The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-27
HANDBOOK
IS RA|DED
BY POLICE
Detectives POunce On
LitZ's Place In Front
Of Hayes Saloon
PROPRIETOR is
BADLY BATTERED
Face Cut and Glasses
Smashed Before He's
Dragged To Cell

dragged 10 SeH
Four detectives. members OF the
cleanup squad. descended Thursday
afternoon ON the cigar store con
Quoted in tho front of the saloon
OF = 7 Hayes. No II Grand River.
ave The cigar store for months
has been known 30 the police and TO
scores OF persons who wager on
acr horses 8s a handbook shop. II
IS conducted by Charles litz
Before The officers had completed
their raiding expedition. not only
Iitl hut James Former. bartender
employed by Hayes were placed
under arrest. the desk containing
lti- napers and Hayes safe were
searched and the saloon remained
closed for fU,ly two hours. during
thc enforced absence OF the bar
tender who was locked M IN police
headquarters as a disorderly per
son lify was registered on q
charee OF maintaining gaming
room
Detectives Burkhardt. Grimm, VII
liam and smith walked into the
cigar stand The telephone on Lilz 3
desk was ringing =
pnrkharaf lifted the receiver, and
divminc there was q person on the
OH cnd Of the line who wished to
make wager by phone. he said
Mr. litz~left- mo here 10 take
calls"
f.itz rose from his chair and shout
Cd INTO thc mouihpiece Il did not
don't tell him anything.
I.itz SAYS he was then dragged
from behind hi, counter and pun
meled while his glasses were on his
face The glasses were smashed.
and his face was cut by them. The
officers then seized papers in Liiz's
desk which are regarded as indis-
puablo evidence that he was on
gagged in the business OF accepting
bets on tho races With the search
warrant "a. their authority the on.
GERS ihrn Went thru the saloon.
ending with an examination OF the
content az the safe.
lq fho Offices of the cleanup
so-ad 10 was said that Fortner the
h4,' .vd ~ was arrested because N
u at FIRST suspected he was con
n.oted with the gaming establish
mont This beng untrue. no charge
Wit Doe made against him, IL was
said
Detective Burkhardt said war
rant would be issued for Litz. charg-
Ing the oNense on which he was reg
istcrod Both Litz and Former were
released Thursday evening.
The police raided the cigar store
IN Hayes place about two months
ago They declare their raid did
not have The desired effect OF curb
ing the gambling.
we threatened long ago 20 ar
rest saloonkcepers who lease their
places 70 bookmakers as we'll "a the
bookmAkers themselves" said a
cleanup squad officer. Hayes
didn't pay attention apparently. be
cause be let the bookmakers con
tinue their operations In his place
after the hrst raid. and he knows
as we'll as anyone else that he has
leased the front OF his plaoe 10 pro
fessiona gamblers"
Hayes declared he would consult
an attorney TO learn whether the
orfcers have a right TO ransack his
safe and the drawers in his bar
when no offense u charged against
htrn.
ct have nothing TO DO with the
men who run the cigar store" he
said. Their business Is not mine.
I can't understand why anyone
should go thru the papers IN my
once, rust because am IN the same
building with persons whom they
accuse OF an offense. Furthermore.
what right did they have TO take my
bartender away and close up my
placer haven't even been 40
cused Of q wrong-doins. yet they
close The doors and deprive mo OF
the legitimate business That might
have bean mine had my rights not
been violated.
1T am told that these officers have
a bunch OF search warrants IN their
pockets with blank spaces that they
can ell out whenever they please.
Commissioner Cousens attacks the
professional bondsmen who have re-
lease blanks on their persons ready
for any emergency The men who
run around with blank search war
rants are no better than the bonds
men"
In the Offices OF the cleanup
squad. n was suggested that Hayes
could easily rid himself OF the an
noyance about which he complains
by refusing 70 permit the mon who
lease the cigar stand TO conduct
gambling establishment, an offense
against the laws OF the state.
Hayes, "a former deputy sheriff.
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