The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-15
POLiCE TRY NEW TACTICS.
Draw Corporation Counsel Into Case In
which Ciubmep Baked soft Pedal RAID.

which Ciubmep Baked soft Pedal RAID.
Lieut.. Schlunsten and five detectives
from Police Headquarters visited III West
Forty eighth street yesterday afternoon.
They were on a tour OF inspection and
az they suspected that games OF chance
were in operation In the rooms OF the
Bellford Social Club on the top floor of
that building they sought admission
under the provisions OF section 3l5 OF the
City Charter.
After a wait OF ten minutes they saw
a member apply at the door for admis-
sion. Schlunsten and Policeman Freib
follow ed him The first of the trio got
through but admission was denied the
two others by the doorkeeper. Thereupon
Freib placed the doorkeeper under arrest.
Schlunsten and the four other detectives
kept up these tactics until they had
arrested half a dozen doorkeepers. all
Of whom they took to the West Side
court.
Magistrate Corrigan after hearing all
the circumstances promptly thought Of
section 1924 Of the Penal Law, which
makes it misdemeanor for any person
to interfere with an officer in the per-
! formance of his duty, and for the purposes
of making a test case decided to take
complaint against the first doorkeeper
arrested lie was Henry Frank, IS years
old, of 3ls West Forty-seventh street.
Frank gave his occupation as a travelling
salesman.
The police asked for an adjournment
until next Wednesday for the purpose
of bringing the Corporation Counsel,
" no is the counsel for the Police Depart
ment, into the case or TO get an opinion
! from him. so the hearing was set for
next Wednesday and the half dozen
prisoners were paroled until that date.
B / his is SAID TO be the first time that
! such an action was ever taken on behalf
of the police. under the present admins
tration, concerning houses about which
they had suspicious. During the last
several months the police have attempted
! to- get into such houses by various meth
ods, even to the extent of using agents tO
I get evidence. Whenever 1t occurred that
I neither they nor their agents were ad-
I mitted. policemen were stationed In
, front of the doors Of such houses and
warned away all timid ones desiring
, TO enter under the threa. Of possible ar
; rest. In sofns cases the police and The
! club members" clashed. resulting in the
arrest OF the latter. hii 'hrr were in
Yariably discharged when arraigned be
! fore the magistra'. charged with dis
/ orderly conduct
After another mag gistrate declared that
he would take charges of assault agains,
policemen who would lay hands upon
CLUB members" under such circumst ancrs
the police devised the scheme OF folding
their arms and prodding those whom they
would warn of possible arrest. Pretty
soon those club members" defending
their own fortress. took up the same
methods with the police aud in various
parts Of the city games Of human push
ball" could be seen afternoons between
the hours of and O'Clock
Now 'he police have strong hope oi
success in their new move concerning
the Corporation Counsel. They figure
that if they are successful in the test cas-.
they will have no difficulty in the futur,
nf entering all houses. including clubs
where boxing i carried on and TO which
hitherto they have been denied admission