The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-19
EGGERS IN DOWNTOWN RAIDS.
mons tNED ~ OFFICE BUTLD-
I>oS ~ orr BtNCH or NAMES,
,uerrl rugllst Has Disastrous Encoun-
trr VITA Stron< Cop Invasion Of
supposed POolrooms Made over
urldS Of schmlttberger and HOdglns.


eerrt Eqcrrs with axemen from Police
t1eg5..,rri.~- proved TO his own satisfaction
,,.,,rhy afternoon that poolrooms can
,ot u.., rhc best regulated precincts and
r-ro,,Iop districts when he raided two
,l,,.. ., alleges were fulfedged pool
ro.,,- u capt. llodgin~'s Oak street
r,acir,, vsich t.in Inspector Max Schmidt
iorr. district EGgers himself led
dos. ,.rn To- the hfth hoor Of an Office
hn.,.,- PSI Pearl strrc'. while Rounds
man .ivsn OF his squad took another
d,.on iY 'ho third floor Of another oiiica
luld.re. az rot Bccknan street Both
,,,i- urrrd punc,ually At I o'clock
l.r.--'. squad headed by Rattering
Ram Pierce and Ihunderbolt Wiohman.
ss ihrv arc dubbed. both armed with axes
ven, ul,tbr five flights of stairs three steps
nj n time pan-ing only long enough Ia
smash three doors They oorralled eighty
men fDev made four prisoners, took
,bo name, of the others, gathered in racing
cb,ti- and cards and three telephones
and Jofured One man with a roll Of
,ugn,r containing over 500 made such
Jo.rc,ltcc,roIt 20 get away that an officers
hand Ni> cut struggling with him against
window fhe officer did not return with
p
name fa- tire good of the secret service.
Tbc prisoners were: Thomas Williams
of.lOik street. John Cronin Of SO Madison
at.ru. John johnson of 81 East Eighty
fourth s'uct and James Hogan OF - City
H,n iIaea The marked money of some
OF Ne rcr-', men who had been gathering
eyiJou., was found on the prisoners.
C.frln'- men smashed two doors and
luui.I into a lively fight. An alleged
mi, fgsi.r six feet tall. whom the police
de-rnled Pcs the -Cireenpoint Flea. had
iut1fed ~ Detective Hamilton, who with
ncirtIya Major Murray, was collecting
,,ld,p,e. u.s. soon a., Hamilton showed his
ladg, whcn the raiders smashed in the
tr.i door When Costigan'~ men got in
ther found Hamilton with the "Greenpoint
He4 under him and lying helpless over
window 80 Hamilton wes assuring the
alleged prrehGhtsr that he would drop
hm ut Il he didn't behave.
49,, cor- got one telephone and some
r. iu. ahart- and cards They took the
nam # sixty men and made three prison
er-,ea follows George Williams. a real estate
ma '5j Sixth street, Brooklyn; George
Harris d bartc nder, of a7S st. Mark avenue.
BrooFivn and Fred Primrose who said he
va- 40 actor but not minstrel, OF 376
Nll0lnut street. Brooklyn. Costigan recog-
ni2ad one Ing wholesale liquor dealer in
TIE crowd
Egs IS found ont that the telephone was
2 pn,aia wire hut he thinks he knows the
connections.
The prisoners were taken 10 Headquarters.
where treir lat!iErees were taken, and then
they we're locked up in the Mulberry street
station
N'LArDHLN RAlps HAYWOOD CO.
Police INSPECTOR Mclaughlin, over he
hcld oi capt Cottr-il Of the leaderioin
EHnen. madc urother raid yesterday after
moon Information had reached the IN
spcrt.r that tho office " "HJrwood q
60 on tho tenth floor ~ an Office build
ing ~ no Vest Ih'rtv-fourth 81 rect WIS
tho Gene Of great activity late in the after
moons Haywood d CO.. advertise racing
t.f
eauve Sergeant Joseph O'Connor
frd Poircmln John Lyons OF Ncl1ughiin's
star visited the Offices AT O'Clock Yesterday
afternoon They were in no hurry to go,
but stood In \ narrow Yertlbule Just outside
An opeu ransom ga Sc them an opportunity
e. hear viai WIS going on The Two police
men rCar! enough TO satisfy them that
mcuev vas being lost and won, and they
pushed 10 thin door.
lrsde ttev found about twenty-five
men ,aeilg odds and horses. Mortimer
Sjolc Wlu ,aid be- was a commission mer
clen' and james Settle, who described
him- g Handicapped. were picked out
and 'o~ied The others we're allowed
e. ~, Stone on whom s2lS was found,
vas charged with being the proprietor.
Bnt s "- ws accused of aiding and
hhcure Both were locked up in the
Tender. lr station.