The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-30
ROBS AND DOES ROUNDED UP
POLICE RAIDERS IN AN ATTO-
HOBgLE RREAk IN.

| fortner sewner 20 an Alaleahlnaum nell
| COaaplaias AbOut Isssin9 % IN q PlAee
sa Forty-seesad street and warrants
Are Bssaed Tsr Recon- keepera.
The Doe and Roe brothers got In trouble
again yesterday afternoon about O'Clock
when a police AUTOMOBILES chuGgsd up 90
the northwest corner Of Forty-secOOd
street and Sixth avenue and the motorists
raided a suite above a cigar store on the
corner which was made UP % a large
room. ante room. buzzsr and bath.
For the first time In history the police
had found a place that looked like y
gambling house 'mproviaed with q GET
away. There's a arm fro escape AZ the
back Of the building. hut the windows
facing ON 10 are heavily barred. One Of
the Doe boys. John by name. explained
lator that the bars had been placed On
the windows 20 keep >Ops ont.
But We didn't stop TO think he OBJ
served glOomily. that the bars also would
keep M In. Amt it funny how YOU think
up things without stopping 20 think
10 seems that somebody a few weeks
ago went 20 Capt. Fennslly Of the West
Forty-seventh street police station and
complained Of having lost az a room on
the second floor Of tho building NJ the
corner % Forty second street and sixth
avenue a roll Of money that a hound dog
couldn't jump over Capt. FenneIly told
Detectives Herman Stapf and Tom Lang
To look up the place. S'apf MADE daily
visits for while. but the lookout wouldn't
let him in.
last Monday afternoon. however.
when STAFF made his usual application
for admittance the lookout decided tina,
Stapf was a regular client. The lookout.
his name is Thomas Roe and he'sa bank
clerk--yesterday explained thai he had
seen Stapf's face 30 often that he believed
Stapf TO he one OF the Regulars
s,Rpf went into a very large room. he
says. where the wheels were whiTring.
he played 81 on one Of the wheels. but
nOihing came % u. Then hs wandered
over toward q larger wheel and picked
ont q spot on the wheel and the pill was
sent spinning and he got his hat and went
out. tie walked back To the station house
A result 81 Stapf's experience on
Monday afternoon. Magistrate Appleton
yesterday issued two warrants down af
the Tomba police court for Mr.. Die and
Me~-rs. William and Thomas Roe.
Capt. Fennelly todd Inspector Smiling
Dick Walsh OF what was coming Oh.
Inspector Walsh collected five plain
clothes men from his own ~ alton headed
10y Lie,It. Belton. and six men from the
West sixty eighth street station. The
Nx from sixty eighth str.et were selected
because they probably would he unknown
Ia Forty-second street Iookouts.
Then the Inapector called up Police
Headquarters and got Deputy Commis-
saoner kirby's automobile. Smiling Dick
and Capt. Fennelly and tho Detectives
fixed themselves zap with goggles and
things and went To the for'y-@econd
street corner.
The plain clothes men had already been
stationed az the front and rear Of the
building S,apf led the way upstairs aud
told the lookout about the warrants The
lookout told STAFF To 60 way ~. was
slamminR down the little slide door when
Capt Fennelly showed the ferrule Of his
umbrella under the slide and 30 prevented
u from locking
When the lookout saw that the police
meant business he asked them Co hand the
warrant in through the crack betow the
slide. bat the captain decided not TO do 20
Instead Fenneliy rad the warrant TO the
lookout The reading made no imprer-
siOn and 40 the detectives got busy with
an axe on the a. inch oak door.
well open il. yelled the lookout after
a bat 81 hattering. and he did.
The police entered an anteroom and ran
against another oak door which was
opened before they charged upon Il. The
DOES aud Roes all were there sixty-shree
OF them altogether. George Reed, ~
years odd, an accountant. Of S2l sixth
avenue; Henry Bennett. a clerk. OF rs
West I0Seh street. and Thomas Hickey,
elso in the clerking business at Iss West
Ind sfreet. were arrested charged with
being common gamblers.
Edward Hughes. also q clerk who re-
fused Ia give any address. and Mike
saunders. a clerk. Of ~ West Twenty
seventh street. were taken away charged
with aiding and abetting gambling. The
other Does and ROes had their pediRree-
taken aud were allowed 20 20. They
fled down stairs sheepi~hly through
crowds that were blocking trolley cars
north. south. east and west
Hickey had 500 in bilss ia hes pockets
Hughes had 81 OO The prisoners YER.
taken 20 the West Forty seventh street
police station. Also she patrol wagon
carried To- the station house a faro table
a bag doubl~ roulette wheel. a single
roulette wheel. charts. a book IL blank
checks. a box % membership cards that
admit one 20 the Hudson Fulton Club |
and a bu-hel of poker chips The charts |
were found in a corner partitionei OF l
where Their, was another sliding door. /
through which one fright slim bess. the |
police say, without the bettOr or receiver
seeing each other
The crowd watching the lending Of the /
gambling equipment became 80 denss. /
that trpffic was brought ~ a standstilI. !
IL was necessary at last tn hiring the re- 4
serves from ths. West Forty -art,uud ser,lrr \