The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-30
GO RAIDING IN STORAGE Van
HEADQUARTERS DIRECTS ATTACK
ON TENDERLOIN POOLROOMS.

hb WbiuO nubhnhB tOT bciiHtttuerBcT' Say
the Prophets FOur Houses Carried
by Assault. Making q Brave SHOW for
IdIers-9A Prisoners and q Lot Of Junk.
Four %poolrooms were raided and wo
alleged handbook men arrested In the Ton
derloin yesterday afternoon over the heads
Of Inspector Schmittberger and Police
Captain Hodgins, and the prophets Of the
Tenderloin who have been predicting for
a month that Deputy COMMISSIONS Waldo
was preparing to do S~chmittberger stood
on their hind legs and yelled Il told you
SOL" Two Of the poolrooms raided yester-
day were pulled the day before by Inspector
Schmittberger and Capt. Hodgins, and the
last one raided yesterday was also smashed
in a week ago by the Tenderloin police.
According to Tenderloin gossip last night
1t was just q month ago when Sergt.
Bob Mcknight, son Of the old detective
sergeant 30 long attached to the District
Attorneys office; Roundsman Charles
Becker and Roundsman Phil Faubel, all at
that time attached to tie Commissioners
Office in Mulberry street and all said TO be
bitter nenies OF Schmittberger, were put
in plain clothes. assigned to the Street
Cleaning Department and sent to wander
around the district north Of Fifteenth
street.
The Tenderloin opened its eyes when II
saw the three attached to the Street Cleaning
Department, which was a new wrinkle In
the Police Department. 'Bingham's new
vice squad i" the three were promptly dubbed
by the Tenderloin.
Early yesterday afternoon the squad
Of three accompanied by Roundsmen Burns
and Donohue Of Commissioners Bingham's
staff and fifteen cops from various precincts
uptown, all in plain clothes, assembled in
front of the Volunteer warehouse, $50 Third
avenue. All but one Of the cops climbed
into the dark interior Of a big red storage
van owned by the warehouse; the remain
ing policeman closed the doors Of the van
on the crowd and then climbed up on the
seat beside the driver,
The van turned west into Fifteenth street
and backed up in front OF No. 81, a few doors
from Fifth avenue. The policeman who
was acting as footman jumped down from
his perch and opened the back door and
out piled a sweltering crowd Of cops.
Armed with axes and ~crowbars, six or eight
of the cops charged on the front door Of
the quiet looking No, 81, and the others Of
ttc dttdShilB polty oNuii iiO w tbO oASn
of the house.
Sergt. Mcknight got in the door Of the
place, said to he owned by Petite Davis,
but as he was yelling to the others to follow
the door was slammed shut from the inside.
Then the splinters began to fly as the cops
hacked away, and the pounding brought a
big crowd from Fifth avenue before the
door was smashed In.
T,-iI1 ,v4.z f1,,xl - .-r~ s.-, l.AanAl
for warm weather. Twenty-Five Of them
we're allowed to 60. When the police fled
down to the street they had in custody
Edward Soleman Of 81 East Fourth street
and Charles Wallace of 20 East Third street,
both charged with keeping and main
tanning a poolroom, and Ave other prisoners
charged with aiding and abetting.
Three patrol wagons were sent for and
the seven prisoners and a number of rae
ing charts and dope sheets were taken to
the Tenderloin station.
Into the storage van again climbed the
cops and rumbled up Sixth avenue to visit
the House Of the Blue Shutters, y at 1913
West Thirty-sixth street.
The house is opposite the Marlborough,
and scarcely had the footman cop begun
to repeat his van opening operations when
one Of the biggest raid audiences ever
gathered in little old N'York got together.
The crowd had the time OF its life.
Inside the raider found a fancy roulette
wheel, that exports said later was worth
81 600; more racing literature and thirty
five more ~coatless gentlemen. Then while
street cars were stalled in a line that reached
from Forty-fourth street to Twenty-third
John Murphy, who gave his address as
Broadway and Forty-second street, charged
with running a poolroom, and five others,
charged with aiding and abetting, were
shipped of to the Tenderloin station in the
same three patrol wagons that had been
used before.
Next the big red van threw out the anchor
in front of 90 West Thirty eighth street,
raided the day before by Sohmittberger and
Hodgins. Down in the basement, into
which the police got without much difficulty.
were found sixty mel stripped to the waist.
The cops said the place was even hotter
than the inside OF the van. John Edwin.
who gave his address as 1884 Park avenue.
was arrested as the proprietor Of the guess
house, and the usual five were also taken
along to the Tenderloin station as aiders
and abettors. Another roulette wheel,
/ 900 chips, a telephone, charts and more
dope sheets we're gathered by the furniture
movers.
What happened then to the private DWELL
ing at 1877 West Forty-frst street, the next
house on the list, was much and sufficient.
Inside the house a door at the head Of the
first fight Of steps had to be broken down
before the police gathered in Frank Smith
of 1888 Montgomery street, Jersey City, two
others as aiders and absttors, a roulette
wheel, a black and white layout, two tickers
and two telephones. To the Tenderloin
station for theirs. This house Is next door
to Honest John Kelly's and was raided
last week by Sohmittberger and Hodgins
Two men were picked up just after this
by R%oundsman Becker, who jumped of
the van while on Its way south on Sixth
avenue and ool'Ared them on the street.
Becker's first dive from the van o.
Cured at the corner OF Thirty-f1rst street,
when a youth who said he wal Harry Clark
of 22O West Twentieth street, occupation
property man, was pounced on,r
A few minutes later Becker did some
more ground and lofty tumbling between
the van, and the street and gathered in a