The evening world., 1903-01-15
RAID ON POLICY
HEADQUARTERS.
Inspector Kane and Detectives
Discover Games Harlem
Home, and Arrest William
.Parkes, the Alleged Manager
AGENTS AND RUNNERS, TOO.

inspector Kane and his detectives dis
covered M ralded to-day the head
quarters OF the policy game In Harlem
and the Bronx, arres.lng william Parks.
the manager OF the scheme. In his pala-
home at No. 23S West One Hundred
and Twenty-thlrd street. and n number
OF runners n agents. In Parks's home
a Gordon foot-press and a fun policy
outht were found.
capt. II. Norton Goddard, Of the Anti
Policy Society, has been trying TO I'M
cow the, Harlem headquarters n i for
years When Inspector Kane went TO
Harlem he made up his mind to get the
policy men n sent Detective L!eberf
out In plain clothes.
Liebers found that william Davis. a.
negro. was writing policy at No. $40
West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh
street. He played there for three days
and to-day, after giving Davis a
marked quarter. arrested him and hus-
tied him to the West One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth Street Station, where the
third degree was administered with
neatness and despatch.
Frightened, He Told All.
Davis gave the name OF the head
man OF the Harlem policy game: told
who the runners were. and where
they were TO be found. and betrayed
n long list of writer's. 1t took but a
short time 10 get the information. and
the Inspector, with Ave of his men,
made n quick trip to the home OF
Parks.
This man has been living In the
neighborhood for Il long time. He has
a real estate office at No. 1876 Ninth
avenue, and was supposed by his neigh
bors to be a prosperous broker. When
the police arrived there was a single
truck loaded with meat standing in
the driver, was just coming out the
fIcnt door.
Enser was arrested and while the In
spe,tor and three men invaded the
house the others searched the meat
wagon. They found a basket full OF
policy slips under the meat, George
Blossom. another runner, happened along
and was arrested. When the police
policy slips in his mouth and chewed
and swallowed them,
Parks was found in the house with
George Ennis, OF Bay Shore, l., J., whose
name nhO Dben IurnlbHeu 10 Inspector
Kane by LAWS. Ennis was searched
and a quantity OF slips was found PIN
ned 20 the Inside OF his undershirt.
Got WaRon-Load OF stun
In the cellar OF the Parks mansion
was found a complete printing ONCE
equipped with everything necessary for
the running Of an immense policy buBl-
ness. A patrol 81 load of stun
was seized and taken u the station
house with the %prisoneis IS, Tne Gordon
ptess was left behind, unglarded, and
when the police went back .or II they
found It missing, II mad bean sneaked
away In the few minutes they wore alb
sent.
A squad OF policemen In plain clothes
was sent u to arrest policy writer,
who had been betrayed by Davis and
guard wac put on the Parks home. The
prisoners were arrai-ned In Harlem
Court This afternoon.
When ennis was taken to the polici
station, he began to cry, and volunteered
70 "%squeal.' As a result OF his disclos
ures, the police arrested his brother
Sanford Ennis, who has a bicycle re
pair shop at No, 452 West One HUNDRED
and Twenty-hfth street, a few door
from the police station.
Magistrate Hogan held all the prison
ers but george Ennis and Sloason II
$1,000 ball. Ennls'R bah was hNed a
400 and Slosson, who succeeded In Ewal
lowing the policy slips, was paroled,
Eddie" Parks, a son Of william
Parks. a member OF the Seventy frs
Regiment, and a ~well-known youn
man about Harlem, assured the MngiE
trate that he would arrange for bail,