The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-23
GAMBLERS HAVE SHUT UP SHOP
THINK M'CLUSKY'S IN EARNEST
AND CAN DO THE TRICK.

AND CAN DO THE TRICK.
They Look on the New Head sleuth - the
Heir Of Tom Byrnes's Mcthods-said
That One Big Gambler Voluntarily
Told McCiusky That He Had Cioscd.
INSPECTOR McClusky took little Journey
through the Tenderloin on Saturday night
bringing up at Forty-fourth street and
broadway at midnight. The Inspector
looked content with what he had seen. He
looked as il he were saying to himself:
Twelve o'clock and all 10 well!-
A few minutes later three men walked
Nd Broadway and stopped near the corner.
Two Of the men were fairly well-lnovn
gamblers out OF Job. The third man,
noticing the new head Of the Detective
Bureau. said:
Good evening, Inspector. Out seeing
the sghts''
If am replied McCusky. Il don't
zee much worth looking at. There dent
appear to lie much doing"
That's right, said McClusky's acquaint-
ance, the town Ia pretty tight
That's what I'm thinking said the boss
sleuth, 'and that's the way it'll continue
to be while hold down my present job.
The quicker the gamblers understand that
they must get out Of business and keep out
the less trouble they viii make for them
selves and for me-
Az the Inspector made this little speech
lie looked down Broadway. A block south
Of where no was standing and little way
around the corner one Of the biggest gam
blers in the country. according to common
report. did business all unmolested. dur
ing all the months that the crusaders have
been out after the soldiers Of fortune.
This man. also according to common re-
port. is one Of McClusky's oldest friends,
and the story Ii that when Gentleman
George went back to the command Of the
Detective Bureau, this gambler sent word
TO McClusky that the new Inspector needn't
have any concern over the character Of
the business done In his house.
We've been friends for . long time.
ran the message which the gambler IL re-
ported to have sent to McClusky. .and
don't know that can show my friendship
in any better way than to close UP. You
can get me II you want to. but I'll save you
the trouble. There will Be nothing doing
up my way while you are In Mulberry
street.
A man who overheard McClusky's CON-
versation on Saturday night, and who
knows something Of the friendship between
the Inspector and the big gambler, had this
to say TO SUN man yesterday about the
gambling situation In New York:
The police say that the gamblers have
been put out Of business They've said
that before. and yet nobody had any diffi-
Guilty In finding game. So think II may
be rightly concluded that the police are
not always the best-informed persons as to
the existence or non-existence OF gambling
in any community.
i've been In the business nearly forty
years, and for a good part OF that time
I've had q house in New York. I haven't
the slightest objection to falling you just
what the gambling situation Is here to-day.
Up to the present time the gambling houses
were never 70 tightly closed in this town
a. during the time the President OF the
United States was In Mulberry street. And
yet. during the two years. Of Roosevelt.
there were some houses open. for at least
. few nights, every week. To-day, how
ever, there is not gambling house Of any
account, from the Battery north, on Man
haitian Island, which 10 doing business.
New York was never % free from gambling
houses. o. going concerns, as 1t IL now.
a great many OF the better class houses
have been closed since shortly before
Thanksgiving. There were some. how.
ever, which continued to do business after
a fashion. right up to the time when
McClusky went back to the Detective
Bureau. The houses that were then open
would be. and when they learned that he
meant 70 do exactly that which Brooks
had failed to. they concluded they might
as well throw up the sponge and quit v bile
he quitting was good. Moro gamblers
than FOR any other police officer since
And yet they quit not because they had
any greater dread Of McClusky, the man,
han they had for any other police otboer;
mean. but I want TO tell you that II was
really Tom Byrnes WHO closed the few
gambling houses that were open when
McClusky vent back to the Detective
Bureau
Its this way: No other man but byrues
vac ever able 10 closs any Illegal resort
IN New York by his ample say-so. The
general public had . notion that Bynes
nsver blufed and when tbs outlaws got
em .s:y o ma q sy .1s of
hyrnes's pupils and. whether he vili admit
q not, he copies ,byrnes a. carefully
a. he knows how. When the gamblers
Fafte1 That ctlunky meant 10 DO what
gr enc expected him 20 do, Ne all knew
that Byrnss methods you'd 10 employed
a. put us ou, Of business Ihs, meant
,hs' the iva was up. 80. ] ssy that Tom
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