The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-02
CHOPPED WAY IN.
With Axes, Sledges and Ladders
Mr.. Jerome,
District Attorney of New York,
Makes a Raid.
FASHIONABLE RESORTS
Fare No Better Than Dives in
the Tenderloin District.
PrOprietors Evidently Had
Warming in Advance.
Left Doors Open but Raiders
Didn't Know 1t.
BLEW OPEN A SAFE.
Nothing Was Overlooked in a
Search for Evidence.

New York, Dec. 2.-District Attorney
Jerome's sensational raids on alleged
gambling resorts begun about midnight
last night, were continued until 4:S0
o'clock this morning. and numerous
small places were raided. The attacks
on the latter, however, were almost over
loked in the public interest. which CEN
tered in the assaults on the mansions
occupieda by Richard A. Garfield ana
William Burbridge, which were entered
by means of ladders. axes and sledgea.
The police allege that Frank Farrell Is
interested in Burbridge's place. Great
quantities of costly evidence werS
carted away from those places by the
police, but arrests were few.
Up to last night a general impression
prevailed that Canfield's. which is in the
heart of the fashionable uptown dis
Irict, only a few doors from Fifth ave-
nue. and near two celebrated restaurants.
was a Gibraltar which could not be
taken; and a similar belief prevailed ir1
regard to Burbridge's place. which was
especially protected by steel doors. This
place is in a cross street up town, only
a half block from Fifth avenue and
few steps from a celebrated hotel
So great was public interest aroused
by the news of the raid on Canf1eld's
that people flocked to the neighborhood
until the intersection of Fifth avenue
and Fortyfourth streets, the corner
nearest Canfieldss. was blocked with
carriages and people.
After Burbridge's the raiders visited
Ludlam's place. otherwise known as the
Savoy club. They set one man there.
colored subordinate employed about the
place. Jerome, Captain Piper, Inspector
Brooks, special assistants to the district
attorney, and numerous detectives were
busy in Ludlam's place until after
o'clock this morning. They blew open
/ safe in their hunt for evidence.
Earlier in the night District Attorney
Jerome made many raids in the down
town Italian quarter of alleged disorderly
/ houses. These were 'spreliminaries.' ii
and Burbridge's.
District Attorney Jerome declined abso-
lutely to make any sort of statement after
his nights work
Captain Lantry, of the East Fifty-first
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 rading of Canfield's.
/ The raids were expected in every place
visited In Canfield's the owner declared
nothing had been doing for weeks It
was much the same in Burbridge's and
Ludlam's although Joseph Jacobs. the
/ Citizens Union detective, last night de-
clared he had played in every place. But
/ that the raids were to be made seemed to
have reached the men interested for every
place was prepared as if in advance AT
Burbridge'S they even left the great steel
door afar and it was not until the po-
licemen had mounted ladders and done
some smashing that this fact became
known to them. Then they went into the
house in the usual way.
Garfield was not arrested. 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 detective said
f. w. BuckIin was the man, and Buck
lin was arrested. He is reputed to be
iCanfield's manager.