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PAGE THREEGaming House ChargesBring Fines foresA Medicine Hat man Wednes-1 of his testimony was, declared a day was* convicted of running a hostile witness for the Crown. Hecommon gaming house and he said he “never saw anyone play*laj. I and seven persons convicted as ing cards.”*lv *lt;T?-i,ns atJhe house were fined When Chief Constable A. R. 3 I a total of $85 and costs. Bull, prosecuting, questioned himFined $50 and costs for running cjosely 0n the point, Harnett ask-ng | the gaming house, after pleading ed: “Am I a witness for Tommynot guilty, was Thomas Loran, Loran or for you?” Magistrateabout 35, of 802B Fifth St. Picked spivack tersely told him: “Your up with Loran in his basement are giving evidence of the truth,rt- suite in a police raid Jan. 16, That’s what you’re here for.”'and fined $5 and costs each as ppr4ITC victm found-ins, were John Oriold, Her-1 vlbIT, bert Myer, Victor krassman,, .William Harnett, Alexander Mil- IPven to Loran was presented by ht | ler, Herter Murray and Ray | ^1.ier» w^°, t°Jd visiting the Eiler.reiyesOnly evidence of money beingsuite and playing cards there oncavthAll the latter pleaded guilty, an earlier occasion. At that time, ^after Loran had been convicted, n. | except Myer.he said, Loran was serving a lunch of sandwiches and coffeeit-1 After all Crown witnesses had when he arrived. Later, 25 cents c been heard—one of them being ^as c°Uected from each card vdeclared a hostile witness Defence Counsel C. W. Niblock, IS QC, moved the case be dismissed IV on the grounds a prima facie d case had not been established. ^ Magistrate A. Y. Spivack, how-ever, held there was a prima facie case, thus shifting the onus1.1 to the accused to prove his innocence.player and turned over to Loran, e but Eiler said he didn’t know if n the money was to ,pay for the | o lunch or not.Loran testified he- had not worked since October, but had | o saved money from a summer job \l and received more from his e father. He admitted having many Pcard parties at his suite but y Loran then was put on the I emphatically denied ever having ] a; stand to testify, and the magis-1 taken a rake-off.Chief Bull, who had questioned several witnesses about a game £ Det. Sgt. John Dunlop of the I at Loran’s the night of Jan. 14, blcity police told of leading a police asked Loran if it were “possible” c( raid on Loran’s basement suite some of the stakes that night P( the night of Jan. 16, after having “may have amounted to $3,000.”'oitrate found him guilty. CONDUCTED RAIDkept periodic surveillance of it since New Year’s. He saidThe question evoked laughter I g | since iNcw lear s. xus saw r from the crowded courtroom, and * “several hands” of cards were „ com- hj seveiai nanus 01 caius weie a guffaw from Lor who said; ...being played around the table ..what ar_ vnil ahn„t? «hi i u ■ j i What are y°u talking about?land he seized $29 from the The games we had there I don’t PSCOTS GATHERV | centre of the table, $2 from in ^ink ever amounted to more. front of one of the players and than $25 or ^$1.25 from in front of another.The men subsequently con-3 I victed as found-ins testified thatf they had gone to Loran’s suite„ because they heard there was “aj. party” that night. Miller testifiedhe had gone because he was negotiating the sale of a car to Eiler.All admitted to playing a poker game—“blackjack” or “stuke”— except Harnett, wno in the courseTO RE KINDLEBURNS MEMORY01qiRmgiSaturday will mark the birthday anniversary of Scotland’sT1dithsi;i nr
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Medicine Hat Daily News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Thu, Jan 23, 1958
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