Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-09
SOCIETY IN TERROR.
Women in Gambling Raid Fear
Names Will Be Given.
ARRESTS MAY BE MADE
Rumors at Narragansett Keep Fash
ionable Folks in Nervous State.
CONSTABLE IN FEAR OF LIFE
Cross Says He is Being Swallowed by
Detectives Hired by Persons
Implicated.
CONSTABLE IN FEAR OF LIFE

NARRAGANSETT PIER, r. L.. August
9.-There is CONSERVATION in the higher
society circles of this fashionable summer
resort because of the fear that Constable
John G. Cross, who conducted the GAM
bling raid at the Narragansett Pier Club
Sunday, may make public the names of
part of the men and women prominent in
society and who were on the premises
at the time.
Prominent matrons. personally or
through emissaries. are beseeching the
officer not to give out their names Con-
stable Cross so far has complied. but. he
says, not because the women have ask
ed it.
Names May Come Out.
ITO publish these names would give
unnecessary pain and cause unneces-
sary embarrassment he said, but if
these people appear in court in answer to
the summonses which have been served
on them it will be then impossible to
keep their names from the public, and
there will be good deal of surprise
when it is learned that prominent men
and women are concerned. And they will
answer, too.
Constable Cross said that he was be-
ing constantly followed by detectives,
whom he believes to be in the employ OF
some of the society people against whom
his action was taken. and he Is almost
in fear of his life. Although he succeeded
in securing his release when arraigneo
in court yesterday to answer to an as
sault charge, it was on a technicalty
only, and he is patiently awaiting the
next move against him.
There were upward of thirty society
women in the crowd gathered about the
roulette wheels and other games or
chance that. it is asserted. were in the
clubhouse at the time of the raid. &C
cording to Mr.. Cross. Many of them
have tried to explain. the constable says.
that they had just dropped into the club
for lunch, after leaving the hop at the
Casino, but Mr.. Cross declares he saw
no signs of any lunch and that the ma
jority were gathered about the game
boards when he entered.
Pier Alive With Interest.
Rumors Of possible arrests in the case
are current and keep the Pier alive with
interest More developments are expected
within short time.
For years there has been gambling at
the Narragansett Club, and all Newport
and Narragansett has known it. But
nothing was said publicly Chief Of Po-
lice Caswell said that he knew nothing
ABOUT IL.
The club is a gorgeous affair and is the
best patronized gambling house in Rhode
Island-perhaps in the whole country.
Persons in the highest society have fire.
quented the place for years. Recently,
when the reform wave swept over New
port and Narragansett Pier, many gam
bling houses were closed, but not the
club. The police paid no attention to it,
and some strong power kept it open to
the exclusive set and those who hang
about the fringe OF that set
When asked concerning the part his
office took in the raid on Narraganett
Club at Narragansett Pier early Sunday
morning, Attorney General William B.
Greenough said:
II wish it distinctly stated that this
department had nothing whatever to do
with the Narragansett Pier raid. 1t was
not consulted in any way. and personally
all that I know of 1t is what 1 have read
in the papers Whatever John G. Cross
did was wholly upon his own initiative
and 1t is up to him to carry out his
work"