New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-15
RAID ON BUCKET-SHOPS.
.,v1rLTANEOUS MOVES IN NEw-YORK,
BOSTON And JERSEY CITY.

oru VALENTINE & CO.. WHO ARE CHARGED
WITH DOING BUSINESS on FICTITIOUS
STOCKS THE QUOTATIONS. FOR
WHICH THEY ARE ALLEGED TO
MAKE UP IN ADVANCE
Men in three cties-New-York, Boston and Jer-
..v City-working under the direction OF Chief
con,in made successful raids yesterday morning
=, the bucket-shops owned and managed by II.
valentine q Co. Collection Of evidence and other
xork Of preparation has been going on for more
than a month
The New-York City end of the raid was engi-
neered by Acting Inspector Brooks. Raids were
made on three places in this city, and twenty
nine Central Office detectives were employed. The
,.as were at Nos. II ami 10 Broadway. No. 43
West enty-ninth-st. and No. 80 West Twenty
e,chth-st In the three places eighteen clerks
and operators were captured, but none of the
members of the firm that manages the rooms was
caught, No patrons Of the place were arrested,
ss they would have been discharged in the courts
for lack Of evidence.
MEMBERS OF THE FIRM.
The firm of II. Valentine & Co. is composed OF
y Valentine William II Fender. John Croker.
Matthew Maynard, Robert Kidd and Charles
currer None of their addresses could be
learned They operate under the name of ''The
New-York Board Of the Jersey City Stock Ex-
.hanre" and have tickers and blackboards in
their various rooms that are supposed to give the
quotations Of the Jersey City stock Exchange.
The detectives declare that the quotations fur
nishei are bogus, and fixed up by Valentine
4 Co the day before they used.
Detective Frederick F. Wade Of Chief Con-
Inns staff Is the man who got the evidence that
led 70 the raids He was assisted by Anthony
On hnn ndrafj IA nd nj
,eenth-st who had formerly been employed in
the rooms as a messenger. 1t he who gave
Wade the pointers that led to the swearing out
Of the warrants.
At No 10 Broadway the raid was made at 10
o'clock There over one hundred men IN
the place when tn. detectives came in the room'
and wild scramble to escape followed Severai
\ n, the men were about to jump out OF the win
dows but Detective Bonnoll who had charge OF
the SQUAD OF detectives that made the RAID
shouted TO all that none would be arrested ex-
cent the principals At this. the patrons filed out
Of the place. and only one man remained except
the clerks that were under arrest The man
refused 10 60 when ordered and showed that ne
had right TO be present. as he was Deputy
Sheriff Waleerng and he was there for the pur-
nose ~ serving writ of attachment against the
AT THE BROADWAY RAID
Assisting Bonnoll in the raid at the Broadway
ONCE were Detectives Rynders. Arfkin' McCar'
thy. Lyons. Boyle. Beagan. Reidy. Savage FOR
,nosa and Krauch. The following clerks were ar
rested:
Isaac Mayer aged fortyfour years of No sp5d
twenty years of No ?3o West Hn
Charles Homsn ged t3yve ssd sf1ha hrty
years Of I0S Ja6kson-aye Long Island o Siyi ~
s. Mortonst: John Thompson, aged forty.tw3 years
Of No iS7 West One hundred dfrst-st; 90 John >;
Costello aged twenty-five years OLD, OF NO zoo Last
Thirty-sixth-st.
At the Twenty-eighth-st. place. Detective
Evanhoe was in charge and he was assisted by
Detectives Manion. Deevy. Snyder Dorrilan
Mason. Petrocini. Daley. Rodgers, ONeill and
Rauhme The prisoners in this case were;
James Burns aged hrhys SmS ESS@ra aged % fweny
years OF White Plains James avers' rtstb sseb
Edwards aged twenty-foq years OF No. +S. Nest
John Rodssbs agsa Jones
ss sadS tbIrtysx III Years. OF No S27 West Thrtyeghth
81; Joseph Rodgers. aged thirty years OF NO y"
West Forty-second-st
At the Twenty-nnth-st. raid. Detective Hurd
was in charge. and assisted by Detectives
F. E Wade Ward Donohue. Reagan Price.
Tinker and Downing The prisoners were:
Martin Croker aged twenty,eght years, son Of one
Of the proprleors OF No 200 West Forty -second-st;
Herbert Tmon ySd o5 TE nv yeas Of %o 5
East Eighty-eghth-st; Philip Smith. aged twenty
ased t5rty-two years. Of No 967 west one hundred
a9d-eghteenth-st: Thomas Murphy. aged twenty
five years OF No. 2l5 West Twenty -hfth-st
1t was at this raid that the most exciting
feature occurred Detective Wade. who had OBJ
tanned the evidence against the place. was in the
room before the res. OF the detectives arrived
As he heard them coming, he vaulted over an
eight foot partition into the office and managed
to secure books, money. quotations and other evil
dence. He injured his right knee badly.
IN JERSEY CITY.
Chief OF Police Murphy, Sergeant Archibald
and Detectives Douglass Doyle. Dalton and
Smith went TO the Jersey City bucket-shop. They
entered the front room, but Immediately the two
rear rooms were closed on them. The police
expected this and were provided with Jimmles
and they forced the door With the ponce was
SUPERINTENDENT Of the Police Telegraph system
Foley. He went inside and saw two wires on
ono he communicated with Boston but the wire
leading 10 New York was cut OF suddenIy Su-
perntendent Foley kept the Boston wire open
until He sent hctitious quotdtions Gnu hyu @
the wire open with the pope that the people IN the
Boston end would remain in the place untll lhe
police Of that city had made their raid' Inc
prisoners captured were
Henry Rodgers. aged twenty-eight years OF New
York: William Barrow. aged forty1eight years, OF
10 q Grand;st jersey Si'y s'oJA of No @ Grand
g. Jersey CITY, te.egrapn fopfy Years Of Asto
ria Long Island.
All were taken to headquarters and locked UP.
The office was opened about n>ne months ago.
Word received from Boston tha' 'ne ra'u
Peter De Lacy bailed out ali the prisoners in
the New-York raids and offered as security his
house on venty-third-st. which ne said was
worth 81 000 ,.s,,A
In JEFFERSON Market Court Magistrate kudlch
held each Of the prisoners In sooo pan lor *
animation ON Monday afternoon at O'CLOCK
The clerks were charged with being accessories
70 a violation Of Section No. SA4 OF the fehai
Code I'm maintaining gambling place
Each of the prisoners declared that as 1ar as
he knew the business was perfectly reputable