The sun., 1908-05-13
The, ALLEN dies SUDDENLY
MART. ALLEN CONES AROUND
iND DEMANDS Az AUTOPSY.
Famous PoolrOOm Mans Granddaughter Is
Believed 20 lie His Helress, a. She Was
His Nlfes-DOwllng law Knocked Out
POOlrOOni, which Police Couldn't Close.


outs with the rest Of the family for several
years refused to accept the statement Of
DR., n Baeker the attending physician,
that death had been caused by urRmic
poisoning and insisted that Coroner Har-
burger be called.
The. Allen had many times told him OF
his fears that sometime he would be poi
soned, Martin Allen told Emil Fuchs, the
attorney for the dead man, and 70 obviate
any possible chance Of an attack on The 4
will 50 MIR Fuchs said last night, he brought
in Coroner Hamburger. An autopsy will be
performed to-day
Win and Frank Allen. two other brothers,
were there at the time he died. There we're
present also Mrs. Clarence Owens and The 3
granddaughter Minnie.
DO you honestly believe he was poi
soned2' Coroner Hamburger asked Martin
As sure ~ you breathe he was, replied
| Martin. He has told a dozen people that
he was afraid Of being poisoned. He
wouldn't drink glass Of water until some
one else in the house had tasted it first
Minnie the adopted daughter said that
her grandfather lost his reason last Thurs
day and tried to jump out Of a window
Later he got into a closet and tore up num-
Der Of her gowns.
C. j. Berry, a trained nurse who went to
take care Of the sick man last Friday, said
that The was very sick mentally and physl-
calIy, when he got there
The. Allen began running a poolroom
soon after the civil war ended. He quit
when District Attorney Jerome. backed
up by the Dowling law, which he had passed
to get after gamblers who could not he
reached in any other way, made it impos-
and stay out Of Jail.
Before that the police had raided The 4
establishment at ~ Sixth avenue just ll2
times and never once did they get evidence
TO convict The. Allen boasted that he had
never backed a faro game or roulette wheel
in his life. He never drank, never saw
horse race in lis life, never backed horse
10 win and never was in his poolroom when
betting was going on. He declared that it
was no wrong TO run a poolroom, that
the laws were made for The few and he
boasted that in all the years that the police
were after his place he never spent cent
for police protection.
The Allen was certainly king Of the
Hpolroom keepers. Nobody else was in
his class and in his younger days he had
reputation as an all around bad man,
lie was tough rough and tumble fighter,
was accused Of many assaults aud once Of
murder
lie was born in the old Ninth ward IS
years ago and had reputation az a scrap
per by the time he was 10. His first lob was
a. errand boy for Vanderbilt, Maiden lane
tailor, and one dav Inc was sent To- the Astor
House to deliver "A new uniform 10 Gen. VIM
field Scott On the way boy Of his own
age made remarks which started fight
The won, but the uniform suffered.
The row attracted the attention Of Billy
Dancer. " 40 then ran big gambling house
at Barclay street. Dancer took a fancy
to the hoy, paid for the ripped uniform and
gave The Il job IN the ambling hOllse.
That was his introduction To the gambling
game.
When the civil war began The. vonnte cred
in the Twenty-ffth Regiment, aud was a
Lieutenant when he was honorably dis
charged. For time he kept a dive In
BleeCker street that was one Of the worst
i'm the city, but lie said in later years that
this was the one thing In his life he was
ashamed Of. He also said that II lost lot
Of money for him Then he opened pool
room.
one Of his partners was Ed Malloy, and
on September y, 1873 Allen shot him. He
said II was an accident. He had pistol in
his pocket because he was on his way to
meeting where he expected trouble, and
Maloy asked 10 have a look al the gun.
As The handed 1t to him he said il went
on and the bullet hit Malloy in the eye.
The had a lot Of brothers, some Of
whom were respectable. The misdeeds
Of the others cost The. "A lot Of money
The in his younger days was one OF the
most successful barroom fighters in the
city His tricks included pokng a lighted
cigar into the eye Of an opponent or using
glasses, chairs or furniture as weapons
Of defence in miNup.
The poOlruom at M Sixth avenue became
the best known place Of its kind in the
city on account Of the frequency Of the
raids upon IL. The raids began with a
reform wave In 1875 and continued at ir-
regular intervals Until The Allen Raided
Again" became a hack phrase, Police
Captain Chapman was particularly active
against the place
He went at it with an axe nearly one
hundred times and although tue total
number Of prisoners mounted 10 hundreds
the poolroom continued in business. Even
the policy OF arresting all the patrons Of
the place didn't scare them away Many
a captain and inspector after trying for
months TO get legal evidence had 10 confess
that the problem was too hard, for Ths.'s
room was 80 arranged that the bettor never
got sight Of the man who took the money,
and convenient stove ablaze even In the
summer DESTROYED the records before the
axes Of the raiders beat down the armored
doors
II was asserted many times that The.
had pull with the police, which explained
their failure In getting at him. bun he denied
that and said he had never given police
man or politician cent.
He had made two political contributions,
he sad. The first was $50 900 70 aid LIN
coins election and the other was for Jerome
when the latter ran for District Attorney.
The. Allen has always said that his heiress
would he Minnie Allen, now Is years old.
his granddaughter. his only daughters
child. She was adopted by Allen and HE
second wife some years before the second
Mrs. Allen dropped dead at their big sum-
mer place, in Bsyport L; J. His grSnd-
stantly ever Enoo and went 70 TIE Holy
Land with him several months after MTB.
Aliens death.
Mrs Allen LETT her entire estate, valued
at about 400 900, 70 her sdopbed daughteS,
Three dSteFu of MrA. Allen contested the
Will, but the courts awarded W Minnls,
Allan the SnttEp eststs,4-
seSZ .ass
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