The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-14
SUBS TITUfION OF CRIMINALS.
|GOFF AND JEROME SAY TT has
HAPPENED IN COURT.
Indictments Under False Names Pave the
way-PrecautiOns In POOlrOom Cases
-I4z Prisoners Let GO-TwO In.
dicted- ROndswOmen Made to Testify.

N Two men we're Indicted yesterday as
b result of District Attorney Jeromeis
raid on the poolroom at 81 East Tenth street
Il on Wednesday. They were indicted Tor
uning a stuss game, solomon Epter,
X~. OF the la men caught in the raid,
.rear.N v that he had lost $24o playing
[,,,sa TIM { afternoon. Detectives lIeardon
Xrd Rn,Ie, of Mr. Jerome's staff swore
Acre the Gn,nd jury that they saw the
vame going on.
the men were indicted under the n smes
N Michael Burns and L1uis Cohen. Burns
wa the first man called and tho Recol DER
had him sworn.
sWhat is your right name?" he askeu
Ia Michael Burns yosr true manner
mo-" said the prisoner after some hesi-
nation. He said his name was MOSES
prown. He didn't look il. The Recorder
mid:
at il not an unusual thing in thea
~n,rts for men 10 be indicted under fala 9
names and afterward, if occasion shoukl
,rise. TO say that they never had been
Indicted. II has also happened hal men
3ndioted in these courts had other men
uubstituted for them
The Recorder said afterward tnat nv
didn't care to go into details about these
substitutions, hut he felt that they had
been made many times, especially IN tne
policy crusades. There was no way IN
which the court officers could keep track
OF the prisoners.
Mr.. Jerome said that what the Recorder
had said was unquestionably true. ne
mad no doubt that men had been indicted
under false names by the Grand Jury ana
tbat substitutes were furnished to be ar
A-s---l l.. L. ,lIpft aaa how This COIId he
done without the collusion Of the police.
After Brown had told that name Cohen
was asked tho same question, but he de
elared that Cohen was his real name. Mr..
Jerome asked for S. 500 bail, but the
Recorder made if 81 900 for each. They
were locked ND ~ cause the hondsmen who
snneared didn't want 10 go before the
Grand Jury and tell what they knew about
noolrooms. Mr.. Jerome said the bondsmen
would have TO do that and they were scared
m. At the Same time Mr.. Jerome sent
solomon Fpt,r, the chief witness against
the prisoners. away with a detective, who
will watch him until the trial.
Petite Davis. described as Sonny Smiths
mariner. didn't appear before the Grand
Jury Yesterday, and an attachment VIII
probably he issued for him to-day. He
had been served with a subpoena by De-
tective Lynch 10 appear before the Grahu
ID NtNlEIAAdN ~ 49,
has made some remarks about DavlsS
political pllI and some politicians may have
10 appear before the Grand jury.
Including the men who were caught IN
the Tenth street poolroom raid Wednesday
evening there were 10 men examined IN
the police court and by the Grand Jury
YESTERDAY, The Grand Jury held a session
3hat lasted until nearly : o'clock:
OF the twenty-five men on the suspect
1ist which Inspector McClusky carried in
tie Second Inspection district only one
Responded. He was a man named HyrneS,
who told the Grand Jury that he had let the
premises at so Sixth avenue, where The.
Allen has his noolroom. TO the West Side
fIub. Hvmes was told that he would
have five DAYS to dispossess his tenant and
| III he had any trouble MIR. Jerome would
IN vtve him the evidence. Inspector McClusky,
X Nj. Jerome said. was apparently doing the
best he could. Mr.. Jerome expected that
|X the poolrooms in the Second Inspection
'N district would be cleaned out pretty soon,
aud then another inspection district would
Henry Stedeker vas another witness
before the Grand jury. he hasn't beei
doing business for q month. II was II
bis room that Maurice >, Hoiahan wen,
looking long ago for a hayward son. The
negro doortender who was caught IN that
raid also had a chat with the Grand Jury
YESTERDAY. Several other men examined
about the poolrooms in the Mercer street
precinct said they were closed. The bonds
men who went bail for the men caught IN
the Tenth street raid were questioned by
the Grand Jury.
OF the IA men caught in the rad only
about forty got bail. The rest were Z
eorry looking lot when taken to the Tombs
court yesterday. They had been packed
five deep in cells all night and many o.
them didn't have anything to eat; som'
OF them were telling yesterday how the
had to pay 81 for a sandwich and VI for Z
box OF cigarettes. For all that most q
them took things philosoPhically; Al
through the night they entertalnsd tbs
sergeant who was on duty at the Mercer
street station with songs, but Capt. O'Reily
and the cops who wanted to sleep weren
pleased a bit. All efforts to get the prisoner
IA stop their noise were futile.
The men who had been baIled out lookeC
very clipper and refused TO recognize th'
men who had been in cells for a night
They were all arraigned IN the Centr'
street court, and fhe first thing Mr.. jerome
did was to examine thirty OF them in
batch, under the Bowling law. They ha'
Been arrested under the section of thu
code which makes il a misdemeanor for
citizen TO fail 10 respond 10 a call for hell
from a policeman when a felony is beini
cpmmitted. Detective Reardon swore tina
there was gambling going on in the Tent
street place.
Alter he examined the thirty men Mr.
Jerome said that there was no need of max
ina Individual complaints. as the men hac
bSen examined under the Bowling law ant
were immune. Every man was made II
tell his name. Some or the names read on
Ia the police court caused laughter. On
man had told the police that he was Simon
Uatterinski. That was even too much TO
Mr., Jerome. The net outcome was the
Indictment OF the two men later on. Th'
roHt we're let go.
Terence j. McManus, the lawyer. sale
Ne represented some of the prisoners. HI
picked out one man as a client. Mr.
Jerome asked this man If he wanted to b,
represented by a lawyer and stand tria
or be discharged.
II haven't got any lawyer" said thu
prisoner, Il dont want any. l want to e
htgpes
This raid showed one thing" said Mr.
J>rome. "the poolrooms are running stust
4nn klondike games along with the racing
Srme. II a man wins a dollar or two or
NE races he loses il in these games. He
hasn't got a chance TO get out with any
money, and the appearance Of the men
n were arrested indicates that they
haven't got any money left"
Eight women went bail for their husband,
ar friends. They also we're examined by
me Grand jury. One woman discovered