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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
--The Mayor yesterday proceeded to investigate the case of F. H. L. Allen, charged with permitting the game of faro bank to be exhibited on his premises, at the corner of Fourteenth and Franklin streets. Mr. Allen was present with his counsel, W. W. Crump and M. Johnson, Esqs. --Officer Morris testified that he, with other officers, went to the house on Friday night last about 12 o'clock, and ascended the steps as far as the second flight, when they saw a negro run up stairs and fasten the doorlty in entering, but when they got in they found faro tables, a machine called shove-it-up-a-spout, a card-squarer, chips, and cards. Pursuing their way aloft, they found Mr. Allen and a number of other gentlemen on the roof of the house. Mr. Crump here asked the witness if he found anybody up the spout? The witness, not at all disconcerted, replied that he did not see the spout. The machine seemed to have been deprived of the valuable spout appendage, and Mr. Allen had told him tha