Trenton (NJ) Evening Times, August 19, 1909, p. 11. BURNED BY LAW Paoli, Indiana, August 19-The war begun by the state against gambling in the casino of Tom Taggart, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at French Lick, and Lee Sinclair's casino at West Baden, culminated yesterday in the burning of gambling apparatus taken from the two places and estimated to be worth $30,000. Two thousand people from Orange and surrounding counties, including many women and children, watched the expensive bonfire and applauded the officers when they applied the match. The devices had been stored here since their seizure in 1906, and had been under the care of the sheriff. The order for the destruction was received late Tuesday evening, and about midnight the sheriff and his deputies, with Assistant Attorney General White, entered the place where the devises were stored and began their destruction with axes and sledges, piling the broken fragments into a heap preparatory to applying the torch.