The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-28
CHOPPED into A POOLROOM.
RAID THROUGH CEILING INTO
WELL-GUARDED CELLAR.

| MoCiusky Men Found -Four Iron Doors In
Their way and Gave Up Trylng %
Batter Them Down--Piace Finely Fur.
nished-Dozen Men and o. 400 Taken.
A dozen Of Inspector McClusky's Central
Office men raided a poolroom In . cellar
under q saloon at "a West Third street
yesterday. though they had TO chop through
a floor to do IL. The police say 1t was the
best guarded and most deliberately fitted
poolroom they had ever seen.
l. About a hundred men were inside, but
only a dozen were arrested and taken to
Headquarters. though lot Of telephones.
telegraph Instruments. buzzers. racing
cards and sheets were seized.
McClusky has had men in the place getting
| evidence for several days and at the time
Of the raid two Of his men were in the place
awaiting their companions entrance.
Detectives Fogarty and Kerr, dressed as
longshoremen, had been stationed in the
saloon. Fogarty was at the end of the bar
where a man stood whose duty il was 10
ring an electric bell whenever any one
started downstairs to the poolroom.
Downstairs guard stood at heavy iron
door and If he recognized tho newcomer
* a regular patron he slipped a telephone
plug in at the side Of the door and by means
OF a small telephone sent word TO guards
inside who were stationed at three other
doors.
Valleby and Collins walked into the sa-
loon at O'Clock sharp. Fogarty promptly
grabbed The eectric-Dell man ana by that
time Kerr was downstairs and had seized the
outside guard with his pocket telephone.
When the rear guard Of raiders. armed
with axes and crowbars, came up they
started 10 batter down the door at the foot
OF the stairs. but the best they could do
was to dent IL.
WHAT the matter with chopplng through
the partition at the side of the stairway"
said Valley. That must lead To the
cellar"
The men with the axes soon had hole
In the partition, but all they found inside
was windowless room with another iron
door that was just AZ tough as the first.
Finding there was no chance OF breaking
through this way, they went back 10 the
room must be under the rear room OF the
saloon. used their axes here, chopping
through the flooring.
They worked for fifteen minutes and
made a hole four feet square that opened
directly Oh the poolroorn. Fogsrty and
Kerr dropped down and landed in the
middle OF the crowd below.
The McClusky men who'd been inside
hadn't been idle. They'd sorted out the
employees from the bcttors and were he
was doing when the pounding over their
heads began. They had placed the inside
doorkeepers under arrest and had Just
compelled them to open the door when
Fogsrty and Kerr dropped down. Then
the whole Iaiding party piled in
They found the room deliberately fitted.
The floor was spread with rugs. pictures
hung oil the wall and the furniture was
imposing. The place was lighted by elec-
tricitv.
One section OF the room was partitioped
OF for private Office and behind this par
tition the manager Of the place worked.
The man arrested as the proprietor said
his name was Bill Bailey. Eleven others
were arrested As doorkeepers. sheet writers
and clerks
One Of the prisoners. Patrick J. Carey.
10 said to be the manager. He had 81 400
in his pocket.
Neither Capt. German Of Mercer street
nor Inspector Smith. in whose precinct
and district the raid took place knew of IL
till IL was all over. ..-..A 80