The sun., 1910-06-25
RAID WITH LADDER AND AXE
BROADWAY GAMBLING HOUSE
STORMED M POLICE.
There We're IceboN DOOTs ana other
Dimeultles 10 Overcome, hut what
Couldn't Ne Conc Through Was Gene
Around aud the POllee Wen Out.


Dimeultles 10 Overcome, hut what
Couldn't Ne Conc Through Nas Gene
Around and the Police Ven Out.
gambln < house raid in which the
police thumped on icebON doors. ran
up ladders on the face OF the building
and hammered with axes and slsdgca
until they cams upon green haizs tables.
a blackboard hung wall. a his room
Uttered with bits Of torn paper, and sixty
or seventy diaguSted men. happened
on upper Broadway yesterday afternoon.
Not long ago some one told tho police
that gambling was going on on the top
floor Of the three story brick building
az iol7 Broadway. on the northeast corner
Of Forty-Dinth street. Two OF three
subsequent complaints and evidence
that plain clothes men could gather en-
oOuraged the police to ask for seven
warrants for John Doe and Richard Doe
from Magistrate Harris In the West Side
court yesterday afternoon.
Capt, Thomas Palmer, who took charge
at the West Forty street station
earlier in the day. began bis career by
calling a dozen ooppers around him and
taking il on the run for FOrty-ninth h
street Inspector Richard Walsh was
there in person. On the first floor Is 8 cafe
and the entrance TO the upper hOoFs h
at 20S West Forty-ntnth street The door
was locked. The inspector and the cap
tain ordered two plain clothes men, Evans
and Trhinor. to smash the door. They
did
The way was clear 10 the top of the
stAirs, but there the police found plenty
Of trouble. For twenty minutes Walsh
swung a sledge hammer and Palmer
battered with a fire are against tho iCe-
box barricade They had 10 stand a stsp
below the door and in the moments Of
rest they demanded admittanos by
putting their mouths 10 the small psep
holes in the structure.
They gave up that method Of getting in
and went downstairs 90 he sure that the
Outposta were on the job. Torn down
buildings on the uptown side Of broadway
and 10 tho east on Forty ninth street left
no scuttle exits poasible. and policemen
were stationed az the four Csrners. No
the commanders settled down 20 strategy
A. a building under construction on
the opposite corner they got . couple Of
long ladders Right in front II the caft
entrance they leaned them up to the
second floor and Evans and TrainoT
climbed up. They stood on an eighteen
inch tin sign above the door and smashed
in the glass while the crowd cheered
The whole second floor was ons big room
~ by 81. and vacant Inside az the head
" the stairway they found why Walsh
and Palmer couldn't fare the door
lts own thickness of foot or 10 was
backed up by an eighteen inch wall Of
solid oak The two policemen slid hack
the hars and opened the way for the
Others. Then they all trouped up tbs
next flight and ran into a second loeboX
gateway The word went hack down.
stairs that perhaps they would have "a
put up an extension ladder and the street
watchers who had seen the ladder ascent
hOwied with delight
But this third door wasn't the tough
nroposition that ~ lower CoJnterpa, =
hEd been. There wasn't nearly the SAINT
reinforcement. and axes did the work
The police got into a hallway from Nhici
there were two doors. One opened on 4
httle anteroon where the bets apparently
we're taken. Between II and a aTEel
chamber was o wall 'ierCed by slits anC
small holes through which a man coulC
receive money and hear q net without
showing ANYTHING hut his hands.
There were about siNtv-tve men wait
ing fol the Clppers tu the hig room. Ais,
here were stiis- tables. poker tsbles anS
tables that had once been used for POO
but had been rendered suitable for craps
A neatly ruled blackboard with Us sup
porting platform for the poster occupies
0n,. wall and q megaphone lay heneath Il
On another wall was tho carefully frame,
charter of the Ramapo club. incorporate,
in 1895. a. the certificate said This VA
sai zed and ~ were samples ~ the hppar
atus There had heen plenty of time q
tear up slips and sponge the hlackbOar'
clean
On the warrants tho polce took Jane
MahCney of - Past Fortieth street. Harr'
Mccormick ~ % Morton street end Jamt'
Mal1ney. a bartender 40 the Hotel Bristol
They were arrested as being Comm1l
gambler Yesterday William Robbins %
SlS West Forty-siXth street vas nsbbed
And Tor accepting bstS the polio" gath
cred IN John " Wheeler an aucti0nee
of lst West inHth street. james Johnso
of 2Ol West i3sth street md Fredericl
Jones Of il5 Wes; Thirty eighth strrel
The rest ot those present were asked .
hand over their names before they wer
allowed "a 60.
All oi the men arrested were hailed ou
later IN the evening. Henry Bolter.
livery stable keeper ~ 23l West Forty
sixth street. went on their bonds. Whic
were accepted by Magistrate Noes.