The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
EVERY POOLROOM WITNESS ASKED
T84T BEFORE GRAND JURY.

nm. race News bureau Cuts It's wires End
Leaves Customers In the Lurch-MilCs
O.RcilIy Finds n New POOlrOOm In
MS Preci net -SubpGnas for u ~niOiners.
Every witness Of any Importance who
IA. been examined before the Grand Jury
A. District Attorney Jerome's gambling
Investigation has been asked If ne knew
1,rr members Of the Sullivan clan OF the
Rowerv-Big Tim, former Congressman;
little Tim Of the Board OF Alderman,
Larry Mulligan, Big Tins half brother,
and Christie Sullivan, who has just been
alected 70 the State Senate.
One Of the witnesses thus questioned
vas sim Deimel, who admitted that he
vas connected with a bureau that furnished
racing information and who said that he
upplied the bank roll for two poolrooms.
Other witnesses were eS1enined along
the came line. They were asked il the
s~,llivans had any connection with pool
rooms or what else they knew about the
sullivanS.
So far az could be learned yesterday
no witness has appeared who has professed
10 have any knowledge that the Sullivans
are even remotely connected with the
poolroom game. Some Of them said that
they knew one or the other or all OF the
Snllivaus. but the clan is known for its
wide acquaintanceship and many activi-
ties.
Mr.. Jerome refuses to give any intimation
of what he is driving at in this line of in
u1iry. He had a long talk yesterday after
noon with his chief clerk, John A. Henne-
berry, and with Mr.. Murphy, who is assisting
A. !. A. ;n,voa&t,aAton IL In hs1%al khok
he IL going TO Jump his investigation from
the Second Inspection district, which is
west OF the Bowery, to the First Inspection
district, which includes the Bowery and
the reservation OF the Sullivans. Mr..
Jerome probably thinks that the Sullivans.
because OF their intimate knowledge Of
conditions In their bailiwicks, ought to
know a great deal of what is going on.
Although Big Tim and Little Tim do not
devote as much time TO their Bowery dis
ticts as they did in the past-Big Tim
because OF his theatrical enterprises and
Little Tim because of his many political
sctivities-Larry Mulligan has kept q close
eye on what has been doing, especially
In the interest Of the Sullivans.
Jakey Josephs, who is described as being
In a syndicate that has been running a
number of poolrooms in the Second Inspec-
ton district, was not examined yesterday
before the Grand Jury. Because Of the
fog District Attorney Jerome did not get
back from Lakeville, Conn.,, where he spent
Sunday, until shortly before the Grand
Jury adjourned. Lawyer Dan OReilly,
who is counsel for Josephs, waited at the
District Attorneys office unit Mr.. Jerome
appeared. JoSephs kept close to a tele-
phone in Lawyer O'Reilly's Office. When
Mr.. Jerome appeared Lawyer OReilly was
told TO bring his man around this morning
at 10 80 o'clock.
Mr.. Jerome said last night that he hadn't
heard from the five other men to whom he
issued a public invitation to appear before
the Grand Jury. According to Lawyer
o'Reilly most Of these men are in town.
MIR. Jerome has stopped one bureau
which has been supplying racing Informal
ton to poolrooms and coincidently several
poolrooms which ave been taking a chance
and trying TO do business downtown have
been cut of from all information. When
the poolroom managers started to find
out what all the trouble was about they
we're told by the men who ave been running
the information bureau that the wires had
been cut. This started a story in the Dis
trict Attorneys Office that Mr.. Jerome,
through the cooperation OF the telephone
and telegraph companies, had started
out to trace the racing bureaus over the
wires. and the managers Of these bureaus,
hearing Of this, had decided to shut of all
communication, even from their clients.
Mr.. Jerome got another jolt yesterday
afternoon. Unde orders from Commits
sioner Bingham Inspector McClusky fur
nished another list Of the suspected pool
rooms in the Second inspection district,
UP to and including yesterday. Mr.. Jerome
was surprised to find that the poolroom at
80 Sixth avenue, the The. Allen-Falk room,
was still being carried on the list as being
run by one Joseph Hansen. Capt. Miles
O'Reilly filed with the report a statement
that the police were unable to inspect the
place because of the existence Of a Supreme
Court injunction.
At the same time Capt. O'Reilly reported
that he had found another poolroom, max
ing twelve in the Mercer street precinct.
Nj .Jerome Immediately had ~subpRnas sent
out for the reputed owner OF the room and
the owner of the building that harbors II.
They will be examined before The Grand
Jury and questioned under the Bowling
law.
Some progress was mad in getting the
papers in he Injunction suits which the pool
room men took against the police. A
number of these papers were sent to the
District Attorneys Office yesterday after
noon by Corporation Counsel Ellison.
Everybody named in the papers will be
called before the Grand Jury, including the
lawyers who had anything to do with the
proceedings. IL is said that Emil +. Fuchs
acted for the poolroom men in most OF the
cases.