Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-02-28

SsOSoA~e0 HASs
to come that night, but to come the next
night. Gentlemen, I ask you to search
diligently until you find some explanation
of the failure of that raid last juno. Wish |
ing at the time, however, to have all pa
thence towards those in authority, and |
knowing something and surmising more of |
the peculiar difficulties, both from beneath
and above, which any officer must meet in
reecuing New Haven gambler from his
political friends, I made no special COM
plant concerning the limited success of
that raid; even called upon the superin-
tendent, inspected the faro table which
the officers had seized, and tried, so far IS
one humble citizen could, to encourage
him to further and more successful effort.
was also pleased to listen to an account
of a very successful raid which he had once
made against these gamblers some time in
ancient history.
Frequent reports having come to US
during the past few months of the losses
and ruin which that place was working,
we secured information sufficient to justify
another warrant against it. I had found
out the usual hours of the game. I took
unusual precautions not to have the in
tended raid given away. More than that,
upon watch in order that we might find
out without unnecessary delay whatever
might take place. The warrant was given
in at police headquarters little before 8
o'clock on the evening of February 5. I
can produce credible witness to swear
that shortly before 9 o'clock he had seen
three young men go up, knock at the door
with the peep hole in it and enter that
room, and up to about S:45 O'Clock of that
evening the room was lighted and the men
were in it. At $50 O'Clock the room WAS
closed and the game up. The officer was
to have raided the place at about $50
Usually that little game runs on until IL.
What reason had Ike to say, Good night,
gentlemen so early on that particular
night Perhaps you gentlemen can find
the officers were to visit the place at 9.
At $40 twelve young men filed out of
that gambling room. The next night the
officer was ready to vieit that place at
$50, but at SLY O'Clock five men suddenly
found it convenient to leave that place.
Still another night the attempt to serve
that warrant in time was made, but short
~ before 1t might have been served that
fourth evening in front of the door of
that gambling room two we'll known back
ers of that institution held a whispered
consultation. Perhaps their information
for that night was not quite so definite
their hurried consultation with the words,
"But they might do it." Then one of
this precious pair-the rich broker-de-
scended tho stairs, while the other re-en-
tered the room, and soon after left, and
neither the students who knocked at that
door nor the officers found any game 60
ing on that night. The officer, would
say, who tried his best to serve that war
rant, Is man of unimpeachable integ-
rity, one of the best men on the force. 1t
was not his fault that when the warrant
was put in his hands. 1t was found
to b not worth the paper on
next succeeding nights the gamblers
apparently were thrown into some
confusion by their kno Wedge that an
honest man held the warrant and might
serve it at any time Of night, so the
students who knocked in vain at that door
had a chance to keep their money until
they learned the time to which tue game
for while had been changed; but I do not
care to relate just now any further details,
and have lost all interest in that particu-
lar warrant. have told enough to justify
pointed inquiry, to which possibly you
gentlemen may find the answer. How la
the movements of the polices As clue to
your investigation permit me to call your
attention to the testimony given by Officer
McKiernan on February 10 in policy case
to this effect: "Salerno told me-" so the
officer testified, "that he expected
| u.s." Certainly there had been no
| special activity of the police for
months which might have led the policy
| men to expect them, but at that time after
the warrants had been made out 1t appears
from this testimony that they were expect
| ing them. What mysterious spiritualistie
mediums in the gambling rooms of this
city have clairvoyant power to discern
with go timely accuracy what IL transpir
ing at police headquartersa By what spir
it's is the department of police haunted
political spirits and othersa Gentlemen Of
the police commission, we make specific
complaint against the administration OF
the department in the first precinct be
cause it has not long ago brought dowr
with the policemen's clubs that whole
sweet st on Gregson alley with all it,
unsavory eggs. We respectfully submit
that so ancient character as Ike, familia!
to several generations Of Yale students
should not DO suffered by you to sins
oheerily to himself, like the poets iunocen
| brook:
| 'Police may come, and police may go,
But 60 on forever
| We think it high time that the gambling
| question in this town should be brought t.
| this issue-who is boss, the broker prime,
| of New Haven gamblers, with all the poll
| tics back of him, or the chief of the New
Haven police, with the moral backing Of
the psop!ea Gentlemen, we beg leave tt
have you understand distinctly our posi-
ton. We ask you to night to make thu
captains of the several police stations re-
sponsible for the gambling rooms within
their several precincts, and We respectful
ly serve notice that we shall know whether
this business goes on uninterrupted al
hitherto, and If another time we shall b.
compelled to ask hearing in this matte
We snail then demand and insist, In behal
of the people, that any and every officer
high or low, who may justly be held re
sponsible for the continuance in existence
of these policy Offices and other gsmbline
PLACES, shall be forthwith degraded or re-.
moved by you from the police force.
| DRINKING PLACES FOR BOTH SEXES.
In further substantiation of our com
plant of inefdciency and want Of due Wig
ilance in enforcement of the laws, TAKE
up next our Information regarding drink
ing places for both sexes and other placer
of peculiar social odor. As I stated at the
outset, we do not ask you to throw the po
lice force into any Quixotio crusade against
human passion and shame. But we deem
where social seclusion with rum is offered
to young girls in their teens and to boys
no bigger than freshmen ought not to be
tolerated in any decent community. VIZ
| claim that the laws are not now SO en-
forced, but that with due diligence they
might be SO enforced, that opportunity fol
drunkenness and solicitation to vice may
cease to be open close at hand, and abund
ant, even on the kings highway. While
we grant that all the police in the world
might not etop young man from going to
the devil, If he is determined to do 80, We
hold that 1t should at least be made to cost
| him q good long hack fare to get there.
And we further maintain that by Its wei.
come of hundreds of students the honor OF
this city is pledged to q hundred cities and
a thousand homes to keep the conditions
of life, especially in this precinct, as whole
some as possible.
will not attempt the noisome task of
| turning over in your presence the accumu.
| lations of evidence which We have
| concerning these notorious places. One
| or two samples are more than
| enough. Our information here rests
only in the minor part of it on detective
testimony which may be produced at any
time in court; our charitable aud mission
airy agencies afford often very definite
knowledge of these places whose victims
we often find left for healing at the doors
of our churches. And let me remark right
here, gentlemen, as part of our complaint,
that these gambling and social places
which are tolerated within this single po-
lice precinct cost this community more
than all its charities. The San Domingo
lottery alone, according to reliable sources
of information, receives remittances from