Elis Play Policeman, Trip Up Bookie Ring

"One of the most sensational stories that has ever hit" New Haven, the capture of a ruthless gang of bookies by six Yale men aided by eight detectives, was reported in a recent Yale News. Exposed by Yale's radio station WOCD, the "biggest racketeers in New Haven" were caught in the act of burning and flushing racing forms as the Rover Boys broke down the doors.

Members of the Yale broadcasting station became aware of the operation of the ring when a freak phone connection gave away the bookies' radio network. A month's work gathering information followed before three WOCD officers, two News reporters, and a photographer, joined by the policemen, sledge-hammered in doors to get at the villains.

By tracing telephone wires, police found two other houses which contained hidden bookie offices. Outside one of them, two WOCD men sat in a car waiting for the police to come out, when two members of the gang drove up. They threatened the students, but "Threatened to no avail."