New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-16
MR.. WOOD RESUMES.
PoOLROOMs WIDE OPEN AND NO TROUBLE
TO GET INTO ANY OF THEM.

Examination Of Mr.. Wood resumed.
Mr.. Moss-What did you find at No New.
OF stairs into a three-cornered room. II is always
Mr. Most eT am an sure don't want to make this
committee room inhospitabe 10 any one. but they
seem 10 misundersiand my intentions ten .,,u, ., Mt,
the fifth Morris Park race. and lost
rs 1s What o. YOU ala? A~Piayed stud faro
a Q;HThyse places you got into all right did you'
q And did yog find other people doing the same
T osAnd your experience in these gamblns houses
and sG YOUR d !d gRy
from those y you visited before? AHarder to get H.
"a 'tIs harder to get e IN A rss a ST. right
0-An right and the same thing as TO the mum.
Der OF people and the method Of doing business?
QI ITS Of May pooroom, No; 50 Park
Placed bet on High links to win. and lost 81 Re
eeived membership card ard called the Franklin
Q@So 81 West Eighty :arst-s,, the alst OF
May. gambling house What ala ala. you 90 ,her ere,
filled ai'' and lost g. -.
Of Nav sa~sipfb a3u's w SG
did do there? AAso pet on h req an1 orh ~
5 and lost S p fSg Il called the a.ar P CUB
Q-Called the stalwart Club and this is one Of
ne ef@snty q May Do9g!I3S% No no. as
on Alex OF IS at the Gravesend races and lost
Q-Twenty- seventh OF May NO go hsHtH-aFe''
o-Teli us about that Al placed "a bet on
Jefferson at 10 to l. in the fourth race az Grayesend
and lost The place WIS well filed with bettors.
Q-The 18th OF May. gambling house Nos IiS-
l@ West Forty-fourth-st? A.-That IL supposed 10
be Emory & Johnson's place ,,.-,..
Q-That is the place where Senator Woicott was
said 10 have lost his money? A-Yes. sir, II Is
very swell place A colored man let's you IN and
passes YOU through a double parlor. covered with
glass; II is a very swell place, and they had very
Swell lunches spread. You go out Into another
house and you go downstairs and upstairs INTO
gambiing apartment there. There are all KINDS OF
eolored servants to wait on YOU. and you cannot
buy less than so worth OF chips l'lost No there
HOUSES TO SUIT ALL PURSES.
O-You have covered IN this city, during the last
few weeks gambling houses Of all kinds and de
scriptioQs from the cheapest and lowest and tough
est TO the highest and best? A.-fes Sir
0~Have You found II any dnfcult 70 get
into the better ones7 "A little more diffcu.t
They have a better class OF people. and they are
more closely guarded by detectives: people who
are on the lookout nm.
Oft would require a little more detective aoHD
to get IN? A.-Yes. sir.
OFF you were in the regular service OF the city.
receiving ample expense money and adequate com
pensation would not you think yourself great
failure, II you were unable TO get evidence against
gambling houses? Al would be ashamed OF my
self l,-,.,.,
COMMITTEES and testify that you could not get II,
would you expect 10 be believed? A-No, sir; |
o~You as a man who has got such evidence IN
all kinds OF places through the city during these
weeks mean us TO understand that you do not be-
lieve II Is impossible 10 get the EVIDENCE A-No
sir; do not believe T. ,-
O-Twenty-nnth OF May, faro bank. No. III West
Thirty fourth-st Let hear about thaty A.
That is very swell place. also You go through