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| JUDGi: MURPHY TESTIIIES AS EXPERT. E :, !:.ins Di.Tcrcr.ee Between Old Method of Book-i.:aking and System in Use at Fair Grounds. New Orleans, La., May 8. Testifying as an es pert at tic trial of the Business Mens Baring As s.ici.itiou officials before Jadgea Baker and Chetlen, Joseph A. Murphy, presiding judge at tin race meeting in this city, said that under the former system of betting at race tracks bookmakers could obtain averages that resulted in their winning mi mist of the race-. Thia system, ii" said, en.ib.i d a bookmaker to accept h-tween 880 ami MS beta on a book, while under the present system in operation on the local track, icily twenty bets coiiid be taken. Detectives, testifying, said they saw- no viola tions of the law at the Paha Garden Um past season. The detectives caBed were Jaanes Glyaat of the City Detective Department, and Detective C. II. Duhain, m" the Ptakertea Agency. .lames Hill, press agl Ut of the racing association, employed as a reporter on a newspaper, also was a witness, explaining that the .lack Di mpsey "dope" was not official; that Demasey had no official connection with the association and that hi-"probable odds" were at times "considered huge jokes." Sight specific Charges were filed by the association to show thy had not violated the l.ocke law. The contention of the da ft at lawyers is that even if a law is directed against eases "which may be within the mischief which the statute designed to cure, such a law will not be extended to apply thereto if they are not at the same time within the terms of the act. fairly ami reasonably interpreted."
