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Show ! WOMEN IN A ! POKER GAME Police Raid Fashionable Uptown Apartment Many Faint ?ew York, Jan 18. Fifteen women fend seven men in evening dress were caught in a poker game for high j Btnkes in a police raid upon a fashionable fash-ionable uptown apartment early today to-day Two detectives, whose identities identi-ties were unknown to the party, were! carelessly invited to participate in th game and they gave a signal foi the police to break In by waving a handkerchief from one of the windows. win-dows. Some of the women fainted when placed under arrest and pleaded "Don't let our husbands know " The furnishings of the place were very elegant. Detectives say one of the women told of having lost $1,400 at the game. |