The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-29
PRISONER NEX.COP'S
YOUNG WIFE HAS ANNIE GRAY
AND HER POLICEMAN ARRESTED



Clothes and Made Her Receive Men
Annie Gray and her ex-policeman. Robert
| Z. ullner who turned In his shield In
September, were arrested last night ir
the woman's disorderly house In West
Forty-sixth street, on complaint Of seven
teen-year-old wife, who says she was de-
tanned by force in the house, deprived oil
street clothes. and compelled to submit
herself to customers. She went there
she says, because q cabman told her the
place was a boarding house. Ullner and
Annie Gray, who Ia said to have married
him, were supposed to be In Paris.
The compliments husband is Thomas
Avante, formerly Lieutenant OF Volun-
teers in the Philippines and subsequently a
sergeant CT police In Cuba under John
McCullagh. He is now living at $50 West
l35th street. The arrests were made with
out warrant-being for felony-after the
young woman told her story TO Capt,
Handy of the West Forty-seventh street
station and to Assistant District Attorney
Lord.
Mrs. Avante is about feet inches tall
slender, with hair the color Of FURNISHED
copper, brown eyes and a pretty face
She and her husband called at the station
at II o'clock yesterday morning.
MY wife had been imprisoned in a dis
orderly house in West Forty-sixth street
since Saturday night until last night.
said Avante, "and compelled to consoft
with men II the police will not do some.
thing about it shall 60 to District Attor-
ney Jerome"
Capt Handy says that the fact that Annie
Gray's P ace, which Is just west Of Broad
way, had reopened was a surprise to him
Tell me your story said Handy, and
III send you to Assistant District Attor-
ney Lord
my husband and came here from Phila-
delphia about ten days ago." said Mrs.
Avante. .and were with friends at $50 West
l35th street On Friday night last we had
a quarrel, and on Saturday 1 started out
to find another boarding place. l came
downtown and looked around until got
tired, but had not found place to suit me.
Then / asked a cabman on Broadway II he
could take me to nice boarding place. be
said he knew just the house. l got In his
cab, and he drove me to the house on West
Forty-sixth street. heard him talking
that this ought to be worth at least SO TO
him.
He went away and / was taken to a
room by the landlady, who appeared to
be extremely friendly. She said that she
would furnish me with change OF clothes
as it was a stylish lot Of boarders she had
and all dressed we'll She took away my
street clothes and furnished me with gar
ments intended strictly for house wear.
Then was invited to the parlor, and when
/ got there found three other girls there
besides a man. | soon. discovered from
their talk and actions what sort OF place
l had got into.
ton fitted Ullner. She was notified, she
said, that she was considered one Of the
inmates Of the place. She was kept i'm
prisoned In room, and on Saturday night
and on Sunday night received two men.
Mrs. Avante said that on Saturday she
sent for her trunk, but it did not arrive.
Although in sending for it she had also
sent the address where it was to 60, bar
husband did not come to look for her or
get her back. When the trunk had not
arrived on Tuesday night, Mrs. Avante
said, she got permission to 60 out to tho
express Office and look for it, She went
to her husband instead, she said, and told
him what had occurred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Avante went to the Gray
house yesterday morning. The wife re-
NAMED on the corner while the husband
went in. UlIner met him and said;
Get out OF here you -, or III knock
your block Off"
Avante and his wife then went to Capt.
Handy, and he sent them with Plain Clothes
Man Delaney, to Mr.. Lord AZ O'clock
last night Delaney met other plain clothes
men in front of the New York Theatre.
The squad was in charge Of Lieut. Wilson.
They went to the Gray house and Delaney
You ca come in" said the woman
who answered the bell The door was
secured by a short chain.
Il must get in and get In In hurry,
said Delaney, 4or the cop outside here will
make me go away"
He was admitted and behind him trooped
in the others. Annie Gray and ullner
we're in the parlor. The woman sat still,
but Ullner made for back window and
was climbing out when Detective Tunney
nabbed him.
"You have no right to arrest me-" said
Ullner. Il used TO be POLICEMAN
Il don't care who you are" said Tunney.
'We want you
But / have a right here,- said Ullner
81 am here as this woman's attorney to
advise her when she gets in trouble with
the law"
well. she's In trouble with II now
said Tunney, and you seem to be in hurry
TO get away just when she needs you most"
The rest Of tho police looked through
the house without finding the other girls
mentioned by Mrs Avante Finally. In a
dark corner behind q dumb waiter, Detec-
tive Dukeshire discovered a narrow, winding
staircase leading from the cellar to the
roof Up it went Dukeshire. When he
reached the roof he was just in time to
gee the head Of woman disappearing
over the edge OF a roof to the west. He