The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 3

an NASSAU GAMBLING SCANDAL ~— BURSTS AND BiG: GAMBLERS AND POLITICANS TREMBLE Startling "Poti Criminal Conspiracy to Be Ex- posed in Few Days. CROOKS’ RING DOOMED County Official§ “Have the Goods” on Corruption- ists and Bribers, If not within the next few days, then certainly immediately after elec- tion day, Nassau County is to have a general, political-criming! conspiracy exposul ‘As @ result of the joint activities of Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, a Democrat; District Attor ney Charies A, Weeks, a Republican, and Nell H, Vanderwater, counsel f the Nassau Association, a non-par- in Civic association, Indic ta | are believed by the best informed to| e considered against several persons ‘on the public payroll, some of whom have bad big responsibilities put upon them by the voters for many years. NOTORIOUS BROADWAY GAM- BLERS IN NASSAU COUNTY. Something over a year ago during the trial of ola Dr. Wilkins, who com- mitted suicide after he was convicted of wife murder, & public agitation against gambling and its tolerance bythe county authorities started in the local newspapers. Persons interested. in horse race and table gambling knew of many places In Queens and Nassau where they could follow their inclinations. The pool-rooms were low, sordid dives which were patronized by res! dents of Nassau of no particul standing as well as by race « fol lowers from New York. Near and around them sprang up vicious re- sorts for the spending, of “eusy money.” The “gambling hand, were prete ated by: the on the other pper= track race plunger, Dave Gideon, associated with another veteran of the green cloth, William H. Busteed, at Hewletts; Arnold Rothstein at Long E Col. Lou Betts, all bis life a > gambling house owner, at Long Beach; and finally, the place known as John Shaugnessy’s at Lynbrook. These catered to the same patrons w thelr Florida. County The average Vv had not the means social prestige to get into them public houses which grew up - pide of them are road houses of th most extravagant type, which out wardly maintained an atmosphere of strict and expensive exclusiveness. Weeks, head over hee the Wil-) ed a quick investiga. | tion to inform himself as to the actual existence of the gambling houses—he had already got the pool rooms and their surroundings pretty well under control; news of thelr operat! me easily to him as 4p officer elected by ppular rations Porched the voters and the mothers and sisters of voters brought com- plaints, which could be made a basis for action. WEEKS SHOWS HIS TEETH TO THE GAMBLERS, Carman Plant, ad detective of Weeks's office, re d regarding the “high class gambling houses” Just about what has been printed above. | Weeks issued peremptory notice to} about this effect: “Every gumbling house in Nassau County must go out of business July 1 (it was then late in Jun 1919). To get evidence and convic tions is bound to take a lot of time of county officers from the proper kins ane business of the county and cost a lot of money of the taxpayers ty la ye | likely be very expensive for Ive gamblers, Let them go out and stay out, If they do not, when the Wilkins trial ts out of the way I'll devote the rest of my term to running them out—and they know what that means.” From a Republican leader came @ message. It was to this effec ou are undoubtedly right In or- @ering these lawbreakers out of the county. They have been orderly; they will prove it by going as you demand. But in the past they have been friendly. I have met some of} them soctally. 1: is a good deal of #) hardship to ask them to poll up| stakes and sot! thelr houses and move swithina week, Couldn't e them two weeks? It would rand would not affect |§ r went as it Aaded that no wot grins » be condition | Of hiswoftice Was such that it might be | & week after July 1 before he would be free to go into action, SCUDDER'S TACT SAVES A LAW| AND ORDER FIASCO, * Meanwhile Nassau Association clamored for action, A personal dif between Weeks and sor | the Imme@iate to enforce px by force of t 7 Weeks broke with them by amauneing he would “run his own office without wnoffi- cial help.’* assoolation’s agents frankly in Aol) utterly use- lean attamp got’ Weeks. cw persjubeb |e » the official unoffictal forces of law and order, as was later bridged by ot Tystlcx Soudder'’s author- and tacts ass slation's went out to and ity Within a few days V that the gamblers * intention to defer raiding them and had stimulated their ‘Dusinens to take edvanta: days to such ar extent that in Shaughnessy's alone the July 4 receipts had been Sven $10,000. He, and Vandewater (Continued om Séventeenth Page.) r my NOT A VAMP: SAYS SHE'S AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER ONLY May Croke, Named in Wo- men’s Suits, Tells of Friend- ship of G, H. Whaley. “T am placed in the position of seeming a vamp, yet I am only the Innocent bystander," sald Miss May M, Croke to-day when interviewed by an Evening World reporter at her mother’s home, No, 127 Ashford Street, Brooklyn. The jet beads on her modish. black satin gown encas- Ing her tall, slender figure were Agitated with registered emotion. Miss Croke's name was brought to public attention by the application to the Supreme Court, which George H. Whaley, President of the dye firm of John Camptell & Co. . 1 Hud. son Street, made for an order re- storing to him a house at No, 301 West 8th Street which he claimed as agent fot the owner, ‘Title to this rop was taken in Miss Croke’s me and the house is under an at- tachment obtained by Mrs. EMle Eliza- beth Jacobs, who ts suing Miss Croke for $100,000 for the alleged aliena- tion of the affections of Monte F. Jacobs, a racing tipster, Mrs, Jacobs also is suing for a separation, Miss Croke also was named as co-respond- ent in the sult for divorce which Mra. Whaley prosecuted successfully last Mareh. ‘I've known Monte Jacobs nine years, worked for him as stenog- rapher before going th work for Mr. Whaley fn 1917," sald Mins Croke to-day, “Shortly after I entered the employ of Mr, Whaley he placed this 88th Street house in my mame, say- ing that it was to conceal thé name of the real owner, Mrw, Ina Campbell, widew of John Campbell, who found- ed the dye company as the completed I elaned to Mes wh “An soon transaction was | a blank transfer It was not dated, t was not trans- Mrs. Campbell 1 never ndled any deeds. ft Mr. Whaley's Was be he asked me t him and I refused. I did not iT could working for him under the ances, He had been very k In May, 1919, aft frequent visits to my home here, sent and sister through New England, use of his car Campbell explains why ferred until this July is the owner of the axes on It oF The reason 1 house. employ ane fee ontinue clroumat he on a trip giving us the and chauffeur and giv- $400 for He told mother his interest was fatherly and that the money were a reward for the money I had saved for n business, me my ing me exponses, © asked me to marry him, In Octob 919, he gave me a dia mond ring valued at $2,200 as an a. preciation rendered. 1 continued to refuse him and left, re- tyrning to work “as Jacobs's atenog- rapher “| suppose Whaley told Mra, Ja- cobs about me—anyway she found in her Monte's company one eve- of services me ning, She called on me later in a friendly visit to warn me that Monte was too susceptible to feminine charms, She scomed friendly enough until she started this allenation suit for $100,000 nink of It—$100,000 it. I never stole Monte’s never knew until read the papers to- day that | was named as corespon- dent by Mrs. Whaley, 1 would like to know who that girl was, “T have xtromely interesting I wish I had ffections, I rom Mr. Whaley. He was ne when he talked to one feve anything he sald and do or him. He had a very win wasn't elderly, but youl and handsome—only forty-two | years old.” anything ing way and he |/HINDU SERVES FREE SMOKES IN COURT Offers ¢ Magistrate When Arraigned For Dancing al) Bridge Plaza, In the Bridge Plaga Court in Brooklyn to a young Hindu offe Magia- Brown a cigarette when he was don # charge of vagrancy or any one else spoke to the Hast Indian youth, who appeared to be about eighteen years old, he repeated the elgarette a A ent la Ke Weltz, cape tain of the court attendants, wearing the court uniform, happened to paas the prisoner, The Hindu came to atten tion, clicked his heels together, saluted, and started to fullow Whea brought back to the Magistrate, he of another rotte. wn postponed the onan until an interpreter could be found. The young man had been arrested ») Pa- tolman Hines of aie Clymer Street station, who. said he wae dancing for EVITED WITHOUT WARN, DECLARE TWENTY TENANTS Occupants of Two Houses Find Goods on Walk— Appeal to Court. olicomen of the Bast 67h Street station to-day guarded huge piles of furniture heaped on the sidewalk in front of Nos, 188 and 199 East 75th Street while twenty tenants and roomers trooped off to the 88th Street Municipal Court seeking a stay of eviction proceedings which had taken Highteen roomers of No, 188 had paid room rent to the end of this week, some of them to them by eurprine. next Tuesday, while two flat tenants of No. 190 had paid rent until Oct. 1 Yesterday a City Marshal and four negro helpers moved out the furniture in the two houges whtte most of the away, ‘Three sleeping roomers of No. 188, who were occupants were lute home when the eviction began, hur- ried to the Munfelpal Court and ob- tained one-day stays. They were the only ones whose rooms were undis- turbed, When the others came home last night they found the sidewalk Uttered with their effects and six po Heemen had to be detailed to calm the tenants and guard their goods. They rémained on watch over their belong- ings all night. Among those evicted are Mr, and Mrs. Cummings and their three months-old baby Mrs. Cummings sald that when they moved in, three weeks ago, her husband took two days off to renovate and redecorate their two rooms at a cost of $50. Mra. Emma~ Kilgannon, in No, 188 and collected rent as repre- sehtative of the real estate agency of Goldberg & Schoenberger, was a tar- get for hostile remarks until ghe gx- plained she had been evjcted with the others. Sho asserted to-day that Goldberg & Schoenberger had said they had a year’s lease, dating from last Febra- ary, and that she had been led to con- sider. herself a partner dn their ven- ture with @ substantial sum due her in December, From othef sources it was learned -the real estate firm did not obtain « renewal of its lease in August and that an order was issued in court directing the firm to re- turn the property on Sept. syndicate which owns the It was sald that when a warnell the tenants this week received assurances from the to disregard the threats o — NAME ON PAYROLL, MAN ASKED FOR JOB 16 to the buildings. marshal they Alleged $3,200 Theft Disclosed When Real Double of Fict Employee Appears. tious Howard J. Cummings, forty-two, of No, 261 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn, was held in $2,500 bail day in Adams Street Court, Brodklyn, on charges grand larceny preferred by B. W. U dorwe Ganeral Manager of Ar- buckle Bros, coffee merchants, Cum- mings has been manager of the Ar- buckle Bros, Garage for four years. payroll to the extent of $3,200, payroll to the extent of Mr. Underwood said the scheme was uncovered when a man applied for employment at the Keneral Arbuckle Broa, and it was name name on ghe garage payroll as that of an assumed employee by acct dent. The case was put over until to-morrow. —— New Headlight Law Im Connecticut Kaforced, (Apecial to The Brening World.) NWICH, State Motor Vehicle started @ crusade @gainat violators of Headlight wix cases, On y wan treaty fenders, The fine case amounted ¢ ONE CENT PER INCH OF WAIST LINE IS PRICE AT SOCIAL Bayonne Women Pay From 19 to 60 Cents at Church Fete, BVENTY-FIVE women had their waist measures taken in Bayonne last night, Some of them paid 19 cents, while others paid as high as 60 cents at an apron social at the home of Mrs. Wilson Hyers at No, 26 West 45th Street ‘The fee was 1 cent an the tape measure committee bad no easy time, It iy sald. After the measurements had been taken the guests willingly loosened their purses and paid the fines, The slender ones had the | more robust. As a woman entered the tape line was placed round her waist and the inches counted. The re- ceipts will be turned over to the neh, and ugh on the e in thi Tene Wag: WO burg Bridge Christ Presbyterian Church, Bay- eageeleate’ t 4 ,, who lived | name already was on the sara roll. It was found, sald Mr, Under, wood, that Cummings had used the| New York Will See Mone Scenes Like This on Oct. Bhi It Anti-Eviction Bill Does Not Become State Law NNOREPARS’ LEASES (TY DELEGATION “MRS. EARP-THOMAS, “ARE NULLIFIED BY. GOES TO ALBANY SCIENTISTS WIFE, SANITARY LAWS, TOBOOST HOUSING, AWARDED ALIMONY ene Landlord Must Habitable and Can’t Make Tenant Do So. | lenses Kise Keep House! Mayor —_ ge Hylan Misses One bfcsband’s A in, but Catches. Next One for Capital. for Separation. “The clause in most ey - ] Cadi When the Empire State Expres: Mra. M i! Parp-Thot *, declares the tenant must do all re " 1 nea * Repeess| paris —- pals does. nak actiilly meat Salter et ee eo Dol aus thls putng: her Nesband, Deg ‘¢ . vers morning with the delegation of ol e that,” said Municipal Justices John =! ho delegation of city arp.Thomis, noted bacter Hoyor tn the Fifth District Court at th Street and Broadway to-day, “It would be well for tenants to got competent legal advice when an’ in- terpretation of any part of their lease officials to attend the ype of the Legislature on housing prob- 1ul session | no lems trace could be found of] Was awarded 37 Mayor Hylan. Ho had said he was wing to Albany without fail to at 4 $500 counsel fee t Justice Guy to-day, oe Date | Marriage Disputed in Action for separation on grounds of cruelty, a week alimnor y Supreme Court pending the trial | MORE DRUNKS NOW | THAN EVER BEFORE, DECLARES JUDGE xeehan Tells Prisoner $7 He Paid for Whiskey Would Buy Shoes for Baby. AQGISTRATE M'GERHAN declared tn the Weat Side Court to-day that he had “never seen so many drunks in court as I have tn the last few day” ‘The case in hand was that of Mike Comker, No. 633 West 60th Street, arrested last night for an alleged attept to beat up eer, He admitted having con. sumed much whiskey, and the Magistrate asked him where he got it. ‘ “1 bought « quart for $7," said Comker. The court advised him that this sum would pay for @ pair of shoes for the baby, but did not mention the address of the shoe a gtO- dealer, Anyway, sentence was suspended. COX IN TRAIN WRECK, PROPNIX, Ariz, Sept. 23,—dov, Cox's campalen trip thrbugh Arizona was suddenly interrupted when his trata was wrecked wbout fifteen miles north of Phoenix, near Poona. One of the engines and the baggage | car were overturned down na @ bankinent. 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Sinnott, the Mayor's Seore- ; a Ua teers caine famous New Zealand scientist, who “These clatises can merely be used | MF¥: When telephoned to at City Hail, As a check against unusual demands Teblied that His Honor had left there} led public ton as @ of the tenant. For Instance, there! to cateb the train and that was all he/lecturor, before the students of New wall paper in thelr living room every | other search frot Sor it9_ pats but It! important bactertological discoveries, Be nonth Or #0, ould want floors) W448 as lems ae the fre e | ov w want floors! Was as j F he age of Dr. Earp-Thomas was a Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets ain because they did not! But there was a repre tive de | " wore ve @ couple n of city officials, including the| matter in dispute before Justice Guy Ly of months previous. 1 Jandlond ty mentioned, to-day, Mra. Barp-Thonias alleges he ee {thin sort of absurdity nt Profteerin : han wee anys) S omens an ISSe€S So a oan ne or Frank she eloped with’ him. Dr. Karp on & tonant make the tmis- be Sveretary of ‘te | take of posing he must make es I representing apa Thomas insists he was then but! ¢ Kential repairs because of this clause a try ierger, of the] thirty-one, and that no mar was { ea ater New York Taxpayers’ Anocla They con always compel the land-| tion pays med at that time, He was mar ' lorg to do them, For instance, all) While the Pmplre State Express | ried to the complainant, he aaya, Feb. matters pertaining to plumbing, roof was ma ady to leave there wer 1 in Ci : . ix repairs, replacing of windows, doors, $00 tenants from. the x, Brook. | %, M418, in Camden, N. J A | ; &c., also heating, hot water, electric yn and Washington He te on the Miss Aline Mok ster Of Men. y Highta whatever lights th may opposite side of the platform ready) p-Thom ude be, ure entirely vie inndined, to atart for Albany to make a dem-|Pare-Thomam oA student in the : ‘ and the only way he o onstration In thelr own behalf. Teachers’ College of Columbia Un ot the obi PY. S—Mayor Hylan, accompanted | versity, who lives at No, 25 Van | }wion to that by Grover Whalen, Commissioner of | Waxenen Street, Nowatk, N. J. i | ny rover en, ‘ ms UIT OR Grease Centeal ing aff awit, re ates alleged *_@ ‘ pairs on f ran amd thus cruelty on the part oP her brother-in. en Mats catreonits gntas™ in iv. Be, Boncteiomen santas Sins GOWN SHADES ' until you have competent legal ad- express "a allegutic vice to that effect. gald, “au banter ‘ | 9 ' \tions, I think, about as good as pire, State 19 Kast 17th Str | Al D could be de: fare | i up durainat ate | * | , of proving the justice the cv’ Able statement when he * <n arts consi It will req ny We ‘a | to give |amount of tr ire the un- more } until the prices of lat fall, ‘Tho enormous lumber and laborers’ day are the real can | Tianks will not lend {inflated Wales. of t | know | fow years thes fall appreclably | PUNISH LANDLORDS WHO BAR CHILDREN, A C. F. U. 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