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Show PICK JURY TO TRY CHINESE Seven Arrested By El am i and Butler, Suspended Officers, on Trial Seven Oiinnmcn. arrested bv Patrolmen Patrol-men If B. Elnm and H H. Rutler at 2473 ("irant avenue at 1:15 o'clock on the morning of January 2fi on th' charge of gambling Appeared for trial In the city court hofnre City Judge D. R. Roberts this morning. Th" following JUPJ was selected to try the case: Rursell Tanner. A. B. Nonl. K Pnlmer and Jnmes Green well. Patrolman Butler was the first wit-ness wit-ness for the prosecution He testified testi-fied that with Patrolman Elnm they had stood In an alley near the building build-ing where the arrests were made un-tll un-tll thrv BH n ("hlnaman entering tb t.:ildinir. that they pushed their waV into the building after him and ran toward the rear where they forced their way Into a room and saw n crowd of Chinamen seated around a table on which were slacks of silver, a deck of American ploying cards. Chinese playing cards nnd several pller. of currency. I lie ald that In ihe resulting confusion con-fusion the chinamen Immediately Jumped to theJr feet and then begun a scramble for the money on the table, ta-ble, some of which was swept to the floor He testified that he succeeded In getting a 26-cent piece lylns undi the cards and a l n-cent piece lylnK on the floor and that seven of the Chinamen were arrested, some escaping es-caping In the confusion. I'nder cross-examination by A C Horn, attorney for the defense, But- jler clung to his original story. It Is expected that the case will go to the Jury this aftornoon |