The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-26
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CbUGAl||I RAID B
Same Old Place Z: Same .'s Oh
Game, Same Olyd. n
NJ 4 # lang
PLAYING /! 4 THE Bag
Gambling Out s. q. AIKEN zen From rom
o1ice Gpt'rt ana Sold 5e'Ilt1s5
5i A to iegro.,, h. 4. 5.5 u
PLAYING ..PIG T. The il! BAG

iii tleIss Bas and Policy came
is grief last nigh ia al crepe 3llargsgain
great punches Oh & he door Of the ganb-,
ling establishmei zoMncd by@Sold man lll1la
Robert ELI "A
seven inaiod ro,,s egro men nd so trI,.
very black on,a ca INIT lie;
ssde NV Il tSons he Wig LANCE lle
Police 9lla
sS8 Two weeks ago II iastit Knight the same
tjoint Fwa ided. and Y Went y-o one fren-
Szied fnancier saE ere taken. but lastSnigl,t
there were but .eight who were bold
enough to- atronize Ellis S Monte Carlo,
and tllsseIars 5bemoaning their5excessve
%tcnicrity. g 4. 81 so N; n IL
day 8 Il yesterday that tho pig had
returned to the p..bag 81 and that tho game
was n Il full swing at the oil Si1nint, No
s7ol4 North Second Street. Spoilers we're
post ted by foxy old man Ellis,s SO that he
sapproaclls I o his resort could " not 5rbe
rushed & without notice to the dusty
I gamblers. VI 81 III I.!., ~
Raiders Start Out.
;sAt 11,s q clock Captain Ikerse, Sergeant
Barefoot, Officers Sale, Louis IIulcher,
Walton, Newman, ClarksonS and a Times
loIspatc eli reporter met on tho corner 8ol
Third and Clay Street. Captain a lNcrse
took o Ulcers Newman and Clarkson to
guard the front OF the building, and Ser.
sgeant i BarfootY with Officers Sale. Hull
cher, Walton and The Tlmes-D Dispatch
man went = to climb fences behind the
gambling resort. 3sS ~ &
AT Third and jackson Officer Hulcher
led tho party5oyer a fence o$;L blind alley
ana it was just there that the raid was
very nearly blocked. for a. negro ~ oman
saw tho party and spirited ava y Y Ike
mad to warn the Ellis outfit
#sS Over tin cans, through deep mud and
across fences. raced the officers until the
back fence Of tho den was Frea ched, before
the negro woman had sounded tho alarms
The weight OF four stalwart officers push
ed 1T down In n twinkle, and tho house
was surrounded before the gamblers knew
that "a rail was on.
Sergeant Bnrfoot knocked heassdoor
down, and Officer Sale made a. rush for
the stairs, falling from the TOP to the
bottom into Sergeant Barfoot's arms. who
saved him from an ugly accident 5l
The Round Up.
Seven men ana one womanSwei'n caught
,red-handed playing the fascinating game
of f,'Pig in3the Bag" while In 81 room
down stairs a complete policy&outfitN was
discovered. The same old system or bells
and covered lights We're In operation. tho
same beetle proved Senagumbian guarded
tho door,. tho same old tales Of S.inno-
5cence were told with the same old re.
suit. The patrol wagon was plloned for
and OFFICER John Drake drove eight de-
pressed and dusky individuals tostho Sec
ond Police Station. ~
The line mp was as follows: Robert FL
Ills. proprietor; George cambridge, door
keeper; Martha Long. Aaron Thomas, Tom
Williams. George Wood, William Nell
son and Charles Brown iisf
All5were bailed except Ellis and Dand-f
ridge, who as old offenders. were snug
Sly locked MP III "a cell. ls{
Robert Ellis, who keeps the dive, IL a
trespetcable-lo oking old darkey sixty
three years Of age. slave, before the
war. belonging to n Mr.. Clopton. of New
f Kent county, X
Tho strongest part OF the graid is the
fact that tho "Plg IN the Bag outfit
captured last night is g the same outfit
that was captured two weeks ago and