New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-14
DE LACY LOSES HOPE.
TELLS ALL TO JEROME
He and dutch Henry" Say Pool
room Game Is RealIy Dead.

On the authority OF experts Of no less renoyyn
than Pete De Lacy and Dutch Henry"
schultze me poolroom business in Manhattan Is
down and OUT for the first time in MANY wears
They admitted il yesterday in talks with Distric,
Attorney Jerome and his deputy, Mr. Vandiver
IN the CTlfllhal courts Building. They did not
want 10 promise 10 go out of the poolroono busi
ness and contended that they had as ,,,,ch
moral right 10 take bets here as they would have
10 do so behind a big board fence at the race
tracks. but they had to admit that they, would
ind it impossible TO continue business because
all the news centres had been cut off They
were not placed under oath before Magistrate
Barlow.
The results obtained from the John Doe pro-
ceedings before Magistrate Barlow on wednes
day and yesterday were most satisfactory Mr.
Vandiver had the goods on the men and they
were reluctantly forced to admit it under oath.
II may be said on good authority that both the
District Attorney and Deputy Police Commits
soner believe that the end sought-the STAINING
out Of the poolroom business in this city-can be
accomplished better by forcing the men TO ad-
nit their guilt under the Downing law and plac-
ing them on record than by attempting to indtct
them on the testimony Of others and going
through long trials. II is hard to convict pool
room men in this city. as has been discovered in
the past. OF course after man has testified in
cannot be placed on trial. but he can be pre-
vented from going into the business again
That is what the District Attorney wants, and
he believes that il will be comparatively easy to
keep poolroous in check during the remainder Of
his term as result Of the work done by Mr..
Vandiver.
Pete" De Lacy waited around the Criminal
Courts Building under subpoena for several
hours. When he saw District Attorney Jerome
foy Inn bes bo ed
Heb. there; I've come down TO see you and
tell you what you want TO know. I have got
other business 10 look after and want 10 get
away"
We'll, if that is the case" the District At
torney said with a smile, come right in and we
viii talk il over now
They talked for an hour. Then Dutch Henry"
Schultze went in and told what he knew. Both
men later talked with Mr.. Vandiver.
There wero no proprietors among the thirty
witnesses examined in John Doe proceedings
yesterday They will come later, and will be
confronted with the evidence given by their en-
ployes. 1t was Mr.. VandiYer's little wiretapper
and the record of its work that played the most
important part in the proceedings. The Deputy
Assistant District Attorney has had this Taper
on nearly every pooroom wire in town and has
taken from il messages that passed into the
poClroOms. So, when the witnesses tried 10
deny that any pOolroom business was being con-
Quoted he produced the record of what he had
heard over the wiretapper Surprised by his
exact knowledge Of conditions inside their rooms,
they were almost invariably forced 10 admit
their par in the poolroom game.
OF course the men understood that they could
not be prosecuted for acts about which they
testified. but they have been placed on record.
II they should ever go into the pooroom bust
ness again they could be arrested and placed on
trial. They Will be watched, and il is not be-
Ieved many Of them viii try it, al least not this
summer. II is known that the employees Of pool
rooms were exceptionally active yesterday look
ing for new jobs.
Neither Gene" Comisky. whose place in Wall
street raided on Wednesday, nor any of his
employees answered subp9nas yesterday. They
may show up to-day, when a score or more men
sUbpnraed in the Wednesday raids are expected
20 testify IN the John Doe proceedings
There we're no raids yesterday SO far as
could be learned there were no places left 10
raid. Deputy Commissioner Hanson visited two
places overlooked on Wednesday, but found
them locked and out Of business. Some papers
and telephones Were seized.