Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-12
STATE TRIES WIRE-TAPPING
HANNIGAN SYNDICATEADD TO
NEW YoRK's PooLRooM BAG.
Prosecutor Gets a Line by Listening
Beside a Leaking Wire-Poolroom
Telephones Are Chartered.

NEW YORK. June 12.-Raids made yes
terday afternoon on two downtown head
quarters for distributing racing news to
poOlrOoms, taken in conjunction with the
raids made on the uptown Bob Davis Dave
Mitchell headquarters on Monday after
noon. are believed to have shut off the rae
Ing information for about five hundred
poe lrooms and handbook men. If the dis
trict attorneys Office guesses right these
rooms cannot get any more Information
from out of town tracks and very littl,
from the local tracks. although the rooms
in the Tenderloin belt seemed to get theirs
aftec tie raid. At the same time 1t is esti-
mattel by ASS slant District Attorney VAN
diver that the New York Telephone Co n
parry loses monthly income of 100000
from this rec. and Vice President Beth
ell of the telephone company has under
taken that the company will do all it car,
to prevent the poolroom men from ge-, ir :
telephones again.
Yesterdays Raid.
The Hannigan-McC ormick syndicate
which has been doing business under the
name Of New York and New Jersey Dis
trbuting and Circulating Company was the
one raided yesterday afternoon. William j.
Hannigan is the president and J. H. Nc
Cormick the treasurer The district attor-
prise Gene Sullivan and j. A Steinmetz
Gene COmiskey. Sullivanite seems to
have been allied with the concern. accord
ing to the district attorneys information
Mr.. Comiskey was not troubled yesterday
The raids were made shortly after 4
o'clock. one at 299 Broadway and the other
at 80 Broadway.
Magistrate Barlow had issued search
warrants after Assistant District Attorney
Vandver swore that he had tapped wires
leading to these places and heard bets
made No arrests were made and it is
very doubtful that there will be any Grim
inal prosecutions. although nine men found
In the two places were subpoenaed before
the grand jury today.
Break in With Jimmy.
On the third floor of 800 Broadway the
raiders; Lieuts Ayres and Wilson of Gen.
Bingham's staff and Detective Hammond
of the district attorneys office, found
large room which was locked. They broke
in with the aid of jimmy and got num-
Der of racing sheets and charts. There
We're three men, who said they We're
clerks. named Robert Cleary. Pat Gilroy
and Arthur Brown. There were also some
books, but nothing had been put in them
since 1902. The statute of limitations is
five years. The three men got subpoenaS
to appear before the grand jury today.
Mr.. Vandiver joined the raiders in time
to get telephone message from a bettor,
who said:
Put $40 on Fancy in the last race at
Gravesend for me-
who are you?" asked Mr. Vandiver.
I'm No. q, said the voice. Fancy ran
second.
Pretty soon a man hustled into the Office
and announced that he was a lawyer, that
he represented the proprietor Of the place
and everybody must get out. They
showed him the search warrant. but he
said he didn't care. Then he was told to
get out, and delaying he was put out.
There was a switchboard with sixteen
trunk lines and three private wires. The
private wires ran TO 30 Broadway, 81
Duane street and SO Park row. At the
same time Lieuts. England and Mallan
were busy on the ninth floor of 30 Broad
way where there was a branch headquar-
ters of 300 There We're six men there, all
clerks and switchboard with fourteen
trunk lines.