The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-31
SUPPORTER OF PRESENT coUN- " OFFICIALS DEMANDED
 WORK BUT DIDN'T GET IT.
HAD BURNING llRDERS ISSUED
Thresdbare Scheme Of Securing Re- pievin Orders is fsesorted to-- Judge Gotham on the Subject
 Of Replevin.

Clayton Drain, supporter of the county ticket which won in the last election. and applicant for job in the Texas club, who claimed to have a strong right arm and to be capable of spinning a bird cage" was the central figure in raid conducted on the Texas club last night by Sheriff R. L. Williams and his corps of depu- ties.
 Drain appeared before Justice of the Peace Afford about 4S0 o'clock in the afternoon and asked for burning orders against the Texas club, setting forth that the club had gambling paraphernalia on it's prem ises and was conducting gambling.
 The orders were issued by Justice Afford, who put them personally in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Wheat ley Sheriff Williams was notified and he called in Deputy Bownen, and the three visited the Texas club some time after o'clock, where they found gambling in progress as indicated
 The sheriff took possession of the rooms, and had the paraphernalfa hauled out to the court house lot to be burned
 The usual procedure of hurrying to some other justice to get replevin orders was Tesorted to by the own CTS of the club rooms. and the reple; win was served by Deputy Constable Sam Tate on Sheriff Williams. Sheriff Williams called up Judge Gotham and asked him for informa- ! tion as to the procedure. Judge | Gotham informed him that there was ] no process of law that could stop the sheriff from burning gambling para 1 pheTnalia when he had burning orders the only issue being that of whether the goods was gambling parapher- 1 naiia
 This question has frequently been brought to my attention, and there should be no doubt as to the answer, said Circuit Judge Gotham last night. The law makes gambling parapher- nalia contraband in this state. That means that it has no property rights It is not property, and only property can be replevined, Contraband goods are certainly not given any rights or protection under the law. The issue might arise as to whether some par ! ticular article was gambling para phernalia, or whether it was not, but the articles that can be identified as gambling paraphernalia can not be replevined, and any officer serving 1 the process of court with burning orders takes no risk in any way who
 he immediately burns the eontrabant articles and thereby complies with the order placed in his hands,
 When 1t became known that raid
 was In progress on the Texas club
 a large crowd gathered in the streets and for several hours police cor
 don had to keep busy with the crowc in order to keep the street and side
 walks open. Much of the crowd Was
 made up of former occupants of tho club rooms, but there were man, spectators attracted through curi
 osity.
 The spindle of the roulette wheel
 and the cover of the wheel. were saiC
 to have been gotten away to safet,
 on the word that the officers were
 entering the building Some othe
 devices such as faro bank layout
 and faro bank boxes, were not foun'
 by the officers, though Sheriff Wil
 Hams and his deputies took charg'
 of large quantity of such propert.
 as was not scurried to cover on theT
 arrival
 There was no resistence offered ts
 sheriff or his deputies, and they hal no trouble with the exception of tn
 orders. There was lack of tn
 taunts and jibes and whispered oath
 that have prevailed in the past whel . raids were being conducted. in fac Fit seemed to be recognized in jiff.
 that Sheriff Williams was differen
 power to deal with in the matter o the execution of court orders, and II effort was made to thwart his wor
 or that of the deputies. Some della attended the ordering of wagons | haul the stuff to the court house. There is the usual peculiar angi to the raid It was not spasmodi outburst of reform, neither was il the slow and certain onslaught Of tn maiestity of the law It was raj brought about because a man belleN ed that he was entitled to a "job' T the gambling house, who had claime to have supported the county admin istration in the last election, wh had rights" in view, and when h
 did not get what he thought was con ing to him, applied for the suppos of the law in wreaking revenge | The unusual part of the situatio | is that almost any individual wh J seems to care to start something