Negro Pugilist Held

NEGRO PUGILIST HELD "Kentucky Rosebud" Rounded Up in Extensive Raid More than a hundred colored men and women were arraigned yesterday borefore Magistrate Eisenbrown, at the Central Police Station, as a result of the wholesale raid made on Saturday night in the southern section of the city by the "vice squad," under the direction of Superintendent of Police John B. Taylor. Conspicuous among the prisoners was Walter Edgerton, known in pugilistic circles as the "Kentucky Rosebud," who was held in $600 bail for court, charged with running a crap joint and speakeasy on Clifton street, below Walnut. The "Kentucky Rosebud" had fallen into the police net before on a similar charge, but bobbed up smiling as policemen belonging to the "vice squad" testified against him. It was in two alleged gambling joints and speakeasies on South street, near Twelfth, that the police got most of their prisoners. In the cellar of one of these places thirty negroes were caught, policemen testified, "shooting crap." The following were each held in $800 bail for court, charged with running a gambling joint and speakeasy at these places: David Warfield, William Jones, Walter Major and Arthur Jones, all negroes. Others who were held for court on a similar charge were George Green, Alder street below Walnut; Irene Ebbins, Locust street, near Tenth; Rose Purnell, Kenilworth street, near Twelfth; Rose Gardner, South street, near Sixteenth; Harry Marshall, Kater street, near Twelfth; George Elliott, Kater street, near Thirteenth; Sarah J. Hill, Armstrong court. The following were held for a further hearing at 2 o'clock this afternoon: Kate Nicoletta, Carpenter street, near Stventh; Mrs. Gallagher, Thirteenth street, below Wharton; Carmello Espeto,Montrose street, near Fifth; Antonio Esperito, Sixth street, below Christian. The bail in each case was fixed at $600. The others caught in these places were each fined $5 and costs. At an alleged disorderly house on Bainbridge street, near Twelfth, where the alleged principal escaped, four inmates were also find $5 and costs each.