Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-25
It's NABBED In
BIG VICE RAID
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street house, Middletown, and 1928
State street.
To-morrow-1314 Marion street,
1886 Cowden street, and at 2 O'Clock,
1919 North Seventh street, known as
the Bucket of Blood"
Subject to Change
| Wednesday-At 10 o'clock, the
Bodmer house, Highspire, 706 North
East street, and in the afternoon, the
place art 435 Market street.
Friday-314 Christian street, Steel
ton; Pearl Wilson, 1908 North Sew
enth street, at 10 o'clock; Mary Wal
lower, 901 Capital street, at 3 O'Clock
1922 North Third and 22Oh Null
berry street at o'clock.
This trial list was made up this
morning and is subject to change.
Police Are Lax
That the police department was
informed of the condition of affairs
here more than week previous to
the raid by Captain De Lappe, of the
Ordnance Depot, came to light to-
day.
The Captain called at the Cham
ber of Commerce to make complaint
of soldiers returning to camp intoXi-
Gated, and that he knew this liquor
was being bought in dens and re-
sorts other than regularly licensed
| places Andrew S. Patterson, presi-
dent of the Chamber, took up the
matter with the Mayor and he with
| the chief of police, who made a
showing of doing something, but
left many of the dens still in opera
ton.
On Tuesday of last week Captain
DeDLappe called on the Mayor, who
! told him the police had four places
under suspicion. The Captain was not
convinced of the departments will
ingness or ability to so deeply into
the subject and later on that day
showed Mr.. Patterson long list of
places which he said secret service
agents had located and against which
evidence had been procured. The
raids then followed.
All Ages i'll Net
Men and women of all ages, boys
and girls, soldiers and others were
counted among the prisoners herded
| into the Federal Court room of the
new Post Office. Proprietresses of
almost city-wide notoriety were
among those arrested. Some of the
older offenders, it is said expressed
surprise when they were disturbed,
stating that they thought, things
were fixed"
In the raid were included houses
| in Middletown, Highspire, Steelton
and Harrisburg. Army trucks from
the Ordnance Depot at Middletown
were used as patrols, and from IL
o'clock Saturday night until o'clock
in the morning they unloaded their
motley crews in front of the Post
Office as a result of the dragnet op-
Grating of the raiders.
Planned Early
The raid was planned at confer
ence of Federal officers, military au-
thorities and State Police officials
! Saturday afternoon. Among those
present at the conference were
Charles G. Miller, representing the
| War Department; Captain George f..
Lumb, acting superintendent of the
State Police; Captain w. c. Price,
of Company c, State Police, sta
toned at Pottsville; Lieutenant Colo
incl Chesterton, of the Middletown
Aviators; Captain A. A. Delappe,
commanding officer at the Ordnance
Depot at Middletown; Lieutenant
Harold Glason, of the Ordnance De-
partment, and the two secret service
officials. Lieutenant Colonel Chess
terton, as local ranking military
officer, was asked to furnish the de-
tachment of military police.
Began Work at IL
The cleanup began at exactly IL
o'clock, and every place under sus-
picion was approached at one time.
| The state troopers did not wear their
puttees, and were otherwise infor-
mally equipped. One inside the
houses, they pulled their caps from
their blouses and at once revealed
their identity. Forty of them were
brought to the city to handle the
raid.
The officials and raiders at a final
conference early Saturday evening
closed up all leaks in the dragnet
and arranged for the complete dis
comfture of the followers of the red
lights.
Bewilderment, defiance, supplica-
ton, fear, anXiety-almost every
conceivable emotion was expressed
in the faces of the victims of the
wholesale arrests, as the strangest
crew ever assembled at one time in
Harrisburg waited in the Federal
Court room for the disposition of
their cases by the Federal officers.
A "Clean" City
On the street corners, and in the
Mayors office, almost the same emo
tions were being expressed by the
citys guardians of the law. The po-
licemen are the ones who have re-
peated that Harrisburg is a clean
city, and that their efforts to curb
bootlegging were working wonders in
the city. Saturday night, while
scores of soldiers arrested in the raid,
were drinking and violating law gen.
orally, the police had made only two
arrests for bootlegging. An hour aft
er the huge trucks with their pris-
oner loads tore through the streets
from the AIva Ho.el, the Crystal Ho-
tel. the ''Bucket of Blood" and other
raided buildings, and unloaded at
Third and Walnut streets, the police
gradually began to realize that q
higher power had stepped in, tore
down in a moment the system that
permitted protected vice to flourish
and winked it's eyes at disorder, and
exposed the rank inefficiency or de-
| lliberate neglect of the Harrisburg po-
lice department.
Police Not Informed
The police were in nowise notified
of the raid. Tuesday the federal off,
cials notified Mayor Keister they
were here for an investigation. He
told them he considered the city
clean, but would be glad to lend his
patrolmen and patrol If any disor-
derly places were located. 1t would
have taken days for the patrol to
transport the number of ILL
famed characters it was necessary to
haul about the streets of Harrisburg
to the halls of justice during the
three hours of the cleanup.