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GAMBLINGAT WEST BADENTHE COUNTY SHUTS ITS EYES TO THE GREAT EYIL ITS BORDERS.GIVES BALLARD A“Ballard has cleaned up 535,000 in the last two years,” says a man from the neighborhood of West Baden, of Ed Ballard, who has the gambling privileges at the West Baden hotel and health resort. “Ills receipts often average 5GOO a day. He is making a fortune. Fora time he worked for Sinclair and Rhodes. As I understand it, he now pays the proprietors of the resort a per cent, of the receipts. It is something enormous.“The West Baden gambling has never been interfered with, although the gamblers at Orleans and Paoli are often caught and punished. The people seem to look on West Baden as a place apart.w(iIf the people that come from other parts of the country want to get fleeced, the people seem to care little and let the business run without molestation.“I am satisfied that the county authorities are not paid hush money, although it might look as if they were.”The prosecuting attorney of the district, Thomas llonan. lives at Seymour, Jackson county. The judge of the district is Thomas Buskirk, ex-state tax commissioner. No affidavits hate ever been filed and no grand jury investigaj tions made, the man from southern. Indiana thinks.“THE SUN could not put it too strong.” said the man from Orange county, in speaking of the article of the special correspondent describing the g-ambling.
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 13, 1901
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