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Show BLIND TIGERS ARE CLOSED BY CITIZENS HICKMAN. Ky.. Sept. 10. Business was suspended here today while regulators. regula-tors. !d by ministers and some of the more prominent citizens of Hickman, visited vis-ited twenty-five alleged blind tigers and forced their proprietors and employees to leave town. This action followed a triple tragedy last night when Claude Johnson shot to death William Collins, a youth, Rnd W. A. Naylor. a deputy sheriff, and himself was killed by h crowd of men and boys. Collins had testified he bought whisky from Johnson. No arrests were made by the visiting commit tees today, but many gallons of IIQUOr were con flsca ted and poured Inl o the Htrrcts. No pffort was made to resist re-sist the action of the regulators. |