The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-29

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where the police had failed.
Il certainly do, and shall conlmuni-
cate at once with Commissioner
Baader see to the sending back
to patrol duty of men who can't detect
law violations"
IT viii mention no one.
There are men In the sherif'a office
WhO withhold from the pOIscc iaforma-
ton upon which raids coufd be made
The men arrested were arraigned this
morning. The two Chinese proprietors
were held in 1000 bail for a hearing
next week, and the dope" fiends were
held as material witnesses. on a charge
of being disorderly persons.
The two raids were made late yester-
day at u and 20 Lafayette street, one
block away from police headquarters.
Those who Were Taken.
The men arrested We're:
Fong Sem, 45 years old, proprietor Of
the joint at 81 Lafayette street.
WI lg Wung. SO years old, proprietor
OF the restaurant at u Lafayette street
All Guy, 26 years old, a carpenter, SO
Lafayette street.
Flung Hi, IS years old, a carpenter,
80 Lafayette street. +
All zee "A years old. i~aundryman, 81
Lafayette street.
John Stewart. IS years old, a clerk,
FL washington street.
Joseph Cummings, docketed as Jo-
seph Cunningham, 20 years old, en-
graver, 221 Lafayette street.
Lester Smith, docketed as George
Morton, 26 years old, clerk, f5 Green
street.
William Borton. 20 years old, clerk,
Fsre1inphuVSe avenue.
George Hoff, ~ years old, CLERK, 145
Summit street. i. -
Edward Hampstead, engineer. 80
years old. 45 Durand street.
George Brown. IS years old, express
man, % Lafayette street.
Frank Cashella. 20 years old, polisher,
% jackson street.
Leo Busch. q years old. renovator,
o67 Peshine emu
David Christ, q years old, clerk. 4S
Green street,
SON OF Chief in IoraRnet.
John Corbitt.js a son of Police Chief
Michael Corhitt, but does no live with
his father. He has been known, the
sheriff's men say TO have ~frequented
places where cocaine or ipiun7 are han
died, and only recently had been called
10 lIfG SiIGIlllt - OilltG ny IN
Charles NJ. Mason. He denied to Mason
tina he had f%requented such places, but
the und~er-sheriff told him that he had
been seen in them and warned him
then that IL he did not take care he
would be caught in a raid.
Young CorbItt had also beer warned
by his father. When he vas caught
yesterday he felt sorry that he did not
4 a. A. H-:-1 tito. .r1 A1soD A.. hS1n
his identity.
Others of the prisoners also gave
false names and addresses.
How the Raids Were HInde.
1t was D few minutes part 3 p'f'' -
when every availabl
Sheriff Somraer's CaR 8 1lIo1oo p9sneo
on the two places SIM -, 1tado
stable Samuel Smith and half a. do@oh
men went 20 the building at No. Il.
Constables Overmiller I'M Thomas, in
charge of the other squad. numbering
eight men, entered tho Chinese grocery
store at No. 81,
whats going on o. Patrolnan James
Dargin asked one of the officers, but
he was given little satisfaction.
Two large boxes were Allied with the
opium ''layouts'' found IN the two
places. and from the alleged restau-
rant at No. IL about fifty oxe of the
deadly drug were co~nfscated by the
Sheriff7s men.
The establishment at No. 90 way by
Ear the more elaborate of the, two
places. Nineteen double hunks We're
counted on the three floors, and base
ment of the building. Eight of these
were In the basement and extended
along both side walls the entire length
of the building.
When the Sheriff's men entered the
place young Corbitt wac found sitting
in the small room in the rear OF the
grocery store. Cummings and Smith
hid themselves under one of the cheap,
mating covered hunks in this o
They We're discovered by Constabies
Walton and Thomas and taken from
their hiding place. "A
Ono Controlled and HaRdcuned.
Cummings put up a stiff fight, and
IL required the combined efforts of four
officers to handcuff him. When searched
an ounce bottle half filled with cocaine
and a small vial partially filed with
morphine were found in his pockete,
The man Is a mental and physical
wreck-a specimen of what the drug
will do to a man. as Under sheriff Ma
0 expressed himself when he saw the
prisoner.
All Guy made an attempt to jump out.
81 O second story window. but his eff
Fort to escape was frustrated by Con-
stable Walton.
Attracted by the presence of the
Sherif's men In the neighborhood, and.
later by The prison a from the county
Jail. which stood in front of No. So FOR
some time. a large crowd gathered, and
the Sheriff's men were compelled to
summon the reserves from the First
Precinct. Two mounted officers from
that precinct were also on the scene.
When the constables entered No. IL,
a three-story building, the ground
floor being occupied by a local concern
Tor storage and the two upper floors by
Wung Wung. in addition to finding the
proprietor cooking opium, fou whites,
all young men, were found in the vari-
Gus hunks hitting the pipe, and three
other Chinese were found smoking
opium.
JAIL FOR DESERTER.