The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-28
LETTERS INVOLVING POLICE
FOUND ~ THE. ALIENS DESk
IN JEROME RAID on ms MOI E.
POlISe Inquiry Likely Inspector and Gap
isins Mentioned In Reports From ines
Manager. Fort Allen and Fort Have a
chance TO Tell All To the Grand Jury.

In a raid OF The. Aliens residence at II
West Eighth street yesterday afternoon Dis
! trict A. ttorney Jerome got The. 5 check book
and Il lot Of his correspondence. There was
nothing ia the check book that interested
Mr.. Jerome. but in the correspondence were
several things which he considered impor-
tant and which he thinks will result in a
Police Department inquiry that will involve
an inspector. a captain or two and other
policemen.
The letters, or most Of them, were written
by Albert II. Fort to The. Allen when Allen
was sick at Baysids in the early part OF the
yea r. Although Fort has never been in
trouble. Mr.. Jerome's information Is that
he was really The.'s agent in the manage
ment Of the poolroom at 80 Sixth avenue.
which has been raj ded SO often. Fort is
said to have informed The. in detail Of what
was going on while he was away.
In one Of the letters there is a reference
to an inspector who is not now in charge
OF the district. which is the Second inspection
district. Mr.. Jerome was careful not to
divulge the inspectors name. nor to say
just how far the inspector lie implicated
by the letter. There were references to
other police officials in the correspondence.
and it is said that Fort outlined clearly the
nature Of the police interference with
Aliens place and how IL was stopped or
sidetracked. The unpleasant activity of
Sergt. Bob Mcknight Of Police Commits
sioner Bingham's street cleaning" squad
was mentioned.
"McNaught's a bad man : one letter said
In substance. II always gets the man
he is after"
There was an intimstiou FROM Fort to
his boss that Mcknight ought to he called
or" Also that certain other policemen
were not 10 Objectionable in their on-
~tivities.
One OF Forts troubles was the demands
of men who had lost money and who wanted
il back squealers, as they were described.
There seemed TO he a lot Of this kind Of
letters, and, as in the case OF the polio~ Of
icials, full names were used.
He wasn't quite as foxy Hs Garfield,
who used initials" was the comment OF
Mr.. Jerome. We have got snme important
evidence"
The. Allen will be n witness bsfors the
Grand Jury this morning. He can weep
at the drop OF the hat, and once bad "a lively
crying spell in General Sessions when he
was tried for assault. Fort also will go
before the Grand Jury to-day. to be ex-
smined under the Downing law. Forts
testimony may be one OF the sensational
features of MIR. Jerome's poolroom investi-
CATION. II Fort cares to tell it Is said that
be can explain. OF his own knowledge, the
relation OF h s poolroom with the police:
IL is understood that in the Allen corre-
spondence there was a mention OF a certain
lawyer who had advised how a poolroom
could be operated 80 as to evade the law.
The raid on The. 3 residence, which is
a -four story bro wnstone house, was made
about noon on a search warrant issued
by Magistrate Whitman. who came TO the
District Attorneys Office TO sign It. In
some respects the raid was similar to that
made on Al. Adams's office. where was
found the evidence of his connection with
the policy game that sent him to Sing Sing.
The raiders Roundsman Berry and De-
tective Reardon-found a woman cleaning
the basement Of the house and walked in.
In the back room on the ground floor they
found Frank Smith, who. according TO
Reardon, was employed in The. s poolroom.
He was s~ubpenaed to appear before the
Grand Jury to-day. Then Berry and
Reardon went upstairs. The, who il "A
years old and feeble. was very much dis
turbed. He had the warrant read TO him.
That poolroom which they say | own
has been raided about 125 times" he said
but this is the first time my private resi-
dence has been invaded l have never
violated the law in my life
Reardon suggested that instead OF COM
polling him TO break things in making
the search it would be much better for
The. TO assist. So The. called his grand
daughter, who lives with him, and she
piloted the invaders around the premises.
The. sat in the back parlor and waited.
The letters and check book were found in
his desk in a front room. They did not
tell The. that they had found them.
In other rooms we're a table with a green
cloth, a lot OF chips and some playing cards.
There was also a telephone instrument and
a coil OF telephone wire. II has been dis
covered that the poolroom did not get the
service Of the telephone company. but that
the poolroom operators had some way OF
plugging in on a regular wire.
Lawyer Emil Fuchs, who represented
l some of the men found in Aliens poolroom,
had a talk with Mr.. Jerome last night. Mr..
Fuchs said that Mr.. Jerome had told him
that he intended to stop gambling from the
Battery to Harlem and IL he didn't do it
would give up his job. As a result OF Mr..
Fuchss talk Fort and The. Allen will nave
their session with the Grand Jury to-day.
James Carney and Charles Allen, The. s
hall brother, were questioned again yester-
day. They told the same story they told
before, which resulted in the indictment OF
Charles Bennett, who was really door
tender in the Sixth avenue poolroom and
not the manager, as he has been described.
Bennett, it seems, was the man always
picked out for arrest whenever somebody
had to be arrested
When the patrol wagon drove up to The. s
house yesterday afternoon to take away
some Of the stun The. almost wept. Never
had u an indignity been heaped upon
him. All through the poolroom belt. as
the neighborhood around Eighth street and
Sixth avenue is known. young men stood
on the corners and whispered. A little
inquiry revealed the fact that the raid on
The.'s house was a warning TO poolroomS
in the neighbOrhoOd to close up.
I'm pretty positive said Mr.. Jerome,
that The. 3 poolroom will not do business
for at least three years"
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