The Saint Paul globe., 1897-09-27
TO PULL A COLoRED RE-
SORT.
HAS RUN FOR MANY MONTHS,
AND THE POLICE THEMSELVES
HAVE BEEN SEEN FREQUENT
ING THE CLUB,
BUT no INTERFERENCE CAME.
Six Men Taken to the Central Sta
ton and Charged with
Gambling.

Mayor Doran left the city last night
| but before taking his departure issued
few orders to Chief Goss. One of
them was to pull a colored club at AIS
Jackson street, and shortly after 10
o'clock Sergeant Davis and Detective
Murnane and Officer Calvin descended
upon the place, with the result that six
/ colored citizens were arrested and an
alleged gambling outfit coniiscated
| The prisoners are W. F. Johnson and
Archie Scott the alleged proprietors of
| the place; w. P. Moore, w. T.
Britton, James Johnson and Richard
T Ellis, the two former charged with
/ conducting a gambling house, and the
later auartette with gambling
How Mayor Doran ever came to or
der the raid after allowing the club to
run for sixteen months without moles-
tation is only another of his unexplaln-
able moves. He must have known OF
the existence of the place for he un-
doubtedly reads the Appeal, the Re
( publican organ of the colored people OF
/ the Twin Cities. The paper finds It's
way every week into the office of every
Republican officeholder in ST. Paul, and
in each issue appears the following:
One of the most pleasant places in the city
for gentlemen to spend their leisure hours Is
the Young Mems Social club, No. 81 Jackson
street. L. F. De Lyons is general manager
and he is ably assisted by Messrs W. L:
Johnson and Archie Scott. Call when you
have time. You will be treated right
Perhaps the mayor overlooked this
item each week until the present. III
so, his officers could nave tolu mn VI
its existence. That the police author
tiles were aware of the fact is lndls-
putable, as they have been known TO
stand about the crap table Watching
the patrons at their favofite game,
though none of them emulated Ohcer
Banker in risking their rolls at the
sport.
Again it may be that the mayor had
not enough trips abroad ahead to pull
the. raid off before, as it seems to De
his custom that any time he cOntem-
plates any act of Importance he must
needs absent himself from the city IN
order to avoid the seeming RESPONSE
bility. However this may be, those ar
rested will have had their trials and
the matter be settled before Mayor Do
rams return, so that he can plead the
fact to his colored constituency that
he knew nothing of the raid and would
not have sanctioned it had he been in
the city. For it can scarcely be possl-
bic that the proprietors of the alleged
resort had any fear of arrest in the
face of their public advertisement OF
their place, and it has been matter
of common knowledge that for many
months any one either white or black,
could risk his money in the Jackson
street Club as we'll as in another like
resort on Robert street with which the
police are as familiar as with the Jack
son street club. They can give him any
. information upon the subject he may
desire.
But the chances are that the mayors
reasons for closing the Jackson street
club would not apply to it's Robert
street competitor, ard hence the fine
discrimination. Why close one alleged
gambling resort and permit another -
run is q question that will doubtless
be asked Mayor Doran upon his re-
turn, ard then we will probably con-
suit the Appeal, and not finding an
lad" such as marked the Jackson
/ street resort for the sacrifice, Will
feign ignorance as to the existence of
the~other place.
In the raid last night the police
claim to have interrupted the prisoners
in a game of cards where money was
/ the stakes. It is alleged that a s.
| bill was found on a table, around
| which the players were gathered, and
| that each had a pile of checks in front
| of him. The table, several sets of dice,
a deck of cards and nearly 100 checks
were seized and taken to the centra
| station. Mr. johnson was not arrested
at the time OF the raid, but was later
! taken in custody by Sergeant Mccall
| thy on the street It is claimed that he
was present when the police made their
! appearance, but escaped in the excite
/ rlent.