The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-10
Fleeing Gamblers Met by a
PhaIanx Of Boarders.
PILLOWS AND BOOKS FOR ARMS
Woman With Red Psppsr Put Men 10 Flight.
They Had Taken TO Roofs When
Police Make a Raid.

New York. Jan. l0.-Police Inspector
Harley and the men Of his stan raded a
gambling house at 81 West Thirty-third
street last night and everybody on the
block knew II. The police themselves
were not at all ostentatious or noisy
about the raid. but fleeing gamblers
Ioused the boarders In nearby houses by
trying TO escape through the scuttles
The house in which the raid was made
Us three-story brownstone dwelling
Tho building on the other side OF 81 Is a
four-story house. and so are all the other
houses I'm the row But the gamblers
had prepared for an emergency b. hav-
ing ladders on their roof
When the police arrived some OF the
gamblers made for the roof. Some Of
the fugftives tried TO go down through
the boarding house at 81. but were
stopped by the boarders, who got there
Just as the first gambler was coming
down the ladder from the scutte into
the house.
Back! Back / say" yelled half
dressed man. who seemed 60 be the leader
of the boarders. and who was addressed
by the others AZ Count"
The count had an unloaded pistol in
one hand and cane In the other A
young. woman In "A bath robe stood val
iantly at his right hand. armed with
pair OF fve-pound dumb bells. Back OF
him were a dozen startled boarders. with
pillows. books and umbrellas.
At the left. was a girl with a pair of
boxing gloves on She was trying 10
lace them with her teeth and keep an
eve on the gambler on the ladder at the
same time Somehow or other the at
tempt caused her TO assume an appealing
attitude, and the first gambler addressed
himself to her:
Won't you please let US come down
madame said he. I'VE are not burg
lars. This H. but an old-fashioned hid
g-candy frolic that we are having to-
night You know, madame. where the
boys all hide and the girls all try 20
find them, and IL the boys win the girls
H MAKE or caady sha rd the % ~V ave P Ras
on roofs, YOU know. Now, please, let
me down The girls are already i'm this
block somewhere and are right after US.
The spokesman for the gamblers wore
dress suit and an opera hat. Ihe
boarders could see fringe OF hNe more
opera hats around the scuttle.
We'll said elderly woman, armed
with "A pillow, "Ive been I'm good many
frolics in my day. but ] never knew the
boys to put on such clothes as that to
20 scurrying over roofs In.
Just then another woman sputtered:
Don't you dare come down the ladder,
you-you burglar. YOU.
Then she showed red pepper to the
other boarders and explained how IL was
10 be hurled I'm the eyes OF a burglar or
any other evildoer
The spokesman for the gamblers sat on
the top rung OF the scuttle ladder ana
listened 10 the red pepper story.
The woman with the red pepper threw
IL at the man on the ladder. Tie and
his friends si0edaddled The count re-
fastened the skylight door and the board
ers. who had got most of the pepper
went 10 their rooms sneeZlng.
How the men on the roofs escaped Is
mystery. but IL is supposed that q. nearby
house was more hospitable. The raid
yielded six prisoners 70 the police.