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Show PROSECUTION OF THE 01ERS OE II POOL HILL The question Of law with regard to the responsibility of poji hall proprietors pro-prietors in keeping miners out of their piaces of business was made clear this morning in the rendering of a de- Isloo by Municipal fudge Reeder in the case of the City vb. Harry Korb and C H Hlgglns pool hall proprietor proprie-tor and manager, respectively The defendants were found guilty and had their sentences suspended. The com plain I was sworn out by Probation Officer H C. Jacobs and Juvenile Court Clerk Caleb Marriott and charged t hat the defendants had permitted two minors, Junior Ricn and Delbert Malan. to loiter In their place of business on the night of February Feb-ruary 20. The prosecution was conducted con-ducted by Asst. City Attonic R IT. Panmunk and Mnx Davidson acted as COUn8el for the defendants. lr Edward I Rich and Albert Malan, Ma-lan, fathers of the two boys Involved In the ense, testified as to their ages, the former slating that his son was Hearing his 18tn birthday, while lli-latter lli-latter said that his son was nearly Is ears of age The boys acted as witnesses for the prosecution and testified tes-tified that they were In the Kom pool hall on the night in question and Officers Jacobs and Marriott testified to finding them there. On cross examination of the Rich and Malan boys by the counsel for the defense, both admitted haying misstated Iheir ages to Mr. Koro when he questioned their right to enter en-ter his place of business. The former also admitted having registered a fictitious name In the "Safety First" book kept by Mr. Korb ss a means of protection These admissions, It was stated later by the Judge, showed tin absolute futility or attempting to learn the ages of boys by asking them or to have their names to us in a deeper deep-er investigation. The defendants testified that the boys got into the pool hafl on the night of February Lo. without their being aware of It. and that the offi cers crime into the hall before they had time to learn of the boys' presence. pres-ence. Mr. Higgins also said that he nns escorting the Malan boy out of the hall when the Rich boy entered Both also stafi-d that they had made every possible effort to keep within the law with regard to minors, and Edwin illlams testified that, to his lositive knowledge, the Korb pool room was being conducted in as clean a manner as was possible. In summing up the case, the assist ant city attorney held that the question ques-tion of intent was without force In a misdemeanor case and this view was also taken by the judge In handing hand-ing down his decision. in brief, the judge stated that the conducting of a poo! hall or kindred business was not a right but a privilege granted with the understanding that the provisions pro-visions of the ordinance relating to it he strictly lived up to. One of the clauses of the ordinance was the exclusion ex-clusion of minors and the fact that every possible effort was taken to ascertain the age of a youth was no defense. f a minor managed to get into the hall. He also brought out, by reading the ordinance, the fact that the boys were j equally guilty with the pool ball proprietors pro-prietors and, in the presence of the I juvenile court officers, stated that ; their equal punishment with the men would, in his opinion, have a wholesome whole-some be n ring on the proper enforcement enforce-ment of the law |