The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-16
GAMBLERS ENORMOUS ROLL.
MAYBE SSOO.OOO ~ 4 LITTLE
STEEP tS Az ESTIMATE.
wsd ~ shang Diapers Made Jerome's Eyes
Bulge and Injured His Morals - said
10 Belong 10 Lot Of Bookmakers
Jimmy Ridgwa, Left In Possession.

An immense roll Of money, big enough
for campaign fund. was found Yesterday
in one OF the safes in Shang Draper's
gambling house AZ q West Invent y-eighth
street, which was raided Oh Tuesday night
The money Is said TO belong to book
makers, who had left il there over night
About I o'clock yesterday afternoon
Inspector Brooks telephoned To District
Attorney jerome tina, Draper had "A roll
Of $500 900 in one of his safes $500 go cas- h
and the rest ia securities This was an
estimate. not n count. II may be rifle
large.
The announcement took Mr. Jerome
uptown. As he had lei It he known hat
he WAS going 10 visit the raided gambling
houses and open safes. lie didn't have TO
break the safes open. Remembering he
way he destroyed a safe a little more than
a year ago al ia Fast Fourteenth street,
because he didn't have the combination
certain lawyers appeared al the gambling
houses yesterday with the combinst ions.
The drst place he visited va. Shang
Diapers. Lawyer Jimmy Ridgway. who
defended Wsrdman Glennon OF the Tender
ioin, appeared ard furnished the comblna-
ton Of the Draper safes 10 Mr. Jerome
Jusr a. Mr.. jerome having opened the safe.
wss sitting on his launches. looking with
large eyes a. an enormous roll Of thousand
dollar. hund'ed-dollsr and fift y-dolar bills.
binding fash and pun of smoke occurred.
and the hOarse voice ~ photographer
chuckled. "Caught with the goods on"
Mr.. Jerome looked up excitedly. You
get out Of here h. said. and you get
quick The photographer smuthered his
chuckle, gathered up hi- camera and fed
Watching MIR Jerome open the safes
We're Assistant District Attorney Miner.
Inspector Brooks, Sergt. Cohen and Lawyer
Ridgway. In the first safe. besides the
gres. roll. was a wallet marked Ed Marks.
Marks died recently and was a partner Of
Eddie Burke, the bookinaker II wasn't
counted. a. was none Of the money, in fact
In the second safe were found two more
wallets. one marked Eddie Burke" and the
other marked Leo Swat- and Leo Mayer"
two well-known bookmakers Il has been
the custom OF the bookmakere to meet
nightly Il, Diapers and figure UP heir days
accounts. There they also left their money,
No evidence of any account. in addition
TO what had already been obtained, was
found in either Of the safes This being
the case Jerome locked up the safes after
putting the money back, and everybody
went away eicep, Lawyer Ridgway, who
STAYED behind Will the combination.
It's not my money said Mr.. Jerome.
Il haven't any right TO il. nor have The
police. is not mentioned in the search
warrants and us not evidence. IL seems
To me that a lawyer who has the combi-
nation Of the safes stands close enough
10 the real owner of the place to warrant
leaving everything with him. and so We'll
turn il all over 10 YOU. Mr. Ridgway Any
way. its not my money.
I'm a worse man than before held that
roll he said last night
From Diapers he went 10 Lou Betts's
place in West Thirty-fourth street. The
LAWYERS who were there were George EnGel
and Henry J. Goldsmith of Sullivan, Gold
smith Engel Mr. jerome knew they
we're waiting for him. Maybe they're
the lawyers in the case and maybe they're
not" he said pessimisticalv. They said
they we're last year AZ IA East Fourteenth
stree, and they We're not, Perhaps they're
butting in.
Whe her thew were or not, they didn't
hand him the combination This was done
iu-t before he reached the gambling house
by a man in the street who hurried away
and was not recognized,
Mr. Jerome went into Betts's and had
no difficulty in opening the safe there. He
found some papers, but he didn't take them
as he didn't think he needed them. Moth
ing Of consequence was found in the safe
al French Louiss az 5? West Twent y-eighth
street.
There We're three safes a, Hones' John
Kelly's d, lN West Forty-first street, where
Lawyer stephen j. OHare of O'Hare
Dinnean was waiting for Mr.. Jerome with
the combinations. In these safes were
found some money, some checks and some
l. O. L. s that may supplement some Of the
evidence the District Attorney already had
We don't want many prisoners, said
Mr. Jerome Yesterday, Il guess the pro-
pre,ors will come when we call The
little fellows arrested were lei ont on 81 900
bail each The real name of Paul Town
send James. the wild Western sleu'h who
got the evidence l. Jacobs. Jacobs was
assisted by Secretary IefYert- of the Ci'i-
1ens' Union.
II was Mr.. Ietfer,s's part ot the game
70 call upon Jacobs of nights al the Ross
more clad in evening clothes and posing
a. a swell who had known james, in the
West Then they sailed ont and got the
evidence,
An incident Of the raid upon John kelly's
was the discovery there of one George
Harris. a we'll known local sport.
y haven't a thing 20 do with this place,
said Harris 10 Mr.. Jerome Il never was
here before" Mr. Jerome found in one of
the living rooms upstairs a photograph
of Harris inscribed. To friend John from
George Harris
Don't you suppose that those places
are doing business tonight" a man asked
Mr. Jerome Las, evening
You wouldn't if you had seen the inside
81 them" replied Mr.. Jerome The police
did good job.
Capt Walsh sent Mr.. Jerome patrol
wagon full Of documentary evidence done
up in gunny sacks and sealed II was all
deposited in a big safe in Assistant District
Attorney Ganss room and is TO be examined
hereafter.
KING OF SAW WILL CONE HERE
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