The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-16
TRIED TO WRECK WINDMILL.
SUSPECTED As HEADQUARTERS
OF POOLROOM INFORMATION.

Farmer walters Drives invaders OF Twice
with Q shotgun said 20 Have Come
From Belmont RaCetrack SuDt.'s
Home AMin Yanked Out Of Plumb.
Farmer George Walters, who tllls the
soil OF Long Island Just opposite the Bel
mont Park raoetrack, says he is going TO
have the law on somebody oonnectedwith
the management Of the racing plant II
he can find out who IL wa that put his new
windmill partly out OF business on last
Friday night.
On that afternoon q OF the evening
said that the poolroom agents
were fashing the results OF the races from
q windmill on q farm across from the grand
stand. Tho only windmill In hat Vicinity
Is the one that Farmer Walters had re-
Gently installed.
The story must have stirred up the racing
authorities or the police employed by them'
for Walters says that late Friday night
he happened to DO about his barn when no
saw seven men approach from the dTeo-
ion Of the track. Before the farmer real
ICED what was up the men had slipped
around back Of the barn and with pick
and shovel undermined his water supply
ing machine. Then they threw a rope
over the top Of it and were yanking away
when Walters rushed out OF bis mousse
with q shotgun. The seven ran when
Walters threatened to shoot.
An examination on Saturday morning
showed that the mill was q tritie out OF
plumb, but still able to draw water. Since
the attack on his watsrworks Farmer
Walters has lain awake at nights. ON
Sunday night. late. he declares he saw
seven figures slip out OF william Gorman's
house and make for the windmill William
German is the superintendent OF the Bel
mont Park curse. and his house IN IN the
track enclosure and a short distance re-
moved from that of Walters's.
This time the farmer was on guard at
the windmill when the attacking party
showed up. Walters bad his gun
ordered the men away. Walters ola
threatened to shoot him il he didn't drop
his gum. Walters. instead Of dropping his
fowling piece, raised IL to his shoulder
and thus got the drop on the would be
wreckers. They slipped away and, the
farmer asserts, entered Supr. Gornlans
house.
Walters declared last night that there
was nothing other than a p lain water
pumping wheel on top Of his windmill
and he says that some one connected with
already done. If some one representing
the track isn't forthcoming soon. Will
money 70 straighten up the mill, Walters
declares, he win go to the Nassau county
courts and have Supt. German called to
explain who the men were that left his
house and assailed the mill.
one Of the men ase oOiated with the COM
pany that sends out Information to the pool
rooms told a Sun reporter last night Ina
the company was getting the results oil
the races from Belmont Park all right
but he declared hat never had they had
occasion to use Farmer Walters's or any
body else's windmill for this purpose,
Ever since August Belmont and Others
identified with the Jockey Club promised
the Rev. DR.. Slioer and other preachers
that they would put a stop to poolroomt
getting racing information on the strengtho OF
the ministers Withdrawing their opposi'
ton TO racing in this State a lively warfare
has been made on the poolroom Information
men. -,
At Saratoga the wires we're cut and
torn for some distance around the track
n for several days the poolroom people
were able to send out practically no in
formation to rooms throughout the country,
The poolroom information people said
last night that they had not been moon,
venienced in the least since the return oil
the horses to the neighborhOod OF this city
put that in many Instance the agents OF
the tracks have damaged property in th'
belief that it was being used by the pool
room peoples