The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-11-02
WOMEN ARE CAUGHT
IN GAMBLING RAID
NEW YORK POLICE POUNCE ON
LADIES POOL ROOM AND
RAISE BEDLAM OF SHRIEKS.
ONE WOMAN DIES OF FRIGHT

Wives and Daughters of Men PrOmi-
nent i'm Business and Social Life
Among Those Rounded Up in a
Most Sensational Affair.
The doorbell of Miss Mary Ram
sey's luxurious apartments in Harlem
rang a few minutes after 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, and a woman who
opened the door saw Lieutenant Dan
Costigan and a half dozen men of his
gambling squad standing in the hall.
She tried to slam the door, but Cos
tigan put his foot against it, and then
entered with his men.
In the front room about 80 women
who had been drinkink tea sprang to
their feet screaming. Instantly the
place was in an uprOar. Half dozen
women slipped out of their chairs to
the floor in fainting fits. Others rush
ed to the rear rooms, the windows of
which opened onto fire escapes. But
they encountered more of COstigan S
men, who, with grinning faces, peer
ed in at the windows from the fire
escapes up which they had climbed.
Mrs. Emma Casey, wife of the man
ager of a shoe store in Jersey City,
collapsed in the maelstrom of Shrek
ing women and pushing detectives
who rushed pellmell through the six
room apartment She was suddenly
stricken with a hemorrhage, and died
later.
Long before this, however, Costigan
had emptied the fiat of all but Mrs.
Casey and those who stayed to attend
her. He made prisoners of five Wo-
men and two men, the latter found
in rear room of the fiat, and let
the other women go after taking their
names and addresses. Among them
the lieutenant said were mother
and her 18-year-Old daughter. There
were a few young women in the
throng, but most of them were be-
tween 80 and SO years old.
Many of them gave addresses in
excellent neighborhoOds, and Costi-
gan said the majority seemed to be
more than well-to-do. All were pan
ic-stricken and hurried from the
place as soon as Costigan released
them. In the street they had to run
the gauntlet of a hooting crowd that
had learned of the raid and blocked
the street There were automobiles
to carry them away, although resi-
dents of the neighborhood said it was
no uncommon thing to see half doz-
en- motors drawn up outside of the
building in which is Miss Ramsey s
apartment.
The club raided was known to the
police as the Ladies Moving Pool
ROOM" because its meetings moved
on from day to day to the homes of
various women, but each day for the
last few weeks two of the players
who moved with the clubs sittingS
were in the service of the police.
They were Mrs. Ada Brady, detect
i've sergeant who was put on the case
last January, and her friend, Mrs.
Mary Garland.
From until p. m. the 40 women
and the few men played the races in
Mary RamSey's flat, while Mary Ram
sey sat at her front window keeping
a lookout, that being the duty of the
hostess wherever the players met,
Bets ran as high as 5000 and $500.
At o'clock the play was over, &C
cording to the clubs custom, and
Mary Ramsey abandoned her vigil at
the window to superintend the sery-
ing of tea and refreshments. That
was the signal for Dan Costigan, who
stood across the street with two de-
tectives to enter the house.
They broke into the fiat and upon
the frightened tea drinkers, whose
racing paraphernalia, telephones and
charts were found in the kitchen.
Women jumped screaming to their
feet, fed to the fire escapes and found
escape cut off. Others simply stood
their ground historically.
Then Mrs Brady and her friend
pointed out the men and women for
whom warrants had been issued.