New-York tribune., 1891-05-24
WIRES TAPPED OR OUT-sUITs AGAINST THE
CLUB FOR FALSE Imprisonment.

GLIB FOR FALSE Imprisonment.
The poorooms did nourishing business yes'eruny'
From the time set for the decision OF the nrst race
untiI Merry Monarch passed under the wire IN HohO
~ his field every room in town was more OF ieSs
crowded No information beyond the descriptions OF
oes was forthcoming from the track, but that fact
nnarently did not deter city hackers from investing
their two and five dollar bills with the commission
agentp In many cases the absence OF all lniorna'ion
from the track gave them good deal the oeuer OF
the market. On the supposition that Georga "ouiu
run in the Bedford Stakes, the commission men
laid IN I against st. Florian AS every one now
knows. Georgia did not start, and st. Florian' VINO
won started at TO 5. On Thursday, I'm the Parkway
Handicap the commission men, were Offering 10
on Sir john on the supposition that his stable COM
paron Eon, was running in that race Eon oiu ho'
run and Sir John, at to J. In a small field won pretty
easily. The Brooklyn Jockey Club yesterday
continued the line Of action which 1t started on
Thursday and for two and half hours made pr1s-
oners of every who visited the track On Friday
IL will be remembered. they made an arrangement by
which the newspaper men were enabled, after the
third race to send out their dispatches by the hands
of Pinkerton men. This scheme worked well untii
about 80 yesterday afternoon, when the telegraph
operators in seights Hotel suddenly announced that
the wires would not for some reason work and that
II was impossible to send dispatches 30 town.
somebody was tapping the wires or they were cut
Phlp Dwyer was appealed to. "Some one In town Is
tapping them" he said.
The reporters for the evening newspapers were COM
pletey COMPOUNDED by this sudden development In the
situation They still more be~fdered when Just
before the last race the wires mysteriously set
going again Just in time to get their news to town for
the baseball extras"
Actions brought in the Supreme Court yester-
day by Howe & Hummel against the Brooklyn Jockey
Club and Robert Pinkerton to recover $4,000 dam
ages for false imprisonment. The plaintiff In one
case Is William NJ. Mills, resident OF this city VINO
SAYS that on account Of sickness he started to leave the
racetrack last Thursday afternoon. He had permis,
gon to depart from Robert Pinkeron. and as he got
To the front entrance he seized by two OF the race
track off1as, who, without warrant or process OF
law rifed his pocket and took him to the lookup al
Coney Island. After OBTAINING him for two hours no
was discharged by Chief McKane.
The plaintiff in the other suit is James Z. Cosgrove,
who was telegraph employe, and was charged by tho
racetrack officials with throwing ball containing
telegraphic information the fence Of the race
| rack For this high crime and misdemeanor Cosgrove
was also searched by the Pnkerton detectives and inn
INJURED in convenient Lookup until the termination OF
the days races, when the officials condescendingly
| permitted him 10 regain his liberty.
| There have been numerous other applications TO
Howe & Hummel to bring actions for similar outrages,
and the suits in these In preparation and the
| papers will be served early next week.