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JUDGE ADDINGTONS POOLROOM DECISION. Albany, N. Y.. July 9. In rendering his decision that corporations convicted of maintaining poolrooms cannot be punished under the anti-race track gambling laws of New York state. County Judge Adding-ton. of Albany, treated the matter in this language: "It may or may not have been that the legislature in 1908, in amending the statute relating to pool-selling, bookmaking, bets and wagers, overlooked a possible violation by a domestic corporation. The legislature no doubt intended to put an end to these evils by not making a punishment in the alternative: namely, imprisonment or fine, but Imprisonment alone, and it may have intended in not providing for a punishment for a corporation guilty of a violation of this statute to have the agents, servants and employes of such corporations charged with the violation of the law instead of providing for a line for a corporation, as in the case of a felony. "The purpose of the amendment of 190S was to make the statute more effective by eliminating a fine and provide for imprisonment alone. If it was provided that a corporation may be fined, it may be the means of making the statute, less effective and defeat .in part the purpose of the amendment of 190S."
