The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-11
IS ALARMED
MAKING A PRETENsE OF CLOSING
GAMBLING AND OTHER DENS.
GTenderIoiner" Arrested for Saying
He Paid Part of a 100000
~"Protection" Fund.

NEW YORK. March 1o.-Charles z. Ack-
ron, proprietor of the Tivoli, the notorious
resort on West Thirty-ifth street, and his
head waiter, Samuel Brown, were arrested
shortly after 1 o'clock this morning by two
detectives. The prisoners were taken to a
police station, where Captain Thomas said
to Ackron:
"Are you tfe man who dared President
York and the police to close your place,
and who said that you were paying for
police protection
Ackron replied that he had never made
such a statement, and 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 advertis-
ing the various resorts In the Tenderloin
were put out. and in the gambling places
unusual quietness prevailed. 1t was only
after the closest inspection by the ''look-
out" hat one was enabled to gain access
to the places.
The Times says: 1.-THE expose Of yester-
day. showing that 50. 0O0.0 600 a year Is paid
by the gambling house keepers of this city
to the gambling commission, which affords
them protection from any interference on
the part Of the police, has stirred this city
as no other publication of recent years.
On all sides the subject of the existence
of a gambling commission that worked
with all the precision and with more di-
rectness than any commission provided for
in the charter of the city was discussed
and every department of the city govern
ment directly interested in the mainte-
nance Of order and the suppression of
crime gave the matter immediate and care
ful attention. The grand jury took up the
matter directly it met in the count court
house. Colonel Gardiner went before il
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
bribe-giving and bribe-taking that went
with ii. The Police Board held a lengthy
session, at which the gambling expose and
the existence of dives all over town were
discussed for three and a half hours, dur
ing which there were some lively passages
between Commissioners York and Sexton
and Chief Devery. All maintained the
strictest silence on what had transpired.
-Four raids on gambling houses denoted
the sum total OF police activity yesterday.
The places were all small and of no con-
sequence 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 Temperate
ly last night. A tip followed one of Chief
Devery's trips up town TO the effect that
'brash' methods must cease, and tina the
proprietors who would not be content with
| running close would eventually have to
close for good. AS n result of the expose
the 'cappers' 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 al
lowed any longer to solicit business in the
hotels"