Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-03
RAID ON GAMBLERS
prsrR1cr-ATroRNEY JEROME HOT
AFTER NEW YORK VARIETY.
EVERYBODY WAS TIPPED OFF.
when Police Got IN They Found the
n,rd. r1o~n-The Raid. Crcnte In
tense Excitement and Attract an
Enormou. Crowd.
EVERYBODY WAS TIPPED OFF.

NEW YORK. December 2-DlstilcI
Attorney Jcromes sensational raids on
alleged gambling resorts begun about mid
oicht last night, were continuco uh'it
s:so o'clock this morning and numerous
small places were raided. The attacks on
the latter, however, were almost over
looked in the public interest, which cen
tered in the assaults on the mansions
occupied by Richard Il. Caniield and "li-
liam BurbriGse, which were entered oS
means OF LADDERS. axes and sieaSes. l'ie
po.ice aiiose that Frank FaIIeu Is inter-
esxed in burbriaGes place Great guam
tl,ics OF costly .ievidence were CARED
swav from those PAGES by, the ponce,
hui arrests were few. Up to last night a
general impression prevailed mat Can
fields which is in the heart OF the fash-
jo,,able uptown district, Only a he" ooois
from Filth avenue and near two ceie-
pratcd restaurants, was Gibrariar
winch could not be taken; and similar
belief prevailed in regard to BurbridSes
Mace which was especially protected by
steel doors. This place is III a cross street.
uptown, only haIf block from ruin
avenue and a few steps from a celebrat-
20 hotel.
So great was public interest aroused
by the news of the raid on Canilcld S.
that people Hooked to the neiShborhood
until the intersection OF FIN avenue
and Forty-fourth street. the corner near
est Canned 5, was blocked with car
riages and people.
After BurbrldGes. the raiders visited
I-udlam's place, otherwise known as the
Savoy Club. They got one man there.
coiored subordinate employed about the
place Jerome Captain Piper. inspector
Brooks several assistants to the district
attorney. and numerous detectives were
busy in Ludam's place until after 4
o'clock this morning. They blew open
safe in their hunt for evidence
Earlier in the night the district attor-
ncv made many raids in the downtown
Italian quarter of alleged disorderly
houses. These were preliminaries. as
it were to the two big events. Cantields
and BurbridGe's.
District Attorney jerome declined abso-
lutely to make any sort of. sta 1ement af-
ter his nights work
Captain Lantry. of the east Fifty-1lrst
street station. in whose precinct the Can
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 raiding of Canilelds.
The raids We're expected in every place
visited. In CanfIcld's the owner declared
nothing had been doing for weeks. 1t
was much the same in Burbridse's and
1udlam's although Joseph Jacobs, the
Citizens Union detective. last night de-
clared he had played in every place, but
tina: the raids Were to he 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.-s and 1t 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 in the usual way. Garfield
was not arrested. The report last night
TO that effect was erroneous He was held
2. - '7r~s- for Identification by a de-
tective who claimed to have gambled in
tIlE ..u.ot, cul tne GetecuVe said Can
field was not the man who had dealt faro
for him. Later the detective said Z. w
Buckln the man and Buckiin was
arrested. He is reputed TO be Canfleld's
manager.
David Bucklin and Samuel j. Smith.
who Were arrested in the raids. were held
in $1,000 for examination. Thomas Nc
Gibney, who was arrested at Burbridge's
house was DISCHARGED