The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-27
ROULETTE WHEEL
 HAD ELECTRIC WIRE
ON GRAND JURY ORDER IMPORT ANT EXHIBIT IS SECURED FOR
 FOX swINDLE CASES.
Gambling ParaphcrnaIia Taken Which 1t Is Alleged Had Been In Indiana Club When Fox Was
 Shown How to aWin.r

The most important exhibit in con
 nection with the Fox swindle cases
 yet developed was unearthed yester.
 day morning by the grand jury when that body secured a forthwith order 1 from Circuit Judge Gotham and sent 1 Sheriff Williams, deputy, and a Burns detective to the barn in the rear of the home of Charles Bryan
 Jr-, out on Central avenue, where the
 officers took possession of quantity | of boxed gambling paraphernalia. l The boxes were. taken to the coun- | ty jail where they were opened, and from one was taken a fine roulette
 table which showed the traces Of
 electric wires inlaid about the | wheel" and upon which Fox believes l that he was made to win" the sum | of $26, 300 when he was steered to l that club three months ago and dropped s20,000.
 l The paraphernalia taken, and now locked up in the county jail to be | hold awaiting further instructions
 from the grand jury, is as follows | Four roulette wheels.
 Two "21" tables.
 | Four farobank tables,
 Two craps tables.
 One bird cage table. ts4 Two Klondyke tables.
 | One senate poker table.
 Attorney W. H. Martin. who rep resents Fox in the prosecution of the cases, stated that he regarded the l most important sfind" in the arti- cles as the electric wired roulette table, which will be held under the orders of the court aud used as an
 exhibit in the cases when the men charged with swindling Fox are un-
 der trial, assuming of course, that there had been sufficient evidence all
 ready shown to the grand jury for
 their indictment
 One ot the roulette wheels was small portable affair, and was de- | clared by Logan Billingsley to have
 been one he brought here when he took over the Indiana Club, and which was missing rom crate
 when he thought he had shipped it back to Oklahoma.
 Fox was present in he county jail
 when the large boxes were broken open and the tables and parapher- nalia taken out. He stated it would be difficult to swear that the eiec-. tric wired table was the one on which he played and won, but that it appeared to be, and he showed a keen insight into the game, as well as good memory, when on the fig ures exhibited on the layout" he showed his attorneys and bystanders just the system" he played per in. structions from the seeerers. when he won" the money he later came to cash, and dropped his $20.000. The paraphernalia seized yesterday is estimated to be worth almost $5.- 900, and is among the few genuine hauls that have been made under the court orders. Sheriff Williams Dep
 uty Dowen, and a Burns man yi,- ited the scene. went into the barn,
 and there found the large boxes se-
 curely nailed upy They removed the
 articles all to the Jail where tho un-
 boxing process was carried out.
 Instead of the articles being burn
 edg as other gambling paraphernalia
 usually disposed of, 1t will. be held,
 and will be exhibited in the court
 room on the trial of the swindle
 cases as exhibits that were prepared
 ahead of the swindle for the purpose
 of causing Fox to go ana get the
 $20,000 which later he dropped when
 he was told the due bill" had been
 played and lostA
 The rim of the roulette wheel,
 or the part in which The "bowr Is
 placed, and which is said to be a
 very necessary connection. was not
 found in the materials taken to the county jail
 One interested spectator to the general work of unlocking the gam bling paraphernalia in the county jail was The Brass Kid" who came | up to the heavy grate doors of his cell and peered out interestedly,. with head erect. and watched the perform ance He had no comment to make on the situation. After watching the proceedings awhile he stepped back and gave place to Clarence A. Schu- mann, who found some diversion i'll watching the process. "The Brass Kid" is alleged to be
 the steerer who brought Fox to Hot 1 Springs and helped separate him 1 from the $20,000, @Joe Denton, stiii
 missing is supposed to be the broth. err of the roulette dealer. and HsThe Brass Kid" was the one who is sup
 posed to have "rode'' Fox here and nut him in touch with the situation