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Show ISPECIAL BADGE : BRINES GIF G. H. Abbott Starts to Haul in Alleged Gamblers; They Disappear Those who 'imagine that sleuthingj and voundlnp up the smooth profes-1 aiona Rambler in his den is an easy accomplishment, should listen to the experiences of Ogden'fl latest special police officer who started out to place, aft law breakers behind prlaon ars. Yesterday afternoon h wore a special, police badge This morning he is an ordinary citizen again, according to po-l Uce officers. The whole thlnfr began yesterday, according to J. Raa Ward, commlsslon-cr commlsslon-cr of publto safety, when George II. Abbott, formerly an Ogden stockbrok-j er, came to the commissioner's office and agreed to do some sp--' i.! work I Tie was given special police power, tmporarilv. it Is said. STARTS TO WORK According ti Commissioner ward, AW bolt started out on his first assignment, assign-ment, yesterday. This assignment ha.l nothing to do with ramblers, but the i.ptv officer, apparentlj feeling that ho should bogin action and get results, quickly, sauntered into the tear of a billiard hail at 314 Twenty-fifth Street where men have been rumored to have t.een playing c;iirl recently for more! than love of the same. N'ow. before Abbot! was even thought of as a special police officer. It was xplalned. the police hs 1 go en v.md of the rumor that gambling was carried car-ried on in the Twenty-fKth sro-t urd room, and through clever maneuvering bad placed a full-fledged police offi-... offi-... , .... i .-. ,i, Irer in me earn room, unftuxnu players. The new special police officer, it is eaid. did not know that a real police officer was in th. room and he pulled up a chair and asked for some chip-. GOBS OX. The play iG raid to have gone along merrily for twenty minutes, when the new police officii- is said to have pulled his special star from his pocket and declared the participants of the jam' were 'pinched." The full-fledged PO-mon PO-mon believing that the new man would hold the prisoners, is said to h eve disappeared. dis-appeared. Players in the game, who are said to have been well acquainted with Abbott, Ab-bott, believed the mov was a joke until un-til the new officer Is said 1 have told a by-stander to notify the police station sta-tion to "send !he wagon." "While the conversation was going on the card players apparentl; figured the move might bi mor- than ,i joke and they sauntered out of the place and disappeared. When the new-- wai rec eive, at t ligation, li-gation, a squad of officers rushed oil I of the building, jumped Into the "wagon" "wag-on" and sped to the Scene of the raid They had visions of bringing to justice jus-tice a ring of notorious gamblers lu when they reached the billiard hall, snd rushed to the rear room, then-a.h then-a.h then the world turned io sW-dust. sW-dust. The new police officii- stood alone in the room. The birds had flown. And it took S lot of explaining to keep the new officer from going behind be-hind the bars The officers knew him not as a cop and ihev believed the call had come from the rea'. policeman who had been "placed in ihe r;ird room. L'ommiE-slonrr Ward said this morning morn-ing that there ia one redeeming feature fea-ture to the whole business, for the real policeman in the room recognized one of the players as 1're.j Harris and a felony complaint has been sworn out against him. Harris, however, could not be located in Ogdca tills morning. Hairis Is well-known In police cir- e, the officers '. |