Evening journal., 1902-01-29

The people whom the police are after
in policy raid are the hackers or the
writer's. The players are only arrested
as witnesses. 1t was the custom to
find where the writers turned in their
books and then to watch that place
and obtain evidence. He had been in
the department between twelve and
thirteen years and was a sergeant be-
tween seven and eight years. He then
described raids which he had made.
The chief said that he had arrested
Levy the hacker of policy three times.
The first time he arrested him as he
came from the station. the second time
as he came out of his place and the
third time in his place. He had also
arrested Walls. man named Chippey,
Pete Rideout and other policy men.
He had always secured evidence before
he made raids and always knew exact
| " what he had before he started on a
raid After speaking of the raids
Chief Massey said:
Took Black Into Confldencs
After had received information
that there was gambling going on l
took Captain Black into conference,
which 1 always did in all my raids and
gambling arrests and told him what 1
had heard and also said to him, if you
see Morrison before l see him ask him
if he can get some evidence or find out
where those people are working. Nor
rison is a man who has given me lots
of valuable information and we de-
pended very much on him to get the
location of the places where they turn
ed in their business.
When asked if he remembered For
mer Police Commissioner Pyle speak
ing to him in reference to policy the
Chief said:
l do. Mr.. Pyle came to me and told
me that he understood policy was being
PLAYED at the northwest corner of Lord
land Lombard, but ] think he was mis-
taken about that because it was testi-
fed to that it was on Lord street. be-
tween Pine and Lombard / never
heard of it being played at Lord and
Lombard Mr.. Pyle informed me of a
man named CoxewhOhad told him about
z a man who worked for him, a colored
man who played policy and he col
ected his wages from day to day and
at the end of the week had nothing
coming to him. / Immediately noti-
fed the captain and sergeants that such
rumors were about and that Mr.. Pyle
) had reported such and for them 10 in
vestigate it and endeavOr to secure the
evidence whereby we could prosecute
the people who were working at it,
At the time. the Chief said, he went
down to the men in line and told them
to watch for policy AS soon as he
received reports concerning il he went
to work on it, The chief then spoke
Of the raid which he was planning on
. February 21 Some of the men who are
mentioned in the report of that date
as having played policy were afterward
used as witnesses in some of the cases
brought The chief also said that the
arrest of Mcdowell by Sergeant Evans
spoiled the general raid which was
being planned at the time 1t was this
the Chief meant when he told Morrison
that Evans had spoiled his plan. On
the first Wednesday in March the chief
was taken i'll and was off duty for two
{ wosks. When he returned he at once
consulted with Captain Black in refer
ence to the policy business and the t.
Of March 80 was planned. rne cni1f
then told how he had issued warrants
for the arrest of a number of policy
, men and Black. who had in the mean
( time become State detective, arrested
Walls and several other people. Frank
, Jones. the colOred man who escaped
| from Sergeant Massey and PatrOlman
Hancock was afterward arrested by
! Captain Black on information furnished
? by the chief as to where he could be
, found He also said that when Nor
Z rlson had told him Lefty Smith. a
! policy writer. and Tom Brown had
/ quarrel and that Brown could get wit
D nesses against Smith he ordered Brown
z to secure them and they We're secured
2 but Smith pleaded guilty and the wit
o nesses were not needed. The chief
q did not remember the reports made to
S him by the sergeants concerning gam
] bling and telling them not to bother
I unless there was a general complaint.
e He had a conversation with Sergeant
7 Kelleher about one case and told him
! to get the evidence but the Sergeant
3 came back with the information that
g the man he had secured 90 get the evil
! dence had failed to do so.
The House at III
The Chief then took up the matter of
the gambling place at No. I'll Market
n
! one TO secure evidence about the place
and he had talked to Detective Francis
, about it. He promised to try key on
the door but said il did not fit and the
, Chief never got any evidence from him
concerning the place. In addition to
calling the attention Of the sergeants
and the captains in reference to the
/ place he had also threatened the
- frO1rnpn If thay did not qpouro infor-
, nation concerning it. On April 16 the
] matter was discussed at the meeting
q of the Commission. and in the mean
he had received information concern
ing the place and Captain Kane was
ordered to raid it. Tuesday night was
considered the best to catch the people
there aud this night was selected. The
Chief did not consider the raid success-
ful as the paraphernalia had not been
{. secured and the next day after the raid
Il Na.a - O.