The evening world., 1891-12-03
M'CLORY INDICTED
Arrested To-Day for Keeping a
Disorderly House.
Manager Murray and Bartender
Kelly Also Prisoners.
Result Of the Grand .Jury's Investi-
cation of the Irving Hotel.

Detectives from Inspector Byrnes's ofrlce
Eiward Kelly and Henry Murray on an in
dictmcni found by the Grand Jury charging
them with keeping q disorderly house and
with violating the Excise laws at the corner
OF Fourteenth street and Irving place.
The three h ad Just arisen ron their couches
In the upper chambers OF the Irving Hotel
when the detectives served the warrants for
their arrest.
Three days ago, when Robert Weiner, n
German who has only been two weeks IN. the
country, complained that Annie Williams, OF
.2l East Thirty-ffth street, had robbed him
OF his watch and sll7 In Spanish coins while
they were occupying room In the hotel,
none u the employees OF the place knew who
was the proprietor. AS far as Billy McGlory
was concerned, why,the bartender, chamber
maids and bouncers were in dense ignorance.
They seemed to have faint recollection OF
having heard the name before, but they
didn't know the man at all.
That did not deter the Grand Jury from
finding indictments against McGlory yester-
day for keeping a disordcrly house and
against Manager Murray and Bartender Kelly
for excise violations
The Irving Hotel has not been licensed in
several months, ard to outward appearance
it is sealed barracks. The stranger VINO
enters its bar is told that nothing but "soft
drinks are to be had there.
But In spite OF all this, stories are rife
on the street among the "bloods" =" OF the
carnival OF sin that is constantly going on
behind the close-drawn curtains, and 1t Is
generally believed that billy NcGlory, pro-
prtetor OF the oncc-tamous Armory Hall In
Hester street, is the owner OF Irving Hotel,
and that young men and young women can
and do get wOfully drunk there
The detectives had no difficulty In collecting
this trio Of prisoners this morning. MIR. Nc.
Glory, who Is quito unknown to the people OF
the dive, came down from his sleeping-room,
as fresh as q daisy. In a GLOSSY silk hat, an
$50 ovrrcoat, q dapper suit OF black and
ministerial collar and cravat. 80
lie submitted to arrest with becoming
grace, though he twirled his flowing brown
mustache with some nervousness
Murray and Kelly were gathered In little
later rs they descended from the upper re-
glons and neither OF them offered any objec-
tion TO paying visit to Police Headquarters.
From there they were taken direct to the
Court OF General sessions for arraignment be-
fore Recorder smyth III Part /.
The three prisoners were locked In the pen
at the back OF Part l. OF the Court OF General
Sessions for half an hour with a score or
thieves, pending the arrival or Recorder
Smyth.
Kelly and Murray were the first prisoners
called to the bar. Murray Is a light-ha,red
u
typical east side-bartenden He is short
haired, smooth laced and In hts twentles.
Both pleaded not guilty and were held for
trial III 800 bail.
Then Billy McGlOry, the gilded young man
Of mouse-colored hair and mustache, who
once dined and wined his ArmOry Hall sirens
at the Hotel Brunswick, advanced from the
pen.
His teeth showed between his half-open
lips and his eyes seemed dull and sunken.
lie, too, pleaded not guilty, and in response
~ Lawyer Ednund +. Prices request the Re-
corder fixed bail at $1,000, and Billy was re-
turned to the companionsLip OF his manager
and bartender in the pen, while friends hus-
tied for bondsmen.
McGlory refused to talk to the reporters
further than TO say tina. some one was trying
to turn him down.
| Annie Williams is now safely celled at the
TomDs prison Ia default OF $1,000 bail, and
may be the Dis.r!ct-Att0rney may prevail
upon her to tell the truth about the Irving
Hotel dive and Billy McGlory's connection
| with It.
Since McGlory sold Armory Hall, In 1888.
for Ss7 900, he has been accused OF keeping
various resorts at Baldwlns, l.. l.; oyster Bay,
l.. l., at 2s7 East Fourteenth street and at
the place where lie was arrested to-day.
McGlory was arrested In January, 1889, on
| a charge OF dancing the "Can-caD' with two
women at French" ball in Tammany Hall.
| He was again accused last July OF cruelty
beating s.is coachman, Thomas Flt7simmons,
! at his untry place at Baldwin's, l.. l.
In 8 ptember last W. II. Wade, OF 352 York
street, Jersey City, complained TO the police
that he had been drugged and robbed OF $50
In McGlory's hotel, at the corner OF Irving
place and Fourteenth street.
In 1855 McGlory was convicted on charge
OF keeping O disorderly house and served q
term OF six months In the penitentiary on
BlacKwell's Island.
SictZ the sCda-water man, had been eX,
peCtod to go on tue bail bond for McGlory Gad
his friends, but he had not appeared at
o'clock and q messenger was despatched fol
the wife OF the dlvc-keeper, to be bOndswomaI
for her husband and his companions IL
trouble.
The name OF the chief defendant Is " Nc
Grory," though he is known everywhere as
McGlory."
Mrs. Anna McGrory, short and rather
thick It'll lie business woman, clad In sealskiI
down TO her heels, rides In her own carriage
and wears siX-carat diamonds In her ears.
Mrs. McGrory lives at BaldWins, l.. l., anC
third street.
William Il. Seit2, the soda water man, who
lives at $40 East Eighty -second street. ar
rived In thr meantime, and bccAme bondsmar
for the men, giviug The house 30S East Ei.h.
tl-secund street as security, and NcGlDry
Murray and Kelly hurried away