The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource]

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Keno.

--The game called keno was very popular in the bar-rooms of this city some years ago, but it fell into disuse, and we were not aware of its resuscitation until yesterday. It appears, however, that, between eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night, policemen Ricker and Hutton made a descent upon the bar-room of James B. Smith, on Broad street, and there found a party seated around a table, on which was a keno apparatus, with a small sum of money in the drawer, but no game was in progress. The officers took the following citizens into custody and conducted them to the station-house: J. A. Payne, R. R. Hyer, J. P. Allen, B. Adams, W. B. Clarke, James Clarke and James Barlow. The keno globe, checks, &c., &c., we also captured. The proprietor of the bar-room, Captain Smith, was not present.

Yesterday morning the parties were arraigned before Mayor Saunders, when the foregoing facts were elicited in evidence.--Their counsel, Mr. W. B. Hancock, took the ground that, as the playing was not done with cards or dice, it was not gambling under the statute. The Mayor, however, thought otherwise, and required them all to give bail for their appearance before the Hustings Court to answer an indictment.