New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-25
CALLS AGENT 4 ROBBER.
Report Of Captain Piper on DR..
MyerS'S POoLrOom Letter.

Police Commissioner Greene yesterday sent let
ters to Deputy Commissioners Piper and Ebstein.
inclosing copies of the letter from the Rev. Dr..
Cortland Myers. alleging that certain poolrooms
are openly doing business in Brooklyn and have
been in existence the greater part Of the year.
dering them, pending reports from inspectors as
10 steps which have been taken. are being taken.
TO enforce the law in the places named by DR..
Myers. TO report in person concerning the number
of complaints received from DR.. Myers's society
in the present year and the action taken in each
case.
IN a report received by General Greene yesterday
from Captain Piper it was declared that Dr..
AIyerss information to the police not always
reliable. and that IN many instances his society
gave nothing but names and addresses. Captain
Piper said that Of the agents of Dr.. Myers was
q fugitive from Justice. wanted both in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. and that another held up a woman
in Broadway, at Twenty-ninth-st-. not long ago.
Commissioner Greene yesterday gave 10 nine po-
Hcemen the cash prizes offered by the directors OF
the riot relief fund. Each man received 800.
They were Patrolmen Michael J. Coyne, Of the
Delancey-st station: Joseph NJ. McNierney of the
East Sixty-seventh-st. station; Christopher c.
O. Brien of the East ne-hundred-and-twenty-
sixth-st. station; Joseph c. Osborne Of the High
bridge station; Thomas F. Meade, of the harbor
squad, and David J. Goss. Of the West One-hun-
dredth-st station; Roundsmen James F. Connors
Of the West observation-disclosures. station; John F.
Dwyer. sailing master. and James ". Hauock
pilot of the police boat Patrol.
The Commissioner complmented the men on their
bravery especially OBrien and Goss declaring that
their work was the most heroic shown In the de-
partment in the last year Goss dragged man
overcome by ammonia fumes out Of a brewery vat
last summer. while O'Brien crawled under sur
face car 10 rescue injured
Commissioner Greene also distributed five gold
medals and $lG0 in gold from the Benevolent Life
Saving Association. Two OF the medals and SIS
apiece in gold went 10 Roundsmen Dwyer and Hal
lock of the Patrol, who together saved a from
drowning at Pier A, North River Two other medals
and the rest of the cash went TO Patrolmen Charles
i Sheridan Of the Leonard-st. station and Henry
Storiahann OF the East Thirty-hfthst. station The
ffth medal was given TO Patrolman Denis J. Rel
" Of the Old Slip station. The riot relief fund
also gave $500 TO Mrs Nellie CaVanaugh, the wife
of Patrolman Charles Cavanaugh, of the West
MISUNDERSTANDING station. who die
some time ago from injuries received while on duty
nenutv Commissioner EbsJein declared that all
If Or Nvers's complaints had been acted on and
arrests have followed wherever evidence could be
6T MYERS denied last night that Commissioner
Greene had invited him TO go to his office. Re
garding the Commissioners suggestion that some
81 the employees OF the society might not be above
suspicion Dr. Myers declared that every man Of
them was a noble Christian gentleman. He added
mat II there was any guilt. II was the duty OF the
police 10 expose II rather than cast suspicion on
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