The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-14
GOT ONE OFLARRY'S STEERERS.
cor FINDS NEW VARIETY or OLD
WIRE TAPPING GAME.
Flash Roll with simple Life" for Filler
Drawer papered with SIO2-Tour OF
the Exchanges Ends In Front OF Fat
Man at an Uptown Billiard Room.

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Man at an Uptown Billiard Room.
Borough Inspector Brooks has had a
squad of detectives out for some time
trailing wire tappers Of the Larry Summer
field variety-that is wire tappers who never
tap a wire. In the last two weeks com
plants have reached Police Headquarters
which made the Central Office fear that
Larry might have broken jail
Detective Charles Hooker OF Brooks's
staff doesn't look like cop. He ia small
and clean shaven and might easily be taken
for the typical gilded youth. Perhaps the
sleuth's makeup was responsible for his
being approached at Broadway and Thirty
first street yesterday morning by Tom
Watson, one of Summerfeld's old steerers
Hooker willingly accepted an invitation
to have one, They had two and Hooker
displayed a Michigan bankrol when he
paid for tho second. Al the same time the
boyish looking cop conflded to his acqualnt-
ance the fact that he liked to play the races
AT this point Watson sprung PROPOSE
ton that was new for a Summerheldlan.
He said nothing about tapping wire
but declared he knew where there was an
exclusive poolreom where odds we're given
twice as big as at any other place IN town
He invited his new victim TO go downtown
with him and get in with few big plunger
Hooker was very anxious TO get in with
suchfpeope The first place visited was the
Stock Exchange. where Watson greeted a
swell sport who was longing in the cor
ridor.
Charlie Desmond said Watson, and
whispering in Hooker's ear, added. lie
never bets less than a thousand"
Some time later. at the entrance 10 the
Consolidated Exchange Hooker was In
troduced to MIR. Edward Mahoney.' From
there they went to the Produce Exchange
but didn't pick up any additional acquain-
tances-then to the Cotton Exchange. and
Hooker noticed that his three friends spoke
10 people who nodded a stiff reply, az If to
say 81 don't know you The quartet
wandered all through the financial district,
and visited many cafes curing the ramoie.
/ was well alon5 In the afternoon wnen
they started up town for the philantnroplc
poolroom that gave the big odds, Hooker
had hard work from laug hing outright
when the trio steered him into a billiard
paror in the basement OF the Carleton
Hotel. on Fifty-fourh street just west
of Seventh avenue, Walking through the
billiard paror, the four entered a small
room to the side
A fat man seated az small tape opened
a drawer when Hooker was led into the
room To all appearances the drawer was
filed to overlooking with money Seated
beside the table was a man who wac intro
duced rs Emanuel Vernon, millionaire
auctioneer
Inc man behind the table posted the
..4.t L. So - H.
and Alr. Charlie Desmond, who never bets
less than thousand, flashed an enormous
roll Of bills He didn't fancy the race,
however and put his money back in his
pocket. Detective Hooker also didn't like
the entries but said by way of amusement
he would take a pike on Ioscan. SO
saying he flashed his roll and peeled of a
FIVE dollar bill The faces Of the others
in the room showed great disappointment.
Hooker had written In ink the number of
his shield 1921. on the back of the bill.
After the man behind the table accepted
this the sleuth suddenly remembered that
he had To call up his aunt and tell her be
couldn't como to her house for dinner.
To do this it vas necessary 10 go TO a store
around the corner Thus Hooker got an
opportunity TO ask Police Headquarters for
help Capt Flood of the West Forty
seventh street station and squad Of cops
were hustled around To the billiard room.
They found Hooker backed against the
door with drawn revolver. he 1Ve men
had got wise to his game and made an effort
10 escape. He held them up by threatening
10 shoot the first one that moved Capt
Flood and his men put all under arrest and
coniscated the drawer filled with money
1t was found TO contain a layer Of bills
amounting 70 tl02, which included Hooker's
marked five spot. Charlie Desmond's'
big roll dwindled 10 30 one dollar bills
wrapped around a copy Of The Simple
Iife'
All hands were taken to the station house
and locked up. They gave all sorts Of
names and addresses, The man who sat
AT the table said he was James Martin. a
clerk living IN East Fifty-fourth street
Toscan won that race, and Hooker said
it was just like his luck
Two young men whom the police charge
with being tapless wiretappers were ar
rested at 20 West Forty-second street the
Spaulding Building. yesterday afternoon.
Detective Sergeant Meehan and two police |
men raided room the pair had on the fifth |
floor
The police had got a tip that Edward !
Dore OF 300 West Forty-sIXth street and |
Edward Williams Of Oil Columbus avenue
were about to SGT up in the business of /
trimming suckers They went there glued |
their ears to keyhole for four days heard 7
nothing but race talk over a telephone.
got tired and arrested the two. anyway.
They found a bunch of racing sheets, sew !
eral packs of cards and two telephones. /
one phony instrument. the other real. I
The pair were locked up in the East Fifty |