The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-08
GAMBLERS FLED TO
ROOF FOR SAFETY
Sought in Vain to Escape
Pursuing Police.
RAIDED THE CHIMNEY CORNER
Captain Sheehan and HIS Men Found the
Rooms Vacant, But Kept Going Up.
Man at an Organ Plyaiing Nearer, My
God, to Thee"

] NEW YORK, April S.-Some forty men
tried very hard yesterday. afternoon to
! force an entrance into the home OF the
Rev DR.. Morgan Dix. at No. p West
I Twenty fifth Street, by way Of the roof
The men were not burglars. but they
were fleeing from the police, neverthe-
less.
Captain Sheehan. OF the TenderIoin pre-
cinct, declared that the men we're gam
bIers.
Several Of Sheehans plain clothes men
made three unsuccessful poolroom raids
on Saturday. and yesterday the captain
decided that he would personally com
mand his sleuths in a poolroom chas e.
Sheehan, with his detectives. Maher.
Black. Underhin, McAvoy, and Buckridge
left the police station in West Thirtieth
Street just about the time the pooIrooms
begin to do business. They went direct
10 the Chimney Corner saloon at Sixth
Avenue and TUenty@ffth Street. This was
one Of the places where the raiders failed
on Saturday.
Much TO the surprise Of Sheehan and
his men they found the side door wide
open a number OF men stood about the
doorway. to whom Sheehan read a lecture
on the evils Of gambling. Then he started
up the stairs, followed by his men.
Found the Room Empty.
When they got to the second story.
where. - they were informed. a pool
room had been running on Saturday they
found the big room open and the place
vacant
Guess those fellows have cleared out
at last said sheehan TO his men.
Better search the whole building.
Cap" said one OF the plain clothes men.
They started upstairs. Their way wasn't
blocked until they got to the top floor.
Then they ran against an iron-barred
door. Sheehan knocked at the door and
demanded admittance- There was consid-
cradle hustling inside but no one made
answer The policemen tried 10 break
the door In. but il was made 10 Withstand
Just such an attack Shechan sent for
an ak
Behind the barred door there was con-
siderable confusion. Forty men left The
room by way OF the roof The adjoining
house on Twenty-ffth Street Is ten feet
higher than the Chimney Corner. but the
forty men got up there by a ladder.
They tried every scuttie along the block
until they reached the home OF DR.. Dix
the last in the row, next TO Trinity Chapel
churchyard They begged the occupants
Of the house 70 open the scuttles and al
low them to get to the street. They
pleaded in vain. for the householders " re
scared by the men on their roofs
Said Il Was Lodge Meeting.
While the gamblers were trying 10 es-
some other means than jumping into the
churchyard Sheehan was ehopping down
the door they had LEFT behind them When
the door gave in a man al an organ began
to play Nearer. Ny God. 20 Thee" Thirty
men were sitting about the room with
their hats on Each man who was ques-
toned said a lodge meeting was in ses-
sion.
The police searched the place for evil
dence Of a poolroom but found none.
Then the thirty men and the organ player
were turned into the street
b. this time the hOuseh lders on the
block had become so alarmed by the men
on the roofs that complaint was made to
the policeman on post who passed the
word 10 the raiders
Detectives McAvoy and Buckridge went
90 Or. Dix's house, and after showing
their shields. induced a servant 70 let
them get 10 the roof When they poked
their heads through the scuttle OF the
house the forty men on the roof started on
a run beck to the pOOlroOm- When they
got back 10 the Chimney Corner they ran
into Captain Sheehan. He lectured them,
but couldn't hold them on any charge that
he could think Of
From this fruitIess raid Sheehan and
his aides went over TO 1850 Broadway.
They found hfty men ia a room on the
second floor, but no evidence OF pool
room. The telephone in the place was
confscated This room is run by Frank
Farrell.
The Chimney Corner room is reported
10 be Joe Vendig's.