Scope of Fraud World-Wide--Soldiers and Sailors Victims of
Contrivances.
On May 19, 1906, Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge, with ten men,
swooped down on: H. C. Evans, 125 South Clark street; George De Shone,
462 North Clark street; Barr & Co., E. Manning Stockton, 56 Fifth
avenue. The offices were raided and sure-thing gambling devices valued
at $5,000 seized and destroyed. H. C. Evans was arrested and fined
$200; George De Shone was arrested and fined $100, and E. Manning
Stockton arrested and fined $25. Afterwards E. Manning Stockton was
indicted, arrested and gave bonds, which he forfeited and then fled.
Disclosure of conditions which so seriously threatened the discipline
of the United States army and navy that the secretaries of the two
departments, and even President Roosevelt himself, were called upon
to aid in their suppression, were made in the Harrison Street police
court following this arrest.
It was charged that a coterie of Chicago men engaged in making and
selling these devices had formed a "trust," and had for years robbed,
swindled, and corrupted the enlisted men of the army and navy through
loaded dice, "hold-outs," magnetized roulette wheels, and other
crooked gambling apparatus.
[Illustration: Electric Dice]
[Illustration: The Way Some Cards Are Marked.]
The "crooked" gambling "trust" in Chicago spread over the civilized
world, had its clutches on nearly every United States battleship, army
post, and military prison; caused wholesale desertions, and in general
corrupted the entire defense of the nation.
[Illustration: REWARD TO THE PARTY BRINGING BACK CHICAGO'S GAMBLING
KINGS.--GRAND JURY.]