Show I Il l ar The A ABCS B C'S CS o of f Gambling Situation Q Q By By what right did Mayor Ferry drag rag his liis is police pollee chief over overto overto over overto to the Wayne Nayne hotel yesterday dud acid order him to take gambling paraphernalia para from a room used by g and and others 1 A He A. He ex exercised the right given by a state statute which makes it a misdemeanor misdemeanor for any public officer to allow ga gambling bling to continue continue con cony which makes it a felony to gamble and which calls upon officers o of the law to confiscate gambling devices and have them condemned con condemned con con- court and by a destroyed Q Did Q-Did Did Mayor Ferry and his police chief learn only yesterday th that t such things as ns roulette wheels and crap tables were plentiful about this city and should be seized y- y A A No Mayor Ferry and his police chief were told many I many weeks ago JUST WHERE GAMBLING DEVICES WERE BEING BEING BE BE- ING USED IN SEVERAL PLACES HERE THE TELEGRAM GAVE THEM DETAILED INFORMATION AS TO ROOM NUMBERS NUMBERS NUMBERS NUM NUM- BERS AND THE ill MEN rEN EN RUNNING THE GAMES Operatives watched the gambling in in the Wayne hotel and repeatedly urged the mayor to have the unlawful mechanical effects effect destroyed Q Then Q-Then Then why did Mayor Ferry suddenly beco become eso so virtuous and nd lure his poor poli police e chieL such t such a distasteful r job yesterday A The A-The The reason i plain s p ain SHERIFF CORLESS CORLESS' WAS READY TO DO HIS IDS DUTY AND RAID RAH THE PLACE IF MAYOR FERRY LONGER ALLOWED HIS illS CHIEF OF POLICE TO IGNORE THE LAW AND EVIDENCE It is common common custom for a sheriff to let a city attend to its own affairs SO LONG AS A STATE OF UNBRIDLED UNBRIDLED UN UN- UNBRIDLED BRIDLED CRIME DOES NOT EXIST But when lawlessness becomes becomes becomes be be- comes a habit and the authorities of a city show unwillingness or inability inability in- in ability to enforce the laws THEN IT BECOMES THE HE SWORN DUTY OF THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY TO TAKE MATTERS INTO HIS HIS' OWN HANDS Q Q Q-B Q But t. t why did the authorities choose yesterday as the day of action 7 T THE ATHE A THE TELEGRAM I wrote a letter yesterday morning stating that unlawful gambling devices were in room No 82 of the Wayne hotel The letter also quoted the law requiring ol officials to seize and destroy such property Copies were made and one sent to to the mayor another to the chief of police and a third to Sheriff Corless IT WAS POINTED OUT UT THAT SHOULD THE MAYOR REFUSE TO fO ENFORCE THE LAW IT WOULD BE THE DUTY OF THE SHERIFF TO STEP IN And Sheriff riff Corl Corless ss was rC ready d to 10 act Mayor Ferry and Chief Shor Shores Shore's s would have been en placed in ma a terrible light if it it had become known that things had been allowed to become be- be become come come so rotten Mere here that the sheriff of the county had t to to exercise his I legal rights in inthis this his city Q Q-Didn't Q Didn't the tho mayor and chief of p police olic 6 have opportunities to I Ira ra raid d gambling dens here and take possession o of unlawful devices while professional ional gamblers were operating th those se devices devices devices' l A They A-They They had many such Buch opportunities THE TELEGRAM gave them detailed information before it made public any of its findings This paper urged the mayor to raid several places but no action whatever whatever what what- ever ver was taken against the GAMBLERS' GAMBLERS TRUST Why Q-Why Q Why have the professional gambl gamblers rs been allowed to come to Salt Lake and openly violate the law while the police chief absolutely refused to make any attempt to arrest them 7 A You A-You You will ill have to ask the e chief hief He knows He-knows knows why hy |