Show 1 t I Poker Quarrel Is Not Legally Sl Slander J Jf f f NEW V YORK March 1 After I.-After After hearing testimony for three days and f 4 ff f listening to a lot of talk about poker and its fine points Justice Coch- Coch f 4 ff has dismissed the slander suit Bud r f r rene rane ne brought by f 4 ff f against Henry S S. S Lowenthal wanted damages because he he- f ff f charged chars Lowenthal with haying having sp spread e d a story that he he w was s caught f 4 cheating at cards at the Fi Fidelio ello club One hundred and and fifty members members f ff 4 f of the Fidelio Fidello and Progress ss clubs had been summoned to give testimony f ff f in lii the suit The defence had provided a poker table to Illustrate te its side de f 4 44 ff I f 4 of f. f the case S oo oon after the trial was b begun gun counsel for Lowenthal Lowenthal asked t 4 tf f that the case b be dismissed on the ground that had failed tomake to tomake f 4 make out ut a case Judge Cochrane said t. t f 4 ff f There T ere are two important questions presen presented ed edl l here hee efe The rh first is Is f ff f whether J the WO words wo-ds uttered by the the defendant were viere were slanderous I do not not f ff f think that the words constitute a crime Under that section tt it is a af f necessary element that the person charged with cheating S should ld win a aI asun af f ff I f sum sun sum of money h by reason of his act or should win for another The f ff f words uttered by this defendant in themselves do not not imply that such f ff f 4 was the case f t |