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TRYING TO SAVE BROWN FROM PRISON. New Orleans, La., October 10. An effort is belnjr made to save "Curley" Brown from prison. Some of his friends are urging that Judge Baker permit him to pay a fine of ,000 instead of serving the three months in addition to the fine of 00. Before he was sentenced yesterday Brown made a statement in his own defense and- pleaded that in all his turf career nothing had ever been shown that reflected on his integrity. Brown said he lost more than 0,000 In the fitting up and operating of the Majestic restaurant In Cincinnati, representing his savings. He came here and rented the building on Gravier street for a commission house. Knowing nothing about the business he took Jake Hirschberg and gave him a twenty-five per cent in the business and half the commissions. He rented a share of the Cotton Exchange stock and placed it in the name of Hirschberg, as Hirschberg was to run the brokerage shop. Brown says he found that he was under heavy expense, and realized that it would be six or eight weeks before Hirschberg could be elected to mem-crship of the Exchange. Witness said that he then decided to open a poolroom and to confine the play to the members of the Panama Club, but the thing got too big for him and ran away from him."
