New-York tribune., 1903-01-12

Grand Jury TO Hear of Gamblers
Crooked Games.


evidence against Richard A. Garfield and other
proprietors OF gaming houses. and it is expected
that q batch Of indictments against such pro-
prietors will be obtained by him some day this
week The indictments possibly may be handed
down to-day, but 1t is commonly thought not
until later in the week District Attorney
Jerome said yesterday:
gamblers we're not conducting games Of chaEce but
EaeS 81 ronoe5y that their mefhogs @ OF dolg ngs
snd that they were doing everything that had
osee e n affaek @ St akf ha
the patrons Of The gambling houses Were 1obned ex
SeTe blaokmailed, that boys, were allowed and en-
Al the houses and that almost any kind q credit
II to Nhc hq refer @ thTed Because s Of Ae the
corruption in the Police Department In attacking
these gamblers therefore ] have been attacking
the etshSnest policemen and trying to break The
polics force and the gamblers,
The District Attorney said that It had taken
much Of his time to discover some evidence Of
this police power that permitted the gamblers
20 exist for g. certain sum- and that It would
take considerable time and much money
10 get evidence to convict such police officials
end the gamblers. He then said that II looked
If he would soon complete his work of put
ting an end TO the business Of ali the brace
faro game proprietors between Fourteenth-st.
and Fifty -ninth-st-. and referred 10 the excel
lent prospect for an honest and efficient police
force IN the near future.
So successful have been the results obtained
at the secret inquiry that the District Attorney
lntiuated that he had discovered these facts
regarding the proprietors Of gambling houses
and some Of their employees. which up to yes
terday had not been printed or commonly
known
Two gambling sharpers were formerly gold
brick bunco steerers' and are wanted in West
srn States for working the gold brick" game.
These men are powers among the gambling
gang and their whereabouts are known to the
eelice of this city. They may be arrested and
reid 70 await the serving Of extradition papers.
r. arrested for the crime which they are alleged
to have committed they will likely get many
Fears at hard labor in some Western prison.
There were at least twenty crooked
gambling houses between Fourteenth-st- and
Fifty-ninth-st. In a number of them which
raids were made the latest devices for working
crooked games have been seized. The dealers
IN nearly all of the houses in question have
records for working brace faro games and are
adopts in dealing cards and manipulating ganb-
ling devices that the players have no chance
II winning and separated from their money
In a way that leads them to think that they
have fallen a victim to Dame Fortune and not
TO rogues.
A man who has tried his hand at games OF
rhance in the West has said that he went into
he had won that sum he overheard one Of the
sealers say. Let get that money from him.
The player left the house.
Garfield was interested in another gambling
house besides the one in Forty-fourth St, and
. tobacco merchant alleged that he was robbed
in this house.
Runners from most of the houses have
rwarned about the leading hotels of this city
for months looking for victims. The majority
known as local gamblers They may have been
born here, hut they learned to be experts at
games Of robbery with cards the roulette
wheel in the West some other State than
New-York
A who is well acquainted with some Of
the gamblers OF this city said that he had been
told that the winnings at the big gambling |
houses in each year would amount to about
100000. a night. or about SS.O00Oo0 a year |
Most Of the gambling houses are open about !
seven months each year. In the hot days the |
proprietors seek the summer resorts for their |
prey. Speaking about some Of the dealers Of |
the houses against which he has been seeking |
evidence. District Attorney Jerome said, read |
ing from some notes which he held in his hand: |
In West Twenty-fourth-st. there is dealer |
iaad He IS crooked He was crooked faro |
Tins from the hotels or did up to a month ago |
when my attacks against the proprietors Of gam
houses TO cease doing business. In a West ~"en, |
ty-eighth-st, house there were two slick crooked |
The initials Of one is J, p. In a West Twenty |
Billy" F. He dealt only occasionally. ] am /
told be one of the best at getting money from |
the players by using dishonest meth DDS
Then IL you had walked two blocks further, TO |
IS called an absolutely sure faro brace game run
ming. ! made a raid on that house in 1901 and got |
lever box. On the sodth side. in West Thirty |
found and in the place Frank McI5 He has been
described being ''as handy a man at brace
faro as comes down the pike
BY the way" said District Attorney jerome.
looking UP; "a gambler has sent letter in
which he says Pat Sheedy is as square as a
billiard bail. Examining the papers again he
ssid:
In Carr's place in West Thirty-first-st. crooked
box seized. 1t had lever and a double plat.
form Il West Thirty-fourth-st house west OF
Sixth-ave.. there is q man who is described as
canine In former days this so-caled dog fAceo
the proprietor of house In Chicago which was
known for running i brace game The dog taeeo cs
dealers IN q West Thirty-thrd-st house were porn
here they have Western record In & Nest nSee a1I
ueth-st. near Sixth-ave.; another gambling mouse
could have been found Many persons visited rs Lns
ssme- SoeS @as IN theTe ae8eTai tines but got
practically evidence on any occasion IN Ihat
were active m the gold brick bunco game in the
West 7 do think that they VIII sue any one
way out West for extradition papers might be OBJ
talnec take them to the west again and 10
As far as the houses in West Forty-third st. and
West Forty yfourth-st are concereo ny lltoafna bf
coming to this city is yet complete and accurate
IN The other house in which Garfield had an IN,
have been found man whose initials are F A |
r. ne es s lS 5oi ~ deefeT for brace' faro cannot
imagine This man cannot help knJTg bf ~ 5oin noce
There is stil another house, in vest Fofty-Iliti,