Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

| tials were there 30 busily engaged at their
fayoritel game of fan-tan that the entrance
of the officers was unnoticed. Shore and
Bendel stood quietly in the background
watching the gama and studying the faces
| of the PLAYERS for a few moments before
announcing their presence. When they
finally did speak the Cinnamon jumped to
their feet and scrambled for the doors in
wild confusion, yelling and jabbering like
a family of magpies.
The other officers had come up by this
| time and the doors were well guarded so
that none of the players escaped. The pa
troll wagon was called and the party, in
cluding the gambling outfit, was. taken to
| Central station. There it was found that
Jim Sands, the proprietor of the house, and
| Sam Key, who is now under Indictment for
court as the dealer in similar game a
couple of weeks ago, were among the num-
ber.
Soon after the raid about 20 friends of the
prisoners trooped into the police station ,
and after much chattering and talking drew
from various places in their odd garments
forfeits of SIS each for their countrymen' s
release, except in the case of Jim Sands and
Sam Key, for whom 500 forfeits were re-
quired and furnished.
NO END TO THE SENSATIONS.
The Chinese delegation had left the sta
tion house, and quiet had hardly been re-
sumed when a sensation was created BY the
arrival of load of IL men from Mrs.
Smiths place, mentioned above. The
wagon took another trip, and in a few min.
utes was back with another load of four
men from the house of Mrs. Kingston,
which adjoins that of Mrs. Smith. Both
women have been arrested before on the
same charge.
Mrs Smith had seen the officers enter her
house, and being upstairs she slipped out a
back window and was in the act of crawling
over the backyard fence when captured by
Detective Robinson. Two we'll dressed
women, who gave their names as Edna Rey-
nolds and Lucy Rohe, were arrested in Mrs.
kingston's house.
Among the crowd was James McTighe,
who had been in Mrs. Smiths house when
the officers got there. He had managed to
escape over the fence, though recognized by
Detective Coulson. When McTighe came
forward to put up forfeit for one of
his friends, Captain Silvus at once ordered
him locked up, and as result McTighe's
money was required in securing his own re-
lease. The other men gathered in on the
raid were soon all released on SO forfeits,
and then the women were let out on $50
forfeits, excepting the two young women
from Mrs. Kings, who each put up S25 for
feits.
Next to the First district the Southside
was the most prolific in speak-easy raids.
LIVELY TIMES IN SMOKY HOLLOW.
Officer Cochran had very lively time
yesterday afternoon in arresting some per-
sons in Smoky Hollow, at the foot of South
Eighth street Eli Gelbraith and his wife,
Becky Gelbraith, were entertaining William
O'Shea Barney Harrity and Kate Showal-
ter. The entertainment principally con-
sisted of beer drinking, and as this caused
an exuberance of spirits row started, in
which all hands got mixed up. The entire
neighborhood was stirred up so that Officer
Cochran was summoned and the entire party
placed under arrest and sent to the Twenty
eighth ward station in the patrol wagon.
AS the prisoners were leaving the wagon
to enter the station, Harrity thought he saw
an opportunity to escape He broke from
the line and dashed down Fourteenth street,
with half a dozen officers and half hundred
citizens after him. Harrity was fleet of
foot, and managed to keep a COED lead on
his pursuers. He ran into Jackson's livery
stable. where he was soon afterward found
by Officer Cochran, and was taken back to
the lookup.
Officer Hagerling made a raid on the
speak-easy of Mary Kennedy, No. 2614
visitors were locked up in the Twenty
eighth ward station. The crowd was very
noisy one and made things very unpleasant
for those living in the neighborhood of the
lookup.
BECK'S wHITECAPS TAKEN CARE OF.
Lieutenant Johnston last night made
rain on the disorderly house of Thaddeus G.
Beck, on South Thirty-fourth street, and ar
rested the proprietor and eight visitors.
The crowd has been known under the name
of "Beck's White Caps" They were all
locked up il the Twenty-eighth ward
station.
The Second district came to the front with
one case. Lieutenant Sullivan and Officer
Rogan, raided the disorderly house kept by
S. Caran, an Arabian, at No. 81, Basin alley,
Seventh ward, last night. The proprietor
and six of his countrymen, were arrested.
They were all locked up in the Eleventh
ward station.
Allegheny had no speak-easies, but pro-
duced a Juvenile gambling crowd.
Lieutenant McKelvey, of the Allegheny
force, made raid on a gang OF boys in
dulging in game of poker in planning
mill on Irwin avenue. Charles England,
Frank Cornealius and Ben Lee were cap
tured, together with the cards and - cents |
in the Jackpot" The boys were placed in
the lookup.