New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-06
RAID ON WOMEN'S POOLROOM
HUSBANDS CALL AT THE MERCER-ST
STATION TO FIND THEIR WIVES
MANY PRISONERS RESPECTABLE.

Sergeant Dennis Grady. of Chief Devery's
staff and five men late yesterday afternoon
forced an entrance TO the second floor of No.
264 Eighth-ave. where they found a pooroom
for women in operation. They arrested the
alleged proprietress. Grace r. Ryan, twenty-four
years old. married. who gave No. 264 Eighth
ave as her address. and also took into custody
thirty-two women whom they found in the rooms
on the second floor. All of the prisoners were
arraigned in the West Twentieth-st station and
were afterward transferred to the Mercer-st
station, where there a matron to attend to
their needs.
The other prisoners Mary Green. of No. II
SeVenth-ave.; Mrs. Ella Shaw, of No. 1.234
Third-ave. Mrs Catherine Brown. of No. 326
West Nineteenth-st.; Sarah Burns. of No. III
East Seventy-third-st.; Annie Davis, Of Hobo
'-an: Mary Green. of No. 10 East Nineteenth
L.: Mary Johnson. of No. 112 East hundred
aild-twelfth-st.; Gertrude Conrad of No los
East Fifty fourth-st.: Mrs. Ellen Lees. Of No
41G West Thirty -fifth-st.; Mary Morris. of No
24 Garden-st, Brooklyn; Annie Norman, Of No
205 Hoyt-st. Brooklyn; Mary Burke of Staten
Island; Kate Clyde of No. II Broadway: Anna
Bell, of No 202 West One-hundred- and twenty
ffth-st.; Nellie Higbee. of No. % Harrison-st.
Brooklyn; Mary Thompson. OF No. 10 West
One-hundred-and-twenty- first-st.; Mary Brown
of Jersey City; Eloise Hasbrouck. of No. 265
Bergen-st-, Long Island City; Mary Cavanagh.
of No. 81 Grove-st. Jersey City: Lillian Sulli-
van. of No. 135 West Fifty hrd-st.; Annie
Smith. OF No. 425 West Eighty -fourth-st.: Mile
Train, of No. 10 West Ninetieth-st.: Mary Hall.
OF No 600 Third-aye.; Mary Sullivan OF No. rs
Eagle-aVe-, Brooklyn; Mrs. Ida Brown. of No.
500 West F1ftieth-st.; Mary Jones' of No. 40
East Thirty-fourth-st; Lena Jones, of No. 202
West One-hundred- and-fifth-st.: Jennie Jones. of
the same address; Kate Debivivo, a lawyer. of
No. 215 Columbus-ave.; Kate Cowan. specu-
lator. of No. 215 Columbus-ave; Lizzie Dean of
No. 30 East Fourteenth-st. and Betty Green
address unknown. who was taken i'll in the West
Twentieth-st station and was removed to the
New-YOrk Hospital.
Sergeant Grady led the march I'D the stairs
to the second floor. With the appearance of the
police several of the women darted up to the
third story, where they tried make their
escape by means Of the roof, while others were
caught trying to escape by way of the fire
escapes. Three patrol wagons removed the pris-
oners.
Mr.. Friend appeared at the Mercer-st. police
station shortly after the prisoners were locked
up there. and said he represented Mrs Ryan and
all the other prisoners. He immediately began
TO institute proceedings for the release of the
prisoners on bail. Mrs. Ryan charged with
keeping a poolroom. The other women were
charged with being disorderly persons.
Mrs Ryan was bailed out at 10 o'clock. Mrs.
Fannie Bresant, Of No. A West 10th-st, pro-
Vlded the real estate bond of 81 900 which was
required. Magistrate Meade, Mr.. Friends re-
quest, appeared at the police station and ac-
cepted the bond. Six OF the other women were
bailed in the sum Of $500 each The woman
who gave her name Miss Betty Green was
able 10 be taken back to the Mercer-st. police
O'Clock.
Several men Of respectable appearance called
TO see If their wives in the lot of pris-
oners. a few found they We're. and FASTENED
forth for bondsmen Sergeant Walling said
many Of the women were undoubtedly respecta-
BILE and had not been in prison before.