Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1911 — Game of Cards at lee House Interrupted by Police Officers [ARTICLE]

Game of Cards at lee House Interrupted by Police Officers

Four young men were playing a game of cards in a shady nook under the old ice house in the south part of town Sunday afternoon when Marshal Mustard and Nightwatch Critser put tai an appearance and placed them under arrest They later appeared before Justice Bruner and plead guilty to playing cards for money and wore fined |5 each and costs with the exception of the first one that appeared and he was fined only 31 and easts. The court at that time thought that he could assess a fine of only >l, but later learned that the minimum fine for gambling was 35. In all the fines and costs amounted to 38.30 tat three cases and |43<l in the other case.