The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-13
NABS POOLROOM PLAYERS TOO
JEROHE W4GONLOADS I4G FROM
MEYERSS ROOM.
Goes Up Himself 10 Help and orders Them
All to Cells for Refusing to Aid the
Police in a Felony Case ny Letting
Thrm In-Axes Let Them I'm, ms Usual

District Attorney Jerome and his men
IN a poolroom at 81 East Tenth street, and
every one was locked up on the order OF
p. Jerome. lie announced that when the
men we're arraigned in the police court
this morning he would nave them prose-
cuted under the section of the Penal Code
which makes i a misdemeanor for a citizen
not 10 respond to a call for help from a
policeman when a felony is being comm it.
ted. All the men in the room hear the
police call for help TO get in and see them
through "A " indow when they tried to get in,
but no man helped them save only they
themselves,
IL has been the custom TO let the players
20. but hereafter, Mr.. Jerome says, he in
tends to lock up every one caught in a raid.
The men caught last night thought for a
time it was a good joke. but when they
faced station house cells they were not so
merry. No bail was taken unless it was
ecrutinizcd and approved by Mr.. Jerome.
LAWYER Charles l.. Hoffman OF Steuer Il
Hoffman, who had obtained an injunction
for a woman who had a restaurant on the
ground floor, had a mixup with the police
about interference after the raid, but he
was threatened with arrest, and Mr.. jerome
MISC mentioned the Bar Association.
Fred Meyers j. said to he the owner OF
the ~poolroom, which is on the parlor floor
of a four story building. Meyers was
served with a subpoena OF Tuesday and
was quest yesterday by Mr.. Jerome.
He is under subpoena to go before the Grand
Jury this afternoon. Detectives Reardon,
Brennan and Butler were looking over the
Mercer street precinct, which Mr.. Jerome
saws will he absolutely free of poolrooms
to-day. and stopped at Meyers's place.
The restaurant is run by Mrs. Bertha Levy,
who had felt that she needed a Supreme
Court injunction. Reardon saw men e
into the building through a hall next to 1t
and not reappear. Others walked up the
stoop and didn't come out. INSPECTION
showed that there was a stairway with an
entrance to the pOolroom from the ground
focr and another entrance on the Farlor
floor.
Reardon sent % Capt. Miles O'Reilly for
10 liCemen and posted them at the Two
entrances and at the back OF the building.
Then they got a ladder and through the
windows in the back they saw about $50
men in the room. Heavy iron bars, hori-
zontal and vertical we're on the windows.
Reardon called up MIR. Jerome and asked
VIVA. ne should do. Break in said Je-
rome, and he put on his coat and started
uptown. Reardon had told him OF the
Injunction and Mr.. Jerome thought IL
w1uld he a good thing for him to be on the
ioh personally. He got to the poolroom
long before his men and the cops could
break in. The doors were OF oak so thick
that il took over half an hour to cut and
batter them down. While this was going
on the detectives saw men in the room start
lively little fire with cards taken from the
walls and papers taken from their pockets.
Reardon, who IL "A special policeman.
and O'tteilly's men announces mat they
we're policemen, that a felony was being
committed and demanded assistance from
those inside All the occupants did was
TO grin ont AZ the invaders. Finally the
doors went down and the cops marched IN.
There was no stampede to escape.
EVERY man in this room is under arrest '
said Mr.. Jerome. Nearly every one laughed
out loud.
nm - said Mr.. jerome to Capt. OPellly.
Patrol wagons were sent for and a lot OF
policemen were needed to guard the prison
ers. Inspector McClusky came along and
Joined in the proceedings. MaSonload
after ~yaVonload Of men was taken away
end unloaded at the Mercer street station
In the hurry TO get the men out some OF
them were taken down the stairs TO the
ground floor and brought through the
restaurant. In the restaurant a mar
io. cd M from a table and informed the
uol Yemen that the proprietor OF the place
had an injunction restraining the ponce
from interfering with its business. The
COPS became a lite worried and consultec
N no is he?" asked Reardon, walkin 9
into the restaurant. He recognized Lawyer
UofTnan, who repeated what he had told
TIE policeman. o.d
Reardon to Hoh man, Il will put you undei
arrest
t. say, Reardon reported TO Mr.. Jerome
You NAV announce" " said Mr., jerome
a. the reporters, that IN e BAR Association
nav he very glad 10 ia Ike up this case
This sumo Hoffman appeared in a number
of gambling cases in 1901.
IL took about an hour % get all the prison
or. 10 the station, and much longer tor the
uolice 10 handle the job that Mr.. jerome
turncd over 10 them. When all the prisoners
had been lined up in the station Mr.. jerome
said TO Capt. O'Reilly:
Have every one Of these men searched
carefully, see that you get the right names
and then lock them up
That was the first time that the prisoners
realized hat Mr.. Jerome meant business
They pleaded with Mr.. jerome ana Napt
O'Reilly.
NV wife will worry herself to death,
said one man to Mr., jerome. I've got al
engagement to go 10 the theatre with my
best girl said another. IN tell you
anything you want to know II you'll JUS
mass me out. " said a third, edging up clos'
10 Mr.. Jerome. But they all had TO stanc
the gaff. To max matters worse Mr.
Jerome announced that he was going q
dinner, but that he would come back t
make su re- that there was no slipup.
and | don't want any bail accepted
was Mr.. Jerome's parting injunction, "unti
or somebody from my office looks it over.
Mr.. Jerome said that if all the men wer'
discharged in the morning he would sub
ppna them 10 appear before the Crane
jury. He will make an attempt. it is under
stood, 20 have them fined:
Hereafter in all raids" he said, w,
will follow the same course. These poo
room fellows seem 10 be defiant: Now /
thew want to have their patrons locked nj
Jet them go right ahead"
One man, who described himself a
Michael Burns, a d~istiller, was held TO
keeping and maintaining a poolroom. IN
detectives said that he was guarding tn
door. The other IA3 prisoners were charged
with refusing 10 aid officers of the law wheI
called upon To do 30.
MIR. Jerome went back 10 the station holls
after dinner and told Capt. O,Reily tina
he wouldn't object to the taking OF bail
but gave him explicit instructions abou
the bail.
II want every bondsman who gives ba
b swear that he owns the property men
toned in the bond, and also 20 swear tina
To his hest knowledge and belief the nam
= - 80, Cor xyhon ba ig surety and HI