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Show I! GAMBLING CASE GOES TO TRIAL Geome Manos Faces District Court Charged With Conducting Con-ducting Gambling House Trial of the ease of Georce Miinn:. president of ihe Patra clul, a Greek I .organization, who w;is arrested On .i , charge of conduct Inp .1 gambling! .house, began In the district court this hl'orning before .Imitfe A. W. Kee. A J jury was empanelled before 10 ; 30 o'clock and some testimony wa.s lak-i en before njon. The case will probably prob-ably ?o over until tomorrow. TUII s si ICIDK TWH I .Manos. who tried twice since his arrest to take his life by Rlashing himself wlih a rn.or, appeared pale and nervous while In the courtroom this rnornirig, Me was watched close-1 I by officers and no opportunltj wa i Siven him to repeat his attempts to commit suicide. A lengthy legal battle la expected this afternoon when Ids(rit Attorn. Stuart P. Dobbs, who Is prosecuting I ' he case, will attempt to introduce a : (reposition signed by Aldor John ' Knowl'es, a witness who i.s now awa iroin Ogdcn. The deposition contains . Id formation that Knowlca entered the gambling game In the club with marked money and it is alleged that this money changed hands during the I play. George Halverjon, attornej for Manos. Is expected to make strenuous! objections to the Introduction of this1 important evidence. ATTORN l Y EXPL Is. in his opening statement to th court this morning, Mi Halverson explained ex-plained that Manos attempted Bult Id during his preliminary hearing in the city court due to the fact that testimony testi-mony was expected which would show that he had conducied a game with' marked cards. This lel Manos to be- lieve that an attempt w.i being m de i to railroad htm to prison and he lost ' hope. Air. Halverson made no mention of the second attempt of the prisoner to E take his life a few days ago In the I county jail TELLS )l RAID. Sergeant A M Edwards of the po- i lice department was on the stand this inorniag and testified to the raid HH11H ........... i.- uiHuuuiea on tne mtr.i ffH club, 27 1 Twenty-fourth street on August 1. He said he found cards on the tables and mom j and chips In the pockets of ihe players. After th.-ffHf th.-ffHf players had been lined up for arri pJJB he said that John Spiro jumped from ppfH the club window and escaped H The cards and chips miipni' nt ffH found in the club during the raid ffH produced in court thi- morning H The Jurors in tin .1 y B Everett. Milton Holmes. Albert T H Wykes, George 11. Brown, Clyde T Grcenwell, Fred G Mad dock. John G H Leonard and Harvey F Cahill |