Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-04

Boykin personally raided it and put
it out of business.
ION one or two occasions, wit
nesses swore a telephone message
was received by one of the men op-
Grating the place; he stated to those
present to leave, as the place was
going to be raided, but that they
| would not need to be in any specia
hurry. A short time afterwards the
| detectives came, but no gambling was
going on and no arrests were made
Having been forewarned of the
raid the occupants were apparently
engaged in "a dutch supper. Wit
nesses testified that the visitors gen.
twenty-upon occasion it was testi-
fled there must have been about one
| hundred in the rooms. Upon another
occasion detectives visited the place
at night; apparently they had been
again tipped off, and no game was
in operation that night, and no ar
rests were made. A number of wit
so openly and continuously that they
were of the opinion that it must be
protected by the police department
~Gambling was discovered at
SO IL Whitehall street At least two
witnesses, not in the game, saw it
| in progress, called up police head
quarters, asked for officers, and the
place was raided. Whisky, which
was being used at the game was
taken by the officers, together with
the cards and chips. The cards and
quarters, but the whisky had disap-
peared. The trial of the men caught
| was set for $3.50 p. m. in recorder S
court. One of the witnesses to the
gambling went to headquarters at
1880 p. m. and saw the man who was
charged with operating the place.
paying money to the desk sergeant
1.-THE witness went up to see Chief
Beavers and told him about the case;
that she had seen the game in opera
| ton and desired to push the cases
against the men. Chief Beavers
knew nothing, of the case, and took
her into Chief Poole, who told her
that it was difficult to obtain con-
victions in such cases, and talked to
her in a discouraging way about
| pushing the cases. According to the
witness, Chief Beavers didn't know
what to say. When this witness a2d
! another eyewitness to the gambling
| attended recorders court at 2:3O
| o'clock, the cases were not called
and the witnesses who wished to
| prosecute the cases were told by
officers that the cases had been set
tied out of court. Recorders docket
shows that each defendant had de-
posted $25 collateral and that the
, collateral had been forfeited.
Detectives in Taxi Business.
In view of the situation as revealed
| by it's Investigations, the grand jury
recommends that all applications for
rooming houses be investigated by
the police department before license
is granted. The passage of a city
ordinance to this effect is urged.
Condemning' the practice of allow
ing criminals to escape by paying
comparatively light fines, the pre-
sentiments declare that the imposi-
ton of changing sentences on boot
| leggers, gamblers, whisky runners
and similar offenders, would ellm1-
nate much of the crime now eXtant in
| Atlanta.
Continuing it's expose of the alleged
| relations between detectives and per-
sons connected with the criminal ele-
| ment, the preSentments say:
1--WE learn that two of the city de-
| tectiVes were in partnership in run
ming the Hudson taxi service, with
! and that the taXiS owned by these
two detectives were the ones used
almost invariably by the gamblers IN
the rapid carrying of themselves ano
their victims between the railroad
! stations, hotels and so-called turf
| exchanges number l, and 8, winch
| they regularly operated.
1--WE were informed that the night
Mills was killed in the Ansley hotel,
the man who did the killing left IN
one of the cars owned by this taxi
| company, and disappeared Tor Two
| yrI-o DIV IF
service were Intimately acquainted
with practically all of these crooks
| and one of them carried prominent
member Of this gang in their taxi
| from here to Birmingham, in an
| emergency.
Recorders Court Reviewed
Declaring that many cases are dis
missed from the recorders court
when they should be bound over tc
the state courts, the investigating
body urges that the authorities look
into the situation at the police court
where more than $4,000 cases were
handled in eleven months this year
This is very large volume of bus
mess for one recorder to handle
says the grand jury.
1.-THE attention of the police de-
partment is called to the following
facts and our detectives and patrol
| men DS lllSIl uCICb cISSOA NAiA5
ly," the presentments continue.
"(D. That book-making on ou1
streets, is contrary to law, and those
who practice it can be punished fo1
gambling. upon proper evidence. II
is not necessary that they be under
roof when so engaged, to make it a
crime. We call attention to the i'm
proper practice of permitting offend
ers to forfeit their bonds or cash
collateral, and thereby secure i'm
munity from trial. The law provides
that in each case such forfeiters ire
subject to arrest and trial, both for
the crime and for contempt.
"(2). The laxity of fixing amounts
required as cash collateral. In many
cases, sums of Sill, SIG and $26, is
wrong, when the nature of the evil
dence would warrant bonds of from
$100 to $1,000, or more.
| "(3). That owners of, places Used
for gambling. are subject to prosecu-
ton if they do not Immediately abate
same upon being furnished with evil
dence of the fact. Renting age7 S
should also be so informed.
"(4) That our policemen should