New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-17
RAIDS ONTwO BUCKET SHOPS
PLACES SAID TO RE CONDUCTED BY
VALENTINE & FENDER.

UPTOWN PLACE.
Ra,ds on two alleged bucket shops were made
nv the notice late Yesterday afternoon. Both
places are believed to be under the same man.
agement.
Acting Inspector Allaire. with two sergean's'
two roundsmen and seventeen policemen came
down on the Offices OF the New-York commission
Company at Nos II and 10 Broadway. and ar
rested the ten employees Of the place Ihep capt
ured the entire outfit consisting or TWO uchei''
several large blackboards, the books and papers
OF the concern, and $500 in currency The men
arrested in the place gave these names and al
dresses: Thomas H. Coleman. of No. 81 Green
wich-st: Ross White No. 613 West One-hundred-
and-thirty-eighth-st.: Joseph Evers. NO. SUI
Lexington Henry Leigh. NO. "o raH'
Thirty-second-st.; w. II. Rise. NO -oo We
Thirty-eghth-st.; Harry Edwards, NO oI+ "es'
seventieth-st.: Isaac Meyer No. IL Chryste-S'''
all clerks. John Green. No. 30 kosclusko-S'''
Brooklyn. telegraph operator; Henry Leh"i'''
No 126 Temple-st Long Island Clty' eiectii.''''''
and WASHINGTON Barrows. No. go West Ihir'E-
ninth-st who says he is broker. and VINO was
In charge of the place. The prisoners were p'aoeu
In q ma troll wagon and taken to Police Headquar-
ters. where they were locked up for the night
On December II. 1895. these offices were cioseu
by the police jim the same manner ana "aitei ~
Valentine and w. s. Fender. the two alleseu P'o-
prietors were arrested, charged with pe'i' lar
ceny and convicted They were trleu before Ne
corder Gof who sentenced them each 10 81"
months imprisonment The men were. however,
released on bail a short time afterward' anu are
NOW ont Of iail pending an appeal. few months 4
ago word was received by Chief Conlin that a new
firm had moved into the offices formerly occupieo
by Valentine & Fender. and had pesuh "u''
ness under the firm name of the YORK 'ohi-
mission Company. Chief Conlin was tod mat IL
WAS SUSPECTED that the firm was none other
than Valentine & Fender under different guise'
GETTING THE EVIDENCE.
ssreeant Wade. Of the chiefs staf. who had
charge of the previous raid was detained 10 IN
vestiRate and visited the place seve'aI 'iiiie''
He finally decided that the report that hao peei
roce,ved at Police Headquarters was true, ana
discovered that the firm had opened ofnces at NJ
az West Twenty -ninth-st and at No A. Mont
,ror,ar,.-st Jersey CITY 1t was found that Val
entine made his headquarters in Jersey CITY, anu
from this place sent out the quotations on the
s,ocks they pretended to be dealing In, While
rsnder was looking after the two places
IN this city The stocks. which appeared on the
hlackboards, and which have since II IL ai'eteu'
been discovered to be OF firms or companies '""'
ro M, &, existence have the following names:
excelsior Gold Mining Company, ooioi auo
Co,d Mining and Developing Company i"i-
nerial Prospecting and Developing company
"National Silver Mining and prospecting Oo''i
pany." Salvador Mining and Milling COMPANY
and various others. .,
He reported to Chief Conlin, VINO ue'd"eu
.evera, nolicemen TO visit the places each DAY
and obtain the necessary evidence against 'e
-,ooos nv nlacng from So to 81 "buys on the
.tocls The firm made II a rule never 10 accept
loco than 50 buys" from any one, ana the
policemen reported that every day me piace
moro Allied with prospeCtors and SPECTATORS.
Acting INSPECTOR Anaire. who had also peeh
Investigating the place. apphed 10 'he h"e'''
IN Jefferson Market Court for warrant ior
Valentine and Fender and the employees III '"c
Mace on the charge of running bucket snop'
which was granted Late yesterday alterl'oo" '"e
Ac.,np Inspector summoned seventeen polcei"oii'
and Sergeants Wade and Hussey ana houhus'
49,, uolnoee and Wilson to his office and in
structed them 10 go in pairs to the neighporhoou
-, Nos Il and 10 Broadway. where he would
meet them at o'clock. 1t was not INTENDED 'ha'
a. ,aonle in the place were to be arrested put
.ho noucamen were instructed not to allow any
~. % escape them who was transacting any
kind of business In the place
Tho nolicemen surrounded the place. ana AZ
O given signal the men entered through the
a,nerent entrances and told every one there 10
STAY where he The appearance OF 'he
.,o,ica caused considerable excitement. ana sew
oval of the men jumped from the front winoo"
n tho street distance Of about five feet but
w., were caught by the policemen on the out
eide and turned over TO Sergeant Wade. who'
bowever. found that they were simply buyers
and allowed them To go, as well as about
n,rdred others The policemen who have been
a., work on the case and who were inside at
tho time the acting inspector appeared, each
arrested several of the employees before ueS
knew what was the matter paWol wagon
from the Church-st station was called ana the
wen we're transferred TO Police Headquarters.
where they were locked up.
Chief Conlin at the same time had men ue-
..uod ~ watch the Jersey City ferries for Val
entine but he had not arrived up 10 la'e
hour.
Tho notice allege that valentine made con
s,aa,ab,e money out of this business, which is
,n,awfu, and that he has frequently been
reetod on the same charges They say that
his methods were simple and that. by remain
ing in his Jersey City office. he had system
,,h,oh no operated and which lowered and
raised tho quotations on the stocks in his var-
ons places SO as 10 allow him good proht.
THE UPTOWN RAID.
The second raid was at NO. 90 Yves twenty
,inth-st This place was also run under inc
,o,,e Of the New-York Commission Company
and Fender was arrested as 'ne a'eRV" F
rrie,cr The raid made by Acting Inspector
IIr,o,. Cantain Chapman four Central Office
Ven and six men from the Tenderloln station.
Resides Fender, eight prisoners all or whom
were clerks in the place, were taken. Ihey de-
scr,bed themselves follows: Percy Sellers or
White Plains; Alfred Hunter Of NO. I'll west
one-hundrcd- a nd twenty -eighth-st; Patrick
,o,es Of No 3l1 East Fifty -fourth-st.; Charles
uuNv Of No 347 East Twenty -ninth-st Phillp
Smith OF No 800 West Ffty-eighth-st; George
Kennedy Of No. 400 West Twenty-sxth-st',
: =. lrayer If No 2OO2 SecOnd-ave, and