The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-08-19
eAMeLlNe?. GRACIOUS, MOI
At Narragansett, Society Womer
Were Just Sitting Around"

WCTC JUST OllNlHH FTOuUus
New York, Aug. 13.-Mrs. John II.
Hanan, wife of the millionaire shoe
maker, today gave her version of the
sensational raid on the fashionable
Beach street gambling club in Nara
gansett pier early Sunday morning.
Mrs. Hanan was alleged to have been
sitting at roulette wheel when the
raiders entered She was said to have
been arrested. Mrs Hanan is a beauti
| full woman and owns the large estate
Shore Acres. She formerly was Mrs.
Edith Evelyn Smith and was born in
TO the leading men of the state and
In governor frequently has been her
guest. Her interview follows:
Oh, oh-that what, raid? Gracious,
no! They don't call it that do they?
Well it was so funny. Really, it was
quite a frost all the way through. 1t
was such a failure that it lacked even
the thrills that go with ordinary sur
prises. And poor little Mr.. Cross How
disappointed he must be. The young
country bumpkin-l have known him
since he was midget boy sought to
jump into the public eye and he smp-
ly failed that's all.
II wouldn't have missed it for any
thing, though. 1t was a fair sort of
entertainment. but, oh, so farcical.
Really little Johnny could have made
it quite a comic opera if he had stud
led his part little better. People up
here do not worry about it at all
The situation is really this. Cross,
simple minded little native, seeking
to advertise himself, broke into the
club when he thought he could catch
some one playing. Instead he found
us lounging and chatting about on
divans and at tables after a big supper
and an evening at the casino. It's just
a big joke on him. that's all"
Asked to tell just what occurred
when Constable Cross entered the pa
vilion, Mrs. Hanan continued, after ex-
pressing her reluctance to be brought
into the notoriety of the affair:
After the evening at dance at the
casino which closed at twelve o'clock,
the members of the exclusive cottage
colony repaired to the club for a de
luxe supper. The supper over, they
went to the play rooms-the same way
they have them arranged at Palm
Beach, you know.
I'VE had hardly seated ourselves
at the play tables, some of us to look
on and others to join in the play
when the doors swung open and there
he stood-Mr Cross-reading dra'
matically some statement he had in
his trembling hands about arrests and
evidence and gambling, and SO forth
We had been dignified and orderly
and those of us not playing were en-
diversion of the games, as we have
for yeart, harming no one.
Then several of the gentlemen left
their tables and rushed over to Cross
The women, among them Mrs. Robert
Ohling, Mrs. Arthur E. Morris, Mrs
Emerson of Baltimore and Mrs. Har
rison Bulls, all left their seats quietly
and went into an adjoining room
Cross asked each ones name, bu
didn't get them all.
Arrested? Why, I don't know any
thing about that Yes, he did take
down some names. Goodness alive
don't allow that to get in the news
papers-that we were arrested-it''
misleading"
Reports from the pier today say
that you were found at an ornate
$4,000 roulette wheel eagerly at play
when the constable made his de
scent?" interrupted Mrs. Hanan's in
terviewer at the New York end of the
wire.
ooh, dear me, don't say that such ;
statement is in print" Mrs Hanan eX
claimed raising her voice to an ex
ceedingly high pitch. THAT quite un
true entirely. / was not captured
gambling The women whose name
have mentioned merely were dig
nifed spectators. No, really, don
recall the New York ladies present
There were twenty or thirty there,
should say. The Vanderbilts ant
Oelrichses and. in fact all of New
York's flne people, always visit tn
club when they come here"
Asked if the cottagers knew If younI
Mr.. Cross had obtained evidence sui
ficient to sustain his charges before
court, Mrs. Hanan laughed mildly owe
: the wire and explained:
He might have got something bel
ter than he did if he had been patien
: enough to wait little longer. Really
hardly any one was playing when h
arrived. He so earnestly courts
reputation-he wants to be lawye
and get a name-that he couldn'
seize the place like an experience
raider.
Mrs. Hanan added, in answer t
, questions, that she had known eros
,, since he was a small boy, as she ha
, spent her summers in the fashionabl
colony for many years, "He has jus
been graduated from school" she e'
planned.
He showed no head at all-abs'
concluded NIrc HanaI