Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
60 MEN ARRESTED
IN GAMBLING RAID
Police Smash Reinforced
Door to Get Into Elaborate
Establishment.

Breaking through two heavily-rein-
forced doors with the aid of sledges and
crowbars, first precinct police arrested
more than so men, including a ply
sician, who claimed immunity, because
he said he was attached to the Persian
legation, in a warrantless raid on an
alleged elaborate New York avenue
gambling establishment yesterday.
The physician, DR.. Ardeshir B. Irani,
Of IT'S Irving street, an osteopath, was
released by the raiding party after
Lieut.. Frank Varney was told at the
Persian legation that he was entitled to
immunity. DR.. Irani has ofices in the
Colorado Building. at Fourteenth and
@ streets.
Two Face Charges.
Charges of setting up gaming tables
were filed against two men, William
Evergardt Larman, 43 years old, of 1909
I street, and Charles James Baker, 81,
of 440 Emerson street, while six others
who we're unable to furnish police with
satisfactory explanation of their
presence in the place are being held
for investigation.
The six are George Glorius, 20 years
old, of 3940 Twenty ninth street; Clyde
nue.; William Thomas st. Clair, %, of
1892 Fourteenth street; Hugh Francis
Gallagher, 80, of the Metropolitan Hotel;
Charles Herman Gall, %. of 1905 Penn
Sylvania avenue, and Joseph Gordon
Brocator, 80, 1929 A street northeast.
The remainder of the crowd trapped
in the building were released after they
had been herded into five patrol
wagons and carted away to the first
precinct station, where they were ques-
toned at length regarding the nature
Of the business conducted in the estab-
lishment.
1t is expected that they will be called
into court as Government witnesses
when the defendants are arraigned for
trial, probably tomorrow morning.
Further Raids Slated.
Capt. Frank Burke, commander of
No. / station, said last night that the
raided establishment. located at 1912
New York avenue, was one of the two
dozen or more places which he plans
to raid in a sweeping campaign against
the vice denS reported operating in the
downtown business district.
Owners and agents of buildings
housing gaming establishments are to
be warned to rid their properties OF
such places or face arrest as principals
with the operators.
Explaining his failure to obtain a
warrant, Lieut.. Varney said the raid
was staged on the basis of information
of felony and a warrant was not
used. The police who smashed their
way into the establishment were Lieut..
Varney, Sergt. H. w. Lineburg and
James A. Mostyn.
Lookout Cries Warning.
The raiders assembled a staircase be-
tween a cigar store and a valet shop
shortly after o'clock The lookout"
on duty at the front door, a sturdy
wooden affair about inches thick.
inside when he saw the policemen and
then slammed home the bolts, locking
the entrance.
Sledges and crowbarS were brought
into play and the officers soon tore
down the front door, but were further
delayed by an iron inner door, also
bolted and made fast by the lookout"
BY the time thy had broken through
the second door the occupants of the
had quieted down and
were standing in semi-circle facing
the doorway when police burst into the
i com.
The rooms took up the entire sec
ond floor of the building and were
crowded with men. blackboard on
which horse-racing returns were posted
was found on one wall with a tiny
platform on which a clerk with
telephone headset Is alleged to have
been writing returns Of races at New
Orleans, Aqua Caliente and Havana.