The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
GREAT DAY FOR CAPT. TIGHE.
REU MAS 4 HtRD CtPTiTN. POOL-
ROON NAV TESIJFfLS.
The Only Recent Convictions Following
Arrests IN Mercer ~. Precinct Are
IlS-Serst ItOurke DWeilS ieellngiy
on the Worries of Cleaning tp.

IlS-SerEt. Itourkc DweiiS FecllnEiy
on the Worries of Cleaning Up
Prosecutor Lindsey was on the point
OF closing his ease against Capt. Hlghe
Yesterday. when Theodore Schwacke, who
had refused TO testify concerning his pool
room. at III Macdougal street. appeared
IN court and announced that on the advice
Of his counsel he had decided to take adj
vantage of tho immunity offered by the
District Attorney under the Bowling act
and was ready to tell all he knew.
Lindsey was Enthusiastically surprised.
He had announced that Judge Davis
in the Supreme Court had held a hearing
in the case of Thomas Callahan. the test
case which will decide them all, and an
nounced that he would accept briefs on
Saturday and act Immediately. Lindsey
was about to close. therefore. with the
reservation that he might call reoacitrant
witnesses later if Judge Davis's decision
gave him the power to compel their testi
rnony
Schwackc's unexpected appearance
caused n considerable sensation, and his
testimony regarding Tighe. which was
favorable, a greater one. He told a straight
forward story, admitting that he had run
a poolroom at l27 Macdougal street pretty
continuously from Feb p to Dec. 90 1904.
Wien he quit very suddenly after an axe
raid For a short time after the raid, he
said, he ran a game of "klondise' there.
He described the arrangements Of the
building and his methods Of business in
great detail. including description of the
card gambling game of klondike- He
also told of how he was searched many
10 ,,fI lafg i1a
oeedcd in discovering the marked s. bill
which n disguised policeman had played
on tho losing horse. He had spread about
$500 all over his clothes.
They took on my hat on tie third round,
said he, and down noated 500. | thought
could beat that fellow TiGhe, but he
STAYED with it aud did me.
L turned to Inspector Brooks and asked
him for a square deal | didn't think
Tighe would give me square deal. l
hone ! may never see 40 hard a captain
again"
On cross-examination Law yer Grant,
counsel for Tighe. brought out more on this
hne;
-Tghe was always after me- said
6chwacke. having me put under bail 10
keep the peace and the like of that He
had plain clothes men in my place all the
time. once he threw me off a stoop when
there was a fuss. and tore my clothes.
deserved it all right; but thought he was
sore on me.
It came out in Schwacke's testimony,
also, that as n result OF raid by Tighe on
Schwacke's place on July 10 one man had
yesterday pleaded guilty and been fined
k25 Another was under Indictment and
there was third concerning whose situa-
ton Schwacke was not certain.
This came after Grant had brought out
From Acting Captain Bourke, who has sue
ceeded Tighe in the Mercer street pre-
cinct. that Bourke has been unable TO have
any Of the prisoners held whom he took
IN his raids
Bourke gave resume Of his steward
shin on the stand.
Il have raided five alleged poolrooms,
eaid he, thirteen or fourteen alleged dis
orderly houses, two alleged gambling houses
and one handbook. Present conditions in
the precinct are good There were fifteen
alleged poolrooms. when l went there;
Thirteen arc closed-or they we're when |
left for this trial to-day. | have been en-
Joined from interfering with two places.
one on the Bowery and one on West Third
street, which | consider poolrooms
know the precinct to be clear of poorooms
except the two | mention. | know that not
over three disorderly houses are running.
Those am endeavoring to close, ard want
70 say that closing such houses is about the
hardest job | ever tackled.
Grant looked around in significant
manner, an argument without words for
'Tighe.
7 am now endeavoring to get at, through
my plain clothes men, the Raines law hotels
that believe are subjects for police attack.
Grant then slashed at Bourke for a while
About his reasons for raiding, the sort Of
preliminary evidence he obtained, the
granting OF injunctions restraining him
from interfering with the two places men
Eoned and closed
1T is a fact, then. that the only con-
tictions recently have followed arrests
By Capt. Tighe?F
Nobody denied this.
Lindsey presented lot OF reports from
Capt. Tighe TO Headquarters concerning
suspected places in his precinct and his
actions concerning them but went no fur
Their than having the signatures Identified.
Par; Of the charges against Tighe are that
he made false reports. Commissioner
McAvoy will rule on accepting the exhibits
on Friday when the trial j. resumed.
The defence will begin then. and Mr..
Grant says that he expects TO consume
three or four daVs.