New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-12
CALL 1T THE SSTH RAID.
THE" ALIENS VISITED.
Negro Pushed out Of Windo5C and
His Leg Is Broken.

According 10 the police the eighty eighth raid
OF The Aliens place, in Sixth-ave, was made
last night. Four hundred men. white and
colored. were caught in the place and four
arrested. The place is like a fortress. with
barred doors and windows inside and out but
Captain Hogan and a dozen detectives got in
by catching the Iookouts off their guard.
Since the raid before that of last night
the management of the famous rooms has put
UP bars Of iron on the inside and outside of all
tie doors and windows In front and on the
lower floors fl the rear of the house. This left
little chance for invasion.
Captain Hogan has mad men unknown TO
those running the place in the rooms for week,
and he says they had enough evidence against
the place to warrant the raid of last night,
which was made with a warrant for the Doe
family Issued by Justice Holbroo1 in Special
Sessions. Hogan stood hidden opposite the
rooms little before p. m. He had dozen
men hidden around the house and in the rear in
Waverley Place.
Wait till those two lookouts are gazing up
The street. said Captain Hogan 20 Cook, his
trusted officer. and then make a dash for the
door behind them"
The police mad 10 wait while for the ookouts
20 get interested in something going UP the
nvenue. The men had left the door open trifle.
and Captain Hogan spied it and hurried Cook
across The street on q dead run. Cook spied
by the lookouts as he dashed up the gutter, and
they turned and tried 20 make the door. He
was to quick for them. He tripped one of them,
and the man fell against the wall. Then he
seized the other. threw him against the first
man and pinned both against the wall.
Meanwhile the other detectives came running,
pellmen, UP the street. Captain Hogan with
them. A dash was made at the door, but those
snside had heard the confusion outside. and sew
eral defended the door. Il swung 10, but
not all the way, and a fight for supremacy be-
gan. 1t soon ended. for only half dozen were
inside while all of the detectives threw them
selves at the door and swung it in. AS it gave
wsy those inside gave warning yell and made
for safety.
We're pinched." THE cops" Get out" and
pther cries were heard.
A wild scramble then took place. Captain
Hogan had rushed to the second floor, commonly
known to be the place for the whites" and he
says he heard "Hydrophobia wins" announced.
This was ST. Louis race. He rushed in and
cried out We VIM
There were only three windows for two hun
dred men to get out of. and there was a wild
rush to escape. a score Of men were already
nut when Hogan got in. They were making
across the yard of Waverley Place house, the
yard Of which runs UP to the Sixth-ave. house
James Jones. negro, of No. ISL West Thirtieth-
u
window He was pushed out by the scared and
anxious throng behind. and he fell TO the yard.
breaking his leg. No one paid any attention TO
him. and he was walked over by those escaping.
He tried TO get up several times, but was
knocked down by the escaping men, and he had
70 lay there until the police rescued him and
Eent him to St Vincent's Hospital.
Hogan was afraid those he wanted would get
Hway with the crowd, and lie shouted that he
did not want the bettors. He had his men stop
those who had not escaped. They numbered
about fifty.
The negroes on the third floor escaped through
the roof Hogan's men were there too but
they could not stop the outpouring Of negroes
from the scuttle. and they let them go. The
negroes were frightened. and fled down scuttles
of nearby houses.
Those arrested We're James Brown, colored,
of No. $40 West ThiTty-siXth-st.; Thomas Will
iams of No. J3 Oak-st.; Charles Elwood, of No.
- Dominick-st, and James S. Brannan, of No
ABB Greenwich-st. They are charged with VIC
lating Section 351 Of the Penal Code, relating
70 the maintenance Of poolroom. while Bran
nan is also charged with interfering with an
officer. Captain Hogan says he was one of the
1ookouts in front
Racing sheets, cards and other goods, nclud-
tng a telephone, were confscated by the police
The prisoners were taken TO the Charles-st. sta
ton, as the cells Of the Mercer-st. station
being repaired 4 crowd of nearly thousand
negroes and white people gathered in front of
the place to see the raid. Captain Hogan put
everybody out Of the house and locked il up.