The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-25
Raids Tipped off, Says Wettey
Kinney Resents Charge; 81 Held
Judge Claims Joints Had Information That
Officers Were on Way Wednesday
Afternoon; Asks, Where's Leak?'
MAYOR URGES COMPLETE CLEANUP
Statement, Signed by Sullivan and Safety
Board Members, Declares Secret Agent
Was Employed to Trace Crime.
riIl be found on Page 81

lntimation by Municipal
Judge Paul C. Wetter that
gambling resorts and speak
easies were tipped off by po-
licemen before a series of
raids in which eighty-two
erSOnS were arrested
Wednesday, was met defantly
by Police Chief Jerry E. Kin
ney this afternoon.
Declaring there was plenty of
evidence for warrants" when he is
sued eleven carried by police after
they were called into the chiefs
Office and ordered to go get 'em!",
Wetter limited that some of the
places for which warrants were is
sued might have learned of the
police plans. Several raiding squads
returned empty-handed.
Scanning Wetter's statements in
an earlier edition of The Times,
Kinney exploded:
Ridiculous Says Kinney
Ridiculous! If there was any
tip-off it came from upstairs, not
down here The raids we're kept
absolutely quiet, and you know as
we'll as I know that the men had
hardly gone out before they COM
menced calling for the wagon to
haul 'em in," the chief told Times
reporter
Not in every case, chief" the
reporter reminded Kinney.
Among places where raids were
futile were the alleged gambling
resort operated by Thomas Dillon
at Ill West Maryland street and
Jerry Agnew's soft drink parlor at
1875 East Ohio street. Dillon was
found in his place playing solitaire.
Application for search warrants
for five of the places raided was
first made by an investigator en-
ployed secretly by the city, to Mu-
nicipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron
Tuesday, the day preceding the
raids He refused them.
Affidavits Locked Up
The investigator, believed to be
man giving the name of William
H. Cody, worked with Frank G.
Daley, safety board member, several
/ years ago on the Newberry vote
fraud case, when Daley was a spe-
cial United States attorney ham
ding that case alone.
Walter Lewis, now secretary of
the safety board, worked with Daley
and the investigator then, and has
aided them recently, it was learned
today.
Although one of the affidavits
taken to Judge Cameron Tuesday is
understood to have been for war
rant to search Dillon's establish
ment, the judge this morning re-
fused to make known the places
named in the affiidavits, declaring
even he did not know the persons
or places they described.
All were locked in his private
drawer since Tuesday, he declared.
Admits Refusing Warrants
Judge Cameron admitted refusing
the warrants.
"A man came to me and said he
had af1davits and wanted search
warrants at certain places. re-
fused them after asking him sew
eral questions
He is said to have told Cameron
his name was William Cody, and
when asked his address, replied, &C
cording to Cameron:
II don't know as that is any of
your business"
Where can find you in case l
want you as a witness, should any
arrests follow these warrants?"
Cameron said he asked.
L don't know as that is any of
your business. I came here to de-
mand search warrants" Cody is
alleged to have replied
Ordered 20 "Sit Down"
L am an investigator" Cody is
said to have volunteered.
He admitted having once been a
! government investigator, Cameron
said, and admitted he lived in
Illinois. He paced the floor until
Cameron said
Issuing a search warrant is a
judicial act. III have you sent
across the street where you'll sit
down if you don't stop that walk
ing" Cody sat down.
Il asked whether he knew any
facts from which he might believe,
and had reason to believe that the
party named in the affidavit for a
search warrant was in possession of
intoxicating liquor, or had been
selling or giving away intoxicating
liquor, and if he had probable cause
to believe and act on that belief
that the party described in the
affidavit had liquor, or if he had
knowledge Of facts that would sup
port belief that such person had
liquor in his possession for selling,
and if so, who was his informant"
Cameron declared.
He said he didn't have to an
swer such question and I refused
the warrants"
Utmost secrecy surrounded the
activities in my Office and I know
Kinney is all right" Wetter stated.
But what is the matter with that
police department? How did tire
information reach these places?
There was plenty of evidence in al.
these places when those warrants