The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-07
GOVERNMENT RAID
ON BUCKET SHOPS
IN SEVERAL CITIES
Charge Conspiracy Of Three
Firms to Relieve People If
Money.

Washington. April EARNED 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
t%aneously raided brokers' offices in New
York, Philadelphia, Jersey City. Bal
timore, Cincinnati and ST. Louis.
Conspiracy Indictments in which 20
persons are named. 1ve OF them said
to be millionaires and all interested in
brokers' offices OF large cities of the
country. We're returned late yesterday
by the federal grand jury OF the Dis
department. of Justice had been gather
ing for more thai a year.
Raids at Same Time.
The indictments were withheld yes-
terday on the request of Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham, so that department
of justice detectives might make the
raids simultaneously on the places sps-
rected of being bucket shops"
The men indicted are said to be those
lions known as Il. 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-
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AS being interested in Boggs & Co.
the following are indicted: Richard E.
Preusser, Lee MAYER. George Turner,
William II. Lillis. Oliver ]. Robinson.
Edward S. Boggs, Harry Owens, Rob
.ert A. Guy. all of New York, and AL
fred and Marshall L. Parrish. of Phila-
delphia. Named in connection with
them as alleged co-conspirators. are
Edward Everett TAYLOR, of Washing
ton, d. C.. and his telegraph operator
Harry johnson.
Many Are Named.
In the indictments against Price &
Co, the following are named: Will
lam B. Price, Virgil p. Randolph.
Harry NJ. Randolph. Charles T. More
kins and James A. Anderson, all OF
Baltimore; Thomas H. Campbell and
Edward b. TAYLOR, of Philadelphia.
In the Standard Stock and Grain
Dealers are named Edward Altemus,
Samuel Raymond, oscar J.. Raphel and
Louis Celia, of St. Louis; Henry G.
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 the Missouri river to
the Atlantic. The three concerns in
dicted maintain more h $50 Offices
md ranch Offices located from New
England to Oklahoma.
With the aid of United States Attor-
ney Baker. oc the District Of Columbia,
Special Assistant Attorney General A.
Bruce Bielaski and Chief Finch, OF At
torney General Understands 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 that 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 one The
government says that every alleged
bucketing transaction of the local brok-
er named was the act of each and
every person charged In the indict-
ment. Attorney General Wickersham
did not comment on the raids today
further than to issue a prepared tate
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 $40 of thu
revised statutes, which makes unlawful
the Keeping or bucket O In the
District Of Columbia. Edward E. Tay-
lor, mentioned in the indictment, MAIN
tanned TWO Offices in Washington and
was correspondent for Boggs & Co., Of
No. Al Broadway. New York.
Simply . Blind.
This trm.' the attorney generals
statements continue, "as we'll as those
involved in the other two indictments.
alleges that 1t buys and sells securi-
ties through the consolidated stock ex.
change of Philadelphia and that Ford
and Parrish are their Representatives
on that exchange.
tended to show that this exchange was
simply a cover maintained to enable
operators Of bucket shops to conceal
the nature Of their operations.
"Preusser is reported to be q noto-
rious gambler, who was convicted OF
murder of one Myles Mcdonald some
years age as a result of which he was
confined for a year in an institution for
insane convicts.
Mayer is a well known bookmaker,
and Turner is said to have been ex-
PEELED from the New York Stock ex-
change, and with Lillis has Deer con-
nected with some of the most notorious
bucket shop concerns in the country.
"A number of the men named in this
indictment are we'll known as bucket
shop operators.
This Indictment has two counts. one
count covering each of the offices main
tanned by Taylor in Washington.
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