The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-04-30
DWYER LEADS RAID
ON SOUTHERN HOTEL
Owner and Manager Arrested
on Charge Of Running a
Nuisance.

There was sSurrying aud running
To cover among the dancers in the eleven
/ story Southern Hotel in Fifty-fourth
street few doors east OF Broadway
shortly before midnigh, last night when
Inspector Dwyer. Third Deputy sCom-
missioner Newburger and Chairman +.
w Whiting OF the Committee of Four
! teen swooped down upon the hotel al
the head of half n dozen or more detec-
t!ves.
Charles r.. Ellis proprietor Of the
hotel who IL % years old. and Man
ayers Gustave Schult, SO years old,
whose home is AZ SO West sixty
nfth street. were locked up IN the West
Forty seventh street station house
charged with keeping and maintain
ing public nuisance.
And while the music stopped and the
uproar of attempted getaways on the
part Of the dancers was ar its highest
detectives and their superiors boiled up
| through the corridors of eleven floors,
| Knocking AZ every bedroom door.
Guests or no guests" came the order
| from the officers. "at the end OF forty
| eight hours there must he no one living
in this hotel
"Tickled to death TO leave the place
| now that I know where I'm living. said
! the wife of a well known comedian n
when told that she must move
Several others among the permanent
! patrons WHO came to I've Al the hoteI
! during its quieter days, before the pres
! ent mana cement took l. over about s.N
weeks ago. said that hey too were
/ grateful TO the police for letting them
know that things were going on that
! the police disapprove of.
! Inspector Dwver and his party closed
/ N on the hotel last night on warrants
obtained from Magistrate MCAdoo after
| Detectives Witt-nberg and Cowley OF
the inspectors staf had reported after
registering at the hotel as from Chicago
and spending a few days nosing arounc
that the management was maintaining
"A nuisance that ought 10 he closed up.
In hammering their way from door
20 door the police came To suite or
, the sixth floor occupied by Frederick
Esher. Inspector Dwycr upon learning
that Mr.. Fisher is dangerously III gave
word that the patient must not be dis
4 turbed even at the expiration OF the
forty-eight hour time limit.
Attention was attracted 20 the South
ern last week. when Inspector Dwyer's
men made a sudden raid on a suite or
the ninth floor with the hope of cap
turing John Doorman and the rest OF
an alleged poolroom outfit. The suite
was empty when the police got in.
Commissioner Newburger Inspector
Dwyer and Mr.. Whiting and the hal
dozen detectives got together at Sixth
avenue and Fifty-fourth street shortly
before II o'clock and then made for tn,
building in two parties,
one went In through the main en-
tra nee to the dining room, where about
100 people We're trotting. the other party
going in through the cafe, The dining
room raiders grabbed SChult, while thu
cafe squad came upon Proprietor ELI:
near the bar.
There was lot OF excitement wheI
Inspector Dwyer announced first in thu
dining room and next to the lobby crowt
that the hotel is n nuisance and mus
be closed
Ellis and Schult were locked up at thu
station house pending the arrival o
bondsmen with $500 cash bail each
Toward midnight the two men had mes
sengcrs wins!ng through the Tenderloir
looking for bail.