Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-05 | Page 1 | Crusade Against New York Jockey Clubs Continues

CRUSADE AGAINST NEW YORK JOCKEY CLUBS CONTINUES Corporations ons Police Officials De Detectives Detectives Detectives I and Bookmakers Bo Un Ui Under Under der Indictment S New York Oct 4 After two years of agitation against ag race race track tra k gambling in this state marked by the passage of the drastic bill bilI generally gene lly referred to as the law it remained for the Kings county grand jury to write a new chapter in the crusade today p I when there were returned indictments against the two big Kings county r race bookmakers tracks three thre police officials five private detectives and The Brighton Beach Racing association was similarly involved last year but the case failed and action has heretofore been in against bookmakers bookmaker or bettors the tiLe defendants in which proceedings have hae been generally exonerated by bv the lower c juris curts which h held eld ld that oral betting was no crime The first test of these Uese cases will be made by b the court of appeals this w jf pk tf It jt was the increase of oral betting bettin conducted by b the memory brokers that resulted in this latest evidence of Gov Governor Governor Governor Hughes continued activity and the Indictment of the Brooklyn Jockey Jocke club and the Coney Island Jockey Jacke club charged as corporations with conspiracy I In allowing betting to go on onS S This Involves g a number of th most prominent z rs of racing in the tie United States W V K owns a controlling interest in the Coney Island Jockey Jocke club of which S L Parsons is president George Peabody Wetmore and Mr Ir Vanderbilt are the vice presidents F R n Hitchcock treasurer V E secretary and Thomas H Smith racing secretary The board of governors includes also J Harry Alex Alexander Alexander Alexander ander Thomas Hitchcock jr E B D Mor Morgan Jan gun Herbert C Pell PeU F K Sturgis and J W v Y Wadsworth The betting system used his involved the use of three bookmakers in the case of ot each wager one of whom takes tokes the bettors money while another registers the transaction and nd the third pays the winner It was supposed that this three cornered d transaction was so Involved as asto asto asto to evade ead the law but for weeks county detectives have been collecting evidence through the authorities hope to I force prosecutions