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FORMER, SHERIFF FIGHTING POOLROOM. Louisville, Ky.. July 5. Former Sheriff Scott Bullitt, or Louisville, has addressed letters to the mayor of Jcffersonville. 1ml.. to the sheriff of Clarke ountv. the chief of police of Jcffersonville and Judge Montgomery of the Clarke County Court, informing them on behalf of certain citizens of Louisville that a poolroom was being operated In the baseball Hark in Jeffersonville in defiance of the law. Attorney Bullitt says in his communications that he would not presume to take up the matter in this manner except for the fact that the gambling place is patronized almost solely by Lpuisville people and titat citizens of Jeffersonville are excluded from the rooms. He gives the names of alleged proprietors and asks that Immediate steps be tjiken to nip-press the gambling. Bullitt also wrote Attorney-General James Breathitt, of Frankfort. Ky.. asking that the charter of the Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Company in Kentucky be revoked, on the ground that they are furnishing race Information to the poolroom in Jeffersonville. Bert New, dispatched to Jeffersonville by Governor Marshall to investigate the charges that Louisville men were conducting gambling in that town, stayed four hours, according to reports from Jeffersonville. He conferred with Prosecutor 5. C. Kopp, who lias since announced that if attorney Bullitt of Louisville would swear to aHldavlts. warrants would be issued forthwith.
