The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-11
GAMBLERS COMBINE
TWO ALLEGED AGENTS ARRESTED
AT INSTANCE OF NEW YORK
ANTI-CRIME SOCIETY
POLICE IN WITH THE DEAL
Is the Charge Made by Frank Moss
Intended Raids Were Promptly
Tipped on to Pool Room
keepers.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-Tne arrest of
the alleged business agents of a gamb-
ling combine for aiding and abetting
gambling, on the evidence Of agents of
the Society for the Prevention of Crime,
who charged that these men were the
go-betweens between the gamblers and
the police in arranging and carrying out
system of police protection, was fol-
lowed quickly today by these two men,
Edgar A. Whitney and Ernest Burgdorf
making sworn statements to the district
attorney which are said to be in the
nature of confessions, the contents of
which are withheld from the public untn
the statements have been Investigated.
When Justice Jerome came out of the
rooms after the conference which lasted
from to o'clock, he said:
After a conference with the district
attorney, both of us feel that to make
any statement concerning the Inquiry
would be to impede the district attor-
ney In the prosecution OF further in
quiry 1t will naturally occur to you
that such a case as the district atfor-
ney has before him is suggestive Of
many things that may require careful,
and 1t may be extended investigation
and even to intimate their character
would render that difficult and perhaDs
defeat their purpose.
Il can say that the defendant endeav-
ored apparently with great sincerity to
do all in his power to atone for the
wrongs that he has done. I suspected
quire that no information be given
without danger of tampering or impeding
the action of the district attorney"
CHARGES AGAINST POLICE. .
Disclosures involving attempts to buy
up an officer Of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Crime and duplicating men
on duty at police headquarters and sew
eral sergeants in the tipping off of
gambling houses previous to contemplate
ed raids have followed the arrest OF
Edgar Whitney and Burgdorf, who are
alleged to be members of a secret service
bureau in this city. The men were ar
rested on charge OF conspiracy and aid
ing and abetting agmblers and were ar
raigned before Justice Jerome in the
rooms of the society. They were each
held in $1,000 bail. 1t Is claimed that the
two detectives had approached Agent
Dillon, of the society, and offered him
money to keep them informed Of the
movements against pool rooms. The
agent appeared to acquiesce. Whitney
was induced by Dillon to call at the
rooms Of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime and while there was arrested.
He Immediately tossed a bundle of
papers out of the window. These papers
hOiC iSSONSAtu ny d poiCeHldH OH WdIc0.
Among them was found duplicate list
of pool rooms which Whitney had
previously supplied to Agent Dillon. One
of the most remarkable phases of the
development as related by Frank Moss
in the presence Of the executive COM
mittee of the society was that thirty
pool rooms were emptied promptly by
means of telephone communications fol-
lowing lines laid down by Whitney in
his plans with Dillon, messengers hav-
ing been sent through police head
quarters direct to the captains or SER
geants in charge of precincts In which
the gambling houses were in operation
Mr.. Moss claims that by this system
Of telephoning "a moral and physical
connection has been established between
the police headquarters and the pool
rooms.