Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-03
WHOLESALE RAIDS
Among the Swell Gambling
Dives of New York.
Can6eId's,' Burbridge's and Many
Small Places Cleaned Out.
Now Watch and See Who Is Given the
Punishment.

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Jerome's sensational raids on alleged
gambling resorts begun about mid
| night Monday night, We're continued
until 4.30, TUESDAY morning. and num-
| erous small places were raided. The
| attacks on the latter. however. We're
| almost overlooked in the public inter-
est which centered i'm the assaults on
| the mansions Occupied by Richard A.
Garfield and VIM. Burbridge. which
We're entered by means of ladders,
axes and sledges. The police allege
that Frank Farrell is interested i'm Bur-
| bridges place. Great quantities of
costly evidence were carted away
| from these places by the police but ar
| rests were few. District Attorney
Jerome was accompanied by Police
Inspector Brooks and aided by Detec-
tive Joseph Jacobs of the Citizens
Union, who had visited the places as
n gentleman of leisure and gained the
evidence on which the raids We're made.
Up to Monday night a general inn
preston prevailed that Canfield's.
which is in the heart of the fashion
able uptown district, only few doors
from Fifth avenue, and near two cele-
brated restaurants, was a Gibraltar,
which could not be taken; and a SINH
lar belief prevailed in regard to Bur-
bridges place, which is especially pro-
tected by steel doors. This place is
in a cross street uptown, only half a
block from Fifth avenue and a few
steps from a celebrated hotel.
After Burbridge's the raiders visited
Ludlam's place, otherwise known as
the Savoy Club. They got one man
there, a colored subordinate. employed
about the place. Jerome, Capt. Piper.
Inspector Brooks. several assistants to
the district attorney, and numerous
detectives were busy in Ludlam's place
until after o'clock. Tuesday morning
They blew open n safe in a hunt for
evidence.
Earlier i'm the night the district at
torney made many raids in the down
town Italian quarter of alleged dis
orderly houses. These were "prelimi-
naries" as it We're. to the two big
events, Canfield's and Burbridge's.
District Attorney Jerome declined
absolutely to make any sort of state
ment after his nights work.
Capt. Lantry, of the East 51st street
station, in whose precinct the Cam
field place has been for years, declared
to the reporters and others assembled
that he had never expected to live to
see such an event as the rai1ing of
Canfields.
The raids We're expected i'm every
place visited. In Canfield's the owner
declared nothing had been doing" for
weeks. To all appearances that was
true for hours" at least
1t was much the same in Burbridge's
and Ludlam's, although Jacobs, The
detective, Monday night, declared he
had played in every place. But that
the raids We're to be made seemed to
have reached the men interested for
every place was prepared as if in adj
vance. At Burbridge's they even left
the great steel door ajar and it was
not until the policemen had mounted
ladders and done some smashing that
this fact became known to them. Then
they went INTO the house i'm the usual
way
Garfield was not arrested. He was
held at his home for identification by
q detective who claimed to have gam
bled i'm the house, but the detective
said Garfield was not the man who had
ueaIt faro Tor nm. Later the detec-
tive said f.. w. Buckline was the man
and Buckline was arrested. He is re-
puted to be Canfield's manager.
Inspector Donald Grant and Police Cap
tain John T. Stephenson of the Mulberry
street station. had six special specific
charges brought against them. this after
noon, by District Attorney Jerome. The
charges made are as follows: Failure to
properly enforce the law; failure to prop
erly report cases: false reports; neglect
of duty; neglect and disobedience of or
ders, and conduct unbecoming officers.
Some of the places raided, last night
are situated in the precinct in which the
two officers are stationed.
Tug A. w. Chesterton arrived at Vine
yard Haven, Mass. Tuesday evening
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