The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-10
ROBBERIES IN TENDERL0IN
H1zET COMMITTEE DETECTIIES
TELL THEIR STORIES.
o,o -, Tbcm Produces a Nocturne in
which chief DeNery ippearH ms
Jebu SON of mSbI-NcyidentS ana
Victims COrrObOrntr the stories

went before the Mazet committee yester-
day. some willingly. others unwilingly, and
told Of their experiences.
Mr. Moss opened the session with a state
mcut that chief Dcverys book Of suspi
c,ous resorts contained only eighty-three
suspicious houses forty-four suspected po-
licv shops, TWENTY-FIVE suspect cd pool-rooms
md eleven gambling houses. Mr. Moss stat
cd that he hoped during the next few days
TO show how incomplete the Chiefs infor-
nation on these subjects is. lie then called
as the first witness Of the day Joel Harris,
one of the committees detectives, and ask
ed him to relate what happened to him in
the Tenderloin district on the night OF July
&c
On that night, Harris said, he was pass
ing through Twenty sixth Street. when he
was stopped in front OF lie by four colored
women. one Of whom threw her arms around
him, and while pretending to caress him
stole roll OF counterfeit money covered
TN by a genuine one dollar bill from his
pocket When he passed the door OF lie. he
said he expected that something OF this
kind would happen and he had put the bills
where a pckpocket could easily reach them.
When the woman had taken the money"
said Harris she remarked, There's no.
thing in you, honey; good night then gave
ME a shove and walked back on the stoop.
! went up to the corner Of Sixth Avenue,
where met a policeman He asked me what
was the matter, and | told him that l got
the rinky dink. Where? Down in that
wpneh house, he asked me. told him yes,
nd
woman He declined to do 1t. One OF my as
sociut.s Mr. Wood. came up at that mo-
MN, and blew his whistle Three police.
men responded, and went to the house With
ME. Two of the policemen went UP stairs
with me. although taey said they w:rs
afraid ~ ce,tiuE their brains blown out.
when We &C: to - second floor big no
SO came nut. C2d. Wa'f!nG up to me, said:
Are you the guy tia: lost one dollar and
lot Of stage money? l said that | was. and
he told me that if I would wait a minute
he would get it all back for me- While he
was inside the policemen abused me and
said that II they had known one dollar was
all that had lost. they would not have paid
any attention to my complaint They told
ME | was so light that would float away
II wasn't careful. and made other remarks
OF an insulting nature. When the negro
came out of the room again he handed me
the roll that had been taken away, and said:
You ought to be ashamed OF yourself, a
nice dres 'ed Teller like you, going around
carrying counterfeit money. You really
looked as though you had something l
was ready to make complaint. but the po-
4 a
Q, Were you robbed at 149 West Thirty
third Street on July 8? a. Yes, by some
colored women. A policeman was standing
hundred feet away. One of the women
called me in and threw her arms around me.
at the same time extracting my fake roll
from my pocket. | called the policeman on
the corner and told him had been robbed
He took me all through the place and We
finally wound UP in the kitchen. While we
were sitting there a woman came in with
The counterfeit money that had been stolen
from me in her hand. The policeman and
the woman quarreled for some time about
who should have the money, and the police
man finally took it. l was rank outsider all
the while: they didn't consider me for a mo-
ment Although the return of this money
was positive evidence that had been robbed
the policeman made no arrest.
q. Have you ever heard OF any other rob-
berries at this place? A. Oh. yes, | watched
the place for a long time and saw tho
same sort of thing happen to other people.
one night while was passing there my
self there were fully fifty coIored women
in front of the door. They grabbed me
ana half dozen tried to get their hands
In my pockets. ! finally gave one of them
ten cents and they let me go by.
Mr Hoffman asked the witness II 1t
ROBBERY was all arranged In advance by
himself Harris said that this was not so,
put that knowing the neighborhood he had
relt pretty certain that what did happen
would happen Mr. Hoffman said that II
looked very much as though the offences
testified to by Harris were mock ones, and
said that he didn't propose to have the
money of the people OF the state of New
ork expended in getting up such farces.
MT Moss stated that all Of the robberies
were genuine, and not prearranged, and in
S'ed Mr.. Hoffman to prove his statements.
Mr.. Holman said in milder tone that he
thousht that the people OF the state ought
70 Know to what base uses their money was
being put"
AS TO these crimes being mock ones. Mr..
Hoffman said Mr.. Moss. II will show you
IN very few moments that affairs of the
klnd testified to are not at all unusual in
thls Twenty-sXth Street house. Right
mere | will mention that the felony book
or the Nineteenth Precinct shows Ave
cases OF this kind from this house where
arrests were made in the past few weeks.
TO say nothing OF those in which arrests
were not made"
George P. Hammond. another of the com
m'ttee's detectives, testified that the in
mates OF ZIG and 1873 West Twenty sixth
street worked together. When an inmate
OF ll6 robbed man she Immediately took
refuge in the other house. so that when
the victim returned with an officer he ma
tnrally failed TO find the thief. The women
at 1873 had the same arrangement with
their friends at u.s. he said.
II set out one night" said Hammond,
ito watch these two houses. was In a
room In a nearby house where I could see
both houses clearly. Women sat on the
atoops OF both houses, scantily clad and
smoking cigarettes. The policeman on the
beat never left the block once, but walked
~ and down, first stopping at one stoop
' talk with the women and then at the
her. At l2l5, new policeman came on.
ne first thing he did was to holt into the
elde door of saloon at the corner where
saw the bartender give him a drink. In
the meantime two white men whom | had
seen go In the house at 116 came out and
stood on the sidewalk One OF the men put
MS hand In his vest pocket and apparently
missed something The other man did the