New-York tribune., 1901-09-05
GOT POLICE IN RAID.
Continued from first pnge.

nolds was with him. He is said to be Farrells
| confidential man. Farrell sent him across TO
| talk with O'Keefe. Reynolds told O'Keefe that
he would be at the station and that it would be
all right. Farrell then drove away.
The prisoners were locked UP in the West
Thirtieth-st station. and the agents said Jus
tice Jerome would receive $1,000 bail for each of
them. If any one wanted tos see him. at the
Royalton, in -fourth-st.
This place shows what the police are do
ing" said Agent Dillon. I'VE had ii from
Whtney's list and feigned raiding it to- see If
it was really poolroom. When telephoned
from one to another to give the 'tpster
chance TO tip the place off, we watched, ana
in five minutes the poolroom was emptled or
fifty or seventy-five men, and the place was NOT
opened for two days. Then IL opened up again
and Captain Flood knew IL was running, ana
did not raid it. 1t has been running ever since
the second time feigned the raid on IL, anu
Flood has done nothing.
The place is one of the biggest and best
managed poolrooms, and they kept II caretuIiy
covered. They even had men watching our OF
fees in the United Charities Building. at FOURTH
and Twenty -secOnd-st.. to see II they could
catch any party starting out to raid them. The
private telephone directory is a splendid find
with the calls for Police Headquarters. Justice
Jerome's office and the District ATTORNEY Oh, %
flee. I'm positive tipping has been going on
from those places"
Justice Jerome. accompanied by Assistant
District Attorney Garvan, went to the west
Thirtieth-st. police station at $50 p. m; ana
accepted $1,000 bail for the prisoners with the
exception of Samuel Okeefe. VINO was neld III
50 800 They will be arraigned before Justice
Jerome this afternoon in the Court of Special
Sessions.
At the station Justice Jerome said that the
complainant against the prisoners was Thomas
F. Hayman. of No. 601 West Thirtythird-st.
Mr. Hayman had told him that he had been
fleeced out of $500 in the house Wardman
Dwyer, of the West Thirtieth-st. station. said:
Why we know that fellow: he's the who was
in to see Captain Flood Tuesday. When he
came into the station he was ushered into the cap
tains room. and We were called in. He had told
the captain that he had been buncoed out of $l65
in a poolroom No. % West Thirty-fourth-st. 1t
up TO then, and Immediately we brought
him downtown. where we presented him TO Magls
magistrate. and warrants were being drawn up
when he suddenly began 10 tremble, and looked so
frightened that the magistrate got angry. When
told that ne would have appear the
complainant he took water" and was just about
to give up when Magistrate Mayo dismissed him.
not wanting TO have anything 10 do with him.
The wardmen did not say, however why the
place was not raided by them when they got
knowledge that gambling games were in opera
tion. Hayman told them specifically that the
place was a gambling house. but they said that
they wanted evidence such Hayman said he
could produce.
Justice Jerome said in reference 10 his teie-
phone number in the Criminal Courts Building
being found in the book captured by the raid
ing party in the alleged gambling house: Il
consider that fact very significant. have been
satisfied for some time that my telephone in
the Criminal Courts Building has been tampered
with. That is all I will say"