The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-16
WOMEN TAKEN IN POOLROOM.
go HAD 10 GIVE NAMES AND Al
DRESSES 70 POLICE
After Tryfng TO Get out by the windows
May he Called aS witnesses Against
Hansos.Who nan the Paee-A woman
Did Preliminary slsuIhihG for EGEcrs,

Hansee who nan the P1aee-A woman
DID Preliminary slsuIhinG for EGEcrs,
Commissioner McAdoos band Of secret
service sleuths with Sergt. EgEers at their
head raided yesterday in the apartment
house at 305 West Forty-second street
what they say was Eoman's poolroom.
They got one prisoner and the names OF
twenty women whom they found In the
place and scared into Mysteries. The lone
prisoner was the sole man in the place, and
he was booked at the Mulberry street sta
ton as Fred Bush. The police say that his
right name Is Hansee and that he makes
business Of running women's poolrooms.
On Wednesday OF last week Eggers
enlisted the services Of Miss II. z. Lewis
Of S62 Edgecombe avenue and supplied
her with money to got evidence against
the place Miss Lewis went to tho
room that day. She followed an elderly
woman up one fight Of stairs, and when the
woman was admitted by knocking in q
peculiar way Miss Lewis tried to initiate
the knock on the parlor door. The door
was opened by Hansee who, she SAYS, agreed
70 take money from her to bet on the races
Before agreeing he asked who she was
and where she lived. He apologized for
asking 80 many questions by saying he
was afraid the police would ring In woman
stool pigeon on him.
They did that once, said he. 'and it cost
me lot OF money
Miss Lewis never got inside the room, all
her talk with Hansee taking place in the
nall While she chatted with him several
women peeped out Of the parlor door, and
Miss Lewis says she heard a noise that
sounded like the whirTtng of a roulette
wheel. A portable roulette wheel with
an oil cloth layout, was found in the fiat
yesterday.
Two days after this visit, Miss Lewis
says, She was visited at her home by the
man she had interviewed He called. be
tod her. to see il she was telling the truth
when she visited him. They chatted for
an hour or more and when the man was
leaving he said he had become suspicious
OF Miss Lewis and that II she really wanted
him to believe she was 4 thoroughbred
sport he would like to have her put up with
him as a sort oil security for her good con-
duct a certified check for 500. This check,
the man said, be would return when he
was satisfied that Miss Lewis was really
and truly q sport Mas Lewis couldn't
see why she should give the man a Ger
tilted check and she told him 50. Then he
left her. saying that he didn't want to do
business with her.
IAN my customers are uloneyed women,
and / can't AFFORD to take chances be said.
Zone OF my people was milionairess,
hut she kicked 50 when she struck g loser
that had 70 throw her out
Mics Lewis reported this conversation to
ccrgt. Eggess. and he took six men, an axe
and a sadge hammer up TO the apartment
sterdoy. While Miss Lewis waited across
the street they smashed In the door leading
10 the private hall Of the first floor fiat and
then had 10 smash the door from the private
han into tho parlor.
They forced an entrance in time to see
most Of the twenty women in the place
scamper to the rear OF the fat One ran
toward front window and tried to jump
out She was on the window casing when
she was caught, Several women tried to
get down the rear fire escape. They we're
pulled back They didn't even become
oalr when they found they were not going
10 he arrested. They we're informed that
they would have to give their right names
and addresses and produce cards or papers
10 show that they we're telling the truth.
They may he wanted as witnesses.
The names Of all were taken, and as each
name was verified by o card or paper the
owner was allowed to depart. All the
women, according to the raiders, were ap-
parcntly well to do. While the work Of
taking names was going on Hansee offered I
one Of the raiders a fifty dollar bill to let
him escape. The cop took the bill, and
will usa II for evidence
Sergt Sgers says the apartment was
finely furnished and that it contained every
thing TO make the women patrons COM
Portable. Such a crowd gathered outside |
the apartment house while the raid was
on that the reserves Of the West Forty |
seventh street station were called
Sergt. Eggers says he will turn over the |
names OF the women TO District Attorney |
jerome. He wouldn't give them out for |
publication last night, and Commissioner |
MoAdoo upheld him. II was said at Police |
Headquarters that the FIRST news the police !
got Of the alleged poolroom came from |
the husband Of a woman who has fire. |
quented the place.