New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-05
A RAID ON POLICY DEALERS.
THIRTY-FIvE ARRESTS MADE YESTERDAY.
INSPECTOR DYRyrs TRYING TO STOP TIE BUSINESS

INSPECTOR BYRNES TRYING TO STOP TIE BUSINESS
THE DIsTMCT-ATTORNEY CRITICISED.
Inspector Byrnes summoned his entire available
force of detectives and detective-scrgeants TO the
rooms of the squad in Police Headquarters yesteT-
dsy afternoon at O'clock. The men were given to
understand that at the Inspectors request war
rants bad been placed in his hands by JUS
tice Patrick G.. Duffy, and a descent was
to be made upon number Of policy dealers. The
warrants were then given to the men and they
were sent out to execute them. At nighttal thirty
five policy dealers had been arrested and Locked up
for the night in the Central Oceand the Mulberry
st and Mercer-St. police stations. In each OF the
"raided' places were seized the paraphernala con-
nected with the business. Inspector byrnes IN
speaking of his attempt TO break up the pOlcy ana
gambling business in the city said " for the past
ten davs have had man who is himself an ex-
polcy dealer engaged in securing evidence against
these places whose prOpretors have been arrested
tonight. The evidence in each case is conc usiye
and amply sufficient to convict. But desire TO
state that have during the past year made great
number of arrests of policy dealers and keepers OF
gambling houses. In nearly every case the guilty
persons have escaped through the delay IN bring
ING them to trial by the proper authorities. These
men have not been sent TO prison as they
should have. been. Instead, they have been
put TO some inconvenience for twenty-four hours,
allowed 10 90 on few hundred dollars bail and I'D
the end escape, as, IN most cases, oy the l! h
country. l have repeatedly and repeatedly asked
the proper authorities to try the cases promptly,
and have as often been put OF from time 10 tlne,
The force of this department has been used only 70
be laughed at by the polcy dealers. Inc name OF
the department has been brought into undeserved
odium thereby" ,
Whom do you mean by the proper author-
ties'?N was asked
~ mean the Observation-Disclosures Offce-that is,
the late istrict-AttOmcy, Mr.. McKeon. The pres
e1,t incumbent, of course, has not had time to deal
with these cases.
"If we can get these thirty-ive cases attended to
promptly" continued the Inspector. 81 can soon
put stop TO this policy business. Until such time
as the authorities do deal promptly with them il Is
only uSinr thiS department and a lot of men TO be
he'd AZ They glOuiu
the business is TO be broken mp. Twill hand up evil
dence enough to convict. And it is difficult to get
evidence against them. 1t cannot be done by a
policeman as they will not sell an officer slips: we
are compelled to employ man who has been IN the
business himself and has access to these Places
You may put 1t IN as strong IanguiagG i Us
YOU like But for the neglect of the authorities
and the DstIict-AttOrney's Office this policy bust
ness aud gambling would have been broken UP III
The following are the names of the prisoners and
their policy places:
THOMAS EdwaIds No 1G7 East one hundred-and TWEEN
tetlst; Gustave Keiscr No. 754 EgGthaye. Michael
206 East EiSity,aithst; Waiter Davis No. 2ll ThGmp
sonst.; Amos Fowler. No; 463 Ihird ave- ~, John
Cassidy, No 3l5. Fast ThirtJ-iourthst;, Philip Hilp
Nc 1863 West Invent yiftb-st; Nicholas Muller NO 81
East FoItysythst; Lewis PctrOws No 500 last Forty,
sXts CH9rs' ha9oGs va ana g E,Y One
scvcntccnth-st.; Edward CAN'T No. l3G3 lhiId-aNc;
No los West seventoenth-st.; John Mckenzie, No 81
Dey-st; John Mack Robert Smith and William McCary,
ohn Connolly. No. 500 sevcnth-a1e; John j. smith, No.
23l East seventy hih,st; Patrick j. MnlisSn No. 200
West Thirty hfth-st; john johnson, No goo %nIh,aye
aud one woman, Elizabeth Schwartz, Of No ~ Ihonp-
sOn-st
There were five other policy dealers arrested
whose names were not learned.
Police Justice KilbTeth was in Police iieadquar-
ters TIL after midnight baing the prisoners, whose
Some of the policy men were able to give bonds;
but many had TO spend the night behind barred