The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-30
POILLON SISTERS ARRESTED.
HOTEL B.ARSTOW NAN SAYS
THEY'RE A NUISANCE.

went to Jefferson Market police court yes
tardsv morning with his elevator boy
Tommy Gumhs. and a lawyer and asked
MAGISTRATE Steinert for two warrants for
the Poillon sisters, Katherine and Char
latte. They have been living at the Hotel
Barstow since last October.
Mr.. Wells complained that the sisters
were public nuisances and that their con-
duct was such that the business of the hotel
was being injured. Tommy Gumbs, the
yellow elevator boy, complained that Char
iotte Poillon punched him in the face and
cursed him. The Magistrate granted the
warrants and Detectives Kidney and Ryder
went to the hotel to serve them.
The detectives found the sisters in their
APARTMENTS on the twelfth floor.
a have warrants for you young women
rid RYDER. You will nave to go to court
with me at once
.Cheerfully," SAID Katherine Poillon.
.Ouick as we can get our hats on eaid
Charlotte Poillon.
When they got to court the Poillon sisters
found Mr.. Wells and Night Clerk Martin
]. Bell Of the hotel, Wells's lawyer and
Assistant District Attorney Paul Krotel
waiting for them. The sisters walked into
court WIN ISdNo up Ii VIC Oil ulu sou bO"h
unconcernedly. Katherine Poillon was all
in ~back-black hat with a sweeping ostrich
plume, black elk dress with jet beads and
long black coat. Her sister wore a blue
dress. blue hat and long blue coat. There
was a long wait until Lawyer Henry j.
Goldsmith. the attorney for the Poillons,
showed up.
Mr.. Krotel addressed the Magistrate.
He said he was there as a representative
Of the District Attorneys Office. There
we're two charges to be made, he said, one
Of them being the public nuisance charge
against both sisters and the second an
assault and battery charge against Char
lotte Poilon. He asked the Magistrate to
FIX adequate bail at once.
Are you ready to go on?' he asked Lawyer
Goldsmith.
Both sisters nodded their heads energeti-
ally.
AT once said Katherine Poillon.
Immediately. said her sister.
Magistrate Steinert continued the public
NJ isanoe cases until this morning at 10
o'clock and fixed bail at $500 each. 1t was
furnished by Samuel Kahn Of las Bowery,
a saloonkeeper. He offered property at
10 East Ninety-fourth street as security.
Then the Magistrate took up the assault
and battery case against Charlotte Poillon,
and Tommy Gumbs, the elevator boy, was
called.
He said that at 7:3o o'clock Wednesday
night a ring from the twelfth floor sent him
up there. The Poillon sisters and a man
we're waiting to take the elevator down.
He refused to let the sisters into the ele-
vator, because the proprietor had ordered
him not to let them ride at any time. They
begged him, he said, to run the car to the
third floor and let them off so that they
would nave the ride and Wells wouldn't
know anything about it. Tommy testified
that he refused virtuously, putting aside a
81 tip. Then, he said, Charlotte turned to
the mar and said:
Soak him and I'll run the car"
The man, whose name did not come out
in the proceedings, declined to soak Tommy,
buthe did ride down, leaving the women to
walk. Tommy declared.
The sisters came back at l1:30 o'clock
and wanted a ride up to the twelfth floor:
Master Gumbs refused, but said he would
see Bell. the night clerk, about it. While
he vent to see Bell the women got into
the car and just as he got back to it, he said,
Charlotte turned the power on and started
to run it up. Tommy sprang inside just
In time to prevent getting nipped by the
door.
she shot that car up to the twelfth
floor like a streak" said Tommy. Her
sister opened the door and hoped out.
l grabbed Charlotte and tried to hold her in.
she banged me UP against the side OF the
car and made my head ring o,,-
Charlotte Poillon called him numerous
things which we're pre- ceeded by black"
He tried to close the door and she played
a tune on his face with her gloved fists,
he said, punching him three times in the
riha anna on tho head and once n the
eye. The nj light engineer, hearing, the row,
came up and ordered the boy to let Char
lotte Poillon out of the car.
Charlotte Poillon denied that she struck
the boy or that she called him names. She
said that Wells had treated her and her
sister shamefully, turning of the electric
light in their apartments and forblddlng
them to ride on the elevator. 1t made
her sick to go up and down the long nights
Of stairs, she said. and things had got to
such a rass that they couldn't go out to
the theatre or ever out to dinner because
they knew they would have TO do noun
tain climbing when they got back Wednes-
Day day mig, night, she she s shtd; ne Se Roy 'ausn' neF oS
Night Clerk Bell testified that the row
in the car made a horrible commotion
and that it awakened people all over the
house. He was asked to illustrate horrible
commotion," and he screamed ike a ma
Proprietor Wells, whose testimony was
stricken from the record afterward by Mr..
Krotel's request, said that the fuss alarmed
the hotel and drew the tenants out in their
night clothes. $3.50,
Magistrate Steinert decided to hold
Charlotte Poillor in $500 bail. Kahn fur
rished that.
After he police court hearing the sisters
went out TO look for new apartments. A
big furniture van hacked up IN front OF the
hotel and the driver said he was sent to take
the Poillons's belongings. About 5 O'Clock,
Mr. Wells said, he got a telephone message
from The sisters saying they would leave
TIE hotel al noon to-day.
They had a years lease, said Mr.. Wells,
from October Pc, 1905, to October %, 1906,
but the lease was gcoi only during the good
conduct OF the ter ants. A clause IN the
agreement gave me power OF cancelIlng
il If | wasn't satisfied with their conduct;
lwasn't, and 1res1ay morning last ! notified
them they would lave 10 leave. They got
a simmons and had me into Jefferson Mar
ket court but the Magistrate dismissed the
case. II was only after | served them with
the cispossess notice that ! refused TO let
them make restaurant charges, have cleo
tuc hight or rice in the elevators
A. o'clock last night there Vas a rehear-
saI Of witnesses who will testify this morn
ing in the public nuisance cases. They
we're mostly tenants Of The hotel who,
Proprietor Wells says, have complained
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