The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
GOATS CAPTURED IN RAID,
AFTER 4 LONG RATTLE ~ PRISON
Frs ARE TAKEN. '.' "0e
Patrol Wagon TIPS Up and Ten Of the Ami.
mails Escapr-WOunds Received By the
Policemen Goats Are TO he Sent
~ 10 the Public Pound IN The Bronx.


Police Captain Nally. who is In command
! of tho Staten Island police. went To the old
headquarters building at Staple,un Al mid.
night Friday nigh, and ordered the door
man To get the reserves out Of bed. Their,
h" sent for the patrol wagon and the cops
knew there was to bc a raid
"Th"r"'a great ganboling going OF, VIZ,
at RoS,bank.' he said. land IL must w.
stopped this very night. / shall send you
up there in command OF Roundsman
Thomas Shea To make as many arrests
a. you possibly can. ~
The cops put their heads together and
whispered None of them had ever heard
OF gambling at Rosebank. They recalled
| the fact that many of Staten Islands most
distinguished citizens resided at Rosebanis
but where were the gambling houses. That
was the question Koundsman shea wanted
to know. 80 he asked he captain:
Where is all this gambling?'
Up there near the golf links on Fox
His. answered the captain. Its all due 10
them Italians living there or we wouldn't
have any complaints. You'll find an sorts
OF b.llygoats. nannygoats, and kids up
there gamboling."
He must mean crap shooters when he
says the kids gamble" whispered one Of
the cops. When he was a sergeant on
duty along Park row he was always chasing
crap shooters" 10.
is 1t the gamblers goats he wants TO
get'' inquired Policeman Murphy.
NO. answered Branigan. hes after
them goats that have 50 many charges
pending against them
There's sort Of Masonry among 'em.'
added Policeman Bob Ross. aThsy know
all the lodge meeting nights and Law for
the lodge members returning home In the
early hours of the morning. One man whr,
fell over big billy on his front porch IN
there on Virginia avenue was scared al
most 10 death. He il M at his home now ..
And there's poor Callahan; he says them
goats ate his Thanksgiving turkey last
year"
Yes said Policeman Owens, -them
goats are different IN many respects from
the old-tiine Harlem goats No one ever.
heard OF Harlem goat eating the iron
bolts from tho elevated railroad pillars
but these staten Island goats love copper
wire ana iron trolley poles" -
The COPS piied nLo the patrol wagon
ard rode over the hills toward HE'D hai.k,
II was after l O'Clock yesterday morning
Which, the Fox Hills were reached The
gaml oilers were there. Hundreds OF them
There we're old-fashioie ed fellows with
gray boards. big fat oi.as that had learned
to eat circus posters twenty years ago,
and tall. thin ol.es who seemed To lie acting
As lookouts and who well knew the clang OF
the patrol wagon bell.
"Ma-a-a-a-a-al" blaated one of the look.
outs as the patrol wagon came 10 full
stop al the foot of the hill. What followed
after that would be hard TO tell in detail,
but it is safe To say that Chapman raid OH
The Allen poolroom Lever caused NOR,
excitement. The cops were out OF the
wagon at the time IL stopped. They charged
on tho retreatii.g army. The officer in
command had planned a haIk movement
al the crest of the hill but the goats turned
suddenly ard returned down the hill, com
ing directly az the invading army. TfnS
was unexpected. A paIic ensued. As
cop after cop fell wounded on the sod others
lodged and waved their clubs frantically
through the air. Some fed down the hill.
Il cannot he said that the commander OF
the cops turned back down the hill. Alb
domiral wounds prove that he was fach z
the enemy when wounded. But there was
one cop who must have been wounded
while on retreat.
All night long the battle waged. Or
and down Pennsylvania avenue and
through Virginia avenue the cops chased
the goats ard the goats chased the cops.
There was never a battle like it on Staten
Island before. BY daylight nineteen pris-
oners had been captured by the army OF
cops who tied the goats in the patrol Wagon
AID started back for Stapleton. Nea-
Pfsters hotel the wagon was almost upset
by big stone in the roadway. When the
wagon wheel collided with the stone some
Of the ropes holding the goats snapped. o.
Cops. goats, dust and ropes, were all mixed
up in the road way. Then followed another
battle to prevent general jail delivery.
but ten goats managed to escape and scam
pered into the woods. The remaining nine
were chained and tied in the wagon and
were safely landed in prison at Stapleton.
On Monday they are to be removed to tho
public pound up in the Borough OF Tho