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One-time ‘carny’

__By BON SHAFFER

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WASHINGTON - Por most of his iiltfe, William "Gene" Sorrow* ran ćrookcd camival games all ovcr America; ho says, mak Ing $50,000 a ycar during 15 ycars ol skuJduggcry as a camlva) worker, caJlcd a "carny."

' In Alianta, he bllked a colood out of 13,700 In o numbers gamo In whlch ihcre wre actually no winning numbers. In West Vlrglnla. he peiruadcd a coal miner ta spend $800 whlle trylng . to toss rtngs ento blocks that wcrc too large lor    ringi to slip ovcr.

T7>en on* day, Sorrows recolls, o wite of one of his vlctlms retumed to . Uie camiva1 slte. hysteilcaJ and wUh two bablcs In her arms. Shc left the children at his boolh. Sorrows says, daLmlng that her husbond lost a

wcck’s payró^rrowslind słyelibw had no monoy to feed them.

"The olher camlcs laughcd obout U. told me 1 ougM to kccp *cm bccause mlghl-bo-ablo-io-soll^em-for bucka." Sorrows sald. "I began lock at what I-was dolng_rlook-at-the—gold buHlonrillegal weapona and box-

cs fuli of camWoJ rocords.

rlgged gam es whlle law cn f orce men l ofhclals stand by — through the Ir own Ignorance or^: bccausc they^#ve=bccn bnbed.

A ftw wceks ago. whlle vlslting Washington. Sorrows gol lost drtvlng around the city and slumbled across the Reilhoffer Camłval ploylr.g on a vacan! lol In the lmpovcrtshed Shaw sccllon of the cMy. He wcnl to a D.C. pollceman he knew and outllncd the riggcd games ha-thoughLcouId be found there. The pollcc ćllspatchcd undercover agenta.

"The games we found were played Just llke he sald; wc wcrc obie to watch them stcal." sald detectlvc Dennls Tlcdc of Ihc lnvcstlgativc _sąry|ęee branch. - — - -    -

Xs~a rtsuirof'Sorrow^rs lip. poHcc" staged one of Iheir most successful raids In ycars. Somc 100 Officers use swepl through the Reilhoffer mldway, -10- r< rin«n);cged rlgged gamę*. $113.000 to In caan. obout 40 ounccs of apparent

peoptc around mc. Thcy lookcd llkc

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So lor the lost two ycars Scrrows.n self proclolmcd bom-ogaln man of prlnciple. hos becn bamstormlng

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of whom-picadcd.not guilly to gamb!-. Ink and flrcarms charges. The flflh akTppcd bond.

__Camcssciicd lnduded one ln whlch stuffed cats allegcdly wert loadcd wlth counterwclghts so thcy couldnT be knockcd off a counlcr if siruck by a rubber bali and another ln whlch a customer pltchlng a bali on a strtng to knock ovcr a pin could not posslbly do so unless the operator wonted hlm to. "We could have taken rr-ore if we wonted to." sald one pollce offldal.

Pollcc and fcdcral prosecutors have bcen porlng ovcr the scircd docu-mcnls. Sorrows lnslsts Dul linka be-twecn somc carohljs and organliod crlme arc commonpłacc. "Nobody can leli how much money !s comlng ln; łfs a pcrfect place to iounder money." Sorrows says. Hc cloims to have worked wUh Mafia llcutcnanta and to have pald off scorcs of law enforccment officlal*. from chlefs of poheotojudges.-- -----    .....

A spókesmon for the camlval ln* dustry. William T. Collins, says Sorrows Is "o damn llar" and "crazy, too" ln moklng Uicsc allegollons ► •Whol^he-cRcrrnolorłety^Colllns asked.

—CoUinsls-arctircd camlYal owner. >rcsldcnt emerllia of The cam!vaJ

lobbylst ln Washington. "I know cvciy camlvai owner In the United States; they all run a prctly fair camWal." he

sald. 'They return betwecn 30 and 3S ccnts Ln merchandlsc for evcry dollar taken ln."

Collins sald thcrc mlght be "a tew bod oppics In every barrd," but that the lnowo' woHca to ellmlnate them "I know Rlcky Reilhoffer (who ran the camival raidcd), I know his parents. ho’s a prctly good kld. I donT thLnk hc would nin rlgged games.” Collins sald. • -Throughout the nalion. such camivals are a $SO*blllfpn a year business. Sorrows says..but efforls to

Slce such    opcratlons orc

gmented. Iax and Iow prłorlty. "U

wno are ofntctod. Now Uiere’8 no codc. I*vc scen 8-year-old girls break down and ery aflcr they've bcen taken. I*ve scen pcoplc Jose Dielr food

itampsollhcgamcs.’*- -----

Ih“ trylng to shut down the allcged crooked ~ operatlora. - Sorrows g!vcs —¹’ iemlnars to law enforccment ol-flclals. dcmonstratlng rlgged games •wlth a few he carrlcs around ln a bottered brown brlefcose. He says he Is too wcil known to show up cn a mldway. Pollce conflrm that Sorrows* llfe hos bcen threatened. but he ref- »’ uses to accept pollce proteetlon and ( rełocation ol nlmscłf and his famtly.    ♦

docsnT secm to calch pcóplc*s atten ii offkla

ceded.

tłoń much." one FBI oflklal eon-

Sorrows dalms hc is not trylng to destroy the carnWal łndustry. only to ellmlnalc those he fccls arc corrupt. ^r

_    _T want fo sec whot the carnl^Al_:

pUle glin, has launched his or^mon rndugryi^róWdcd ror - goodTclcan. crusaoc on Uve mldway, and now, lncxpenslvc famUy er.lertalnmenl," havlng sold most of what he owns to hesays. pay for his trasels. hc crlss-crosses

the country trylng to strolghtcn out . Włwit Sorrows wants Is a congrcs-

thecamhral worid:-------sionol- InYotłgatlon-of* the * camWal -

"I starłcd OUt runnlng a stralght to4u$lrv,yńlh an cmphasls on unrav— gamę. and my unde clcancd mc out In    llnks to organlzcd crlme

riggcd g_gT7ir rvrry    _ But_he_sąysj;₀joae^aXonggttŁa.wiU

So, Soctows. a sllghUy paunchy 32-year-oid wlth strlngy holr and a.'

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Sonowi sald he vlvldly irmembers---1

l-me/- Sorrows- aays^Thęre^ usod to be a codę among camlva) .

thlevcs: You donT ploy to women.    somc of the bad thlngs he dld. and that

men wUh pregnant women and poopk ls what propclshls crusade.

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