New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-14
THOMAS MAY BE INDICTED.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY AFTER THE TEN
DERLOIN POLICE CAPTAIN.
WOMEN DRIVEN FROM DIsREPUTABLE
DRINKING RESORTS AND NOT AL
LOWED TO RETURN

The breach which has opened between the
District Attorneys office and the Police Depart
ment was considerably widened yesterday when
Assistant District Attorney Mcintyre declared
most positively that he would do his utmost
to-day to have the Grand Jury indct Police
Captain Thomas of the Tenderloin for wilful
neglect of duty. On Monday night Thomas
told by Mr.. Mcintyre to call on the District
Attorney yesterday and hear what Mr. Gardiner
had to say to him regarding his dilatorness
in closing disorderly resorts in his precinct.
Thomas called on Devery instead, and after a
consultation with his chief told reporters that he
would not call on the District Attorney He also
made other remarks about that official.
Mr.. Mcintyre construed these remarks into
contemptuous defiance of Mr.. Gardeners
thority. and straightway issued subpenas for
several of Thomass precinct detectives to ap-
pear before the Grand Jury to-day. These de-
tectives had testified in Magistrates courts yes
terday that the Haymarket and the Tivoli
habitually frequented by disreputable women
Chief Devery was also subpenaed to bring with
him Captain Thomass last monthly report on
the suspected places in his precinct. 1t is be-
heVed this report contains no mention of the
IlVoh and the Haymarket, and that therefore
the Grand Jury will indict Thomas for wilful
neglect of duty
MINTYRE MAKES A THREAT.
Il will show Thomas" said Mr. Mcintyre
that the District Attorneys office is a power to
be reckoned with, and is not to be contemptu-
ously treated by any one The District Attorney
has ordered the illegal resorts of all kinds to be
closed, and they must be closed or the police
Will suffer The sudden way in which they
closed the resorts of the Tenderloin on Monday
night before / o'clock. when they saw 1 would
stand no nonsense shows that they can keep
them closed theV to nd will la
them want to. Men and women were fairly
nushed out Of those places on Monday night and
II is clear to my mind that if honest effort is
made to prevent them from reopening it can be
done.
We will not rest content with closing the
dives only. The swell places must go, too. We
will close Canfeds. We have ascertained that
the house is owned by Canfeld's mother in law
who lives in Rhode Island We after him,
and we'll get him, too
Il have subpenaed several newspaper men to
go before the Grand Jury, and a priest has
offered to give evidence concerning gambling
places the East Side between Seventy-ninth
and Ninety second SITS. I have heard of one man
who lost $4,000 recently in a gambling resort
in this city, and L trying to get his evidence,
too. No matter now high up this evidence
points, the men will be indicted. and prosecuted
without fear favor
George Haven Putnam foreman of the Grand
Jury, had a talk with Recorder Gof yesterday
and then had circular issued and directed to
the editors of the various newspapers and to a
number of citizens, calling upon them to furnish
to the Grand jury whatever evidence they may
have concerning vice
ALL THE WOMEN DRIVEN OUT
From the second round of his contest with
the police District-Attorney Gardiner came out
with flying colors also. On Monday night he
caused several notorious resorts which sell
drinks to men and women to be shut UP before
l o'clock a. the ground that they were
disorderly houses notwithstanding the liquor Ii
censes. Last night he caused the police TO
drive the women out Of all these resorts which
We're then allowed to continue the sale of drinks
to by virtue of their saloon licenses.
This at wrought a remarkable trans
formation in the Tenderloin and other pre-
cincts where these notorious places cluster and
it was clearly shown by the exceedingly small
number of men who stayed there to drink that
drink is not the attraction which has been fill
ing the cash drawers Of these places to over
flowing for the last few months Assistant
District Attorney Mcintyre and several other
representatives of the Office who went over the
Tenderloin to see that the District Attorneys
orders were being carried out by the police
went home at midnight, professedly satisfied
with the situation. Nine proprietors or man
ayers, of these resorts arrested in the
Tenderloin and there were also raids in other
parts Of the city.