New-York tribune., 1901-09-05
STILL TO JOHN DOE
sr7oNEST JOHN KELLYS ASSIGNEE
RTNs A PLACE WHICH, RAIDERS
SAY. WAS On WHITNEY'S
POoLROOM LIST.
POOLROOM LIST.

The Society for the Prevention OF Crime made
what 1t considers one of the most important of
its many raids yesterday, when IL descended on
the Amsterdam Club, at No. % West Thirty
fourth-st. The place, whether poolroom not
was run by Thomas r. Reynolds, assignee for
Honest John Kelly, and the society agents say
that Kelly is the man who maintains the estab-
lishment. In a telephone book containing the
call numbers of Police Headquarters. Justice
Jerome's Office the District Attorneys Office and
the Court Of Special Sessions the officers of the
society think they found evidence that tips Of
raids were sent 10 poolrooIns from those places.
The club. chartered organization. is nearly
opposite the Waldorf-Astoria, and is in a four
story and basement brownstone dwelling house
It was one of the alleged poolrooms on the list
Edgar Whitney gave 10 Agent Dillon
Justice Jerome issued four warrants for the
arrest OF Cashier" O'Keefe. "Cardwriter''
o'Keefe ard "sheetwriter' OKeefe and another
man. yesterday, and Agents Dillon, Mcclellan
and Lichtenburg and Assistant Superintendent
Hammond went up to the house. They say the
place was tipped" of about five minutes before
they arrived, as the door was locked and there
seemed to be preparations for departure when
they got upstairs.
The door was smashed in a few seconds and
Mcclellan, seizing the picket by the collar.
rushed him ahead Of the others up the stairway
10 the second floor. and into the room in front.
1t filled with men who looked as If they
might belong to the Stock Exchange or some
business corporation. There were about seventy
five men in ALL in this and the next room.
DETECTIVES PICKED OUT
We want four men. and no more. Well let
all the rest co. explained Hammond. and there
were sghs OF relief. Hammond then picked out
Samuel ]. O'Keefe. who is said to live in White
Plains Ernest Morgan. who refused his ad-
dress and Thomas Walsh. who had address.
o'Keefe and Walsh said they were spectators
and Morgan that he was a commissioner.
oKeefe was arrested as a cashier Morgan as
card writer and Walsh as a sheet writer Ham
mond also decided to arrest Michael Fox, an in
surance agent, Of No "A State-st.. Brooklyn. for
whom there was no warrant. a card writer.
These and the picket, James Smith. a real estate
dealer, of Kngsbridge Road, Fordham were
taken 10 the station. Hammond and Dillon
noted three men in particular. and Hammond,
looking one of them in the face, said:
L know you. You're a Police Headquarters
detective"
The man became nervous. mo, I'm not" he
declared
Dillon then told him he knew him. and the
man said he was only special officer. Dillon
said there were two other Central Office detec-
uves in the room He said he would give this
Information to Justice Jerome
In the hall of the second floor they knocked
door apart with their hammers. and discovered
shaft about five feet long by four feet wide.
p with ladder, new and not painted, hanging
irom the third 10 the first floor. Clinging to
Inc ladder in all sorts Of attitudes and choking
he ~
nFe men. who had hastily hidden themselves
uhere. They had tried to escape TO the hall by a
blind door the first floor. but the detectives
haa arrived too quickly. They were all glad
10 get out Of the shaft. which once had been
used for a dumbwaiter
EVIDENCE OF MORE TIP" SOURCES.
The agents found the second floor fitted up
WIN oak chairs with leather bottoms and backs.
oaK roll top desks and a handsome oak table.
"A an anteroom in the back was bar. On the
lhlro floor were faro and roulette tables and
OAK httings. and on the fourth floor stored
furniture Everything was costly and new. on
lue third floor was a safe locked, with the name
d r. Robinson" on il. In the anteroom on the
seooho hoor was the sign Thomas L. Reynolds,
assignee for John Kelly & Co" Five telephones
were taken out Of the place. all with different
numbers. and a private telephone book was
ouha with many calls written in, among them
the following:
Fohce Headquarters. 3100 Spring; Special
SESSIONS Justice Jerome. 2092 Franklin; District
A.lorhey's Office, 2304 Franklin"
mere was also call for Peter De Lacey and
S ior number of places which Dillon said
We're poolrooms.
satshes me-" he said. that tipping is
"s On from Police Headquarters the Dis
NtDt Attorneys of7ca and craofo1
~, 'e are their numbers on this private book.
srs se places have been tipped again and again,
49, We have plenty Of other evidence that tip
ping goes on"
u,hesNA farreI' the well known sporting man,
vy'ss 90 name has been connected I'm various ways
,.n alleged poolrooms. drove up to the house
crn,o +oA'e the pooiroom just as the raiders were
OUT with their prisoners. Thomas Rey-