Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
EQUIPMENT TAKEN
IN NUMBERS GAME
RAID BY OFFICERS
Police Pass Through Maze of
Six Doors to Reach
Headquarters"
RUM SUSPECT HELD
AFTER WILD CHASE
Alexandria Men Pursued Through
Traffic at go Miles an Hour by
Sergt. Little.

Having located what authorities de.
mcribe as a secret passageway into 1.-The
Districts largest numbers game head
quarters" the police vice squad yester-
day forced entrance through the first Of
a. series of six doors, succeeded IN pass
ing the remaining barriers and raldeo
the place, located in the 1900 block OF
Fourteenth street.
This was the start OF series OF &C
tivities by the vice and liquor squads
which netted five prisoners, one taken
after a 60-mile-an-hour chase through
trafic; 70 quarts of what they say is
LIQUOR. and a quantity Of equipment
p,irported to be gaming parapnernalla,
including seven adding machines.
The vice squad arrested William
Shannon, 80, of the 2400 block OF Thlr-
teenth street on a charge OF permitting
gaming, in connection with the RAID ON
the Fourteenth street premises. seven
leased after being booked as witnesses.
Equipment Is Confiscated.
Learning of the location Of the door
To the passageway to the place, vice
souad members went to the rear OF q
store near the raided building and
forced their way through the door OF a
small building in the rear yard. They
then made their way through q series
of halls to the second floor. There they
unlocked the sixth Of the series OF
doors. gave q password to the doorman
and were admitted.
Police say they confscated consider
able gaming material, consisting OF
@numbers slips and also took posses
sion of the days receipts. The adding
machines were taken as evidence.
About the same time, Sergt. George
NJ. Titles liquor squad engaged In q
miles an hour, after an alleged rum
running car.
The driver of the car, who said he
was Mario Matters, 80, of Alexandria,
va, was captured and taken to the
sixth precinct station where he was
booked on charges Of transportation
and possession of liquor and speeding.
He later was released on bond OF
$4,000.
trial In the 900 block of N street and
pursued hin nearly mile before his
car was stopped AS Sergt. Little
stepped out of the police machine to
search the other automobile, police re-
mort. Matters threw his car into gear
and sped away. He halted two blocks
away, however, and submitted to ar
rest.
Alleged Liquor Is Taken.
A search of the machine, police said,
disclosed IL quarts of whisky in suit
case in the rear compartment, IL adj
ditional quarts in a box and one quart
Of creme de menthe. Police later
searched q room on the second floor
of Tenth street building where they
had been informed Matters and part
ner were storing liquor. There, they re-
port, they found 81 more quarts Of
assorted liquors. Police are on the
lookout for the second man.
Ltttle's squad also chased and
captured another machine suspected of
being engaged in rum running and con-
f1scated what Is described as three gal
Ions of whisky in the car after the
colored driver jumped from the machine
and escaped. The abandoned car
Travelled nearly half block before it
came to stop at Second and G streets.
Later in the day the vice squad ar
rested Julius Strange and Donald
Harley, both colored, in a raid on
premises in the first block of Pierce
street. They were charged with sale
In raid in the 200 block Of Seaton
court, the squad arrested Walter
Gorham, colored, on charges Of sale
and possession Of three quarts OF
liquor.
Emma Smith, colored, was arrested
in raid In the 1900 block Of Lee court
on charges Of sale and possession Of
four quarts Of liquor.
Four Others Taken.
Raiding suspected speakeasy at Gal
Grant place late yesterday, first pre-
cinct police seized wine still, guam
tity of alleged whisky and wine and
arrested four persons.
Augustine Croci, AZ, his wife, Teresa
Croci, Al, q son, Charles, 10, and
Nicholi Santini, a., were charged with
sale and illegal possession, maintaining
q nuisance and illegal manufacture Of
wine.
Precinct Detective Raymond B. Car
roll and Herbert @. Wannamaker and
Sergt. w. H. Carin obtained search
warrant for the house after under
cover agents said they had purchased
a small quantity of wine earlier.
Posing as customers, the three off,
GERS entered the house and rushed into
the basement where they said they
found small still, and 159 one-hal1
gallon jars of wine, 81 pints of wine
q small quantity of whisky, and 10 bar
rels partially filled with wine.
Early last night the same officers ar
rested James M. Williams, 81, OF 1852
TWel1Cn street, HlcnarQ van oyCkle, %
1910 Harvard street, and the latter's
wife. Mrs. Lucille Van Syckle, "a, when
the trio are said to have met the off,
GERS on Fourteenth street and sold them
six pints of whisky for $50.
williams car was conf1scated by the
police and the prisoners taken to No
/ precinct where they were charged
with sale, transportation and illegal
possession.
TWO other suspected bootleggers also
were tricked by the officers into meet
ing them and were arrested for IL
legal possession, sale and transporta'
ton,
Taey were Edward Blake, 80, Of lows
Circle, and James L. Tarves, AZ, o!
1912 Columbia road. Three pints o.
gin were taken in each case.
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