POOL SELLING.
Mr. Spann's bill [S. 28] to prohibit pool selling and providing penalties therefor, coming up in regular order, it was read the third time and passed the Senate by yeas, 44; nays, 0.
It provides that whosoever shall keep any room or building, or portion of any room or building, or occupy any place upon public or private ground, anywhere within the State of Indiana, with apparatus books or other device for recording or registering bets, or wagers, or selling pools, and any person who shall record or register bets or wagers, or sell pools upon the result of any trial or contest of skill or speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or upon the result of any special or general election, or being the owner, lessee or occupant of any building or grounds or any part thereof who shall knowingly permit the same to be used or occupied for any of the same to be used or occupied for any of the purposes aforesaid, or shall therein keep or exhibit, or employ any device or apparatus for the purpose of registering or recording such bets or wagers, or for pool selling, or shall become the custodian or depository, for hire or reward, or any money, property, or other thing of value, staked, or wagered or pledged as aforesaid on any such results, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not page: #[View Page #] more than $500, nor less than $10, or imprisoned in the County Jail for not more than six months, nor less than ten days,or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court or Jury trying the cause.
