Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-04-08
BIG RAID ON
BUCKET SH0F S
FEDERAL sLEUTHs TAP WIRES
TO SECURE INFORMATION
AGAINST CoNsPIRAToRs.
GOVERNMENT WILL PROSECUTE
First Move to Check Gambling In
stocks.-Three Firms, Including
20 Persons, Under Indictment
Five pefendan Miliionaires.

i. Washington, April ARMED with
bench warrants of the supreme court
Of the District of Columbia. special
agents Of the department of justice
simultaneously raided brokers' Offices
in New York, Philadelphia. Jersey
City, Baltimore, Cincinnati and st.
Louis.
Conspiracy. indictments In which
twenty nine persons are named-hve
Of them said to be millionaires, and
all interested in brokers' Offices in
large cities of the United States, were
returned by the federal grand jury of
the District of Columbia upon evidence
which agents Of the department of
Justice had been gathering for more
than a year.
Three Firms Accused.
The men indicted are said to be
those financially interested in the cor
poration known as e. S. Boggs & Co.,
which has ofhces in New York and
Philadelphia, Price & Co., which has
Offices in Baltimore and New York
and the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers, which has Offices in Jersey
City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and St.
Louis.
As being interested in Boggs & Co..
the following are indicted: Richard
E. Preusser. Lee Mayer, George Turn
er. William H. Lillis, oliver j. Robin
son. Edward s. Beggs, Harry Owens.
Robert A. Guy, all of New York, and
Al Ford and Marshall F. Parrish. of
Philadelphia. Named in connection
with them as alleged co.conspirators
are Edward Everett Taylor, OF. Wash
ington, D. c.. and his telegraph oper-
ator, Harry Johnson.
In the indictments against Price 4
Co.. the following are named: Will
liam B. Price. Virgil p. Randolph,
Harry M. Randolph, Charles T. Moore
head. Edward Weldon, Joseph Gaskins
and James A. Anderson, all of Balti.
more; Thomas H. Campbell and Ed
ward B. Taylor. of Philadelphia. In
the Standard Stock and Grain Deal
ers are named Edward Altemas,
Samuel Raymond. Oscar ]. Raphael
and Robert Hall, of Jersey City, N. j.;
Louis Celia, Of st. Louis; Henry c.
Stumpf, of Philadelphia and Henry r.
Duryee and his telegraph operator,
Charles r. Alley.
First "stock Gambling" Raid.
This, the United States govern.
ment's first attack upon stock
gambling. has been thoroughly pre-
pared with greatest secrecy. It's scope
practically covers the United States
from the Missouri river to the Atlantic.
The three concerns indicted maintain
more than two hundred and fifty
Offices and branch Offices located from
New England to Oklahoma.
The governments sleuths went at
the enemy with his own fire, and did
not hesitate to do little overlapping
to- get their evidence. Taking for
granted the charge often made that
bucketshops often secured quotations
by tapping wires which carry them to
legitimate customers, the detectives
tapped communications sent between
those indicted. Employees of some of
the shops were served with subpoenas
and called before the grand jury to
tell what they knew about the methods
Of operation.
Violation of the law, upon convic-
ton, entails maximum penalty of
$4,000 fine and two years imprison.
ment.