South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-16
MOTHERS TALE
AMPLIFIED BY
MANY CITIZENS
South Bends Underworld By.
word Throughout State,
Say Travellers.

Revelations by a gamblers aged
mother to Pros. Atty Samuel p.
Schwartz Friday night regarding ex-
isting conditions in South Bends un-
derworld were amplifed Saturday
by prominent citizens who appear to
aware Of these conditions.
The aged mothers story of how
her son had been drugged and
robbed in a gambling house on 5.
Michigan St, and how all her ap-
peals 10 police authorities to have
the place closed have been of no
avail was told the prosecutor in the
presence of newSpapermen.
Well Advertised.
Saturday. a prominent citizen de-
clared that South Bend is well ad-
vertised throughout the state by
travelling men as a wide open"
town.
Another prominent citizen said
Saturday that conditions in this city
were brought home 10 him the 9TH
er day while he was in a neighbOr-
ing county seat on business.
Il had hardly arrived in this
neaby city when the sheriff seeing
me across the street hailed me-"
said the prominent citizen, with
Say, you, what kind of a town
are you running over there at South
Bend
Il asked him what he meant, and
he told me.
"'I was over there the other day
continued the sheriff, looking for
a man, and l was told that he might
be found in a place they said was run
by a man named Bert Annis.
No Trouble.
i found the place without any
trouble, and 1 did not have any trou-
BILE getting in, and, believe me.
have seen some wild places, but
nothing like this right out in broad
daylight.
Everybody seemed too busy
gambling TO pay any attention TO
me. 1 finally attracted one mans
attention. and 1 told him that I
was a sheriff and that was look
ing for a man. The man / talked
to some of the others, and they
all stopped long enough 10 say
go Ahead Sheriff"
All right, Sheriff. go right ahead
and make yourself at home. Find
anything or anybody you want to.
They they went back TO their games
and apparently forgot me. They.
don't seem TO be much afraid Of
anything like a sheriff in that place,
he ended"
The incidents in the story OF the
gamblers aged mother to Pros.
Schwartz Friday night she says took
place 30 days ago. She told OF her
sons participation in the city's un-
derworld life, telling of boasts by
one gambler that he could not be
arrested, and Of his brags that it is
nobody'S business that he sells pa
irons Of his place drugged whisky.
With little hesitation, yet in a
voice quavering with unchecked
tears, this mother told how her son,
a gambler. had been robbed OF his
winnings by the proprietor OF a
downtown gambling hall and had
been deprived OF his wages as an at
tendant in this gambling house.
Police Promises Fail.
She also told how an appeal had
been made by her TO Asst. Chief OF
Police Cassidy, and how the assist
ant chief had referred her 10 Night
Patrol Sergt. Benjamin II. Roberts,
and that how after Sergt. Roberts
had promised TO raid this downtown
gambling house, it had continued TO
operate. and is still operating.
The mothers story dates back 90
days. She said that her son was
employed at the Booster club, which
she says is a gambling house located
N S. Michigan 81. she says that the
place is operated by a man named
Jack Heater She said that the
Booster club is still operating.
The mothers story recites how
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