New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-12
P00LR0OMS WIPED OUT.
LAST RAIDS 4 CLEANUP.
WTeS Tapped Traced TioIators-
The HduLs Made by TandiUer.

The Hauls Made By TandiUer.
As a real wire Taper Deputy Assistant Dis
tict Attorney Vandiver is an assured success.
His efforts in that line have been so successful
that yesterday the District Attorneys office felt
safe in announcing that for the present the
poolrooms would be entirely out OF the game.
Since the Bob" Davis syndicate went out of
business Mr.. Vandiver's assistants with pocket
telephones and telegraph Instruments have been
al work and. with the evidence which they got
for him, along with the assistance given by tho
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
Mr. Vandiver has closed up one distributing"
bureau after another. Two more We're closed
by him yesterday.
The first raid Of yesterday was on the NcCor-
mick Hannigan outfit in Room 309 Of the Bar
clay Building at No. 299 Broadway. known as
the New York and New Jersey Distributing and
Circulating Company. The other on the
MitcheIl-Davis concern the Interstate News
Bureau. the ninth floor Of no 80 Broadway
Clerks were found at work a. the telephones in
both places and messages from various pool
rooms intercepted. All those found in the rooms
we're subppnaed 70 appear before the grand
jury to-day The telephones. racing parapher-
MALTA and other fittings were all sent 10 the Dis
trict Attorneys ONCE.
The room in the Barclay Building had on one
door the name Of ". II. Mccormick and on the
other the New York and New Jersey Dock
Company Sergeant Ayres and a patrolman
went there Just before 8 p. m armed with
warrant from Magistrate Barlow. Three young
men were behind a glass partition about a tabl,
which bore some twenty telephones and two
telegraph keys. There a switchboard in
the room. with direct wires 10 No. 3S Park Row
which had been cut out: another to No. s.
Duane street and another direct 10 No. 50
Broadway
LAWYER EJECTED BY RAIDERS.
Several books were seized. These proved dis
appointing TO Mr. Vandver as the last entries
were dated IN 1902. Some Of them looked pretty
fresh TO be five years old, however. While the
police at work, n lawyer named Wise en-
tered. He put out. In the outer office there
was certificate OF the Incorporation Of the
New York and New Jersey Distributing and Cir
culating Company In a fine expensive frame
This raid was the fruit Of some of Mr. Van
Divers wire tapping operations. In his affidavit
he swore that at various times since Nav he
had tapped wires leading to the centraIs and had
heard bets made and bets relaid to other rooms
along with the results Of races
About the time Of this raid Sergeants England
and Mallon went to No. 30 Broadway. and they
'jmmed" the door Of the room on the ninth
loo.. They found half dozen clerks receiving
bets for Iatonia. Montreal and Gravesend This
is the Interstate News Bureau. whose main busi-
ness IS conducted at No. Coz Sixth avenue. which
was raided Monday
SHARP INTERRUPTION OF MESSAGES.
Mr. vandiver heard some one trying anx-
iously TO get the wire. He swearing
richly at being cut off. II want SO on Fancy
at Gravesend.' he said. This is No. I. Why
a. baU ay'+ Won. aft n bUgDecc
No Z viii be asked to tell the grand jury what
he knows II he can be traced.
Then Harlem poolroom told Mr. Vandiver
that the service was rotten, and they wanted
better connection. They were not accommo-
dated. for in a few minutes all the telephones
were in the patrol wagon.
These two raids, Mr. Vandiver says, will put
more than five hundred poolrooms out of COM
mission, along with the raids of Monday. He
is sure now that the game is dead from the
point of view Of the poolroom man and the
handbook man who have been depending or the
centrals.
The net has been closing constantly on the
poolroom syndicates since the raid on the cen
trail in Fulton street controlled by Bob" Davis.
now under indictment. when the name OF sen.
G." was found and provoked unkiud comment
concerning a distinguished statesman. The con-
tnuance Of Mr.. Vandiver's work after that
vas helped by Union NJ Bethel, secretary OF
the telephone company. who has been cutting
out suspected wires. although this has meant
monthly loss Of about S1000O0
Up to a few weeks ago every Tenderloin
loon had one or two handbooks in the back
room doing fiourishing business. Now 1t is the
exception 10 find one. and the raids Of the last
two days probably will drive those in charge to
working. Those who have attempted to do any
business have done it under such difficulties that
profit was impossible and many of them are
now slIcing bologna In the saloons where two
months ago they were flashing big bank rolls.
DISTRIBUTING CENTRES CLEANED UP.
After the raids of yesterday Mr.. Vandiver said
that the last of the distributing centres We're
cleaned up. He said that the room at No. 81
Duane street was the distributing centre for
large number OF poolrooms and relays until three
weeks ago. Then he began TO tap their wires,
ac;;ng on the information ne had gained from
mad ON second