Show Slot Machines Shuttle Back and Forth as Officers Wage Gambling Raids Against Each Other Ill July 19 UP Sheriff UP-Sheriff Sheriff Virgil Ezra guarded his county jail zealously zealous zealous- ly Saturday because it was filled with gambling devices confiscated in his ax raid on the city jail He feared re re- re Ezra is a Democrat and States State's Attorney Tom Sweeney is a Republican Sweeney remiss in charging Ezra was his duties deputized special officers who confiscated slot machines and other devices from a storehouse and took them to the city jail The sheriff then marched to the city jail with 12 deputies armed with axes and sledge sledge- hammers Justice of the Peace D D. D E. E Noonan had issued a warrant warrant warrant war war- rant signed by James Farney owner of the storehouse chargIng charging charging ing Chief of Police Ed with illegal of gambling gambling gambling gam gam- bling devices refused to surrender keys to the jail cells Ezra Youre under arrest said Go get em boys battered the The deputies cells and nd re returned returned returned re- re locks off the jail with county Jail turned to the three truckloads ds of of slot machines machines machines ma ma- chines and We left the jail in a mess Ezra said but we got what hat we were after Sweeney had the charge a against dismissed His office said Ezras Ezra's warrant was illegal because there was no property right in gambling de de- de vices The sheriff said he intended to hold the machines until Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois Attorney General George F. F Barrett told him what to do dox Hes a Republican Ezra said but I think hes he's more minded broad-minded than these local fellows |