Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — CEDAR LAKE IS RAIDED [ARTICLE]

CEDAR LAKE IS RAIDED

“FREE AND EASY RESORT” IS RAIDED BY SHERIFF AND HIS DEPLETES. What is probably the first steps to clean up Cedar Lake was started late Thursday evening, when Sheriff Barnes, of Lake county, and his deputies swooped down on the several resorts at Cedar Lake and raided the several places there by confiscating a dozen or more slot machines and arresting three girls, one being taken from the place of Robert Russell and two from the resort of Beck Moriarity at the “corners.” The raid was planned by Sheriff Barnes, who went to the places of Jimmy Leathers, Bob Russell, John Kennedy, George Hetzler and Lassen Bros., where he found a number of slot machines in each place which were taken in custody and in the places of Russell and Moriarity three girls were also taken. The owners of the resorts together with the female inmates, were taken to Crown Point late in the evening and warrants were sworn out by the prosecutor and the defendants all entered pleas of guilty. Leather, Russell, Kennedy, Moriarity, Hetzler and Lassen were chargd with running gambling places and fined $37.50 each and the fines and costs to each girl amounted to a little over SSO. Much complaint has been registered by the law abiding people of that section of the state with the sheriff of Lake county_ concerning the conditiojis this season at the lake, and the read is Believed to he the beginning of the bed of Cedar Lake as a rendezvous for the spirting element. It is understood shat the Lake county sheriff also gave warning to the resort keepers to hew eJose to the line .hereafter or more arrests will follow. There seems to be a general demand all along the line to tighten on the clamps at Cedar Lake and the raid Thursday night will probably have a tendency to clarify conditions.