Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
ALLEGED HANDBOOK
MEN IN POLICE NET
Eight Arrested; Many Persons
Involved in Cases Police
Have Investigated. ]

Eight alleged violators of the hand
book law yesterday afternoon were
caught in the police dragnet. officials
of the department have the names of
scores Of persons who have been play
ing the races and will summon them to
appear before the grand jury when
that body takes up the investigation
Of the cases. Department of Justice
officials participated in the investiga-
ton.
Names Booked on Records.
The eight defendants were booked on
police records as Samuel Rapaport.
thirty-one years old. butcher. ?29 NJ
street southeast: Frank NJ McCor-
mick. thirty-two years. manager.
11l5is 9Th street: Robert George Lu-
Der. thirty-two years. barber. 5l1 18th
street: William II. Fishkorn. thirty
nine years, 1900 l. street. Fred Spasa-
no. twenty-three years, barber. $50 I'd
street; William Edward Milton, TWEEN
ty-six years. carpenter. 90S 14th street:
Julian f. Reed. thirty years. clerk. 1903
10th street, and Walter Sondheimer.
thirty-two years. salesman, 251s 18th
street.
Samuel Sondheimer. thirty-fve years.
salesman. 25lS 18th street. was arrested
and taken to police headquarters. He
showed conclusively that he had not
been in the city the past year prior TO
yesterday, and no charge of making l.
but he was charged with disorderly
conduct because Of a remark he is al
legged to have made. and was required
to deposit $40 collateral
Bond in the sum of $4,000 was re-
quired Of the defendants who had pre-
viously been arrested on charges o:
violating the handbook law. while those
who were arrested for the first TIM"
were required to give only $1,000 bona.
One of the men. il is stated. admitted
five or six arrests, and another member
OF the party Is said to be on probation
Several alleged patrons of the layers OF
odds on the ponies were taken to polio
headquarters, questioned and summoned
to appear as witnesses.
Too Late to Block Police.
AS soon as the raiding parties started
their work friends of handbook men got
busy sending telephone messages OF what
was going on. 1t was too late for them
to block the police. AS several officers
were on hand to capture each man whose
name appeared in warrants that had
previously been issued by the clerk OF
Police Court.
There was practically no excitement at
tending the arrests. none Of the men maxi
ing an effort to put up a fight and only
one trying to get place where he might
get ria OF alleged telltale Slips ne Is SAID
to have had in his possession.
Many statements of the bold manner
in which handbook men were opera ting
came to the ears of the police. 1t was
said that some of them congregated in
lunchrooms and barber shops and actually
accepted and paid of bets without any
effort at concealment.
Statements Of plays made on many
handbook men were reported to the po-
lice, affidavits filed and warrants issued
for the arrest of seven Of the eight men
taken in custody yesterday.
Officials of the Department OF Justice
promise to take an active part in the
prosecution Of the men arrested yester-
day and on f1fty-seven similar charges
pending against almost that number Of
other defendants. Police officials said
it is the intention of agents Of the de-
partment to ask that witnesses be heard
by the grand jury at the earliest pos
sible date and that the defendants be
promptly placed on trial.
Police records show that some Of the
defendants were arrested as long ago
as May %, 1915. Others were arrested
in August of the following year, and
still others were taken in the late win
ter and summer of 1917. Money and al
legged record evidence found on some of
those arrested yesterday were retained
by the police to be used as evidence.