The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-03
CASTLES OF VICE
TAKEN BY ASSAULT
Jerome and his Doughty
Knights Scale Ladders.
AXES AND SLEDGESCR
CapfeId's GiIded Palace Of Chance, Gibraltar
of Strength, one Of the Places Taken
---Burbridge's Another---Few
Arrests Made. u
(By the Associated Press.)

New York. Dec 2.-District Attorney
Jerome's sensational raids on alleged
gambling resorts begun about midnight
last night, were continued until 4:3O
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 mansions occupied by Richard a.
Garfield and William Burbridge, which
were entered by means of ladders, axes
and sledges. The police allege that
Frank Farrell is interested in Bur-
BRIDGES place. Great quantities of cost
Iy "evidence" were 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
trict, only few doors from Fifth avenue
and near two celebrated restaurants,
was a Gibraltar" which could not be
taken. and a similar belief prevailed in
regard to Burbridges place, which was
especially protected by steel doors. This
place is in a cross street uptown, only
half a block from Fifth avenue, and
few sters from a celebrated hotel.
So great was public interest aroused
by the news of the raid on Canf1eId
that people f1ocked to the neighborhood
until the intersection of Fifth avenue
and Forty fourth street, the corner
nearest Canfeld's, was blocked with car
riages and people.
After Burbridges the raiders visited
Lmdlam's place otherwise known as the
Savoy Club. They got one man there, a
| colored subordinate employed about the
place. Jerome, Captain Piper Inspector
| Brooks, several assistants to the dis
| trict 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 the district at
| torney made many raids in the downtown
| italian quarter of dsorderly houses.
These were "preeliminaries" as it We're,
to the two big events Canf1elds and
| Burbridges.
| District Attorney Jerome declined alb
solutely to make any sort of statement
after his nights work.
Captain Lantry, OF the East Fifty-frst
| street station, in whose precinct the
| Canfleld place has been for years, de-
clared to the reporters and others as
! sembled that he never had expected to
| live to see such an event as the raiding
| of Canfields.
| The raids were expected in every place
visited. In Canfield's the owner de-
clared nothing had been doing for
weeks. 1t was much the same in Bur-
bridges and Ludlams, although Joseph
Jacobs, the Citizens Unionists detec-
| tive, last night declared 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 pre-
pared as if in advance At Burbridge's,
they even left the great steel door ajar,
| and it was not until the policemen had
mounted ladders and done some smash
ing that this fact became known to
| them. Then they went into the house in
the usual way. Garfield was not ar
rested. The report last night to that
effect was erroneous. He was held at
his house for Identification by a detec-
tive 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 E. w.
Buckln was the man and Bucklin was
arrested. He is reputed to be Canfield's s
manager.
David Bucklin and Samuel ]. Smith
who were arrested in the raids. were
held in $1,000 for examination Thomas
McGibney, who was arrested at Bur-
bridges, was discharged.