The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-02
MAKE BIG RAID.
Special Agents of the Depart
ment of Justice
Arrest Brokers, in Six of the
Large Cities.
TRUE BILLS FOUND
Against 80 Persons by the Fed
eral Grand Jury.
Charged With a Conspiracy to
Fleece the Public.


bench warrants issued by the supreme
court of the District of Columbia,
special agents of the department of
Justice this morning, at IL o'clock,
eastern time, simultaneously raided
brokers' offices in New York, Phila-
delphia, Jersey City, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis
Conspiracy indictments in which 29
persons are named-five of them said
in brokers offices in large cities of the
| United StateS-were returned late
yesterday by the federal grand jury of
| the District of Columbia on evidence
Justice had been gathering for more
| than year.
The indictments were withheld yes
terday on the request of Attorney
ment of justice detectives might
make the raids simultaneously on the
places suspected of being bucket
shops.
The men indicted are said to be
those financially interested in the cor
porations known as E. S. Boggs & Co.,
which has offices in New York and
Philadelphia; Price & Co., which has
| and the Standard Stock and Grain
dealers, which has offices in Jersey
City, Philadelphia and st. Louis.
Those Indicted.
AS being interested in Boggs & Co.,
the following are indicted: Richard E.
Preusser, Lee Mayer, George Turner,
William H. Lillis, Olive J. Robinson,
Edward g. Boggs, Harry Owens,
Robert A. Guy. all of New York, and
Al Ford Marshall and Parish of Phil
adelphia. Named in connection with
them as alleged co-conspirators are
Edward Everett Taylor of Washing
ton, D. c., and his telegrapher, Harry
Johnson In the indictments against
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William B. Price, Virgil P. Ran
dolph, Harry NJ. Randolph, Charles
T. Moorehead, Edward Weldon, Jo-
seph Garkins and James A. Anderson,
bell and Edward B. Taylor of Phila-
delphia.
In the Standard stock and grain
dealers are named:
Edward Altemus, Samuel Raymond,
Oscar j. Raphel and Robert Hall. of
Jersey City, N. j.: Louis Celia, of ST.
Louis; Henry c. Stumpf, of Philadel-
phia, and Henry R. Duryee and his
telegraph operator, Charles r. Alley.
This, the governments first attack
on stock gambling, has been prepared
with the greatest secrecy. Its scope
practically covers the United States
tic. The three concerns indicted
maintain more than ESQ offices and
branch offices located from New Eng
land to Oklahoma
ments is that every man connected in
any way with the operation of the
three firms which did business in the
district, had entered into conspiracy
to relieve people OF their money. Inc
government maintains every alleged
bucketing transaction of the local
brokers named was the act of each
and every person charged in the in
dictment.
Attorney General Wickersham did
not comment on the raids further
than to issue a prepared statement OF
which the following is the substance:
Wickersham's Statement.
I'm the first indictment against
Preusser, Mayer, Turner, ct al, the
defendants are charged with conspir-
acy to commit an offense against the
United States in violation of section
5440 of the revised statutes Whlch
makes unlawful the keeping of bucket
shops in the District OF Columbus Ed
ward E. Taylor, mentioned in the in |
dictment, maintained two off1ces IN
Washington and was correspondent
for Boggs & Co., of No. At Broadway,
New York. .
.'This firm the attorney generals
statement continues, 'as we'll as
those involved in the other two in,
dictments, alleges that it buys and
sells securities through the consol-
dated stock exchange of Philadelphia |
and that Ford and Parrish are their |
representatives on that exchange:
The evidence before the grand jury |
tended to show that this exchange was
simDlv cover maintained to enable |
operators of bucket shops to conceal
the real nature of their operations
s'Preusser is reported to be motor
ious gambler who was convicted OF
murder of one My1es Mcdonald some |
Years ago as a result of which he was
confined for a year in an INSTITUTION
for insane conVlcts.
NMaver is a well known bookmaker
and Turner is said to have been ex-
DelIed from the New York stock ex-
change and, with Lillis has been con-
nected with some of the most motor
ions bucket shop concerns in the coun-
trv. A number of the men named in
this indictment are well known as
bucket shop operators.
sHThis indictment has two counts, one
count covering each of the ofhceS
by Taylor in Washington.
'In the second Indictment against
Duryea maintained an office in Wash
ington with Alley as his operator. Alt
mus, the Celia Brothers and Raymond
with Raphael are associated with the
Standard Stock and Grain Dealers, No. |
rs Montgomery street. Jersey City.
through the Consolidated Exchange OF
Hall is the manager or chief clerk
at Jersey City and Stumpf is the rep
on the Philadelphia Ex-
change. Altemus was recently convict
ed in Jersey City in connection with
operations there and the two Celia
brothers are well known as bucket
shop operators.
The Third Indictment.
"In the third Indictment against
against Price, Randolph. Moorehead,
Weldon ct al, Price, the two Ran