New-York tribune., 1918-04-22
Army and Navy Intelli.
gence Agents Accom-.
pany the Police
Many Places in
Harlem Visited
Forty Men and Two Girl,
Are Questioned by
Prosecu.s--

Assistant District Attorney James =
Smith, accompanied by detectives, rep.
resentatives of the naval and armv !.
telligence bureaus and Malvin Gutm.,
one of the members of the extraora,.
nary grand jury, early yesterday morn.
ing raided thirty all-Eight resorts. mos.
of which were in Harlem. Coffee
! houses, chop suey restaurants. cigar
stores and pool and billiard parlors
were visited, with occasional stops at
saloons. The latter seemed to have
scented danger and all had closed their
doors and blinds.
Mr.. Smith, with orders from District
Attorney Swami to pick up every sus.
pected person found. started off with
his raiding party at 2 O'Clock. Thev
headed straight for Harlem, and at
10th Street and Lencx Avenue were
met by Police Inspector Thomas A.
Ryan, his plain clothes men and two
patrol wagons.
Six Seized in Cigar Store
From there the party went to cigar
store in Manhattan Avenue, near 10th
Street. AS the police started in sew.
| the street, but were showed back. A.
ter inspecting the store with Mr.. Gut
man Mr.. Smith ordered the police to
take six of the men to the West 12Sd
/ Street station for fur ther questioning.
At 116th Street and Lencx Avenue he
visited six all-night resorts in one
block, ordering more men to the police
station. From there dash was made
to 125th Street, and the party finally
reached the colored belt, 135th Street
and Lenox Avenue.
After visiting several of the chop
suey restaurants in that section, Mr..
Smith returned to the West 12Sd
Street station, where he questioned
forty men and two girls. After or
dering the arrest of nine Of the men
as material witnesses, he had sub
poenas given to the rest to appear at
row morning.
Two army officers in the party ex-
amined several soldiers found in the
places raided Every soldier who
! could not produce a pass was taken
! into custody. Two other officials of
the Intelligence Department looked
for enemy aliens. and those who could
not exhibit zone passes had their
names taken for further investiga-
tion.
lnspects "Whitc Light" District
Through with Harlem, Mr. Smith
went down to the "White Light" dis
! trict to see if the places visited on
/ his two previous raids were keeping
to their promises. Finding them closed
the Assistant District Attorney went
to a pool and billiard parlor at Forty
sixth Street and Broadway. There
fifty subpoenas were handed out. The
proprietor was ordered to close his
place and appear before Mr.. Swami to-
! morrow morning.
GERS the raiding party turned back for
a visit to a dancing academy in Fifty
ninth Street. The place was in dark
ress. One of the officers later ex-
Ilained that they had received COM
plants about it from soldiers.
AS the raiding party was about to
disband Detectives Kerwin and Finan
saw g man and woman dash out Of
a restaurant in Long Acre Square and
jump into taxicab. They ordered
the chauffeur to halt and. according
to the police, the woman urged him
on. When the detectives reached the
cab they say the woman abused them
so that they drove the party to the
West Forty seventh Street station.
| There the couple received subpoenas
/ bv Mr.. Smiths order.