The sun., 1903-12-26
THE ANTJ-POLJCY RAIDS.
Defence Of tho Society Against Charses
Of Illegal Arrests.


issue of Dec. 10 you printed an editorial OF
about half a column. entitled Tho Euec.
Of a Rad Example," In which you oriticlse
very severely the actions OF AN agent OF
private organ ization formed Tor tho purp
of detecting and prosecuting the owners OF tie
gambling game known as policy. anu tne,e
are other statements throughout the aruoio
which make n certain that you had the Anti
Policy Society in mind and that your very
intelligent readers must have understooo
that il was actions OF that society and OF its
agents which were being pilloried IN the
editorial in question.
As president and executive ofhcer OF the
Anti-Polcy Society / feel very especially
the duty Of doing my utmost to preserve ,ts
reputation. which is extremely valuable 10
Il in carrying on it's work, and which aiso u
practically its only asset; and therefore i'm
mediatey upon reading your editorial a.
ready referred to, retained Mr.. John Henry
Hammond OF 30 Broad street to make thor
ough investigation of the facts. ana also 10
furnish me with his opinion. based upon the
facts as nc discovered them.
The measure OF success so far achieved by
the Apti-Policy Society is primarily due TO
assistance rendered by the newspapers
of the city: and among them THE sun was
at least as active and efficient as any. be
cause of the friendly attitude OF The Sun
hitherto, and because II Is so well known tnat
you are painstaking us to your factS ana
willing to correct errors, and especially TO
undo any unintentional injustice. j have
confidence that II on Investigation OF the
facts give you below you find them cor
rect in every particular you will Willingly
take some suitable means to withdraw the
condemnation OF certain acts OF the society,
80 forciby expressed in your editorial OF
Dec 10: and II. in your opinion. have. under
the circumstances. any standing TO warrant
my making request OF you, wish to express
the hope that you will publish this letter. ana
also make some editorial comment on the
results of your investigation OF the facts us
alleged in this letter.
In the first part Of your editorial yoS sn1u tba
Art.Poicy Society obtained from m JustidGe adis
no S one save the person designated as Edward
Doe was named to the Magistrate as crimi-
nal and that the warrant issued was ior ne tne
arrest OF the suspected man and for no one
priv prvate e'S detective applied to the police ioy
%sa "1S.hsa sns shas tn. sr
the direction OF the private detective. went
| to two widely separated houses arresttng
in one Of them two persons ana in the other
The actual facts as to these statements are
! however. as follows ..,
Policy i'S" Society. on Dec. 5 Obtained from Mr.
Justice Wyatt warrant for the arrest OF
person uealgTlhttu ds IJdTh LUZ AZ 90 Eooi th
street. and another separate warrant for the
at the same address; also a search warrant an
1so't Hso on the % same @ day day NJ. Burke Obtained
9m M Of Edsafd GsGed Dsss Dos Ss
sfo these s prsmses s and for the Searching o.
Ali these warrants were delivered to Police
| Officers Maher, Costigan and LondrdND,
ohn Tsns 50 1a and tff rry who
sRop at that H addrsss and Who
sons DESIGNATED as Dark Doe and Light Doe:
After these arrests were made Onioers Maner
other agent Of the Anti Policy Society. went
to 2A2 First avenue; At that address est ths he
rSwand 81 nd 9ose1 wSpo pS
arrested voiker was the, person desienated
apartment rt we're found Charles scheeie. Man
uel Mansfield and a German woman; WHO
were standing around az e table covered .hs1a With
phernalia were found upon them. A Mrs
cents and q paper on which six dEs were
sss Boy nsned Harry
came in With play containing two or three
| gigs and twenty-hve-cent piece. The
hov's grandmother Knocked at the, door
When she saw the boy under arrest rest she said
to him You a reeeivsd u, shst Stv PLAY f5oR
in the ses Maher o0
the grandmother under, arrest. Then Ber-
and pos SssT
MALTA we're found on him. Next man ma med
John Rose came in and being recognized
| ouently sells lottery tickets he was placed
under, arrest and searched. but no policy
araphsaa TsIe Tn not
gan, she also attacked the officer and tore
her han she aso saa Sat shs
the proprietor Of the place,
nd thay hs IL
editorial were entirely incorrect, for there were
three warrants, in addition to two search
THE THE srS. and the two different places raided
were both specified in the warrants actually
The editorial in question goes, on to say
that the eleven prisoners were locked up over
! night. arraiQned before. a City. Magistrate
or %o1lnf ts 81
! (Judce Wyatt, on Monday
A. 70 this the real facts are that It being being
Headquarters and the women were trans ms
ron non ROSE ne and sD the German Woman Mrs BRADY
| and Mrs Mckinley were bailed out. II Ia a
| fact that on Sunday morning the other pris
| onnrs were taken before Ma Ristrate Cornell.
| and held to appear before Judge Wyatt.
| THE SrN editorial goes on to say that upon
| the arraignment Of the eleven prisoners on
| Monday. Mr. Justice Wyatt Of the Court Of
Special Sessions. by whom the warrant 10
| Edward Doe hnd been issued expressed his
| Indignation that il should have been used as
! the cloa for two aids and the arrest Of eleven
! persons; that he demanded the authority on
| which the arrests had been made. only to
| learn that there had been no warrant in the
| hands of the officers sav We the one that he had
| issued himself.
or course from what have already stated,
| Won will see that this cannot be 80, IL there is
| no error in my statement Besides that. can
| say that Mr. Hammond has seen Jud &c Wyatt
| and that Judge Wyatt stated that he did not
| criticisa the arrests in any way, hut that he
| did saw to the officers what he had repeatedly
| told them in the past that he would only
trv cases whore he had issued specific war
! rant for the arrest Of the prisoner.
Wyatt actually held John Suckerman. Try
! else the arrest Of the other prisoners, but said
! he was too busy to hear the cases Of prisoners
! except where he had issued specific warrants
| for their arrest, and he directed that the
| of her prisoners be taken before Judge Cornell,
| If Judge Cornell had jurisdction Also on the
recommendation Of Mr.. Burke the aren't
| Of the society Judge Wyatt discharged Mrs
Brady. Mrs Mckinley and the boy and his
them to- keep out Of policy shops
! The OF her prisoners were taken before