The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-18
pOOLROOM MEN CONE NEXT
JEROME WILL HIT THEM ALSO
WITH TIE LEWISOHN Law.
A Dozen subppnas stlll Out for Gamblers
Many In the South-McA doc May start
Detective Bureau OF His Own-Bourko
Raids necrudeseent Pceiroori.


Many In the standardization May starr
Detective Bureau OF His Own-BOurko
Raids necrudeseent Poelroori.
The procession Of gamblers to the Dis
trict Attorneys office will continue to-day
Five gamblers are expected TO show up,
turn over their tools Of trade and give MT
Jerome a written promise that they Will
let his men in.
There are about twelve subppnas out
for gamblers Tho District Attorneys
Office has received information that Frank
Burbridge Is in Cuba, Gotfried Walbaum
at Hot Springs, Lou Betts in Richmond
Va. his home; Pug Levy at Santa Cata-
lima, and Dave Gideon in New Orleans.
Burbridge has been in Cuba for month
and Walbaum at Hot Springs for near ly
six weeks. There is no subpoena out for
Dave Gideon The others all went out OF
town before Mr.. Jerome summoned Honest
John Kelly.
With the gamblers ont Of the way Mr.
Jerome will begin crusade against the
poolrooms. either at the end OF this week
or early next week. Keeping pooroom
lis more heavily punishable than keeping
any other kind of gambling house Mucn
obtained, and II has been turned over TO
Assistant District Attorney. Lord. 1t was
said yesterday that hundreds OF subpnnas
would be issued for patrons OF poolrooms
The men said TO control the business IN TINS
city will all be subpnnaed, and telegraph
and telephone company officials can be
called on. under the Lewisohn law, to tell
what they know about the news the pool
rooms get and how they get II,
MIR, M'ADoo PRESERVES HIS CALM.
Il am leading a quiet life. =" said Police
Commissioner McAdoo yesterday. j am
reading Wagner's Simple Lfe; Pl,grim
Progress and Baxter's Saints Rest
Mr.. Jerome Is quoted as saying that
Gov. Higgins ought to remove you, the
Police Commissioner had first been told.
Don't you think that you ought 10 say
something about it?'
MY office has directed me to ask YOU,
said reporter for an evening newspaper,
whether you will resign now or wall until
the Governor removes your
They ought TO get medal in your office,
said the Commissioner.
Mr.. MoAdoo was much disturbed over
report printed in some newspapers that he
had said that there were only three honest
police captains in this city. He said;
"In the first place, / didn't make any
such statement; and, in the second place:
IL would have been entirely unjustfable II
] did ! did use the word available.
don't mind being abused myself, but
don't want any one else to be through me,
or by me. un Justly. | would far rather be
the victim of injustice than to be the cause
of injustice TO others
Have any charges been made agains I
any police officers to-day?- was asked
Not to-day answered Mr.. McAdoo.
DETECTIVE BUREAU OF HIS OWN.
1t was said around Headquarters that
Mr., McAdoo was soon 10 form new de-
tective bureau which would operate inde-
pendently of the Central Office Detective
Bureau Mr.. McAdoo said that he had not
announced such a plan and had nothing to
say on the subje Detective Sergeant
Eggers. who, 1t was eaid, was TO have
| charge of the new bureau was in the Com
missoners Office during the day IL was
said Yesterday that he was TO have rather
a free hand in selecting men for the pro-
| posed bureau. He won't take detective
| sergeants The new bureau, il was said
would devote its attention more especially
to poolrooms and gambling houses.
sUBPGSAs Two FooLRooM MEN.
Jack Somack, who ran a poolroom in
Fourth avenue until Friday night, and n
man named Callahan, who ran similar
place at % Sixth avenue, were both at
Police Headquarters yesterday. They
came under subpPnas, Mr.. McAdoo said.
Somack saw Deputy Commissioner Linds-
4 ley and told him about his place Callahan
saw Mr.. McAdoo.
Il got a great deal Of enlightenment
/ from him, was the only thing Mr.. McA doc
would say about the visit.
BoUBKE RAIDS on HIS FIRST DAY.
Sergt Bourke raided a poolroom few
hours after he had taken charge OF the
Mercer street station as act ing capta ain.
/ The place raided. 1877 Macdougal street,
was raided the night before by Inspect or
/ Titus and Capt. o 'Connor, and Titus said
We'll this one settles 1t. This clears
! up this precinct
! In less than twenty-four hours the same
! place was raided again and fifty men were
I caught there.
! When Bourke took command yesterday
! morning he told the men on post to look
I out for indications OF poolrooms or gainb-
/ ling houses, About 3 O'Clock in the after
noon Policeman George Becker concluded
! that the Macdouga street place was busy
! q gain. Policeman Bernardo. on special
/ post in front of the house, thought so too,
and they notified Bourke. Bourke gathered
/ up eight men, armed them with axes and
/ crow bars, went around and chopped
/ through a door. They found fifty men
I in the place, but no telephones. Capt.
/ Bourke said that he believed he poolroom
! got its information through pocket
I telephone which could be hitched to the
7 old wires.
/ Hugh Quinn and Charles Moss, who were
( arrested in the Monday night raid, we're
/ arrested again. The others were obliged
| TO identify themselves. Their names will
] be sent to Dist riot Attorney jerome
I Dourke was told afterward that one of
! the owners OF the place got away under a
/ fictitious name.