Sunday Poker at the Union Club Draws a Police Raid

If the aristocratic, exclusive Union Club, located on the second floor of the Union block on Front street, had not had a new doorkeeper yesterday afternoon it is not probable that its nice furniture, chips and cards would lie at police headquarters now. What made it still worse on the Union Club was to be raided on the Sabbath day, when several well known citizens were enjoying themselves at the card table. At headquarters the register shows that Charles Shaw, S. Simon, W. Wilson and C. Jones were arrested for gambling by Detectives Philbrick and Hart. Any one who knows the ways of the frequenters of the green cloth will know full well that the names, with the exception of Shaw's, are fictitious.

About a week ago Detective Philbrick got into the club rooms alone and Charley Shaw, the proprietor, said to the other men at the table something about playing a 'Jack high.' Philbrick was satisfied the game was draw poker, but did not think he could win his case, so let it go. Yesterday he went up again, accompanied by Detective Hart. There was a new man at the door, and before he knew what had happened, Philbrick and Hart were in the rooms. The four men at the table tried to hide poker chips in their clothes, on the chairs under them and in fact acted so peculiarly for men engaged in an innocent game that Philbrick thought the scene quite ridiculous. One of the players tried to appear serious, and said:

'Well, can't we play seven up?'

'Not unless you've got a jack high,' replied Philbrick, with a sardonic grin.

The players were taken to headquarters and subsequently released on $25 cash bail each. Shaw, the proprietor of the game, put up $50 cash bail.

There were two loads of handsome furniture taken out of the rooms. This is the same furniture that caused so much trouble in the municipal court several weeks ago, when Shaw won his case against the police.