Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — Roselawn Saloon Keeper Fined. [ARTICLE]

Roselawn Saloon Keeper Fined.

August Schreiber, a Roselawn saloon keeper, was fined $lO in the circuit court here Monday, for having permitted gaming in his saloon. The case was venued he:ef.om Newton county, and had before the grand jury there returned an indictment against Schreiber, already been tried in Justice Hufty’s court, and Schreiber had been found guilty there and had appealed from the decision. ! Frank Goff, a well known citizen of Fair Oaks, testified that on the 7th of last June he was working on the Monon railroad extra gang and that they were laying steel near Roselawn when a heavy rain storm came up and the workmen all took shelter. Goff went into Schrieber’s saloon and proposed a game of “seven up” on a wager of 50 cents. Schreiber consented and sent out and got a deck of cards and after trounenig Frank a game turned him over to Gundrum, the ditch contractor. Gundrum stood behind the bar and Goff stood outside and lost two games at a dollar a throw. He then became suspicious, from remarks made by some of the by-standers that his cards were being tipped off to Gundrum and they changed places, Goff going behind the bar and Gundrum taking the outside position. Then Goff’s dexterity at the game came into play and he won two games. That made them even and then Gundrum won the fifth and odd game, and Goff paid him off, but Gundrum claimed that they were playing for $2 a game and when Goff was looking the other way he struck him, over the head with a beer bottle and Goff didn’t talk any for awhile. The defense based their case on the fact that there were no cards in the saloon and that they were procured at the express request of Goff, but the Jury decided that the gambling was permitted by Schreiber and it did not take them long to arrive at a verdict. The defendant was fined $lO and costs, which he staid. |