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 Byrness office
this morning arrested William McGlory.
Eiward Kelly and Henry Murray on m In
found by the Grand Jury charging
them with keeping disorderly house and
with violating the Excise laws at the corner
OF Fourteenth street and Irving place.
The three had just arisen from their couchcs
in the upper chambers Of the Irving Hotel
when the detectives served the warrants for
their arrest.
Three days ago, when Robert weiner, y
German who has only been two weeks in tho
country, complained that Annie Williams. OF
OF his watch and S1l7 In Spanish coins while
they were occupying room In the hotel,
none OF 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 hSme 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 disorderly house and
against Manager Murray and Bartender Kelly
for excise violations
The Irving Hotel has not been licensed In
several months, and to outward appearance
IT is sealed barracks. The stranger VINO
enters It's bar Is told that nothing but " soft
drinks are to be had there.
But In spite OF all this, stories arc rife
on the street among the "bloods" OF the
carnival OF Sin that Is constantly going on
behind the close-drawn curtains, aud It Is
generally believed that Billy McGlory, pro-
prietor OF the once-famous Armory Hall in
Hester street, IL the owner OF Irving Hotel,
and that young men and young women can
and do get wofully drunk there.
The detectives had no difriculty In collecting
this trio OF prisoners this morning. Mr.. Nc
Glory. who is quito unknown to the people OF
the dive, came down from his sleeping-room,
as fresh as daisy. In a glossy silk hat, an
$50 ovsrcoat, q dapper suit Of black and q
ministerial collar and cravat.
He submitted TO arrest with becoming
grace, though he twirled his flowing brown
mustache with some nervousness.
Murray and Kelly were gathered In q little
later rs they descended from the upper re-
gions, and neither OF them offered any obJec-
tion to paying visit 10 Police Headquarters.
From there they were taken direct to the
Court OF General Sessions for arraignment be-
fore Recorder smyth in Part l.
The three prisoners were locked in the pen
at the back OF Part ]. OF the Court OF General
Sessions for half an hour with score OF
thieves, pending the arrival OF Recorder
Smyth.
Kelly and Murray were the first prisoners
called to the bar. Murray Is q ught-haired
man OF thirty-nve years and Kelly Is O
typical east side-bartender. He is short
haired, smooth faced ana in his twenties.
Both pleaded not guilty and were held for
trial IN 300 ball.
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-oper
lips and his eyes seemed dull and sunken
He, too, pleaded not guilty, and in response
TO Lawyer Edmund z. Prices request the he.
corder fixed bail at 81 900, and Billy was re.
turned to the companionship OF his manager
and bartender in the pen, while friends hus-
tied for bondsmen.
McGlofy refused TO talk to the reporters
further than to say thai some one was tryinl
to turn him down.
Annie Williams is now safely celled at thu
Tombs prison in default Of sl,6OO ball. ant
may be the District-AttOrney may prevail
upon her to tell the truth about the Irving
Hotel dive and Billy McGlory's connection
with II.
since McGlory sold Armory Hall, in 1883
for ss7, 900, he has been accused OF keeping
various resorts at Baldwins, L. l.; oyster Bay
L. l., at 2s7 East Fourteenth street and a
the place where he was arrested to-day.
McGlory was arrested in January, 1880, OF
charge OF dancing the "can-can" with tw'
women at French " ball In Tammany Hall
He was again accused last July OF cruell,
beating his coachman, Thomas Fitzsimmons
at his country place at Baldwin's, L. l..
In September last W. Il. wade, OF 362 Yorl
street, Jersey City, complained to the polio
that he had been drugged and robbed OF ss1
In McGlory's hotel, at the corner OF Irwin
place and Fourteenth street.
In 1885 McGlory was convicted on charg
OF keeping a disorderly house and served
term OF six months In the pepltentiary Of
| BlacKwell's Island.
SietZ, the soda-water man, had been eS
pccted TO go on the bail bond for McGlory an
his friends, but he had not appeared at
O'Clock and a messenger was despatched 10
the wife OF the div e-keeper, TO be bondswoma
for her husband and his companions 4
trouble.
The name OF the chief defendant Is Nc
Grory,' though he Is known everywhere a
" McGiory."
Mrs. Anna McGrory, a short and rathe
thick little business woman, clad IN sealski
down TO her heels, rides IN her own carriag
and wears six-carat diamonds In her ears
Mrs, McGrory lives at Baldwins, l.. l., an
owns the double iiat-house l53 East Ninety
third street.
William T.. Seitz, the sCda water man, VIII
lives at $40 East Eighty street, al
rived In the meantime, and became bondsma
for the men, giving the house 3us East Eigl
ty-second street aS security, and hcGlory
Murray and Kelly hurried away.
Shot Himse Accidentally.