The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-06
STORM TTNDERLON FORTRESS
100 MEN C0RRALLED BEHIND
OAK AND IRON BARRIERS.
Capt. sShIottman Gives the POslr0oms Of
HIs Temporary COmmaDdn Heavy Jar
-Phce Entered BY en- scuttlo After
Owe an HOURS. Vain Are Werk.

Capt. Herman W, Schlottmau. for three
weeks temporary car Of the Tenderloin
by the grace Of Acting Polioe Commissioner
Waldo, made his first poolroom' raid In
the Tenderloin yesterday afternoon and
made a oorker. It took twenty-five men,
equipped with crowbars and axen. half
an hour TO even make an inpresAion on
the place, Fox's, AZ 100 West Thirty-frst
street, and then they only got In because
q couple Of wise cops. who were guarding
the roof, got inside through the scuttle.
So sure were the players that the place
was i~mpfegpable that they. never even
Nopped playing the races, although they
beard the policemen banging away at the
doors and windows. ., .v
To begin with, Capt.. SohlOttmAa lost on
Monday all his plain clothes men. pstTotmsn
who had been brought to the precinct by
Capt. O'Brien, Sincs then he has been
worrying. along with two fregularly de-
tailed detectives, Giiderrnan and Hunt,
and two loaned men, McManus and White.
McManhs and White got into the alleged
poolroom on Tuesday. afternoon and So
cured evidence on which Magistrate
Sweetser in the Jefferson Market police
court at $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
issued John Doe warrants.
After securing the warrants the two
detectives joined Capt. 7Schlottman and
his right. and left bowers, Glderman and
Hunt, in the Tenderloin station. There
were twenty patrolmen en- reserve, and
the captain rooted them ,all out. Ten
minutes later the twenty-five men, all in
plain clothes, and some Of them walking
stiff legged on account Of the crowbars
inside their tro user legs, sneaked out OF
the station house 10 twos and threes.
In the usual mysterious way word passed
through the Tenderloin that Schlottman
was up and doing, but no one in Fox's place
paid any attention to the alarm. The
place was believed to be proof against any
assault. q go &C.. .''ff ~,
When the police arrived at roo West
Thirty-irst street they oun a three story
brick building with a high stoop. some
on h roof of IL and ON adjoining build
ings, while a dozen, armed with hammers
and crowbars, tackled the front:
The basement windows looked promis-
ing, and they we're first attacked. When
the men smashed in the windows and drew
up the shades, they found sheet iron shut
tiers tn at resisted all efforts to break them
In. Then the cops got busy with the door.
IL was just AIS O'Clock whenTthe dozen
policemen broke in the outside door and
began to pound with their hammers and
crowbars on an extra door that barred
their entrance. Ten mute work con-
vinced Capt. Sohlottman that there was
nothing doin gwith the arms his men had,
so he e r half a dozen Of his men
around TO the headquarters of Engine 1,
IN Third street near Sixth avenue for
axes. When they got them, all the men
went to work again on the door.
A half hours work on h door produced
no results. Then, at 4:50 O'Clock, two
policemen on the roof, Hamshire and Allen,
decided, that il was time for them to get
busy. They tackled the scuttle and finally
succeeded in breaking IL open. Then they
hustled down TO the ground floor and let
In their fellow policemen.
Capt. Schlottman divided his forces and
sent them all over the building. They
found the cellar empty, The ground floor,
divided into two rooms, was deliberately
fitted up with scarlet carpet. tapestry and
furniture. In a rear room was a well
stocked buffet bar.
The third floor. the top one, was poorly
furnished, but the cop found a quantity
Of cards and poker chips. In addition
there was agbig packing case that the police
men said had ono contained a roulette
wheel.
q The second floor was crowded with over
100 men. According 10 the police there
were racing sheets, telephones, black
boards, a cashiers desk and al the lxings
that go TO make up a first class poolroom.
In a rear room was a big blackboard on
which, the police alleged, the odds IN horse
races We're posted, .--
The two rooms on the second floor were
brilliantly lighted and were well ventilated
by electric fans, In addition, there was
big circular fan which opened out on the
roof Of an adjoining building. The police
declare that it was SIMPLY a clever get
away. At all events, when the police got into
the place several men removed the fan
and crawied through the opening, only 70
I've nabbed by policemen waiting on ad-
joining roofs.
When the police made their entrance,
the players, IL il alleged. were still en-
crossed in betting on a trace. Only a few
Of them had tim~eto'nake an effort to escape.
" were old TO keep quiet said one
man. when the police got to sorting out the
men in the place. The boss said the cops
couldn't break in 10 q thousand years,
so We didn't bother"
When the men in the place bad been
looked over Capt. Schlottman on the identi-
hca;ion Of McManus and White, picked out |
four men for arrest They gave, their
eighth street, charged with being the pro-
prietor Of the place and L~ouisfGilbert OF the |
Olympia House, Coney Island; Thomas
Mack of Cryes Hotel, Coney Island, and
street who were charged with aiding and
abetting.
After the four men had been arrested,
George Arnold, a drAughtsman, Of Sixth
aV enue ana IhTUy-AeVenO street, was
heard by a policeman to say that 50 long az
the Olice had no evidence he would beat it.. !
didn't, but when the police got him to
the station house Sergt. Leary decided
that there was no evidence against him
and let him go.
The raid caused the biggest kind Of a
shutdown in the Tefderloin poolrooms.
1t also caused a big orowd--so big that the
reserves from a couple OF precincts were
called over to Thirty first street to drive
the curious away.
The PLACE raided, according to the DO
lice, was the most strongly fortified place
in the Tenderloin. The inside front door
was made Of four inches Of seasoned oak
REINFORCED with sheet iron. Every window
was protected with sheet iron shutters and
two by four inch iron bars. The only
vulnerable spot, apparently was I he scuttle
which led to the places undoing.
I'm proud Of the raid, said Capt. Schlott-
man last night. Il have had hard work
breaking into Chinese gambling houses,
and have had experiences with poolrooms
in the lower end Of the city, but for a tough
place 10 get into this place was certainly
the limit"
The four prisoners were baIled out by a
panreaantatiya Of Rob Nelson Ma Oisfrafa !