Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1910 — MAGISTRATE PICKS THE ACE [ARTICLE]

MAGISTRATE PICKS THE ACE

New York Justice, Instructed by De* tective, ProveTto Be Apt Pupil In Monte Game. New York. —The singular prowess of Ah Sin, the heathen Chinee of Bret Harte’s celebrated poem In playing “the game he did not understand." was matched by Magistrate Freschi in the Yorkville night court Detectives Cassassa and McKenna, of police headquarters, brought before him Edward McAllister and John Leaver, whom they caught when they raided a three-card monte game at Sixth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. Detective Cassasfla tried to explain the game to the magistrate, who still looked puzzled. Finally Cassassa put three cards on the desk before thejudge. “Now, your honor, pick out the ace,” he said. The magistrate did. Cassassa was surprised, to put It mildly. He dealt the cards again. The magistrate again pointed to the ace. Then he did it a "third time. Respect for the majesty of the law prevented Cassassa from acting as Bret Harte’s characters did under similar circumstances toward Ah Sin. When the laughter in court had subsided Magistrate Freschi fined McAb lister $lO. Leaver was discharged.