Show SLOT MACHINE A HAILING fiAM DEVICE Judge J. J J. J Whitaker Has Different Idea From Diehl DiehI GOES TO SUPREME COURT Mark Gates Held Guilty in Test Case Tried Yesterday Unless the supreme court ot of Utah reverses the inc decision of Judge Whitaker her ker of ot time tho city court the slot machines must 50 so J Judge ml pc e Whitaker yesterday held that tha t these Urso machines ore are gambling de deIl Il s sand timid and as such are arc IlIe illegal al This decision was rendered In time the case ase against Mark Dates a clerk In store a against whom the test rase tI was taken talen The court overruled the time demurrer and found D Dates guilty Tais I Is directly contrary to the fa fn famous fa- fa decision of ot Judge Diehl of if time the police Ohice court who held In January 1907 that slot machines were not gambling devices Judge c Whitaker holds that the time using of chips checks money muncy or other device dovico for tor prizes of oC cl cigars ars drinks or merchandise mer mner- chandise I Is gambling anti and that tae lile apparatus ap rip- used Is gambling apparatus Soren X Christensen who Is acting for or the proprietors of the time will ill take nice the time matter to tho ho court Will hi II Walt ull for 01 t iu No action will be bo taken with regard to the time man many machines in fri the city until time tho appeal Is decided At present t Tom D Pitt chief of ot po police police po- po lice has a considerable amount of mono mone money In his possession which lie tic has retained the thc settlement of ot tho time status of ot the time machine This Tills was collected col- col as toll toil on the time machines Nearly carl store In th er c every cigar ar city and er e every saloon has several of ot tit the man many various kinds of ot slot machines and the time decision will affect a good man many people The Time case against Mark Marlc Bates was se- se as ai a n test and amid has been dragging for foi man runny weeks K 1 V A A. nO Rogers a- a assistant city attorney has as bein art act Ing in the time matter for or the tho cit |