New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
|DR|SCOLL At It AGAIN;
FLYNN ALSO A RAIDER
Both Deputy Commissioners
Cause Descents on Alleged
Gambling Houses.
THEATRE CROWD SEES ONE
Police Get Prisoners at Four
Places. from Old Tenderloin to
Bronx-Get Warrants from
McAdoo for Secrecy.

Not to be outdone by William Flynn.
the Second Deputy Commissioner, who
made three raids on alleged gambling
houses, from which the police took forty
prisoners on Monday, Clement J. Dris-
coll, the First Deputy, superintended the
raiding of three more houses yesterday,
and by doing so started storm in the
brains Of the members of the police
force They want to know who's who
in raiding Deputy Commissioner
Flynn is still in the going" however,
for he directed his men to raid an al
legged gambling house in Harlem late
Yesterday afternoon, making four raids
in all.
The most spectacular of the Driscoll
raids yesterday occurred in time to be
seen by the crowd filing out of the
Columbia Theatre after the matinee. A
few doors away from the theatre the
police. headed by the militant First Dep
uty, began operations by knocking at
the door of a three story house on
Seventh avenue with a crowbar. They
got 20 answer, SO they broke down the
first door they met in the house, which
appeared from the street to be vacant
one. Going upstairs. two other doors
blocked their way, and -crowbars were
| again used.
The police finally reached room on
the third floor. where they found five
men, two telephones, two tables and
what they said was gambling parapher-
MALTA
Warrants issued by McAdoo.
On warrants issued by Chief Magis-
| trate McAdoo to insure secrecy the five
men were arrested. They were taken to
the West 47th street station. Two were
charged with keeping and maintaining
a gambling house. and the others were
held as common gamblers
Deputy Commissioner Flynn's men,
under the direction of Sergeant Troy. en-
tered a five-story frame house in Third
| avenue, near 127th street. about ,
O'Clock in the afternoon and took six
prisoners, all as common gamblers. The
police found telephone instruments and
things they thought might be used in
gam bling in the place. According to the
police ne of the men in the house hid
in an icebox When they found him he
was nearly frozen, and had to have 4
doctor
Another one of the Driscoll raids was
made in The Bronx. over the heads Of
the local police Five prisoners were
taken in this raid. which was managed
by Sergeant Doherty, Of the Central
Office, and eight plainclothesmen- The
place was on the second floor of five
story office building in Third avenue
near 164th street Doherty and his men
had little trouble in batterinE down the
big oak door of the suspected room.
of five prisoners taken to the Morris
ania station, four were charged with be-
ing common gamblers and the fifth with
aiding and abetting them. The police
said they found klondike outfit, racing
charts dice and telephones, all of which
were taken away, as in the other raids,
for evidence.
The Railroad Porters Club in West
Both street between Seventh and Eighth
avenues was another alleged gambling,
house visited by Driscoll's detectives.
The club is in the rear of d barber shop
and billiard parIor. When he is in town.
Jack johnson, the negro pugilist, lives
on the third floor of the building, and on
the fourth floor lives Baron Wilkins,
the negro saloon keeper whose license
was recently revoked.
In charge of iding the club was Ser
geant Creede. He took his men up to
the second floor where there is a chop
| he
the eating place until they came to
rear stairway. Going down the stairs
1hev met a solid metal door, which
stopped them for fifteen minutes. While
they were wrenching their way into the
room beyond the door the detectives
heard voices and footsteps.
cheered Police Beyond Door.
Realizing that the police had cornered
them. the men behind the door soon were
cheering the sergeant and his men, and
shouting encouragement
Some voices said: "Aw, hurry up.
Bank the door down. You're too slow!
Quicker! Quicker"
Finally gaining access to the room.
the detectives found racing charts and a
monte Outflt, tHey Sold' oiiS o'ic iiio'
was arrested.
Twenty three prisoners caught in the
raids on alleged gambling resorts in the
Long Acre district by Deputy Commits
sioner Flynn's detectives on Monday
were arraigned before Magistrate Apple
ton. in the west Side Court, yesterday.
Six OF the men taken in the Broadway
raid were discharged, and eleven others
were held in $1,000 bail each for exam
ination on Friday. Six prisoners caught
in the raid IN the West 43d street house
were also held in $1,000 bail for exam
ination on Friday.
Magistrate Appleton would not allow
reporters to see the papers in the cases
of the prisoners. nor would he allow
the clerks to furnish the names OF the
men.
The magistrate said: Under the law
which creates this Office, 1t is impossible
for me to allow reporters to see the pa
ners and would feel 1t incumbent upon
me in case any clerk allowed you to see
The papers to prefer charges against
him"
The thirteen men taken in the raid on
the alleged gambling house in East 10th
street by Mr. Flynn's men on Monday
we're arraigned before Magistrate Ker-
nochau in the Essex Market court yes
tsrday on the charge OF being common
gamblers. Seven OF them were dis
Charged and six others were held under
81 900 bail each for examination to-