New-York tribune., 1902-04-23
CROSS MAKES FOURTEEN RAIDS.
THREE HUNDRED PRISONERS MADE WITHOUT ACTING
CAPTAIN CHURCHILLS KNOWLEDGE.
TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR PICKED MEN Do THE WORK.

houses saw the raiders at their work. But IN
every case the house had been we'll sur
rounded that there was absolutely no chance
for escape and none made. Men and
women herded and dumped into patroi
wagon that had backed up to the door, The
ma iortv of the women were clothed in scanty
dresses These were for the most part of bright
color.
No time was given for dressing. and the
women at once hustled into the patrol
wagons and some were taken to the Fifth-st-
police station while the majority of the prison
ers were taken to the Union Market station.
Later all those who had been taken to the
Fifth-st. station were transferred to Union Mar
ket and there locked up for the night This
done because the prison of the Essex Mar
ket police court is adjoining the police station
and more prisoners could be accommodated
The trip to the Union Market station was
procession of bowling mobs- 1t was through the
East Side. in a part in which the Jewish peo-
pie are celebrating Passover. and the streets
we've jammed When the parade of patrol
wagons arrived at the station there was said to
be a crowd of four thousand five thousand
people in the streets
Inspector Cross went into the station and
there confronted Desk Sergeant Morris He ex-
pIained to him what he had TO DO. and made
plans for taking the pedigrees OF the prisoners
To the matron he said she must arrange TO care
for more than one hundred and fifty women
prisoners. Then he ordered out his two hun
dred policemen and threw out police lines about
the station. The crowd overran Hamilton Fish
Park Not a bondsman admitted to the
station AS fast as the and age Of pris
oner were taken he hustled off 70 a cell AT
30 O'Clock this morning hundred and fifty
had been before Sergeant Morris and the in
spector who sat by his side.
Two hundred bondsmen were waiting outside
the police lines cIamoring for admission.
There's nothing doing" said the inspector.
They can't bail the prisoners out now
When Inspector Cross gave out the story OF
the raid last night he seemed jubiant at its
cess.
Was the raid made over the head of Churchill
for n purpose" he was asked.
Why certainly IT was he replied.
Then he went on TO tell how the raid had been
planned; how every precaution had been taken
to keep Churchill from learning of it, and spoke
of the character of the district
THE PRECINCT Is SIMPLY ROTTEN"
The precinct said he. is simply rotten, and
il has been so since the first of the year. 1T is
steadily growing worse and worse Certainly
there was motive for raiding ChurchilIs
head. We did no dare let Churchill know what
was going on If we had there would have been
in the precinct knew anything. 1 don't reflect
ON II policemen for I believe they are for the
most part square. but am afraid of ChurchllIs
men-not policemen. We did not dare notl1y
Churchill: so we didn't. He had no mixing;
didn't know it was going 10 De dohe' anu
doesn't know that it has been done
Asked where Churchill was, the inspector re
piled tartIy: Il don't know, nor don't care
l.: ter the inspector said he had positive knoWl-
edge that three places had been tipped on
These places he said. were at NO ID hdsl
uhA
80 East Ninth-st. where two arrests were
made and No. 2;sS East Nfnth-st-. where only
one prisoner was secured .
off after all We tried the best we could to
avoid it, but up against some pretty IoAy
people. Now here is an instance: Al THESE
nIaces I've named we got but five prisoners;
at No 10 Stuyvesant-st. we got but two, While
at No. - SecOnd-st. We landed tWenty-hVe.
Doesn't that look a Bit suspicious. l don't say
Churchill or any of his men did this tipping
but it was DONE and 1 rather think I've an IDEA
how and by whom
o'clock this morning one of the greatest
confusion. The crowd, instead of abatlng, had
increased. Thousands Jammed against the po-
lice lines and clamOred for admission In the
front rooms of the station were the prisoners.
huddled together. going one Dy one peIore tne
Sergeant and Inspector Cross; while from the
cells downstairs where the women were confined
came sounds OF the greatest hilarity. The girls
sang topical songs. fitting many of them TO SUIT
the occasion. and made bits of tmpromptu song
concerning the Inspector and his army Oh
raiders. .
five of the prisoners had been arraigned.
The inspector asked If he thouShI any
hodv had been levying tribute on the keepers
- auagad disorderIy houses in ChurchiIrs pre-
cinct He said he did not know that they nad
but that the condition of the precinct looked
suspicious. 3. lost
night brought no trace of Acting captain
churchill AT the station il was said he had not
been there all night