The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-16
SIX IN ONE HOUSE
NEST OF POLICY SHOPS RAIDED by
OFFICERS.
WAS A REGULAR STAMPEDE.
WHEN OFFICERS APPEARED NE
GROEs MADE A BREAK.

Stove and Furniture Was Overturn-
ed and Broken, But All Places OF
Exit to Room Were Watched
by Officers, and Five Arrests
Were Made-Drenm Books Were
Captured and viii BE Used in
the Evidence-VigOrOus Crusade
Against Lottery Men Dream
Doctors" VIII Have TO Hunt other
Employment.
'"Then let us get money; like bees
lay I'D honey;
Wen build us new hives and store
each cell.
The sight of our treasure shall yield
us great pleasure
Wen count it, and chink it. and
jingle il we'll"
Three Witch Dream Book" "
Seven policy shops were raided and
five alleged policy writer's arrested by
City Detectives Wall Murphy and Bos-
tick yesterday afternoon. A quantity
of paraphernalia was confiscated.
The officers were in possession of in
formation early in the day that the
wheels were turning in the South Side
and a raid was planned just before the
time allotted for the afternoon drawing.
At 4:3O the officers got into a buggy and
started out to the scene where it was
reported the policies were in operation.
The first raid was made in Lovers
Lane, where the Savannah" was do
ing business. Simon Stone, charged
with being the proprietor of the place,
was captured in the act of writing up
some of the tickets that had been sold
through the day.
With Stone in tow the officers then
went TO a house on the corner of Whit
aker street and Anderson lane. This
was found to be a veritable nest of
shops, six different wheels being locat-
ed in one room. When the officers ap-
peared Pon the scene there was a gen
eral stampede, but none of those in
the room escaped. They ran wildly
about the place. overturning the stove
and breaking up the furniture, but there
was an officer at every exit and the
negroes were captured like mice in
1ra0.
Six Shops Were Raided.
The names of the six shops raided
We're the Missouri. the Kentucky the
Chatham, Original Genuine, Original
Alabama and the Savannah No. 2.
-Four negroes were captured, all of
whom denied any connection with the
rooms. They said they had merely
gone there to see what was going on.
The names they gave at police head
quarters were Neal Mills, Thomas
Harris, Bob Hines and Clifford Ander-
son.
Among the articles confscated by
the officers were a number of dream
books" which answer the same pur-
pose in policy shops that dope" books
do in pool rooms. All of these books
contain dreams with numbers to which
they apply.
For instance, starting. alphabetical
~, one dreams of "Adoration-To
dream you adore a person you soon
will become rich through the death of
relative. "a. 26. 3d." This means
play the numbers named after the
dream. Almost everything that "A
dream could be built on is given in the
books with the number which they
signify should be played.
Interesting Dream Books.
In the preface of one of these books
is the following:
And it shall come to pass after
ward that God VIII pour out his spirit
upon all flesh, and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy; your old
men shall dream dreams, and your
young men shall see visions. Joel IL,
2S. Continuing, the preface says;
In introducing this work to our read
ers, we say that dreams arise from
the brain, the seat of powers of think
ing, of movement and of feeling. If
the brain be not disturbed, it will be
excited to dreams by the images with
which it has been filled during the day
'Dreams-humburg, people cry: but it
is not so. Experience teaches us diff
ferently. 1t cannot be denied that
many things in our dreams have come
to pass, and it is said that dreams
have been a stimulus to a great many
SpeculationS. Accordingly we have
arranged them alphabetically for the
sake Of our readers, to refer to them
more readily"
Dreamers Sell Their Tips.
Under the belief that old men dream
of things suggesting numbers that will
surely come out of the policy wheel,
regular dreamers are employed. and
they charge a fee for tipping off the
numbers that will come.
In the raid several wagon loads of
paraphernalia was confiscated and
hauled to the police station and stored
with that taken several days ago. Two
of the negroes, Simon Stone and Thorn
as Harris, were released on 5000 cash
bail All of those arrested will be ar
raigned in Police Court.
The police are making a determined
effort to stamp out the policy shops,
and a vigorous crusade will be kept up
until all have quit the business. That
the writer's would be bold enough to
continue business after Wednesdays
raid was a great surprise to the Off
GERS. although it had been reported that
the reputed owner of one of the wheels
had said: "They can't bluff me: to -