The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-04-07
RAID
ON BUCKET SHOPS
IN SEVERAL CITIES
Charge Conspiracy of Three
Firms to Relieve People Of
Money.

NlOucy.
Washington, April 5.--Armed with
bench warrants issued by the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, spe-
cial agents Of the department of JUS
tice this morning at II o'clock stimuli
taneously raided brokers' offices in New
York, Philadelphia, Jersey City. Bal
tinore, Cincinnati and ST, Louis.
Conspiracy indictments in which 20
persons are named, flve of them said
to be m~illionaires and all interested In
brokers' offices Of large cities of the
country, were returned late yesterday
by the federal grand jury Of the Dis
trict of Columbia. which agents of the
department of Justice had been gather
ing for more tina a year.
Raids at Same Time.
The indictments We're withheld yes
terday on h request of Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham, so that department
Of Justice, detectives might make the
raids simultaneously on the places sus-
pected Of being bucket shops"
The men indicted are said to be those
financially interested in the corpora
tions known as e. s. Boggs & Co.,
which has offices 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, Phila-
delphia. Cincinnati and st. Louis.
AS being interested In Boggs & Co.
the following are indicted: Richard e.
William H. Lillis. Oliver ]. Robinson,
Edward s. Boggs. Harry Owens, Rob-
ert A. Guy, all Of New York, and AL
fred and Marshall E. Parrish, Of Phila-
delphia. Named in connection with
them as alleged co-conspirators, are
nj ~yN sol ~ N~-I~ 49,
ton, D. c., and his telegraph operator,
Harry Johnson.
Many Are Named.
II the indictments against Price &
Co, the following are named: Will
lam B. Price, Virgil p. Randolph,
Harry NJ. Randolph, Charles T. More
head, Edward Weldon. Joseph P Gas
kins n James A. Anderson, all of
Baltimore; Thomas II. Campbell and
Edward B.. Taylor, of Philadelphia.
In the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers are named Edward Altemus,
Samuel Raymond, Oscar ]. Raphel and
Robert Hall, Of Jersey City, N. j.;
Louis Celia, of st. Louis: Henry c..
stumpf. Of Philadelphia, and Henry r.
Duryea and his telegraph operator,
Charles R. Alley.
This, the United States governments
first attack on stock gambling, has
been prepared with the greatest
secrecy. Its scope practically covers
the states from h Missouri river to
the Atlantic. The three concerns in
dicted maintain more than $50 offices
and branch offices located from New
England to Oklahoma.
With the aid Of United States Attor-
e Baker, OF the District of Columbia,
Special Assistant Attorney General A..
Bruce Bielaski and Chief Finch. of At
torney. General Underestimate bureau Of
investigation. have been presenting the
evidence to the grand jury for several
days.
All Connected Guilty.
The theory Of the conspiracy In
dictments Is hat every man connected
in anyway with the operation of the
three firms which did business In the
district had entered into a conspiracy
to relieve people Of their money. The
government says That every alleged
bucketing transaction of the local brok-
er m was the act Of each and
every person charged in the 1ndict-
ment. Attorney General Wickersham
did not comment on the raids today
further than to Issue a prepared state
ment, of which the following is the
substance:
"In the first Indictment against
Preusser. Mayer, Turner, ETC., etc, the
defendants are charged with con-
spiracy to commit an offense against
the United States Of section 544o Of the
revised statutes, which makes unlawful
the keeping Of bucket shops in the
District Of Columbia. Edward Il. Tay-
lor, mentioned in the indictment, main
tanned w offices in Washington and
was correspondent for Boggs & Co. of
At Broadway. New York.
Simply a Blind.
"Ihts frm." the attorney generals
atement continue, "as we'll as those
involved In the other two indictments.
alleges that 1t buys and sells securi-
ties through the consolidated stock *
change of Philadelphia and that Ford
and Parrish are their representatives
on that exchange.
The evidence before the grand Jury
tende to show that this exchange was
simply a cover maintained to enable
OF bucket shops to conceal
the nature OF their operations.
"Preusser Is reported to be a noto-
Tious gambler, who vas convicted of
murder of one Myles Mcdonald some
years ago. as a result of which he was
confined for a year in an institution for
insane convicts.
Mayer is a well known bcokmaker,
and Turner is said to have been ex-
PEELED from the New York Stock ex-
change, and with Lillis has been con-
nected with some of the most notorious
bucket shop concerns in the unit
A number of the men named in this
Indictment are well known as bucket
shop operators.
This indictment has two counts, one
count covering each of the offices main
tanned by Taylor in Washington.
All Well Known.
In the second Indictment agains,
Altemas. Celia. Raymond. ct al, Dur
yea maintained IN office in Washington
with Alley as his operator. Altemas,
the Celia Brothers and Raymond. with
Raphael. are associated with the
Standard Stock and Grain Dealers. 7s
Montgomery st, Jersey City, which also
~purported to do business through the
Consolidated exchange, OF Philadel-
phia.
Hall is the manager or chief clerk
at Jersey City, and Sturnpf is the rep
resentative of the Philadelphia Console
dated exchange. Altemas was recently
convicted in Jersey City in connection
with operations there, and the two
Celia brothers are well known as buck
ct shop operators.
Inc government agents went at the
enemy with it's own fire and 1t is said
did no hesitate to do a little wire tap
ming now and fhor. 70 oat a,iJ1~oo