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DECISION IS FAR REACHING OUT ME Or PAUL SHANE CASE CAUSES TOV AMOU ; RACING MEN IN TI1L" EAST. Ai-ion ei Appellate Division of New Ymk ■aaceant Couit Held to Rob Httghea Anti-Racing Legislation of Mm. h of Its Force — I n.ithei Details, i.v York, February 22 -The decision traanlni uti ] rendered y terdaj bj tin Appellati Divi ion of thi Suprenn Court In the Pnul Hham taken as meaning that tin Hart Ignew aatl book making law ol 190S amended bj tin kgnew Perkin Ism of 1910. b"tb ui which measures were put on the stntati boofci ■•! New York State aa ■ re nit W the i"i onal effort ol foratei Governoi Charh W Hugbei will h ■ much ol their force Naturall racing i!" i! are fubilani ore* the outcome of rbi ■ a i mo are angurnt thai II portends aa • irl i uraptioB ol racing on thi great track ol thl rate which foi man] rears formed tnt backbou ■ j tat -i it In Asm i • i The caw "i coarse may he carried to the I on I "i Appeal and according to th- previua b «n uounced intention ol the district ittorocj of Ka sau Count; i «iH he referred to the highest curt to the tale but there i Htth expectation thai m • ••Ill of Appeals "ill up H a tkeel km bj ■ united I Atu» i i .« t • ■ "in i. So sanarate opinion accompanied the decision I ■ ■• terday. the reasons advanced by Judge Scuddei foi hi* ordei ol la I October releasing Shane f ■ iiinli l.iiii- II -Ill • iitiii. ut The follow in; justices "t iln Appellate Division concurred m !.•• ■ Ili km: i It i ■ i Justice Jeuks aad Associate -In : ic- Burr, Thomas. Carr and Woodward. II. meaning "I III" decision in a nutshell is thai oral betting on ;i horse race was not made a -1 . i ■ K.v iln amendments to the Hart An sen law tic:;: were made in rMf. One of these amended tbe i ■ i* ■ v i"c- law. passed la l.iov :ii the tenure I of i" • ■la ■! Hughe-. !. adding Ike Hon!- Willi or Willi ■•in writing" i" tin- prohibition of buokmaklng si a i. "•!• ij-:n lv- * III a |.n- HIS .ic -j .inn ill Iln- — ■ . • 1 1 1 1 • . I ■ 1 . : I I - : 1 1 1 .i tin- Ioiti i ..| i|r|, .-,N |,;i,| i,|.ln lil III. l..w. i i-oiirt* In ibfidittg thai iln- anti-ra -e track Law »t inns iiiii ii"i r.niini iHtokmakiag :i-- i"ii: an no writ ten records of the bets were made. The .unci. I niciiiv -iiiiuli! I., i--ntcih 1 1 1 1 ■ — ilci.-ci li I un rting li ■ Is ••wilh ••;■ «nlc:iii writ luff." li If Ibc rfft-cl of this suteuilineul that the A|sj»ellate ilii-i.m low mi" decide. i .ii.i n i mafc«* ii :i clime i i atake licts mi li"!-. - in i.c tracks. In lave ..nini-ii -.1 Justice Scudder. the whole rase was rawMariml n this paragra|»li: "The I.ciiisim in .■ has made ii .1 rrlme i" i»i "n prise Hjrbts. !i run utaki ii a ciiin.. i" ls»i on l*orw raecs. li has i."t dime -" ami ill. rtsirt Is iMtwerless to .1 " I ii.-i • was no .;.ii. .r ih. alli-satiou Iks I slim.. Iiri.l nuiic bets privatcl witb Miii-ni- |trouk "ii Iln-i :» • - [ha I were h m -t.-- when In- was in uled and in ci. mi i « ih ih,- ci,.u-. that be nm~ iiniliv "I "1" "Vn .i k in_-" .Insii.c H i n I . I — aaid in ni- i|.iii..ii --| bold ih. n the l.i - -I. i inn- in in- -it in- in Iiiii in -,.. t : . -i i :im; i»f i in- |.cn:ii Utn after tin-word hnokuiakfug: Hie words, with is u ilio writ ins. did n"1 intend lo make betting iw horse races :i cTlme. but ilbl intend to deal with that form id |.!"i •— i. ii. ii gambUns known as iNjokmaking. " Is i"i tin- alietsatkni thai Khane bad been gulltj of IsiokmakiUK. In- ■•• -it . ■ — . i eotiieuded Iknl is»l - . 1 1 1 ■ . "ill 1:1.1- v. . lllejted in the ci.:n|.l:iinl l.ili.ic iln-insliee of the "■ ■ . In ruuMitiile the sls»ve crime In that ci: in I be • . iris hare ii|diel I li m. "The in- in.iii"!! laeks lite ■■— ;ir elements ■ •I m "lc--i m 1 1 ism ih lulu-u.ilin ■--." wrote Justice Scndih .i ii ic i- in "Hi. t wisnls. the fact that ;i ic:-" i makes h ;- witk rai ■ n- n rsons :ii • ■ne ii. i: in-... u i. i.c rack ..I -.ii aftern loea not m.-ike biui :i bookmaker in iln .m- »f the Ian In "iil.-r I., iin.v • ii,. i. rrinte It :- reijuir il that ii he shown that the ilofcndau lias made i :i practice to laj HliI- ami make bets ith .ill nn ■ i -. ••The information .I".- nol allege that 1 1 1 - - -- - was ■inv imlilic i|iioting .i •;;■ lug of odds." ctmtiniieil U piuiou f Jnsti.i iSciiiidei "Tlien was no illi gal MMI of .i stdle IhIki ■ Id- ,.i :ui .id- nl in-dl in-- ill. public iii lives! n- icv in gambling." I hat il.. -• i .i.Ii .i ilire l «" lialdlity clause" in the antl race track Ikw i- ii -.. without teeth was the .liciiini ni .lii-tie,. sen, 1. 1,. I- altlKmgk that matter "ill in I cine li fore nun in the ,-a- :il i--nc On tin- subject .lii-tie. Semlil- r wrote n- follows: "It i- erroneous :•• -m that ;m directi could lie held liable uisler _i In mnlii imi- nnder the pr in law. Scciiuii »7:i ,,r ih,. iienal law mast be slrlctlj B trued. This section prohiltits the keep in- ■ race tracks used :■■ gambling, and no dlrectoi c.iulii i c convicted of keeping a race track n-cl foi ling iinlo.- ii was isforcd that be had iiilt» ksjowledjse that tin place «:i-. net isjee or twice, bat continually us ,1 for gambling In the form of hook " tkfng "i ■■• privati hettiaa;i and that In* had i.iken II ■ l« ic lli 1" - I I "
