The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-27
MAN SHOT AT HAS TWO NABBED
An 4 PiRT or THE CIIIL
var or THE GAMBLERS.
Hayes Was Chased ny n Gang and Fired nj
Twice Police Say the Gang was go.
Ing to wreck a Gambling House hut
Lost Their NcrNc After shooting

Two men were locked up in tho West
FOrty-seventh street station late last
night on tn" charge of fclonious assault
made earlier in the day 10y Harry Hayes
of $50 West Forty-thrd street who sale
that at | O'Clock yesterday morning 9
gang Of men had chased him into tn,
vestibule of the house at lls West Forty
first street and had fired two shots at him
With Acting Captain Gloster and severa
detectives from the Fourth Inspection
District Hayes had spent the evening
on Broadway looking for his assailants
and finally found tie two men who were
arrested in front of Dowling's saloon,
on the southwest corner of Broadway
and Forty-third street.
Yesterday morning some one tele-
phoned to the evening papers that a
gang OF ten men had entered and held
up gambling house at IFS West Forty
first street Gostor sent detectives
around to investigate and finally found
Hayes. who said he had been stationed
outside of the house when a gang of
guerrillas sent by another gambling
faction tried to do him" firing two
shots at him but not inlicting any injury
The house, it was said last night, Is run
by Dan the Dude whose name has ap-
peared in gambling stories before For
the last six years there has been gamb-
ling war on in the Tenderloin The swell" f"
gamblers those who played for big stakes
and ran their houses on a lavish scale
resented the influx into the district of
gamblers who had got their start in the
business by running stuss games on the
lower East Side. Thousands of dollars
have been spent by each faction in at
tempts to "crimp7 the others places
Holdups and shootings have been fire.
quent. 1t was only year ago that shots
were fired from an automobile in West
Seventy-second street
The police say that the shooting at
tempt of yesterday morning is a result
of this war. and that Dan the Dude. who
has been mentioned is high in the regard
Of one Of the militant parties. A gang Of
four or five men who would hesitate for
nothing If they We're paid well. were hired
to clean up the place at lls West Fo rty-
first street. according to the police. and
as a start they tried To get Hayes, who the
police say, was the lookout. After they
had fired the shots and missed they
lost their nerve and wouldn't 60 further
in wreCking the hou-e.
The men arrested are Dan McDer-
mott Of AZ Tenth avenue and Fred
Shaw of 2O9 West lO9th street. They are
charged with attempted felonious as
sault. McDermott did the shooting, it
Is charged
just year ago yesterday the town
was startled 10y two bomb explosions
in Harlem, These We're supposed to
be the result of the gambling war, since
the bombs were set off in front of gambling
houses owned 10y one of the factions.
A year ago last November five men
10 see Mayor Gaynor. They told him
they We're gamblers and that they paid
for police protection, but didn't get IL.
The then First Deputy Police Commits
siuncr ridiCuled this and said il was simply
case of n man opening gambling game
with another's money under an agree
ment ard then making an agreement
with third party. The man who put
np the money ran game in the same
place and then complaints were received
by the District Attorneys Office because
of the rivalry. IL was like this. he said;
an Internal war throughout.
Along Broadway, however. it is said
that II is a case of one of the two parties
being in right" with the police and the
complaints received against their places
are ignored At the least complaint
against a place owned by a member of
the In bad" bunch the police make a
raid and so the only way the outs can
fight their rivals is by using force and
trying To territy the others into letting
them operate on an equal footing