New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
Three Alleged PooIroomS Are
Smashed Into by Police.
GET NINETEEN PRISONERS
Two Places Downtown and One
in the TenderlOin Are
Pounced Upon.

In three raids upon alleged poolroomS
yesterday afternoon by police inspectors
acting under the direction OF the District
Attorneys office. nineteen men were ar
rested. More than three hutdre.. men
were driven from two of the places and a
truck load Of racing charts, telephone
wires and tables was taken to the store
room in the old Police Headquarters.
The raids will be followed by a general
war on gambling in the city. A score Of
policemen have been taken from sub
urban precincts to secure admission and
evidence against the alleged poolrooms.
The two most spectacular raids We're
carried out in the downtown business
section. The police planned the on
slaughts to the minute. and at o'clock
one squad, led by Inspector Russell,
trapped the members OF the Tiger Lily
Club. in Cortlandt street At the same
time Inspector DAILY and his men entered
an alleged poolroom in West street
There was no warming. and the police
came away with enough racing charts
and other poolroom stuff to fill up their
patrol wagon.
A thirI raid was made by Inspector
McClusky whose men broke into the
Sporta Club. in East 10Th street. They
were delayed by heavy iron doors, and
when these We're finally broken down
the members of the club had escaped
over the roofs of adjoining houses, One
man, who gave his name a6 Albert
.
violating the law relating to poolrO0ms-
In the raids which were led against
the alleged poolrooms in Cortlandt street
and West street Detectives DOnnelly
and Dungate, who formerly patrolled the
rural sections OF Brooklyn, gave the in
spectors the signal TO rush the places.
They had warrants which had been is
sued by Magistrate Breen in the TOmbS
police court.
At the appointed time policemen
sprang up from every point in the vicin-
ity and detectives scaled the fire es-
capes. while others leaped up the hall
way stairs. In Cortlandt street the
police trapped more than a hundred and
fifty men, but only eight were wanted
to answer 10 the warrants. The raid on
the West street place brought ten pris-
oners. who were picked from a hundred
men who had stopped there on their way
to New Jersey.
The raids downtown attracted thou
sands of commuters. and before the pO-
were compelled to call the traffic squad
to clear the streets
Inspectors DAILY and Russell had pre-
pared for every emergency. They had
several policemen, who We're armed with
axes, and there was no difficulty in
smashing down the doors.
The men who were taken to the Fulton
street police station by Inspector Daily
from the West street place gave their
names as Michael Murray, of Sleeps
head Bay; John COrcOran, of No. 129
Cedar street; John Costello, OF NO %
oliver street; john Barry. OF No. q Des-
Dresses street; Harry Brown. OF No. as
56th street. Brooklyn Edward II. Demp-
sey. of No. 12 Park street. Brooklyn;
John Gener, of Bayonne, N j.; John Bid
die. of Sheepshead Bay; Charles w Will
Jams. of No. 81 ST Felix street. Brook
lyn, and John Brown, OF No. 32l West
18th street
The prisoners taken from the Tiger
Lilly Club said they were Anthony
cuneu, of No IS Barrow street, George
Wilson, OF No. 122 Houston street;
Thomas Hogan, OF No. SIS Greenwich
street; Frank Cronin, address refused;
Peter Mccoy. Of No. 26 Oak street: DAN
iei Crous, of No. Ga West street; William
Mullins, OF No. S4 Cherry street, aud Jo-
seph Nicholson. of no. West 115th
street