The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-04
TWO OF THE POLICEMEN DEAD
WHOM NEGRO BOUNCER SHOT ~
SIXTH AVENUE DIVE.
sergt. GilhOoiy Died Last Evening-POiice.
men Had No Police Business In the
Piace-Negro Says He Shot Them In
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Survivor.

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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. by Survivor.
Sergt. Thomas Gilhooly OF Inspector
Kane's staff, shot on Saturday night by
Jefferson Sanders the negro bouncer Of
the Hotel Lenox, black-and-tan dive at
Sixth avenue and Third street, died in st.
Vincent's Hospital last evening. He had
| been unable to tell anything about the brawl.
| in which. also, Sanders killed Detective
| Ernest O.. Peters and shot Patroman
Joseph Russo, both likewise OF Kane's
stan. Russo has fighting chance. One
| bullet that struck him wound its way around
the back OF his head without fracturing
| the skull. The other entered his back
and punctured lung.
Coroner Scholer got a statement from
Russo yesterday afternoon. Russo said
that he and Peters and Gilhooly left the
police parade together and went to Russos
| brothers barber shop in Bleecker street,
where Russo left Inspector Kane's uniform.
| They went to Third street and Sixth avenue,
| where, according to Russo, they intended
to take surface car to Thirty-fourth street,
go across town and thence over to Long
Island City.
They went into the saloon, Russo said.
because Peters and Gilhooly wanted to 10
to the toilet room. Russo said he sat at
a table in the saloon proper while Nlhooly
and Peters went into the back room. After
they had been In there a short time 1.-TWO
hours, the cashier of the place says], Russo
said he heard a dispute and recognized
Gilhooly's voice. He went into the back
room and saw scuffle near the Third street
entrance. Then the shots were fired.
One bullet struck Russo in the back and
the other in the back Of the head. Russo
says he ran for drug store and doesn't
know what happened after that.
| Russo's statement does not throw any
light on how the three men spent the time
after they left the police parade about
4 O'Clock in the afternoon. and the time Of
the shooting at 1910 o'clock.
Coroner Sch oler said that he had the
statements Of two witnesses who give q
| good description OF the shooting, but had
been asked by the police not to make them
public. 1t had been established beyond
doubt, the Coroner said, that no one but
Sanders had fired shot.
At Jefferson Market yesterday Sanders
was held until Tuesday. Five witnesses
we're sent to the House OF Detention.
They are Abraham Peters. the cashier of
| the place who Inspector Kane thinks is the
proprietor; Enrich Rose. the clerk Of the
E. Hume, waiter, and Frank D'Andalo,
driver, who saw the shooting and came
to the help of the police.
Sanders told the reporters that he went
to work on Saturday night at Q O'Clock
| and that the three policemen came in at
O'Clock. He did not know them as Of
foers. They went into the back room and
| had several rounds Of beer Peters and
| Russo drank their beer, but Gilhooly emp
tied his glass on the floor each time.
ders's hearing, according to the negro's
story: Well have a muss with these
coons before we 20 out"
Presently man in the place gave Sanders
| a twenty-dollar gold piece to get change.
and Gilhooly remarked to Sanders that
him along. and he would buy wine. San
ders replied that he did not want to, as
he knew the man and that he was me
chanic Of the neighborhood.
Sanders said that he saw from the way
things were running and the remarks of
the three men that trouble was brewing
and he decided to 60 and get the police.
With this intention he started for the Third
street door.
Peters was standing in the passageway
pass him Sanders brushed against him,
whereupon Peters exclaimed: Don't you
bump against me, you black, at the
same time smashing him in the face. San
ders exhibited a cut lip.
As though this were a signal, the three
policemen set after Sanders, he said, and
as he ran out through the Third street door
they chased him down to Sixth avenue
and pushed him into the hotel again through
the Sixth avenue door. There WAS no
policeman in sight in the street at this
time.
Getting him inside once more. they damned
him up against radiator, he said, and all
three Of them began pounding him on the
head with their revolvers. He broke away
from them and dashed out to the street,
where they got hold of him again, or some
Of them did. and Gilhooy and he were
struggling when the uniformed policeman.
Byers, came and separated them.
As soon as he got chance cha Sanders M .ss
policemen and whipped out his revolver
from his front trousers pocket. fearing
that the others with their guns would get
him, and determining that If they did 40
he would certainly -get" az many OF them
az he could hrat. He got them all.
Sanders said that he was so years old
and that all his trouble came from his
reputation. When he was boyle was
born at the corner Of Broome and Marion
he ros ;e TO se4 get WITH S
Mcdonald at Thompson and Spring streets.
From that moment the police had 1t in for
him. he declared, and used to arrest him
often. In 1880 he slashed a crook named
Marshall, who had shot him. and was
sentenced to five years for this offence.
He got out in three years or thereabouts
and in 1888 held up a man named Cannon
in Broome street and for this was sent to
Sing Sing for fifteen years. He was re-
leased in 1890 and then he reformed, he
said and the only difficulty he had had
since that time was small shooting scrape
three years later in Thompson street, for
which he was not punished. He had worked
in the Lenox Hotel for the last five years.
During his time there. he said, there
had never been a robbery in the hotel
although the Mercer street police when he
was being examined on Saturday night
he said charged that the three Queens
policemen had been robbed there, as there
was no money found in their clothing after
the shooting.
Inspector McClusky said yesterday that
Sanders was so old crook that his number
in the old rogues' gallery was o. and that
the policeman with whom he had the trouble
in 1877 was the then Sergt Albertson.
who is now acting inspector OF the Fifth
district. Sanders and his gang in Thomp-
son street did up Albertson. who finally
succeeded in clipping Sanders in the neck
with a revolver bullet. For that row San
ders was sentenced to five years on Oct. II.
On May 81. 1881. he was arrested for rob
bery, and in April 1889. was sent up for that
crime by Recorder Smyth for fifteen years
and ak months The little difficulty which