New-York tribune., 1902-04-23

With 204 picked men from fourteen police
precincts Inspector Adam A. Cross last night
made of the biggest raids alleged dis
orderly houses that have ever been made, 1t is
said. in the history of the Police Department of
this city. The raids were all made in the FIJI
teentt Precinct, under command of Acting cap
tain Churchill, and over the head of that Of
fetal The acting captain his detectives. his
sergeants and his patrolmen had no inkling of
the raids until the three hundred odd prisoners
were being locked up.
The prisoners. Of whom something over TWO
hundred were women were made in fourteen al
legged dsorderly houses in different parts of the
precinct The raids were made simultaneously,
and Inspector Cross says that so well executed
were his plans that in only two places had there
been any tipping off, done. The places en-
tered were:
Nos II First-st 13 Ffrst-st.. 22 First-st. IL
Second ave. ~ Second-st., 81 Second-st- > East
Third-st.. 21S East Ninth-st-. 226 East Ninth
St. 2:sO East Nnth-st.. 23S East Ninth-st, ~
East Tenth-st. 81 East Tenth-st- AMI 10 stuy-
vesant-st.
The raids were made on warrants issued yes
terday by Justice Mayer, sitting in the Court OF
Special Sessions and We're Inspector Cross said,
instigated by District Attorney Jerome The IN
spector, however declares that all the evidence
which he asserts is corroborative in nature, was
secured by of mis- staff, who have Deen 1or
seven weeks ut work securing 1t. So quietly
have his men worked and we'll guarded have
the plans for the raids been kept that Inspector
Cross declares not police official or patrolman
in the entire precinct had even Suspicion theF
| were coming.
PLANNING THE RAIDS.
Inspector Cross said last night that he had
been planning the raids for weeks. With the
MIA veil guarded
picked men from the First. Second, Fifth Sew
,nth Eighth Ninth, Tenth. Thirteenth. Four
teenth Seventeenth, Twenty-hrst. twenty
fourth, Twenty-ffth and Twenty-eighth pre-
cincts on whom he knew he could rely Tor
faithful and efficient work
These men were ordered to report TO the IN
spector last night about IL o'clock at the Old
Slip police station. There they were taken into
the squad room. where they were told for the
first time what they expected to do Ihen
in SQUADS a ten each under detective ser
gent and roundsman. and at intervals OF three
minutes the men were sent from the station
to do their work, They had previously oeeh 'oIu
where to 60 what to do. and how TO 90 H. III
the mean time orders had been given ior loui
teen patrol wagons to be stationed at cer'd'ii
pIaces with the understanding that Wheh 'he
raids were made it would be done sinultahe
ousIv. and the wagon would at once be IN
formed.
Inspector Cross said the raids had oeeh
MANNED With the hearty cooperation of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome. The men when ordered
out were instructed 10 arrest everybody IN every
house into which they went regardless OF sex
or the nature of the persons business there Tne
INSPECTOR saws the raid is the largest ever
manned and successfully executed in the history
of the department
The squads of ten went from the oiu "ip
station into the Fifteenth Precinct by cireuitous
routes and reached their destinations without
attracting unusual attention and without alarni-
ing any one to such extent that any up
ping off, was done The two places tipped OIL
II is said received their warming when the men
were almost at the doors of the houses. ana 700
late do much damage
The warrants were all Doe" documents ana
the members of that historic family were legion
In the papers carried by the little army of po-
Ii ..men When the men reached the houses
they had been sent raid they made short shilt
of their work. There request for ad-
mittance but doors were slammed off their
locks and rush to the inner rooms was Inade
by the men. AS the raids were all made at al
most the same minute. the news OF the descent
of Cross's men spread like wildfre throughout
the big precinct In less than ten minutes Sl'er
the raiders got to work there could be hearu
all around shouts of The police The ponce
INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSES
In everv bouse there was intense excitement
tho instant the men got inside. Everybody IN
>, q nrec,nct has been on the anxious seat since
District Attorney Jerome recently annouhceu
his pIan of thoroughly cleaning up precinct at
n time and has been wondering when ne wouiu
strike that district There were screaming anu
scranb,ing when the inmates of the various