The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-22
FOUR MEN HURT
IN GANG MIXUPS
"BOys Try Out Guns" at Hey
wood Social Club, Wound
ing One.
ATTACK TWO IN STREET
Half q Dozen Lure Yet Another
to Roof and Rob
Him.
ATTACK TWO IN STREE

There has been a split in the Gopher
Gang since Tanner Smith left Jail three
months ago and the fist fights and petty
retaliations that have been going on
broke out last night into n general hght
all along the line. The police say they
had felt 1t coming and they look for
more trouble now that two men are in
hospitals from wounds that may prove
fatal
The Haywood Social Club. OF which
Owney Madden is the presiding genius,
was holding Its weekly racket last night
at Tenth avenue and Thirtieth street.
Five young men entered and proceeded TO
empty their revolvers, Owneys friends
replied in kind, but there were no injuries
then. But on their way out the Ave took
a pot shot at John Connell, who was
officiating in the cloak room. a bullet
went tearing through his abdomen and
he dropped In a heap. This was shortly
after 0 o'clock.
II was after IL o'clock when taxicab
arrived at Bellevue Hospital and Con
nell was lifted out ard rushed to the
operating table. The police Of the we,,
Thirty seventh street station were In
formed that there had been shooting
and Detective Hooker learned little
about the Haywood Club shooting from
Cornell before he became unconscious.
About the same time that the police
learned OF Connells injuries word came
from the French Hospital In West Thirty
fourth street that William Fitzgerald was
there with an ugly stab wound In his left
side and other evidences Of having been
beaten up. He told Detectives Flood and
King that he was on the way TO his home
at All West Thirty seventh street when
half q dozen men jumped upon him and
beat him. Some one stabbd him in the
mixup. He didn't know. of course, who
his assailants were.
Shortly after this Arthur Galindo OF
4s4 Tenth avenue. who has been beaten
up several times within the last few
weeks, but who has failed to appear
against the men whom the police arrested,
was set upon and Kicked all over the
street He was getting II when detec-
t!ves went to his rescue and ne Joined
in the chase after tho gangsters lie
kept after ono man and finally got him
on the roof of u tenement in West Thir-
ty-ninth street
The prisoner was just giving his name
as Thomas Reilly. OF 546 West Fortieth
street In the West Thirty-seventh street
station when Louis Gummantx OF 6l0
| West Forty-second street rushed In and
pointed out Reilly as ona OF the men who
had robbed and beaten him earlier In the
evening. He said he was In his room
when some one threw pebbles At his win
dow and he went to the roof to investi-
gate. There he was set upon by half a
dozen young men. They took 50 and q
pawn ticket for 5000 ring from hin,
and then they kicked him all over the
| roof. So Reilly was held on two COM
plants.
! Detectives Flood and King met Owney
Madden In West Thirty-fourth street. II,
said he was on tho way to the French
Hospital to sec one of his friends. Tn,
detectives searched him, but he had ne
weapon and was allowed TO go. lie said
there had been slight disagreement a.
the club and that he understood some Of
the boys had tried out their guns snt
| knives.