The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-05
RAIDS AT YEDDO NOVEMBER'S
FLYNN TAXES (ORRIGAN'S TIP
AND GETS fOf PRISONERS.

skeleton keys and Brass knuckies Litter
the Floor After Fight Of Gamblers
With Detectives In caps and sweat.
ers-ls Regues' Gallery Celebrities.
'You might drop into a cigar store
at Rivington and Allen streets run by
Yeddo November and Kid Twist e brother.
Benny Slyfox." said Magistrate Corrigan
in his address at the City Club last Satur-
day, -and you would meet Q number of
noted burglars. such as Cockeye Harry,
Abe the Lush and some more
Commissioner Flynn and twenty de-
tectives dropped in at a house in Allen
street four doors north Of Rivington
about . o'clock last night. picked up ioi
prisoners. among whom the police recog-
nized Yeddo November. and took them
OF to Headquarters. All except Yeddo
were charged with being common gam
blers, but Yeddo had a revolver in his
pocket and he will answer to carrying
concealed weapons. Magistrate Corrigan.
so II happens. is the man who will be on
the bench in the Third district court.
which used TO he at Essex Market before
the old court house there was demolished.
and he will pass upon the evidence against
Flynn's prisoners. This is Flynns thirty
eighth raid OH gambling houses.
Commissioner Flynn acted upon hi. own
information. He did not have warrants.
He said when he got thr ough that he be-
lieved that the place he raided was that
spoken Of by Magistrate Corrigan. though
there was no cigar counter.
The Commissioner and twenty Of his
men. including Lieut.. Collins, who has
figured in most OF the Commissioner s
descents upon alleged gambling places;
Lieut. John McMullen and Lieut.. Frank
Peabody. who is in charge OF the detec-
tives in the district which includes Allen
and Rivington streets. did the work. The
Commissioner understood. he said. that
the place was the resort OF gamblers and
thieves. 1t was said after the raid that
fifteen OF the prisoners are men whose
pictures are in the rogues' gallery.
II wasn't much Of . job TO break into the
place. The police found two rooms
one of which was shut of from the other
by a partition with an icebox door. But
this back room had common door leading
10 the hallway and il was through this
that the police made their way with two
or three strokes of an axe. There were
a dozen men in the front room. which
boasted nothing more suspicious than q
safe, and these were allowed to GO
The back room vas packed. There were
q dozen card tables and layouts for etuss
and craps. The card tables slid from
their equilibrium when the first thump
Of the police axe was heard and the
cards few up in the air Some Of the
men dived heal foremost through a win
dow leading into rear yard. taking the
sash and window glass with them.
hot stovepipe blocked the way OF fsome
and il too went out the window The stove
itself went over. but il didn't set the
place afre.
In the struggle 10 get out Yeddo No
vemher's pals started combat among
themselves, end the police, themselves
clad in sweaters and caps. came in for
their share Of walloping When the up
roar quieted down the police found brass
knuckles end other implements Of ready
defence lying on the foo- among the
stacks Of cards There were also twenty
KEYS Of the skeleton pattern which the
clientele OF the plece had thoughtfully
rid itself Of An icebox containing plenty
OF cheer was in one corner and a fruit
stand in another These the police left
under guard
Detective Mc 'onighy knows Yeddo
November He picked out young man
who declared himself TO be Harry Smith.
IN Austrian. rnd locked him up under
Yeddo's nsme McConighy says that
Novemher's first nrme is really Yiddel,
that he has been arrested several times.
but that he has always esca ped conviction
According to information which the
police picked M in the back room Yeddo
November is coproprietor Of the place
along with Benny Slyfox. Benny's brother.
Kid Twist was murdered AT Coney Island
year ago. He was an East Side gang
leader Another of Yeddo's friends ac-
cording to the detectives. is Kid Stall. a
lieutenant Of Monk Eastman
Among the l0l prisoners were three
deaf mutes and a fourteen-yea ar-old boy.
The latter was Morris Levey Of ss7 South
Fourth street, Brooklyn. He said that he
had been asked by girl to take a letter
to man in the place and that while he
was inside the police came He was sent
to the Childrens society.