EVENING TELEGRAM, ELYRIA, OHIO, FEB 16, 1909 SHERIFF RAIDED BLIND TIGERS Pistols Were Drawn and a Bloody Riot was Narrowly Averted Williamsburg, KY, Feb 16. The blind tiger keepers who have been evading arrest by technicalities of the law on the Kentucky-Tennessee bor- der line in Whitely County were broken up and captured yesterday. Sheriff Crowley with seven deputies, County Attorney Steel and private detectives made the raid, capturing 14 white men, three women and three negroes. The detectives had been purchasing liquor on the Kentucky side from several of those captured for some time. Pistols were drawn and a bloody riot was narrowly averted. The blind tigers have a national reputation, the buildings being half in Tennessee and half in Kentucky with counters running parallel with the state line. The keepers, many of whom have grown immensely wealthy, sell Tennessee people whisky from the Kentucky side, while the Kentucky people sell from the Tennessee side, thereby evading pro- cesses of either state.