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Show REFORMERS RAID IN TCNDEBLOIN Alleged Disorder!? Houses '. Raided and On Fifty Arrests Are Kadi; Many Changes in Police Force. NEW YORK. Oct 28. Evidence of the "wide open" character of some parts of the city is to be submitted by the Society for the Prevention of Crime to the Police department today in fulfillment ful-fillment of the promise made by Dr. Parkhurst at the Jefferson Market court on Wednesday. The evidence consists largely of reports of agents of the society so-ciety who investigated complaints against poolrooms and dens of vice. Many of the reports will be in the form of affidavits when they are turned over today to Deputy Police Commissioner Mathot. " Parkhursfc society officers, probably to demonstrate its charge that vice was flourishing, raided three alleged disorderly disor-derly houses in the tenderloin precinct late last night. The police later raided five. Over fifty arrests were made. The raids caused a big sensation in the district. The police shake-up of yesterday yes-terday will be followed by other wholesale whole-sale changes. It is expected that every policeman iiv the city, will be shifted. The transfer - of the captains was the most radical police shift the city has ever seen. . |