The sun., 1903-03-20
SAYS CROSS TIPPED RAIDS.
BIsSERT 4 WITNESS AT THE
INSPECTORS TRIAL.
the Ex.wardman Declares That Cross
Told Him TO Find Out what warrants
We're Issued and to warn the "Right"
Piaces-wonan Contradict Miller.

Piaces-Wonian Contradict Miller.
Ex.Wardnlan George Bissert' was the
p+pcipal witness brought forward at the
.nal OF Inspector Adam A. Cross yesterday
at Police Headquarters. He said that the
Inspector had ordered him to give advance
information to poolrooms Of an intended
r.,o and that the inspector had threatened
10 discipline him because OF q confusion In
carving out that order.
Mr.. Elkus. Cross's lawyer. declined to
cross-examine Bissert. This was dis
appointing to the prosecution. because q
crosse xamination would have let in food
Of testimony from Bissert, on redirect ex-
animation. which 1t was believed would
have materially strengthened the case
against Cross.
Bssert appeared uneasy when he took
the stand and didn't spend much time In
the exchange Of affectionate glances with
INSPECTOR Cross. He told Of his record
in the Police Department and OF his dis
missal from the department In 1901.
Asked il he ever visited the Germana
Hall poolroom in the Bowery. he said that.
Is wardman Of the Fifth street station.
be had gone there regularly every Saturday
afternoon. On many Of his visits he had
heard the announcer in the poolroom call
ing OF the names OF the horses as they were
reported from the racetracks.
did you 90 there on police businessf
asked Deputy Assistant District Attorney
Morgan.
NO" said Bissert, with a grin. On
lawyer Elkus's objection he was not al
lowed to tell why he visited the poolroom
every Saturday afternoon.
The witness was then asked a. TO his
conversations with Inspector Cross about
poolrooms. He told OF being summoned
to Cross's ONCE at Police Headquarters one
day In the time Mr.. Jerome's raids were
going on, two years ago.
THE inspector met me in the hall when
came down here said Bissert
what did he say to you''
He said that there were going to be some
warrants issued for raids on poolrooms.
He said: I want you to get onto those
warrants. II the rooms they refer to are
right give them the tip.'
Did you obey those instructionsi' asked
Mr. Morgan.
Il did
There was q confusion Of objections and
arguments between counsel. 1t ended with
Mr.. Morgan's asking Beeert whether he
ever had talk with Inspector Cross about
the matter afterward.
.Yee SIR said the witness. 4 met
him here two days later. He asked mo
why I did not tip that plaoe Oh. l said
Ihad tipped IL of. He said he would trans 4,
Bissert said that the talk referred to tho
poolroom at Clarendon Hall. he had
gone to the Yorkville court with another
plain clothes man. O'Connor. since dead,
and had hung around until he oyerheard
enough to let him know that Clarendon
Hall was menaoed. He sent O'Connor TO
notify the poolroom people.
Bisaert was not permitted to teethy y
how he judged that tho Clarendon Hall
Of court that he had asked a superior officer
Il Clarendon Hall was right, and had
been told that It was. He then sent OCon-
nor with the tip. The poolroom was
No raiders appeared for an hour or more.
and then some one passed the vord that
poolroom resumed business and the patrone
gathered again. just In time to be scooped
UP by the tardy arrival OF the jerome
raiders
explain At ion of these circumstances before
his higher officials. and that they removed
from him the stigma Of having failed "a
give the tip 10 a right place. He VA
neither transferred nor put on the side
Mr.. Elkus sweetly declined to ask Bhser,
any questions.
Another inter- sting witness was Lszie
she " rs year. old, but does not look nearly
40 old. In reply TO Deputy Assistant At
torney Lord's questions she told how che
had been an inmate OF houses In Stanton
street She said that for year and hall
she was In tbs Stanton street house which
Fnd Miller on Wednesday, said he. did
NOT manage She eaid that Miller was
the manager OF the place. She said that
sle was married and that her husband VA
Mr. Elkins brought out on cross exam.
nation that Mr. Bohannon had continued
her mode Of life after she left Stanton street,
She said she had been living ai home Of
M, b@en home sinoe last Friday. when q
county detective met her on the strtet and
took her down TO the District Attorneys
ofio-
81. said that since Friday shs had heen
living in . house In Livingston stree,
Brooklyn. Mr.. Elkis teoame very much
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