The evening world., 1894-09-27
TWO NIGHTS
or HORROR.
What an "EVening World" Re-
porter Saw and Heard in
the Van Dyke House.
A SAFE REFUGE FOR THIEVES.
Details Of the Detention and
Robbery of James W.
Cliff
HIS LIFE MAY BE SAVED
The Night Clerk and the Two Women
Discharged for Lack OF
Evidence.
HIS LIFE MAY BE SAVED

House, corner OF Bayard street and the
Bowery, over the case OF James w. |
C,,ift ~ pbiladelphia. as told in .'The |
LII Vi ,,l,',,, PIC, as ,oiu ~ me
Evening Worlu yesterday mas caused |
watchful eye to be placed upon 1t by
ALL. cue. ,...,,
Inc iact Una. oiiit was detained
%. AL, ,hraa uooSs ana 'n soa WIN,
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nothing put whiskey; that no physician
and that his relatives were not notified |
az r. his condition are matters of
as rsco 70 h'S '0"''t'o"' are matters u
raP as the tnI police lice r are s.r
who was arrested yesterday by Inspec-
tor McLauphlin,s men on account Of |
~ oasa ISL a,.,, I'LL om &c 49,
Police Court this morning for lack of |
legal incriminating evidence, and that
the two women Witnesses We're also set set
ir tn. ,,,, ou,u 49,, st..
fully satisfied of the fact that the desire !
of the Young night clerk and some of the |
others ~ he niana r,a.' 70 soo,,ra C,,ft,s
others III the place was 10 secure Cllt
money. In order to do so they would ap-
parently have been willing to keep him
there FOR months, until the END hnaliy
came, as 1t would have done. Gift would
then have been carried to Potter's Field |
relatives would not have been made ac-
quainted with the facts
That the Van Dyke House Is one of |
the lowest class of disreputable places
porter, who spent two nights and three
days there can vouch for. Every dis
dTS S dupes s' safe from interference ee
to rob and to plumber at their pleasure
to
apparently, as hundreds of others.
The Van Dyke House, from which
the instance Of "The Evening World
Ham Many dead bodies have been taxi
en- from 1t, and 1t is no fault of the
ADDED TO the list of e dead s, men
to equal that which the reporter wit
messed in the Van Dyke House last
rhia and elsewhere talked about their |
profession" Just as calmly as a bro
ker, would talk of stocks. Stories were
ience; of robberles in broad daylight, Of
newspaper man. used to,, scenes of the
1t was common matter, according to
the stories, for girls to be enticed into
the place-young, innocent girls, aaugh-
ters OF honest parents[to pc ruined there
the same as the old-time street walkers.
no questions were asked Looms We're
assigned, and then the children-for IN
some OF the cases they couid pc called
nothing more.wet ts tq nare 10 1ht 70 me n.
stFe the fallen az aaa on ao'"e name " the '
No one in the hotel even dreamed OF
the reporters Identity. He sat ,t at the
gang that infests the place. Night
Clerk Eddy Goodwin was one OF the
number at these GATHERINGS ,,,.,o ,
hs n
table, made TO accommodate immediate nine sr, or
ten persons; In the Daytime II serves
as reading room n an me morning Tn ths
night time. however; the papers are re- on
moved ana then the tapie -, mh haei,,i al,
e eS ooa s upon "hich 'he hao''ueS
throw dice JOE drinks ,, no, ,,oro
NV fNio S Set is b roSii, nv, tabie
ana ana" IKE few 'e ehars That IS sft the place
where the the women take ro their victims
preparatory an TO securing rooms onS want all
n Men ana women women, CAM nha e wnnS az az
hignt long; Every woman seemed 10
W %et iban ne hau a hou anu shi'ie 'of oil
aeiphia crooks had talked OF several
I.ospperles ana OF tne people .hey naa
terins uP faw wIme iht and Ine Showed
now nov, me unWaTy couia pc causnt. inen r
,ne conversation d[ii'eT 70 tne man
S CRRsstalrs IN room ~ mat man was
You ought to have seen that teiloW
"H Heh b me came mere rs ST NANCY ey SAY,
threw "a hin Any r aUdn like oi water have
90, " 30 oiiis aTouHu inhe mat orJ d na
man II N my poc stt nov for az t1oS Wben
get IT we !" aii nave o good time, You
can bet a VIII a nas soinp i fo get left
rOne OF the men present asked TO be
eoHmodatinoo on E the safd he S was wiliaS
Prowid,naa, inS EusS saia "T ia onnn,7
paDv WE 5S me 4tnxr man NUN ~ Xt Saw
he was ~ 70 an sutG I', ue ~ ciothass'
Ali thIs ~ Ue gwen new sun III SIift
Was ' snnn OUT OF me money mrsifh o'ii'
farIsimtia % s tbs o Uii pphicb Eddy
referred 10 me VI XII IN .,The Even
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