New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-10
GANG OUTBREAKS
FOLLOW TIGERS
VICTORY AT POLLS
Recent Assaults Feared a
Forecast of Revival of
Passing Evil.
! MADDEN SUBJECTS
OFF TO BLACKWELL'S
Stool Pigeons Tip Foils Attack
on yellow" and Lands Aveng-
ers in Police Net.

Tammsnv's success 81 the polls Tues
day week has given courage to the
rsngsters Of the city. They sec the
vision Of an era Of good times ahead
Of them after January !. Police have
ALREADY seen the signs Of rcorudescence
Of the gang evil that was pretty well
stamped out BY District Attorney Per
kins and his predecessor, District At
torney Whitman. with the aid Of Pc
lice Commissioner Woods,
The general belief that Tammany
protects the criminal IS firm convic-
ton in the minds OF the gangsters,
whose services have not been scorned
BY Tammany politicians In primary
fights and on election days The gang
ster. be he an unspeakable creature
who prcys on unfortunate women or
cunman who holds up a gambling
house. feels he is part Of the "sys-
tenn" and entitled 90 protection. OFTEN.
n the past. he has received II.
Gangs az tho present moment are
not the formidable organizations they
-cre before the murder OF herman
Posenthal by tho four gunner. lhey
re beginning 90 show Cus OF lie
however. and since Election Day two
things have happened which showed
their faith and their strength Is re-
turning
The first was week ago -Four
members OF the Gopher gang broke
INTO an upper IVES, Side apartment in
search Of a youth who was visiting a
Young girl I'M her mothers house. Inc
girl. her mother and the youth fled 10
tho roof by a fire escape Whlle the
sangsters we're forcing the door Then
tho ean-sters broke in the adjoining
apartment and stabbed boy OF four
teen and his older brother before they
learned they were attacking the wrong
persons.
The second was early yesterday
morning. This time the police. through
p stool pigeon. were Informed that some
member Of the Owney Madden gang
were preparing 20 pull of "a little al
far. and spoiled II. This rs what the
stool pigeon communicated 10 ser
gcant Finn. head of the Gang Squad:
Some Of the Madden gang are going
70 get yellow tonight. Eddie Egan
rs going TO be IN charge
70 Sergeant Finn this meant that
Egan. who. according 10 the police, was
8
rant for the leadership since the gang
leader was sent up for twenty years
FOR instigating the murder OF Patsy
Dovle. might do a little more than mt
yellow" n they met him before the
rolicc interfered.
In gangdom yellow" was due for
punishment. having beaten Iommie
Kelly on Sunday night with hammer.
Kelly was so badly injured that he was
taken TO Bellevue.
Word was passed out that Kelly who
has friends in the Madden gang, &C
cording 10 the police. must be re-
venged. The stool pigeon passed the
vord TO Police Headquarters.
Early yesterday morning sergeant
Finn and members of his squad found
Eean and three others about 70 get
into Patrick Reilly's taXicab. at Ninth
Avenue and Thirty-siXth Street. Egan
and his friends and Reilly we're ar
rested. but only after a fight IN which
the detectives were forced 70 draw
their revolvers.
That the little party intended 70 do
business was evidenced by the presence
Of revolver and a blackjack IN the
taxicab. For this Reilly will have 10
answer a charge Of violation of the
sullivan law to-day in the West Side
court. Egan and his companions are
now on Blackwell's Island, beginning a
months prison term.
The four received short shrift from
Magistrate Murphy. who convicted
hem OF disorderiy conduct on charges
made by the police Besides Egan. the
others gave their names as John Ryan,