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Show GAMBLING OVER j DECLARES JUDGE Court Serves Notice in Sentencing Wilson to Thirty Days in Jail. M. H. Wilson was sentenced to thirty days In the city jail yesterday by Judge ' Diehl, for running a gambling-house in Salt Lake City. The punishmyrit was jiot made in the form of a fine, but a jail sentence. In passing on the case Judge' Diehl . - declared that the gamblers could hot "hoodwink" the city and continue to ran their games in violation of the law. Judge Warner, attorney for Wilson, moved for a stay of execution and appealed ap-pealed the case to District court. Wilson Wil-son waa released on bonds of $500. "It seems that this administration ts . determined that gambling shall stop,' A said Judge Diehl. "Heretofore gam-- gam-- ' bling baa been permitted a so-called 11- cense. It was countenanced, but Mr. I Daly declared in his address that a bar has been placed on gambling and it 'must stop. "These men who were arrested are intelligent in-telligent and perhaps believed that they could continue at their business, such as it waa. If they thought they could hoodwink the executive department of the city they are mistaken. "I don't think there ought to be an excessive fine Imposed in this case, but tit ought to be sufficient to serve warning warn-ing to those that still believe gambling will be permitted, that gambling Cannot be carried on in this city. I am in full sympathy with the movement. A fine , would not be the best punishment for the furtherance of justice. I therefore sentence the defeh'Ant to the city Jail for a period of thirty days." |