New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-01
MASKS, AXES
AND AUTOS AID
GAMBLING RAIDS
Doors Battered Down in
Spectacular Dash 10
Capture Men in Clubs.
NINETY DETECTIVES
IN NIGHT ROUNDUP
Garden Restaurant Manager IS
Taken as COstigan Revives
Strenuous Methods.

/ The good old swashbuckling method
OF rsiding gambling houses was re
vived by the police yesterday morning
with swinging axes, black masks, closed
automobiles and glistenng revolvers.
Under Lieutenant Daniel Costigan. OF
the raiding squad, ninety detectives,
B who had been picked for the work
made an early morning drive against
seven places. and arrested thirteen men
as common gamblers and one, George
! Wilson. manager of the Garden Res
! taurant. rs the proprietor of disor-
/ dcrlv house. Most Of the prisoners are
I alleged to have given themselves over
: 10 shooting craps
I'm consequence Of this onslaught
against vice it IS likely that Inspector
Frank Morris. Of the lower Tenderloin,
and Inspector Thomas +. Ryan. Of Hsr-
lem. will be placed on trial by Police
I Commissioner Woods.
That the raids were made only two
days before Election Day, 1t was said,
should not be considered as significant.
II had been rumored for several weeks
that a number OF places where crap
shooting and poker playing were in
dulged in had been opened. That there
might be few high class gambling
houses where big money changed
hands was suspected, but hard TO
prove.
A way TO reach the smaller places
was opened five or six weeks ago by a
gambler who operated in the vicinity
Of Sixth Avenue and Fourteenth street.
Business Wrecked by Rival.
lie complained to the police that an.
other master of chance had wrecked
his business by enlisting a gang of
what he termed trough h-necks' 10 fos-
ter fighting in his place. He named
The other man, gave his address and
told Of other places where gambling
was conducted.
Thereupon Costigan began TO assem-
bic his force. Orders we're sent 10
each precinct TO send to Police Head
quarters bright young men with not
more than years experience in the
department. Detectives we're wanted
who were not known 70 the persons TO
be arrested. From these details ninety
men were selected and schooled in how
30 get evidence. When they had oh
I tained what was considered sufficient
evidence Chief Magistrate McAdoo is
sued warrants.
About / o'clock yesterday morning
the raiding party was split into squads
and dispatched 10 the points assigned.
One OF the main objectives was the
/ headquarters of the Pensacola Club, in
East Fifteenth Street The meeting
rooms of the organization occupy the
second and third floors.
L. I.t~
/ TO Third Avenue and Fifteenth Street.
I Six men slipped up to the roof OF the
| building and about eighteen others
mounted the stairway, half the num-
Der taking a stand on the second floor
and the other half on the third. There
are two doors on each floor. ard opaque
glass concealed from the outside the
presence of half-inch iron bars de-
signed TO keep burglars from stealing
the club records.
Axes Wreck Door.
A. signal from the leader of the
partv axes we're swung against the
glass and through the opening reyolvers
were thrust. While the weapons were
poised 10 keep the persons within the
rooms in awe the axes crashed against
the wooden door bottoms, forcing them
open. Six detectives in the group wore
masks.
II had been a dull night in the club;
few persons were present, and those
the police saw were engaged in ter
rife argument as TO Bulgaria's reasons
for Joining the Teutonic allies. There
was less than full deck OF playing
cards and only three dice. No money
vae in sight. In the front room on
the second floor were a pool table, a
pokcr table, two small. plain. circular
tables ard chairs. There were small
circular tables in the other rooms, and
chairs. All the stuff was cheap.
Two American flags adorned the
walls Of the second floor. also picture
of Richard Croker and one Of dinner
70 Timothy 2. Sullivan. in January
zoos when Herman Rosenthal, John J.
/ White and others once prominent IN
tho district attended. In a rear room
a blackboard was covered with ancient
! ;niunctions to "get down" on some
horses that were cherry ripe" and
certain to "go over at juicy price.
This sage advice had 10 do with the
/ last Belmont meeting.
From this place six prisoners were
taken. They said they were George
/ Williams. Of 10 West Thirty-nlnth
Street: Peter Stone, of 2o3 East Four
tcenth Street; Adolph Kraus, Of 1865
| Madison Street, Brooklyn; John Ken
nelly. go Second Avenue John Rivers,
$50 East l3Oth Street. and John Wynn.
2i9 West Eightietb Street. Rivers said
he was speculator and Wynn con
fessed to being miner. All were taken
10 Police Headquarters and locked up,
! charged with being common gamblers.
Later. in the Yorkville Court, each was
/ held IN 81, 900 bail.
Retain Their Masks.
! After this raid the detectives went
/ back to their automobiles. Some OF the