The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15

Five Pointers had made common cem.o
with the murdered mans friends. Tho
man was murdered, by the way. for having
turned States evidence In pocket pickihe
case in which he had been arrested with .
member Of the Monk Eastmans,
That feud was followed by three deaths.
battle. The feud was carried on for some
months as family matter.
Nevert heless the Five Pointers had IN
the opinion Of the Monk Eastmans 'butted
in The appearance Of the Italians at the
ball was distinctly a storm signal.
affections Of the sweetheart Of one OF Monk
Eastman's most respected henchmen. Inc
young woman before the ball was han
over transferred her allegiance TO MN,
and gave token thereof by dancing with
him and turning glazed eye on 'Becky's
Now this was more than an injury Of the
heart. Ike's fine raimert, and indeed
his means OF subsistence, depended upon
the young woman's loyalty to him. He
lived on her earnings.
He drew a revolver and fired at Tung
TunR. The Italians drew stilettos. The
hall was full Of smoke and screams In
minute. ,
The private policemen and the special
policemen who had been providentialiy
sent to watch the ball by the captain
Of the precinct rushed -, in, and the
Is their wise custom on such occasions,
made more OF point OF giving everybody
present a good drubbing than OF making
any arrests. IL there were any actuai
casualties. the police records do not show H.
Two DAYS later the Monk Eastmans, de-
claring that the insult Of the breaking
up Of the racket was one to be wiped out
in blood. went down to the Chatham C!up,
in Chinatown. There they found Mike
Bove. one OF Tung lungs. lieutenants;
tntx
retreated to their own headquarters before
the Five Pointers could gather Bove,
whose father was a we'll known Italian
banker died Of his injuries.
Tung Tung sent word that they didn' Z
dare TO come back. The Eastmans an
swered this challenge by invading the Five
Points district on the night Of Sept 20.
There was running fight In White street
Center street, Franklin street and Broad
way for two hours, despite the best efforts
of forty policemen from three precincts
t., ,'., stop Ri i. Hundreds of revolver shots
In the morning five or six revolvers were
picked up, and twenty or more long iron
7 bars, such as builders use. Many OF them
were stained with blood. But there were
no wounded found by the police
The next night lsadore Foster Of the
Monk Eastmans was chased through Clinton
street by a crowd Of Italians and was beaten
to death. Three nights later the Tung
Tung forces went to Smiths poolroom.
in Suffolk street, the headquarters OF the
Eastmans. and started to wreck the place. :,
The police interrupted. But Samuel
Levinson OF 9s Monroe street was killed,
Al Fryer was disabled for life. These
crimes could not be brought home to any
body, though numbers Of both gangs were
sent to the workhouse for six months for
disorderly conduct and the carrying OF con-
cealed weapons.
The police interfered 70 much with the
personal liberty OF gatherings of the Five
Pointers and the Monk Eastnans for awhile
after this that they veered over into the
Oak street precinct, where both sides
were more or less affiliated with the Yake
Yakes.
The Yskie Wakes take their name from
one Yake Yake Brady, who keeps a most
inoffensive looking candy store at ll2 Roose-
Welt street, right around the corner from
Cherry street, with a two-and-o. half-ccnt
pooroom attached. With this place as
storm centre the fighting was renewed
Two men were taken to the hospital with
pistol shot wounds, Both refused to tell
who shot them.
boss OF the Second Assembly district.
was besought by the aw-abiding residents
Of Cherry Hill to step In and stop the trouble:
He brought Eastman and Tung Tlng and
Yake Yake together and told them to be
good: There was peace for almost two
months.
But within month. as newspaper
readers know. there has started another
reign OF terror on Cherry Hill. One after
noon in broad daylight. for instance,
nan was shot In Yake Yake Brady's.. He
said in a moment OF carelessness that fake
Yake himself had shot him.
A policeman went after Brady. and Brady
snapped a revolver AT him twice. Magis-
trate Breen, who didn't know Yake Yake
as well as he should, benevolently dis
charged him.
verncur Hospital within ten days, Al
most every night, on the slope Of lherry
street. in Roosevelt street, under the Bridge:
revolver shots have echoed by twos and
threes and 10y hundreds.
I, IL told among the members OF the
gangs that eight or ten men have been hit
and have been carried away by their friends
The police are sceptical. They say that the
gangs are worse shots than the Spanish
navy. They invariably stand up to one
equal and shoot AZ arms length. But
they shoot low. and az may be Inferred,
with habitual inacctiracy.
II is likely that peace has come again "a
Cherry Hill. Certainly there ar few ~ the
Yakie Yakes left to carry on the war.
On two different afternoons Ia week
Roundrrnan Mulhall took 9 squad of police
20 Yake Yake Brady's and arrested every.
body in the place on the broad ground oi
disord~rly conduct hagistr rate Barlow
who IL in sympathy with the movement
sent thirteen Of the prisoners 10 black
wells Island for a month.
Jim Cassidy. a famous Nakie iake. sa'
tried for highway robbery In Special S.s.
sion. on Fri iay Policeman Fallon had
caught hum ia the act ~ rObbng a drunken
sailor and had taken two large revolNer'
from him after srresting him.
Every Friday night for week fallol
has l,..n exercising q right ~ seafch, which
may be- unconstiiu ,lonal, hut l. certainly
not resistod, upon all rough hooking
strangers who cross has poet after dark
II he binds revolvers of knives upon them
hs take. thsm to the station IL not be
leis them ~ With q warning a. l,s good
The Oak street folk Thought th"y lad
Nak. fak. himself on "Wednesday 4
ALL came into the station aud said that
Wake Naks had rul,lz.d hsf bfuthef Sls
vent o. Wake Wake IA coinplain AosIru
lny a. her story lac otlA.s-i hsf ou' ~ las
plA- With . revolver
hak. hAks va affesisi Hut the ar
sr,s AID -.'f.an.s.d si,on tho Iallcs tTtsd
a. dIas h.f iuto osuTf 80 Siti.n-s hlis
tnes shat sould hsligiun IA hs', sil" sald
N 40 dld testify hi.- sAs duulhls'-s nshi
A. lsu't . suinsai's battle