The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-06
BROKERS CLOSE
TICKET SHOPS.
Railway Ticket Protective Bu.
reau Wins Victory in
Atlanta,

Severnnce & Weinfeld, and lseman X
Moore. two ticket brokerage firms which when
have for many years done business III
Atlanta, closed their offices Yesterday
aud retired permanently from the ticktelt
rl okerage business and there are no"
40 ticket brokers in Atlanta.
rho closing of these Offices is the re-
enlt Of skillul work done by the Rail
way Ticket Protective Bureau, which
was organized by the railroads AT thc
suggestion of William a. Pinkerton head
z al the celebrated PiNkelton Detective.
Agency, on tho same general lines as
ahcf jewelers. Security Alliance und the
american Bankers ;.r'ptec}ivc Bureau,
The depredatioQs sf tie ticket bro
Icrs upon the revenues of the railroads
ii, the Unitnd States and the extent to
witch Tic influence of certain scapers
lad pcrmcated the offices OF the rail-
roads, SO that clerks aud others having
IL ,,rt.eas 10 tickets could find Il ready
market for stolen tickets, had grown to
buch m extent that il became abso-
4 lutcly necessary for the railroads, for the
protection OF their OWL revenue and
the morals Of their employees, to take
active measures.
II was while tho railroads were look
h Spg about for ways and means that Mr..
4 Iinkerton suggested the organization OF
~ tht Railway Protective Bureau. The
results Of the work Of this bureau have
been eminontly satisfactory, and here IN
AZ, nf N re
suited In closing mp both offices which
81 the railroads claim have been troubling
them The bureau had accumulated II
y very considerable amount Oh other evil
ncnce, which s. WAS about to submit
Y 5U the courts. when on the l4tll day of
January ]. r. I3ilups, General Passcn-
ger Agent of the Atlanta West Point
RAILROAD reported TO Joseph Richardson,
the Atlanta representative Of the bureau.
that he had just discovered that forty
mileage tickets, representing 10000 miles
Of transportation. had been stolen from
K his ticket department Mr.. Richardson
Immediately photographed the hcadquar-
tiers of the bureau ia Chicago, and on
the 18th one of Pinkerton's expert opera
tiYes arrived in Atlanta. This operative
and Ills assistants traced some of these
( tickets into and other tickets out OF
Severance &; Weinield's office, On Jan
vary 18th. BY virtue of search-warrants
Y the officers made thorough search of botl
OF the ticket brokers' offices. with III,
result that that night sam H. McClur'
kan. a clerk in the auditors office 81
i the West Point route was arrested on
{ tho charge OF larceny, and in default o
Lond was committed to the city jail
where he staid until Saturday, Januar,
I, Spth, when his bond was made. He i'm
piicated a negro. MIL Edwards, who va
found by the Pinkerton people in ST
Louis and brought TO Atlanta. Al hi
preliminary trial before Justice OF tn
Peace Ormond nc pleaded guilty, as Nc
Siurknn had previously done, and II
Now understood that Wenfeld and Steph
+Ds Will plead guilty when their case
nre called In The Superior Court
Thus far the protective bureau ma
confined It's prosecution TO the broker
Il themselves. but 1t Is understood tina
t,tsir campaign will IN future include pas
6sngers who travel on scalpers' tickets
al II Is Impossible, It Is claimed, 10
4 item To use tickets obtained fsom tn
Eealpcrs offices unless they commit III
s. 6nina known 10 the law as false impe,
Il Gonatinn, which IL Il felony and is n per
& h 3fentiary pfftnSe--Ailania Gpnsu,ut.o,
II tcDInary ", 1891.