New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-24
.DIDN'T GO INTO KELLYS.
sHonest John" Said, mo Warrant,
No Entrance" to Police.

Captain Cottreli, Sergeant Wilson, Rounosnaen
Miller and Anderson and about twenty-five men
IN plain clothes attached 10 the Tenderioin sta
zion visited fifteen alleged pooirooms yesterday
afternoon. They got one prisoner ten tele-
phones and several dope books. In place
IN East Nineteenth-st., near Medison-ave.. De-
sectives Garrison and Uminger and Detective
Sergeant Sullivan found Barney Seamon. Of
no. 80 CoIumbia-st, and several men, They
arrested seamon on charge OF aiding ana
abetting the keeping OF a poolroom and oon-
fscated three telephones and two dope" books
Roundsnan Anderson with Detectives Staph
and Murphy, went to the place of Honest john
Kelly, in Forty-hrst-st between Sixth and
Seventh aves. Kelly was standing on the stoop
of the house.
Where are you going?" he asked OF Ander-
son, when the policemen started 10 ascend the
steps.
We're going In here to see that everything is
al right We want TO look the place over
We'll you can't go in there unless you have
a warrant" said Kelly. defantly. I've had too
many visitors lately. and I'm tired Of showing
people the house. OF course, If you have war
rant I viii let you in, but if you don't show a
warrant and try to get in you will get warm
reception
The policemen made no effort to get into the
house.
CAPTAIN Burns of the Church-st station. and
his detectives went 10 No. 231 Broadway, OPP
posite the Postofice. They went 10 the third
floor rear, where they glass door. with
Drew & Co, Patents" and "Rennie. Draughts-
man." on it. The door was locked No one ap
peared TO be inside The janitor said he had
lost the key.
Burns and his men went TO an upper floor
ana descended the fire escapes till they got to
the third. where they got into the room through
a window. The glass door had an iron sheet
over il. and inside this door. four feet from IT,
was wooden partition with a 4-inch wooden
door. On this door We're a heavy refrigerator
lock and bolts. In the place were desks. chairs.
long table. bench and ice chest. with
three bottles Of water on the ice. A watch hung
nail
Captain Burns had twenty-one telephones
chopped out He saw that all the staples. wires
screws and trapping TO run the connection for
the telephones into the building were new, and
he thought IL showed the place mad just been
started. he believes II was TO have been q pool
room exchange.
A raid on an alleged poolrocm and two arrests
OF alleged handbook keepers was the share Of
the days work done by Captain Shire and the
police OF the East Thirty-hfth-st. station. The
results Were six prisoners. four IN the poolroom
and one each in the handbook cases, and three
paraphernalia.
Tammany politicians are said by the police to
nave been interested in the alleged poolroom.
which, according TO them, was on the second
noor at No. 161 East Thrty-second-st. Captain
shlre's detectives say that a lieutenant of
Thomas Murphy, the Tammany leader of the
AAtb Assembly District is the manager of the
when they broke In.
one or the prisoners was Peter Purcell of
NO ZlV East Forty second-st., who is said TO
De q prother OF James Purcell. The others said
sney were John Clark, horse dealer of No.
so Second-ave-; Michael Jennings a plumber
~ 10. zoe Last torty-hrst-st-, and Thomas
Moore. commission merchant of No s6S
Ihird-aye All four, as well the prisoners
n me HANDBOOK cases, were bailed out by
Murphy. district leader