Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — CHASING BUCKET SHOPS. [ARTICLE]

CHASING BUCKET SHOPS.

Millioniares Caught In Drag-Net of Federal Government In Various Cities. Your Uncle Samuel has taken a stand against bucket shops, and as a result five millioniares were caught last Saturday morning when at 11 o’clock special agents of the government raided offices in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and St/Louis. Promptly at the stroke of the hour twenty-nine keepers and employes of the bucket shops were caught by the government 1 agents, in conjunction with detectives in the various cities, who were armed with bench warrants issued upon indictments which had been found at W ashington. In the raid the special agents took in five millioniares who have made their fortunes out of the bucket-shop traffic. They have been associated with the business in various cities for a score of years. They are Richard E. Preusser, George Turner and Leo Meyer of the firm of Edward S. Boggs & Co., of New York, and the famous Celia Brothers, Louis and Angelo, of St. Louis, who backed the firm of the Standard Stock & Grain Company of Jersey City. Six arrests were made in Philadelphia. some of the men being arrested on the floor of the Philadelphia Consolidated Stock Ex- 1 change. The prisoners are Thos. A. Campbell, Jlenry C. Stumpt, George Turner, Harry Owens, Marshall Parrish and A. L. Ford. All were arraigned before United States Commissioner Craig. It had been intended to raid the officer of the Standard Stock & Grain Company in Jersey City, but the offices were closed early in the week. The men indicted in connection with this concern were: Edwrd Altemus, Samuel Raymond, Oscar Rappel and Robert Hall of Jersey City, Louis Celia of St. Louis, Henry C. Stumps of Philadelphia, Henry R. Duryea and his operator, Charles R. Alley. Stumps was arrested in Philadelphia. I he New York detectives say the arrests followed that of Everett Taylor by government agents in Washington. Taylor was charged with violating the national bucketshop law. At the time of Taylor’s arrest in his office it is said evidence was found connecting Boggs & Co. and some fifteen or twenty other firms said to be conducting buck-> etships. This, the United States government’s first attack upon stock gambling, has been thoroughly prepared with the greatest secrecy. Its scope practically covers the United States from the Missouri River to the Atlantic. The concerns indicted maintain more than 250 offices and branch offices located from New England to Oklahoma.