The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-06
JUDGED 2SOFROM THE ALIENS
BIG BAG OF RAID PRISONERS on
NEGRO COPS EVIDENCE.
Five Police stations Filled With the POOH
room Crowd - Lawyer Steinhard
Threatens tho Police Omcers Wht
Oversaw the Axe and CrowbAr Raid

Oversaw the Axe and Crowbar Raid.
Police Inspector Smith and Capt .Wiegand
Of the Mercer street station made another
raid on The Aliens poolroom at 80 Sixth
avenue yesterday afternoon, which ended
a good deal differently from tho raids that
Capt Chapman used to make.
The raid Melted about $50 prisoners.
among whom were three men taken on
warrants made out by Magistrate Cornell in
the jefferson Market police court and. call
ing for George, William, John and Edward
OF the Doe family. The warrants were
issued under Section S4s, the general gam
bling ion Of the Penal Code. The other
prisoners, the inmates OF the place. only
ono OF whom got away, we're held on
cha rges Of disorderly conduct.
James E. Tisdall, a negro policeman
attached to Capt. Piper's Brooklyn office.
got the evidence upon which the warrants
were issued. He said that he was in the
room on May 20. that he had been there
several times since, and that he has had no
trouble to get in. on account Of his color.
About fifty policemen, drawn from the
Leonard. Charles, Mercer, Macdougal and
West Twentieth street stations. took part
in the raid under Inspector Smith, Capt.
W!egand and the plain clothes detectives
attached to the Offices Of the captain and
inspector.
The patrol wagons from the Ave stations
were filed with cops at about a quarter to
I o'clock. and went to places several blocks
from the resort. The men directly under
Capt. Wiegand got on the roof OF Aliens
place through buildings in the rear, in
Waverley place, and covered every means
Of exit.
At exactly o'clock the patrol wagons
dashed up in front and Capt. Wiegand
demanded admission on his warrant. It
was refused, and out came the axes and
crowbars II took about FIVE minutes to
batter down the big iron front door. When
the police finally got in they found fire
blazing in the stove and the fireplace. and
no one behind the big rear partition.
good many Of those who were inside
started to run to the roof, but they were
met by policemen with drawn revovers.
That was the case. too. with those who
tried to get out of the windows, and there
was nothing for them to do but submit.
! So far as is known. only one man got
away. When Detective Farley broke into
the top floor negro jumped from the
below, and landed in the yard on his head.
He didn't appear to be hurt, and Skinned
| over fence
The police say that Allen has been seen
around the place frequently OF late but never
has gone inside in the daytime. He wasn't
caught yesterday, but it "a said that he saw
the raid from a cigar store across the street.
| For more than two hours the five patrol
| wagons carried loads OF prisoners to the
Mercer street station. Among the prison
| special room for their accommodation on
tho ton floor.
An the cells Of the Mercer street station
| were soon filled and prisoners were sent
In waeonloads to the other four stations.
from the put in an envelope bearing the
owners name and stacked up In waste
basket behind the desk. The sergeant said
that the largest amount found was tls5
but that few OF the prisoners had less than
ton Thes telephone. speaking tube and
racing charts but, according to the police,
they we're not quick enough in getting
in to get the betting sheets.
As the prisoners were lined up to BE- sent
to Ssr 9he OF Hover hsnme had lively
run-in with Inspector Smith. he called
the inspector to the rail and told him that
the arrest OF the persons In the Poolroom1
was an outrage. as the warrants didn't call
for them. That didn't move the inspector,
| so Steinhardt continued:
We'll see now whether the police can act
in this high handed way These men
have done nothing. yet they are locked up
and subjected to all sorts OF indignites:;
II you had done that to me. inspector. I'd
have killed you.
Inspector Smith said he thought the
| LAWYER should at least act like n gentleman
! and then Steinhardt Threatened to smash
| q policeman on the head II he laid hand
| on him in response to an order from the
| inspector to remove him. The inspector
insisted and finally Steinhardt sat down
| In the front OF the station house.
A the prisoners were arraigned Tist1nll
kept watch to identify the Does First,
| Wesley Taylor. Tisdall said that Taylor
was the lookout on the third floor where
| the negroes bet. The prisoner was held
| as one Of the Doe family.
little later the negro cop picked out a
| man who said he was Thomas Callahan, .
bartender OF % Sixth avenue. az the look
| out on the second floor. Callahan was also
| held on the warrant.
That was all that Tisdall could find whom
| he could identify as having been connected
| with the place until he happened to 20
outside the station and saw a carriage
drive up, From 1t alighted well dressed
F, man and the negro dragged him in front
| OF the desk. He said that his prisoner
wasn't in the place yesterday afternoon.
but that he recognized him ~ having been
| the general manager
The man said he was Henry Martin, .
real estate dealer Of 100 West EiGhty-etghth