The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-09
JkKEY JOSRPHS TO TESTIFY.
PUEBLO INVITATION FROM JE-
ROME HAS IRIS EFFECT.



District Attorney Jerome's public in
vitation 10 several poolroom men TO call
at his Office and testify before the Grand
Jury under the Downing aw was nswered
yesterday by one OF the men Mr.. jerome
named. It il expected that others OF the
six mentioned by Mr.. Jerome will respond
on Monday.
Although Mr.. jerome was at Lakeville,
Conn. Jakey Josephs sent word to John
A. H~enneberry, Mr.. Jerome's chief clerk,
that he would be on hand on Monday.
Lawyer Dan O'Reilly. who appeared for
Sim. Diemel when he went before the Grand
Jury. sent the message to Mr.. Henneherry.
Lawyer O'Reilly, who has the reputation
around the Criminal Courts Building OF
being q great wag. told Mr.. Henncberry
that Mr.. Jerome was right when he said
that Mr.. Josephs was a good citizen; also
that IL Mr.. Jerome had been told that Mr..
Joscphs had been trying TO keep out OF the
reach Of the Grand Jury he had been mis-
informed.
incidentally Lawyer O'Reilly wanted
TO know IL there we're any others in the
poolroom game that Jerome wanted 10 see.
Mr.. Hennebsrry told him that Mr.. jerome
wanted to see, just at this time, the other
i've mon he mentioned on Friday. While
Mr.. O'Reilly made no definite promise,
he minated that other members Of the
combination would call on Mr.. Jerome on
Monday.
There was a good deal OF satisfaction
in the District Attorneys ofioe when it
was learned that Josephs would 60 before
the Grand Jury on Monday. Mr.. Jerome
has information that Josephs ought TO be
able to tell a good deal about the poolroom
business and especially Of the operations
Of the syndicate which has been running
~poolrooms in the Second Inspection district
or bordering on IL. Mr.. Jerome has been
told that there was one man who collected
the hush money from the ~poolrooms south Of
Fourteenth street.
There was considerable talk in the
Tenderloin yesterday about a visit District
Attorney Jerome made a few nights ago
to the Hotel Metropole, at Forty-seoond
street and Broadway, which is run by the
Considines. Mr.. Jerome was accompanied
by Frank A. Lord. They went TO the Metro
pole after the theatre and the MetrOpole
was crowded. They sat in the back room
and had a talk with one Of the Considines.
According to the Tenderloin report Mr..
Jerome got considerable information about
gambling and pOolrooms.
In connection with Mr.. Jerome's visit 70
the headquarters OF the Considines Ia cane
out that just about the lightning Of Mr..
Jerome's poolroom investigation Little
Tim Sullivan and Larry Mulligsn had two
OF three talks with Mr., Jerome at the Dis
is a partner of Big Tim in the theatrical
business. Larry Mulligan is Big Tins
hah brother.
Little Tim and Larry are very familiar
with conditions, both police and political,
in their particular } all wicks. and for that
matter all over the city. Friends Of Mr..
jerome say that if he is getting information
from such a source IL ought to be pretty
good. No one in the District Attorney
Office will say that Mr.. Jerome has got any
information from the Sullivans or their
cohorts. Larry M~ulligan went TO the Yale
Harvard football game with Mr.. jerome
and Mr.. Lord. They were the guests OF
Payne n Harry Payne Whitney.
So far as il could he learned yesterday
the police ave not been able to subpoena
any Of the poolroom men in the Second
inspection district whose names Inspector
McClusky has been carrying on the police
suspect list. Nest Of the names on the list
are believed to be fictitious. The police
will not be hurried, however, a. Mr., Jsrome
wants to give Inspector McClusky every
a to get the twenty-five men for whom
s~ubppnas have been issued.
Acting Inspector John W. O'Connor,
who il in charge Of the Fifth inspection
district, which takes in the territory north
Of Ffty-ninth street and east OF Fifthavenue
TO the Harlem River, sent word TO Assistant
District Attorney Murphy yesterday that
there was only one poolroom open in his
inspection district. That room IL at lOeth
street and Third avenue and has bcer
raided several times. Capt. O'Connor said
that this room defies him and he can't close
II.
A number OF clerks in the District Attor-
ney's Office were busy yesterday making
ND a list Of poolroom raids OF the last few
months. The ADDRESS Of each DO0lroom,
the names Of the policemen who made the
raids, the prisoners and the bondsmen are
being made into one list. When that is
completed IL will be- divided into police
inspection districts and then everybody
connected with the raids will be examined
before the Grand Jury.
The records on the police blotters of sus-
pected poolrooms will be compared with the
inspectors records, Assistant District
Attorney Murphy, with several assistants,
Yesterday went over the blotters of the
precincts in the Second inspection district.
II will take some time to complete this job
and that In one reason why Mr.. Jerome
thinks that it will be at least two months
before this district can be cleaned up and
turned over to the inspector as free Of pool
rooms.
It was learned yesterday that in the Fslk-
Allen correspondence which was found
in the raid on The. Aliens house in Eighth
street tnere ~ some IlcntlOn VI tne vice
suppressing societies and their agents.
II 10 not known whether there lie anything
in the correspondence except a reference
TO the activities Of these societies, OF which
there are several.
Several police officials who were seen
Yesterday said that they were pleased
with Mr.. Jerome's scheme Of closing up
the gambling houses and poolrooms. which
includes the cooperation OF several city
departments. They said that II Mr.. Jerome
would once rid their precincts OF poolrooms
they o take a chance on keeping them
closed IL ut any time, when they have evi-
dsnce, they can go to him. as Mr.. Jerome
plans, and he will assist them with the
Downing law and by other means Of getting
2 after the propr1etOrs.
At the same time the gamblers aid that
II Mr.. Jerome's plan was consistently car
ried out they might as well throw up the
sponge. They admitted that they never
feared the police much. but when the police
could have the assistance OF the District
Attorney. the Grand Jury, the Downing
law and other instruments, it was not much
use trying to keep open. Som Of the
poolroom men who believed that This was
only a temporary spasm on Mr.. Jerome's
part were tipped on that all the indications
were that Mr.. Jerome was going TO main