State v. Jones

— There was civic turmoil in Pasco on the peaceful banks of the Columbia. A number of law enforce ment officials said that gambling and other forms of vice flourished in East Pasco; other officials expressed disbelief. The Attorney General, on request, dispatched investigators. They caused the arrest of Clarence Jones for suffering gambling apparatus — a deck of cards — to be kept in a building occupied by him. Mr. Jones said that he was a cook, and only a cook; that his arrest must have been an afterthought because, when the officers were taking other miscreants off to jail, one of them…