Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Prison for Policy Men. [ARTICLE]

Prison for Policy Men.

Recorder Goff of New York in sentencing two men for running policy games said: “Policy gambling, I understand, is the worst form of gambling. If I am informed correctly, there is absolutely no chance for the player to win. It is a villainous scheme to fleece the poor. The gambling in the palatial parlors of our uptown houses is not one-thousandth part as bad as this lower form of vice. It is a poor man’s game, and you have done the worst kind of injury in taking from the poor man his earnings without giving him even a chance for his money. I will sentence you both to three months in the penitentiary.”