The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-28
DUMMY TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
RAIDED AFTER "WIRE TAPPERS"
HAD GOT MAFER'S Se,4 400.

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30 Instruments, Most without Numbers,
An without Wires. At s6 Firth Ave-
nue-Two Bunco Men Bassed Uptown
ono Hurt Jumping From window.
Having met the wire tappers who tap no
wires, but only pockets, Herman Mayer
told about it on Saturday night to his friend
Richard H. Burke, superintendent OF the
Goddard ANTHOLOGY Society. He said
that on Friday last one Henry Meyers
unfolded to him a timeworn scheme OF
beating the poolrooms through leak
in the Western Union Office, and took him
to the top floor of 70 Fifth avenue to meet
the man who was TO leak"
On the sixth floor Mayer found big
room, with a score OF men busy at tele-
phones. 1t was an exchange, Meyers told
him, whence the results Of the races, re-
ceived from the telegraph company, were
sent out to poolrooms. Meyers introduced
Mayer to the leak" The leak said he
could hold back the result Of race for
seven minutes, but only one race day,
Then Meyers hustled Mayer up to saloon
In Sixth avenue between Forty-second
and Forty-third streets. to await tip
When the telephone rang Meyers answered
IL.
Come on" he cried to Mayer. i've
got the horse. We've only seven minutes
Meyers hustled Mayer to the floor above a
tobacco store at l0l West Forty-s second
street. The room was fitted up as pool
room. The furnishings were In green and
the woodwork was oak. Mayer was i'm
pressed. He bet $50, but on what horse
he didn't know.
Ten minutes later he was told that he
had won 800 on the steeplechase at Graves
end. He was so delighted that he gave
Meyers half Of his winnings and made an
appointment to meet him on Saturday
On Saturday Mayer went to the German
Savings Bank and drew q 400 with which
he was again rushed up to the saloon and
then to the supposed poolroom by Meyers.
This time there was a crowd in the place.
Mayer lost his nerve.
Come in" cried Meyers, "you have only
a few minutes This is too good TO lose
MAYER saws that he thought something
was wrong and made for the door. but that
Meyers grabbed the s2,4oo and pushed 1t
through the cashiers window. Then there
was five minutes wait.
You lose," said Meyers finally. That's
too bad Something must have gone
wrong somewhere. But you can get 1t all
back on Monday
That night Mayer told his story to Burke
and yesterday with a dummy roll FUR
nished by the police be met Meyers at the
saloon by appointment. Capt. hussey
and a bunch OF detectives followed them
into the bogus poolroom As soon as
Meyers saw the police he made n dash
for the window, the sash OF which swung
on a pivot Detective Kuhn grabbed him,
but he broke away and jumped TO the street,
injuring his spine. He Is In Roosevelt
Hospital. Twelve men found in the place
were locked up. WI. Hayes. who blew IN
81, 100 on the same game year ago, saw
Meyers on the street and said that Meyers
was in that game also with Sheeny Mike.
The next thing to do yesterday was to
nav visit to the Exchange Burke
notified the Mercer street police and they
sent the patrol wagon with him. Inc big
top floor room was vacant.
There we're thirty-six telephones on the
walls with a fake switchboard. The tele-
phone wires ran only into the walls. Only
two of the telephones had the transmitting
diaphrag gins. These two bore numbers.
The rest had no numbers. few were still
in their wrappings
In addition there were thousands OF
letterheads OF "The New York Information
Teiephone Bureau, 70 Fifth avenue, Racing
Department, ia. Sherman, Superintendent, v
with the information that switchboards and
telephones would be supplied, and similar
letterheads Of the New York and New
Jersey Telephone Bureau. Superintendent g
Office, Racing Department. There was
also book marked Ledger Of the Ander-
sonia Club, Incorporated, lass Broadway,
removed to 4s4 Sixth avenue, H. W. O'Brien,
Treasurer" showing that it cost IS to join
the club and 81 a month dues The police
removed as much Of the stuff as possible
to the station house.
Later, Supt. Burke and Detective Carter
arrested Edward Martin as he was leaving
the Criterion Theatre. According to Burke.
Martin is the leak
Agent Robert s. Mcclellan OF the Park
hurst society, with a squad Of detectives
from the Central ONCE, raided a poolroom
Yesterday afternoon in the rear of a saloon
at PIG East 10th street. over the head Of
Can't. Burns, who is in command OF the
East 12eth street station, and arrested
James McCabe of s44 Eighth avenue, as
the proprietor along with four other men
who were in the place. Mcclellan said
that McCabe had been moving his pool
room from one place to another. He was
arrested on q warrant.
Can't. Cottrell, with two Of his Tenderloin
sleuths found, at a house on West Thirty
frat street, last night $50 white men and
negroes, who. he says, were playing craps
and betting on the races. He arrested a
negro who said he was King William.
On the floor above the captain found n
number of white women. and on the floor
ebove that about a dozen negro women,
The captain says they were playing the
races by speaking tube. They weren't
nolested.