The sun., 1902-04-23
RAID OYER CHURCHILL'S HEAD
SWEEPING IN DISORDERLf WO-
MEN BY THE HINDREDS.
Cross Engineers Record-BreakinE Raid
on ChurchiIi's Nigh, on $50 Prisoners
Taken From Pourtcen Houses Two
EIIundrcd Patroimcn Ia Do the Work.

assembled at the Old slip police station
AT ID o'clock last night for the purpose of
making a wholesale raid on alleged dis
orderly houses in the Plrih street precinct
ON Acting Captain Churchill's nigh, on
At1i;so o'clock they descended on four
teen houses and took $50 prisoners.
Churchill was sent 10 Diamonds old
precinct presumably for the purpose OF
cleaning up the notorious dives which have
existed there for year,.
The raids werc made directly under
the supervision OF Inspector Cross, OF whose
insrect,on district the Fifth street station
is u pan.
The patrolmen began 10 arrive at the
Old Slip station in squads Of fifteen from
the following precincts: Old Slip. Church.
Fifth street. Madison, Leonard Charles
Macdougal, Delaney. Union Market, West
Twentieth, East Twenty-second. Grand
Central. East Sixty-seventh and East
Fighty-eighth street stations.
TIE orders were issued yesterday after
noon by Commissioner Partridge. Fiji
teen sergeants were also at the station.
The patrolmen received their instructions
from Inspector Cross.
They wern divided into squads of fifteen
each with a sergeant in charge They start
ed uut from the gathering point AT intervals
of three minutes and wont direct 10 NE
Fifth street precinct, which includes the
east side of the BOwery from houston street
10 Fourteenth street.
The instruct ions were 10 arrest every one
found i'm the alleged disorderly houses and
bring them to the Union Market station
This was done because the cells Tor the
wcmcn in the Fifth street station are being
repaired. The matron Of the Fifth street
stution was o5dcred to Union Market 10
assist the ma IRON there. Beside the 20
patrolmen, fourteen patrol wagons from
The PRECINCTS al. over tho city were ordered
10 bc Of Union Market station or at desiG-
mated points in tho Fifth street precinct
between 20 and IL o'cloCk.
The fact that wholesale raids were to be
made in Capt. Churchill's precinct was
known al! over town al soclock last night
The patrolmcn on post apparently knew
OF il but no move was made 10 warn the
disorderlv houses. There seemed 10 be
ma doubt in the other precincts of where
the raids would take place, somebody
having carried word 10 the other captains
and wardmcn that their precincts were
not to bc disturbed.
The word was scnt out from the Criminal
Courts Building as early as o CLOCK laSt
night that prepara,iors had been made
not orlv bv MIR jerome hut also by lnspcc
tor Iross 20 descend on the Fifth stree.
precjnc, The District Attorney haG gone
10 the University Club for dinner when
the frat news Of the intended raids leaked
ont, but ~ was S{lO AZ MS bIllCt llld' rev
cntepn warrants had been issued by jus
The raids are being made" said In
sDcCtnr Cross, -on accumulated evidence
AMPLY corroborated. The places have been
known to exist for long time. The evil
dence was obtained by my men at my
direction and with the consent OF District
Attorney Jerome.
-saI the evidence which was obtained
va turned over by Mr.. Jerome To Assistant
District Attorney O'Connor who was as
sig ied o pass ON 1t. In no caS' was war
rat issued unlsss the evcenco was suffi-
J&nt -
s.,thouah everybody in the invaded
urccincte had lots OF warning OF what was
STng1o happen Ihere -ds tfi,'ff.eateet con-
xnsion. When the squads of plain clothes
nFn began TO arrive in the precincts II
seemed that tho whole police force had been
cSelcan,Iuted in Capt. ChurchllIs domain.
f1e patrol wagons, their bells changing,
wbirled through the streets and waited at
the stations for tho signal 10 take the pris-
,,fs,,rs from the various houses.
As the pTi-oners wcrp taken over to the
Union Market station n big crowd followed
wagons Everybody in the distric;
skmed to be IN the street Fully 1900
rrbpla swarmcd into the square In front of
the / J,Uign Market station. Twenty-Five
polirs-fns-n in charge ~ two roundsInen
were sent ont to hold back the crowd and
give room to the patrol wagons that AZ
mi1nlgNt were ullpdlllk lil'A lIl@bntTS
at the station.
.lnsuector Iross said after the raids had
heen completed rhAr go prisoners, men and
women. -,nustly thA kuer. had hcen taken.
tic said 1t was th. binsest raid that had
ever lsaan made iu the CITY. Fourteen places
were Taid.d on twenty-five warrants Three
~ tile houses were m first b rect one ia
Second avenue, two IN second street, one
ia Third streel. four IN Ninth street, two
in Tenth street and one in btuyvesant
street
These raids were made, -aid Inspector
Gross. "Withou, the knowledge Of Capt
Churchill or hi- pla.u-Hpihe, men. HE
detective could not b. trusted | have
no in>iuua'lons 60 mUh" against the patrol
men.
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piuH uas rotten. T. has l-s.u got 'lIg
vorr and Wor-" within the last ouupi"
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