New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-23
POLICY SHOPS RAIDED.
LIST OF PLACES FOUND.
-Four Hundred Operating an Man
haitian and The BrOnr.

The most important raid against the policy
game since the time of "Ar' Adams was made
yesterday afternoon by officers Of the Socie-F
for the Prevention of Crime, assisted by many
Central Office detectives placed at tho disposal
of the society by Commissioner McAdoo.
The raids started at the alleged headquarters
of the game in an apartment house In Vesta-
ave. Brooklyn where man. who SAID he was
Mark Smith forty-eight years old. Of No. al
West 41st-st and three other men were capt
ured The raiders thel, continued their work In
Manhattan and The Bronx, guided bY the lists
of policy shops found in the alleged headquarters
in Brooklyn.
According to these lists there are 400 shops
operating in Manhattan and The Bronx chiefly
on the lower East and lower West sides. After
consulting the captured lists superintendent
McCIintock. of the Society for the Prevention Oh
Crime divided his forces and stationed them at
points where the runners carrying the drawings
from Brooklyn met the shop operators, and TOOK
plays and money from them to the Brooklyn
headquarters.
The superintendent, with W. c. Dodge' as a7~
sistant. w C. Hamilton. and James w Murray
detective sergeants, took charge OF aHaIS III 'lo
West 47th-st. precinct
At 46th-st. and 11th-ave they caught Philip
c,Isssev. an allege4 shop operator, who saio he
Iive9 at No. pa West 6Tth-st., and Henry Rey-l-
oIds another alleged shop operator. who said ne
lived at No IA 11th-ave. Both men, according
IN the superintendent, were waiting at the cor
ner for the runner from Brooklyn to come Win
the afternoon drawings Classy had 500 and
many policy PLAYS, and Reynolds had S40o' be-
sides several slips.
4 little later the superintendent and his force
rounded UP George Turner, of NO. 243 west 4%o-
81 at 42d-st and Sth-ave. During the scuf-
fIo On1iC6 +.
Turner, according to the superintendent, man
aged to get rid of any policy slips he may have
had He was found to have $500 in small bills
and change.
Before the 6 o'clock drawings were due at the
various meeting places it plain that the
alarm had been given. The meeting points were
deserted by the shop operators
After waiting until o'clock to hear from his
assistants in other districts and on the East
Side. Superintendent McClintock decided that
the tip had spread over the city, and he called
off his men. He afterward said:
Il does not surprise me very much TO find that
the tip prevented more arresls a. it " ~ I'M,
noints and the lack Of q great NUMBER OF I'M
I,ad,ata arrests is of secondary importance cotlI
rared with the data lists and materlaI we Ioul'u
in the bea douarters in Vesta-aVe, Brooklyn.
This headouarters stood at the head OF tne
roIicv business in this city as Al ADAMS ; heIiI
quarters stood before his conVlctloil We p0
IioIea o,,r raid of to-day will act as as great d
3,, litoe ou, "a he business as the raid Adamss
headquarters was -. 80 ,,.ado,ar
ters are the acting heads of the business we
hope to get at the real head of the business WIN M
the evidence found in the headquarters to-uaS =
O. ri.,,e for raiding the place we're kept Sc
orst 0u upttI we led the way into the building
commissioner McAdoo did not know ~heTe We
Intended to operate, We asked him for deIec-
ives and h., assigned some Of Sergeant Eg-
o.c.c taft We did not let them know our pur-
pose. -. NO know. that
some Of the police have worked with the poIicy
men so We took no one into our confidence .e Ine
nartain of the precinct did not know we We're
flef,,s i'm his district until we came out OF the
Zesfa-gve. Headquarters. He happened 10 be III
the neighborhood Of Vosta-aEe; '2oki5s - igt q
1,,,I,rZ, when We came out OF the headquarters
Viz our prisoners. More arrests VIII folloW