The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-04
COOPER UNION HOTEL RAID
n TRENTON MAN AND MS 10 H.
TER AMONG THE PRISONERS.
He Says TINT Somebody Will Have to Pay
Damages for Locking the Girl Up ms IA
Prostitute Magistrate Cornell Declares
The XholeaaIe Arreat nm OntrnCe,

He Says thnt Somebody VIII Have to Pay
Damages for Locking the Girl Up ms IA
Prostitute Mnglstrat. Cornell Declares
the Wholesale Arrest IN Outrage.
Night Clerk William c. Baker OF the Cooper
Union Hotel at st. Marks place and Third
avenuewas start led at IL o'clock on Thursday
night by an Invasion of policemen headed by
Acting Capt. Mckinney of the Fifth street
station. Most of the COPS were in uniform.
Some who were in plain clothes carried bulls
eye lanterns. The policemen sSarmed through
the st. Marks place entrance to the hotel and
through the side door adjoining the saloon uu-
der the hotel, which fronts on Third avenue.
Clerk Baker is a gray-moustached American,
who fought all through the civil war, and he is
equipped with nerve. He says he was crowded
from his desk by four or five policemen, but
managed to get back and close the safe.
Capt. Mckinney noticed the clerks action too
late to prevent 1t. lie ordered Baker to unlock
| the safe. Baker refused to do so. and Mckinney
declared that lie would break it open. Baker
said:
You may do it il you like, but / don't think
you have any authority for such an act. I'm
sure Commissioner Roosevelt wouldn't sane
ton it."
One of the uniformed policemen wanted to
know what the clerk knew about Roosevelt,
and Baker said that the Commissioner had once
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family. INSTRUMENTATION had a soothing effect
on the policemen Baker says.
Capt. Mckinney persisted that he had a right
to the contents of the safe, and Baker called
one of the proprietors OF the hotel, Chas. Horth,
who said he would not open the safe until he
had consulted his law yer, Emmanuel Friend.
The Acting Captain again declared that he
would break open the safe II Horth wouldn't
opon it for him.
In that case" said Hortb, 81 refuse. point
blank, to do so"
Then McKirvey thought better Of It, and con-
tented himself with stationing u policeman in
Meanwhile the policemen were hammerinG
on the doors on every landing, and flashing
dark hooks and corners from first hoor to attic.
There, were altogether 90 dodgers in the
hotel. WHICH has - rooms; as well furnished
seven of the dodgers were men, and twenty-three
One woman. named Mary o'Brien. was alone
in room Al. She refused to let the police in,
and. Landlord Horth says. they put their shout
ders to the door and broke II in.
The police say it is true that the woman oc-
cupied the room alone, but that they arrested
roof. There were several men among the lodG-
ers who were ny women. They
were ordered out, and. with the rest. hailed to
the Fifth street station.
Horth and his partner, Frank Duse. say that
every man and woman who had a room to-
Eether were registered hs man and wife. Horth
and DuSe were also arrested. They were re-
leased on bail, AS were nearly all the dodgers
{ the hotel.
All hands were arraigned in the Essex Mar
ket Police Court Yesterday morning. Magis-
trate Cornell read the afhdavits in the case, lis
tened to the evidence of the police. and dis
charged every body except Horth and Buse, who
were held in $500 bail for exaIpinatiOn.
Lawyer Friend showed that the hotel had a
proper license. lie said that many OF the pris-
oners were respectable persons. An elderly man
and u girl OF eighteen. who gave their names to
the police as Johu smith and Annie Smith. said,
after they had been discharged, that they were
William and Amelia Rodgers. father and daugh-
ter. OF Trenton, " j. Magistrate Cornell de-
clarcd that the wholesale arrest was nm outrage.
Rodgers said that he and his daughter came
to New York on Thursday, and, being com
PEELED to stop over night, WEI to tho
hotel, supposing that IL was II respect
able place. lie and his daughter oc-
cupied separate rooms. She was locked IN