The sun., 1902-04-22
STRATEGIC RAID BY CHAPMAN
on THE. ALLEN WITH AXES AND
HIS WHIsRERS IN THE VAN.
Seven Prisoners, but The. Not Among Them
Might Have Been More, Bar Accl-
deuts-"But There's Honor for All"
Says Chapman His Not the Only Raids

] -n8nt have been mOTe, DtT Ncc'-
| dents-"But There's Honor for All
Says Chapman His Not the Only Raids
Capt. Chapman resorted to strategy
| yesterday afternoon, and In a raid on The.
| Allen at 80 Sixth avenue got seven prisoners
and some poolroom furnishings. OF course
the axes Of the captain and his men helped
some, but they wouldn't have done much
| good il IL hadn't been for the captains
strategy. The captain admitted that him
self yesterday afternoon while in Turkish
bath recuperating after the raid.
The captain, with L. Wesley Hall, the
detective who never did or said or thought
wrong thing; Detectives j, Schmerhorn.
Mcclure and twenty patrolmen In plain
clothes, left the Mercer street station at
$50 o'clock and marched west TO Sixth
avenue, where they boarded northbound
car. Taking the car was the beginning
Of the strategy II was to avoid being
seen by The. Aliens watchman at the street
door while two blocks OF more away When
the car got in front Of the place all hands
jumped of with fierce yell. That was to
confuse the watchman and was the second
point in the strategy.
The twenty men surrounded the watch
man, who was quickly overcome without
the Use of a single axe. Then Capt. Chap
man, Z. Wesley Hall and the rest rushed
upstairs to the second floor, where they
suspected there was a poolroom.
The door at the top Of the stairs was
covered with sheet iron, but sheet iron
Is nothing more than mosquito netting
to tie axemen Of Mercer street when Capt.
Chapman leads the van. They battered
| that door down inside OF ten minutes,
! l M luna in mt
room and confronted by another IRON
| covered door.
This is exasperating." exclaimed Capt.
| Chapman. There WAS only one door
when we made our last call But make
haste men, make hastel' And down went
the second door. There were no more
, barriers.
The police got into room in which there
were $50 white men. On the floor above
were fifty negroes there Tor the same pur-
pose. The. Allen draws "A strict color line
In his West Side Club None OF the negroes
: | was arrested, however, for they had a
4 | little strategy OF their own. As soon az
\ | the police got up among the whites they
, | heard a series oil remarkable sounds from
| the floor above.
3 sHasten, hasten, Wesley Take five mer
and rush upstairs and get them all They
I are not aware yet Of our presence. ordered
a | Capt Chapman, alert as ever 70 do the
. | right thing at the right instant.
4. Wesley Hall departed, but soon re-
3 turned and reported that there had beer
| some mistake.
i found upstairs, captain" he said
. "a party of young men who tell m,
; | that they are members OF the New iorl
| alumni association OF some institution
Of learning. It was their old college vel
, ! that We heard
Q .Verv well, Wesley" replied Capt Chap
! man. there is work enough and, should
! say, nonor enough. too. for all OF US nigh
:, here" -,
y And Capt. Chapman waved his axe handl,
| at seven prisoners whom he and his mel
9 had captured in f.. Wesley Halls absence.
= They were muckled enough" said Capt
y Chapman later, as he told the story o
u the raid through the grating OF the stean
!, room in the Turkish bath Establishment
. near the Mercer street station. The cap
tain was sitting on the edge OF a couch
:, tanning himself with one end of bati
= towel The other end Of the same towe
\ was. for the time being his only apparel
q | There was so much vapor in the room tina
the captains whiskers had lost all thei
curl and little rivulets Of perspiration RAJ
n down his sturdy form and drained of a
a Il always like to take a Turkish batl
4 after such a hard afternoons work az
have lust had said he. 1T makes IN
: | feel so clean. The air in that gambling
a place was very close and some of thos
A | scoundrels who gamble on the horserace
are not careful about their persons.
|. @But you want 10 know about the raid
d As said before they were reckless enoug
A | when we marched in there and caugh
them redhanded. There was a big ope
=. fire In the room and they tried 20 fool m
Il | with it. One oily-ton gued scoundrel cam
forward and said: Captain, you are mis-
- taken. The character Of this place ha
q been entirely changed since you wer
a here last. This is just an old-home da
celebration In Greenwich village. Not
Ia he old.fashioned open fire. the roarin
:" backlog and the crane
- But the scoundrel couldn't fool me
"A II | bad needed anything TO confirm IN
" suspicious | found u right In that Yer
. fire. They had tried 20 burn up a lot G
AZ their racing sheets and things, but one c
the sheets hadn't burned, and ! saw at
" | glance lust what II was, i told them r,
TOO, and Immediately put the seven me
who had been working behind the scree
| under arrest
E we never would have caught then
though, II we hadn't first seized the watch
~ man on the sidewalk and prevented hi
from giving warning " our approach. Iha
Of by Jimmy Christopher, was the msst'
er | 1T rolss
= william Daley, frank johnson, deerf
n- Johns, Henry Baker, David Pierce AT
10 John Lyons Everybody else was a
~ | lowed to 20
The police also got two blackboard
, a telegraph ticker and d screen Tn
| Allen h. az llH summer nome ON lsfNk Islam
'h Can't Sheehans men did little TaldiU
Se YESTERDAY, too 10 did tie anti policy incl
e | After making several fruitIesH swOop- a.
the Silver club, al alleged poolropm. az u
West Thirty-fouth street hheehan MAJ
~ aged 10 get two Of hiE men into the plat
- Yesterday afternoon This wbH by stfa
n, 1yy. like Chhpmsu Three arrests Wei
Va made, bat very httl- "yidrnoo Il the kir
~ hat cunvicls vas obtained
II D.trcti,ez BLACK and lnd~rhill mac
IL. he arrests They gul into the rupIu.s
ill pnolToom through window from All o.,
20 loltinR hous. They found aEiy men II
l. rds one n the upsu sat At a trl"phou
-. -, ,ti's,. wrro LandIlny ta1ins ra,i
80 U,ass tlIeo we're nrres'sd Tie 0the
a. ~.te TUNED into the street H." pIiBou.
N .a,. tls nAines ~ Harry JuEns Mlha
O'Asln and William Allen Jul.sa ssld
-. a .alnuuirt IiS had tgtl, suptiu-.
g. l.. 40 foum's Lsnhol