Police Restrained At Sheepshead Bay., Daily Racing Form, 1908-06-20

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JPOLICE RESTRAINED AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY BAYNew New York June 19 The crusade inaugurated by the police authorities last Friday to suppress betting at tue race tracks in New York received its first eheckv at Sheepshead Bay today the Coney Island Jockey Club making the first active move against f he police when it obtained a temporary injunction today from Justice Bischoff of the Supreme Court restraining them from interfering with the orderly leathering of knots of people within the inelosure inelosureFor For the last six days the police had vigorously en ¬ forced orders to disperse persons composing groups of three or more whenever they found them The order issued by Judge Bischolt on the application of Davies Stone and Anerbach is made returnable Jn special term part one on Monday MondayMore More than half of the three hundred policemen were withdrawn from the track following the stay of proceedings Neither police commissioner Bing Jiam nor his deputy could be found at police head ¬ quarters and service was made on deputy commis ¬ sioner Baker In the clubhouse at the track Schny ler Parsons chairman of the executive committee of the Coney Island Jockey Club said that they Uail simply prayed for relief from an intolerable Hituation by making application for a stay of pro ¬ ceedings


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