New-York tribune., 1901-11-23
A DOOR SMASHING RAID.
NAME FOUND ON BLOTTER PLEAsEs
CHURCHILL.
POLICE SKATER SIX BARRICADEs BEFORE
CROWD HAD ESCAPED.
,ARR1cAnEs BEFORE

Acting Captain Churchill. of the Fifth-st sta
ton. where he has been only a week. continued
to make the precinct lively yesterday by making
a raid on an alleged poolroom in the Germahia
Assembly Rooms, Nos. POI and 283 Bowery'
hundred men escaped from the place by means
of foot ladder and Second-ave 'ere-
ment house, but he thinks the raid was enor-
mously profitable in many ways.
Captain Churchill visited John Steinmen, the
proprietor of the place Thursday. He sara
to him:
There's gambling going on here and thele
a poolroom, and all I've got to say is 1t must
stop"
There were then two hundred men upstairs
They tried to intimidate by threatening
to go over my head If I interfeTed with tile
place." Churchill said last night. but palo no
attention to them. Harry D. Brubridge runs ti'e
place for Farrell, and he told that. sa"
District Attorney Philbin and told him Ia 90
my best.
Churchill, who says he has been hampereo III
the shifting Of his wardmen. went to the Uei
mania at $50 p. yesterday. hearing lh"'
there was something going despite his warn
ing. To his astonishment. he says. he found III
the big hall which runs through to Second-aVe'
an immense oak door, which investigation
he found to be six ply. 1t not there OH
Thursday Moreover, it had three heavy ooits'
Captain Churchill had provided his eight men
Scott, Carlan, Culhane Kennel. Tersuer. BON
noil, Newman and Hubbard-with axes ana
crowbars
Smash thatr' he ordered. and bang went
the and crowbars The door was heavy
one but it went down. The men rushed on, put
came to d landing with another door, Bang
bang!" and 1t went down, and another rush was
made and still another door met. Down it went
|
top of the second floor landing was reached
But there was another door here. II went down
as the others had. and let the police into what
they thought was the poolroom. But they met
only another door 1t smashed.
They all thought that the last, and hoped
to enter the poolroom then, but bumped into a
huge partition reaching nearly to the ceiling OF
the big ballroom. They smashed the door in,
and finally reached their goal. There was no
one in sight
An electric buzzer was singing away in the
room.
The signal They've gone" said Churchill
He told couple of his men to stay and watch
while he and others rushed back through
the building They found a window a fire
escape and across a shaft to another fire escape
ladder. The opposite building was Second
ave. tenement house and Captain Churchill re-
marked as he looked at the window:
That's the way they got out Those doors
warned them
Then went back. He had lost every man.
Hanging to the wall We're sevsrai -bcakAa -,ee
graph wires showing where telegraph instru-
n1ent had been swiftly torn away. Churchill
and the picked up some betting sheets.
lot OF cards having horses names and a mega
phone.
| Captain Churchill careIessly picked up blot
ter from table. Il new and had only
| been used once.
by jingoi" he cried That's the best yet
Captain Churchill said that the name on the
! blotter backward, OF course, having been
rubbed the signature, out that he could
make It out easily.
| who is TT" he was asked afterward
! The is prominent as Jerome" re-
! sponded the officer.
/ rs IL John Doe?'
We'll now, I'll tell you this much: It's the
/ biggest thing in the raid"
The raid caused a good deal of excitement in
the Bowery, especially in the vicinity Of the
| Assembly rooms. A crowd collected, expecting
! TO see a lot of prisoners and the patrol wagon
| used in taking them away, but they were dis
appointed.
| How about McGurk, near the Germania?'
Churchill was asked.
/ even II have TO use a night stick. am tirec
! Of him. and thereH be something doing in
couple OF days