The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-21
DRISCOLL VICE SQUAD RAIDS
HIS CANNING CRUSADERS
TlkE rs PRISONERS.
BAron wilkins's Place. shared BY Jack
Johnson and the Railrsad Psrsers'
Club. Quo sf the Fsur Houses Eniered
seventh Avenue Building Was Easy.


Club. Que sf the Fsur Houses Battered
seventh Avenue Building Was Easy
Deputy Police Commissioner Driscoil q
vice squad was back on the Job OF raidin z
alleged gamblers yesterday On evidences
collected by his men sixteen prisoners
were taken in four raids that occurred
almost a, the same time around Q O'Clock
last night. There wasn't much opposition
TO the crowbars Of the police at any Of the
pla ces they visited The doors were hat
tered down easily
The Tenderloin that hes IN Seventh
avenue between Forty seventh and Forty
eighth streets CAV. up its share IL alleged
himbia Theatre was letting on, its matinee
crowd PLAIN clothes men led hv Li.nt.
Himmel head ~ III. squad: Detectiv.
Edward Cody. who has been on vaca-
tion. and Lieut. Hsgan of Chief Inspector
Schmi'' berger'- STAFF. entered TN. buIid-
ing ~ us seventh avenue Thew came
in automobiles and rnobtr,is,vely. carry
ing warrants issued bv Chief Magistra ie
Nc Adoo Without ringing the he'll nr
rapping they beat down the front door
and hustled right upstairs \ heavy oak
door wen, ont e business and the ra%t wa-
sasv
FIFTY men w-r. IN the room, hut they
didn't make a rush for air They waited
until the police had selected Nv. of the
company and then left Men VINO said
they wer. John Macsln 81 ~ West
Fifty sixth street and John RYAN of 80
Manhattan avenWa were loca ed up
with running "a gambling house
Joseph k"arns John Keller and Harry
Marion. a. they called themselves were
charged with being common gamblers
They we-- al taken to n. West Forty
seventh street station
Up :" Yesterday the Railroad port.r-
, luh gathered at 81 West Th,Irv-hfth
street This place also used - serve
a. Jack Johnson's town hous. Baron
" iiklnA had saloon there until 'h-v re-
lieV"d him NJ his LICENSE three months
ago The object Of N" Iori.r~ club. aC-
"ordtng To- a charter in = gi'' frame. was
la encourage and - h.ir - members
he thrifty honest and tr'I,hiIl port"rr
The club vas N rh- basement \ bar
."r shop is on IN. second floor. a chop
.ncv restaurant on IN. th,rd Jack John
IA oid quarter which are -trll re
.-rysd for him. on IN. fourth and the I
Haron~ apartment Oh tue top floor Tn.
pI,". = freauent-d mostly NV color.d .
oIks Sergi Cree Of schmidt mergers /
san and MS plain clothes men went Their. !
% find ont II the port"rs' club was living !
Ip 10 ~ charter They entered hy the .
run' door aud started downstairs for .
h.. ba-rin.n' A steel door hIndered them {,
md they hammsrsd /; down A. he -ud
Il the hallway they encountered another
: eel paTii,,ou anu this went The SANE.
yav
Inside ~"r. Lao negroes. -oTn- ~ whom
ion ride on Pulluans. shooting craps
md operating a couple nf field games
y he door CAV. IN they shouted Their.
NJ. goes \ few ~ them started FOR an
,th-r .'Nii that .ad- :, an airshaft. winch
IA turn tai 80 them into IN" chop -'I.v
0Ia"r up-tair- Bui they "b-y~d orders
md gr,un~ti Non. escaped The raider
gathered IA George B--b.- nj 81 West
thirty nth street The others they l4t
- The charter o. he Railroad Port.rs
'lub IL at Headquarters nlong with the
lice charts and telephones
Up ~ Tine Bronx they descended upon
n ..-ra blishm-nt at acs2 Third avenue
II the -trok. 81 S-rgt Dougherty and
light Th~n rushed up long stairway and
,angsh away ~ a sOlid wooden door on
he second 400 Outside a bIg crowd
ia iched inside were thirty or forty
I ~ happ-n-i 80 quickly. though. that
her. wasn't -ign "f fight and Sergt
,pugnerty corrliIad tiy. prisoners. rae
~ sheets som. Dice. klondike outfit
nd a telephon" Men who said they
ere Frank Kelly II 1882 Third avenue.
Ia rlar Scott 81 333 Fast I3sth street. Nbra-
arm HAMS of III Fast ij9th street and
au.s Moran of 2iNo Third avenue ,
ere held a. common gamblers. and
homa> H"alv 81 40 East l5srh street
as arrested charged with aiding tn.
aus-
The prisoners were taken IN the patrol
agon Ia III. Morri-snIa police station ,
alter in the evening ln"v wer. hails.d out
81 on .sch IN bonds furnished. by
enry Buckn." of yW Sherman av-nu. I
mich were taken Nv Magistrate Butt. '
hey will appear TODAY for examination
There were NOR. present IN the place /
,33s Third avenue than IN any ~ the /
lhers that tn. wee hunters called on d
Lieut. Trov and Detectives
erris McEvoy and Levy led IN. charge n
hey worked their way up three flights J
stairs and bent the lock n door on >
IL fourth 30 that they walked right in
ishout having TO no rough. Two hun
red persons ceased talking Six were q
rested. Frederick Claoue ~ Ity East
5th street and James Carmody Of III
asst Ninety eighth street were held on a
large % running the place. They w~r. :.
,iled out by Michael McGrsth who gave 4.
90 bonds for each, accepted by Justic.
.Iler. The others spent IN. night In the u
,st i2sth street police station =
Twenty. sax ~ the prisoners taken by v
,mn,iss ioner FIynDs men IN MONDAYS y
.nbling rlida faced Magistrate Appleton V
the West side cpur, YESTERDAY. az
eaa eight were discharged ~ .nce ="
To- majority 81 the other prisoners we're "
raigned a. common gambler.
Lawyer Rosentha' who appeared for -