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POUNCED ON POLICY
UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM
GRAND JURY DEPUTY SHERIFFS
ARRESTED NINE WRITERS"
AT MANY ADDRESSES THEY FOUND
NOBODY AT HOME.

NOBODY AT HOME.
Raid Was Made Directly After the
Adjournment of the Grand Jury.
Deputies Were Furnished the Adj
dresses and Made Quick work of
Their MissiOn-BrOke Down the
Doors at Several PIaces-FOund
Policy in Operation in Three
PIaccs-AH in Different Parts of
Town.
With addresses furnished them by
The grand jury, six members of the
famous nine" of the constabuIary
swooped down upon the policy shops
at dusk yesterday, and took into camp
nine negroes whom they found en-
gagged in writing" or lending their
presence at Dame Fortunes shrine.
The raid was made ali at once. and
in less than half an hour after the
grand jury had dispersed, the nine
unfortunates had been incarcerated in
the county Jail, with the significant
charge of policy" lodged opposite their
names. But three establishments were
''pinched," a lone writer" being found
in charge of one place, while there
were four sports at each of the other
places.
The number of places raided by the
authorities, does not represent the
total number visited. At several al
legged shops the officers, after breaking
down doors and in other uncustomary
ways gaining entrance, found mo
body at home" Nor were there any
signs of policy paraphernalia, and
they were left to one of two conjec-
lures: either they had been cruelty
misinformed, or the writers" had
scented the approach of the enemy.
Got Policy Tickets.
On some of the negroes policy tickets
were found, and several of them made
no bones of acknowledging their con-
nection with the place, but a majority
of those arrested claimed that they
We're nothing more than spectators
Those who are held. and against whom
warrants will be issued this morning
are: NJ. w. Waring, Walter Cuyler G.
c. Carroll, James Bracewell, Ben
Greene. James Garnett, John Randall,
a. Henderson and Mamie Washington.
Acting under instructions from the
grand jury the officers will keep up
their vigil They think that had not
the policy writer's been forewarned last
night they would have been even more
successful. The news of the one fell
swoop spread like wildfire, and the
''open door policy" was abandoned in
short order The arrest of the nine |
unfortunates will no doubt prove a |
tocsin alarm to their colleagues, and |
it is doubtful if many more arrests will
follow at once. This is the fear en-
tertained by the officers. The policy
paraphernalia is anything but immo-
bile, and on such occasions the negroes |
always make it a point TO pick up their
beds and walk.
In BrOuGhtOn Lane. Il
The officers were dispatched in two
lots. Deputies Nose Lilienthal and
Ed. Thompson being sent on a short
errand TO a place somewhere in
Broughton street lane They found
business very slack-not half as live
ly as agitation has it-a sole sentinel
being in command of the situation. He
submitted without more ado, and with
the two officers was leaving the place
when Sheriff Schwarz put in his APP
pearance.
The second posse was made up of
Deputies Ed. Harugan, Charles Fen
nell. Ed McCaffrey and L. X.
Meldrim. They had been pro-
Vlded with numerous addresses
in the western part of the city.
At the first place they visited they
found everything "as quiet as the
breast when the spirit hath flown"
but it did not remain so long, for the
officers following instructions, broke
down the barracaded doors and forced
an entrance. A hurried survey of the
premises followed, and not finding
anything they were off again.
COuDed Eight More.
The second place visited was near
the old Hebrew Cemetery There they
arrested four negroes at policy shop
There were many others on
the premises, but they escaped, over
under and through the fence The
writer" jumped out of a back win
dow and escaped. They caught four
in the yard. They quickly took them
in tow, and secured a few of the policy
tickets and some of the paraphernaIia
as evidence. Then they went to an adj
dress in Jones lane, west, where they
NOOpSN eill N4u6Al luIIlDGT. 1t was dark
now, but the officers continued their
search until all of the addresses had
been visited but there was nothing
more doing"
The investigation by the grand Jury
has been quietly conducted. So quiet
ly, in fact that the men We're taken
unawares. Those who We're so improv-
ident as not to take warning from the
lightning that was flashing from bench
and pulpit were caught in the official
cloudburst But two of the negroes
was fortunate enough to be bonded
out. These were NJ. w. Waring and
Mamie Washington.
Sheriff Schwarz will make his re-
port to the foreman of the grand Jury
to-day 1t is understood that the Off
GERS have instructions to keep their
eyes skinned, but the grand jury will
not meet again at once. When they
adjourned yesterday it was subject to
call.