New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-02
THE MAILED FIST DROPS.
HITS TFNDERLOTN HARD.
Captain DooJey Refuses B0il-No
arrests in Daytime.

NJ ma WIN looked ANYTHING like a policeman
could buy a drink in the Tenderoin yesterday Win
out also purchasing meal other persons ho"-
ever had little difficulty in obtaining all the liquor
they wanted without even ordering sandwiches. so
that the day could not be called dry.
As result Of the fear inspired in the White
light district by the manifestation of Captain
Dooley's ircn hand strangers were submitted to a
much closer scrutiny by saloonkeepers and their
bartenders than usual. Plain clothes swarmed
through the precinct, making desperate efforts to
get evidence against Raines law hotels, but during
the daytime not single one of them could buy
drink The policemen the back rooms OF sa-
looms filed with men consuming liquor without
food. but they themselves were foed in every at
tempt
In the small hours of Sunday morning, how
ever. when Is against the law sell liquor even
with meals. things were different. Then Captain
Dooley threw such q scare into the TendeTloin
that il gasped with surprise. Between and 4
Sunday morning Dooley made seven excise arrests.
Most OF these We're made by uniformed patrolmen,
which is a state of affairs the Tenderlon has not
seen in years The midnight platoon received
orders to burst into every saloon their posts
and arrest bartenders whenever they found
in the back rooms. Nobody to be spared
a roundsman and two uniformed patrolmen
burst into the saloon of eX-Police Captain Cannon
at sxth-ave and 29th-st.. and arrested the bar
tender This was the last straw. When it be-
came noised abroad that even Cannon had not
been spared. all the saloonkeepers closed up in a
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were legally entitled sell liquor provided they
also served meals.
What made the Tenderlcin gasp more than any
thing else was the refusal of Captain Dooley to
accept bail for prisoners arrested for Instantaneous
Every prisoner locked up in the Tenderloin station
Saturday night and Sunday charged with a mis-
demeanor stayed in a cell until court time for all
rsouId-be bondsmen were refused
This edict applied not only TO professional bonds
men, but to private persons who desired bail
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demeanors. Wives went to the Tenderloin station
10 beg the captain to accept bail for their back
sliding husbands; friends of locked up for
Enisdemeanors threatened damage suits and de-
OF the Tenderloin was obdurate-
appeals
The first person to be turned down by Dooley
bail G. Z. AIellen. of No. Riverside Drive,
charged with intoxication. Declaring that it was
the most highhanded proceeding he had ever heard
OF and that he would bring suit for damages, ne
angry restaurant keeper left the station. Mr.
Then came Nike Savage who keeps a Junk
shop in West 29th-st. He is on the police list
pTopeF5y Vaie6 at S6o ana asked to be allowed to
bail out the bartender Of Sam Nelson, of No; 24SC
7th-aVe arrested for violation Of excise. His ape
plicatfon was refused.
The next applicant was a woman. who came to
the excise: She offered deeds for property and
4came back e half hour later with $500 which she
threw down trumphantly on the sergeant's desk
There you are sergeant she said There's
cash bail Nov, 1 defy you to refuse to release my
husband
To her surprise Sergeant McGloin calmly replied:
Take that money down the City Chamberlain's
Ny orders to hold all deeds for property TWEEN
7y--four hours for investigation, and TO send all
personal property and cash 10 the City Chamber
1ain's Office
When Captain Dooley was asked by a Tribune
reporter If it his policy to refuse bail for all
Ilisdeneanors or only where professional bonds
involved. he replied. Il make
discrimination. Legally there is such thing as
q professional bondsman. shall refuse all alike.
Are you not depriving prisoners of their con-
stitutionaI rights?" asked
II don't think So replied Uhe captain.
AT o'clock Sunday morning Roundsman
George Starkey. recently imported by Dooley from
Coney Island, and Patrolmen O'ConneI and Eagan
walked into ex-Captain Cannon's place snatched
z glass of wfiskey from 4 table, and arrested the
bartender, Frank Sheehan- According Cannon.
the roundsTnan kicked over a table and smashed
several glasses. Cannon followed his bartender
around 70 the station and showed his right hand,
badly cut.
He said It had been cut by flying glass.