Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — “ON THE MIDWAY.” [ARTICLE]

“ON THE MIDWAY.”

There was a little “round-up” of the gambling fraternity on Thursday night of last week, caused by a complaint made by Bernice Brown, of Barkley township, and not from any extra diligence on the part of the officers of the law, who must have known that several gambling joints were being operated here right along for a long time, and that a gang of alleged gamblers whose occupation was ended apparently at Remington when that town closed out the saloons, had come to Rensselaer, and according to the general report were plying their trade here with suoh signal success that they have remained here for the paßt year or more. Their operations are supposed to have been in connection with the “fraternity” here, and no donbt the winnings have been sufficient to keep a number of them from doing such a vulgar thing as trying to earn an honest penny all this time. As a result of the raid mentioned, August Rosenbaum, in a room over whose saloon young Brown alleged his father had lost money, and Tom Johnson a former Remington man and Wm. McColly were arraigned before Squire Irwin, and the former fined $lO and costs, $lB.lO in all, and the latter each $5 and costs, $12.50 for McColly and $13.10 for Johnson, all told, on pleas of guilty. Rosenbanm “staid” his fine and the others paid.