New-York tribune., 1900-03-17
complied with. and Witch was summoned to
court The Magistrate promptly dismissed the
complaint and denounced the police for interfering
HOUSE CHARGES FAIL.
DISORDERLY HOUSE CHARGES FAIL.
TENDERLoIN POLICE CAN'T SWEAR THAT
IMMORAL WOMEN WERE IN MOST
OF THE PLACES

Most of the cases against keepers of disreputa-
bic drinking resorts in the Tenderloin who were
arrested Tuesday night on charges of keeping
dsorderly houses fell to the ground yesterday be-
cause the police said they could not swear that
the women who go there dissolute women
These cases came up I'm jefferson Market Court
and the testimony in nearly every was OF
such Character that Magistrate Cornell remarked:
well ] have never been in any one of these
places but from what has been testified to here
this afternoon, they must be very much like sun
day schools Much quieter" said Assistant Dis
trict Attorney o'Reilly. who conducted the exam
Ination, for there is more noise in the average
Sunday school
The first taken up that of Thomas
Corey. the manager of the Haymarket, at Sixth
ave and Thirtieth-st Captain Thomas testified
that Corey present when he entered the Hay
market Tuesday night. There were only one or
two persons in the place at the time, aside from
the walters, but the bar was open, and there was
orchestra of five pieces playing. He had pre-
viously been in the place when he had seen drinks
sold and music was furnished by the orchestra.
George Leventritt. counsel for Corey. asked that
the complaint be dismissed. but Magistrate Cornell
denied the motion. saying that he thought the
Court of Special Sessions should pass upon the
This case" he said, lis different from that of
the hotel men brought before me yesterday, for
any sane man can draw a distinction between
houses of amusement and houses of entertainment.
In one the music is the object and the meal or
drink the incident while in the other the meal is
the object and the music the incident
Corey then held in $500 bail on this charge.
and his examina ton the charge of maintaining
a house which is the resort OF disorderly persons
was taken up. Detective Barry was the chief wit
ness. On Tuesday. when he went to the Hay
market. there about half dozen women in
the place. He knew one Of these women TO be a
disorderly one He had whom he
knew to be street walkers in the place previous
visits. He had never any of these women act
ing in disorderly manner while in the resort
Counsel for Corey asked that the case be dis
missed but Magistrate Cornell said he thought
the evidence OF Barry that he had seen women of
il fame in the place was sufficient to hold Corey
The charge of having music in the room while
drinks were sold without having a concert license.
on which Charles Z. Ackron. the alleged manager
Of the Tivoi Nos. 539 and 141 West Thirty fifth
St. arrested on Monday night, was then taken
up and Ackron was held in $500 bail for trial The
examination the charge of conducting disor-
ten or fifteen women in the Tfvoi two or three
of whom he knew be disorderly. He never saw
swear that the whom he recognized visit
S c te paf9 10 Rin here said that if the
case was continued he could produce two officers
of the Psrkhurst society who would testify that
they had been solicited by women in the Tivol
Magistrate Cornell continued the case until Tues
The case OF Doben Harley, manager of the Dore
and the Pekin IN Thirty-fifth-st between Seventh
ave. and Broadway. was then taken up. Barry,
who made the arrest, said that there were only
he saw disorderly women there. On the ap-
pcation of William II. Knox counsel for Harley
In the case of George w. Smith manager of the
Arcadia, at No. 46 West Twenty-eightl-st.. Magis-
trate Cornell continued the examination until
Tuesday morning. as Policeman Lockwood testi-
fed that three occasions he had
in the place whom he had previously
in the police court, but had knowledge of his
that they were dsorderly. that he had
them fined.
Iazar Gottlieb manager of the Moorish Palace
Ma. 43 West Twenty-eighth-st.: Edward Butler. of
the Columbian Club No. 5ls SiNth-ave.: John
Oussani Of the Cairo Cafe. No. "a West Thirty
ninth-st: Paul SaIvin, of the Royal Garden. No
40 Sixth-aVe., and Demetrius Rokopoulis, of the
Bohemia. No. 43 West Twenty-ninth-st. were also
all discharged. all the policemen who made the
failed TO testify that recognized dis
orderly women seen by them their visits
10 these resorts.