Raid on a Policy Shop

Raid on a Policy Shop. Mayor Pratt, through Chief of Police Franks, instructed his officers on Saturday to report every place in the city where it was thought that policy dealing was carried on, and the result was that during the afternoon Officers Kelly and Pedrick made a raid on a policy shop run by William Smith, alias "Policy Bill," at 14 south Eighth street, and captured Smith, Francis Geist, John James and David Hopewell, besides all the paraphernalia necessary to run a first-class policy shop. They were escorted to the City Hall where Mayor Pratt held Smith in $500 bail, he waiving a hearing, and Geist, James and Hopewell were held in their own recognizance as witnesses. Smith, it is claimed, was doing business for Philadelphia backers and was already under indictment for policy dealing. The complainant against Smith was a Mrs. Bechtel, who made a hit of $15 which she says Smith refused to pay.