Evening star., 1934-12-22
CASES AGAINST 4
|NNUMBERS DRIVE
DELAYED Z WEEKS
Action Taken to Permit Fur
ther Inquiry Into Racket
Activity.
-FOUR OTHERS FREED
ON EVIDENCE LACK
Little Reports Temporary Ban on
Game at "Jimmy's Place"
After Arrests.

The cases against four of the eight
persons arrested yesterday in the po-
lice war on the numbers racket here
were continued for two weeks in Po-
lice Court today so as to permit
further investigation by the Govern
ment into their gambling activities.
This action was taken at the re-
quest Of Assistant United States At
torney Karl Kindleberger, who earlier
in the day had dismissed charges
against the other four men on grounds
of lack of sufficient evidence.
The eight men, all of whom had
been charged with operating a lot
terry, were arrested in connection with
the "harassment" campaign against
'Jimmy's Place." notorious gambling
house on the Bladensburg road.
Meanwhile, Lieut. George M Little,
head Of the Police Departments spe-
cial investigating squad, reported to
Police Chief Ernest w. Brown this
afternoon he had received information
indicating the numbers activities at
Jimmy's had been abandoned tenn
porarily. According to the informa-
ton received by Little, none of the
runners reported at the place today,
and no bets were being received
Kindleberger, who has charge of
prosecutions at Police Court, held the
Government could not make cases
against the first four on the evidence
produced by police. He said he had
asked a continuation of the cases
against the others so he could COM
plete the Governments investigation
into their activities.
Bond Continued at $500.
Those released by the prosecutors
decision are Guy Spigone, 200 block
Z street northeast; Frank Catalano,
700 block Fifth street; Adrian Knott,
100 block Tenth street southeast, and
| Leo ]. Long, Takoma Park, Md.
The four whose cases were continued
are Patrick Spaulding, 81, Of the 1900
block South Capitol street; Harry L.
Spalding, ~ (no relation), 900 block
Twelfth street southeast; Earl Day.
260e block Seventeenth street. and
James e. Glenn, 38, colored, 400 block
p street.
Bond for the four who were held
was continued at $50 each pending
their arraignment.
In the possession Of those held,
police said they had found quantity
of numbers slips and money, which
they contended were being delivered
to the operators of the gambling
houses.
Details of uniformed police and
! plain-clothes members of the vice
squad, meanwhile, continued to patrol
the District boundary of the notorious
gambling resort on Bladensburg road,
| in the vicinity of which the eight al
legged numbers runners were taken In
custody yesterday afternoon.
Harassment to Continue.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superinten-
dent of police, said the haraSsment
would continue as long as it is sus-
pected that the law is being violated.
| District police have no authority to
raid the gambling house, located just
a few feet inside the Maryland line,
but they will continue to question
every person who attempts to enter
through the driveway across District
property, the chief said.
The eight men arrested yesterday,
according to police, were seeking to
enter Jimmie's place through the new
gate, built inside the Maryland line
after the District had torn down part
of the screening fence and blocked
entrance to the old road on property
condemned for the extension of East
ern avenue. They were taken in
custody. however, before they had
reached the Maryland line.
Police explained that all but Spaul-
ding, Day and Spalding had been loi-
tering around a filling station across
the street from Jimmy's and acting
as contact men between runners COM
ing out from the city and the opera
tors Of the gambling house.
Some measure of success Of the
police strategy against the resort was
attested by the fact that at an hour
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