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NO FURTHER ARRESTS AT GRAVESEND. New York, September 18. Borough Inspector Hola-han sent seventy plain-clothes men to Gravesend today and was there himself. After the races the inspector declared that no violation of .the Hart-Agnew law had taken place. It was rumored that members of the Kings County grand jury were also at the track on Investigation bent, that there was a movement on foot to indict Inspector OBrien, and that Dr. Walter Laidlaw df the Law and Order League had preferred charges with Governor Hughes against Sheriff Hobley. All of these reports w;ere without foundation in fact. Assistant District-Attorney Elder of Brooklyn said that, twenty additional warrants against alleged bookmakers had been obtained from County Judge Fawcett today. The eighteen men arrested at the track yesterday were arraigned-today and were held for examination September 27. It was said that indictments probably will be tiled against them in the meantime. "Last year the cases that were litigated involved no complete evidence of receiving or registering bets," said Mr. Elder, "but this time we have evidence of the commission of both acts: we have the custodian or depository." Air. Elder said that Governor Hughes started the ball rolling against violators of the law at the race track by sending telegrams to the officials in Kings County on September 4 to use every effort to get evidence against the .bookmakers. The, Kings Countv grand jury will take up the race-track cases next week. New York, September IS. Representatives of Assistant District-Attorney Elders office declare, concerning the arrests made at Gravesend Friday for alleged violations of the Hart-Agnew law. that private detectives, under the direction of Governor Hughes, have been engaged in obtaining evidence, on which the arrests were based, at the race tracks since Labor day. The races were then being run at Sheepshead Bay, which was the scene of the earjv operations in the investigation. According to District-Attorney Clarke, the special detectives learned that bets were lieing mAde at the tracks in violation of that provision of the law which prohibits the recording of wagers. The modus, operandi, according to Air. Clarke, was for the bookmaker to be accompanied to the track by three assistants a clerk, a recording clerk and a Cashier. The bettors were Introduced to the layer of odds, and deposited a certain sum of money., to be deducted from as wagers were made. The bettor was allowed to bet up; to the -amount on deposit, either In small sums or in one lump sum. His initials were then entered with the recording clerk, and if he won he collected the money from the cashier, "who was stationed in some other part of the track.
