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Show BILLIARD MALL PROPRIETOR SN COURT The case of tho city against Robert Rob-ert Wotherspoon. proprietor of a billiard bil-liard hall, who was charged with permitting per-mitting bovs under tho age of IS years to play in his placo of business, was ; heard "this morning In police court before Judge W. H. Reeder. Patrolman John Cooney was tho complaining witness. The complaint alleged that on November S Robert Wotherspoon permitted WIHIo Glas-manu Glas-manu Jr. and Howard Williams, both under the age of IS years, to play lu his billiard hall. Judge Reeder took the case under , advisement and will render his decis- Ion Monday morning. 1 For his defense, Mr. Wotherspoon endeavored to show that he was doing do-ing all in his power to keop boys '.n-der '.n-der ago from hl3 place and that it was not known to him at tho time that the boys were not old enough, because he alleged that they had told an em-ployo em-ployo they were "old enough to play pool." oo |