Evening star., 1937-07-02


ststant United States Attorneys Sam
uel F. Beach and Roger Robb. Truscott
and Hartman paraded their under
cover agents and raiders before the
grand jury several days week for a
month and half. The two prosecu-
tors were loud in their praise OF the
thorouehness with which the two
young officers had done their work.
The central conspiracy Indictment
includes Dietz, William w. Cahill Of
Baltimore, said to be his partner:
Charles SchWeitzer, described as
lieutenant; 8 employees and IA men
who police say, are the big shots"
who took Dietz's racing information
service.
Officials say they believe the infor-
nation was hi-jacked from Nation
wide News, successor to General News,
national sporting information serv-
Ice, which left Washington several
years ago under "gentleman's agree
ment' with United States ATTORNEY
Leslie c, Garnett. From Baltimore
they claim, it was rebroadcast to
Washington and then relayed from
the Albee Building headquarters to
six or more subStations throughout
the city and thence to the gambling
Joints
Phone Company Clamped Down.
The Albee Building eighth floor suite
officially WAS the home of National
Telecast, Inc, which had many legit-
innate customers. During the height
Of the raids 1t was put out of busi-
ness by the refusal of the Chesapeake
IL Potomac Telephone Co. to con-
tinue to allow the use of the company's
wires.
The raid on the place was made
by Internal Revenue Bureau agents,
who had been listening in over tapped
wires for several months. Informa-
lion that the tap" had been discov-
cred precipitated hasty raid, in
which Dietz was arrested. Although
two telephone company employees were
caught by the revenue men, they were
not charged in the indictment. The
raiders found, in addition to the COM
pllcated system of lines servicing
Washington, direct wires to Montreal,
New York and Baltimore.
Named in the indictment and
described as employees of Dietz and
Cahill were Benjamin Cohen, Percy
May, Samuel w. Lawder, Cecil c.
Hays, Raymond T. Reeve, Claude
Irving. who was said to be a wire
expert; Samuel B. Brown, Ray Law
son. Baltimore broadcaster, and
Charles J. Bird.
Next on the list was Perry Bonner,
vell-knoWn private detective. His
part in the conspiracy was not speci-
ned. but it was understood he is ac-
cused OF helping secure the installa-
ton Of telephones.
Nuck0ls Included.
Best known Of the alleged book
makers included in the true bill were
Carroll Peyton (Nubby) Nuckols and
Nicholas Floratos, alias Nick the
Greek
Nuckols allegedly operated estab-
hshments at 1907 and 1909 Ninth
street and at 1880 Fourteenth street.
The Ninth street places were raided
numerous times.
The establishment said to be run
by F1oratos was at 922-24 Ninth street
Others charged with conspiracy
we're LOUIS Waldron, who was arrested
IN an uptown apartment: Harry
Schmidt, said to be connected with
resorts at 1914 Fourteenth street and
IN the Munsey Building; Harry A.
Young, Moe Morganstein, described
as Nuckols' associate; Frederick J,
schofield, who police say operated a
switchboard located in the 1900 block
OF Hamlln street northeast; GeorRe
Mason, arrested following a raid in the
1lO0 block OF Fourteenth street:
Henry Peiiconis, George w. Shettel,
jr.; Isaac Nicholson. Walter w. Davis
walter H. Dickhout and Wilbur
Dorsey
Indicted Under Aliases.
Several of them were indicted under
various aliases, which included nu-
merals said to be their telephone call
numbers.
The anti-gambling campaign, cli-
NAKED by todays indictments. began
as joint drive by United States At
torney Garnett, Supt, of Police Ernest
w. Brown, and the Bureau of Internal
Revenue. All three assigned under
cover agents to the work, the largest
number-about 20-coming from the
Federal agency. For four or five
months they listened over tapped wires
acquiring a vast amount of evidence.
Then came the Dietz raid.
Truscott and Hartman next swung
Into action, with the entire facilities
of the Police Department at their
disposal. They picked the raiders,
furnished each squad with maps, floor
plans and detailed instructions for
every raid and co-ordinated evidence
obtained from the raids.
Tip Cripples Spectacular Raid.
The most spectacular event Of the
drive was series Of raids March 10,