The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-16
COPS RAID HOUSE
OF 1000 EXITS"
Doors Resist SIedgehammers
Until inmates Make
Escape.
TWELVE DOORS IN ROOM
ONE DOZEN MEN WE'RE ARREST
60 BUT ELEVEN or THESE CAP
TlvEs ARE RELEASED FOR
LACK OF EVIDENCE.

New York, May 16.-Detectives un-
der direction OF Inspector McClusky
raided 1.-THE House of a Thousand Get
Always" an alleged gambling den at
81 East Nineteenth street. and al
though the building was surrounded
and every apparent exit guarded. but
twelve men were arrested and eleven
of these were liberated because OF a
lack Of evidence.
Raids were also made on two other
alleged gambling dens-"The Tiger
Lily Club" SO Cortlandt street. and
another club at West street. corner OF
hey. 1.-THE Tiger Lily was invaded
by men personally directed by Inspec-
tor Russell. chief Of the detective bur-
eau.
Doors were smashed In at the three
clubs, but the most mystfying and
spectacular of the invasions was at
THE House OF Thousand Getaways.
Detectives Thomas Meade and JOS.
Hayes Of the West Twentieth street
station, who had been visiting the
club every day for week. led the
raid. Carrying sledgehammers, axes
and jimmies, twenty detectives went
by various ROUTES and met in front OF
the building. Meade and Hayes mount
ed the steps to the fourth floor, where
man looked at them through peep
hole" and after parleying short time
denied them admittance.
Door Resists sledgehammers.
They tried to beat down the door. 1t
was three inches thick and hung with
such solidity that their blows had no
effect. After they had pounded vain
" for ten minutes they smashed In
the peephole. and Meade put in his
arm and dislodged an iron bar which
held the door In place.
The door swung open and admitted
them to a narrow hallway. where an
other door confronted them. 1t was
not az strong as the first one, and af-
ter short time they battered 1t In.
As 1t crashed down Meade said:
ITS all over-we are In now"
But they were not In. Still anoth-
err door blocked the way. Although al.
most exhausted from their exertions,
they tackled the barrier with AK and
hammer, and it was but a few minutes
before 1t fell Drawing their revolv
ers. they advanced into the. room.
It was spacious. occupying the en-
tire floor with the exception of the
space utilized as a hallway.
Hands up" shouted the detectives
as they entered
Their voices went echoing through
the room. There was not person IL
II but themselves. There were sever
al telephones on the walls, a number
of racing charts and other parapher
MALTA, but that was all.
There were doors on every side o
the room, door leading to the roo
and trapdoors in the floor. In al
there were twelve doorways. An arm.
could have escaped while they wer
entering.
II never saw so many doors in
room before" said Meade.
Used Ladders TO Effect Entrance.>
Twelve of the men who tried t
leave the building were arrested b
the police. Meade and Hayes ident
fled one Of them as Abraham Coulter
rs East Nineteenth street. who the
said was the proprietor. He was al
rested.
At the "Tiger Lily Club" ladder
were used to gain an entrance Will
the doors were being battered dowl
The club was on the second floor. an
entrance to 1t was blocked by "r,
frigerator" door, AS the doors fell
rush for the exits was made by .th
$50 men in the place. They wer
headed off. Eight arrests we're mad
Anthony Cuneo and George Wilso
were charged with keeping and mai
tanning the club.
Jerseyites are said to have been IL
principal patrons. The building Is
the precinct Of Captain Edward Gall
CHER, who know nothing Of the ra
until 1t was over.
Coincident with the raid by Inspe
tor Russell, Inspector DAILY raided Il
club at West and Dey streets. Viii
the doors were being smashed in
tectives held down the roof scutt
and occupied the fire escapes. Mo
than one hundred men were In Il
room and six arrests we're made. Mic
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