The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-04-08
MARKET STREET
RESORT RA|DED
District Attorney, Assisted
by Police, Arrests Seven
teen Men and Two Women
EXPERTS GET EVIDENCE
Action Taken as Result of
Expose in This Paper of
a Bold SWindling Game
EXPERTS GET EVIDENCE

The expose in The Call of the swind-
ling game carried on at THE Girl in
Blue" resort. So Market street, prompt.
ed District Attorney Langdon to take
action to suppress the game. and yes
terday afternoon seventeen men and
two women were arrested at the place
ana taken to the City Prison. The raid
was made by the District Attorney; Al
McCabe, his chief clerk, and Detectives
Taylor. Mulcahey and Freel. Warrants
had previously been procured from Po-
lice Judge Cabaniss, sworn out by H. j.
Waters.
When the District Attorney read the
article in The Call he sent Waters and
L. e. Schieffel to the place to see what
really was going on. They went
through the regular routine OF seeing
the dance by the girl in blue and were
then requested to step into a rear room
while the dancer prepared for another
performance. While they were waiting
cappers asked them to join in game.
They were only too willing and as re-
suit they lost their money. The game
was on the principle of roulette, but
there was joker in Jackpot"
Waters, who is an old newspaper man
and was employed as an expert by the
last Grand Jury, and Schieffel reported
their experience to Langdon and he
asked the assistance of the Police De-
partment III raiding the place. Detec-
tives Taylor, Mulcahey and Freel were
detailed by Chief Oman and they, with
Langdon, McCabe, Waters and Schieffel,
reached the place about o'clock yes
terday afternoon. AS soon as they
made their appearance the inmates
made wild break for liberty, but they
found the exits guarded. Mike Golden,
the manager of the place, was dragged
from under counter by Detective Null
cahey. Including Golden there were
seventeen men arrested and the two
women. The paraphernalia was also
seized.
The names given by the men were
Edward Kline Charles Duff, John Rich
ards, Jay Reese, Charles Sanford. Fred
Williams, Fred Saunders. John Conley,
Gus Roller, Richard Hoist, Robert
Thomson, Bert Leggett, George Cross.
Richard Hill, James w. Harris and
James Johnson. The women's names
are May Haas. the girl in blue, and
Della Bradley, the cashier. Kline, Duff,
/. Richards and Reese were cappers. A
charge of conducting a gambling game
was made against the seventeen men
and the two women and against Golden
and the four cappers an additional
charge of petty larceny by trick and
device was made. s-p 81
District Attorney Langdon- said that
number of complaints had been made
to him by victims of the game.
Last Saturday he said, "a man from
Los Angeles complained TO me that he
had been swindled out of $3.50 and an
other man lost SIS. / have been work
ing on the case for about week and
sent two men to play the game. I also
notified the Police Department. You
put up quarter and win 81, but you
are told you can't take 1t because it Is
a jackpot. Then you are asked to put
up so cents and win 50, but The jack
pot again comes in the way and so 1t
goes on till the amount is SO large that
you are forced to drop out. But i'm
mediately the cappers start in you see
them winning easily Jackpot or no jack
pot. 1t is skin game and I will prose-
cute the case to the end