The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
WOMEN
In A GAMBLING
TRAP;0NE DIES
Ten Arrests Made in Raid
on Ladies' Moving
POOlrOOm."
CRIES AND. MYSTERIES
AS POLICE BREAK IN

Forty well dressed women belonging
To gambling clique In Harlem were
trapped hy detectives yesterday after
noon. seven OF them were arrested. and
one died of hemorrhage due to the ex-
element Three men also were cap-
tured in the raid.
II wis the home of Mary Ramsey.
who said she was "A nurse. ON the second
floor OF the fiat house at 107 East I26th
street, that ten detectives. led by Dan
Costigan and armed with warrants.
descended upon shortly after 4 O'Clock.
Mrs. Emma Casey. 260 West Twenty
hrst street, collapsed in the inaelstrom
OF shrieking women and pushing Jetec-
tives who rushed pellmell through the
SIX room apartment. She was sud
denly stricken with II hemorrhage. and
Dr. Jennings of the Harlem Hospital
attended her. leaving her there under
guard OF Patrolman Berry. as she was
too III 10 be moved. st Z O'Clock she
became worse and the policeman sent IN
a hurry call for Dr. Jennings When the
interne reached the house again she was
dead. Her husband was said to I've the
manager OF a shoe store in jersey
City.
Moved Each Day.
The club that was ralded was known
To the police rs the Ladies' Moving Pool
room. because its meetings moved on
from day To day TO the homes of varicu,
women. but each day for the last few
weeks two OF the players who moved
with the clubs sittings were In the SER
vice OF the police. They were Mrs. Ada
brady. n detective sergeant, who was
put ON the case last January. and her
friend Mrs. Mary Garland II was on
the evidence they had gathered that
Chief Magistrate McAdoo issued the wa--
rants which the detectives carried with
them.
From until 4 7. NJ the forty women
and the few men played the races In
Mary Ramseys Hat while Mary Ramsey
sal ~ her front window keeping a look
out. that being the duty OF the hostess
Wherever the players met. Outside In
the street number u! automobiles
waited while their owners were making
bets as high as 5000 and $500.
Al o'clock the play was over. ac-
cHrding To the clubs custom and Mar
Ramsey abandoned her vlgii at the win
dow to superintend the serving Of tea
ana refreshments. That Was the signal
Tor Dan CoStisan. who stood across ths
street with two detectives. to enter the
house. and for his other men. who were
on the roof and in the yard to leap to
the attack.
Escape Cut On.
They broke into the nat and upon the
frightened tea drinkers. whose racing
paraphernalia. telephones and charts
Were found IN the kitchen Women
jumped screaming 10 their feet. fled T.
the fire escapes and found escape cut
of. Others simply stood their ground
hystericslly.
Then Mrs. Brady and her fr.enl
pointed out the men and women for
whom warrants had been ISSUED and th.
following We're arrested
Mary l;amscy, the hostess: Kate
Peterson, 80. Of zoo West Fourteenth
street. who said she was AN ex-s,orc
detective; Evelyn LlttlowoSd. so. OF l2i
West Ninety-sixth street, a moving pIc.
turc operator; Katherine Geddlngs. So.
OF I'll Eighth avenue Louis Simous, s..
or ~ Second avenue. who was said 10
have been the bookmaker, and Lawrenc-
Leslie. "a of lo1 West l2Gth street who
said he was "A musician. but who was
given the further vocation Of taking
in the money that was gamblei
-Four other arrests were made or play-
ers who were absent Mrs. Anna S,olts
rested at her home on Mrs Brady id.n-
titicatiun and after Detective Arthur
Johnson had beaten or two fox ter
ricrs with his tluh Mrs. Isabella Dorp,
widow. 90. was arrested in her home
at l62 West l2sth street, along with a
servant girl theic named Mary Smith
ana John Coleman. The charges in all
cases were keeping and maintaining "A
gambling housr. with the added charg.
OF hnins a common gambler in the cases
of Coleman and Mrs. Dorc
The prisoners were locked up, and all
of them except Coleman ana Mrs. Dore
Were ie. out on bail last night. They
will bc arraigned in the Harlem court
this morning.
Deputy Police Commissioner Guy ScGll.
who went to the Harlem house to view
the body OF Mrs. Casey. said he had
heard a report that the woman had been
frightened by one OF the detectives. vino
drew revolver. ana that il was abso-
lutely untrue, Chief Surgeon Edward T.
Higgins. who accompanied Mr Scull.
said that Mrs. Casey had died OF heart
disease, from whiSn she had beer suffer
ing 70" two Years. and that she had
been warned not 10 leave her home.