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Show JAPANESE IN GAMBLING CASE Although a complcto gambling outfit, out-fit, seized by the police in their recent re-cent raid on a Japauese lodging house , on Twenty-fourth street, was produced pro-duced as evidence in Police court this morning in tho trial of R. Shiro and seventeen other Orientals, very little evidence of a direct character was introduced in-troduced by the officers to prove that 1 the paraphernalia was being used lor , gambling on the day charged in the , complaint.. j . More than a sroro of Japanese were present in the city coirt room when j ihe cabe was called. The defendants, represented by an attorney, filled the J entire prisoners' bench. From " the cross examination of the city's wir,- nesses by the defending counsel, It was made evident that a strong effort Is to be made to clear tho defendants on the ground that the city cannot piove that the apparatus confiscated by the raiding officers was being used lor gambling purposes. During tho morning's session, none of the officers Mvore that they had actually seen any of the defendants playing at tho games when the raid was made. Tho officers testified that they found the faro layout in the room but that no one wns playing play-ing at the game when they entered. The officers stated, howover, that the indications were that the men who 1 were in the room had been playing the games prior to the raid. JJut at the time of tho officers' entrance, the men in the room wore merely seated abotii tho room, some of them reading Japanese Jap-anese papers and other talking. Chief of Police Browning, who was not one of the raiding officers, but was placed on the stand to testify that the paraphernalia introduced was that used by gamblers In playing fnro, scarcely qualified as an expert witness. wit-ness. Tlie explanation of tho game of faro given by tho chief caused the defendants considerable mirth antl also caused smiles to creep Over the faces of the attorneys in the case, who wero quick to note the Ignorance of tho officer iu the techniqde of tho game. Beforo all of the witnesses for the city wero introduced, the case continued con-tinued until this afternoon. The caso will probably not be settled until tomorrow. |