Show JUDGE READS RIOT ACT I Demands that King County Wash Officials Enforce the Law Ofcals Seattle April GJudge Benson of the criminal department of the Superior Su-perior court sprung a sensation In the county today by calling before him the Sheriff prosecuting attorney and other county officials and demanding of them that hereafter the laws of the State be strictly enforced He said It was an open and notorious fact that gambling and other crimes were being openly committed and that the officers were not doing their duty In the matter mat-ter Ho directed tho prosecuting attorney attor-ney to bring before him n formal order which he said he would sign directing the Sheriff to burn 2500 worth o gambling paraphernalia recently seized from the leading gamblinghouses of the city Judge Bensons move is believed be-lieved to have followed n conference he held with leading church members at which a moral crusade was agreed uron |