New-York tribune., 1900-08-02

conduct There great joy among the men
when Captain Thomas informed them that they
of the station laughing and joking and saying
they were glad TO get off so easily.
Captain Thomas, however. held O'Connors
walters. Ten of them gave descriptions as fol-
lows:
John McAvoy. Of No. 432 Eighth-ave.: Henry
J. Howard. of No. 195 East One-hundredth-st:
Charles Brober. Of No. 1871 West Eightieth-st;
James Kane. of No. ia West One-hundred-and
thirty-second-st.; AL Clark of No. III West
One -hundredth-st: Frank Stimson of No. 800
East Forty-frst-st; William Wilson, of No.
152 West Twenty ffth-st.: Thomas Wilcox of
No. 1.2S7 Eighth-ave.: Louis C. Shaw, of No,
14S Eighth-ave, and William Foster, of No. 1O4
West Sixteenth-st. They were held in $1,000
bail.
The excitement about the station did not cease
for several hours. The detectives and police per
In patrol wagon from which several of the
men tried to jump. He warned them that if
they made the attempt again he would shoot,
and no one tried it a second time.
THOMAS TAKES THE RESPONSIBILITY
Captain Thomas seemingly took the full re-
sponsbility for the raid on himself He said he
had talked with the Police Commissioners and
Chief Devery about the advisability of raiding
the Tivoli end he said they told him If he could
get the evidence against the resort to warrant
making arrests to so ahead He said he talked
with Commissioner Hess yesterday and with
Chief Devery. Thomas has felt bitter against
Ackron account OF the notoriety Of the
Tlvoli. and says he has wanted to get evidence
against the pace He feels sure of a conviction,
Captain Thomas said he got from other
precincts to help him in getting evidence against
the 1ivOli, and last night he sent Detectives
Waters, Snort and Ball to the place. They were
there about 1880 o'clock. and they took Ellen
Brown, Ellen Graves and Alexandria Adrien to
the station under arrest, charging that the
women had solicited them in the Tivoli.
Ii was said by one of the Central Office de-
tectves that men from headquarters were
quietly making arrests in the Tivoli last night
and that Captain Thomas, upon learning OF the
fact became frightened and ordered a raid.
lice Commissioner Hess made visit to Captain
Thomas yesterday afternoon and the two had
a long talk together. The Commissioner said
that raid on the TivOu must be made that
night. It is TO be inferred that this conversation
had something to do with the Captains actions
later.
He said he would have these men in court this
morning, and that he is sure the evidence he
has is sufficient. The Captain was sorry not to
have arrested Manager Lawson. He said he
thought he was out of town visiting AckrOn at
Captain Thomas received an offer Of money
from excited Philadelphia during the night
who mad been in the Tivoli with another man
and two women. He said one OF the women was
Miss King Of Philadelphia and that the party
was here sightseeing and happened to go into
parents in Philadelphia, and that he wanted
Captain Thomas to let them go. Captain
Thomas was indignant at being offered a bribe.
He said that the women were in cells, and that
he would under no circumstances allow them
out unless they gave bail. The man left and
brought around a bondsman in little while,
and the women were released. They were young
and good looking.
DETECTIVES FROM HEADQUARTERS
1t learned late last night that the raid
had been precipitated by three arrests which
had been made in the Tivolt by Central Office
detectives over the head of Captain Thomas
1t appears that Detectives Short, Ball and
Waters, from the Central Bureau entered the
Tivoli at 1870 o'clock, and solicited by
women, whom they escorted to the street. The
then informed that they were
under arrest and were marched to the station
in West Thirtieth-st. They gave their names
as Helen Graves, Eva Brown and Alexandria
Adrian.
A representative Of Robert Nelson, a we'll
known Tenderion saloonkeeper, appeared at the
station at 1:30 o'clock to-day and gave cash
bail for O'Connor and the walters, all OF whom
were released.
man entered the station little later and
wanted to bail out all the women When told
there were eighty-four women in the cells he
said he could not take them all out, but would
go the bonds of twenty of them. Captain
Thomas let them go on bail.
Captain Thomas said no Central Office
helped him in the raid, but that it was made
by himself and his own men. He determined
he said, to make the raid after he had got what
he considered good evidence through the three
detectives last night.