The Portland daily press., 1899-08-07
MANY SEIZURES MADE.
Police and shsrins Clear on, RAN
shops.

tontfo htre9t was the ilfllo1t place IN
Portland about O'Clock Saturday night.
IL seemed as IL greater part Of the popu-
latlon Of Portland was there about this
time aud the big crowd hung around the
street for an hour or two Watching tbs
police at their work clearing out the sa-
looms Of Jack Sullivan and Tom O'Neil.
The fun started about half past seven
o'oiuok when without any warning Depu-
| ty Marshals Chensry and Firth accompa-
MED BY several officers descended upon
Sullivan's place. An officer OF two was
left down on the street, while the depu-
ties mnde rush up stairs into room in
which a policy shop is located. There
the police found four men sitting around
table at work on policy slips. The table
WAS coyered with papers used In the lot
terry business and the men were 90 busily
engaged in their work of making out the
slips that they did not hear the approach
OF the officers. There was one other man
standing near the table when the Officers
Jumped into the room. THIS man made
rash FOR rear window and before the
officers could reach him jumped through
it onto the roof OF a story below and then
to the ground. 1t was daring leap, but
the man got away. One Of the other men
| about the table made n break for the
door through which the officers had en-
to red and took the staircase at Jump.
Half way down he came In contact with
. man who was coming up. Al the bot
tom of the stairs stood Mr.Jnck Sullivan,
who IL the proprietor of the establish
ment. The man who was trying to escape
and the man on the stairs went to the
bottom together. rolling over and over.
Sullivan was struck by them and all
three piled mp In heap at the bottom.
Deputy Chenery was right after the man
wso was trying to get away and as soon
as the legs and arms at the bottom of the
stairs could be separated and ths men got
onto their feet he captured the prisoner
and took him back to the room above.
Ihe four men Hrrestsd gave their names
as ct. John. Edwards, Haley and Howard.
The papers on the tabls were gathered up,
together with all the paraphernalia used
In the policy game. On the table were
many manifold books covered with gigs
which had been played during the af-
ternoon, and the policy writers were at
work printing the policy slips of the
days drawing when captured. In all,
four of these pockst books containing ths
manifold slips were obtained. There were
fully hundred and fifty of there slips
with all kinds of "gigs' on them for all
amounts. The smallest plays were for
two cents and the largest for 81. or the
latter. there were several. but the gigs for
ten cents and i've cents predominated.
PRESS reporter, who had access to
these clips at the polios station Sat rday
night, spent half an hour adding up the
Eamounts played In order to get some idea
of how much money waa spent yesterday
afternoon in Portland en- this game.
The total amount written By the four
men Tor the afternoon was sloa.zy. unen
b taken Into account that this Is only
half days work and that there was
another and probably still larger playing
during the morning, it will be readily
seen how much money Is daily squand-
cred on this gambling game here. The
most OF 1T so the polioe say, comes from
the poor people among whom the writers
for this game circulate. Saturday after
noon is not very good time to write poll
cy either, for the shops and stores are
nearly all closed and in them the policy
writer's get large per cent OF their busI-
ress Then. too. one Of the writer's made
his escape by jumping out of the window
and AS all Of the manifold books which
were found showed at least S45 or $50
was played with eaoh writer st will bs
seen that at the lowest estimate there We 9
fully 5000 played on this game Saturday
afternoon with possibly $500 more in the
morning, making sso0 for the day. 1t is
no wonder that ths policy games pay In
Portland, and in other cities " the evil
pence obtained by the police Saturday,
may be considered worth any thing.
While the police were at work cieanin q
out the roiicy shop big crowd had gath
cred and another large forcs of officers
was on hand to aid In the rest of the
work. Beneath the policy room Ia one CT
the largest bars In Portland. On this
the police made a descent as soon as they
had finished with the policy men, who
will DO arraigned In court Monday MORN
Ing.
At the same time that Sullivan q
place was being oyerhauled, the saloon of
Tom O'Neil, across the street., was visited
by squad. O'Neil had taken a warning
from the appearance Of the officers and
had closed his doors, but the police found
no di fiiculty in finding an entrance and
the work of seizure began.
visit was paid to the attic of Sulll-
vans place where were found scores
of jugs and bottles of hard liquor, the
most of them of the finest brand and
most costly sort On the second floor Of
this building were found many cases of
bottled beers and ales, while In the bar
beneath was also found large stock CT
liquors Of all descriptions. In the cellar
the police located many barrels of ale
and beer all Of which was rolled up TO
the street and loaded into an express wag-
on which was impressed for the service.