Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-28

by The Herald in regard to the state
Of affairs existing in Chinatown of this
city, Officers Strobe and willett OF
the Chinatown squad last night began
systematic roundup Of the lawless
celestials, and through clever work
managed to clear out several of the
less important games, while raid
on a resort in Ferguson alley netted
four victims and $1Oo in the bank.
The four Cinnamon arrested were
taken to the central police station, where
they gave the following names: Wan
Wong, Jim Sing, Wong Poy and Wah
Bing. They were charged with main
tanning gambling game.
1t was Just the night for an attack
on the lawless Chinese and, silent as
cats about to leap on their prey, the
officers wormed theiy way through al
leys so small as to barely admit pas
Eageway to a man.
The lookouts dozed at their posts
and the cold drizzling rain sent the
Chinese scattering to their huts. At
Los Angeles street and Ferguson alley,
the officers met a Herald reporter.
Down through the alley they went, the
officers holding umbrellas close over
their heads, so that in the dim light
they could barely be distinguished.
The Officers Start
The slippery bricks of the alleyway
glistened from the dim lights in the
shacks and the thick smoke of the
pipes drifted out and mingled with
the thousand and one other smells of
the saturated settlement as the Off
GERS worned their way down a pas
sage and started for low building.
Without the slightest sound they
reached the front room. Then they
peered in, and like a flash one of the
officers had slipped past the lookout
and darted into the main room of the
place.
With a protesting grunt the lookout
leaped from his seat toward bell.
and then seeing the other men run for
the door he considered discretion the
better part of valor and with slippers
flopping from his be-stockined heels
and pigtail streaming out behind him
them that the lid was beginning to
close "dlam hellee sloon.'
Officer Lands Dealer
With a bound STROBE landed in the
main room and leaned over the table
and smiled. The officer is known to
the Chinese as Smiley Stlode," and
they knew that grim
sCnod auanino hOUs said Sfrndo
and he began to rip the covering from
the table.
In the meantime the dealer was at
tempting to get the outfit out OF sight
and had actually managed to throw
the money under the table before the
officer stopped him.
There was an entire outfit of fan
tan and enough dominoes and dice to
keep a High O. game going for a
month to come.
With indignant protestations the
Chinese, one of whom was the fattest
man in Chinatown, put on their coats
and prepared to leave.
IL STOP lin to slee flend," walled one
of the captives, as he started to go,
but he was sent back to his seat.
The captured layout was tied up in
a bundle as evidence, including the
raker for the fan tan game and about
sixty dollars in half dollars and quar-
tiers, which had composed the bank.
II jlust STOP slee flend. glo now,"
walled the same Chinese, but again he
was stopped.
Expect to Fight Case
BY that time STROBE had returned
after calling the wagon and the Chinese
turned out the light and prepared to
leave AT one end of the room a little
opium corner had been fixed and an
,entire layout of opium was arranged
on the coarse mating couch With care
the proprietor of the place blew out
the little lamp and turned to go.
II stlop sfee flend Just tloo minutes" ("
walled the same celestial and still
smiling that same Smiley Stlode'
lifted the visitor into the back of the
patrol wagon and started him to the
station.
The men gave their names and said
that they would fight the case.
Two of them furnished fifty dollars
pan eacn ana fStuIHeu 10 CHINATOWN
where they secured the remaining bail
money and soon had their friends
liberated. They will be tried as soon
as the holidays Close
Ablaze With Light
Following the raid on the fan tan
game. Strobe and a Herald reporter
walked about the little settlement. The
town was ablaze with light, and al
though the rain was pouring down on
the outside, flushing the cutters and
making life miserable, ON the inside
of the little houses the lights CLEANED
and slowed and the josses smiled down
- their loving subjects, who blew such