Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-05
POLICE CONTINUE RAIDS
ON GAMBLING HOUSES:
MORE ARRESTS MADE
Sensational Raid on Crap
Game on Merritt's DoCk---
Alleged to be in Game.
SEVEN ARE FINED $25 EACH
One Jumps Overheard to Es-
cape Alleged Pickpocket is
Arrested - Other Arrests

The Perth Amboy police depart
ment continued its clean up of the
city over the week end A gamb-
ling house was raided by Roundsman
Andrew Jensen and PatrOlman
Charles Quinn, and seven negroes
were arrested; Patrolman Frank Kas-
przak after a chase arrested Jersey
City man alleged to be an auto thief
and Patrolman Frank Tonghini ar
rested colored man on a charge of
being a pickpocket.
Nab PiclxpOclSet Suspect.
Wallace Pitts, colored, was arrest
ed BIZ Patrolman Frank Tonghini Sat
urday afternoon on a charge of pick
ing pockets in a bus. Pitts Is alleged
to have got on bus bound for Roose-
Welt and IL seems a white accomplice
also was on this bus. Joseph Brown,
who was in the bus watched the ne
gro shove his hand into one mans
pocket, and then into another. The
Rccomplice detected Brown watching
the negro, so he gave Pitts a sign to
.eave the bus. Pitts is said to have
left the bus Iclaiming he wanted to
go 10 New Brunswick.
Brown followed him off and seen
him throw a pocketbook under q
fence. Brown then accosted Patrol
man Tonghini who followed the negro
and placed him under arrest. The
officer claimed that the negro pulled
out a knife but could not open same
before the policeman checked further
efforts with his club. The white man
is said to have got off the bus and
kept signalling the negro, but dis
appeared when Pitts was placed under
arrest.
When arraigned this morning be-
fore Recorder Pickersgill. Pitts was
ordered held to see if the person from
whom the pocketbook was taken, will
appear tomorrow morning.
KissprzaIS Commended.
Patrolman Frank KasprZak was
commended by Chief of Police Patrick
j. Burke for the arrest early Sun
day morning of Leo Gilbert of Jersey
City who is charged with stealing an
auto from Newark on Saturday night.
Kasprzak was notified at 1885 Sat
urday night by Sergeant Mulligan
ing license 26135. N. j. stolen from
Newark. At 1900 the patrolman saw
the stolen car pass New Brunswick
avenue and Amboy avenue, and turn
into Prospect street. Kasprzak stop
ped a taxi and gave chase. overtak-
ing the stolen car between Smith and
Market streets.
The patrolman took the man and
car to headquarters, and Gilbert was
taken back to Newark yesterday by
Detective John j. Reilly of the New
ark polfcesSs<T3lo commended the local
police for the capture.
Sensational Raid
About o'clock yesterday morning
Patrolman Charles Quinn and Rounds
man Andrew Jensen planned raid on
q small negro shanty on Merits dock
near Fayette street, where 1t was be-
lieved a crap game was in session.
When the two policemen swooped
down upon the joint, eleven were in
side but four managed to escape, one
said to be Edward Goss who hunks
in the shanty Goss jumped over
board to escape the patrolman. 1t
Is said he Is on parole from prison
having served term for roing = yacht
here.
The seven men arrested, Rymord
Hood, James Payne. Abe Burks. John
Red" Price, Henry Curdy, b. Calbert
and William Pendleton all pleaded
guilty to the charge and were each
fned s25 when arraigned before Re-
corder Pickersgill this morning.
Arrested for Vagrancy
Geraldine Matthews of Woodbridge
arrested by Roundsman Andrew Jen-
sen and Patrolman Charles Quinn on
n charge of vagrancy, was ordered to
pay fine of $40 or serve a term of
thirty days in the county Jail when
arraigned before recorder Pickersgill
this morning.
Man Reports Big Loss.
Joe 10th. of Fords reported to the
police over the week end that he had
lost $3.50 in a bus on which he rode
from this city to his home. Detec-
tive Sergeant Huff is working on the
case and Is following up a report,
which stated that a person found this
amount in one of the buses.