Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-25
FIVE WOMEN CACGHT
IN POLICE RAIDS
Thirteen Arrested for Playing Crap
Sentenced to Pay S. and Costs
in City Court.

The Municipal Court room was crowded
to the doors today and there was an un-
usually large number of cases on the
docket, the result of the active work of
Wilmington police department ON Sat
| urday Sergeant Of Detectives Green
and his squad made swoop on the house
on West Fourth street near Monroe, on
| Saturday night arrested 30 or more
persons in the house and took them to
| the police station. where the majority
of them were held as witnesses, while
| charges were preferred against I Anna
| Nalraven and Jennie Smith
Against the former there were charges
Of keeping house of assgnation. being
| interested ih house of assignation and
| five charges of selling liquor without a
| license Against the Smith woman there
were two charges Of selling liquor with
out a license Philip l. Garrett was at
| tornev for the defendants and for the
| Walravcn woman pleaded guilty on the
| charge Of being interested in keeping
| house Of aSsignation and one Of the charges
| of selling liquor without n license On
| the. first charge she was fined $50 and
| costs and the latter 500 and costs and
the State nollc pressed the remainder
Of the charges
The Smith woman pleaded guilty TO
| ono Of the charges against her and a flnc
Of 500 and costs was imposed by Judge
Churchman. while the other cases were
dropped by the State
" hen the detectives raidcd the place
thriving business IS said 10 have been
going on and 20 men and six women are
SAID 10 have been IN the house Fifteen
eases of beer and two cases Of whisky were
also taken in tho raid The affair caused
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Crap PLAYING must have been very
popular on Saturday and Yesterday, and
rs a result i3 defendants were arraigncd
in court, AL adJudged guilty and fines
of s. and costs imposed IN each case.
Those appearing before court on this
charge were Thomas Henderson Au-
gustus Lorenzo NalcnIo larachey l1u-
gene Ridges Marino Bazlo. Nicholas
CartCra. white while Peter Armstrong.
r. ynond Harris, Marion RuttCr, John
II Fields Norris Jones. Porter Jackson,
Robert Dorsey ami Flzy Russ, all Nc
grocs were arraIgncd on like charge
CHARGED WITH LARCENY
Harry Virgins was arraIgncd On charges
of being drunk ana Of larceny ON the
former charge he was fined $40 and costs.
while on the larceny charge hc was held
under 81 900 ball for~tho Court ot Cen
eral Sessions According 10 the tcsti-
nonv WIgCln~ went 10 the house nt 9l>
West second street. where Richard Doud
boarded, and while there took 81 from
him
George Luke told tho court that he
was still a vagrant and was sentenced
TO the workhouse for 10 days when ar
raigncd on charge of vagrancy It WAS
Luke 18th appearance before the court
on such charge
Thomas Washington. q Negro, was
charged with breaking and entering the
property al 529 E4s; Sixth street and Of
having stolen quantltyo drugs and hot
water bottles tie was held under 81 900
bail for the Court Of General Sessions.
CONTINUE LARCENY CASE.
Otis Powell. arrested by Sergeant
King. Of the detective bureau charged
with the larceny OF q gold watch from
LLOYD F. Jones, was arraigncd and had his
case continued until tomorrow morning.
Bail was fixed al $500
Mike Roach was fined s. and costs on
q charge Of begging
Price Gordon and HIllman Wilson. both
Negroes charged with lighting OH the
street. were each nncd s. and costs.
Dominick PahImball alleged 10 be
wanted By the Pennsylvania authorities
on d charge Of murder was held for two
weeks without bail. 10 await the action OF
the PENNSYLVANIA authorities.
Rov Cook charged with acting IN q
dis0rdcriv manner by breaking the glass
window of the store at OOSprucc street,
was fined SO and costs.
1t cost Frank Latshaw, so and costs
for trespassIng on the property Of the
Pennsylvania railroad
Corbert Briggs colored was fined $40
and costs on a charge of assault and
battery preferred by Worthy Dennis, q
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