Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-29
CLOSED BY THE POLICE.

A Fancy Gambling Room and High Toned
Speak-Easy Fall Victims to the Pittsburg
Police-Three Nicely-Arranged Estab-
Hshments Suffer in Allegheny.
Yesterday was sad one for speak-easies
and poker rooms. They fell in both cities.
Though none of the raids were large, the
number of them made up for that deficiency
The officers of the First police district
raided room at 404 Smithfeld street YES
terday morning and arrested four men who
somely furnished, including a sideboard
with plate glass mirrors. The police have
received number of complaints about the
place and the character Of the people who
frequent it, among the latter being anumber
|. of young girls. Detective Demmel and
officer Maxwell paid the place a visit.
They found the four players seated
about table with the chips and
all the paraphernalia of the game
strewn about. One of the proprietors,
William Malone, son of Mike Malone, ex-
Government Supervising Architect, was
one of the crowd and was also placed under
arrest; the other proprietor, George Coils,
was absent at the time of the raid. The Wis
itors arrested were taken to the Central sta
tion, where they registered as George
Jones, A. P. Donaldson and John Hender-
son. The prisoners were subsequently re-
leased on forfeits of $50 each.
A speak-Easy With a Piano.
Captain Unterbaum and Lieutenant Lewis
ended the usefulness of Mr.. and Mrs Mich
ols' place at 2807 Penn avenue. The house
was finely fixed up and had piano in the
speak-easy room. Three men, two women
and the proprietors were arrested. The Wis
itors were let out on $50 forfeits and pro-
prietors were each held in $1,000 bail.
There were so bottles of champagne in the
house.
Lieutenant Schaffer, assisted by several
officers, raided disorderly house on Bates
street at an early hour yesterday morning.
The proprietor, Thomas Bonnis and II
Poles were arrested. They were given
hearing at the Fourteenth ward station yes
terday. Bonnis was fined $100 and costs,
the visitors S. and costs each.
Lieutenant Lewis, with Officers Teeters
and Terry, raided the disorderly house kept
by Ben Motion, colored, in Shors alley last
evening. Six men and four women were
arrested. Motion escaped
Lieutenants Lewis and Wagner with
several officers, also closed the disorderly
house kept by Mamie Reddrick at No. z
Cass street. The proprietress with James
Work Over on the Northside.
There were three speak-easies closed up
by the Allegheny police yesterday, but the
three were only prolific of IA prisoners.
One of the shops was that of Hugh Payton,
of East street. blind man, who had bar
and a stock of liquors fixed up in his back
room. When Lieutenant McKelvey burst
in on it not drop of liquor was in sight.
Tho rafrashnant howavnr ua eforod owou
under the bar and was there evidently
waiting the call of the customer Mr.. Pay
ton and the three visitors were sent to the
lookup.
Eliza March's place at 81 River avenue
was also closed. Two men and two women
were found. there and small stock of
liquor.
Peter Hoffman, of North avenue and East
street, was arrested early in the morning,
having opened up at o'clock in the morn
ing, and when the officers got there four
men were already in the place. The bust
ness of the day was cut short right there,
and Mr.. Hoffman and his four visitors were
locked up.
About midnight on Saturday Lieutenant
Boyd and a squad of officers discovered
seven men engaged in quiet little game
of poker in shanty boat in the Allegheny
river, near Herr's Island. When they ap-
preached the doors, the players made for the
windows, and three of them succeeded in
escaping by taking to the river and SWIM
ming away. The other four, however, were
sent to the lookup for hearing.
Captain Brophy, with Lieutenant Outh
and several officers, closed five Lawrence
Vile speak-easies yesterday. The proprietors
were BARLEY Foley, Mulberry street; Mrs.
Wallace, Forty-eighth and Railroad streets;
George Rutt, Pearl street; Mrs. Miller,
Berlin alley, near Fifty-frst street, and
Thomas Carney, IL Forty-third street.
Nick Endline, Joseph Ryan, John Doyle
and Charles Huddleston were engaged in
game of craps in backyard near the Cen
trail patrol stable yesterday afternoon, when
they were arrested by Officer McAvoy. At
Central station it was found that each party
in the game was supplied with from $50 to
500. They put up forfeits of $50 each for
the hearing this morning.