The record-union., 1895-03-04
Two LOTTERY JOINTS BROKEN UP.
Successful Raids Made by Determined
Policemen.
Secret Panels, Electric Wires and Sig
mails and DIsSolvinI. Floors Were
all Overcome.

One of the most notorious Chinese lot
terry dens in the city was broken up on
Saturday night by a squad OF energetic
police officers. 1t had been in operation
in the rear of Diepen brooks cigar stand
ut 422 J street, and is said to have been
the one in which Bafieau and Butler
made their big winnings the other night
which winnings, by the way, the
Chinanen SHOW no disposition to liqui-
date
1t was known that the den was pro-
vided with electric wires and signals,
spring doors, secret panels, a disappearing
floor and all the Daraphernalia that mod
ern ingenuity has been able to invent 10
evade the vigilance OF police and 10 pre-
vent the rading of suCn places, and the
officers know just what they had to con-
tend with IN laying their plans Tor the
capture OF The place.
SO secure had the proprietors of the
joint telt in the plcteueSs of their
contrlvances 10 DEFY tue laws that OF late
it was the custom TO give the Iaughn TO
officers as they passed Inc place or gaZed
inqGISitIveIy at the entrance TO the rear.
The haQgers-On about the place and those
VINO played at the game felt perfectly
secure against police Interference, and
pursued their vocation sereuely as If
there was not an officer ia the city.
But Saturday nights successful raid
proved that d few determined men. bent
on doing their duty, are more than
match Tor the cunning OF either white
men or Cinnamon when bent on defying
the law.
Officer Ash, being too large 10 crawl
through the small opening in the brick
Dasonent-W wall IN The rear OF tho building,
slipped quietly up to the rear door OF tue
nrst iOor 10 smut Oft retreat there, while
Officers Logue and higgins Crept through
the hole in the wall and took up their
position in the dirty basement TO receive
the Chinese lottery dealers when they
descended by tho movable floor after
officer Fitzgerald and Special Warner
had gained entrance from the cigar store.
All being In readiness tor the attack,
| Fitzgerald and Warner entered the cigar
! store and started toward the rear. The
men i'll the place laughed at them, but
! this did not deter the officers. There are
/ three rooms that have to he passed through
before the box where the lottery dealers
| operate can be reached, and the doors are
/ SO arranged that by the aid OF the system
! of electrical signals each can be closed
/ and bOiteu almost instantly, in case OF
| attack, and the lights eXIInguisheG.
But the officers We're TOO quick tor the
! scoundrels, ana iew through the success
| sion OF doors with such speed that the
| operators iai!ed To stop them before they
reached the inner room that brought
/ them before the box-liile contrivance in
j which the TWO lottery dealers sat in ap
| parent security. n this inner room
! were two men who were there to play at
! GAe game, and they were placed under ar
! rest
! Suddenly the lights went out, but not
! before the macAluery was set in operation
! lOr lowering the floor OF the box, with its
! 9cf.Iln4utG To he b;iSaDIpllt yVppra ,our1le
/ ami Higgins stood with open arms
| crushed hats and clothing covered with
! cobwebs, TO receive them.
! Fitzgerald tried in the dark to find the
! opening 10 this mysterious box, or cIoset,
/ but apparently there was none. By
/ sounding the partition with his knuckles.
hCWeVeT. he discovered secret panel
! near the Iloor, just largo enough to per-
| INIT tue passage Of = man, and through
! this he cEawlcd lntO tho open space whore
! The lottery dealers had q moment before
| sat n ia1Cieu security. There he saw. by
tho aid OF bulls-cye lanterns that the deal
| ers had peeu captured by Higgins AID
/ LDgue with a quantity OF tickets, the
usual layout, and quito Il SUM III money.
IhG prisoners gave their names as All
/ Now and Ah Chow. They were taken
| To the poiice station, where they We're re-
| leased OIL bail furnished by George *.
! Rider and ore cong Long.
The fellows "A he cigar-stand and card
| rooms IL The .r0rlt ala not laugh as bitZ-
gerald and Warner passed out. Indeed
/ when ii was tound thar the officers had
made their say back to the mystic shrine
where lottery players worshiped the
AIongoiian golden calf, most Of the
/ habitues OF the cigar stand broke for the
street and got out of sight and the men
! who run the place looked as If they had
U,sen scared ouJ OF several years growth
Ghere are other places where Chinese
! loul cry swlndieS are run under pretense
! of being cigar stores, washAouses, etc.
] but il the Legislature gives the officers
the powers provided for in the bill now
before tha5 body, they can all be broken
/ UP, even though 1t becomes necessary
in p.tradpNical sense-to first break
! them Down.
aEFOJHER RAID LAST NIGHT.
officer Logue anG Special Warner also
/ made u successful raid on a Chinese lot
terry Joint on Sixth street, between j and
X last night. They captured a China
| man named Fong Tong and his entire
/ lottery outfit, despite the network of
electric bells that guarded every approach
10 the Den.
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