The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-19
CONTINUE NEARLY ALL RAID CASES
 IN CITY COURT
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1dASa0o III IIl0 S1Cy COurL L01S IlOIh- ing, charged with being keepers of disorderly or gambling houses. They 1 were Milagro and Rafael Giner, both of 372 State street, charged with keeping a disorderly house; Joseph Vetrano, of 644 Carroll avenue, charged with keeping @ gambling house; Josie Ross, of 75 State street, charged with keeping a disorderly house; Frank Ballista, of 311 State street, charged with keeping a disof- derly house; Henry McKeon, of 57 Milne street, charged with keeping gam bling house; Annie Cuomo, of 451 Water street, charged with keeping 8 dSorderly house; James Foty, of 54o Broad street, charged with keeping a disorderly house; Rose Lamont, of 37 Drouve street, charged with keep ing a disorderly house; Ella Miller, of 77 State street, charged with keeping a disorderly house; Cora Aube, of 25 Thomas street, charged with keeping a disorderly house and George Guar diola, of 372 State street, charged with keeping a gambling house; Mary Dina, of 654 State street, charged with keeping a d1sorderly house.
 Of these prisoners, the Burns de- teetives lodged serious chares against James Foty, $40 Broad street. and Idiih DdlllSldy LII oil oldle SII6SI Both men gre being held under s2,009
 bonds for trial on April 27. Technical charges of breach of the peace have been entered, but it is understood that a story told by a girl who was taken in the raids, may duplicate the pair as white slavers. It is expected that
 the complete story will be told when the case is brought to trial next Tues day.
 The cases of Milagro and Rafael
 Grfner, Josie Ross, Annie Cuomo, Ella Miller, Cora Aube and George Guar diola were continued until tomorrow, and bonds were fixed at $150 in each | case. Charges against Joseph Betrane were nolled, when the detectives ad- 1 mitted that they found no evidence of gambling when they entered his place at 254 Middle street Mary Dina and Rose Lamont forfeited bonds when | they failed to appear for trial. Men and women who were taken as frequenters in the various resorts
 which were visited jammed the City Court room this morning, but many | of them left the court just before | their cases were called. Forty cases 1 of frequenting were nolled and most ! of the others were closed by calling | the bonds About dozen frequent l CTS were held for a future hear 1 ing.
 i Saturday nights wholesale raids | were the continuation of a well laid | scheme which has evidently been i working out secretly for the past | three months. The Burns detectives | have been in Bridgeport for that l length of time and evidently went | about their business of securing in. 1 formation in very business-like man. 1 ner. So quietly was this task ao | complished, that no one except the
 men themselves, Mayor Wilson and | the police commissioners had the ] slightest inkling of what was goins on.
 Evidence that the mayor was a | rinsleader in the cleanup has been l brought out by the statement of a 1 detective who claims that every house 1 visited Saturday night was selected | by Mayor Wilson. The men received l their orders from the mayor and the 1 police commissioners, and carried ] them out to the letter.
 The raiding party assembled short l ly after 7:3o o'clock Saturday night, | and immediately started out to clean | up the places named in the orders. 1 The men were armed with clubs and | revolvers, and had little difficulty in l rounding up the inmates of the houses 1 which were visited. Prisoners were 1 carted to police headquarters in every 1 sort of vehicle and until early Sun i day morning the building was a scene I of wild disorder. Women prisoners l became hysterical, and bondsmen had a. hard time locating their friends who had registered under false names II | is intimated that several prominent
 people were caught in the police net
 but none of their names appeared OF
 the police bIotter this morning.
 Charges against the local police were made by the Burns men this morning. One detective alleged thai he asked an officer for some informa- ton concerning a certain house, Sat iurday night, and was told that he
 the officer. knew nothing of its rep tutation. This statement, coming iron
 a@ man who was supposed to be pa,
 trolling g. beat on which the house wa. located, surprised the detective to sa1
 the least. The Burns man intinatet
 this morning, that this spirit was ty
 pica.l of all the policemen who wer,
 asked to assist the detectives Satur day night. The New York office
 stated that only in one instance dix
 the party with which he was work , ing, secure any valuable aid from tn, police.
 Charges against the Burns me7 were fatly denied this morning. Ell, weer ffatly dented this morning. Ell; Miller, of 77 State street, who was on
 of those taken as the propri etor O
 an alleged disorderly house, com
 plained that one of the detective , robbed her of diamonds valued a
 several thousands of dollars Thi story was absolutely denied by tn detectives today.
 In regard to the vice trust whic
 is said to exist in Bridgeport, tn , l New York men said this morning tha such an organization actually ha :, flourished here, and that right no1 , 1 it is on the verge of a compIet | shake down.
 } we have evidence" said one ( |, | the detectives today, Ftthat there is great vice trust in Bridgeport, br
 we have a tsqueaF which will shak
 the organization to its very founda
 i tions. We also have evidence ths 7 women who attempted to break ava
 from this organized gang, and trie
 to operate for themselves were drive