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Show SLUMMfiRS " ARRESTED Women Become Hysterical v Wtcn Caught in Police lirasnet NEW YORK, Jaiu. 19. Police activity ac-tivity continued through the early hours today in the campaign against gambling houses and illegal resorts. A squad of officers closed in on a suspected sus-pected house In West Twenty-Eighth street and found gambling In progress. The frightened players struggled with the detectives. All were permitted to escape except two men who were charged with conducting the place. The furnishings were seized. Earlier in the night raids were made on two drinking drink-ing resorts In Twenty-ninth, near Broadway, and several wagonloads of habitues were arrested. Two or three slumming parties got Into the police net and the women members became hysterical over the situation. They were liberated. - Palmists and the like appear also to have fallen under the ban. One woman wom-an was arrested after laying two or three policemen low with her fists. A police matron "had given her marked money in return for pretended service. |