Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-08
NIGHT SCENES IN POOL HALLS
Headquarters for Loafers and Petty
Criminals Open at All Times.
UNRESTRICTED IN OPERATIONS
Police GO There only TO Make Arrests
of Boys suspected Of BeinR Con-
nccted with Highway Rob
berry or other Grimes.

When the police were looking for Trim
bic and Nagel last January on a descrip-
ton Of those boys given them by Druggist
Elton, who Law IN his bed I'm a critical
condition as a result Of the wounds he had
received In bold. early evening holdup OF
his store, they knew exactly where to find
the youthful desperadoos in a pool hall
They arrested the pair In the Palace pool
han at Thirteenth and Douglas streets.
Twiggs and Deand. two Of the tough-boy
characters held for a week as suspects in
the Cohn murder case told the police that
their regular "hangouts~ had been the
pool halls, IN particular the one Of Jack
Careys at 3O5 North sixteenth street
Police Judge Crawford in filming william
Hoch, the proprietor Of nan at Twsnty-
fourth and Ame- avenue, last winter de-
nounced the pool halls as the plague
spots Of the city where boys are made into
buns"
The pool halls Of william Anderson, rs
North sixteenth street and sam Moss, 1906
Cass street were found open as late as 4
o'clock Sunday morning by Bee reporter.
At these places, as az others. pitch games
we're the center OF attraction The games
were played presumably with chips Of the
house and with stakes Of "two-bits a cor
ner and 10 cents a set"
At Andersons place a long. low single
room with card tables at the back. a ty-
pical incident occurred. Along about 3
o'clock in the morning two Norwegians, a
Swede and German, after repeated pass
ings of pocket bottle. having previously
Iaid q good foundation, became the best OF
friends on earth Shortly they foregath-
cred in circle with arms about each
others neck and commenced to sing Each
Ill al. a
all at once The German yodeled and the
Nors> man painted glowing pictures Of their
homeland fjords
An freshman, himself in the belligerent
stage, who was watching the pitch game
in thu rear, was told that the German was
calling him names. He rose to make a
few emphatic remarks, and an ancient feud
boded a fresh opening The trouble, how
ever, soon subsidized.
The halls along lower Douglas street,
during the early hours Of the night, were
filled almost to suffocation with a large
crowd OF men and boys Of varying ages.
Although on that border line at which II
is hard to tell the exact age, large num-
Der of boys were undenisbly under IS years
Of age.
The men were different types. Among
the loafers, an ever-changing crowd, there
was far more than sprinkling of 1.-THE
bum" alert for chance at q touch
The games in progress evidently hat
little interest for them; they were JUS
'-sticking around"
Numerous faces had the indubitable Grim
inal cast paste compilations betokeninl
slight acquaintance with open air or day
light. and shifting eyes.
Where yuh goin' to flop tonight7' was I
frequent question
Search me-" was the iAconic reply Otter
made.
Many OF tho younger played as long a
sthey had any money left, not stopping unit
hth0y were -fiat broke"
what yuh dOin' now-a-days, Covey7'
~'1Sothin' much" and Lets go out and sti
saRound sWhileS' were scraps OF converse
Ftien frequently overheard.