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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Rumored Removal of Beast Butler . (search)
Charged with keeping a Gambling House.
--Some few nights since, as our readers will recollect, police officers Seal and Jenkins, assisted by night watchmen Baptist and Cousens, having reasons to suspect that the game of faro was being exhibited at a certain house on Main street, between 11th and 12th, and known heretofore as "No. 169," made preparations to force an entrance therein, in order to satisfy themselves whether such was the fact or not. After the administration of a little physical force the door fronting on Main street was prized open, when they immediately ascended the stairs leading to the different stories of the building.
Two knights of the "chips" and "cards," named Henry Hungerford and Benjamin Degrote, who, it is alleged are the proprietors of the establishment, were taken into custody and carried before a magistrate, by whom they were balled in the sum of $1,000 to appear before the Mayor on Thursday morning for examination.
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