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'Loaded1 dice lead to raid. arrests of 4CORINTH, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi sod Tennessee lawmen,checking reports of crooked dice games that fleeced tourists, raided a motel-restaurant on the state line Sunday night and arrested the owner and four others.Mrs. Louise Hathcock, owner of ihe Shamrock Motel on U.S. 45, wasarrested by Sheriff Buford Pusser of McNaiiy County, Tlwn.. wben deputies found un-her car, which was parked on the Tennessee side.Mississippi authorities said Mrs. Hathoock would be charged with operating* a game of chance and selling whisky.FOur men were picked up by Mississippi officers for investigation sod later released onbond. They were identified asEdward James Coleman, ClydeTimlake, Robert Lee Floyd and W. 0. Hathcock.A warrant signed by Mississippi Circuit Judge N. S. Sweat Jr., authorized a search of the Shamrock for narcotics, gambling devices and whisky.Wilbanks said dice were seized during the raid and state investigators had bought whisky at the restaurant on several occasions during the past two weeks.Sam Ivy, head of the Mississippi Highway Patrol Identification Bureau, said complaints of rigged dice games had been received by authorities of both states from many parts of the country during the past five or six weeks.“From the reports it is estimated that the tourists have been losing from $5,000 to $7,000 a week,” Ivy said.He said the fleecing started with free chances on a ham, turkey or gas or peanuts and
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Hattiesburg American
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US
Mon, Dec 28, 1964
Page 5
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