Show A TRAP AP T TO CATCH NICKELS A Slot J Knocked Out l b by the Chicago Chi Chi- Ch- Ch cago eago Joleene Police Jolee One ne of the many devices nl nickel kel- kel the slot machines came Into collision with wih I Iago the Chicago police polee department few days dys ago and was wa knocked out in the first round I The machine was brought to t the attention of 1 the police polee by liy the tho parents Of a boy who had bad lost the greater portion of his weeks week's wages by dropping nickels in the tho slot of a a machine Oh on Madison street sect near Fifth avenue A As a result of ot an investigation orders were Issued to h have ve the ma machines removed prosecution under the state slate law for maintaining gambling devices s being the p penalty laly pronounced In case of non non lion e. e The Thc machine that aroused the Ire of the polee police police po po- po- po lice lee as s a gambling device is generally made of bronzed iron with wh a 0 glass front Behind the glass front are various grooves cut in the tho face of f the te Iron and antI the main iain grooves lead from the mouth month of the slot and branch in varo various s directions and the nickel dropped in inthe inthe inthe the slot may roll rol through any anyone one of these grooves Into the treasury beneath the machine machine ma ma- chine but if i it rolls into certain ones the person person person per per- son who tempts fortune wins back his money and if i the nickel strikes a particular groove he ho gets 50 5 tents cents cent for his nickel nickel The chances of nickel falling In a a fifty cent cent groove are sal salby said by persons of experience to t be one in ten |