The San Francisco call., 1913-07-22
Waldorf Club Alleged to
Have Enjoyed Protection
at Hands Of Police While
Trimming Suckers
DISTRICT AATTORNEY
WORKING IN MATTER
Duxbury, Accused of Rob
berry, Threatens to Give
Inside Details

The existence of another bunko ring,
exceeding in viciousness the $500, 900
gang recently exposed, and receiving
even more effective police protection
than did the latter, is to form the sub
ject of an investigation to be made by
the grand jury, the police commission
and the district attorneys Office.
Already District Attorney Fickert's
staff is busy working up the evidence.
and last night the police commission
ordered a. supena issued for Millard
Duxbury. the man who. it is believed
can throw much light upon the opera
tions of the members. and tell about
! the protection that ii is alleged the
ganasters received from men high in
police circles
One of the witnesses before the police
commission next Wednesday will be
former Chief John Martin A supena
called upon to testify as to what he
knows about, the alleged corruption in
the department.
One other subpoena for man for
merly prominent in the department has
been issued. bur the commissioners are
not willing TO disclose his Identity
sPOT LIGHT ON WALDORF
The spot light for the present is
thrown upon the Waldorf club that was
recently closed by the police after start
ling disclosures made by Mrs. Beatrice
Atchity. whose husband. it is said. lost
all his money gambling there. Accord
ing to revelations pade by Duxbury
and others, the Waldorf was the hang
out for a gang of bunko men, just as
544 Broadway was the rendevouz of
Mike Gallo, Maurice De Martini. Frank
Dubois and their associates. 1t is as
serted that men were fieeced remorsely
in the Waldorf while policemen wan
dered in and out; that at least one
member of the police force was a men,
Der of the club.
Duxbary, who was convicted last
week in Judge Lawlors court of rob-
berry. claims that he is the victim of a
frame up by gamblers and their pro-
tectors to get him out or the way be-
fore he could "squeal' He came up in
court yesterday morning for sentence,
probable that he will be granted a new
trial. which will give him an oppor-
tunity to tell on the witness stand just
how the game at which he lost his
money was worked
DUxBURY IN ROBBERY
DuXbury was convicted of robbing
man named Sparkman of $1,000. He
clai inns. however, that he and Sparkman
were engaged in trimming a sucker,
and that he. as a member of the part
nership, was supposed to lose his
money to Sparkman. This he did, but
Sparkman. he says. refused to divide
the profits. so he followed Sparkman
and relieved him of the cash at the
point OF gun.
He insnuates that Sparkman deliber-
with the intention of having him ar
rested and put where he could not re-
veal the crockedness that he says was
going on in the Waldorf club.
BARNEBURG PROTECTED
Duxbury has testified that John
Barneberg, proprietor of the Waldorf
club, boasted that he was so we'll pro-
tected by the police that they would
not modest him for anything short of
murder Barneberg's trial on a charge
of keeping a gambling house comes up
this afternoon.
Another man whose testimony is ex-
pected to prove valuable is Ebert Ken
nedy. who is now in Oakland He
claims to have been drugged and
robbed of $1,000 in money and dia-
monds in the Waldorf club. Barne-
berg, a man named Smith and one
other were arrested by Detectives Riehl
and ProIl, but beat the case in the
police court on technicality. 1t is
claimed that at that time the gamblers
threatened to get Kennedy and later
but the case against him was dismissed.
Red Kelly's application to reopen
the Midway in a new location in CO.
Iumbus avenue, which was so vigor-
ously protested against last week by
Father Terence Caraher, was again
POSTPONED for a week.
CHARGES or NEGLECT
Charges of neglect of duty against
Special Officer Joseph Mier and Pa
trolmeu Harry +. Walsh and John J.
Masterson were dismissed after a hear
ing of the cases.
T. NJ Springer had complained that
four men set upon him in Cooper al
ley July 6. and that he was able to
escape only by Slipping out of his coat
In the coat he said /he left some pa
pers, a watch and 1850. Meeting
Mier few minutes later at Grant
avenue and Pine street. he asked him
TO 30 back to help look for the coat.
but was refused. The case failed to
stand up when put before the commits
sion.