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Show The local gambler" apparently finds it difficult tg close his auricular works to the siren song of the buzzing marble as it speeds around the roulette rou-lette numericals, or to forget the seductive aspect as-pect of his faro devices. All of which led Proprietor Wilson of the Montana club into a great deal of trouble during the week, and incidentally pulled the Herald luminaries from their dignified pedestals in the new building to give testimony regarding gambling gamb-ling methods at the Montana club. The Herald plenipotentiaries, in fact, were so conspicuous at" She trial that for a time it was very difficult to tell whether they or Mr, Wilson were the parties defendant. de-fendant. Apparently the officials at the police station did not appreciate the Democratic organ's caustic comments on the supposed failure of the present administration to suppress gambling, and so subpoenaed sub-poenaed them as a means of giving them a chance to vaunt their purported knowledge of gambling dupes and dives. Manager Igleheart, Managing Editor McKay and City Editor Palmer were selected as the expert ex-pert witnesses. All three of them modestly confessed con-fessed that they were not reporters and had no visual knowledge of Mr. Wilson's recent operations. opera-tions. Manager Igleheart announced, without smiling, smil-ing, that he knew nothing about gambling in Salt Lake, Hyde Park, Palm Beach, or any other city or state. Mr. McKay confessed that he had not gamble'd in Glasgow or in any other home city, and Mr. Palmer conceded that his knowledge of actual faro manipulation was equally profound. This greatly incensed the prosecutor', who thundered at them with an interrogatory as to why they permitted the Herald articles about gambling operations to appear if they personally knew nothing about the subject. In reply to this the court informed the prosecutor prose-cutor that the Herald officials were not on trial, apparently believing that the only gambling they indulged in was in getting in on the wrong side of local elections. Having thus failed to convict the Herald, the prosecutor apparently lost his enthusiasm, and made only a lukewarm sortie against Mr. Wilson, who, the spectators eventually learned, was the real defendant in the case. The court's decision was not rendered in time for comment in this issue, but it looked like a safe gamble that the main quarry having escaped, Proprietor Wilson, the subsidiary defendant in the fiasco, was also allowed to go without being financially penalized, in view of the half-hearted prosecution. |