The sun., 1903-05-04


punished, the Heado,nrtcrs records dat
Dot. n, 1904. II vas n light over Sanders
application for admission To the oonoin1
Club, Of the Thompson street negro rectioh
The committcc re- jocted him AZ bad negro
lie did up ~ everal nnmbersoi nr CoInHtitts'
on Membership. a,orming The club TO 40 y
Club members rushed hty TO the side
walk, but he slashed thrtr ~ the coinfh'''ce
men and was arrested. 81
Inspector Kane. In whose district, Queens
the three policemen belonged. worked iron
midnight until O'Clock yesterday morninf
trying to find out why Nh men we're over
here In MJanhattan and Tire origin Of thu
brawl. The. poIioemon he said, had no riRh
to he in Manhattan, and they could not hats
been here on police business. Gilhooly wFs u
tho parade, but Peters and tusso. piaiil
clothes men on Inspector Kane's stan
were left at home Nv Queens. husso. how
ever. had been ordered 10 come to Manhat'
tan after the parade to take nome the In
spectors uniform.
Peters came over To help Russo get tht
Inspector uniform They GOT fr2,r r,;r
teenth street between and s O'clock
When they started away with the uniform
Gilhooy went along with them, Kane
said that although the homes OF all three
OF the men were In Manhattan, they should
have gone back to Queens and reported
there on Saturday evening. Peters and
Russo were now men to Kane, having only
lately been sent to him. Gilhooly, the
Inspector said, had been one Of Deverys
right hand men. :..,t. $780,
Of work to explain the presence of the men
In the dive and the cause Of the row, he had
heard no two stories alike: Peters, the
cashier. told him that the little black waiter
who had escaped arrest, but whom hi IN, ,he
In Sanders's hearing, had said that there
were a couple Of wardmen back there,
meaning in the back room of the place.
and that. therefore, Sanders should nave
known the men he fought with alter"aro
to be policemen.
The Inspector said that there was only
one revolver between the three policemen,
and that that one was Giilhooly'ss, and 1t was
found with all its chambers fun after !he
fracas. The Inspector said , mat no Sondnr. dn".
declares that the three policemen each
had revolver and that all three beat him
on the head with their revolvers, -
i don't know what started the row,
Sanders were struggling in the doorway
when Byers came up and separated them.
and Sanders should have known tina. he
would be protected then. as he saw the
uniformed policeman, and should, therefore,
not have fired his revolver
Around headquarters yesterday u wss
the talk among men who knew Gilhooiy
that he was practical Joker, liking nothing
better than to start joke of the so-called
practical kind and that once he had tried
10 joke he was likely to become very serious
and strive to carry his bluff through If any
one failed to see the joke. 1t was the
surmise that perhaps some failure on the
part of the negro bouncer of the LeHox
TO see the joke in some of Gilhooly's re-
marks had led to the scrimmage which re-
suited fatally. Gilhooly used to be con-
nected with Inspector Thompson's office
and was there, it was said, when the negro
riots on tho West Side occurred in Thomp-
son g district few years ago.
There was big crowd around the Jeffer-
son Market court building yesterday morn
Ing made up in part of the tough element
lower end of Sixth avenue, and chiefly
interested in Sanders's case. There was
some angry muttering about the prisoner.
Sanders was not without his friends,
however, and two negroes forced their
way through the crowd and got to Keeper
O'Connor, In whose custody Sanders was
yesterday. and handed him basket Of
fruit for the prisoner. The crowd jeernd
at them and said derisively that tomorrow
Inspector Smith said yesterday that
when he and Capt. German ratded the
Lenox Hotel about six weeks ago. taking
about seventy-five prisoners. Sanders put
up SO desperate defence In his refusal
to submit to arrest that it became necessary
for the Inspector TO punch him in the neck
to reduce him to submission. Sanders
was then held on charge OF conducting
a disorderly house and the case has not
said that it was difficult to do much with
the place except keep it In order, as the
Magistrates had held that as II had hotel
license IL must be treated as hotel.