New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-27
RAIDS IN TENDERLOIN.
SHUT UP SHOP.
CottreL S1roops on Three Alleged
PooLrooms-Walsh HELMS.

Three raids on alleged poolrooms were made
simultaneously yesterday IN the Tenderloin by
Captain CottreIl Inspector Walsh and squads
OF plain clothes men from the TendsrlOin sta
ton Entrance IN every case was made by
breaking down with axes the steel and heavy
wooden doors which confronted the police. More
than a hundred men were found IN each place
and IN two OF them more than forty women.
Evidences that business had been brisk I'm
rnediately before the entrance Of the raiders were
found. according TO the police. although the de-
lay caused by the armored doors gave the pro-
prietors tins 10 destroy racing sheets and other
paIaphernaia- Seven prisoners were held,
charged with keeping and maintaining pool
rooms.
The places raIded were within few blocks
Of the Tenderloin station. ons being IN West
Tventy-seventh-st and the other two IN West
Thirty-flrst-st- The evidence against them, ac-
cordiug 10 Captain CottreIl. was obtained by
civilian detectives unknown 10 the gambling
fraternity, who have been at work for two
weeks. Yesterday Captain Cottreu got John
Doe" warrants from Magistrate Mayo in Jerer-
son Market court for all three places. and made
his raids soon after : o'clock, just about the
time Of the last race at Bennings
The crash Of splintered steel, wood and broken
glass. when the policemen began their assaults.
at.-acfed an immense crowd frcm broadway
and Sixth-ave., and thousands OF people choked
Thirty-frst and Twenty-seventh SITS. eager 70
see the prisoners brought out TO the patrol
wagons and to jeer those who had been caught
and were released The women caught IN the
two Thirty-frst-st places we're OF the familiar
Tenderloin type. white and colored. and, al
though some OF them wept, most Of the lot took
the affair nonchalantly.
Captain CottreIl had full charge Of the raids.
but at the last moment he called in Inspector
Walsh TO act with him. HIS forces were in three
squads. Inspector Walsh. Roundsman Bolton
and eight plain clothes men composing one; the
captain. Detective Sergeant Sullivan and eight
plain clothes men another and Roundsman Nc
Cullum, with ter men. the third. All these
squads left the station at nearly the same time.
and their attacks on the separate redoubts Of
the forces under the lid" began AT almost the
same moment.
Inspector WaIsh's squad directed its attack at
"a four story dwelling house IN Th!rty-hrst-st.,
about midway between Sixth and Seventh-ave.
The inspectors forces included some OF the
iurlcst policemen on the force and all were
armed with axes. The outside door at the top
of the stoop was found 20 be- OF steel They
battered al 81 for "A few minutes but only dulled
their axes IC was impreguable. and giving up
The attack IN thls quarter, ihey CLIMBED over
the stoop railing and smashed IN the glass OF the
bow window Of the front parlor. Then the
whole force entered. finding two guards in the
front parlor and hall who fed when the police
men burst iu
Two folding doors separated the front parlor
from the hack but they were not fastened, and
lhe raiders quickly passed through them and
found in the next room excited mob Of more
than a hundred Een. Some Of them hac tried
10 escape by the rear ard the roof but these
avenues of escape had been guarded Residents
q adjoining houses welcomed the police in their
rooms as guards against the escape OF those in
the alleged poolrOom, for, according 10 Captain
Cottren, the neighbors were the first TO complain
gainst the place.
ON the second floor the raiders found eighteen
women Of sort with whom they were not un-
familiar. Results Of the races were being re-
CeiNcd. according 10 the police. this floor by
telephone and transmitted 20 the mems rooms
10y tube. In this wOmens section the police say
they also found dice and cards. Some Of the
women made a fuss. but when they found they
were not 20 be arrested they stopped talking
about mythical husbands an1 other relatives
whose hearts would be broken II they learned OF
their arrest. and watched the rest OF the pro-
ceadings with interest.
After Captain Cottrelrs civilian detectives had
looked over the crowd thoroughly they pointed
Cut the alleged proprietors two men who said
they were Julius Meyers. salesman, OF No. 221
East e-hundrcd-anC-th thirteenth-St.. and JO-
seph Sch0held. actor Of No. 800 West Thirty
seYenth-st. They We're taken TO the patrol
wagon. hooted az by the crowd in the street
ana, with a mass OF evidence, taken TO the sSa-
ton.
Meanwhile Captain Cottreu and his squad
were ialQlIE auctIer place just a rev doors
from the FIRST, q little nearer SiXth-aye. and in
similar house The suspected room
The second floor. and 10 gain entrance the squad
had 10 break down heavy steel backed door at
me top of lhe stoop the first floor. Ii
ten minutes before they got inside, and when
iEey reached their goal they found seventy men
and twenty five women. There was every evil
cence that Dool-ellinE on the BenninEs races
had just been interrupted. according tosCaptain
tottrell. md lie arrested two men. who said they
were Frank Clemnous. clerk, OF No. 322 West
Fortieth-st.. and Thomas Brown, brIcklayer,
Of No. 265 West Forty-sey enth-st. Most OF the
women were negroee-
ROun1smau McCullom and his ten raiders
were all this time engaged in a similar assault
oH a house IL Twenty-s -scyeuth-st. just of Sixth
ave. There is saloon on the ground floor
4 private stairway led up TO the suspected room
Cu the second door. Ar old fashioned Heavy
oak door was encountered first and then a
second, partly made OF steel. When they broke
through an the distractions the raiders found
2, ,orc than hundred men Of Various nation
dues. principally Italian and French with n
shrinking 81 negroes The men ARRESTED said
they were George Williams OF No. l4n West
Tu.erI y-seveuth-st.; Edward Peck Of 40 129
West Thirtieth-sL. and William Singleton, CT
30. 101 West Twenty -seVenth-st.