Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-02
PLUCKED THE ROSE.
Southside Police Descend Upon a
Pleasant Little Gathering.
HUNGARIAN WEDDING BROKEN Up.
Gustav Stero Wanders Around With q
Bullet in His Breast.
ANUMBER OF SUNDAY MORNING RAIDS

The beauty and fragrance of the Wild
Rose Club, whi ch budded and blossomed on
the Southside, has departed; lis petals have
been crushed beneath the iron heels of the
enterprising police.
The Wild Rose Club occupied an apart
ment above stable on Wright alley, between
South Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
Jealous persons, who may have been black
balled when attempting to gain admission to
this exclusive organization, spoke Of it disre-
spectfully as the "Hayloft Club" It's true
the decorations of the clubroom were not
ornate, and the furnishings were almost Sc
we're in their simplicity, consisting chiefly
of beer kegs, full and empty, with judi
cious sprinkling of mouth organs.
- Saturday night socials were great feat
ure of this club. On these occasions the
pleasant gurgle of lager beer was enhanced
by sweet strains from the mouth organs
Bacchus and Pan. those saucy gods, were
worshiped in the most approved classic
fashion. Occasionally the devotees would
send up pans of praise in voices more re-
markable for power than purity.
No Taste for Classical Amusements.
Southsiders residing in the immediate
nelghborhood, who had no respect for classic
exercises, insisted that the Wild Rose Club
was a nuisance and banisher of gentle
slumber and pleasant dreams. With the
coldness characteristic of people who are
not on speaking terms with the gods of an
cient Greece, they complained to the police.
Early yesterday morning Lieutenant
Johnston summoned a number of his most
trusty officers, and the band swooped down
upon the temple of beer and music. The
worshipers sought safety in flight. and two
of them found it, but the Wild Rose was
rent asunder and ten of its petals borne off in
triumph by the mocklng myrmidons of the
law. where they were registered as james
O'Brien. David Jones, Charles Dock, Will
liam Bruse, Frank Shideman, George
Miller, Walter Hoffman, George Seebacher
and Clarence Bradford.
At the morning hearing Magistrate Sue
cop smiled sweetlv, and murmurlng, There
is no rose without thorn" fined O'Brien
and Jones, who seemed to be the high priests,
SIS and costs each, while the others settled
for 81 40 apiece.
Bride and Groom in the Lookup.
Lieutenant Moreland, of Allegheny, and
a squad of his division arrested IA people in
a house at Sc Mcclure avenue early yester-
day morning, where they were making night
hideous by loud carousal. 1t was the
Hungarian form of celebrating wedding
that had occurred on Saturday night, and
among the prisoners were the bride and
groom, who spent the night in the lookup.
The Hungarian beverage, "polinky," was
really the prime cause of the trouble. Nine
of the prisoners, AMONG them the groom,
were fined S. and costs, and the others were
discharged.
Lieutenant Schaffer, with Officers Egan,
Haas and Moan, raided the house of Neman
Freeman, on Second avenue. near Murphy
street, about 1890 yesterday morning.
When the officers gained entrance to the
house Freeman made a dash for liberty, ran
upstairs and jumped out of the second-story
window to tine pavement below. He jumped
to his feet to run away. but his right foot
had been crippled, and the officers captured
him. He was placed in the patrol wagon
with John Gray, Morgan Davis and Will
lam Roberts, who were also arrested, and
taken to the Fourteenth ward station and
locked up. From that time until the morn
ing hearing Freeman complained about his
right foot hurting, SO after the hearing DR..
A0yer was calico, VINO lOunu MS IooI broken
at the ankle. He was removed to the Mercy
Hospital. Freeman was fined $25 and costs,
and Roberts and Davis $40 and costs each.
Gray was discharged.
Raided a Gang of Crap-Shooters.
A gang of about a dozen colored men
were engaged in a game OF craps on cellar
door in front of liquor store just below
Wood street. on First avenue, about o'clock
yesterday afternoon, Detective Coulson and
Officer Diehl. of the No. l patrol wagon,
started in to break up the game, but the
dusky gamblers saw the officers coming and
hastily scattered in every direction. The
officers followed, but the fugitives were so
feet of foot that only two were captured,
William Brady and Larry Anderson. The
players were all deckhands from the wharf.
F. M. Tailor's house, on Thirty-third
street, was raided early Yesterday morning
as gambling house. Tailor and five men
were arrested, the former being fined $40 and
the latter $40 and costs each. The raid was
made by Officer Bond.
Oficers Clishmap, Haas. Crehan and
Moan made a raid on lot of tramps at
Matthews & Bros Coke Works, on Second
avenue, Soho, last night, and captured ten
tramps. They were all locked up in the