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Show RAID B GOVERNMENT OFFICERS ON BUCKET SHOPS OF THE LARGE CITIES Five Millionaires Caught in the Dragnet Following Fol-lowing Conspiracy Indictments Returned by Federal Grand Jury Against 29 Per sonsDetectives at Work for Months fc y.V-i' Wa-shington, April 2. Armed witu bench warrants Issued by tho supreme su-preme court of th District of Columbia, Col-umbia, special agnls of tho depart ment of Justice this morning, at 11 o'clock (eastern time) simultaneously raided brokers' offices la New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Bnltimoro, Cincinnati and St Louis. Conspiracy indlctmenta, in which twenty-nine persons are named five, of them said to be millionaires, and aJ'. interested in brokers" offices iu large titles of tho United States were returned re-turned late yesterday by the federal grand jury of tho District of Columbia, op evidence which the agents of the department of justice had been gathering gather-ing for moro than a year. tho indictments were withheld yesterday yes-terday on the request of Attorney General Wlckersham, so that department depart-ment of justice detlctlves might make the raids simultaneously on the places suspected of being "bucket fdiops." The men Indicted are said to be those financially Interested in the corporations cor-porations known as E S. Boggs & company, whloh haj offices in- New-York, New-York, Philadelphia, and Rice (c com-ipany, com-ipany, with offices In New York and Baltimore and the Standard Stock & Grain company, which has offices In Jersey City, in Philadelphia and St. Louis. As belne interested In the Boggi & Co, the following aro indicted' Richard E. Preuseer. Leo Mayer. Geo. Turner. W. H. LIllls. Oliver J. Robinson, Edward S. Boggs. Harry-Owens, Harry-Owens, Robert A Guy. all of New York, and Alford and Marshal F. Par-rifh Par-rifh of Philadelphia. Named in connection con-nection with them as alleged co-conspirators are Edward Everett Taylor of Washington, I). C, ftnd his telegraph tele-graph operator Harry Johnson. In tbo Indictments against Price c ronvpauy, tbo following Rm named: Wm.H. Price. Virgil V. Randolph, ITarrv M. Randolph, Charles? L. Hftoro-head. Hftoro-head. Edward Weldon. Jog. Garkins and Jos A. AndersoD, all of Baltimore, Balti-more, and Thos H. Campbell and Edw. B. Taylor of Philadelphia. In the Standard Stock & Grain company the following are named: Edward Altemus, Oscar J. Rapbel, and Robert Hall of Jersey City. Lou's Cella of St. Louis. Henry C. Stumph or Philadelphia and Henry R Durlce and his telegraph operator, Charles R Alley. This, the government's attack on stock gamblers has been prepared with the greatest secrecy. Its scope practically covers the United Slates from the Missouri river to the Atlantic. At-lantic. The three concerns 'indicted maintain more than 230 offices and branch offices located from New England Eng-land tu Oklahoma. The government maintains every alleged bucketing transaction of the local brokers was the act of each and every person charged in the indictment. in-dictment. Attorney General Wlekersham dl I rot comment on tho raids, further thnn to issue a orepared statement of which the following is tho substance: -In the first Indictment against Preusser. Mayor. Turner, etc. the defendants arc charged with conspiracy conspir-acy to commit an offense against the I tilled in violation of Sec tion 5110 of the revised statutes, which makes unlawful tho keepluK of bucket shops in the District of Columbia. Edward Taylor mentioned in the iodietmenl, maintained two oftices in Washington Washing-ton and was correstpondenl for Boggs company. No. 17 Broadway, Ncv York. "This firm," the attorney generals statement, continues, "ns well ns those involved in the other two in-dlclmnets, in-dlclmnets, alleged that Jl buys and sells securities through the Consolidated Consolidat-ed Stock Exchange of Philadelphia an 1 thai Ford & Parrlsh are their representatives rep-resentatives on that exchange. "Tho evidence before the grand jury tended to show that this allega-j allega-j Hon was Hlmply a cover maintained to enable operators of bucket-shops to conceal tho real nature of their business. busi-ness. "Prues3er Is reported to bo a notorious no-torious gambler who was convicted of the murder of ono Miles McDonald, some years ago, as a result of which ho was confined for a year In an asylum for Insane convicts. "Mayor is a wcll-knowu book maker and Turner is sld to have been expelled ex-pelled from tho New York utock exchange ex-change and with Lillls has beon connected con-nected with some of the most notorious notori-ous bucket shops concerns in the country. A number of the nin named In this Indictment nrc well known as tucket shop operators." |