The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-09
QUESTION OF POLICY
THE CENTRAL POLECM FORCE
THINKS 1T HAS A LAUGH
COMING
MAYOR 4 THINKS OTHERWISE

street hBuiIding-HOw the Mayor
Got Even by Locating Another
Right Under the Nose of the Cen
trail Station Officers.
whenever anyone about the central
police station mentions Mayor Kiefer's
saturday night policy shop raid there is
general all round smile. Why? Well.
because If Mayor Kiefer had started raid
ing policy shops Saturday morning in
stead Of Saturday night he might have
called the Ducas street police to the
business block he owns and occupies on
EAST Seventh street, where in the morn
Ing detectives from the central station
ra1ded an alleged policy shop, securing
nearly as much paraphernaIia right at
the mayors threshold as did his honor
within few blocks of the station. It
may have been this fact that sent the
mayor on the war path, or perhaps he
was IN ignorance that the police were
following out his orders in running down
policy shops.
some say the mayor knew that the
detectives had transgressed the sacred
precincts of his own property in the
morning and went out to get even by To-
eating policy shop almost under the
nose Of the police. Others say the mayor
was in ignorance that he slept over a
policy layout every night and does not
yet know what the police found in his
building. However this may be, the CO.
Incidence is mirthfulIy regarded in po-
lice circles and Of ha do
partment had the temerity to remark
that the next time Mayor Kiefer goes
on policy raiding expedition he had
better first make sure that nothing like
policy game is fiourishing in the store
he rents for a barber shop at 1856 East
Seventh street
When they visited the alleged policy
shop in Mayor Kiefer's building Detect
ives Haney and Campbell were following
Chief Schweitzer's orders to raid any pol
icy shop they could find. The detectives
noticed number of negroes going in and
out of Mayor Kiefer's building. This
aroused suspicion. and an investigation,
the detectives claim, showed that policy
was undoubtedly being played in the
store. The room is partitioned off about
two-thirds of the way back. The rear
part, according to the detectives, is fitted
up with counter similar to an office
fixture. On this counter and behind it
they say they found complete policy
lay out. There We're, the detectives say,
printed blanks for the Louisiana and the
Kentucky drawings, also printed tables
of drawings that had taken place and
last of all the little square box filled
with numbered marbles, out of which the
policy combinations are drawn. The out
fit was seized by the detectives and TAX
en- to the central station.
When the detectives asked for the pro-
prictOr Of the barber shop the man in
charge said he was not about. AS the
detectives were leaving, a man, they say,
they knew as being connected with pol
icy games, entered the place. They
placed him under arrest. AT the station
he gave the name of Reilly. Strange to
relate this same Individual was again
captured Saturday night at the alleged
policy shop raided by Mayor Kiefer. This
time he gave the name of George Law
renee. He was not held when arrested
in the morning because he had not been
seen operating the game In Mayor kie-
fer's building. All things concerning pol
icy shop raids, however, seem, at least
in this case, so Mayor Kiefer thinks, to
have worked together for go0d. Where
the police failed the mayor thinks he
succeeded, so he congratulates himself
upon his ability as the head of the de-
partment, in feTreting out policy shop,
while the members of the department
smile when they think of his turning
them down" while policy shop is said
to have flourished under his own sleeping
partmcnts.