The daily gazette., 1881-12-19
NEGRO GAMBLERS ARRESTED.
HOW THE POLICE PULLED POLICY
SHOP AND GAMBLING Rancho, SAT-
URDAY NIGHT

HOW THE POLICE PULLED A POLICY
SHOP AND GAMBLING Rancho, SAT-
URDAY NIGHT.
Saturday evening Chief of Police
Maxwell received information from q
negro man named Isaac West that a
policy shop and sweat cloth mill was
in full operation near Fifth and
Orange streets. He summoned squad
OF policemen-comprising Sergeants
Wbelan, Dolan and Cannon, and off,
GERS Springer, Hardy, Ryan, Bel nhardt,
Ia, lor, Munda, Hannahan, Baldwin
and Pike--and at 8:45 marched to the
place, a shanty In the rear of the
negro houses on Fifth stieet, between
Shipley and Orange. Entering the
premises by means of a gate at the
street, the officers passed through a
small yard, and went into the house,
which was eutirely dark and deserted
down stairs. The officers marched
directly up stairs, and there found
about thirty men, principally negroes,
huddled into a small room, playing
Sweat" Behind a partition at one
end sat the manager, manipulating
the Sweat CLOTH" while the victims
huddled around, each awaiting the
turn of fortune. Tho sudden appear
ance Of the police threw them into
great CONSERVATION, and they made
frantic endeavors to escape, son
rushed down stairs past the officers
while others jumped out of the win
dow upon a small portico, and then TO
the yard, but they found the police
ready to pounce upon them like terriers
upon rats. A short struggle ensued In
the darkness, but the police soon got
the upper hand of the struggling
darkies and marched out triumphantly
with fourteen men in charge, whom
they took to the police station and
looked up. The victims were as fol-
lows Michael Clifford and j. q. Cum
merford, two wretched locking speci.
mems OF Caucasian humanity, and
VIM. Trusty, VIM. Lewis, Abraham
Young, Edward Williams, ''Ned''
Williams, David Hanson, VIM. II.
Williams, Isaac Henderson, Haywood
Henry Antwell, Sam'l Kycr
md Joseph Brown, negroes. Two
white men and three negroes hid in
'he loft until the police departed and
hen made their escaped.
The only gambling paraphernalia
captured was the 'tsweat cloth" num-
,ered from one to six. The game is
10 place the stakes upon the numbers
md then throw dice. If Lhe throw of
he dice corresponds with the throw
,r's number he wins il not, the
iealer scoops the pot. In the first
tory room of the house were a black
'oard and slate, containing policy
Sunday morning all the culprlts were
Itraigned before Mayor Allmond, ara
he Informant, Isaac West,t his story.
de said he came from Milford about
week ago and secured work at one of
he wharyes. Saturday night he received
,is weeks wages, S., and was induced
o go to this gambling rancho and try
lis luck at "sweat CLOTH" In about an
lour his five dollars had dwindled to five
'ents, and, according to his state meni, IL
made no difference howmany times he
won, somebody else always scooped the
Dot. This cheating, he said, SO angersd
lim that be finally Went off and lodged
aformation against the place. He rs
fused TO tell who was managing the little
game, but officer Hardy testitisL that lie
was positive he saw Abraham Young
iittiDg behind the little table when the
police entered the room.
The Mayor thsTeupon imposed upon
abraham Young fine OF $50 and costs,
and upon the others fine OF five dollars
.nd costs each, the costs amounting to
about five dollars per head. During the
day and evening all but three of them
paid out.
This rancho, II is supposed, was run
by negro named Bill West. There are
several other gambling dens In town,
which will probably be pulled before
long.
This morning all of the victims bad
paid ont except Abraham Young, the
dealer, and another negro. Young in
sists that he was not the manager and
that he only ran behind tho table when
the police came in for the purpose OF
scoopisg in the money, as he knew he
would, If arrested, have a fine and costs
to pay. Young is sexton at st. Andrews
P. E. Church, and is of very respectable