Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-02
Great Secrecy Maintained

Great Secrecy Maintained
The raid was planned with great Sc
crecy. Even police lieutenants who
plans until action started. Two pa.
trolmen who disobeyed orders issued In
connection with details Of tho work
were Immediately stripped Of their
badges by Captain Van Horn and sus-
pended.
the administration gives protection to
no one disobeying the law" said Di-
rector Cortelyou today, "and gambling
must 60. Any one who has boosted Of
protection has been day dreaming.
The statement of the Director is
borne out by the fact that some Of the
places raided nre in the Eighth Ward,
Of which Buck" Devlin Is leader.
Raids in other sections also showed
there was no political line of dcmarca- =
ton in the general cleanup.
Lieutenants Walsh. Carlin and Far.
ley were detailed to assist in the raids.
The men assigned to the actual work
were assembled in the police stations
at Eleventh and Winter, Tenth and
Buttonwood and Fourth and Race
streets at 4 clock.
No one knew just what was to take
place. The men were told that they
were going to the civil service room in
the Federal Building to take some
extraordinary test. All were marched
to the Federal Building and assembled
in a large room on the fourth floor.
The doors we're locked. The men
we're told for the first time where they
were going and what they were to do.
The seventy five odd raiders were di-
vided into squads. All were in plain
clothes. Each squad was detailed to
descend on certain place and told very
bluntly that il there were any leaks the
raiders would be held accountable.
The Zero Hour
Then the groups separated. The zero
hour was fixed ut 80, when the re.
turns from the various tracks would be
filtering In to the interested bettors
and when the games in the various
places would be going full tilt.
Each place was surrounded before
the raid began. The policemen were
to gain them admission to the rooms
where thousands of dollars change
hands daily on the results of a race
or on the turn of the dice.
The prisoners we're taken to the
Central Station in City Hall, the Tenth
and Buttonwood Streets Station md the
Eleventh ana Winter Streets Precinct.
Word of tho police descent spread
quickly. In half an hour long lines OF
automobiles stretched before the police
stations as lawyers runners, more for
tunatc gamblers and the bail goers
rushed to the aid of the imprisoned for
lowers Of chance.
The raids were by no means the re-
suit Of hit or miss scheme, according
to Director Cortelyod. FOR more than
Il month now. Captain Van Horn and
n score of confidential investigators
have been checking up and getting evil
dcnce upon which to base the gambling
warrants.
Quietly Captain Van Horn continued
his Investigations. 1t required days 10
get the evidence upon which to base
TO work. He was shifted downtown t.
insure n clean election in that storm
center. Reports reached City Hall that
certain lieutenants were blinking at
conditions in their districts. SO lieu
tenants were shifted.
The temporary transfer Of Captain
Van Horn removed the most feared
police official in the Central City Dis
trict and open house resulted at sew
eral of the places that had been. oper-
ating cautiously. The police officials
last night dehied that there was any
rrcmcdtated attempt to lure the gamb-
ling house proprietors into false
sense Of security in the move but the
fact remained that n few days after
Captain Van Horn returned to the
Central City District. all the necessary
evidence was in hand and the time for
the raids was set.
Alleged Propvietors
The names of the alleged proprie.
tors OF several of the places follow:
Charles Danher, 80 North Eleventh
street.
William lsaacs. As North Eleventh
street.
Morris Horn. 112 North Eleventh
street.
William Mccarthy, 1921 Arch street.
William Harris (reported to be
Dick Kicker. well known gambler.
l226 Filbert street.
Charles MOsconi. n well-known figure
in the sporting world, South Seventh
street.
Bruce Burke, 134 South Eighth
Dan Hover. Eleventh street. above
Filbart.
John Mccarthy. 1914 South Thir-
tecnth street, charged with keeping and
maintaining gambling house at l221
Arch street.
City Hall Prisoners
Those arrested and lodged at City
Hall gave their names and addresses
as follows. the majority of the names,
the police say. being fictitious.
Ludwel! Sacrey. Pine Beach, y. J.
David j. Brown. 723 Spring Garden street
Richard BrIce, ill2 stiles street.
William j. Ford. llOs South Twelfth
street ~ -
Arthur q lSchuman. keeping gambling
house at ll07 Arch street.
blair johnson. VI. Hamilton street
Frank Clark. 404+ North Daricn street.