The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12
SENSATIONAL RAIDS
BOSTON POLICE AFTER PERFORM
 FRS OF ILLEGAL OPERATIONS.
Ofice of Bishep Woman, Who Operated on Geary Girl and Ioia Reed, Furnished Interesting
 Disclosures.

Boston, Nov. 11.--Twenty detectives, headed by Police Captains Joseph, Du- gan and Lawrence. made a sensational descent this afternoon upon five offices In. Fremont Street. where 1t is alleged illegal operations have been performed on an extensive scale.
 Hundrds of people blocked traffic on Fremont Street during the raids and for hours afterwards the popular ina- pression being that another girl had met her death in one of the hospitals. The action of the police today was the result of disclosures which have come to light recently in connection with the death of Susanna Geary, the victim. of the suit case tragedy. whose death followed an illegal operation alleged to have been performed in the office of Mrs. Dr. Jane Bishop, and the more recent operation performed on lola Reed. a l6-year-old girl of West New field, Me.
 The raids were determined upon early in. the day and 1t was planned to visit the establishments of Drs. Butler, Elm mons, Williams, Ames and Bishop. The three last tnamed are women, physicians. No one was found at the offices of Mrs. Dr. Ames and D. J. w. Emmons at 165 and ITO Fremont Street. respectively. The Bishop office was also deserted.
 
 found. He is the husband of Annie Brown who was sentepced to five years imprisonment recently for performing criminal operation at the Bishop of- flee. Three young women were found at the William office They explained their presence by the statement that they were waiting for the doctor. An effort was made to prevent the officers from entering Dr.. Buffers of- flee but the policemen promptly smashed the doors in and proceeded to search the premises.
 pr. Bishop Had Jumped.
 The establishment. which held the most interest for the raiders was that | of Mrs. Jane Bishop at ITS Fremont street. The door of the safe was open and papers were strewn about the floor, indicating the nasty departure | of the persons connected with the institution after Lewis Crawford and William Howard made a confession to the police that Susanna Geary had been | a patient there.
 Books found in a desk showed that an enormous business has been done daily. There are three operating rooms in the place, all cleyerly arr ranged with the idea of hiding the operating physician. Over each oper- ating chair hangs a curtain fin which there is an opening only sumciently | his work An oficer found an addi- tional evidence of the extreme care 70 hide the operator. He found mask of black hair to hide the face which covered the face from the top of the head to the neck. Black pieces of yelling were used to hide the eyes.
 While the raids were in progress | Captain Dugan. accompanied by lola Reed and Deputy Sheriff Authorn of | sanford, Me- visited several offices in | an effort to have the girl identify the place where she went to submit to an operation. When she was taken to the l Bishop office the young girl unhesitat- inely stated that it was there that she was treated.
 The Bishop establishment is said to he the largest of It's kind in New Eng land and the headquarters of many branch offices, many of which are out of town. It Is the belief of the police that there is a syndicate in operation here and that several offices are used for the patients at various times so as to confuse them as to the location of the office.
 raids did rot result in any arrests. Can tain Cain tonight said that the police