New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-04
HAGAN ANGRY AT RAID
SENDS FOR MAGISTRATE.
Er-Tombs Harden at Station Al
most as Soon as Prisoners.

Soon after a raid on alleged pcolroom over
ThofeI's saloon. at No. 1878 Broadway. yester-
day the building IN which James J. Hagan.
Tammany leader in the XIXth District. had his
headquarters in the last campaign. Hagan
tered the wes. Sixty-eIghth-st. station
Sergeant Rehan behind the desk.
Magistrate Mayo will be down here at T:15
TO bail these men out he said. referring TO the
prisoners. Then he turned to Captain Kemp
why did you chop that billiard table to
piecss?" lie demanded. angrily. There was no
reason for that"
That table had been used for gambling pur-
poses. and I'll chop up anything / like that has
been used that way, .retorted Kemp
Inspector Walsh had entered the station. ard
he nodded apprOvfngly.
PunctuaIy at 7:15. Magistrate Mayo, accom-
panied by lawyer. entered the station
Il thought Jimmy Hagan was to meet US
here?'' he said TO the lawyer.
NO" said the latter: Il think it was at ths
headquarters"
yes. sir broke in the messenger boy. who
had been dispatched for the magistrate. He's
changing his clothes and will meet you at
after accepting bail IN $500 each for the two
persons. which furnished by George Fornes.
OF No. 200 West Sxty-fourth-st.. Magistrate
Mayo and the lawyer went to the Tammany
headquarters in Broadway. between Sfxty-sev-
enth and Sixty-eighth sts- After remaining
there for a while. the magistrate was driven
away IN cab.
In the street in front Of the headquarters Mr..
Hagan talked about the raid and pOolrooms In
general
i've done all could 10 help the police drive
poolrooms out OF this district" he said: ask
Captain Kemp himself II / haven't
When the question was put to the Captain he
replied:
'.He hasn't helped me in any way. and don't
need and won't have any rleddlins with police
business by politicians in my district
A man who gave his name as George Smith,
Mills Hotel No. /. told Captain Kemp in the
afternon that he had played the races at the
place raided and had his bet. but couldn't
collect his winnings. He showed the captain
blue card. on which was marked The W. Club.
CAPTAIN Kemp took tine card, gave IL to Detec-
tive Boil. and told him TO go to the place and
try to make bet. He was to note particularly
the doorman and the man VINO took his bet.
After doing this he was to step outside OF the
door for n moment. and. IL he had been success
ful raise his hat slightly.
with Detectives Isbel, Johnson, Pierce and
Hickey Captain Kemp then took up a position
inside the storm doors of the Marie AntOinette
Hotel which is right opposite the place rafded
Roll did as he had been bidden and soon ap-
peared at the door and raised his hat. Then
he went back again, while Kemp and his four
men made a rush for the place. They found
Boil with his hands around the dOOrman's
throat.
Then they ran upstairs smashing in two or
three doors with an their way, and
tering large room found about fifty men In
all stages of panic. on billiard table. in the
centre of the room. the police say they found a
set OF dice. with which. Boil says. craps had
been played. Around the room were racing
sheets which were coDfSCated- Captain Kemp
chopped the legs OF the table into kindling
wood John Wilson, Of No. 2t1 West Sixty
s'xth-st and Frank Williams, Of No. 2Os West
sixty-fourth-st.. were arrested the former being
the one who had accepted his money, Boil said,
and the latter being the doorman- They had
reached the station when ex-Warden Hagan,
who was Warden of the Tombs. and at the last
election hear John B. Sexton for the leadership
OF the XIXth Assembly District rushed in