The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-04
1T HAS SEVEN NAMES
Scores of Others. Including
Politicians, Have Been
Involved.
'SQUEALS' ARE REPORTED
Gamblers Awaiting Sentence
May Have Revealed Names
to Justice.

1t is likely that the month of Octo-
her, 1920, will remain impressed for
many months more on the minds of
many men in Nassau county, for the
Grand Jury which meets to-day is to
be given mass of evidence tcnding
to show that gambling and graft have
teen in partnership in the county for
arearly five years. and is 70 De asked
: to indict the men responsible and
crive vice from the county for good.
The evidence has been collected in a
series of court hearings which have gon.
or for most of the summer. and there
are Office holders all through the county
who would cheerfully give their pay for
the current year for the privilege of re-
firing into a quiet room with a trans
cript of the court minutes for not more
than half an hour. 1t is known that at
least seven officials have been named in
the proceedings as men who have taken
protection money from law breakers, and
II only these seven knew positively they
had been named. and some seventy
others, more or less, could know that
they also had not been accused, the air
NOuiu ne Clearer III Nassau county ana
the habit of tranquil sleep might come
again.
And there are still other men in the
Jurisdiction who rejoice that the Grim
inal statute of limitations fixes the time
within which most crimes must be prose-
cu,ed at five years, and thus takes that
period Of Nassau history which befell
before 1915 out of the Grand Jurys con-
sideration. For gambling and graft
have been going on in the county for
nearly fifteen years now. and there are
divers men now out of Office who when
they were in office made it their in
variable rule to get theirs"
Gambling in the county, with official
corruption for its partner may almost
be said to date from the first good auto
mobile road out Of New York. For it
is the native son of Long Island infre-
quently, and the sportily inclined of
Manhattan almost altogether, who sup
port Long Islands gambling establish
ments, and everybody who has read
newspaper within the last thirty days
knows the names of Dave Gideon, Bill
Bustced. Lon Belts and John ShauEh-
messy. and knows they were not raised
in the cornfields of Nassau.
Jnck Rose IA Pioneer.
BALD" Jack Rose, who squeezed
through with his life in return for the
States evidence he gave at the trial Of
Police Lieut. Charles Becker. was one
Of the first of the New York gambling
fraternity to envisage Long Island as a
fruitful field. And It is recorded that
twenty years ago. and only FIVE years
after Nassau was created as a county
from pieces of Suffolk and Queens, he
drove across it's landscape behind a
livery nag interviewing real estate
agents. town constables and men who
were supposed TO be in close touch with
the higher officials Of the new made
county Off and on throughout n sum-
mer he was seen on the roads and in the
village inns, but he finally went away
without starting anything and it was
said then he reported to his hackers IN
the big city that the Nassau county mind
would require years more Of educatior
before II would be in a state to receive
the proposals Of business men.
Then, about fifteen years ago some one
opened roulette wheel in a smell build
ing which was put up specially to re-
ccive ii. few feet away from n poru-
lar road house at Hewlett. And from
that day to this. except extremely re-
Gently. there has always been n house Or
two running in the same vicinity ard
there have been others equally popular
and as well patronized in Lynbrook and
at Long Beach.
Elegance of Recent Date.
II Is really within the last three wears
that Long Island gaming resorts have
had any elegance about them. g leon $
place at Hewlett. standing or the main
road. has the look about IL q private
house. built by 2 go1d architect f0r Some
gentleman fond Of books and TIE arts
and with a penchant for 0ove. oods.
There is a bit Of l-ndscaping bet, an
the house and road that is especially Wei
done. and the vines winding ir and out
Of n trelis on the west exposure give TIC
effect of shutting out vulgar world
from 4 family OF quiet habit and fas-
Germ no one ever saw an automobile
standing before e. il was the rule that
within two minutes after you got by the
doorman your car must be on its way.
Busteod's place, over on fork OF the
same road where Gideon's place stands,
IS sequestored among trees and has a
rubber d0ormat Some one said once
that apparently the driveway leading
into Il had rubber lining also Any
way, the effect Of tranquility and silence
IS perfectly done, and connoisseurs who
have inspected the pictures and bibclots
and carpets say that Busted at least
gave his patrons art for their money.
And II is from the nature of such
places as these, and OF Lou Betts's and
John Shaughncssy's places at Lynb~ool.
and one or two others at Long Beach,
whose proprietors must b. namcl, ior
n while. that Justice Townsend Scuddlr
of the Supreme Court was moved 20 say
from the bench last September:
For years the defendants before this
bar have run costly gambling dens How
IS it that through al -hese years hoy
hive been able 20 run without being mo-
Tested? How is t. that. while running
wide open, they would suddenly close for
n few days and then, after a visit BY
the police authorities OF The county open
again? How Is 1t that In daily attend
ance at the race tracks they are fnost
frequently in the company of certain
office holders OF this country"
Weeks started Trouble.
However. there is one official In Mas
sau VINO during ono and half terms OF
office has fought the gamblers unre-
mittingiy and who. Il is believed, Will
soon have opportunity Of presenting the
eases against them and the officials
whom they paid to trial juries in the
Supreme Court. This Is Charles r
Weeks, District Attorney. who teally be
rnn the campaign which has produced
the present situation in the county, apd