The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-10
GAMBLERS
ON The RUN.
New York Police TerrOrize the
Fraternity
Four Arrests Cause the Lights
to Go Out
IN THE TENDERLOIN
Officers Had Heard That The,
Were Defied
Because 100000 a Year is
Paid For Protection.

New York, March 1e Charles E.
Ackron, proprietor of the Tivoli. the no
tor:ous resort on West Thirty-fifth
street, and his head waiter, Samuel
Prown. were arrested shortly after l
o'clock this morning by two detectives.
The prisoners were taken to a police
station, where Captain Thomas said to
Ackron:
Are you the man who dared Presi-
dent York and the police to close your
place. and who said that you were pay
ing for police protection?"
Ackron replied that he had never
made such a statement, and that he
had never paid a cent in his life for
police protection. He protested that he
ran an orderly place. He was led to a
cell with Brown, but later both men
were released on $500 bail each.
at 1 o'clock the transparencies adj
veIrising the various resorts in the Ten
derloin were put out. and in the gam
bling places unusual quietness pre-
vailed 1t was only after the closest
inspection by the lookout" that one
was enabled to gain access to the
places.
The Times says:
II expose of yesterday showing that
$@,O95, 600 year is paid by the gambling
house keepers OF this city to the gam
l'linS commission which affords them
protection from any interference on the
part of the police has stirred this city
aS TO other publication of recent years
On all sides the subject of the exist
enrv of a gambling commission that
worked with all the precision and with
more directness than any commission
provided for in the charter of the city
was discussed, and every department of
the city government directly interested
Iii the maintenance of order and the
sliT preston of crime gave the matter
Immediate and careful attention.
The grand jury took up the matter
directly it met in the county court
house. Colonel Gardner went before it
with a number of recommendations
and outside of the jury room promised
that the weight and influence of his
Office should be used to root out the
gambling evil and the bride giving and
bIibe taking that went with it.
The police board held a lengthy SEES
sion at which the gambling expose ard
the existence of dives all over town
were discussed for three and a half
hours, during which there were some
lively passages between. commissions
York, Sexton and Chief Devery. Ali
maintained the strictest silence on what
had transpired.
-Four raids on gambling houses de-
MOI ed the sum total of police activity
yesterday. The places were all small
and of no consequence compared to the
greater ones that flourish all around
them.
A number of gambling houses that
have been running in the most glaring
manner closed temporarily last night
A tip followed one of Chief Devery' 5
trips uptown to the effect that "brash'
raethods must cease, and that the pro-
plie:ors who would not be content with
running close would eventually have
to close for good.
AS result of the expose, the "cap-
pers" that have been. swarming in the
broadway hotels and cafes were with
drawn last night. One of the gamblers
said that the "cappers'' were not to be
allowed any longer to solicit business
in the hotels.