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FIVE MORE UNDER THE BAN. JUDGES TREVELYAN AND MURPHY WEEDING OUT THE CROOKS AT CITY PARK. U. S. Wishard and Horses, Bookmaker Babb and Three Others Are Exiled Jockey J. Daly Will Not Be Permitted to Ride. New, Orleans, La., February 8. The judges at City Tark are going on with their cleaning up process. Today they ruled off Bookmaker Henry Babb and Owner U. S. Wishard, father of jockey 1. Wishard. one of the successful riders at the track. An order was also issued against the acceptance of any more mounts at the meeting by jockey J. Daly. With Wishard go all his horses. The rulings in this case followed an investigation which has been carefully prosecuted for weeks. Soon after the holidays Judges Murphy and Trcvelyan began to suspect that things were not as they should be and put detectives to work watching Wishard. The detectives reported that Bookmaker" Babb visited Wishards house nearly every night and that Sam Host dropped in about noon nearly every day. Tor a specific case, the detectives reported that on the night of January 13 Babb called at the house of Wishard and split up 300 with him. Mrs. Wishard made a violent and tearful protest against her son being taught to pull horses, but her protests were overruled by the father. In view of yis see,, hjejfjyyhe bojwas suspended until the mother could make arrrangeuients to plaee him beyond his fathers influence as far as his race riding is concerned. A. Hoos, who was employed as block man in the Itook run by W. II. Itudolph, who was ruled oft yesterday for mulcting the "mysterious stranger" out of 2,000, appeared before the judges today as a voluntary witness and told them that after the Robin Hood race last Saturday the ticket writer, Tom Lavender, had written a pile of tickets a foot high on Kobin Hood and that sheet writer L. A. Thompson had registered them all on the sheets. He also said that Eddie Berrend, a young racetrack character, known as "Broken Nose Eddie," was the one who had represented himself to the dupe as jockey Nieol. As a result of Mr. ltoos evidence, Lavender, Thompson and Berrend are to be ruled off tomorrow. The identity of the man who was "skinned" is still kept a sacred secret, but tonight he is said to be a prominent local business man who was formerly in the furniture business and not a banker at all.
