The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09
MONK EASTMAN GANG LET GO.
ARREST on NO EVIDENCE NON
SENSIrAL, SAYS JUDGE.
Prisoners Made Might Hideous Around
Police Headquarters by singing and
shouting I'm Their Cells-Mcd'lu
SAWS lie tends 10 keep After Them"

Police Headquarters ny ssnKhnB ahu
shouting in Their Cells-McG'lusky
saws lie Intends 10 keep After Them."
There was no sleep for Mulberry Street
nv the tenement jewellers In the neighbor-
bood from the time twenty-five members OF
Monk Eastman's gang were picked up on
Friday night, until they we're taken to the
Centre street police court yesterday morn
inc and discharged because they had been
arrested without evidence.
INSPECTOR McClusky's plan in rounding
nm the gang was principally to begin the
process of breaking II up and also. as he
saws, to block any scheme to rescue Monk
and his pal, Joe Brown, from the Freehold
;al The toughs decided, as soon as they
were locked up, to make the night I'M
comfortable for everybody in and around
Police Headquarters, and they succeeded.
COMPLAINTS we're made from the st.
Barnabas Home, next 10 Police Headquart-
ers. that the inmates couldn't sleep. and the
neople living in the tenements nearby
begged the police to stop the noise. The
twenty-five toughs, with eight other pris-
ouers arrested the same night, were thrown
quarters and from the time they began to
come in, in twos, until the last man was
locked up. they made the night hideous.
singing songs and yelling rihald jokes
In the Good Old Summer Time" they
shouted in chorus and pretty soon the de-
tectives who were on reserve came tum-
bling downstairs, having found it impossible
to sleep.
"Oh. for the days OF Byrnes," drawled
one sle,ith who has had many bosses.
Wouldn't We have used the rubber hose
on these fresh chaps? Instead of singing
The Good Old Summer Time they would
be crying Oh, How My Back Aches"
A callow youth with an opium wrirkled
face sang will Ee Ever Come Back?"
pitched in tenor voice toward the Freehold
Jail where Monk Eastman and Brown are
awaiting trial on the charge of having
assaulted David Lamar's coachman at
the request" of Lamar. When they got
tired of singing the gang shouted and joshed
thu detectives.
For me, the Magistrate in the morning"
said one tough. 4and in the afternoon the
Magistrate for me at Saratoga" August
BeImont's Magistrate ran in the Saratoga
Special but didn't win.
All the toughs were lined up before the
entire detective force yesterday morning
before being taken to court, They guyed
the detectives. Say said one, pointing
to detective. That fat mug over there
couldn't catch a cold. He must be one OF
'Greenes Own"
Magistrate logan refused to hold any of
the prisoners In discharging them he said:
These men should never have been
arrested There is no charge against them
and it is all nonsense to lock them up"
Inspector McClusky said. however, that
he intended to keep after the gang and send
as many as possible to Jail.
With Eastman out OF the way, said the
Inspector, they are not 80 dangerous.
But he is a tough man. He carries three
bullets in his body and he has dozen knife
cuts on him. That shows how close he is
when there ia any trouble around. I'm
not going to let up on this gang until they
are scattered and most of them in Jail"
Inspector Schnlittberger. who has charge
Of most of the district where Eastman and
his gang are best known, was called to
Police Headquarters yesterday afternoon
and had talk with Deputy Commissioner
Davis Mr. Davis said he just wanted to
ask Inspector Schmirtberger about the
stabbing OF Matthew Dobbins by gang
" Italians at Catherine and Madison streets
on Friday night.
II didn't ask Inspector Schmittberger
specifically about the Monk Eastman gang ,
said Mr. Davis. "but have no doubt that il
any organized gang existed in his district
he would soon jump on It. The inspect or
is keeping his district in good order, and if
he wasn't he would soon be called TO ac-
count don't think that there is any
gang organized over in that district for the
purpose OF committing violence. They
may fight among themselves, but that is
about all il amounts to-
Deputy Commissioner Piper was asked
II the police were thinking Of making cam
paign against the Monk Eastman gang.
Officially, don't know that there is a
such gang" said Capt. Piper. "The
police will break up all gangs. You know
that II is an easy matter for me TO send
out all the detectives and have them round
ups lot Of men standing on street corners,
hnt what would II amount tor Probably
they would all he discharged. like the ones
who were taken to court this morning. 1t
Is hard matter to get specific charges
against these men,
The inspector expressed the opinion that
the East man crowd was not as black as
Il had been painted recently. As for the
attack on Dobbins he said the man who
stabbed Dobbins was a peaceable enough
citizen who would have continued minding
his own h,isinesa had he been let alone