New-York tribune., 1901-12-13

prisoners
any name but John Doe" Their names as
given later in court, will be found at the head OF
this article All of the prisoners were sent in
patrol wagons TO Justice Hinsdale's court, and
the work of cartng away the stuff found in the
houses begun.
CRowBAR REVEALS POLICY SHEETS.
Mr. Moss with a search warrant. then went
TO Adams's office in Thirty-fourth-st., and read
the warrant aloud there after which, with the
assistance of several OF his. agents, he searched
| the rooms used by Adams With crowbar ne
! broke open big trunk and desk. Policy sheets
| letter books. checkbooks, and other important
papers found and seized. None of the
checkbooks contained any stubs A number OF
| wooden boxes were also forced open. and found
| TO contain papers. Among these papers was
list of the policy shops and their situation To-
| gether with the amount of revenue for the last
YEAR which according to Mr.. Moss. foots up TO
considerably over 100000 Letters were found
| from and addressed 70 prominent Tammany ana
Republican politicians. copy of the law re-
latng to policy shops was also found. In one
| of the pigeon holes of Adamss desk was found
an envelope marked in derision, civic Clup
CMr. Goddard's district organization), and con-
tanning clippings from newspapers. describing
various raids made by the Anti-Poicy Society
This raid far exceeds our expectations in its
importance" remarked Mr.. Moss, as he was
leaving Adams's office. I'VE have to-day got
the man who has made S3,000.0o0 out of the
policy business since ne has been in New-York-
The capture of the policy dealers was ar
ranged by Captain Goddard a couple or months
ago He obtained evidence from two men who
had been employed in this very room He then
asked my assistance. The business manager
was this man Jantzen. He would make his re
ports TO Adams twice day and some times
oftener. Coughlin and Levy were the men VINO
would stand ON the elevated railroad station at
Ninth-ave. and Thirtieth-st. and get the printed
slips and reports from the runners OF tne diIleI
ent policy shops. These they would bring mere.
where they would be turned over to Jantzen ana
eight clerks.
CHIEF CLERK DEVERY'S s RELATIVE?
Michael Bergen. who is said to be DeVery
brother-in-law. was the chief of the clerks he
ia lust as famous in conection with the policy
business as Adams or Jantzen is The clerks
would make up the accounts and the money
uouId he counted here When we had the mat
ter in right shape we laid IL before Justice Hins-
dale. of the Court Of Special sessions. VINO
granted us the necessary warrants. Dlstrl-I
Attorney Philbin assigned his secretary. MT;
Shortridge, to accompany US on the RAID ana
represent him. Captain Goddard had mis- coun-
sci Mr. Blaney ana his official staff, with him.
The Society for the Prevention or crime SEM
number of men under superintendent 0i,i TSmIl.
took These men included Hammond ana Dlllon
and several volunteers. Adams dropped Tlsnt
into our net at his office in Thirty-fourth,st.
Captain Goddard and went there ana rouno
trunk containing valua bic papers The evidence
found here Enthusiastically connects Adams with
the business.
NIGHT SLIPS TELEPHoNED IN
The second floor of the Thirty st. house
vas the one used an office. The walls OF the
rooms had been removed as to make one
large apartment. Here were number Of desks
and twenty electric lights in addition to a num-
ber of gas jets. The walls were almost hlddeh
behind pictures and prints. In one part OF the
room was life size picture Of tiger. The
hjrd nT hOISp and basement
gether with the back parlor, were occupied by
vas not moested by the raiders.
trunk found on the second floor. Mr.. Moss
said the headquarters trunk. and con-
places throughout the city This trunk he sent
in a cab TO Captain Goddards headquarters.
The other material which was sent TO the sta
ton house. filled three patrol wagons.
William Baglay. one of the two men who were
arrested at No 105 West Thirty -second-st.. is
a colored and is said TO be we'll known in
the Tenderloin by the name of Shakespeare"
because he has made a living by reciting pas
sages from plays.
Mr. Moss and Captain Goddard left the house
at No 366 West Thirty-ffrst-st, about $50
o'clock. superintendent McClintock, Agents
Hammond. Rearfdon and a number of others
manned at the house for sometime longer. About
$40 O'Clock the bell on the telephone in the base
ment rang violently. Agent Reardon answered
the phone Accordingi to his statement
versation along the following lines took place
| between himself and the party at the other end
This is Murphy Murphy downtown Is
everything all right"
Reardon said 1t
"Everything's all right. eh?" came the query
"Oh, yes" replied Reardon.
Wen, here the night slips-the drawings
for the evening, you know came from
Murphy"
Reardon said it was all right and that he
would take the slip. Then the man dictated the
following list of numbers over the phone saving
they represented the evening drawings for yes
terday:
THESE NUMBERS WON'T PAY
The numbers run on the slip perpendicularly
in pairs "67 -56 10 26-61 S1-7S, 59-74 55-26.
3-23. 71-53. TO-19. 1915, 1872 60 90 and 1921
Again came the query:
is everything all right"
Yes" replied Reardon
We'll your voice is strange that's why I
ask" the response.
DYNAMITE FOR SAFE
Before Superintendent McCIntock left the
house an attempt made 10 open the big safe
in the basement. Armed with an axe and big
plumbers hammer two detectives set to work
to batter off the hinges and combination Of the
door This done, the men supposing that
the door would fall out. But instead 1t stuck
and could not be pried ont with crowbars. This
placed the safe in such condition that nothing
short OF some explosive would open IL. Later
In small drawer in q desk the men found the
on1bination TO the cafe. but tina. IS now useless
since the combination lock he's been smashed.
Both headquarters safes are large. This morn
ing experts VIII be employed to open the one
upstairs. which Is thought to contain the most
evidence, while dynamite or q similar explosive
ia ed