The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-07
NEW RAIDS ONPOOL SELLERS.
POLICE DETECTIVES HOLD WATCHES
ON POOL-RoOM RETTING.

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Inspector Byrnes executeda flank movement
against the pool-room people yesterday alter
noon which landed thirty.five prisoners from
four pool rooms In cells at POLICE Headquarters
and created no end OF sensation In betting
circles.
Tho proceeding was tho outcome Of several
conversations with District Attorney Niooll.
which were held with q view OF discovering
some plan whereby pool selling In the city can
DO stopped. Hitherto, under existing judicial
decisions. the pool rooms have been enabled
to do business on the supposition that they
were really. as they pretend, doing o commits
sion business, and that orders given In the
pool rooms were telesraphed TO agents ct the
track. whore they were executed. Tho police
found 1t practically impossible to convict tho
pool men. who claimed . right to do business
as commission agents or common carriers
It was to overthrow this plea that yester-
days raids were planned. Both the District
Attorney and the Inspector thought that II
they could prove that the bets were made In
the pool rooms and were not telegraphed from
was yesterday. they would have evidence suf-
fcont to send the pool sellers to prison and Ill
tnately close UP the places.
To carry out the purpose large number Of
Central ONCE detectives were selected. Each
mans watch was set to Western Union time at
noon. Some were detailed to 60 to the race
track to take accurate note Of the minute aud
second at which the races started. while the rest
were sent to the pool rooms to take In
custody proprietors, clerks. telegraph opera
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tailed to the track loft for jerome Park at 1:N
the asst: PS hsr ssns e
The pool rooms were detectives not known to
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@ and thru I'd %sep thO an
dered to arrest az hands In the several pool
rooms and TO conilscate the apparatus. These
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They c9nl11sssted blsokbosrds. tickets, shsets.
TsSSPsys place Is Centre at street II, TT pstse-
cSsries Rice. Thomas Wilson. Joseph Murray.
John Townsend, Charlee Lewis, and James
O'Brien. In addition to the usual accessories
" the business which wore seized there was
s is Il S last lsoth street Detectives Doonoe,
Titus, Sheridan. and Mulholland arrested
Eishhard George b hs5msn Edw sId
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At barney Michael's rooms. ia Wost Thirty
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Thomas Naylor, George Smith, Jeremiah MUIR
ply. James Watson. Archibald Stoldard.
Daniel 'Connell George Clark. George Smith.
John Doyle. Edward Moran, Lewis Isaacs,
John Francis. and George Francis. and seized
The detectiyes who had won on the TICKETS
bought turned their winnings over to the Prop.
erty Clerk. while those who had lost produced
their Tickets All the PefsSns arrested were
tbs
ssnt there by the Western Union Company.
pool room keepers. One Of them said that he
had sent four kilograms to the truck during
to bali BY Justice O'Reilly In the evening. All
will appear In court to-day.
It is proposed to show By Q comparison OF
So late that they could net possibly have been
and that as such bets were declared won or
lost they wero In fact bets made, recorded.
won. and lost on the premises in this city. In
violation OF the law.