New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-04
BEATEN AFTER A RAID
HIS SKULL FRACTURED.
Clerk Beieped To Be Victim of
Gamblers ReUenge.

Half an hour after three men had been
rested by Captain Gallagher. OF the East Twe-,-
ty-second-st- station, yesterday. charged with
being implicated in running n poolroom in the
Putnam House. at Twenty-sixth-st and Fourth
ave. Pen Thompson. OF Rutherford. y. J.. a
clerk in the real estate office OF s. Osgood Pell
& Co. was rnurderously assaulted by two un-
known men. II IS thought that ne was assault
ed for telling the police who the were who
ran the alleged poolroom. He is now IN Belle
vuc Hospital. With a fracture or the frontal
bone over the left eye. a fracture Of the base
OF the skull. and his left leg Is fractured Just
above the ankle. Coroner Scholer obtained
ante-nortern statement from him early IN tho
evening. and the police OF the East Twenty
second-st. station are looking for a man. whose
description they refuse TO divulge. who IS be-
Neved 10 be ot the assafants.
The raid on the alleged poolroorn in the Put
House restaurant. which IS believed TO
have been directly indirectly the cause Of
the attempted murder OF Thompson. was made
soon after 3 p. N. by Captain Gallagher and
Detectives Kenney and Difley. and the two coll
ored detectives Payton OF Far Rockaway. and
Tiser. Of the Old slip Station. who had gath
cred the evidence. Three men were arrested.
They were Albert W. Boyd. who said he lived
at the Putnam House: Arthur Davis who said
iac itNfQ At lAe lltilAfn House. and William
Gr1ber OF No 80 FTfth-ave.. Brooklyn. They
were charged with being common gamblers
The evidence was obtained on Monday ana
Tuesday by detectives, who declared tbey MA ye,I
the New-orleans races there. Captain Gal
lagher says that the men had n unicue MIA, -.
operation Boyd. he asserts was first seen
going about handing slips OF paper to men
seated at the restaurant tables. After a while
slips were handed 10 the detectives. they de-
clare which were printed the names OF tho
horses. the jockeys and the odds.
On Monday. they say. they played Ostrich at
10 and won On Tuesday they went TO tho
place again and played Lee King at II to
and lost. The detectives gay that BOYD guessed
at the time the would be run. and would
call up a number the telephone and get the
results. The raid was made on a warrant issued
by Magistrate Pool
Lawrence r. Kerr. proprietor Of the Putnam
House. and Alfred Judson, who rents the res
taurant say that II there a poolroom op-
Grated I'm the restaurant they knew nothing Of It.
Tho three men arrested were at the Putnam
Touse last night and denied that they knew or
any handbook poolroom In connection Win
the hotel The were riders with BunaIo
RuT' last season. and since the show left the
carsan have been working at various things
Craber IS employed by William Bradley ana
was at work, he says, In beXinston-ace- uii'ii
.,,o o- three minutes before he entered the hotel
While the raid going on at least three
,r,arad neople were around the hotel and there
ras crowd in the barroom after the police
| w.nt avay About half an hour later MI herr
.on called I'D Bellevue Hospital and said that
,bers had been an accident I'm the hotel
rr Black was sent TO tho hotel ana fouhu
Thompson lying unconscious IN the ia'a'otS "
| the cafe No one was in the barroom except tiie
| pronrietor, his son, Lawrence. and the par
| tender George Murtha. Thompson was taken
| - once TO the hospital and placed In the alco-
| no,,o ward and acute alcoholism" entered on
| the register.
| A,terward an examination showed that ne was
| seriously Il not fatally. injured. ana Co'oie
| c.ho,s- was sent for 10 get an ante-mof'e tenn
| ,,.r,ent from the II he recovered con-
| o,ousnesa Before the coroner's arriVeI He
-o-,sed himself enough TO tell his name and say
| ,Aa, ba lived IN Rutherford He asked that ms
\ ,-o.ber G A Thompson, a draughtsnah ~ '"e
| poard of Education. be sent for
| n-ben he lost consciousness. and couia hoi oe
| -,,..s until the arrival of Coroner SchoieF. ~
| -, n. made an incomplete statement OF 'i'
| ..sau,. He said that he was taking VIII
| - a. the bar whom he described as Jony
- ,.r,ov-" and that he left him for minute.
| -. - y. returned the Jolly good fellow mac
| -.,o- with HIM The first Jolly 5000 feiioW
| .-s 74.ou,pson Of insulting the second hs