Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-13
EVERY PERSON IN
PLACE CAPTURED
MERELY A BUCKET SHOP, SAY
PATR0LMEN
PRISONERS ARE HELD FOR TWO
HOURS WITHOUT BAIL
Captain and Sixteen Officers Gain Ad-
mission to Rooms In Bank Build
ing and Nab Proprietors
and Players

Thirty-three men were captured in a
sensational raid on an alleged bucket
shop conducted by Rummel & Morris,
220 Citizens National Bank building, a
little before noon yesterday.
Captain Auble of the central station
and sixteen patrolmen, all armed with
John Doe warrants, descended on the
place, locked the outer doors of the
offices and made every man a prisoner.
Rummel & Morris occupied two large
rooms on the second floor of the build
ing. They were fitted UP with the usual
paraphernalia of a brokers' shop. On
the walls of one of the rooms were the
blackboards giving the latest quota
tions. The boards were carted to the
station as additional evidence.
Captain Auble placed all of the pris-
oners in one room and then allowed
them to pass through one at a time.
They were all searched. Whenever
pink slip, a Rummel g. Morris memo
randum of purchase, was found upon
prisoner q check was placed beside his
name. Some had the forethought to
destroy these bits of evidence before
their turns came; others tried to hide
them. some depositing them in their
shoes, where they were invariably
found. Others chewed them into pulp
and tossed them into out-of-the-Way
places. Patrolman Cook acted as desk
sergeant and took the names, while an
other officer searched the prisoners.
Operators Arrested
Among those captured, beside the
proprietors, were four telegraph ope-
rators. All of those captured seemed to
be men of means. They were taken to
the station in the patrol wagon in
squade of eight at time. A large
crowd gathered at Third and Main
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At central station all bail was refused
and the prisoners were placed in cells
to await action by the court.
Prosecuting Attorney Thomas w.
Woolwine and his deputy, Guy w.
Eddy, accompanied the plain clothes
men and were present when the arrests
were made.
In the preliminary examination be-
fore Justice Chambers each of the per-
sons was placed under 5000 bail bond.
The four operators, j. R. Read, Arthur
Weinett, r. A. HaWcroft and ]. w.
Rudder, were placed under a $500 bail
bond, and the two proprietors, H. II.
Rummel and r. B. Morris, were placed
under a $1,000 bail bond. Cash bail for
one-half the sum of the bond was ac-
cepted in each case. They will be ar
raigned and permitted to plead before
Justice Chambers at o'clock today.
Those arrested in the raid gave their
names as follows:
]. H. Patton, 322 San Pedro street;
j. w. Rudder, Maryland flats H. H.
Rummel, proprietor; r. B. Morris, pro-
prietor; r. E. Evans, 4O33 Mathews
street; S. C. Hobbie, 24SS South Olive
street; M. r. Master, 1887 South Flow
er street; John Ellison, 431 Lake View
avenue; j. w. Rice, 111S orange street;
j. f. lie Master, 947 West Twelfth
street; H. Ash, Ell Monte; J. r. Read,
4SS California street; j. w. Hamilton,
1917 West Jefferson street; w. Scripps,
Chicago; Thomas A. Orr, Trenton ho-
tel; Arthur Wernett, First and Olive
streets; r. S. Hawcroft, Glendale; e.
L. Weeks, Alhambra; F. Wing, GAL
South Hope street; III. A. Miller, 1872
South Spring street; j. G. Brown, Long
Beach, John Thursman, 312 South Fre-
mont avenue; E. II. Peterson, 5O4 Ma
son building; M. o. Washington, 425
North Fremont avenue; l.. Phelps, 1920
Kansas avenue; c. Dye, 1901 Vermont
avenue; Ben Stiner, GAO Normandie av-
enue; J. Stortz, 1881 Bartlett street; l..
Fuller. 2641 Brighton Beach; e. r. Day,
2708 Dalton avenue: A. Ammenom. 425
West Twenty third street; J. Smith,
14OO Howard building; A. Cooney, 75S
West Twenty-first street.
Woolwine to Continue Crusade
Prosecuting Attorney Woolwine, re-
ferring to the raid, said:
t'I have been after the bucket shop
men for some time. | have found ii
difficult to obtain evidence, as they are
conducted In an open manner and APP
parently on legitimate lines. Rummel
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