Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-04-14
REMARKABLE GAMBLING DEN.
Located in Heart OF China Town-Is
Mysteries House.

Located in Heart OF China Town-Is
Mysteries House.
In the heart of Chinatown recently
the police explored what they believe to
be the most remarkable gambling den III
the world. 1t is called the House of
Mystery" and its entrance is at No. -
Ieil street. The den is patroniZed eX-
clUsiyely by Cinnamon. and its pro-
prietors are members of the Hip Sing
Tong. According TO the police, as much
rs $4,000 changes hands there in one
days gambling.
The police III Chinatown have known
the House Of Mystery" to be Il gam
bling resort for many years. but III their
monthly raids they failed to capture a
single person. Spies have watched the
entrance for weeks. They saw hundreds
of Cinnamon enter each day, but saw
none emerge. The mystery was ex-
planned yesterday when they passed
through thirteen sheet iron and wooden
doors before they got to the hiding places
Of the gamblers.
Capt. Schlottman of the Elizabeth
street station recently ordered two young
detectives Cunniff and Sullivan. to solve
the mystery and not to report back until
they had completed their task. The de-
tectives were not long in discovering that
three l0Ok-outS were on duty all the time.
When raid was made week ago not
q Chinaman was to be found The po-
licemen remained awake overnight to
make an early morning raid and found
the front door locked. They smashed il
down with axes and began Il close
search.
No. - Pell street is 4 five story brick
tenement building from all outside APP
pearanceS. A Chinese grocery store oc-
cupies the first floor and the detectives
found a big door covered with sheet
iron. Passing through this and two more
Soidly constructed doors they were in
the main gambling room, where fan-tan
pie Cow. Chinese policy and cards for biz
stakes are played. There is Il small
room just beyond the main gambling
room.
Granting that fifty men entered this
room and disappeared inside Of two min
utes. where could you look for them:'
asked Cuniff.
Lets bore a hole in the wall" said
Sullivan.
The detectives then made an opening
hardly large enough to afford an en-
trance. After passing through the hole
the reporter found himself in darkness,
and guided by Il detective with Il lighted
candle, passed to another space of about
the same size.
This brought the exploring party into
Il HdIIoW pdSSd8e4 Iilfec IeeL III HelENt.
which ran To another small hole. and
working their way through this space
they found themselves in narrow
passage, and discovered an ron-barred
and suffered window
The hallway near the window is pro-
tected at the front and rear by sheet
iron walls On the floor is n trap door
biz enough for a medium sized man to
pass through \ ladder is attached to Il
rope and by it one can go below to il
cellar and there he passes through a
barrel and finds 4 basement with an
exit on Pell street. From tile same hall
WAY approach to the cellar one can reach
tile fourth floor of the building 4 trap
door in the ceiling leads after a twenty
foot climb to the inside of a roller top
desk. \ sliding door is opened from
the inside aud through it one enters
Chinese sleeping apartment. which is
part of the gambling house. The desk
has been the ''get-away" of 500 gam
hiers for the last three years. the police
say.
At the rear of the room there are two
Iron-harred windows which slide open.
and by Il rope one can slide down into
the back yard. Another exit leads to a
side hail after passing through two ice
box doors BY means Of the exits the
gambling rooms can he cleared Of POO
men within five minutes.-New York
World