The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
RAID NEAR STATION HOUSE.
STREET tLkANTNGf SCUID0EEANS
UP hARLEM P0OLROOM. -
NOT McNsgght's AIrn Find Gamblers nury
Right Under GSDts G~iSnAEher's Nose
Says. Men COuIfn't Get Evidence
-DtsadN RItakes ~ Long R~esIdeDce.

Ser ct. Rob Mcknight ~ the Sti Get Clean
ing Squad, with six policemen from the
East 126th street station, house, raided a
poolroom At 1890 Third aVenue yesterday
afternoon Over the head OF Capt. Edward
Gallagher Of the East ip4th street station
house. Seven men weper arreAted and
racing sheets and cards and stlea and
roulette layouts we're seized in the raid.
The Building at iS9O Third avenue IL
Just around the corner from the E.asJ iU4th
street polidP station. A policeman standing
I'm the rear. of the station hoise n he wasa
good shot, could ctlEify throw his night.
stick into the poolroom- window. Capt.
Gallagher, after he get Wepd OF ths-Eaidy
seemed 10 be a little pertWbed, but he
protested TINT he had done everything he
could 10 close the place. lie had It SNder
saurveillance for three or four days, he said.
but his men had tried in vain To get the
necessary evidence against it. ...g
SerRt. Mcknight men hadn't nearly 20
much %trouhle.' As a matter OF fact. it was
spretty easy for them. Policemen James
Phelan and James Murray Of the Second
precinct, In plain clothes. walked into the
place, which was on the third floor OF the
building, early yesterday afternoon, and
l1oitered aTpilnd "a though they were every
fOAY DhITOnN WITHOUT lIlt IftSb HlDurHIhtlpIhs
They say thcy'made bets on the horses and
played stuss. .I.. D..
Thew had been in the place two hours
or more when Sergt. MoNaught arrived
with the Ak imported cops. The raiders
hustled up the two flights Of stairs and
found the door leading into the poolroom
open. The watcher wastno quick for them,
Though. He slammed the door and threw
! the bolts. iOne Of the policemen got busy
with an axe, hut he wasn't Obliged to work
o,,a ~ Sha ttyA.nA{.,,sc insiGa Goon man.
aged to open the door. 'a
There We're bon thirty-fve persons in
room. Some 81 them made Tor the
windows IN the rear. but when they got a
look at the distance tn the ground they
halted and decided to take their medicine.
The raiders arrested Harry Lewis Of % " est
,125th street on "A charge Of keeping and
maintaining a poolroom. Louis Franklin,
who gave bis address as 1850 Madison aveniie,
was arrested for taking the bets. Michael
Fitzgerald. a card hanger; Al Levi, hedoor-
keeper; Charles Brown, , another card
hanger, and Joe Fox, the stuss dealer,
were gathered in on charges OF aiding
and abettiug gambling. The roulette
wheel was found boxed mp, and it was the
,opinion OF the police thai it hadn't been
used there.
Just about the time Sergt. McNaught's
men were entering the building two OF
Capt. Gallagher detectives appeared on
the scene and joined in the raid. The
Captain said later that, these were the men
who had been watching the place under
hie directions. One Of the precinct sleuths
said hat they had found II impossible to
gain admittanoe to the place-they were
TOO well known. A few questions ELECTED
the TACT hat this detective. who had been
sent out to get evidence against a poolroom
not more than a stones throw from the
station house, had served for ten years in
the precinct. The other plain clothes man
who was on the job lives in the precinct
and has served there for two years.
Sergt. Mcknight raided an alleged pool
room in Capt. Herlihy's precinct in Harlem
about a week ago, and the keepers of
similar resorts in that part of town are now
thoroughly scared.