The Washington times., 1921-07-12
z TAKEN ON ROOF
IN DRIVE AGAINST
RACE GAMBLERS
Police Say Brains Of Bookies"
Caught in Raid on Fashion
able Residence.

Taking refuge on the roof after po-
lice officials had battered down a
door of the house at Leland street,
Chevy Chase, Montgomery county.
John ID. Kelleher and Milton Cooley.
alleged to have conducted extensive
handbook operations I'm Washington,
were captured late yesterday after
noon, and taken to Rockville, charged
with making pool on horse races.
simultaneously with the raid on
the Chevy Chase house, Washing.
ton detectives swooped down on an
office in the Albee building, 1426 q
street northwest. and arrested Will
lam b. Garnes and five other mel
who were locked up on charges OF
making handbooks on the races.
The Leland street house, three
story establishment with twelve rooros
Is in the fashionable "stucoo village"
three blocks from the Chevy Chase
Club and two blocks from the Co
lumbia Golf Club. 1t has been known
as a house of mystery" for months.
and when the officers smashed their
way into the place yesterday after
noon they found eight private tele-
phones used, they claim, by kelleher
and Cooley In conducting their ex-
tensive handbook business.
EVIDENTLY DID BIG BUSINESS.
Racing paraphernalia, including
dope sheets, card index systems, in
dicsting that the alleged handbook
operators did an extensive credit busf-
ness with hundreds OF Washington
ians, were confiscated by the police.
The raid on the house was led by
States Attorney Thomas l.. Dawson,
Sheriff George r. Nicholson and Dep
uty Sheriffs Charles ". Ferrar, Lloyd
De Witt and Mrs. Ferrar, who re-
Gently was appointed a deputy sher-
iff
Reaching the house at $40 o'clock
the officers found the front and back
doors locked and bolted. They de-
mGnded entrance which was refused.
Using axes the officers broke the
back door open.
SEARCH HOUSE FOR MEN.
The officers then rushed into the
house and searched for Kelleher and
Cooley who had gone to the third
floor and locked themselves in a
room. The room In which the tele-
phones were as well as racing para
phanalia also had been locked and
bolted before the officers gained en-
trance to the house.
Both rooms were broken into py
the officers, but Cooley and Kelleher
had fled to the roof. They were
seen, however, and were brought
down by Dawson and Sheriff Nichol-
son on a ladder. They we're later
locked up.
1t was while this raid was in prog
lress that Detectives Thomas Sween-
ley. Fowler and Messer, working in
District Commissioner James F.
IOyster's Flying squadron" were get
ting evidence and making arrests in
the Albee building. said to be the
Washington branch office of the hand
book operators. An automobile load OF
racing sheets, data and records were
iconfiscated at both places.
GET HEARING AT ROCKVILLE.
Following the raid at Chevy Chase,
Kelleher and Cooling were taken to
Rockville, where they were given a
preliminary hearing before Police
Court Judge William Z. 'Viett, who
released them on bonds for the ac-
ton Of the Montgomery county grand
jury.
Beside Garnes. others arrested in
the Albee building raid included: Clar-
ence Joseph Herman. 1904 Fourteenth
street northwest; John +. Benton, 302
ID street northeast: James j. Scanlon.
2f21 N street northwest, and Harold
y. al M WIN saNe hAs aan cSS 40 fVS
Albee building.
According to States Attorney D,w-
son, Kelleher has been the master
mind" of the handbook operators In
Washington. He is said to not nava
made his home at the Leland street
house, but to have used two rooms
there for his handbook operations.
EIGHT PHONES DISCONNECTED
The eight telephones In the house
were disconnected by States Attorney
Dawson and the numbers recorded.
operators when they are brought to
trial.
When the officers broke into the
room where Kelleher and Cooling
had fled, they held revolvers in their
hands and were prepared to fire IL
| any attempt was made by the al
legged handbook operators to resist
arrest.
The following charges were pre-.
ferred against Kelleher and Cooling
| Selling pools on horse races. making
pools on horse races and with con.
Quoting an establishment whcrN pools
were made on horse races.
Similar charges also were pre-
ferred against the men arrested in
the Albee Building. All of those
taken into custody in the raids were
released this morning on bonds for
the action of the grand juries of
Washington and Montgomery coun-
ties.