The Glenwood post., 1909-07-31
City and County Officers Like Infants
When Laws Are Ignored and People
Are Left to the Mercy of a
Gang Of Law Breakers
Oh, YOU ALFONSO AND GAST0N

Well, there was not much to the
affair. That young man, l believe
Bray /, his name, came to me and want
ed me 70 investigate the wheel that was
running in the room above the Silver
Club. ! don T know anything about a
gambling wheel and if I should study
and examine one for a month. l could
not say whether it was on the square.
He claimed he had lost $500 and said
he was willing to pay the amount if he
could be convinced that the game was
not brace game | went down there
and Weidcnhammer. Baxter and Divil.
bliss and ! thought we would make some
Investigations, but Pat O'Neil said we
would have to get warrant to make
search of the place. He, also said he
would shoot the frs. -- b -------
that tried to get up tht stairway. I
thought it was the place of the
city officers to take the lead but
they did not do anything at all.
think the whole trouble was
scrap between the two factions
Of gamblers That 5 the way
have it sized up and think
am right. too. / KNOW THERE IS
POKER PLAYING GOING ON AND
THEY MAY BE HAVING OTHER
GAMES. BUT / KNOW THAT POKER
is BEING PLAYED | HAVE NEV.
Err SEEN THEM PLAYING, BUT !
KNOW THAT THEY DO don't
think it is right for me to come to
town from the country and tell these
people of Glenwood how to run their
town and ] don't think anyone Should
ask me to see that gambling is stopped
in GIenwood. l told that young fellow
that if he would swear out a warrant,
l would do something, bu. he backed
clear out of it. think it is the duty
OF the city officers to stop lawbreakina
and not the sheriff 5 Office
Now, Mr.. Taxpayer of Garfield eoun'
". what do you .hink of that statement
made on Thursday morning of this week
bv Sylvester Wilmoth, the man VINO Is
now holding the office of sheriff OF your
county and the man in whose hanos
has been placed your safety from law
breakers of every kind? He made the
above statement in answers to queS'
lions asked him by the Post on ihuf'
day morning. He was free to TAX W
tbe gambling raid that was not maze
+l,a NIGHT before when he, his deputy
Marshal Weidenhammer and Policeman
P,xter met at the foot Of the onVer
Cu,h stairway and fairly groveled III
+,o dirt Mt the feet of Pat O'NeiI, the
,,,,rar of the Silver Club saloon anu
aver which Pat was charged wlth run
ninp gambling game. Wlth our
mightvt? sheriff to lead the onslaught
,f officers of the law. one man he''
,1,om at bay and defed them to pro
,o,t the laws of decency from eomplele
rrin by that same man, Patrick v NeN'
The story of the affair is short nut
ae.idedlv against the town of diehwooo
Springs. As told the Post it is aoo"'
as follows:
On Wednesday night, young ma"
,.;,,;r, the name of Stacy Bray, son ol
wealthy St. Louis people, entered '"V
,,nst,i,.s room of the Silver Club 81
loon and began playing rouieE'e'
said he had played the game for seVer''
evenings and that when he quit ne was
90 900 TO the bad. No cash or checks
L., hoor nassed between the game
keeper and the young man. but = mari
ers,, were used. 1t appears that one
less Owens, is friend of the young
man Bray, at least seemed to be On
Wednesday evening. He told Bray that