Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-12
THE RECORD BROKEN.
SEVENTY-EIGHT ARRESTS MADE BY THE
POLICE, SATURDAY NIGHT.
Wholesale Raids by the Oficsrst and Exciting
Times AbOu. the City Hall in the Early
Morning Hours, Yesterday.

About the liveliest time ever known
at police headquarters in this city was
experienced between the hours OF one
and three o'clock yesterday morning.
At one time there were nearly two
hundred people in the City Hall CORR :
doris and upon the pavement outside,
whites and blacks, male and female,
being mixed up Unfortunately, while
down stairs the Lookup Keepers quar-
tiers and the cell room was jammed with
prisoners. Every once in 3 while the
patrol wagon would dash up with an
overlooking lead Of prisoners, to be
added to the already long list, and at
half-past three o'clock, when the of1-
GERS had all reported upon the warrants
given into their hands, there was
total of seventy-eight cases on the blot
ter In the Office OF the Chief.
The cause OF this Sunday morning
turmoil was q series Of raids made oy
officers upon disreputable houses and
one gambling room. Heretofore 1t has
been a custom to raid one or two disor-
dery houses at a time, dragging this
class Of cases out over several weeks
Saturday the Chief decided to make q
pretty general raid, and have done
with 1t, and about dozen and half
officers were assigned TO the duty armed
with the proper warrants. As result
IL will take about a seven-hundred and
ffty-d dollar bill to settle the fines and
costs in Police Court this morning.
The first house raided was Fanny
Preston's, where the madame and ten
coored girls and six white men were
coralled. At Josephine Boyd's the
madame and four colored girls and
three white men were captured. At
Stella Chester's the madame, four girls
and five men were taken. At Ada FoS-
ter's the madame, five girls and five
men, and at Eta Ditty's the madame,
FIVE girls and eight men. At Rhea
Gray's and May Davenport's the alarm
had ceen sounded, presumably by two
people who escaped from Ada Fosters,
and but four arrests were made at these
two houses.
While these raids wero going on, a
posse OF South Side officers raided the
poker room kept by Harry Knoke, at
No. II Thirty-third street, the warrant
having been issued on complaint OF a
citizen, The proprietor and seven men
were arrested. 1t is said by the police
the party had been playing poker, but
they were enjoying a keg OF beer and
lunch at the moment the police put In
an appearance.
The wholesal arrests attracted an i'm
mense amout OF attention, notwith-
standing the lateness of the hour, and a
great crowd collected about the City
Hall, watching the frequent arrivals OF
prisoners and commenting upon the ex-
tent OF the raid. Many of the specta-
rors were friends of the people who had
been arrested. and there was great sour
rying to and fro to raise money TO get
prisoners out Of the clutches OF the OFF,
GERS. By the time daylight had come
all but about fifteen of the prisoners had
been released on security, and by dark
last night there were but five friendless
and impecunious souls still behind the
bars, while there was about thousand
dollars in the police Office as security.
In addition to the arrests through the
raids, the following miscellaneous cases
were booked:-Samuel Desmond and
John Och, fighting; John thinner and
Joseph Jordan, disorder; Charles Hill,
ssault on Charles Smiller, and plain
drunk.