The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-03
AND JOINTS
FURNISHED NEW YORK CITY WITH
MUCH EXCITEMENT.
MANY PLACES WERE PULLED
FEW GAMBLERS, BUT MUCH ''EvI-
DENCE," SECURED.

Raids of the Attorney Continued
Until 4:3O a. NJ Greatest In
tcrest in the Attack on the
Places of CanfeId and Burbridge.
CanfieId's Did Not Prove "a GibraI-
tar Crowds Gathered in the
NeighborhOOd of the PIace-Own-
ers Seem to Have Been Tipped on.
New York, Dec. 2.-District Attorney
Jerome's sensational raids on alleged
gambling resorts, begun about mid
night last night. were continued until
4:30 O'Clock this morning. and numerous
small places were raided. The attacks
ON the latter. however, were almost
overlooked in the public interest, which
centered in the assaults on the man.
sions occupied by Richard Garfield and
William Burbridges, which were en-
tered by means of ladders, axes and
sledges.
The police allege that Frank Farrell
is interested in Burbridge's place. Great
quantities of costly evidence" were
carted away from those places by the
police, but arrests were few.
Up to last night a general impress
sion prevailed that Canfield's, which is
nthe heart of the fashionable uptown
district, only a few doors from Fifth
avenue and near two celebrated res
taurants. was a Gibraltar" which
could not be taken, and a similar be-
lief prevailed in regard to Burbridge's
place, which was especially protected
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cross street up town, only half a
block from Fifth avenue and few
steps from a celebrated hotel.
Streets Were Blocked.
So great was the public interest
aroused by the news of the raid on
Canheld's that people fiocked to the
neighborhood until the intersection of
Fifth avenue and 44th street, the
corner nearest Canfield's. was blocked
with carriages and people.
After Burbridge's, the raiders visit
ed Ludlam's place, otherwise known
as the Savoy Club. They got one man
there, coIored subordinate employed
about the place. Jerome, Capt. Piper,
| Inspector Brooks, several assistants to
| the district attorney and numerous
| detectives were busy in I.udlams place
until after o'clock this morning. They
blew open a safe in their hunt for evil
| dence.
Earlier in the night the, district at
torney made many raids in the down.
| town Italian quarter of alleged dis
| orderly houses. These were prelim-
| inaries, as it were, to the big events,
Canfields and Burbridge's.
! District Attorney Jerome declined
| absolutely to make any sort of state
ment after his nights work.
Capt. Lantry of the East Fifty-first
/ street station, in whose precinct the
| Garfield place has wen for years, de-
clared to the reporters and others as
| sembled that he had never expected to
| live to see such an event as the raid
ing of Canfield's.
Owners Expected the Raids.
The raids were expected in every
place visited. In Canfield's the own
err declared nothing had been doing"
| for weeks. 1t was much the same, in
| Burbridge's and Ludlam's. That the
raids were to be made seemed to have
| reached the men interested, for every
place was prepared as if in tsblvance.
| At Burbridges they even lett the
| great steel door ajar, and it was not
until the policemen mounted ladders
and had done some smashing that this
fact became known to them, Then
! they went into the house in the usual
way.
Garfield was not arrested. The re-
! port to that effect was erroneous. He
| was held at his house for identification
| by a detective who claimed to have
| gambled in the house, but the detective
| said Garfield was not the man who
! had dealt faro for him. Later the de-
| tective said f.. w. Bucklin was the
man, and Bucklin was arrested. He is
| said to be Canfields manager.
David Bucklin and Samuel ]. Smith
who were arrested in the raids, wers
reid in $1,000 for examination. Thomas
McGibney, who was arrested at Bur-
! bridges house, was discharged.