East treet by Detectives J. J S. S dole Bardole and T. T M M. World The officers reported they found tour four candy bars 15 cans of foodstuffs other articles and 20 taken from a slot machine in the Nelsons Nelsons' p posses es sion The Nelsons were taken to jail where they admitted burglary charges charge and asked for lor speedy sentences when arraigned before District Judge Allen G. G Thurman a few hours later The slot machine one of the type recently declared illegal by Attorney General Jos Joseph ph Cher Che was allowed t tremain to remain in the Barber market Although the Nelsons asked immediate imme diate prison sentences Judge Thurman Thur man postponed heir arraignment Until un Un- til ill Saturday and sent ent them back t to the county jail Meanwhile County Attorney Harold Eo B. S Wallace who r recently announced ced wholehearted cooperation in eradication tion Lion of or slot machines commented o othe on the device found by the NeL Nelsons ons in th the Barber marketA market A hasty ex examination of at statutes statute indicate c that prosecution of at lot dot machine machine ma chine cases must be based on whether the machine used wed or bein being kept for purposes purpose of gambling gamblin The Barber machine meanwhile re reo re- re In cold storage with Its disposition a moot question |