New-York tribune., 1901-06-07
POLICE AGAIN "TIP OFF,"
RAID ON A PLACE SAID TO BE FRANK
FARRELLS.
POOLRoOM MEN SLIDE DOWN ROPE BE-
FORE JEROME ARRIVES CAPTAIN DIA-
MOND LAUGHS AT SUGGESTION
THAT GAMBLERS WE'RE
WARNED.

MoND LAUGHS AT SUGGESTION
THAT GAMBLERS WE'RE
WARNED.
Justice Jerome Colonel Robert Grier Monroe
and Superintendent McCullagh led more Us
for the Committee of Fifteen yesterday after
noon- The first raid on the Germania AS
sembly Rooms. at Nos 291 and 293 Bowery.
which Captain Diamond entered two weeks ago.
No prisoner taken there. and 1t is charged
that the place was tipped off,
No. 100 West Thirty-seventh-st. also
tered This place. according to Superintendent
McCulagh. is by Frank Farrell frank Bur-
bridge, a Western man. it is alleged. the
Germania Assembly Rooms poolroom. IIe is
said TO be cousin and partner Of Farrell.
Justice Jerome with six warrants, Colonel
Monroe and William Fuller drove TO the Fifth
st. station at 4:35 O'Clock To Detective Bonnoil
the justice said. ignoring Sergeant Burns. II
! want YOU" Policemen Larkin and McCartey
were standing in the without uniforms.
and Justice Jerome told them 10 come along also
and they obeyed. The party drove to the Ger
mania in as quick time the horses could 90,
little over five minutes. In spite of this. Jus
lice Jerome's party found the place in confusion
and the door at the head of the stairs locked
and barricaded when they arrived. The raiders
kicked the door till it smashed. and they
walked in over the wreckage.
On one side of the entered was a long
wall In this wall six small windows.
Each window covered with black cloth
curtain Beside each window was speaking
tube leading TO the other side of the window.
This arrangement was to enable customers to
communicate with the cashiers behind the WIN
dows- The customer would make known his
wants through the tube and shove his money
under the black curtain. that neither man
could the other.
Justice Jerome had all the doors closed and
guarded. and he walked among the one hundred
men with Colonel Monroe and looked into every
face. Not one of the six men he wanted was
there.
In the room back of the curtains was a big
stove. A lot of papers and cards. saturated with
kerosene. were burning merrily- Those who
had been in the room escaped. They crawIed
through windows and down rope which let
them reach yard of a Second-ave house.
through which they escaped. Justice Jerome
thought hundred had escaped that way.
and he said they had had from five to seven
minutes do it in.
The raiders picked up a soapbox full of ar
ticIes for evidence. They included a tin mega
phone about fifteen feet long. The players
were allowed TO go In speaking of the raid
Justice Jerome said:
We got there late They In ahead OF
we & nave been maSag Faids taoss IN our S own way
back 70 the old way and give the police chance
left We won't try that again way anu SO'
Captain Diamond asked about the insnu-
alton of Justice Jerome that the place had
been tipped off" He laughed.
Robert L. wooley. representing the Commit
tee of Fifteen. called az the West Thirtieth-st
station at 4:30 o'clock and asked Sergeant Todd
10 six warrants. for John. James. Henry.
Horace William and George Smith. at the
Thirty-seventh-st house. Wardman John Dwyer
and Policeman Hutchinson were assigned to
go with Mr. Woolley. Meantime. six of Super
intendent McCuIagh's deputies had arrived at
the house and were breaking their way in- They
had found the front door locked and one of
the men. with a hatchet chopped at the door
and pushed it in A second door. with slides.
was soon smashed in the same way The house
is a two story structure. The upper floor is
occupied by the alleged pOOlrOOm. Thirty-ffve
men were sitting in the place One man had
just jumped TO the ground. a distance of fifteen
feet and sprained his ankle He was arrested
He said he was Horace Kenworthy, tWenty-nine
years old. clerk, of No. 6S West SiXty-hfth-
ST. Another man arrested said he was Henry
316 West Thrty-second-st- Considerable para
phernalia taken for evidence.
Justice Jerome said the arrested were not
the men most wanted He told Sergeant Norton
TO let the men go. and the sergeant released
them
I'VE did not get John Smith, the man we
wanted most and there's no use bounding these
men They sre only people trying to make a
living" said Magistrate Jerome.
Deputies Greenbaum and keene, of Superin-
tendent McCuIlaghs staff. ran through alley
beside No. 1O9 to the rear. while the others
hacking their way into the house with hatchets
Julius Frank. who said to have gathered all
the money in the place, met one of the deputies.
who had climbed by a ladder to the roof He
knocked the deputy down with Low in the
face. and quickly descended the ladder to the
yard and escaped.
A lot of men tried to follow TO the yard. but
several other deputies ran through the alley to
the yard and covered the men. who were on
shed. with their revOlvers.
When the deputies got inside the house they
smashed a lot of wire work, and hacked