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Show APPEALED TO HIGHER COURT Gambling Cases Will Be Carried to the Supreme Court of the State-Prosecutions State-Prosecutions Will Continue Until All the Accused Have Been Tried There Is a Difference of Opinion Among Attorneys. ; ' , The pambllng casea are to be carried car-ried to the higher court. Attorney A. I G. Horn of the defending counsel In both the Turf and Elephant gambling I house hearingp, pave notice of appeal ; In the municipal court this morning. Immediately after the fining of E. A I Smith the sum of $125 by Judge Mur- phy. Attorney Horn, after leaving the court, staled to a Standard reporter that the defending counsel will appeal from the verdict of the municipal court in the nichard Tyree case and in the case of E. A. Smith. These are the only men found guilty In the gam-bling gam-bling house trials up to date, and, ac cording to Attorney Horn, there win be no further prosecutions growing out of the recent Betterment league crusade. City Attorney J. H. DeVine, who has had charge of the gambling house prosecutions, takes a different view of the future than does his leal opponent, oppo-nent, and says that the Betterment league has not finished Its prosecutions. prosecu-tions. Mr. DeVInc says that the case against the St. Louis gambling house proprietors will be brought before the municipal court next week and will be as vigorously fought as e.ther of the preceding cases. It Is likely that this case will be heard Thursday morning. |