Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-04
RAIDS ARE MADE ON
GAMBLING RESORTS
Fashionable Places In Co
than are Smashed.

cANFlEL0,s~ PLACE VISITED.
District Attorney jerome Institutes
Sensational Raids on Many Noted
Gambling Places In New York City.
Costly Evidence Carted Away.
New York. Dec 2.-District Attor
ney Jerome's sensational raids on al
legged gambling resorts begun about
midnight last night were continued
until 4:30 o'clock this morning and nu,
merous small places were raided. The
attacks on the latter, however, We're
almost overlooked in the public inter
est 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
allege that Frank Farrell is interested
in Burbridge's place. Great quantities
of costly evidence" were carried
away from these places by the police,
but arrests were few Up to last
night a general impression prevailed
that Canfield's, which is in the heart Of
the fashionable uptown district, only
a few doors from Fifth avenue AMI
near two celebrated restaurants, was a
Gibraltar" which could no be taken,
and similar belief prevailed in re-
gard to Burbridges place, which was
oil Nv Oh
This place is in a cross street uptown,
only half block from Fifth avenue,
and a few steps from a celebrated ho-
tei.
So great yas public interest in the
raid of Capfeld's that people flocked
to the neighborhood until the ifltersec.
ton of Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth
street, the corner nearest Canfeld's,
was blocked with carriages and peo-
pie
After Burbrigdes the raiders visited
Ludlap's place, otherwise known as
the Savoy club They got one man
a negro subordinate employed about
theAplace
Jerome, Captain Piper, Inspector
Brooks, several assistants to the dis
trict attorney and numerous detectives
were busy in Ludlam's place until af
ter o'clock this morning They
blew open a safe in their hunt for ev.
idence. Earlier in the night District
Attorney Jerome made many raids in
the downtown Italian quarter, of al.
geged disorderly houses. These were
''preliminaries." as it were. to the two
big events-Canfeld and Burbridge'F.
District Attorney Jerome declined
absolutely to make any sort Of state.
ment after his nights work
Captain Lantry, of the East Fifty.
first street station, in whose precinct
the Garfield place has been for years,
declared to the reporter and others as.
sembled that he had never expected
to live to see such an event as the
Taiding Of Canfield's
The raids were expected In every
place visited. In Canfeld's the own.
ed declared nothing had been doing
for weeks. 1t was much the same in
Burbridge's and Indians, although 10.
seph Jacobs, the Citizens union detec.
tive, last night declared he had played
in every placed. But that the raids
were to be made seemed to have
reached the Ynen interested. for every
place was prepared as II in advance.
At Burbrfdge's they even lef4 tho great
steel door ajar and 1t was not until
the policemen had mounted LADDERS
and donN some smashing that this
fact became known to than. Thea
they went on to the horse In tho usual
way. Oanheld was not arrested. Tue
report last night to that effect waa
erroneous. He was held at his house
for naturalization by a detective who
claimed to nave gambled in the house
but the detective said Oan6eld was
not the man who had Geadt faro for
MIN. Later the detective said e. W.
Bucklin was the man ana Bucklin was
arrested. He is reputed to be Can
fields manager.