The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-13
The table Of arrests, by precincts as far
as Manhattan il concerned, follows:
Grand Total. ...,....,

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Inspector Walsh In person arrested Fritz
Wendell, brother Of Police Captain Wendell
and Capt. Louis Wendell OF the First Bat
terry, early yesterday. morning. Wendell
has a saloon at 800 Ninth avenue, In the
West Forty-seventh street precinct, from
the command of which Capt. Dillon has
been suspended.
Wendell was held for examination on
Thursday in the West Side police court
He said last night that he didn't blame
Walsh for his arrest.
Only he has made a mistake" said
Wendell. -in the character Of my place
1t was 1:15 A. M. when Inspector Walsh
came here. Some time before that party
of five had ordered food and drinks. Three
of them had finished eating and were sitting
with their beer glasses almost empty at
Hamburger steaks and as the fire was
poor the service was slow. That Is the
reason why they had not finished.
Anyway, l understand the only charge
made against me Is that the barroom door
wasn't locked. II was shut. had the key
in my pocket and had forgotten to lock
the door. The cook couldn't, because
he had no key"
Old timers in the Tenderloin said It was
harder to get a drink there yesterday than
1t had been for months. This state Of af-
fairs was attributed to the presence In the
district early on Sunday Of a lot Of strange
Bleuths who apparently were out to catch
Capt. O'Connor's men mapping:
There were about dozen Of these men
and the Tenderloin detectives learned OF
their presence about l o'clock. Capt.
OConnor's men chased out in hurry
and spent tho rest Of the night shadowing
tho newcomers. whom they didn't know
very well.
At the time that the visiting seuths ar
rived good many places were open. After
word Of their coming got around the saloons
closed in hurry. The visitors apparently
made no arrests. Capt. O'Connor's men
made seven during the day.
The dryness lasted all day and the Raines
law hotels kept we'll within the law. Every
one OF the big hotels served sandwiches
with drinks and made their patrons pay
extra for them. Capt. OConnor said last
night that II was true that lot OF strange
detectives had been sent into his precinct,
and that it had been going on for two weeks
$50 far as l know" said the Captain
sthis is not because any police official is ont
for me. The fact is that somebody has
been wri ting anonymous letters TO Head
quarters saving that lot OF saloons were
allowed to keep open and that was getting
tho graft.
1There are 2s4 drinking places in this
precinct and it's hard matter for captain
time turn my patrolmen and my detectives
out I tell them to play no favorites and to
see that the same law is enforced at the
Waldorf as anywhere else. This precinct
s closed tight and 1t has been so for four
months.
Il suppose that these letters have made
the Commissioner think there might be
something doing, and he has cent lot
OF his own men, and no doubt got Jerome
to send out some Of his to see how things
really are. guess they are satisfied
While the captain was talking 70 the
reporters James Lynch, the president
of the liquor dealers district organization,
walked in to bail out man arrested for
excise violation.
SAY, Lynch" said the captain, ~how's
the precinct; pretty open, isn't III"
Not Bit" said Lynch. sits tighter
than I've seen It in eighteen years, even
under Williams. We're losing mo ney"