The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-16
RAID OPPOSITE The WIGWAM
SKYLIGHT THE WEAK SPOT IN
BEANSY'S FORTIFICATION.

Four NtsuoIn4 FOucemen ana . Lawyer
Among the 500 Merry Gambo,iers
Two Men Hide In the Coal, Two
In the woodpile. One In . Barrel.
II the man with whom Beansy Rosen-
feldt contracted to have bars put over the
ak light in the rear extension at 1As Fast
Fourteenth street hadn't procrastinated
they might not have raided Beansy's
place as easily a. they did yesterday
But the contractor waited too long and
the police under Deputy Commissioner
Flynn dropped in Ivy way Of the roof.
found 900 men and corralled fourteen OF
them. not to mention 5000 in a safe and a
gambling outfit. 1t was Flynn's twenty
eighth raid and in many respects the
most spectacular.
In the Tammany Hall building which
is directly across the street from Beansy's
place. certain persons pressed their noses
to the window panes and watched the
goings on. The Commissioner chose
o'clock as the propitious momene to at
tack and the crowds Of folk that throng
the streets at that hour block ed all traffic
along Fourteenth street so completely
that reserves had their hands full 10 get
them moving Surface cars stopped
running II was o'clock last night be-
fore the police got all their prisoners to
Headquarters.
The four story broWnstone building
opposite Tammany Hall was the last
place you'd ever dream OF to house a
gambling outfit. Only two stories were
occupied. On the ground floor ia a hat
store separated from an anatomical
museum by a hallway. A few minutes
before o'clock three policemen went
into the hat store. brushed by Charles
McKeever the manager. reached a
wooden partition that blocked the way
into the back room and began on it with
axes. McKeever demonstrated and they
told him to cut i, out and be sensible
The partition was four inches thick.
Simult ultaneously more cops in the hallway
smashed through two wooden doors
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