Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1909 — BLIND TIGER RAID HOME [ARTICLE]

BLIND TIGER RAID HOME

Veterans and Whisky Found In the Treasury Building. Marion, Ind., April 27.—A raid conducted by officers of the National Military Home here, resulted in unearthing an alleged “blind tiger” in the treasury building of that institution. Treasurer J. W. Sanderson says he knew nothing of the presence of the "blind tiger,” and is giving active assistance in the prosecution which has been begun against the chief clerk, Christopher Frlsche, a veteran, sixtyfive years old. who is charged with giving away liquor on Sunday. The lieutenant of the guards, Timothy Kelly, with Samuel Shaw, the Home policeman, Sunday gained entrance to the building, where they found four men and several bottles of whisky. Cyrus Harvey, clerk in the treasurer’s office, and Hiram Crosby, a clerk in the adjacent office, were in the treasure’s office at the time and were ordered to report as witnesses. When Frische was brought before Governor Steele, he refused to try the case, turning the men over to the civil authorities.