Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-10
VANISH AFTER RAID
Society Women Flee From
Narraeansett Pier,
THEIR ARREST LIMITED AT
Many Summer Cottagers Fail to See
Harm in Gambling.
McKENNA OFFERS REWARD
President of Club Will Give $50, 900
to Any One Proving Wheels
Are Crooked.
McKENNA OFFERS REWARD

NARRAGANSETT PIER, r. L.. August
10.-Several women we'll known in So
ciety are missing from their usual haunts
here. Two of them were oottagers and
four were guests at the two most ex-
elusive hotels. All of them are reported
to have been present in the Narragansett
Club when that famous gambling house
was raided by Constable John Cross
early Sunday morning.
The occasion for this disappearance of
women. whose names are carefully
guarded, is not far to seek. Constable
Cross had said that If the witnesses he
would call against Doc Arnold ap-
peared in court at the arraignment Au-
gust D. there would be a series of sur
prises that would stagger society. He
limited his doubts about their appearance,
SO yesterday when he left town 1t was
whispered that he had gone for the ar
rest of all who had been present, so as
to assure their presence against Arnold
The exodus began, and there are many
gaps in society circles. No secret is
made that other arrests are to follow.
Chief of Police j. d. Caswell says he
understands Cross means to have him
charged with malfeasance in office and
stands about the street corners COM
pIacently waiting for the lightning to
strike. T. ]. Mckenna, the president of
the club, also expects to be apprehended
and makes no effort to get away.
Denies Games Are Crooked.
Yesterday a newspaper correspondent
went around to the club. McKenna and
his partner Doc Arnold. received him.
Rugs were lifted from the hardwood
floor to prove there was no place for hid
den apparatus
Here's where one roulette wheel
STOOD, said McKenna. land here an
other. Here stood the hazard table" and
so on. No attempt was made to deny
that gambling was carried on.
III place $4,000 in any ones hands
you name" said McKenna. land will
take YOU where the wheels are and let
you examine them. If you discover any
thing crooked in them you can have the
$4,000 All want is fair run The
offer was refused Apparently it didn't
worry McKenna to acknowledge he was
interested in a gambling place. He was
sure of his ground.
That is one of the peculiar features of
the situation here. a majority of the
people fail to see anything wrong in the
fact that gambling is almost openly con-
Quoted and the law thereby violated.
Seeks Legal Advice.
Constable Cross visit to Providence
yesterday is believed to have been for the
purpose of consulting with Assistant At
IOTDeS GSHSTdl SIOSS, WIZ ID ilot
a relative. Constable Cross is a state
officer and is thus entitled TO his name
sake's legal advice and also To the sup
port of the state of Rhode Island in his
attempt to close up the Piers gambling
houses. The constable would not dis
cuss the object of his journey. but said
there had arisen a new phase of the
crusade that would lead to important
developments.
William NJ. WINS and Prof. Brander
Matthews were both greatly impressed
and pleased with the result thus far at
tanned.
'How about those places, other than
the Narragansett Club. which are re-
ported to be running?" Mr.. WINS was
asked
They'll be attended to in due course"
he said.
Prof Matthews declared that it was
owing TO the bad reputation the Pier
had gained that its development had
been retarded. He said there We're only
O few more cottages here now than there
wee twenty Yeas ago: that the hotel
accommodations had not increased and
that property values had not been en-
.hanced anything like what they should
be.
Mrs. Hanna. the one woman who fear
lessly acknowledges she was in the club
at the time of the raid. was one of the
leading spirits yesterday at a fair given
on the lawn in front of the Church of ST.
Peter s-by-the-Sea.