Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-23
CHESTER IS POLICY CENTRE
According to Testimony Given
in Municipal Court.
CASES OF ALLEGED GAMBLING
Henry Wallace a Good Witness
For the State.


the Other Gases Continued.
1t developed at Saturdays session
of tho City Court that the policy play
ing which has been going on here
recently was directed by people in
Chester, la, who mad their head
| quarters in that city
| All of the people arrested by the
police Friday on suspicion OF being
concerned in lotter2 policy wore
arraigned. Severa cases we're con
| tinuedgat the reIuest OF tine attorneys Of
the accused. The information concern
| ing the Chester end of the business
was brought out in the case against
Sarah Anderson, coIored, of 13G3 Wilson
street. The accused was represented
by Horaoe q. Knowles The chief
witness was Henry Wallace, oolored,
one of tho men arrested in the policy
raids. Wallace testified that he had
received policy slips and money from
Mrs. Anderson and also Mrs. Mary
| Trusty colGied, who was arrested
| Friday, and took them to Chester,
where he delivered them to a writer at
policy shop theirs He alleged that,
although hs received no commission
and took the slips and money to Chester
as an accommodation to The players, his
railroad fare was made up each day 10y
the PEOPLE whose slips aud money he
carried, each contributing five cents
| toward his iare.
| The examination OF the witness was
conducted by City Solicitor Reinhardt
and his assistant, Philip L. Garrett.
in reply to question asked by At
torney Knowles, witness said he was
! not very familiar with the rules of
policy. AS to Mrs. Anderson, witness
said she allowed her friends to go to
her house. but he did mot know that
she was an agent, although he bad got
slips and money from her to take to
/ Chester.
Policeman John Ward, one of the
officers who participated in the raid,
identified a batch of policy slips, which,
he said. were found in Mrs. Anderson 8
house Officer Flynn assisted in search
ing the house. The slips were found
in the sideboard in the diningroom
in the presence of the woman. When
the woman was arrested she was not at
her house. Witness said tie woman
told him that he would find plenty of
slips, but when she wanted to play
policy she went to Chester and played
or her husband went to Chester and
played fur her. She saw the officers
search Mrs. Trusty's house.
Officer Flynn oorroborated Officer
Wards testimony
Bessie Caldwell colored. knew moth
ing about the case, although she had
been summoned as witness.
Attorney Knowles asked that the case
be dismissed, on ths ground that the
only thing shown was that she mayed
policy herself, in Chester, and it had
not been shown that she was an agent,
Acting Assistant City Solicitor Garrett
N claimed that it had been proved that
the woman was interested In policy
playing, and thought prima facie case
had been made out City Solicitor
Reinhardt agreed with his assistant,
and Judge Churchman said he thought
the prosecution had made out a prima
faoie case and the accused was held In
81, 600 bail for the Court of General
Sessions.
Mary Trusty, colored, of 3O4 East
Thirteenth street, was arraigned on the
same charge as that against the Ander-
son woman. Wallace was the chief wit.
meas against her. His testimony was
very much like that which he gave in
the case against Mrs Anderson. He
said he had received a number of slips
and money from Mrs. Trusty and some.
times hits were made on the slips Re
turning he gave any money resulting
from hits to Mrs. Trusty, when the hits
were made on slips given by her. Some.
times he left two sets OF drawings With
Mrs. Trusty, believing that some OF the
drawings were for someone else.
The woman conducted her own case
and CROSS examined the witness. She
asked him il he ever brought her more
] than 81. to which he replied that he
, had delivered several hits to her which
he believed were Tor someone else. Mrs.
Trusty told the witness that some
money he should have brought her he
, did not bring
1--WE ars not talking about what
did GOT bring" witness said "but
about the money did bring. .
! Policeman John Sheehy, who made
the arrest, said he searched the houst
and found sundry drawings and slips,
which were offered in ev dence. Bt
alleged thai while he was searching the
house he found a dream book, which
the woman tried to burn, The officer
, said he and his partner, PatrolmaI
, Maloney, had heen watching the house
, since the first of the year, suspectipr
/ that policy was being played there ano
| they believed their suspicious were con
, tirmed last Thursday. He alleged that
whe he entered the house Fir day he
| heard Mrs. Irusty and Mrs Anderson
talking about policy, but Mrs Irusty
/ denied that there was any such con
| versation.
She called Mrs, Annie O'Neill, COL
ored, and several other witnesses, all oil
, whom testified that they had Eever seer
policy Elayed al the house Mrs, Trusty
was held in GOO bail for the Court o.
General Sessions,
! In the case against Henry Wallace
I oolured, who proved such n good wit
. ness for the prosecution, a nolle prose
qul was entered, at the request of Act.
] ing Assistant Solicitor Garrett, blu
3 Wallace was held in $1,000 bail to ap
, pear as witness at tine next term o.
the Court o. General Sessions
At the request Of MIR. Rice, pocket
, book filled with money, which had
been taken from Smith, was returned
TO him.
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