New-York tribune., 1920-03-10
sBeansy' Rosenfeld
Must Serve Term
I'm Jersey Prison
New York Gambler Who
Sought S'Reflgc'' Across
the River Loses Fight in
the State Appeals Court

"Beansy' Rosenfeld, one of the "big
shots" among New York gamblers, who
for nearly quarter Of century has
laughed at the efforts of police and
district attorneys to land him in Jail,
must so to the state prison at Tren-
ton for running q craps game in Carl
stad, N. j. The New Jersey Court Of
Errors and Appeals affirmed yesterday
his sentence of from one to five wears
imposed by the Bergen County Court
OF Common Pleas, at Hackensack.
Rosenfcld was arrested July 10, 1918,
at the Halfway House, CARLSBAD.
Sheriff Courier had dispa atchcd com
pany Of state militia to surround the
building. Evidence against Rosenfeld
and his partners in the gaming estab-
lishment had previously been obtained
by private detective agency 1t was
charged that "Beansy" .&nd mis- associ-
ates, with the connivaMce of certain
county officials, had turned CARLSBAD
into a vcritablc Monte Carlo. Faro
craps and betting on the horscraces
were running full blast when the raid
crs broke in
"Beansy" took refuge in a closet on
the top floor Of the roadhouse, but was
hauled out by deputy sheriff. His
conviction and that Of several others
taken with him was appealed to the
Supreme Court, which upheld it, and
then to the Court of Errors and Ap-
peals, which has dashed Rosenfeld's
last hope of retaining his freedom.
1t was nothing new in "Beansy"
Rosenfeld's life when the doors of the
Halfway House at CARLSBAD splintered
under the blows Of Sheriff Courter's
men. He had been among the first to
utilize sawdust-filled walls, steel shut
ters and "ice-box" doors in New York
to insure privacy for his players, and
he had seen those artfices give be-
meath the axes Of the police strong
arm squad.
Likewise, he had seen himself go scot
free time after time after these raids
in the metropolisa little matter OF
giving bail and hiring counsel and start
ing up again ia a new placo-so he
could hardly have regarded the Carl
stad affair as much more than an
amusing rustic adventure.
1t was in the '90's that Rosenfeld
first began to gain prominence in the
ranks OF New York's gamblers. Simon
blhan IS said to be his real name He
calls himself Sigmund Rosenfeld, but
1T is as "Beansy" that he has been
long known by the men who live each
day IN affluence or poverty, depending
on the turn of card or the fan Of
the dice the night before.
The nearest "Beansy" ever came to
going to Jail in New York was when
four alleged associates of his we're
taken IN raid on a house at 10S East
Seventeenth Street and sentenced to
four months in the workhouse by JUDGE
Wadhams in Special Sessions on March
q, 1918. District Attorney Swami
charged this place was a favoritc re-
sort. for friendly policemen on stormy
nights. ''''
Shortly after this "Beansy" crossed
the Hudson. The suddenness with
which his career in New Jersey came
TO an end was due partly to the fact
that the prosecutor and the Sheriff
were at loggerheads and had been
charging each other with unwiilngness
20 en1crce the law. a cleanup was
inevitable and "Beansy" was caught
red d-handed. '''
Some fifty New York gamblers taken
III II. 1he pace were convicted and fined
from S2o to $500 each. Three CARLSBAD
hotelkeepers who were runninr branch
poolrooms for Rosenfeld are SERVING
three month sentences in the Rerpen
county jail and were fined $1,000 each
supreme Court Justice Parker Who
presided at the trials, will sit in Hack
ensack to-day, and tbs expected he
VIII order the surety company which
provided $4,000 bail for Rosenfeld to
produce him in order that he NAV he
committed in Trenton.