The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-02
RAIDED cANFIELD'S PLACE.
jerome and His Forces Battered in
Windows and Doors

windows and Doors.
New York. Dec. lone of the most
sensational raids ever made in New,
York took place tonight, when District
Attorney Jerome, with a strong force
of police, broke into the palatial es-
tablishment said to have been conduct
ed by Richard Canfield as a gambling
house, in Forty fourth street, a few
doors from Fifth avenue.
Entrance was effected by smashing
in the basement windows. On entering
the raiding party were confronted by
Garfield, who had just returned from
a trip to Providence, r. l., and who
protested that the house was simply
his private residence, and that had
he known any suspicion of gambling
attached to it, he would willingly have
admitted the authorities at any time.
search of the house showed that
the lower floors were vacant and un-
furnished. When they assembled to the
fifth floor their attention was attracted
by panel in the wall, which was pro
tected with a stout steel plating. When
this had been battered in after half
an hours hard work with sledge-
hammers, the police say they discover
checks, with some roulette wheels and
other gambling appara tus.
Canf1eld, with half a dozen men who
were found with him in the house. all
of Whom We're in evening dress, were
arrested and taken to the police sta
ton. f-f '
The raid was made on evidence Sc
cured by detective employed by the
district attorneys office. 1t was said
m NH I'D fInN i
this man could Identify Garfield as
having been concerned in any actual
gambling operations in the house. The
raid caused the most intense excite
ment in the vicinity, and enormous
crowds gathered while the police were
breaking their way in. - ssiSA 4t
The captain Of the precinct in which
the house is located was in ignorance
of the raid until all was over, when he
squad of men in time to escort
the wagon containing the captured
paraphernalia back to the station house
That the raid had been Anticipated
for days the police think certain The
condition of the house indicated that
such was the case, for nowhere in the
establishment, from the basement to
the fourth floor, on which are Can
fields private apartments, was there
any SASH u recent use. 1t was also
considered significant that Canfield's
counsel was in the house at the time
the raid was made, although Garfield
explained that he had simply dropped
in for dinner"
The raid on Garfield had hardly been
finished when the police of the Tender
loin precinct descended on the house
in West Thirty-third street known as
the House with the Steel Doors. 4"
and reputed to be run as a gambling
house by Frank Farrell Ladders had
been provided to escalade the second
story window, but the steel front doors
We're found to be open and no opposi-
ton was made to the entrance of the
police.
The lower floors of the house were
found to be magnificently furnished.
but nothing of suspicious character
was found until. while sounding a
wall on the top floor, the police cap
tain discovered a secret steel door.
apparently serving as a means of com
munication with the adjoining house.
After the doors HAD been broken
down with axes and crowbars, the po-
lice entered the next house, which
they found to be magnificently furnish
ed from cellar to attic and equipped
With roulette wheels, card tables and
other gambling appliances, all of
which We're seized. But two persons
were found in the house both of whom
were arrested. One was the colored
doorman and the other man whose
name was unknown, but who was said
to be relative of Frank Farrell.