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Show , . . . ' ';; .' I will stop all the faro, keno and roulette games as they develop. The public can depend npon that.-' My repeated action in confiscating outfits sine I Went Into ofice shows this. CHIE7 07 POLICE SHEETS TO TITS TELEGRAM. ' . -', ' ' . . ' .,. .. . v '-- ' ' .... Chief of Police Sheets yesterday re celved information that a gambling-house gambling-house was" about to be opened in the Gladstone block on Main street. The chief and Detective Ralelgn went at once to the house. Wheh they reached the third floor the doors of the rooms were found locked. The landlady told them that the rooms were used as storerooms. The officers had their doubts and broke In the door. The room contained a complete gambling gam-bling layout, including a faro 'and rou-lette rou-lette table. The former table had attached at-tached one of the most Ingenious devices de-vices for beating the "sucker" that had yet been seen In this, city. " The sr- rangement was such that the dealer could, har" the cards in such a way that no ox J could win a cent unless he ao willed. By means of a spring attachment at j the side of the card box the dealer could remove any card from the deck as he wished and later return the card to the deck. Besides the faro and roulette tables the officers found a card marker, another an-other device to fleece tjie "sucker, several sev-eral hundred chips and a number of decks of cards. - Chief Sheets at once sent word for the patrol .wagon. All of the stuff was. loaded Into the wagon and etaken to the police station. |