Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-12
DETECTIVES FIGHT A MOB
They Succeeded In Arrestins the Two Han dIers but the Rest of the Sports Fought Hard to Recapture Their Friends and the Birds-Many Broken Heads.

dlers but the Rest of the Sports Fought
 Hard to Reeapture Their Friends and the
 Birds-Many Broken Heads.
 LAKE MAHoPAC, \. Y., March l2.-Tet, battle scared gamecOcks, steel gafed and ready for the fray, were expressed from this village last night for New York city Their two handlers were fined SIC apiece for cock fighting About q quarter of the men of the town are nursing bruised heads and bodies today, and fully one-half are wearing a look of anxiety, the result ot uncertainty regarding an armful of war rants which Justice Smith has granted It is generally conceded that Lake Ma. hopac has lost all desire to engage in future recreation with fighting cocks.
 This little place has long been famous as the center of a district of country cock fighters. Nearly every month sees a con test between biTds in one of the many road houses hereabout.
 Detectives In Attendance.
 A mill had been ill course of preparation to take place early Sunday morning foI several weeks. As usual the strictest SC crecy was enjoined, but the plans in some mysterious way came to the ears of War. ren l.. Bonnet, local agent for the Ameri.
 
 to Animals, whose headquarters are at 1C East Twenty second street, New York. He sent three detectives up.
 A weather beaten rookery of a road house three miles west of the town had been selected as the scene of the battles. The pit had been improvised on the ground floor. The room was gayly lighted within, but windows and doors had been carefully mutfrd and curtained. The spectators be gHn to arrive about midnight, and before o'clock half q hundred horses stood tied 70 the trees at the rear of the building. Their owners and friends were inside awaiting the call of time.
 Little notice was taken of the three de tectives as they pushed their way through the crowd and approached nearer to the pit, Attention WaS riveted on the birds. The three eNpunentS of the law suddenly displayed their badges to the spectators. Two of the detectives huudcUtfcd the two handlers, and Detective Lambert shouted:
 "Gentlemen. consider yourselves all un- der arrest. The door is luch,,l, and you cannot escape.
 There was neither sound nor motion from tine aetonished company for Il minute after the unexpected anlluunrcnrnt, The sur prise Was complete and pHralyIlng W Nith the broken silence. began a W ilt break for liberty. liatle}9 and cuatlt>;>. the terror stricken cock fighters ran about the room to cvade arrest. Then through d window, without raising curtain or pane. plunged one of the number.
 It was the only means of escape, and be fore the officers of the law could grasp a single other man the fugitireS had van ished through the four windows of the room. Three and four deep they piled Il eating themselves dashed off into the woods with bodies cut and bruised.
 Recovering reason and courage at a dis tance from the house. a council of war was held. It had heem discovered that the routing had been caused by only three de- tectivcs when it was supposed in the fright of the moment there were at least q dozen. Then they set about t0reScue the captured.
 Eombar;Ied the House.
 They approached the roadhouse in a body and demanded the release of he cap tives by the detectives. The response was an emphatic refusal.
 "Thpn it will be all the worse for you, ' was shouted back and d rush was made for the door.
 The frail barrier yielded and went down, and the lOU men attempted to forcibly res cue the two men. The detectives drew their heavy clubs, and a fierce fight fol- lowed. It was short and decisive and re- suited in a complete triumph for the de tectives. Whh gashrd and bruised heads the invaders were driven from the room. Then they gat hrrpd on he outside and held another conference. It was unanimously settled that discretion under the existing conditions was the better part of valor. Stones were gat hered and hurled in mum hcrS through the windows at those inside.
 The detectives huddled close to their prisoners in the pit and lodged the mis- silcs as adrOitly as possible They were struck, however, several times.
 The bonn harders remained until dawn, and then when identification became inev- itabc they drove away.
 Justice Smith heard the cases, although there was difficulty in convincing him that penalty was attached to cock fighting. The two prisoners and the birds were then trundled into town.
 A great crowd gathered and filled the courtroom in the justices house. The maximum fine for cock fighting is S1 ,000; the minimum, $50. Justice Smith thought that the latter amount was amply suffi- cient, and the prisoners were dischared on payment of the amounts. Other arrests are expected.
 storekeeper Held Up and Shot.
 SYRACUSE, March 12.-The village of East Syracuse was the scene of an attempted robbery and murder. While Charles F. Monahan was counting up his money pre- paratory to closing his grocery store two men entered. One of them, Ieveling re- volver at his head, demanded the money, about $500. Monahan refused, instnctive- ly lifting his arm, which received the dis charge from the bandits weapon. The two men then escaped