Show ESCAPED BY SLIDING mm DOWN BIO PLANK the city justice court hoe hae been engaged with a series of prosecutions for or gambling during the past m week eek last friday jolin john jobgen en douglas I ong klin and john due tiled before a jury consisting of john glenn charles T pope lesa issa nekton demton and julius jeliben the jury brought in a of brilty faull ty but the nerdlee was set aside by reason of tile the jury allowed to visit lisit tile the scene of tile the supposed gambling aftel the evidence had bern been ber n ed CI saturday a retrial re trial ot the cake cabe was mas had john doe la III tile the trial de deN eloped elored to be 11 II W coltharp the july in the second instance was 1 11 woodard 11 11 dillivan Dil linan I 1 rank watkins walking aud and jesse jcsse allatt tho the jury disagreed it la Is tinder understood stood that oliree were mere for acquittal and one for conviction rio lie gambling la Is supposed to have taken place in Jorgen jorgensenn sens room in the coltharp block tile hall fi aiom om the ashley national forest head quarters riu qu aiters the story centers cen around the attempt of mis watson Witt to find her husband whon she of being engaged in some acme 6 uh h she blood at door until she ri cog blied among tho the voices hourd heard in the loom that of hei husband burband she bho tried the door latch but it waa locked the ibe etoi boes that sho stepp ed back a fea paces and hurled her weight against the booi which gave gane way and precipitated a scram ble within the room according to her testimony tile the machinery used in gambling anen to the filthy lucre were much in evidence some of the occupants of the room aro are said to have crawled under tinder the bed bcd another one rolled up in it a quilt while these theao things were going on mrs thompson vaa aas seeking an officer tile the front door was warded but not the windows ocr looking the stone warehouse behind col tharps store when mrs thompson reappeared in the hallway with an all officer gamblers were not there they had fled down a plank onto the before mentioned stone ware warehouse hoube bc and from thence to less observable places cape of witmer robert whitmer stood trial in justice kerg court monday on the charge of selling liquor to ono one alvin hodson on oil the evening of october 21 whitmer operates the pool hall next door to the lloyd drug store the case was wag tried before john L hayes C G W sho she waiter malter and J C cooper as jury not guilty was the verdict |