The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-27
GAMBLING ON Tile GREEN.
The TribuIations of a Party of
Pulled Sports"
A sextet Of Gamblers in the Mayors Office
Anna Strauss Unfortunate KarriaEe-Her
Money and Jewelry Lost at Faro-was
Her Husband 0 "SteersrW

Her Husband "SteersrY
Several days since lady Of decidedly intelligent
appearance, giving the name OF Mrs. Anna
whtstone. called on Mayor Havemeyer and stated
that she was In serious dflculty, arising from the
fact that her husband, Henry Whitstone, had fallen
into the evil habit Of fghtng the tiger" and that
he had lost her money as well as his own and rem
dered her almost destitute. The Mayor always
likes to help the weak against the "fe arful odds'
that at times beset them, and SO he sent for
Captain Leary, the quiet and vigant little officer
In command Of the City Hail precinct, and had q
conference with him on the subject. The result was
that the erring husband was induced to make
an af1davtt, and upon warrant issued In accord,
anee Herewith Captain Leary was instructed to
arrest Redmond McManus and Samuel Strauss, of
tpe gambling house No. 1o2 Chatham street, and
Gus Robbins, Cornelius Glren, Latham Jones and
Michael Knevels, all .......a'.
RAILING FROM THE "JUNGLE"
No. 81 Bowery. The warrant included two others,
who have not yet been seduced by the wiles of
Captain Leary, but the six above named were
brought within the scope Of his mild influence on
Monday evening and yesterday morning. Ac-
cordingiy these jousters In the tournament
OF checks were brought before the Mayor
In his private once yesterday afternoon. They
were q very fair looking set Of men and might
doubtless earn decent nvelyhoods, II they would.
Most OF them were young men, mono Of them had
reached middle life, and McManus wore four or
i've carat stone on his shirt 'front.' Glllen sported
q very fair sort Of diamond Of perhaps three
carats, finely cut, and Knevels had very pretty
little 'sparkn also. None OF them, however, were
dressed in the cloud" style Of the conventional
''gamb0lier."
hnx m tl,o MouN Win
ously, and then all hands, except his Honor,
laughed-quietly, Of course The Mayor requested
his secretary, Mr. Wilder, to read
THE AFFIDAVIT,
which set forth that on July 8 last the deponent,
Henry Whitst0ne, married Anna Strauss, and that
at divers times preceding and subsequent to that
date he had obtained from her various sums Of
money, amounting in the aggregate to 500, to-
eether with gold watch and chain and an anne
the proceeds Of the sale of the jewelry in some
business for their mutual support and livelihood;
ans sss
he was induced, through the representa-
tons tha Of certain eviI oompan9lons' (here
the game Of 'iafo;' that on or about July IS he
by &c orge Hall and Michael Kneves that he here
played at game known as "iarO," until he lost
s'DoMINICk'i OFFICIATING AS "DEALERU
also, that At the same place, when one Cullen pre-
sided at the silver box, deponent lost 5000; That
and that on or about July Is, :Johnny" Williams
s ss cards was sepVs sn p dasn uo oat es
the house. with threats against his Lie;
s Fsp By dnars
Rose, and that in this establishment deponent
on Or aSos July ri that ne had
one more deal and then to close the game for the
! sSs dss5n sR2Ea s s Sspgssts5 iR
chaS MIL run y n aSS AND
as mo. and ann BY man & Noss
deponent lost the sum OF $50 in July, while young
man named Strauss dealt the cards.
AS soon as the reading was concluded the Mayor
asked the gentlemen whether, and. If 80, when
0' EXAMINATION AND HEARING.
McManus spoke up and said they were ready for
an examination now and supposed that was what
The Mayer informed them that the complainant
was not present. and that he had been sent for
ing, however, IL they desired an examination in |
presence OF Whitstone.
GiIlen (Ioq1ituy)-well, suppose Your Honor
The Mayor guess not. That is not the way
they gene rally do this kind OF business.
McIanus-Mr. Mayor, don't know how much
1t may afect this case, but will state 1t TACT
meanest kind Of men himself. He Is nothing but |
"stecrer.n We can prove That and can prove that |
HE IS A ''sTEERERr
and has "steered for three TOUR ''skin' games.
The MayOr-The question Is not whether he Is a |
'steerer' or not, but did he lose this money in .he
houses which you gentlemen keep or are en-
ployed inP
McManus (smiling)-Well, didn't know about
how 1t might influence your decision. only stated
1t 80 that you might understand 1t. would like
to say though, that there ISN'T one OF US who Is
going to run away from this charge; we didn't
saw him In our places.
Gus Robbins tine most depressed looking mar Of
the lop-l can say positively that the man meyer
lost q cent with me-
ever made, Why. If this man was even . decent
man there might be something into u; but he Is
q well known skinner" himself, and has been run
away from hall dozen square" games, because |
he would hurt the houses II 1t was known he had |
anything to do with them. -
to bail late in the day Doesn't give US any chance
to get bondsmen II we can do So am certain
If YOU WILL LET Us GO
on our own recOgniZances we shall appear to-mor- |
row at any time you want US.
The Mayor-Yes; but that Is not the fashion OF |
dealing with suspected people.
Jones-We shall como tomorrow as certain as |
we come to-day, your Honor. We were told by the |
Captain here (pointing to Captain Leary) that we
were wanted to come before you, and came, as you
The Mayor ito Captain Leary)-How is that,
Captain Leary (smiling) They generally come,
Your Honor, when want them without much |
trouble (SOttO Uoce to the reporter) They know |
very we'll that II they don't come can get them,
in some other town than New York.
All Hands-We shall be sure to come when you |