The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-28
GAMBLING DENS IN
BUILDINGS OF
THE WEALTHY
Police Commissioner Waldo
Gives Out Remarkable List
L0RlLLAR1 FAMILY NAMED
Charitable institutions and Church
Members Rented Properly For
illegal Purposes.

New York, Aug. 2S.-Police Com
missioner Waldo made public last
night list of places raided by the
police as gambling resorts during the
last year and the names of the own
ers of the property in which the re-
sorts were conducted. Among the
names mentioned are those of many
prominentin the financial, religious
and social life of the city. The COM
missioner turned the list over to the
district attorney, who will use it as
a basis of the proposed John Doe pro-
ceedings before Justice Goff next
month by which it is expected to
expose police corruption Another list
containing the names of owners OF
disorderly houses raided during the
same period, June l, 1911, to August
/, 1912, is being prepared by Commits
sioner Waldo for the same purpose.
Nearly 400 places are mentioned in
the gambling list which, with the sta
tistics as to the raids made upon
them, covers 100 typewriter pages.
The summoning of many of these
owners as witnesses at the John Doe
proceedings is understood to be part
of the plan of the district attorney to
determine the responsibility of the
owners in allowing their property to
be rented for gambling purposes,
which is a misdemeanor under the
law.
Among the names Of the alleged
owners is that of Sailors Snug Har-
no Tor,
on Staten Island; the Lorillard estate,
that of the Lorillard family of mil
lionaire tobacco manufacturers, and
j. Edgar Leaycraft and Edgar C.
Leaycraft of the real estate firm of
j. Edgar Leaycraft & Co., both prom
inent in Methodist church and mis-
sionary work
A notable feature of the list is the
comparatively few number of convic-
tons which followed the arrests
made at the raids, very large ma
jority OF the prisoners having been
discharged either by the court or by
the grand jury. In view of the testi-
mony brought out before the grand
jury investigating the graft feature
of the Rosenthal murder case, to the
effect that the police often weakened
their evidence against gamblers who
had come across" after they had
been raided. it is expected that the
district attorney will investigate the
reason for the few convictions in the
proceedings before Justice Golf
The trial of Police Lieut.. Charles
Becker on the charge of instigating
the murder of Rosenthal will be be-
gun on September IL, If the plans
of District Attorney Whitman do not
go astray. While John F. Mcintyre,
Becker's attorney, obtained for his
client yesterday the postponement of
the date for pleading to the indict-
ment against him until September 8,
the prosecutor said last night that
the delay would interfere with his
original plans for bringing Becker to
trial the first of the seven accused of
the murder.
The prosecutor plans to have Beck
er enter his plea before Justice Goff
and will then move that the trial be-
set for September IL, the week fol-
lowing. Mr.. Whitman, who will visit
the justice at his country home to-
morrow night to map out the pro-
gram of the John Doe proceedings
which will begin the same day that
Becker will be arraigned for pleading
expects TO be able to block any fur
Their moves by the police lieutenant's
counsel looking to delay.
Four new bank accounts of Becker
were turned up by the investigators
of the district attorney yesterday and
the officials of the banks have been
subpoened to bring the records of
Becker's deposits in the institutions
TO the district attorneys office today.
In connection with the statement Of
James March. lawyer, that Becker
had made most of his money in stock