The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08

throughout the city, kibitzing
resting the players; leaning a
then calling for the police pa
troll; shifting into milk bottles
and finding corn whisky in
stead of milk; holding their fire
until poker game pots were large
and then taking both pot and play
ers to the crowded bull pen at
police station.
The Police Station, where all Of the
alleged violators eventually wound
I'D. for a moment or for keeps, de-
pending on whether bail was forth
coming, was the busiest place IN the
city.
Telephones were in great demand
and turkeys, accustomed to GER
tain amount of leisure on Sundays,
spent the day in a sort OF mild
hysteria as they recorded the
charges, possessions, names, adj
dresses and status OF al the prlS-
oners.
Only Inree fOunu Oulby
In Municipal Court today, how
ever. there was a disappointing anti
climax for the state. Only three OF
nearly a score were found guilty as
charged. and two were found to be
On parole from traffic violation con-
victions and their paroles we're re-
Voked.
Betty Ferguson was fined $50 and
sent to the Woman's Prison Tor 81
DAYS on conviction of prostitution,
and Royce A. Kelly was fined $40
and costs and sentenced to 10 days
in Jail for visiting.
Robert johnson, Negro, 955 Ma
ple-st. was fined $40 and costs and
sentenced to 10 days in Jail for keep
ing a gambling house. and the pa
roles of Mike Lain, 1919 Ritter-av,
and Charles Roberts, 825 N. Easiest,
were revoked.
Raid Every Conceivable Place
From almost every conceivable
place the vice squad and plain
clothes men recruited their prison.
ers. At S88 Fowler-st they found
CLYDE Sevire, and Walter Bland,
Negroes, and in the basement, they
report, they found trunk contain
ing three full five-gallon cans OF
alcohol and one five-gallon jug.
In the grip of Jewel Sargent, 1913
E. l3th-st, they found, they re-
ported, two quarts of alcohol. A
night Waterman, they reported, at
the Homestead Tavern, 18th-st and
Gent-av, loaded case of beer into
a waiting car and was arrested on
q charge of petit larceny.
AT 8 yesterday morning the to-
bacco smoke haze did not obscure
the operation of the bar in the st.
Denis Hotel, 1856 w. Market-st, po-
lice charged, so the place was
raided. John Partlow was charged
with operating a nuisance and fall
ing to observe the Sunday closing
law, and 10 persons, several of them
women, were taken in police patrol
wagon and charged with drunken
ness. Pocket TASKS were conflscated
in true prohibition era style.
Six Arrested in One Haul
A member of the police force
reached for the pot of a domino
poker game in progress at a pool
room operated by Burley Rozelle, at
TAT N. Noble-St. But the players
beat him to it. Rozelle was charged
with keeping gaming house and
six were arrested on charges Of
visiting.
Nine Negroes were arrested at the
home of Mrs. Eva Tucker, Negro. TOT
N. California-st, after they seized a
gallon of alcohol, pair of dice, 70
cents and a blanket to make those
dice behave like they should.
Leo DoSs, "a, of 1416 E. 16th-st.
police charge. failed to stop at a
traffic signal and then broke a
jug of whisky in the car. police
claimed, and so is charged with vag-
rancy.
Badges flashed and there was
wild scramble in basement down.
town poolroom where II men were
reported playing poker. FpuCe got
but $3.50 from the pots, but they
got their men. and took them to
headquarters.
Seize 100 Gallon Still
A 100-gallon still and three small
er ones were taken in a raid on the
home of Clifford Hughes, Negro, Il.
at 9lS q. 14th-st. Police destroyed
$50 gallons of working mash and
seized Is gallons of whisky.
At a restaurant at COS E. Market
st, police arrested Joe Krenzer OH
charges of selling beer on Sunday
and of failure to have a license.
And so through the stormy week
end it went. Apparently omniscient,
the police turned up at the click of
the dice. the fizz Of an opening beer
bottle, the slap Of q poker hand on
the table.
Prohibition stealth was the order
~ the dav. No hookie Was arrested