New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-23
BOOKSELLERS IN TROUBLE.

1nsnecto, Byrnes was told on Monday that pools
on the COney Island races were being sofa ny az q
tiers Co.. at No l92 tut6nst ana Dy mDv Man
gin purchased a ticket at No. 1872 Fulton.
ST. on Tuesday and went to see the he races
in order to make nrod s esId evidence against
No. SO Church-st He did not win anything on on
either ticket When the evidence vas Presenteod TO
Justice Duffy in the Tombs Police Court Yesterday
he issued warrants for the arrest of the two per-
sons who had sold the tickets. Descents were
made upon the pool;room i In aIe in.
Guiding Maugn. and at each place per per
sons were found selling and BUYING P POO D.
At Loves James Hall was arrested he mao s1u Of
score cards. tickets and states with names =; Oh
horses on them were captured and taken 10 foHce
rooms OF Walters & Co.. where the ticket-selIer,
John Filors, was arrested. Persons VINO
were buying pools at either place were per
mtted to go S away ohs Poice Court but justice
Dnffy had gone away. They were then taken to
Police Headquarters and locked up. Hall SAID that
he lived at No. 1O3 West Fifty -seventh-st, while
Filors gave his place of residence as Brooklyn. IN
spector Byrnes said that few pools had been soid at
places visited and that the police would break up
At the Offices of Hackett g. Co.. No. Barclayst.
and of Lowell a. Co., at Barclay and Churcn-
sts., no information IN regard 10 tue arrests
at 8 p. m. An air of extreme innocence per-
yaded the places and overspread the counte.
nauces of the inmates when questions ABOUT
the matter were asked 1t was sad at Doth olhceS
however that no arrests had been made, as far as
we know" AtWalters IL Co.'S commission room,
at Broadway and Fulton-st., Mr. Walters SAID tnat
Mr. Walters had just stepped out when the reporter
asked TO see that person. " No arrest mas Deeh
made here" Mr.. Walters continued. we were
told by detectives who came here 10 close up Tue
office. and are going to do IL; although VIC nave
been doing nothing wrong here"
THE MEANING OF "FOOLEE" IN DISPUTE.
The trial of a number of Cinnamon for an
atrociOus assault on Lung Poy after turing MN
into a den in Godwin-st., Paterson n. D., on sun
day, May 81, begun in the Passalc county
Court yesterday. The motive for the assault on
Lung Poy was TO induce him to stop cutting
rates" for laundry work Wary l.. Charles, OF INC
attired in faultess Caucasian costume. Counsei
for the accused Cinnamon objected to Mr.. Charles
as interpreter on the ground that he was preJudlced
in favor of Lung POy, but the Court decided tnat
Mr.. Charles could interpret, aud that an inter
prefer who was present in the interest
near as could be judged, was Sin Oak. should
sit by and "see fair" Lung POy told his stor oil
the assault, and according TO Mr. CharleSs inter-
probation he testified that since the occurrence
threats had been made to him to induce hE to leave
town so that the accused men could get out OF
trouble, otherwise he would get into trouble him
SELF The other interpreter insisted that the person
who advised Lung Poy 10 leave the city had only
threatened to foolee HIM If he appeared against
the accused. Mr.. Charles asserted that this WORD
meant that Lung Poy would get into trouble, and
the other interpreter stoutly maintained that
"fooeeD was an untranslatable chinese phrase
which did not mean anything dreadful. There was
a wrangle between the two interpreters, Dut tne
Court could not decide the point OF CHINESE dehhl-
ton and the matter was dropped.