Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — ARRESTED ON RAFFLING CHARGE [ARTICLE]

ARRESTED ON RAFFLING CHARGE

Fined and Costed 921.00 and Instructed to Leave Town. Miss G. B. Smart of near Morocco, who had been canvassing thia section of the country selling gasoline lamps, and Who recently had the misfortune to have the Overland car she was driving burned near Lee, had another, mishap Sunday when she was arrested on an affidavit filed by a young man by the name of Gray, one of the Western Union linemen who have been here for some time, for raffling off a graphophone. It seems as near as The Democrat can learn; the sale of chances had Deen going on for some time, at 50 cents each, and thq raffle took place at McKay’s laundry Sunday forenoon, Harve Moore of Rensselaer getting the machine. Report also had it that the young woman had recently raffled off a machine at Remington and that Mr. Moore also won it. Gray, who held some chances on the machine here, did not like the looks of things, and filed the affidavit, and Mies Smart was arrested and haled before Mayor Spitler, who fined her $lO and costs on the raffling charge and gave her a few days in which to settle up her affairs and leave town; The fine Which tfhe paid by check on a Morocco bank. Raffling is prohibited by fihe statutes of Indiana, although the law is winked at in many places.