The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-06
STACKER RAIDS END;
GREGORY BLAMED
De Woody Insists He Acted on
Orders From Attorney
General.
THINKS HE NETTED 5 P. C.
Financial District and Equita-
bic Building COmbed, but
Days Catch Is Small.
THINKS HE NETTED 5 P. c.

Yesterdays uproar in the Senate over
the methods used in New York draft
raids did not appear to disturb Charles
De Woody. division superintendent OF
the Department of Justices investiga-
tors. who bossed the great drive. The
I roundup ended last night, in accordance.
Mr. De Woody said, with the original
purpose to clean up the metropolitan
district in three days. The results will
be made known from Washington.
After he had read reports of the Sem
/, ators' criticism, Mr.. De Woody was
asked who ordered the raids. a question
L which Senator Smoot ard others de-
m ,nded an answer. Mr.. De Woody re-
pa ID by quoting from the confidential
ina ructions sent to his 10000 aids on
AuA ust 20. which said that "the De-
para nent of Justice. at the direction OF
the Attorney General and with the APP
prov,& OF the Provost Marshal General"
would institute the canvass.
WIS l said on. August 20 stand by
on Sc. nc mber g. remarked Mr.. De
Woody. who was trying to check up
the work >'f the three days at the Sixty
ninth Re z, ment Armory and was in
terrupted INV and then by telephone
call from Washington.
Thinks o yer Cent. Were Melted.
TT is silly for any one to assume
that I would ever undertake such
thing without Are authority of my su-
periors," he cont nued. when the final
report Is in / wa assume responsibility
for 1t before anylNdy. ! am getting the
figures together ncNi. but they can only
be made public by the Department Of
Justice in Washington.
II will undertake to say. however.
that the complete figuf es from Manhat-
tan and The Bronx Brooklyn and
Queens, and the part of New Jersey that
Is in my district will jul tify the drive.
1t would be justified II only one or two
slackers were caught. BIT l will I'M
dertake TO say that the frEtJ figures will
show that $500 wilful 'slackers have
been arrested in the dist.it and will
have been indicted into military service
by 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.. l be-
lieve that nearly per cent. Oh all the
persons who could not show tleek- regis
tration cards and were taken TO the
armories will prove to be wilful shakers.
] may have to weaken this estimste
little. but / believe it is nearly 6 per
cent"
Wall street Buildings RaiNed.
The financial district was raided yes
terday afternoon. The Broad street
curb market was disrupted for a few
minutes and the Equitable. largest OF Of
fee buildings. was ransacked while all
entrances were blocked.
A little after noon forty army privates,
thirty military policemen from Camp
Upton and batch of Government
civilian aids appeared in Broad street
from all points of the compass. Guards
were posted in Wan, Beaver and other
streets to see that no CARELESS draft sub
3ect esca ped. Other hunters plunged into
the cacklihg groups of curb brokers,
whose sophistcation proved so wholly
unequal to this novelty that business
stopped forthwith. In a few minutes
sixty suspects wee welded out and
rushed away in patrol wagons. cheered
sardonically by the multitude. Most of
! them were set free at police station.
j. A. Dolan. he;d detective of the
Equitable Building. AND his fifteen help
,ers aided the hunters for draft dodgers
in that building. Major whitehall L. S.
A.. commanding the raiding forces, had
! the eleven entrances to the structure
closed. In the building are housed the
Liberty Loan Committee. the Federal
Reserve Bank the Bankers Club and
the American Smelling and Refining
Company. In all there are 500 tenants
and about II 900 employees.
Trespass in Omces Is stopped.
Az the start the raiders began to
enter Offices and question men found
there This was stopped after George
T. Mortimer. president of the Equitable
Building Corporation, telephoned to Mr..
De Woody. Thereafter the questioning
was restricted to the main corridors and
= the sidewalks. Some employers asked the
= draft Investigators to permit their men to
remain at work. promising they would
have their cards to-day, but In reply
were told that all within draft age had
been amply warned and that exceptions
could not be made.
The raiders left the building at 80
p. M. with twenty-six men out of the
5000 who had been held up. One was
an unregistered alien enemy Four
others admitted they had not registered.
The rest said they had left their cards
at home The twenty-six were taken
TO the Old Slip police station, where
several were allowed to go their ways.
GA. n. veteran Cows Soldier.
All doors of the Equitable Building
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