The sun., 1901-08-03
SLUGCERS IN this POOLROON.
ONE Or FRANK FARRELES
CHOICEST. 72l BROADWAY,

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Rescue warrant Police wouItin't I
Break In-Moss Did-Ihree Arrests
Cars Biocked --ctvercs Papers Found.
At one OF Frank Farrell's principal pool
rooms. $50 the Parkhurst men say) back
OF the Waverley cafe at IA Broadway oppo-
site waverley place. there was q great row
yesterday afternoon. Detective McClel-
land was badly beaten. not for the first time;
Frank Moss and the police got into wrangle
not for the first time either; Moss broke
In the doors without a warrant when the
police refused; a mob blocked the Broad
way cars; patrol wagon load Of poolroom
furnishings was carried Of; three men
were arrested for the assault on McClel-
land; and the papers In q divorce case,
with lawyers cArd, were picked up on the
floor. The Parkhurst men say that law
yers and merchants were the principal
patrons OF the poolroom.
McClelland and Dillon Of the same So
ciety went TO the poolroom to get evidence
against the place. They passed the look
out and found about 400 men in long room
making bets. Dillon separated from
MoClelland and In a few minutes one Of
the attendants came up to Dillon and said
.There's friend Of yours outside who
wants to see you"
Dillon suspected that he had been recog-
nized and he started for the door without
speaking to McClelland. When he got
to the door four men grabbed him. gave
him push and showed him into the hall
way. Then Dillon heard scuffle In the
poolroom and McClelland's cries for help.
That satisfied him that McCelland had
been spotted by the poolroom people and
was being roughly handled. He ran to
telephone and called up Supt. Hammond
at the society's rooms in East Twenty
second street and told him that McClelland
was being killed. Hammond notified Frank
Moss at his Office In Nassau street, and
they both started for 724 Broadway.
McClelland says that six men went at
him in the poolroom and that one Of them
struck him on the head with a blackjack
several times. The six kicked him and
punched him and rushed him toward the
door. lie fired his revolver once-in the
air he says. Mr.. Moss thought that was
no way to shoot.
Finally the six men threw Mc(lelland
into the street, his face covered with blood.
Dillon had got back from telephoning
and policeman came along and insisted
upon arresting McClelland He and Dillon
were arguing when Supt. Hammond and
Frank Moss arrived By this time crowd
had collected that blocked Broadway and
stalled the cars Word had beon sent to
the Mercer street station, where Capt.
Thomas OF 1enderlon fame now reigns,
that a riot was on.
Capt. Thomas sent three detectives.
Binnings, Shechan and Wrenn. to see
what was up and they got into wrangle
with Moss and Hammond. All went to the
door Of the poolroom and Moss insisted
that 1t should be broken in. He said that
there was felonious poolroom inside and
he wanted IL raided. The detectives said
they had no warrant TO break in on felony
unlimited. Moss had none either, but
he and his man broke the door down, just
the same. There were still about one
hundred men in the room. The rest had
escaped, mostly by the windows. McClel-
land went through the crowd and picked
out three men who he said were his assail
ants. Two. who said they were William
Murray and William Smith, were locked
up; Tho third. a, prosperous looking
tested but was taken to the station.
McCleand could not identify him positively
and he was let Co. "Mr. Levien' said
that he had gone into the room after the
door had been broken In and that he would
seek redress through the courts He was
not Ridge Levien, whose place in Barclay
street was raided by the lamented Tam
many Committee Of Five.
Up to this time McClelland and his bloody
head had been forgotten An ambulance
was now called from st. Nincent's Hospital
DR.. Kelly swathed McClellands head in
bandages. Then Moss and his men took
a survey Of the poolroom.
There were two entrances, one from
the cafe and another from a hallway lead
ing to the street. The room had been
used as a restaurant and the walls were
nicely decorated. A large placard said
Please don't deface the walls" Another
sign read: Cafe and bar in front" In
the rear was a partition with six semi
circular windows through which bets were
received and at the top Of the partition
was a megaphone twelve feet long The
a telegraph instrument and
eight small blackbOards were conhscated |
by Mr. Moss. A patrol wagon was called |
and Moss made Capt. Thomass detec- |
tives load it with the stuff much against |
their will. When the states were put on
Capt Thomas's desk Capt. Thomas picked |
why, what is this used for?" he asked.
Mr.. Moss said:
Captain. want you to make an entry |
on the blotter OF what I'm going to say. |
/ want to state to you Tor police purposes |
that at 72A Broadway we found poolroom |
and In IL persons playing the races. There
were blackboards and telegraph instrI- |
ments, such as are used in poolrooms | !
told your detective, | think his name IL
Sheehan, that we wanted no misunder-
about the matter and we wanted |
to work In harmony. All this stuff you
see hero was taken from that poolroom."
Capt. Thomas nodded and told the ser
geant to put IL down on the blotter.
Mr.. Moss said TO the reporters: "Of course,
"a there was no warrant the policemen |
didn't want TO be any harder on their friends
than they had to be- They would not force
in the door and were relieved when we took
the responsibility from their shoulders
One Of the detectives said TO me: If your
men go to Heaven don't want to go there
I'd sooner go to hell than be in the same
place with them When I remarked that
II was singular that the poolroom had es-
capped their notice, he said. with q sneer
What you want is few opticians on the
force
1T was outrageous the way the men in |
that poolroom set upon McClelland When
asked why he didn't shoot one Of them
he said he didn't think he would no justified
In sending man to Greenwood Cemetery.
I'm sorry he didn't shoot one Of them"
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