The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-07
TIGtRS ON The run
CHARLESTON RAIDIAG SQUAD GO
THROUGH CITY
RAIDS WITHOUT WARNING

|RAIDS WITHOUT WARNING
Mayor Grace Orders Charleston Po
lice to Enforce the Law-City Be
ing Cleaned-Hotel Bars Closed
| Whiskey Saloons and Gambling
Fixtures Smashed.
| With two raiding squads, aided b!
the detective force, operating, anc
slot machines values at $500 re
duced to junk in the stable yard O.
the police station, besides many gal
Ions of booze stored in the statlor
house ready to be turned over to the
county dispensary, the opinion is gen
orally prevalent that Charleston viii
be "dry as a bone before the weel
is up.
While a crowd which had rapidly
gathered looked on with awe,
strong arm squad Of "blue coats
swung axes right and left in the
stable yard of the police statior
Thursday morning. reducing SO slo
machines to splinters. Bushels o.
trade checks, nickels and quarter:
ratified on the concrete pavement a:
the machines fell apart under the
we'll directed blows of the axes, anc
were gathered up by the handful
| the money to be counted in the Office
Of the chief Of police and turned
over to the county treasurer.
In the lobby of the station bottles
kegs, barrels and cases OF liquor ano
beer were neatly stacked, giving the
place the appearance Of dispensar!
headquarters or distiller's store
room. The booze will be recelptee
for by the county dispenser. The re
suits of the wholesale raiding includ'
ed almost every class of strong drink
i from the finest wines down to the
cheapest beer and rum.
Not only are the tigers demoraliz
ed, but it is stated on authority tina,
the "crap joints" and roulette tables
as we'll as poker games and othel
gambling, have been closed down
since the report spread that the po
lice were out for the strictest en-
/ forcement OF the law that many II
j Charleston have ever known. The
=, rsiding squads found many doors
padlocked in their rounds, for the
news of their coming had spread like
wild FIRE. There were many, however
taken by surprise.
The squads are operating in two
patrol wagons, and their movement:
have been kept as quiet as possible
All hotel bars are known to be
closed, and complaints from the trav
cling public are already heard OF
! Chief of Police Cantwell was retlcen'
in speaking Of the wholesale raidlng
and. said that ne did not care to state
specifically what his orders from the
mayor were. But, evidently, the or
ders call for a strict enforcement o.
j the liquor and gambling laws.
The $500 worth Of slot machine:
which were destroyed at the station
house were sold to a-Njunk dealer
after the axe treatment, for 81, anc
it wasn't much of a bargain, either
"Do you expect the haul to-day t.
be as large as it was yesterday!
Chief Cantwell was asked. He re
piled that he could not say; that i
might be larger, and that there wa
to be no "let up in the enforcement
of the law.
It is stated that about score G
tigers were raided. The raidin:
squads are not taking them as the,
come, but are jumping from one par
of the city to another, the idea beln'
to prevent warning being sent aheat
of them. There has been no resist
ance offered, and the coming OF tn
squad was said to have been unex
. pected.
Raids Start Wednesday.
Acting on Orders received fron
Mayor Grace to enforce the law, Chle
, of Police Cantwell Wednesday morn
ing sent out two squads of plail
!, clothes men and members OF the de
: tecti,e department to carry out tn
instructions of the mayor. AS re
, suit many o:ind tigers were raide
, and all {: lg the day the patrc
wagons at rhe police station Wer
q sept busy hauling contraband good
= and slot machines to the static
2 house.
We tnesday morning Chief CAM
:. we'll, having received orders froI
? Mavor Grace, instructed the member
= of the regular raiding squads and al
:, other organized squad along with tn
detectives that the law must be er
! forced. The men left the static
- house and, working in different SCI
y tions of the city, came down on bin
= tigers like a bolt Of lightning from
n clear sky.
- Call after call wa; received fro1
9 members of the squads to SEND IN
a patrol wagons to haul in the gooc
i seized. The police, however, na
y hardly gotten to work before news
Z their activity spread like wildfir
d While in some places the fXtures
the blind tigers had been removed D.
fore the arrival Of the pollceme
some we're caught in full swing an
their fixtures were smashed.
One nan, who was making 4 sp
IS cialty of taking down fixtures. state
Wednesday afternoon that lie had G
ready "disrobeG" twenty-seven tlge
n and had orders from others.
s. When asked for statement we
IS nesday night Chief Cantwell sal!
t "I have received orders from II
ir mayor to enforce the law and a
9. now enforcing it. I have out tV
ID raiding SQUADS and my detectives
e work" This was all he would S;
Of about tho raids, except to give cut
D. statement on the goods seized in t.
ID raids, which is as follows: S63 bc
+ ties Of beer; 2S gallons Of wine;
s. quarts of whiskev: 146 half-pints
n whiskey and 50 slot machines.
The liquor WI be delivered to t
5s dispensary headquarters and the S!
he nachines will be smashed in the va
I'd of the police station.
or A number of blind tigers were
re ported to have closed their doors a
er it is said that the bars in two hot'
e have also put locks on their