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LOSS OF GAMINSAPPEAL MAY PUTOTHERS ON TRIALLima District Court UpholdsConviction of Thieroffin Case HereBeaten in his gambling case in the appellate court, Loren A. Thieroff, 27, Defiance, one ofseven persons arrested in a raid by city police here Aug. 21, will be taken into mayor's court for execution of sentence immediately after receipts of costs from the Lima court, Mayor Joe C. Krutsch announced today.Charges against others arrested in the raid of the Fifth StreetRecreation club rooms, 513 Fifthstreet, in the basement of LlanosBrothers poolroom, also will be pressed, the mayor declared.Thieroff, found guilty of gambling by a jury in mayor’s court, is under $50 fine, $57.90 costsand a 60-day workhouse sentenceimposed Sept. 4. Excution of the penalty had been delayed pending outcome of efforts of OttoW. Hess of Napoleon, defense attorney, who made the ThieroffIcase a test in the higher court.Since Mayor Krutsch delayed at execution until receipt of costs Vi from the upper court, it was in- FI dicated that these as well as dlt;costs in the court of Common Pleas Judge D. F. Openlander, who also had upheld the mayor’s court, may be added to Thieroff’spenalty.Notification of the ruling of the Lima court was received today by Mrs. Florence M. Palmer, clerks of courts here. ofOther pending cases growing diout of the raid are those of Nick ch Lianas, poolroom proprietor, m(charged with permitting gam- cy bling; and Wilbur Steele, Glen t_Steele, Gret A. Switzer and j da George Snider, charged withgambling. i se.Everett Faulk, 25, another de-! ,fendant, was found guilty in ^ mayor court of gambling after he had pleaded not guilty when , he was the first taken before the;court. He was fined $10 and $6.20costs.Thieroff’s case was heard inthe appellate court last Friday,when City Solicitor W. C. Rivers, i representing the city, filed a brief and appeared personally.and appeared for the hearing.IDe
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The Crescent-News
Defiance, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 02, 1936
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