The San Francisco call., 1913-08-02
They Can't Bluff Me With
Writs of Prohibition,
Police Department
Head
JUDGE DUNNE TALKS
TO BUNKO STEERERS
District Attorney Also Ques-
tons Swindlers to Help
Grand Jurors

The gamblers have been trying 70
bluff the police department bet they
can't do it. The gambling clubs have
kept closed said Chief of Police D. A
White yesterday afternoon when asked
as to the status of the Incorporated
clubs
Wolff Brothers tried to bluff me by
saying that they would keep open in
tinued the chief, but Wolff Brothers
place is closed as tight as the rest of
them Nobody but the VOLTS them
selves is allowed 10 enter the place.
] have it blockaded and I'm going 10
keep It blockaded. That is true of all
the rest of them. Every club is closed
and every one is going TO stay closed
They can't bluff me with any writs of
prohibition"
Thomas O'Connor. attorney for Wolff
Brothers, said yesterday in reply TO
a question. that nothing would be done
by himself OF his clients in regard to
the new search warrants issued Thurs
taken as an admission that the gam
blers know they are heater and that
they have thrown up their hands and
auit-at least for the present.
swINDLERs CATsE RUMOs
The. presence of four notorious bupko
men. Maurice de Martini. Frank Du-
bos Mike Gallo and ~Ciifo" Rcvigo-
st the hall of justice Yesterday gave
rise To the rHmor that neT~ bunlSo
scandal had broken. This however.
is emphaticallE slensed ~ tho osHciai Is
who were in conference gfth the bunko
men.
Gallo anf Dubois were called 10 the
Office of the district attorney yester-
day morning. but District Attorney
Ffekert asserted that aii M wanted
them for was to '.cheel1 up their for
mer testimony and get ~ fe-w minor
points of infoIina tion for the satisfac-
ton of the grand siip-y lie denied
that anything scnsa tionaJ had devel-
oped or was likely to develop out of
the Inquiry
Rovigo and De AEiaftini we're called
before Judge Dunno. but the jsldge ex-
planned that there is at present nothing
to be said as to his purpose in inter-
. viewing them. and there may be moth
ing to be said. Nothing of Importance,
he continued. has developed, though
he refused to say why he wanted to
talk with them
GRAND JURY THURSDAY
The grand jury meets again next
Thursday, and it is considered prob
able that some of the bunko men may
be called before it in order that the
members may familiarize themselves
with the situation. 1t is not consid-
cred probable. however, that any new
investigation along the lines of the
former bunko scandal will be under
taken
The event most anxiously awaited by
the police department Is the report
Of dhe police commission that, last
Wednesday, concluded its investigation
into the question of the fitness Of Chief
White to retain his position. Although
Il is generally conceded that the report
viii be In the nature of a coat of
whitewash for The. chief, it is consid-
cred not unlikely that some of his
subordinate officers may not get OF so
lightly.
The. investigation into the conduct Of
Patrolinan William Quinlan. charged
with having arrested a young man and
woman without just cause and with
having insuIted the woman. has been
dropped before ii ever. got started.
Chief White said yesterday afternoon
that nothing will be dope in the mat
ter. Quinlan is exonerated merely for
tne reason that no formal charges are
to be had against them.
The girl positively refused to testif,,
against the officer said Ohief WHIT
Yesterday afternoon, so what could T
cor We found her all right. but she
SAID she had had notoriety enough and
refused TO make charge against the
pficer''