New-York tribune., 1910-06-25
RAID ON CLUBHOUSE
WATCHED BY 5000
caadeI of the "Ramapo Club
in Broadway, Built
Like a Fortress.
AYES MADE NO IMPRESSION
,,,;ce Had to Get Scaling Lad
ser. Climb Wall and Smash
window TO Effect Entrance
Seven Arrested.

Tho breaking Of car wheel at
- last evening gave Inspector
,..s.-s Walsh five thousand specta-
:, addition 10 the usual Broadway
- for the most spectaculay raid of
.osson on an alleged gambling
,.use The raided place was the Ram
club," situated on the third floor OF
t.,;,dinp st Broadway and 49th street.
s,,,en prisoners were taken in the raid.
-r,o ..Ramapo Club was 50 well forti-
.haf the police for a time despaired
.o;ninc entrance. and It was only by
=, +ortunate discovery Of the Achilles
- IN the clubs defence that the blue
eats got in al all
7,srActor Walsh. Captain Thomas
,,,,ner Of the West 41th street station;
risutenant Strobel. Of the inspectors s
.+.x and twelve policemen in uniform,
.-,ad with axes, crowbars and seven
..1obr Doe" warrants, issued by Mag
.,+rs,e Harris, in the West Side court.
,,;gbtad from a patrol wagon in front of
10 building at 5:45 o'clock, and at once
hsqsn the attack. The entrance to the
h,ading is in 49th street The police
sound the door on the ground floor
,seked. but it yielded to q few blows of
N axe. and the police rushed in.
s- the top OF the first flight, however.
xss an entirely different proposition, in
.be shape Of an 'icebox' door. SO clev-
,rlv and 81 strongly constructed that the
ueanons Of the raiders had no effect on
# After hattering il with axes and
r~oTbars for ten minues the police gave
M the attack and held a consultation.
Wniie the "icebox'' door was foiling
the police & car wheel on a no-thbound
Sixth and Amsterdam avenue car in
&c street. Just east oe Ninth avenue,
vent n smash and stopped the car.
Traffic piled up behind, SO that within a
few minutes there was solid line Of
cars from Sixth TO Ninth avenue, block
ing both northbound and southbound
traffic on Eighth avenue, Broadway.
Seventh and Sixth avenues. After
tuning and fretting at the delay a large
proportion Of the passengers made for
the Broadway subway stations, and
gave the police all the audience they
could desire for their operations.
While Bro.s dway was rapidly assum-
ing the aspect of an election night.
the police deliberated and surveyed the
building Finally 4 ladder was placed
against 2 twelve-foot wall that sepa-
rates the Broadway sidewalk from d
vacant space in the rear of the besieged
building. and over this wall the blue
coats cla1nbered with the crowd cheer
ing them on. They placed their ladder
a the sill Of a window on the second
Aocr. smashed il and swarned in They
found themselves inside the ''ice-box
door al last
The rest was comparatively easy Inc
door to the "Rsmapo Club yielded 20 a
few blows Inside. the police say. they
found sixty men occupying a room Il
by 50 feet in size. equipped with tables
fer poker. craps and stuss and black
board for the display of racing results
Cards and chips Uttered the floor
There was no resistance on the part OF
the sixty men. the only exit-besides the
windows with three story drop-belns
the door hy which the police had en-
tered. The sixty We're lined up while
the seven for whom the police had war
rants were picked out. After their names
Eere taken the others were allowed TO go
At the West attn street station the
Prisoners said they were John w. Wheel
er, suctioneer. Of No. 1s4 West 1o6th
street: James Johnson. electrician, of No
,ei West 13sth street: Frederick Jones
clerk. Of No 135 West 13sth street
James Mahoney. horseshoer, Of No 2oe
East goth street: Harry Mccormick gar
oener. of No. q Morton street; James T.
Naloney bartender, Hotel Bristol. and
William Robbins. clerk. of No. 344 West
ssth street Wheeler, Johnson and Jones
were charged with accepting bets on
horse races and the other four with be
hg common gamblers.
The evidence against them, Inspector
Walsh says. was obtained by two civil
ANS former gamblers now attached ti
Police Headquarters For several days
'he inspector says, the men have beer
irving their luck" with the various
games Of chance the "Rsmapo Club af-
terded.