Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-26
WOMEN
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In a Cheap Pool
Room.
Detectives Made an
Interesting Raid.
Husbands Letter Resulted In the
Capture.

lon, Of the Tenderloin station. received
the following letter by mail early
Tuesday:
Capt. Dillon-Ths is to notify you
that there Is a woman's poolroom at
516 Sixth avenue, one fight up. My
wife spends most of her time there,
losing the money ! give her. Won't
you please close the place, for it is
running my wife and my home.
A Victim.
Capt. Dillon turned the letter over to
Detectives Black, Underhill, Buckridge
and Courtney with instructions to get
sufficient evidence to raid the place.
When the races started yesterday the
detectives went to- work.
They found that the first floor of the
address was supposed to be the Herald
Square Employment agency. Detect
i've Underhill went to the alleged
agency. presumably to hire cook, but
in reality to look the place over. He
saw only one woman, put .eard the
voices of many in rear office.
The woman he saw promised to send
him cook to the address he gave, and
Underhill left. He picked up Detective
Black on the street and they went to
the adjoining house, which has a one
story rear extension. From the roof
Of this extension the sleuths were
able to look into the rear room of the
supposed employment agency.
There were about % women in the
room, all of whom seemed to be anx-
iously scanning cards. At desk on a
raised platform sat woman who
seemed to be running the place Every
few minutes one of the women in the
room would approach her and give her
money. Near the woman at the desk
sat another woman at telephone. The
latter soon began to describe the third
race at Sheepshead Bay.
The peering sleuths We're satisfied
that they had seen and heard enough
to make raid, and they got Detectives
Buckridge and Courtney. All four men
went up the stairs and Buckridge put
his shoulder to the door and forced it.
The inmates of the room began to
scream and two women became hyster.
ical.
One stout woman made for window
and got partly out when she stuck fast.
Before an attempt was made to release
her one of the detectives took S24
away from the supposed proprietor as
she was trying to stuff it in her stock.
ing.
Another woman darted from the
place and tried to leap over the bil,N-
trade, but before she could do so she
was dragged back into the room. Many
Of the inmates pleaded with the detec-
tives to allow them to go, and to quiet
the uproar they were told that only
a few would be arrested.
The woman at the desk and the tele-
phone operator were picked out and
four others who We're seen to pass
money We're taken. The rest were al
lowed to 20, and they lost no time in
going.
The six prisoners were taken to the
police station and locked up. They
said they were Lizzie Gurst, the al
legged proprietor. 46 years old; Lottie
ellison, the telephone operator, "a;
Catherine Kane. 4S; Mary Murphy,
Ga; Mary Smith, A; Minnie Smith, 26
Not one OF the six prisoners was we'll
dressed and all looked the ages they
gave. The S24 the Gurst woman was
trying to put in her stocking was held
as evidence, along with many racing
cards, the telephone and two "dope"
books.
The police found a license for the
supposed employment agency made out
to Mrs. Annie Pause. The license num-
ber was 494.
The place is within block of the
Tenderloin station and has been run
ming for 10 days Many women living
in the neighborhood were trequenters
of it, the police say, and six of them
in the room yesterday were without
hats.
One woman looked as If she left her
kitchen in hurry to take flyer on
the races. She wore an apron and had
her sleeves rolled up.
A man should not allow himself IN