Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-28
POLICE AFTER MEN WHO
BACK NEGRO GAMBLERS
Three Colorcd Men Arrested Yester.
day on Charge OF Conducting
and Writing Policy.
ACCUSED REFUSE TO TALK
Authorities Certain That White Pro.
motors Are Behind Those Caught,
and From Whom Large Quantity
OF Paraphernalia Is Confiscatcd.

Two alleged policy shops IN act,ys
operation were raided by Detective Ser.
scant Krcngcl and Policeman Allen
yesterday afternoon, and tho proprie
tors OF the places arrested. The officers
later came upon Il negro who is said
TO have been writing the game" on tho
streets and arrested him also All
three men were taken TO tho Second
Precinct station, where they were
ba!ied by Louis Corricri.
The men gave tho names OF J. g
Starke. John Anderson and Joe H,r-
ris, all negroes Starke and Anderson
were conducting games. 1t Is charged.
in The house at 532 Frentiss Street when
tho officers walked in. Harris ~ tho
man caught on the street
The arrests make total of four
arrests on charges OF this kind within
the last week. Detective Gordon Smith
last week arrested John Hatcher, coll
ored. on charge OF operating game
on North seventeenth Street Az in
the case OF yesterday, the officer walked
into the room while the men were nc.
lively engaged in writing the mum.
berS. il was said.
BELIEVE WHITE MEN
ARE BACK OF NEGROES
krenEcl and Allen captured nearly
wagon load of policy paraphernalia
and hauled II to the Second Station.
II VIII he taken into court to-day as
eEidehce against the alleged operators
or the games. In the articles can
turcd by the police were blackboa rds
inc manifold material. a box of Ink and
several bottles. books citing the lucky"
numbers as forctold by Dreams GUAM
titles or paper and numbering material.
a trunk and other apparatus
According to statements made BY tho
police. the games have been in &C.
i've operation for some time and Chief
OF Police Werner several days ago
called attention OF members OF the de.
partment 10 this condition. 1t is the
belief of the police that the negroes
are being backed by white men. The
negroes had nothing to say
krcngcl watched the house on Prem
tiss street for several hours before
making the raid. When he and Allen
entered the house they were unable.
ut first, to determine where the suspect
cd game was being conducted. Search
Ing the lower floors without result,
they proceeded to the garrett The
room had been divided in the middle by
partition. and n game was in prog
ress on each side OF this partition.
Starke and Anderson are said to have
been writing up" numbers when the
officers entered the rooms.
After sending these men to the sta
tion house and seeing that all OF the
paraphernalia had been taken tnera
also. krenGel and Allen started to walk
back to Broad Street on Brook Ave-
nue. between Leigh and Duval. they
saw Harris: The negro saw the Of
fcers about the time they saw him
and duckcd into an alley. Krengel
and Allen sped TO the spot just In time
TO see him hitching his trousers closer
about his body. They were unable to
locate his books and numbers at the
time. hut searched him at the station
and found that he had dropped them
into his trousers.
Krcngel said last night that he was
or the opinion there are n number OF
other games in operation In the city,
but that ii had been impossible to de-
tect any others.