The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-03
CAR BARN GANG DANCE
PAINFULLY IN NTERRUPTtO
Police Pile In and. Find Slung-
shots, Guns and Butcher
Knife.
BENEFIT FOR BUM ROGER
Who Is in Jail Charged With Killing
a Man-Two Arrests
Made.
BENEFIT FOR BUM ROGEl


dance given at Corey's Hall, on
Fulton street, Astoria. l.. l.. for the
benefit of Bum Rogers. leader Of the
car barn gang. now in the Tombs charged
with killing Frank Heisch on January rs.
was raided last night by detectives from
Astoria and Manhattan. All Of the 100
or more persons in the hall, men and
women. were searched while uniformed
olicemen guarded the doors.
Giuseppe Cimmanari OF sos Hamilton
street. Long Island City, and Walter
Long of l4o Broadway, Astoria. werc
arrested. Lieut.. Teeven found that they
were carrying slung shots. Four re-
volvers and a butcher knife sharpened to
razor edge were picked UP on the floor.
The raid on the monster benefit and
dance" as 1t was advertised. grew out Of
the killing Of Frank Heisch on January c5
Late that night Beisch staggered out OF
dance hall on Lexington avenue and
told a policeman that Bum Roger had
stabbed him. Bum, whose real name is
John, was arrested, and since then As
sistant District Attorney Minton and the
police have been harrying the car barn
gang. Bum succeeded Bosco Lynch as
leader when Bosco was sentenced to life
Imprisonment for murder done last
September.
On January 81 MIR. Mnton and Mr.
Hammll, with several detectives, went
to a dance hall on Lexington avenue,
where they had been told the car barn
gang were due to appear to break up
the dance. But the men who were to
7, point out TO the police the members OF
the Hid nira tho al ,irn
! that the gang had evidently been warned
and none of them was there
Last night II was only after a tramp
through a biting Long Island wind that
, the police found the monster benefit
and dance" First they went to a dance
hall on Broadway where the dance was
scheduled to be- The proprietor recently
Lost hs license and the dance had been
transferred to a half about ten blocks
away.
The uniformed men were stationed at
the doors and windows and the detec-
tives entered to the strains of the turkey
trot Walter Roger, BUNS brother. was
| master of ceremonies. The music died
down as the detectives forced their way
into the center OF the crowd. Swiftly and
skilfully they made the rounds. feeling
| OF each mans hip pockets as they passed
and examining each girl mum and hand
bag.
| Detective Caponi made the first find. a
knife with a six inch blade. lying on the
floor. Other detectives picked up three
revolvers on the floor of the dance hall
and another was found in the dressing
room.
Lieut.. Teeven felt a suspicious lump
| in the rear pockets Of Cimmarani and
Long and pulled out two home made
slungshots They were made of a bit OF
FASTING weighing perhaps a pound and a
half attached to n leather thong eight
or ton inches long. The prisoners were
charged with carrying concealed
| weaDons
AWhen every one had been searched
the dancing was resumed. Walter Roge;s
felt highly Rratified at the showing the
car barn gang had made. He said:
We're not 80 bad as we have been
painted. Here they raid us, search us
all. and the only guys they can get any
Island" ~
Tickets to the dance said:
| Tickets. admitting Gent and Lady.
! 20 cents. :
! Extra Lady, 10 cents. :
Music by our favorte. Dancing at 80 E: