The Washington times., 1895-06-05
|RYD[Rs CASTLE RAIDED SHILOH CHURCH REBUKED
Eleven Notorious Men and Women
Captured by Policemen.
FRANTIC EFFORTS TO ESCAPE
One Female Tried to Slip Down
Water Spout-A Man Sought Refuge
in Chimney but Was Hauled Out.
Pensioners Were Paid Yesterday
anda Royal w elcomeA waited Them.

Police Sergeant Byrnes, with Patrolmen
Pat Creagh, Lynch and others OF the Sixth
precinct, made a sweeping raid about 6
O'Clock last evening on the old rookery OH
New Jersey avenue, a few doors from No. 6
station, known as Ryder's Castle. They
captured eleven men and women, and locked
them up on various charges.
The prisoners were as variegated and un-
| fragrant a looking lot as ever lined up be-
fore veteran Station Keeper John F. Garner
| The raid was made because on every
| pension day a numberof old female FOUNDERS
| congregate in 1.-The Castle to catch pen
| sioners and rob them of their funds, after
! getting them soaked with whisky.
| Yesterday the vet-catching contingent
included such police court female veterans
| as Bette Douglass, Bette King, Mamie
! Harris, Annie Reeves, and Mary Lille all
| of whom were captured in the police drag
net
When the raid was made these females,
! half drunk and noisy, were entertaining
| Frank Mills, an English umbrellamaker,
! Clarence Benson, Willie Jackson, and
| Jacob Haupt, pensioners, who were fur
nishing the money for the wild Baccha-
nalian orgies of the women.
SURROUNDED BY POLICEMEN
The 'gruwler'' a badly battered half
gallon tin bucket, had just been rushed
To nearby saloon for the fiftieth time
when Sergt Byrnes and his blue coats
| surrounded the dingy old three-story
structure with its rum soaked occupants.
With rush the police went up the
crazy and cFeaklnE stairs. The men
] and women heard the steady tramp of the
cups aud made a wild rush TO escape.
| one of the women fell down the back
| stairs in her uncertain efforts To escape,
and several others attempted TO throw
| themselves ont of the third story window.
Old Annie Reeves, clad in a scant and
| tattered summer gown, tried to climb
| the rain spout, but was hauled back into
the room by Policeman Creagh. One of the
men tried 20 creep up through an old
| fashioned open fire place TO the roof.
Pandemouium reigned for while in the
! sinful old house, but the prisoners were
| all landed behind the bars in No. 6.
Watching the raid from their squalid
apartments in 1.-The Castle was old Percy
Brown, long bearded, gray and wrinkled,
and hissister, Maud Brown. the weird-look
| ing fortune teller and second sight artist
KING OF BODYSNATCHERS
! Percy, who is know as the king of body
snatchers," was paraIyzed and barely able
| to leave his bed. His sister Maud is nearly
blind and draws a pension of $25 per
month from the Russian government for
| services rendered the czar as female spy
during one of the wars that country was
| engaged in.
Next month she viii receive 5000 from
| the government OF the car, it beiD money
| due her "fOr valuable political services"
| The Browns are Russians and claim to be
| OF noble birth They came to this country
from Odessa. on the Black Sea, which port
/ is known as the granary of the world
| The police did not arrest Maud and Percy
during their descent ON 1.-THE CASTLE last
night, as they were orderly and inof-
| fensiye.
| Bette Douglass, one OF the women cap
| tured at the storrning OF the bastile by
| Lieut.. Kelley's men. win be charged, in
| the police court to-day with the serious of
fense of larceny from the person. She is
charged with robbing veteran Jacob Haupt
of his pension money, S7.63 OF which was
| found on her person. Mamie Harris and
Bette King were detained as United States
witnesses against her. At an early hour
this morning Ryder's Castle was again in
vaded by the police and several other in
| mates arrested.