Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — ANOTHER CO. OFFICIAL INVOLVED. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER CO. OFFICIAL INVOLVED.

Recent Raid On Gambling Den Is Causing Consternation In O. O. P. Camp. The recent raid on the Rosenbaum gambling joint is still opening up new sources of information for tbe general public and causing untold agony in the ranks of the republican politicians. It is possible before everything is over that the names of some more people may be mixed up in the matter, and the name of Walter V. Porter, one of the republican members of the Jasper county council and a candidate for re-elec-tion on tbeir county ticket, is now freely talked about as having been a patron of this gambling place. When the officers made the raid, it is said, in looking about the rooms, a blank check of a local bank was picked up from a desk in the place on which was written the names of several men, with figures opposite their names. This paper was shown to a party who was thought to be a patron of the place and he was asked what it meant. He replied that it was Mr. Rosenbaum’s memorandum of poker chips issued to the players. Rosenbaum; it would seem, was the “banker’ljin the poker games and the writing on this slip is said to have been in his hand. The “chips” were issued in lots of $5, it appeared, and opposite the names was placed the value of th© chips in dollars. The name of B. N. Fendie is said to have been on this slip, and opposite his name was $5 five times, indicating that he had bought $25 in chips altogether. This evidence, Mr. Hamilton says, influenced him in tbe matter of revoking Fendig’a license, the officers having on his inquiry admitted that the name was there as above stated. There Were several names on this slip, and among the nnmber, we are told, was that of Walter Porter, one of the members of the

county council and whose name now appears on the republican county ticket for re-election. Opposite his name was $5 eight times, it iB said, indicating that he had bought <4O worth of chips at the sitting of which the .slip was a memorandum Whether this slip was the memorandum of the “banker”* for the night’s playing that the raid was made the officers are unable of course to say, but the general opinion is that the memorandum had not lain there any great length of time when they picked it up. In the event of any trial in court of the Fendig matter the names on this paper may play an important part in the testimony.