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172 HISTORY OF THE BANKpayment of wages, dog-stealing, unsanitary premises, fraud,unlawfully practising medicine, disturbing the peace, desertingemployment, and using vile language. Honourable mentionmay be given to two cases, although these are by no meansisolated ones. In July, 1898, one E. Ward was <strong>com</strong>mittedby Inspector Harper and subsequently sentenced to threemonths 9imprisonment with hard labour "for cheating at play."In October, 1898, the charge against one Joe Bradly was thathe had been "ordered to leave town and did not go." He wassentenced to six months 9 hard labour by Inspector Starnes.The first of these cases occurred when gambling was "wideopen" in the <strong>com</strong>munity. The authorities did not interferewith "straight" games, and while one might perchance feelsome mild curiosity as to the niceties of the purely legal pointsinvolved, only encouragement could be derived by an honestman from such a healthy code of ethics. In the secondinstance, old Klondikers would know that the man must havebeen a public menace, and a fool to boot, for not having witenough to take his chance and get out. The Police wereruthless with the unfair player, the drunken brawler and likeoffenders. They also contributed to Sunday observance byinsisting on the closing of all places of business or amusement.Sharp at one o'clock on Monday morning, however,dance and gambling halls were again going full blast, andin Dawson one required no time-piece to tell that hour.The saloons, gambling and dance halls ran "to the limit,"but this limit respected the public sense of good order andfairness.At Dawson, in1901, three men, Brophy, Tomerlin andHarris, entered the gambling room of the Dominion Saloonarmed and masked. They covered the occupants and escapedwith the plunder, only $1,500. No one knew who they were,yet in short order the crime was traced to them and they wereapprehended, Brophy being wounded. Tomerlin turnedKing's evidence. Harris was sentenced to ten years in thepenitentiary and Brophy was given a life sentence. By such

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