New-York tribune., 1897-08-30
TTLLS ROBBED; MEN SHOT.
MURDEROUs ROBBERS OPERATE NEAR
HAVERSTRAW.
THREE SALOONS HELD Up IN WILD WESTERN
sTLYE- WOUNDED NEGROES COME TO HOS
PITALs HERE AND TELL STORIES OF
FIGHT OVER A CRAP GAME.


FIGHT OVER A CRAP GAME.
Haverstraw ~ Y, Aug. 90 (SpecaD.-For the
last five years brckmakers in this section nave
been hiring negroes from Delaware and Virginia
to operate their works. and by so doing have
gradually driven the white labor out until now
the yards from Stony Point 10 the Long cove
are manned almost exclusively by the colored
race Last night three Of the negroes broke
loose in a little hamlet known as Rosaville about
a mile north Of this place. and did 10. stop until
they had robbed three saloons In true western
style and shot two men. one of whom. 1t is SAID
will die The other received a wound In the arm
Patrick Sliney. owner of the principal saloon
I'm the place. and also brick manufacturer en-
ploying fifty or sixty men, whom he trusts from
one pay day to the next for their liquor, went
home about II o'clock leaving his son Thomas
ard bartender in charge ~ the saloon Last
night having been pay night Sliney had iat
money drawer. About fifteen minutes after MS
departure three negroes appeared in the bar
room. each armed with two revolvers Ihey
covered young Sliney and the bartender, ana or
dered them To throw up their hands ana race the
wall Neither Sliney nor the assistant nad time
to get the revOlvcrs which they kept IN drawer
behind the bar. and they quickly compiled WIN
the demand While two Of the negroes kept
their guns leveed the third went behind the par
lplDpd
amount Of their plumber was 800. two revoivers
and Winchester rifle. After satisfying them-
selves that they had everything OF value they
backed into the street, bidding Sliney good his"'
as they went , -. ,o.
Elated over the easy manner in which that Jop
was done they went To the next saloon WhiGh Is
kept by Thomas Maley. and there slartsu ~ ~ .
vifh the same tactics. but Malley, VINO hdu o''e
of his boarders i'm the harrOom with nilll' con-
Guided not to give UP easily. and showed Hgh''
Not 20 be baked in their game. the neg'o w.
oa, usinr their reVolvers. one bullet went
through Mallev's arm striking him in the rlps'
where IT was found by DR.. Lavasseur TINS morn
ing. Another entered the chest or the the poarues es
and it is said will prove fatal. ne nesnovs -, :,
rohhed the place Of all the money there was IN H.
and relieved Malley Of about So. c,.o pou
The negroes started for the west ohs ohore na,. -
road on the way 70 which they were oDlleeu 70
mass another saloon. kept by Patrick brennan.
They dropped in there. and as Brennan u'u nu'
show fight they simply took al! OF ms was,s go,
which only amounted to about SD. NO a'fes''
have been made.
Fairly Yesterday morning laborer ABOUT twenty
voors old walked into the Leonard-st. ponce s'"
,ion and told the sergeant that ne hao peeH '"Os
in fight In Haverstraw. lie gave MS nam 10
Tim" Walters and he either did not kho" OF
t1 ~, ,ou vbo shot him. An ambulance was
s,,,,r,orod from the Hudson Street Hospital ana II
was found that Walters suffering from p's'o'
wound in the lower part Of the chesI Wa'el'
SAID that he lived at No. 81 Jerome fark fiaNe'
ctraU and that after the SnOOtlhE Hf H"' 'Y'''N ~
NeO,-York on the West Shore Railroad. he was
taken 10 the Hudson Street Hospital. "here HIS
wound was. pronounced not dangerous.
When questioned the hospital by De'ec'Ves
Garean and Donohue. Walters said that he ana
lot ~ o,har negroes were playing craps In DOG
gons.s saloon in Haverstraw. Among the players
we're DE yil Jake" and Coffee Cooler soon atter
midnight one OF the losers in the game blew OUT
tho hoht and then the shooting began. DeTi
lake was shot in the left eye ana "CoHee 'oo'ei
TWO negroes and a negress arrived at Bellevle
Uosnital vesta ardly no said that they nah coil'
RON Uavorstraw On, OF the men had a bad plss,-
,ol yoInd over tn; left eye. He described hmseiI
as Iohn Jones twenty-five years oId; Inc o,r,I III,
mn daclarad that he owen Johnson, ne
woman refused to give her name. saving tnat J..
u.s. ..nobody's business what my name Is. jes
came along VIII my frens. ,, .. Wal,
Tho mon told a story somewhat similar To al
/ ,ors' and said that among the crap PLAYERS We're
"DcL" Abrahan and Willis the Coffee Cooler
when Or Butler heard the mems stories ne tele-
,honoJ The police and Detectives Gargan ana lJono-
bno we're instructed to take charge Of them; Jones
dnall,. tol1 the detectives that about o'clock on
s,t,irJay night the keeper of Haverstrdw hotei
h,d bron 'hed up' and robbed Of large sum OF
noouev one Of the robbers Was colored man. ana
The hoto, proprietor shot him IN the 9reast as u.
vas hacking out OF the place. Jones declared ,hdt
he story told by Walters at the Hudson Street tios
nit,I was false The detectives then placeh Jones
urler arrest All tho negroes VIII probaply De de-
,,.orel ovcr 70 the UaVcrSraw authorities.