Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1913 — Gary Police Seized Slot Machines in 200 Saloons. [ARTICLE]

Gary Police Seized Slot Machines in 200 Saloons.

The Gary police station has the appearance of the storeroom of a gambling headquarters. Raids that began Thursday* afternoon ended with the seizure by the police of every slot machine in the city. The police activity followed an order from the safety board, which was stirred to action by the publication in a Gary newspaper of a list of saloons where the machines were in operation; Machines, however, are still in operation at Miller, East Gary, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago and Cedar Lake. This is the first time since last February that the Gary machines have been molested. James Patterson, prosecuting attorney, is in a Chicago hospital for an, operation and may not return for several days Joseph D. Martin, chief of police, Is quoted in a Gary newspaper as saying that the first knowledge he had of slot machines in the city was when he read a newspaper story about them. Mayor Knotts was also stirred by the reports and he made a hurried trip through the “patch”, preliminary to participating in the order of the safety board. About two hundred places were raided.