New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-12
CAUGHT IN A POOLROOM.
rwENTY-EIGHT WOMEN AND FIVE MEN
ARRESTED.

An alleged pooroom for women at Nos 2i5 ana
245 West Seventeenth-st. was entered yesterday by
Inspector Thompson and Captain Moynihan, or the
West Twentieth-st. station, and their respective
detective STATS. Five men and twenty-eight women
we're placed under arrest. Several trips by the
patrol wagons necessary TO transport the pris-
oners and paraphernalia seized to the police sta
ton.
The men arrested John Martin. thirty five
years old. OF No East Northumberland eighth
ST. employed a clerk in the alleged poolroom;
Robert Smith, seventy years old. door tender. OF
No. as East Eighteenth-st. Daniel Mullens, TWEEN
ty-two years old, of No 4s6 Eighth-ave. assistant
door tender; Antonio Lampel, proprietor of the
saloon on the ground floor Of the buildings known
the Colonial Hotel. and Joseph Meyers, the al
legged proprietor OF the place.
The women gave fictitious names. After being
registered at the West Twentieth-st. station they
taken to the Mercer-st. station and turned
TO the matron there.
The alleged poolroom on the second floor
When the police seized the door tender and forced
their way by him he tried 10 shout an alarm put
was choked off. The clerks were just receiving re-
turns from the fourth at Latona when the
police shouted that all were under arrest. Meyers
s1ved from the window TO the roof Of an extension
and was escaping through No. PAS West Seven
-eenth-st. when he seized.
The women made an hystericaI scramble for
1iaces Of refuge Some crowded into closets, others
hid their heads under some hanging wraps, ostrich
like imag ginning they were concealed. Twelve Of
them fell 70 the floor apparently IN a falnt. Inc
police say this doubtless dodge Oh the part
of some. When poolroom was entered a few days
ago and many arrested three that
tainted we're allowed TO escape. Il is believed some
OF the twelve had not forgotten this.
Not a woman in the crowd could be called young.
The majority Of them had gray hair. Not one had
anything that looked like a recently purchased
gown. bonnet wrap. They were decidedly rusty.
Hard lines most Of the faces bore testimony 70
many attempts TO wrest fortune from the gods OF
chance, and their obvious penury told OF repeated
failure.
Inspector Thompson said be had moved on the
place armed with evidence to convict This was
the result Of i've days OF work by Miss Lynch, re-
gently West IniTtN-seV eDth-St- station matron,
but detective. The police found cards on the
Brooklyn. 81. Louis ana Latonia races, number
in cash besides a s. check. All seized.
The police found that the house at No. 2i5 West
SeVenteenth-st was so connected with No. 255 that
81 could he occupied instantly in of raid. In 1t
alton OF the game. The raid was made so quickly,
however. that the old door tender had no time to
press the concealed electric calls TO warn the
people above.
Inspector Thompson much gratifed at VIVA t
he termed the success of the raid, and said: We
have evidence convict in these cases. The
were all discharged the following day in court. In
spect0r Thompson asked why he had arrested
The women in view of the Courts decision.
fHTheSe will be discharged" he said.
I'm the other case the women were not seen to
play. In this case our evidence is conclusive"
When the police got TO the house some of Cap
tain Moynihanss policemen not known by
the members of Inspector Thompson's staff. and
Detective Calvin. of the Inspectors Office, caught
Policeman Krowe. Of the West Twentieth-st. sta
ton. and placed him under arrest. Krowe resisted
uniformed patroTnan made Krowes Identity
known.