UNITED STATES v. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE GAMBLING D.

Nos. 1058-D, 1059-D.

109 F.Supp. 23 (1952)

UNITED STATES v. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE GAMBLING DEVICES ALIAS SLOT MACHINES, MORE OR LESS et al. UNITED STATES v. FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-SIX GAMBLING DEVICES ALIAS SLOT MACHINES, MORE OR LESS et al.

United States District Court E. D. Illinois.

December 12, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Hart, U. S. Atty. and Ray M. Foreman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., for libelant.

Kramer, Campbell, Costello & Wiechert, by R. E. Costello, East St. Louis, Ill., for claimants Everett Smith, R. H. Schneider and Kermit Reay.


PLATT, District Judge.

Two libel suits have been consolidated for trial and decision by this court. The libels allege that special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized 139 gambling devices together with material parts therefor in one case and 496 gambling devices along with parts in the other case; that all of the machines, commonly known as slot machines, were seized in East St. Louis, St. Clair County...

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