New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-04
SOCIETY RACE BET
RAID MAY TRAP 100
Well Known Members of
Rockaway Hunting Club
Are Suspected.
ALLEGED BOOKMAkERS
CAUGHT AT TRACK
Slips Bearing Racing Data
Arouse Cedarhurst Justice
He Plans Action.

constern alton prevailed at the Rock
awav Hunting Club yesterday, when
Lewis NJ Raisig. justice of the peace
q, Cedarhurst, asserted that he would
mn, hundred OF the members under
subpnna and examine them as TO vio-
lations Of the anti-betting law.
Justice Raisig said last night he BE-
peved he had evidence which would IN
,orest the District Attorney. Whether
.,v ~ the members Of the club would
ia prosecuted he could not say. We
was determined, however, 10 bring out
the evidence.
After the last race at the annuai
sn-ing meeting of the hunt CLUB II
Hewlett, Long Island, near the cIuo-
bouse AT Cedarhurst, on Saturday, Two
alleged bookmakers Of this city were
arrested. on them were found more
than 900 betting slips. 1t is on these
sims that Justice Raisig will make MS
investigation.
In anticipation of possible violation
Of the betting law, a number OF deputy
sherlns were put on the watch Iwo
NJ them. Jesse Mott and George =
c,,,tb devoted their attention to The
two men whom they afterwara ar
rested Frank w. Flood and FRANCIS
G. Fox.
Flood and Fox were taken before
Tustice Raisig and were paroled IN 'i'c
custody of their counsel. Chester NC
Cartv. ex-Assistant District Attorney
- Nassau County. They will be ar
raigned before Mr.. Raisig on THURSDAY
morning.
Mott and Smith, who said they
watched Flood and Fox under instruc-
lions from Sheriff stephen Pettitt, as
serted that before every race they sa"
many men. well known to them As
members Of the Rockaway hunting
C,pb and residents in the society col
o,ies Of Cedarhurst. Lawrence ana
woodmere, go up and speak TO the TWO
hookmakers, then walk little distance
away. write on small memorandum
mad and return and hand slip OF paper
10 Flood or Fox
When Flood and Fox were searched
after their arrest the slips OF paper
we're taken from their pockets. Each
slim was found to bear the NUMBER OF
q race the name Of a horse, figures
representing sum Of money ana
finally initials. the initials of the men
who handed in the slips.
Justice Raisig, who lives at Cedar
hurst and knows every member OF the
fashionable colonies. recognized all the
initials and even the handwriting on
the slips Last night he was busy
drawing up list Of the names for
which the initials stand. He said ne
would issue the subpenas to-day.
- will have all these men before
me on Thursday" he said, land l Wall
aek them how it comes that their
initials happen to be on these betting
slips. That there was violation OF tne
lav am sure. and the explanations OF
these men probably will afford valuable
evidence.
The two men I paroled yesterday
are charged with violating Section 9Se
vi tho Penal Code which deals with
betting At horse races. II | get evil
dtnce to Justify other prosecutions l
shan certainly hand 1t over to the Dis
trict Attorney"
Justice Raisg refused TO disclose any
of the names Of the hunt club mem
bers he has identified from the initials
on the slips It is known, however, that
they are ali wealthy New York men.