The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-20
FAST CAME GOING
AS COPS ENTERED.
Chips Clattcrcd Down in Heap.
and Playing Came to Ab-
rrpt Halt.
EVERYBODY THERE ARRESTED
Saturday Night Raid on Busy
Broad Street Block Attracts
Curious Crowd.

With all his plans well laid and
every preliminary arranged so as to
avoid possible mistake, Officer Wiley,
accompanied by Policemen Thurman.
Stocklnar and Lear, raided the Senate
Social Club at No. 52s East Broad
Street on Saturday night, and arrested
o. V. Farmer and Sam Kaufman on
the charge of running a common
| gaming house, and summoned nine
| others as witnesses against the two
men.
officer Wiley had long suspected
| that the place was not bona fide
club. and after working some days OF,
| the case he gathered sufficient evil
dence to warrant the raid. Glum sur
prise greeted him as 10 walked In with
| the other pluecoats, and chips clat-
tered down on the two tables as the
| players eyed the police and saw the
| game was up. Guards were placed at
all the doors. and while curious
crowd gathered on the outside. officer
| Wiley took all the names and placed
under arrest the two alleged to be the
| proprietors.
Police Can't Stop Him, He Says.
All the paraphernalia, consisting of
two large poker tables, two jackpots.
! twenty-five packs of cards and In
| Vulnerable chips. was gathered up ana
| carried to the Second Station to ne
used as evidence when the case comes
! to trial.
Farmer and Kaufman were also
taken to the station house, where they
gave bail for their appearance. In
Captain Epps's private Office Kaufman
| Il, is alleged, boldly declared TINT he
expected to play all his life. and that
the police could not stop him. In
previous trial. Farmer stated In court
that he would play no more. and he
took his second arrest hardly.
Under the direction of Captain Epps.
and as a result OF the vigilance of OFF,
cerN Wiley. one of the most active men
in the department. and others. most
OF the gambling dens on Broad Street,
where they were once so thickly col
Iected, have been broken up. The
Senate Social Club received It's charter
! In 1903, being issued to men named
! Phelps, Bowman and Phillips. Though
properly chartered, 1t is alleged that
persons not members have been per-
mitted to play, and it Is on this evi-
dcnce that Officer Wiley expects to
prove his case.
The rooms are situated in the heart
OF the business district on Broad Street,
but the gambling has been kept up so
carefully and quietly that few sus-
rected It's existence.
Even the police were not certain that
i illegal gambling was permitted until
recently, and they took the burden on
| their shoulders when they made the
raid 1t was done so quickly that
every man in the hou.a was taken
completely by surprise. Two games
were in progress. and the cards We're
1,pI 80
| the officers entered. my God" said
4 one Caught again" and he threw mis-
chips down in disgust. Not chip was
j cashed in. Over $50 was discovered
I in the jackpots.
The automobile patrol made two
trips to carry the men and their para
phernalla. A large crowd collected at
/ the doors, and hundreds of curious
eyes were turned on the men as they
| were brought out. This is believed to
be the last of the illegal gambling re-
/ sorts on Broad Street