The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-02
STORM THE. ALIENS OLD FORT
COPS WITH GATHERING RAM RAID
so SIXTH AVENUE.
Three Out Of 100 Men Picked for Arrest
Neither Allen Nor One Faulks Said
20 lie New Proprietor. Pound-POliCc
Wreck DefenOes-Huge Mob Looks on.


Neither Allen Nor One Faulks Said
TO lie New Proprietor. Pound-POlico
Wreck Defenoes-Huge Mob Looks on.
The building at 90 Sixth avenue, where for
years The Allen has more or less set the
police at defiance, was once again the
scene Of raid yesterday afternoon. When
the police finally got inside the place they
found about one hundred men In a room
on the second floor, all but three Of whom
were allowed 10 90 after the police had taken
their names. The selected three, who said
they were Charles Bennett Of 1876 Waverley
place, John Doyle OF 32s Madison street and
John Brown Of lee West Ninth street. were
locked up at the Mercer street station
charged with aiding and abetting in the
keeping Of a poolroOm.
The raid was planned byActing Inspector
Hogan andActing Captain Bourke. No one
In the building escaped. Just what evidence
the police have they wouldnot tell last night.
They said that they could prove that the
prisoners were employed in the place and
that they had two men who would swear
they had made bets there.
Yesterdays raid was just as spectacular
a. some that were made In the days Of the
beWhiskered Chapman, and the neighbons,
who have Witnessed many similar exhibit
tons. crowded into the street at the first
sign Of the cops 70 watch the show. The
ralding party, which consisted OF about
twenty cops in plain clothes, was divided
into three squads. At exactly 40 they
attacked the place simultaneously from
different points. One squad under BourlIe.
tackled the front doors With a huge iron
battering ram. SerRt. Corbett led another
squad up a ladder placed in front Of the
building 10 the second floor, and set TO work
at the iron bars in front Of the windows
there with a big pipe cutter. The third
squad, under Detective Underhill, also
armed With a pipe cutter, got TO the roof,
and, after ripping up the scuttle. went TO
work on the iron bans that were fastened
beneath II.
The doors showed less STAYING power
than was expected, and in few minutes
Bourks and his party had broken in. Cor
belts men were than called OF, but the
third squad kept at work until they had
forced an entrance. Subsequently It went
through the building, tearing from the
windows heavy wire screens that had been
fastened to each.
The police found but little IN the way
Of poolroom equipment. One Of the in
mates told them, they said, that most Of
the racing sheets and charts were burned
in tho stove While they were breaking in.
A small space was partitionod OF at the
rear Of the middle room on the second floor
IN which II was alleged the real business
Of the place was transacted. Tho partition
was strongly built. At one end Of It was
a door Of heavy timbers faced with shoot
iron, and 90 strong that the batterinE ram
made no impression on Il. There was a
narrow slit In this through which, it Is
alleged, tho money was passed. The police
eventually got the door down, but found
no one behind the partition. They found
a few cards on which odds were marked,
but no telephones or telegraph instru-
ments.
After the raiders got inside, Acting Cap
tain Bourke notified Police Headquar-
ters, and Mr.. Howell, Commissioner
secretary, went over and had a
look at the place.
Before the police got through with their
work the crowd in Sixth avenue grew to
such an extent that Il was necessary to
summon the reserves Of two precincts to
clear the street for traffic.
Acting Captain Bourke said that The.
Allen asserts he has retired from business
and no longer has any interest in the place
1T 90 Sixth avenue. A man named Faulke,
Bourke said be was informed, was In charge
there now. Bourke thinks. however, that
Allen has still some interest in the place,
Tor he Ia frequently seen in the cigar store
next door, where he made his headquarters
for years. Neither Allen nor Faulke was
around when the raid was made.