The San Francisco call., 1906-08-11
WILL INVESTIGATE
NIGHT HAUNTS.
Police Board Gets Word
That Owl Saloons and
GamblingAreShielded

The Board of Police Commissioners
is contemplating thorough investiga-
ton OF the charges that police protec-
tion is given gambling houses all
night saloons and notorious red light
resorts along Fillmore street and in
the Richmond District. The board has
word that officers on the beat have re-
ported the existence of these evils to
their superiors, but that the reports
have gone astray in time to save the
trouble of an investigation 1t has
been rumored that some one high in
police circles is protecting these noto-
rious places, and before the investiga-
tion is finished IL is likely that every
officer from Chief of Police Dinan down
will be called before the board and
made to explain his conduct
Evidence is at hand showing that re-
ports have been turned in to the Park
police station to the effect that the
saloons known as the Terminal at
Haight and Stanyan streets; Park
View, owned by Heagerty. at Waller
and Stanyan streets; Toms Cabin.
owned by Mcnamara of Turtle fame;
the NJ. and NJ, owned by Mitchell, at
the ocean beach; the Casino, at Fif-
teenth avenue and Fulton street:
Dickie's, at Sixth avenue and Fulton
street, and numerous others have been
keeping later hours than the law al
lows.
It is known that reports were fled
by patrolmen and sergeant time and
again during the past month and that
the reports were passed by Lieutenants
Lackman and Kelly to Captain Gleeson
who is in direct charge Of the district
UP To CHIEF OMAN.
According to the natural course of
events, these reports would be for
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Police Dinan- If this course was pur-
sued Dinan has failed to bring the
matter before the Police Commission.
The same condition of affairs exists
in regard TO reports filed in reference
to gambling houses which abound in
Captain Moneys district. Patrolmen
have filed reports on the existence of
these games, which have been running
full blast for some time past. AT 1851
Fillmore street, on the second floor of
a building, the ground floor of which
is occupied by the Second Class" sa-
loon, is a notorious resort. This place
! is run by flanagan & Peterson. 1t was
I raided last week, but the raid failed
signally, because il was tipped of be-
! fore the arrival of a police sergeant
and four patrolmen who We're detailed
on the case.
The rear Of nearly every large cigar
store on the new business thorough
/ fare has been fitted for gambling and
I every day and night hundreds pass in
/ lose their money and emerge. There
! Is a gambling house on Golden Gate
/ avenue, near Webster street; one or
! Ellis street, near Fillmore, close to Z
church, and still another on Webster
street, near O'Farrell. Gene Sutter has
/ a game running above the drugstore al
Fillmore ard Sutter streets.
As in the case of the all-night sa-
| looms in the park district, reports filed
in regard to gambling houses in Cap.
tain MONEYS district have gone
astray.
CRESWELL WILL PROSECUTE.
Those who claim to be wise say that
the places illegally running are under
police protection. Police Commissioner
] Creswell says that he will prosecute
every man connected with the opera.
tion of all-night saloons and gambling.
houses and he is backed by the Other
Commissioners.
1t is understood that the Police Com
mission will subpoena the policemen
who patrol the beats where the noto.
rious places are operating and the of
ficers in charge of the districts. Il
they do, men sworn under oath to tel
the truth may give some startling in.
formation.
! District Attorney Langdon is waiting
for the Police Commission to act II,
believes that the closing up of suci
places is under the direct jurisdiction
of the Police Department and the Po
lice Commission. He says, however
that after waiting a sufficient tim
for the police board to act he will TAX
steps on his own account. He say
also that he knows of the existenc,
of gambling houses and has not acte,
so far merely because he was not de