The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-12-11
MANY WERE RAIDED
Another Moral Spasm Attacks City
of New York
GET EVIDENCE WITH DYNAMITA,
District Attorney Jerome Makes 4
Sensational Raid on Gamblers III
Fashionable Quarter.

New York, Special.-Dissrict Attor-
ney Jerome's sensational raids on al
legged gambling resorts begun about
midnight Sunday night. were continued
until 4:30 o'clock Monday 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 lad
ders, axes and sledges. The police al
legged that Frank Farrell! is interested
in Burbridges place. Great quantities
of costly evidence were carted away
from those places by the police but
arrests were few.
Up to last night general impress
sion prevailed that Canfield's which Is
the 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 similar be-
lief prevailed in regard to Burbridge's
place. which was especially protected
by steel doors. This place Is In a cross
street uptown, only 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 Canfields
that people fiocked to the neighbor-
hood until the intersection OF Fifth
avenue and Forty-fourth street, the
corner nearest Canfield's, was blocked
with carriages and people. After Bur
BRIDGES the raiders visited Ludlam's
place, otherwise known as the SavoT
Club. They got one man there. col
ored subordinate employed about the
place. Jerome, Captain Poper, Inspector
Brooks, several assistants to the dis
trict attorneys and numerous detectives
were busy in Ludlam's place until
after o'clock this morning. They
blew open safe for evidence.
Earlier in the night the district at
torney made many raids in the down
town Italian quarter Of alleged disor-
derIy houses. These were "prelimina-
ries,' as it were, to the big events,
Canfield's and Burbridge's.
District Attorney Jerome refused to
make any statement after his nights
work. Captain Lantry, of the East
Fifty-first street station, in whose pre-
cinct the Garfield place has been for
years, declared to the reporters and
others assembled that he had never
expected to live to see such an event
rs the rading Of Canfields.
The raids were expected in every
place visited. In Candeld's the owner
declared nothing had been doing for
weeks. 1t was much the same in Bur-
bridges and Ludiam's, although JOSEPH.
Jacobs, the Citizens Union detective,
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
prepared as If in advance. At Bur-
bridges they even left the great steel
door ajar. They went into the house in
the usual way. Garfield was not ar
rested. The report to that effect was
erroneous. He was held at his house
for Identification by 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 detectives said E. W. Buck
lin was the man and Bucklin was ar
rested He is said to be Canfeld's man
ager.
David Bucklin and Sampel ]. Smith,
who were arrested in the raids, were
held in $1,000 for examination. Thomas
McGibney, who was arrested at Bur-
bridges house, was discharged.