The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-04
WOMAN LED POOLROOM RAID.
SENTRY OPENED DOOR FOR HER;
SLEUTHS CROWDED IN.

Crowd Enjoys Plight OF IL Men in Stalled
Patrol WagOn-Eggers Axes Alleged
TelephOne Exchange DOWntOWn-Hand
hook Raid Made Over BOurke's Head.
Using a woman as a deooy, Detectives
! Fitzpatrick. Quinn and O'Neill OF the West
| Forty-seventh street station fooled the
! lookout Of an alleged poolroom on the first
! floor Of a four-story bTownstone house at
| i4s West Forty-ffth street yesterday after
! noon. The raid which they made furnished
! much amusement in the vicinity OF the
Lyoeum Theatre and the Hotel Astor.
The lookout, they say, was only too glad
TO admit the woman, and, though the guard
Of the inner door tried to stop the detectives
following her, he was too late to save the
place,
The detectives found seventeen men In
the front parlor and not one OF them escaped.
Loaded in a patrol wagon, they made a
specta cular party Of eXCursionists on their
way 70 the station house. They we're
greeted joyously by a crowd walking along
the sidewalk and soon numbering 800 per
sons. A larger crowd accumulated block
away from the starting point when one OF
the horses dropped a shoe and caused a
delay
Damn the horses SHOE said a we'll
dressed man, a bit the worse for liquor.
Il don't want to be kept here on public
exhibition. Drive on to the station house
ITS bad day for the horses. They're
not running we'll in the stretch was the
satisfaction he got from a voice in the crowd
When the wagon was finally unloaded
at the station, Simon Behan, 81 years Of
81 at
Ross 20 years, OF East 102d street, we're
the only ones held. Behan was charged
with maintaining the place and Ross with
aiding and abetting It, Both furnished
bail, with George Considine as surety ,Magis-
trate Mayo accepting the bond.
just after Commissioner McAdoo had
conferred the honorary title Of acting
captain on Sergt. Eggers yesterday after
noon the secret service chief and hail
dozen Of his men ralded an alleged pool
room exchange IN the office building at the
northwest corner Of Whitehall and Pearl
streets. The outfit occupied small office
at the rear Of the third floor.
After smashing in the door with his
trllsty axe, Eggers and his men arrested
three men whom they found In the place,
and took them, along with four telephones
and some racing sheets and cards, TO Police
Headquarters John Corey OF 800 hudson
street, James Murphy OF 1851 Broad street
and William Mcclure Of AZ First place,
Brooklyn, as the prisoners called them
selves, were afterward locked up in the
Mulberry street station charged with aid
ing and abetting in the keeping OF pool
room,
Detectives Ward and Black discovered
the place on Thursd day last, when they
followed man from Broadway and Thomas
street who, they allege, was running a
handbook On Friday and Saturday, they
say, they lowered about the Office door and
heard racing information sent over the
telephones
Acting Inspector Hogan Of the Second
inspection district led three OF his sleuths
into the territory Of Acting Caption BouTke
Of the Mercer street station and arrested
three men charged with running a hand
book at I24 Waverley place. The prisoners
gave these names and addresses: John
Roberts, 10 West Eighteenth street; VIII
liam Bishop, 400 Manhattan street; Joseph
Iarbee. 220 West 1l4th street