The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09
EDDIE FOY SEIZED
WHEN RAIDERS
GO TO BROADWAY
Comedian and 33 Others Ar
rested in Alleged
POOlrOOm.
5000 SEE CAPTIVES
GO IN PATROL WAGON


Yesterday afternoon. To be more ex-
rlcii, dozen or more policemen and a
neddlesome. changing patrol wagon de-
populated the well known thoroughfare
TO the extent OF thirty-four persons. who
were spending the afternoon In Room
toi Of the Heidelberg Building. And
les. that in Itself might not be sufficient
for one Saturday afternoon crowd at
Broadway and Forty second street, one
Of the 5000 interested spectators al the
depopulation recognized one of the
thirry-four going into involuntary,
though brief exile. and shouted:
"Hully Gee There's Eddie Foy 90
And 1t was. but that's ahead OF the
story.
About three weeks ago. Inspector
John Dwyer proclaimed Foriy-second
street a dead line" for gamblers and
other patrons of games OF chance and
showed that he was In earnest by raid
Ing eight or nine poolrooms. thereby
soaring such sinful persons down into
Inspector Frank j. Morriss kingdom
below the dead line" But not without
Inspector Morris's sleuths knowing what
was going on. In fact. two of them.
Detectives James T. Brady and Robert
3 Morris. knew 1t all the time, and
acted yesterday afternoon.
Card Leads to Raid.
They arrested two men at Broadway
and Forty-second street-George w
Ryan OF 12 West l0oth street. and Frank
Cowles OF III Carroll street, Brooklyn
and locked them up in the West Thir-
tieth street station. They were charged
With accepting bets and keeping hand
books. Ryan had a card reading Room
+ol, Heidelberg Building" on the south
west corner OF Broadway and Forty
second street, which interested Brady
and Morris. Inspector Morris was called
at once TO the telephone and when
Brady and Morris stood in front OF the
ONCE door numbered "40l." on the
fourth floor OF the Heidelberg Building.
their comrades were there to lend !
hand
Brady tapped gently and slipped his
fott IN between the jamb and the door
as IL opened on George w Ryan's'
ONCE The detective asked for admit
tence. but SO inhospi;able were these
insidr that the door was slammed
against Bradys toes. At that his fists
went through the glass door. OF course
lie was badly cut but what matter ?
Receivers flashed in bluecoats' hands
and regular raid was On. The rest
OF the glass pane was shattered. The
police c!imed in and thirty-two badly
scared bu, nattily dressed persons
si aw HATED mostly and Frying canes)
backed up against he wall
Tatn came the changing patrol wagon.
And as IT dashed up Br> adway out
POURED the Broadwayites not already
on the SPOT, from the hotels, the +, rty =
second Stree Country Club and other
well known places in the vicinity II
the number OF at leist 5000 Capt.
Bailey and his reserves could scarcely
hold the crowd In check. \ daylight
raid! What a treat! There were shouts
and jeers. p essing and pushing, fighting
and scrambling.
Eddie Foy Explains.
And then from the Heidelburg Build
Ing, through gauntlet OF Policemen
with difficulty holding their footing
against the crowd. came the first third OF
the afternoon spenders IN Room iOl.
They were piled into the patrol wagon
with haste. but not before an alert
eye had spied Eddie Foy.
Are YOU ma ried?'' asked Lieut..
S!etert Of Foy, as he stood I'm front If
the desk at the West Thirticth street
station with Fred Straus. a.. OF 1870
Broadway, a real estate man. DO; u
charged with keeping and maintaining a
poolroom.
Yes, wife and eight kids" replied the
actor, who gave his age as IS and his
address as Post Road. New Rochelle.
It's some ball team too"
Where were you borne"
"Oh Made in America"
The other prisoners were charged with
d'sorderly conduct. Eddie Foy explained
MIS- presence in room 40l in this way
He wanted to telephone to his wife. wac
is Ill, and a friend took him into room
%ol where he was using the telephone
When interrupted by the police. tie
spent two hours In cell until Joseph
Bennett, who rates his pool parlor. at
1872 Broadway. at $4,000. gave bail for
roy Straus and seven others. The rest
went TO the night court.
The fourth trip of the patrol wagon.
ey the way, according to the police.
brought racing charts, telephone slips
ana other paraphernalia from room 4ol.
T1enty-three OF the prisoners were
discharged by Magistrate Simms in the
night court FOy and Straus will appes !
IN the iorkville court this morning.