New-York tribune., 1901-04-18
PANIC AMONG THE GAMBLERS
MANY LEAP THROUGH WINDOWS AND
FLEE To ROOFS-WOMEN DISTURBED
WHILE DRESSING.

WHILE DRESSING.
The raids were accompanied by great excitement
in cases. the gamblers surprised their
betting endeavored to escape by dashing through
windows and roofs. The smashing of doors
by the raiders added to the confusion. and some Of
the incidents Were amusing. Captain Flood. Of the
West Thirtieth-st. station. taken Ill last Sun
day. In his absence Sergeant Carson is acting
captain. Carson was at the desk when $40 p. m.
two representatives Of the Committee of Fifteen
appeared. They asked him to put man at the
station door prevent anybody leaving it 10 warn
a place on which they wanted a raid made The
acting captain at once ordered a man TO guard
the door. Then they handed five warrants to Car
They for the arrest of John. Peter.
Jacob. George and Frank Smith. who. it was al
legged. were conducting poolroom at No III West
Twenty-third-st.. under the name of the Bon Ton
Club. They said they would like TO have six or
eight men the warrants The acting captain
called that many and had them
change their uniforms 10 plain clothes Then the
party started, Carson leading.
The alleged poolroom was flight up. Carson
led the way. He found two back of little
slide in the door and ordered them open the
1scr. They declined. The acting captain then
Kicked the bottom panels out and crawled through
He smashed the lock and let IN the other police
men.
Ia the raidng force Detective Abraham
Weinberg. employed by Superintendent McCullagh.
and he undertook show that the place
poolroom
Il saw no evidence whatever of anything wrong"
said the acting captain when he returned to the
station There thirty forty in the
place. all peaceful like. reading papers. but no
evidence whatever of a pooroom."
Upon Weinberg's Identification, however. he ar
rested the called in the warrants John and
Frank Smith. the men who had refused to open
the doors. TWO others said by Weinberg TO be
Peter and Jacob Smith, were also arrested
In one corner of The room Were five blackboards
which had just been sponged off. They were still
vet These were seized Weinberg's direction.
The latter then lee the way to small rocm The
door broken down. In ii were found several
things which were seized. These included mega
phone. complete telegraph outfit of the quadru-
pick pattern. several racing sheets for the Aque-
duct, Memphis and Lakeside tracks telegraph
sheet slips etc. 1t in this room that the man
known Peter Smith was found
STARTLED SOME WOMEN.
Weinberg led the way to another closed door and
ordered il smashed down. Several policemen hurled
themselves against it one after the other. and 1t
gave way. AS it down with crash there
chorus of feminine shreks. and a dozen
more half clothed women Were seen making desper-
ate efforts to find clothes.
My Lord! Lizzie. the cops raidins u.s.
shrieked one.
Weinberg had made a miscalculation. and had
broken into the dressing Of the en-
ployed by the Bon Ton Music Hall in the same
building. The gallant policemen made apologies,
and withdrew in haste
At the police station the men described themselves
George l.. Williams, fifty years old, in the candy
business in Broadway, living No AZ West Forti-
eth-st: John H. Clark thirty-one years old OF No.
1l2 East One-hundred- and -siXteenth-st dealer in
printers and staticners' supplies; Thomas Ludwig.
thrfy-h years old, plasterer, Of No 7s6 Eighth
ave. and James Barry forty years old, tailor. OF
No 81 Wythe-ave., Williamsburg. One OF the men
wanted found.
In the raid the Everett Club, which occupied
the main floor in the high stoop four story dwelling
house at No. 2l6 East Fourteenth-st.. there
more or less friction betweeen the agents of the
Committee of Fifteen and Captain Diamond. Albert
Conklin. of One-hundred- nd-seventieth-s and
Carnlel-ave., and Charles Frey lawyer, of No. l2o
Broadway, acting for the Committee of Fifteen.
walked into the Fifth-st. station about o'clock
and asked for Captain Diamond. When the CAPTAIN
appeared they handed him four warrants. The
rants called for the immediate of John.
Henry, George and Samuel Cox. alleged to be at
that moment conducting poolroom No. ZIG East
Fourteenth-st. Captain Diamond took three men in
plain clothes and went with Conkn and Frey.
Frey says he a lookout stationed in Four
teenth-st.. but the fellow must have been looking
the other way. for they got by him. The stories
told by Captain Diamond and Mr.. Frey about what
found differ widely.
CAPTAIN DIAMONDS VERSION.
Captain Diamond says he found fifteen men IN
the place sitting quietly around reading. There
absolutely evidence of poolroom there
he said. Acting Mr.. Conklins Instructions he
arrested two men those named in the warrants.
They described themselves Frank Flanagan of
No. I'll East Eleventh-st-, and Frank Thomas of
NO. I'll East Fourteenth-st. The others named in
the warrants were not found. A third prisoner was
found hiding in coalbin in the cellar. Captain
Diamond did not him. saying he
was not named in the warrants. Mr. Conkln in
sisted that the man he arrested and identified him
as a man TO whom he had given 50 / bet
few days before. The captain then placed the
third man under arrest. He described himself as
Harry Johnson, a cigar salesman, twenty-seven
years old, OF Ne $50 East Twenty -fourth-st.
Mr.. Frey said they found less than forty
men in the place. He said the fed in a panic,
carrying away the windows, sash and ell, and
Frightening a woman living near by into Mysteries.
he said plenty Of evidence found to show tha,
inere was pooroom in the place. He said racing
cards on the Aqueduct, Memphis and Lakeside
tracks Were found, and littering the floor be-
sides a telephone and other things Mr.. Frey said
the Moor was held on years lease. which expires
or May l. by Otto Altenberg piano dealer No.
2l2 West Fourteenth-st
MI Altenberg said he had lived place until
last January, and had then moved TO his present
pace AT NO ~ His landlord. however. had held
MN to his verbal lease for a year He glad
~hen a wen dressed man 10 him in February
ana SAID he would like to sublet the rooms. He
said be represented the Everett Club a chartered
be torn down, he said and the club had asked him
10 JOCK FOR a place where IL could
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