The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-10

I'LL AnCy EIV" INV u"h A"Ny
in the Business: II They Don't It's a Lire
in the Blooming TOmbs or q Home
From broadway Far Anyhow They're
as Uneasy as the Police List Makers,
When District Attorney jerome returns
from Lakeville, Conn, to-day the poolroom
investigation by the Grand jury will he con-
tinued with the examination of Jakey
Josephs. who has informed the District
Attorneys office that he will respond to
Mr.. Jerome's public invitation to call and
tell things under the Bowling law. Mr..
Jerome has named five other men he would
like 10 see. and a lawyer who represents
poolroom men says that they will respond
before the week is over. This lawyer said
yesterday;
You'll find that about every poolroom
man or gambler Mr.. JEROME wants to eN-
anime will be on hand. MIR. Jerome has
three years more in office, and these men
know that he will keep after them and that
in the end he will land them. just AT the
present time. however, some OF them are
worried and they have not made up their
minds what 10 do. But when they think
the thing over and get good advice they
will fall into line with the rest. You must
remember that a lot of these fellows have
other interests outside of the poolroom
game and they cannot afford TO leave New
York and stay away for three years, while
MIR. jerome is on the job.
From the questions asked 10y Mr.. Jerome
Of the men who nave been examined before
the Grand Jury the gamblers know pretty
well what Mr.. Jerome is driving at NJ
course the first thing in his mind j. 10 shut
I'D the poolrooms. But, following out that
line, he has been asking pertinent questions
as to where the graft has been going. The
witnesses have been asked il they knew
three politicians of prominence and if they
had any dealings with them. From what
| have been ahle TO find out he hasn't got
much information from the witnesses 30
far, unless it was from Falk. Falk's testi-
monv has worried the poolroom men not
a little, although many persons believe
that a man whose name has not been mem
toned in the investigation and who has
been in the poolroom business for years,
was the real hacker of the The. Allen roo
at 10 Sixth avenue"
Several owners INC agents Of property
in the Second inspection district who
have been carried on Inspector McClusky's
EllNIlt'l III aN Ia W us l''A'N'Ai' ~
he examined before the Grand Jury to-day
1t was said yesterday that the police might
produce a few poolroom men out Of the
twenty-five carried on the suspect list, but
not many. In some cases the names were
fictitious, but in others men who worked
in the rooms for a few dollars a day were
put down "a the owners. If the police pro-
duce these men IA owners Mr.. Jerome,
who has pretty good information "a TO the
real proprietors of the rooms, will send for
the real owners.
The examination Of the suspect list from
the Second inspection district has devel-
oped some queer things, in addition to the
fact that for a long time one Hansen was
carried on the police list as the proprietor
of the The. Allen room. As the owner os a
poolroom in the Elizabeth street precinct
The police had down a Bowery prizehght or
who has been known to every body along
the Bowery as simply a hanger on. Ac-
cording to reports the police have not been
able TO find him. al; hough his friends nave
had similar no difficulty.
When the district Attorneys Office has
completed "A list Of the bondsmen who have
been giving bail for poolroom men caught
in raids il is expected that several men will
be brought into the limelight who have
hit managed TO keep in the dark
The police and Magistrates NAV come in
for severe criticism because of the character
Of the bonds that ave been accepted.
For instance a woman of the red light
district who has been arrested a number
of times by the police was accepted A.
surety for the appearance of pOolroonI
men caught in raids.
There has been some speculation a. 'C
what will happen when Mr.. jerome getr
after "A Young man who Is recognized az
the agent Of a downtown politician in the
management Of some twenty-three pool,
rooms. Mr.. jerome knOwz a good dea
about this man, as he has had to make
inquiries about him before. At the present
! time all the rooms on this string are closed.
Unless Mr.. jerome II unusually lucky,
said a well known poOlroom man yester
day, Il think that he will never land IN,
so-called man higher up or anything liz.
him. In the first place. | don't heliev'
there IL any such person. There IL ne
denying that graft has been paid, but
dOn't think IL went 10 any one mar or an,
clique Of men. II may he brought out tina
certain politicians got Jobs in poolroom.
for their constituents, but | don't think j
will go beyond that,
You must remember that a gambler
cant afford 10 tell on anybody that is, h'
a suIiealer if he has any idea OF St4yiuI
in the game. II he hasn't. Of course tIatI
a different thing. But II he should : luca
ne is a dead one, because even his FRIEND.
will desert him, il he had any. 80 you see
If il IL really put up TO the boys the onl,
thing they can do il 10 commit perjury q
saw they don't know nothin' about nothin'.
But there Is one thing that is worryinl
Va good and plenty, this Downing law
With jerome it's all right, because he's oil
the level, although he did fool some of th,