The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1905, Page 3

SSS ae ---ye ics os = ICT THE GANG,SAYS ASPINALL Judge Instructs the poena Steve O’Brien and All Others Suspected of Being Implicated— “Poor Must Be Protected.” * Sm-eecttve-campaisn was begun to-day | 4 @gamm the syndicate that is running the policy game in Brooklyn. Judge Aspinoll called the April Grand Jury before him and instructed that bedy to subpoena certain persona and take ac- tion looking to the Indictment of the Dackers of the hundreds of polloy shops that are draining the pennies from the poor of that borough, ‘This aggressive action of Judge As- pinall follows the most linportant pol- fey rald ever made In Brooklyn, which | was uccomplished last night by Supt. Burke, of the Anti-Policy Society, as- sipted by detectives from Commissioner NeAdoo's office and from tho Stage street atation In Brooklyn. They cap- tured the first policy print press ever taken fn a rald in this etty policy sheets, Two prisoners, Lawr Rapp and Leo Rouch, were taken. place railed was the polley headquar- ters of the Hastern Jistrict, over a Raines law saloon in Vandervoort place near Thames street, Greenpoink Rapp and Rouch were held In the police court to-day. Judge Aspinall's Instructions to the Grand Jury were definite and decisive After reciting the growth of the policy game jn Brooklyn in ten ye despite | the steady increase of fines and the In filetion of heavier penalties, Judge As- pinal referred to a confession mado to him yesterday by one Charles Abbott, @ policy writer's clerk, who was sen-| tenced to six months in the Kings’ County penitentiary. “Steve” O'Brien Accused, “I have no confidence in an in former,” declared Judge Aspinall, “but this man's confession has corrobora- tion, Inferential and direct. He says that one “Steve” O'Brien, who lives in Dighteenth avenue, Bath Beach, is one of the policy backers tn this borou, and has his headquarters at No, 13 High atreet. I find that O'Brien owns the High street building, and that he haa gone on tho bonds of nearly every man arrested for writing pol years. “abbott will tell his story to you, gentlemen of the Grand Jury, and it ts gor you and the District-Attorney to take action. I would suggest that you subpoena Detective Cohen, of Head- quarters, who knows a lot about the polloy game in Brooklyn. “Guypoena a man named Beatty, who has been interested in policy here for twenty-five years, I would suggest that you subpoena another man who drives fast horses on the Boulevard and wears @iamonds, His name is De la Mata and he lives in Carlton avenue, I sup- qeee he has his personal attorney, and you may have « hard time getting him. “Bift It to the Bottom.” “Subpoena Steve O'Brien, too. Sub- poena the bond clerks from the Dis- triet-Attorney's office and the County Court and direct them to produce the ond books for the past five years, You may get ecme Sluminating information | to the character of the prisoners that Bteve O'Brien has furnished ball for, “Ig you follow my suggestion, you mill subpoena Fred J, Craft, of Wood- Dine street, who has boasted thuit no power can stop the policy business in the Eastern District; also his partner, @ man named Goldsmith, who operates forty polley shops in the Hamburg ave- nue, Btagg street and Brownsville pro- cincts and openly defies the police au- thorities, “E request you, in behalf of the citi wens of Brooklyn, to go {nto tho mat- ter earnestly and sim it to the bottom. The time has come when the poor and ldwly of Brooklyn must be protected from the greedy men who fatten on the policy game and explott thelr gains in ‘the ehape of fust horses, fine hou and diamonds.” Hard Blow to the Game, Dhe Burke policy raid last night was rd blow to the gamo in Brooklyn, sheets upon which ¢ho writers pay off wore printed at the ‘Greenpoint plant, ‘These sheets cost $1.50 each and @re vent by mail to the various writers, Bone of whom know where the main plant 1s altuated, The drawings are held twice a day in Covington, Ky., and aro telegraphed to the headquarters of the policy ayndi- oate in Brooklyn, Up to last night they were sent ¢o the Greenpoint address to bo printed, To an Evening World reporter Judge Aspinall sald to-day that it was hin intention to do his utmost to wipo out the game in Brooklyn entirely. 8'ng Sing for Princip: “1 don't Uke to be too hard on tho wnder dog,” eald the Judge, “but I in- tend to atop policy playing in this bor- ough if I can, Of course I don’t intend to do the work of the police, but if and the Distrist-Attorney will together they oan certainly put a T have decided that pat an end to policy gume, POLICY Grand Jury to Sub= POOR AND LOWLY MUST BE PROTECTED, STRANGE ADVENTU EVENING, APRIT; 18, 1905. RES OF J. HEAVENS WIDE —-++ THE AERIAL DINING ROOM INVENTED BY MONSIEUR VIOLET. “1 reqnest you to go tuto the matter earnen' and sift It to the bottom, The time has come when the poor and lowly of Brooklyn must be protected from the greedy men who fatten on the polley game and exploit their wains in the shape of fant horvea, fine houses and din- "<JUDGE ASPINALL ‘TO THE GRAND JURY, mond to Sing Sing for long terms, That 1 will do if I get the chance, “Abbott has been arrested for selling polley lottery four Umes, ‘The first time I fined him $25, the second time $76, the third time $125, and when he was | brought before me the fourth time | decided to send him to the penitentiary, When he sent word to me that he Wanted to make a confession I told him | I would promise him nothing, bat | T would Hsten to any statement he would care to make for the benent | of the public service, | | “From what he told me Tam con- vinced that i New York myndicate, and that Al Adam tn the real backer of it. | Telephone Company Accused. “Another thing L learned from | ADhott in that the telephone com= pany tm dealing with the playern, and it certainly they have full knowledge of the use to which the telephonen are put,’ ‘The Rev. Cortland Meyers, when seen, | declared that Abbott's confession would result in the entire wiping out of the game in Brooklyn, | “Lam glad to seo that Judge Aspinall | has at lust taken the step which I faye veen advocating for some time, The Judges In Brooklyn are graduaily being educated to do their duty. The ly way to stop the game is by send- the leaders to Sing Sing, “When I say that the magistrates are In league with the gamblers I know} what I'm talking about. I can elte in- stance upon instance to substantiace my charge, One case that I have in mind 18 a policy seller whom we ar- raigned before a certain Magistrate three times, Bach time we had loads of evidence and each time the Magis trate discharged him, “Whenever we go after tho ringlead- ers of the policy game or the pool sell- ers we find that we are up ogainst a reat big wall, That wall is the Board of Magistrates, Now, however, that the Judges of the County Court are with us we can do work that will show re- sults In short order." Policy Headquarters Deserted, When an Byening World reporter called at No, 139 High street to-day the place was deserted, The building 18 an old-time frame structure, three stories high, with a store on the ground floor, In the atore is a pool table, and a sign {n the window proclaims the place as the Elm Athletic Club, On the wall in the back of the store {s a sign which reads, “Don't Gamble Here,"" The sign 1s directly over a door which leads to 4 back room, where, according to Ab- yott's confession, O'Brien conducted hia business, No one in the neighborhood could be found who would admit that they knew O'Brien nor any member of the Elm Athletlo Crp, Capt, Nicholas Condon, of the Fulton strect police station, in whose precinot No, 189 High street 4s located, when seen, said: "We have succeeded in cleaning this precinct of polloy sellers I think for good, Abbott confessed the truth, O'Brien made his headquarters at No, 139 High street for many years, but we have at last closed him up and chased him out of the precinct, Not alone have forty years without inter; Gan safely say that there te polloy seller in this Will bet my life on it, ‘After leaving the atation-house the re- porter, walked to the corner of Jay and Concord streets, where he met a man woll known jn policy circles in Brooklyn, Pollcy Broken Up? Nit. “go Capt, Condon thinks he has sue- eeeded in driving O'Brien out of bual- ness, does he?” the wise o: 1a, Ww. here comes Jack Sproles; he's O'Brien's Fesrota ry: Wait and see what ho nas to say about that.” Fath) Wis stopped by the wise one, and they talked for several minutes. “What do you think of cae don's break that he has chaa all polay wellers out of roles was asked, "Did he say that’ revly, "¥ee, “Well, I'll show you Ite: BHRGh of holies Tall unch of polley si fro) pocket, “and walking” away ‘Iaughing hats enough for you, jan't it? asked the wi if Agree: thatc'Wwan and donariede eT SeTeed Judge Agpinall’s Statement, Judge Aspinall, directly after his sen- eo Hone AnstiNor one ty the Grand Jury to-day, made the following stateme: in) vat ung We ne Lt tidy hen eclared my beltet that a Now York syndicate ‘backed by Al Adame is the power behind the Brook- lyn polley shops I spoke on the strength: of information supplied me by Deteotlvs Cohen, who has been at work umong Buch case ‘Cohen e, one ferenc: not (Precinct to-day, I lon the the precinct?" asked Sproles in ne that he proles, pull- ‘sald iva a nulien the pol ee after that immediate! a trom ‘Bing: ing thar ¥ Wi VI ri Chapter I.—In Which I Tell How I Came Into Other People’s Millions, I was born before I was thirty, but I ‘was not known to the world until about that time, Then I sud- deniy realized that I was the sole controller of $400,000,000 of other people's money, and I proceeded to My fad at this par- and I enjoy myself. ticular period was violets, ordered my secretary to buy up all) he could get in the market, I had violets for breakfast, done like spin- ach, with a fried egg on the side; ay violets for lunch, with violet juice; hattan rocks under my favorite ‘of- for a drink; and violets for dinner,| fice building. My great friend, Mr. done in thirteen different ways.|Marryman, used often to meet me These were served on violet dishes,| here and discuss with me those fa- in a violet room, with violet car-| mous feats of finance which have pets and violet lights, My walter! justly made him the most remarka- was named especially for my bene- | ble man In the country, It was ho fit Monsieur Violet,and thereby hangs| who suggested I furnish him with a tale, This Monsieur Violet was a | $69,006,000 of the Inequitable funda, most remarkable man, and developed| for which he pald 2 per cent., lent violet rays from his eyes, It was/out at 4 per cent, and built up owing to this fact that I invented! broken-down railroads, which paid the violet dining ship, which, owing | 6% per cent., after doubling the in- to the immense power developsd|vestment, Three weeks of my violet from yiolet rays, far outrivalling}dining room cost me just $17,570, the famous X-rays, enabled mo to | 673.38; but this was more than suspend this room in mid-air, without) realized by Mr. Marryman floating uny apparent means of support. Th 00$ shares of Onion £ds, returna- le at par, and selling at $265.10, It! whole arrangement was antomati was & great coup, and all mine,| and cost me $7,850,000, owing to the Nin,” tne Da a I was indeed blest, great expense of extracting the violet) )y¢——, | rays from the third stratum of Man- (To Re Continued), celyed mere pittances from, the men higher up, whose catspaws they were, In my officiat position I could take no notice of mere rumors, So 1 was un- able to proceed In the matter, But w! Abbott, ‘with no hope of salf. andizement, made that detailed con- ession to me implicating O'Brien and others I deemed his charges worthy of investigation, especially as there seemed to be plenty of corroborative testimony, Policy Profits $150,000, "So I went before the Grand Jury, gave them a let of names and asked ahem to subpoena the bondsmen and all others ooreeed with the alleged syn- cate, get hold’ of the “O'Brien has accused me of ing to the gallery, sot decided to wlve nite h and his assqciates a gallory piay that would aake them sit up. And 1’ thine Thuve done eo. aed eA ave receiv. ® letter to- say- img that forty policy a ane TunMNE in the and Sixteenth Wards in Willi iW, and that they are controlled by Goldymith and ty op grating under the name of Craft & Co. Titumned that letter over to the Grand MP am informed on oredible and au- thentio authority that Goldsmith and Cratt divide the Hastern Pant Boley business between them and that De La Mata and Beatty have divided up the rest of Brooklyn in a similar way, Moreover, the same authority informs me that hot long ago De La Mata and Beatty divided up betewen them $150, 000 profits.” SLAYER GAUGHT ~ ADMITS FIGHT CuHlen, Police Say, Confesses to Having Stabbed His Brother- in-Law in the Eye During a Squabble While Drunk. The police to-day arrested Thomas Cullen, aged twenty-three, of No, 105 West One -Hundredth street, and at Headquarters he confessed to having stabbed and killed Carlos Vandenhan- den, of the same address, on Saturday night. Vandenhandien was his brother-in- law, and the two men, white intoxi- cated, quarrelled over a box of candy whioh Vandenhanden had bought for Cullen of avin taken, Tn the souttle , his ohildven and which be. avcused |'bsarding-louKxe at No, & Christopher BOY LOST HIS LIFE TRYING T0 SAVE BROTHERS He Dashed Into Burning House and Was Burned to Death. (Special to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., April'18.— Belloving that the escape of his two brothers was cut off by flames that were destroying their home in Spring Park, in the town of Greenburg, James Keotley, thirteen years old, early to-day dashed into the buikling and was burned to death, The boy was the son ot Jacob Keotley, @ ulght watchman, who was absent at work at the time. . The Keetley house wns d'acovered on fire about dawn by Mrs, Keetley, who ‘aroused her children, but in thet excite- ment James thought his two brothers were still in the house, and he stated: to climb the burning front stairway. He was driven back and only reached the dining-room, where he was found after the fire had destroyed almost the entiro house, Mrs, Keetley performed a herole act when she carried two of her chi dren from the seoond floor to the street ac th risi of her life, As tho origin of the fire cannot be explained Coroner Russell will make a full Investigation, Keetley had quite a sum of money secroied in a closot in the house and search {8 being made for it, ——— SOUGHT DEATH BY GAS. Odor Le: to Rescue of Unidentt- fled Mun, but Probably ‘Too Late. 8 in a hall Escaping room in a SECRETARY TAF COMFORTABLE ON THE LID, “How's the Nd?" asad an Evening World reporter of Secretary of War Taft, as he was leaving his hotel to- day, referring to President Roose- velt's statement when he left on his hunting trip, "I've left Tart sitting on the 1d," “You may say for me,” replied the combination War and Stato Seore- tary, smiling broadly, “that so far as I'm concerned the Hd 1s com- fortable sitting,’ At that moment a colored waiter from San Domingo ran into the See retary, but backed off, apologizing. “1 was looking for Mr, Monroe,’ he said us he retired, OUR FLAG IS TRAMPLED BY PORTO RICANS American Colors Torn and Dragged in Dust Dur- ing a Riot. BAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 18.—€ilx meetings of etrikers were held simul- taneously yesterday in the Ponce dis trict, The insular police report that at one meeting an American flag was torn and trampled upon, They attempted to make arrests and a riot followed. The crowd attacked the police, clubs and revolvers were used and a number of persons were wounded, Including three of the police, A lieutenant of police recelyed a’ scalp wound from a machete, After a number of arrests hnd been mado order was restored, though with great difficulty, About four thousand strikers attend- ed another meeting on the Plaza at Ponce. Orators of the American Feder- ation of Labor and President Sanchez, of the local organization, addressed tie men. — A disturbance enmied and the polio used thelr clubs, which was followed by revolver «hots from the crowd. The mMtuation became decidedly alarming, but the firing brought reinforcements of police, and order was partly restored An attempt to rescue the arrested strikers while they were on their way to jail provoked another disturbance, during which a number of persons were DIES OF RABIES LONG AFTER BITE Remarkable Case of Hydropho- bia Develops in Louis Ellivine, Who Was Attacked by a Dog Five Months Ago. (Special to Tho Eventne World.) ORANGE, N. J, April 18,—Louls Bl. vine, of Millburn, dled early to-day in the Ovange Memorial Hospital of what several physicians, include an expert from the Pasteur Institute In New York, declare was one of ‘the most re- markable cases of hydrophobia in med- foal annals, Injured, thoygh not seriously, ie ; 9 The Federation orators aro bitter in| Mn Billvine was attacked by a dow their denunciations of the political) ite, in the nose and lips, but the parties of Porto Rico, and accuse the police of wilfully Inciting the strikers | to riot, Quiet has been restored. od WOMAN, 89 YEARS OLD, SUICIDE, Mrs, Eliza Blanck, elghty-nine years old, of No. 107 Billott avenue, Willams- bridge, died in the Fordham Hospital torndy As a result of gas asphalxation, wounds healed well at the time, and Jc Was supposed all danger of rables had pareed. Ordinarily the disease develops within six weeks of the time the person, ts bitten, iving Was taken fil on Sunday night, When he became unable to swal- low water, Yesterday convulsions de- Veloped, and he was taken to the hos- hitel night, He wae strapped ina sure at, but. Ma convulsions and cries spread. consternation gh the weet, tu-day betrayed an Ay alle ORpItAL. LATO d of morphine fniiea''ts relieve tin cad he died in w conyulston, Wiliving f Ww want to the self-inflicted, Mra, Blunck had been a M-heatth, + | disease | which ? her, On Sunday, | in that role. MAYOR GLAD TO BE PEACE MAKER When the Mayor was asked if {t Were true that he was acting as peacemaker between Charlies F, Murphy and Senator McCarren, the Mayor replied: “1 am glad to be considered ‘Bleaned are the pencemakers for they shall Inherit the earth,’ “That ls the Biblical quotation, f@ it not?” asked tho Mayor, ee ree SAYS CALLERS SET. FLAT AFIRE Started Half Dozen Blazes in Her Rooms as a Merry Jest, Miss Winn Charges—War- rants for Two Young Men. | Mins Agnes Winn, of No, 3 Wost Forty-third street, has had James Ho- man, twenty-six years old, assistant manager of the Madison Square central of the New York Telephone Company, arrested oharged with building bonfires in various parts of her flat while she Wes out to the comer getting material for sandwiches Miss Winn declares that she will send Mr, Homan to jail if it is in her power She will also prosecute his friend, John MoIntyre, a8 he, she asserts, assisted in setting fire to her flat. The warm prank was played on Friday night, ac- cording to Miss Winn''s complaint, The two young men called on Miss Winn that evening, Mr, Homan had Visitod her often, and she thought he was a nico young man. Bhe felt anfo fh leaving the flat in hia charge while she went to the delleatessen store, Re- turning to the house, she waa surprised to see the two young men hurrying out, chuckling to themselves, She says that when she ondeavored to stop them they hurried the faster, She hastened upstairs and entered the parlor, A scarf on the plano was ablaze, She put this out, and turning round found that the tidy on the table had been set on fire, In a corner of the room a small bon fire was going, In the next room there were more small fires, she says, and in the bath- roora she found a hamper full of under- clothing in flames, When she had sub. dued all the fires she hurried to Magis- trate Ommen and got warrants charg- ing the young men with malicious mischief, Homan waa arrested yester- day and the police are still looking for Mcintyre, The prisoner succeed- ed In getting the case delayed until McIntyre ts found. He denies that he fired Miss Winns flat. Catching C ANY people persist in riding on the street cars, insufliclently protected by clothing. ‘They start out perhaps in the heat of the ay and de not feel the neod of wraps. The rapld moving of the car cools the ody unduly, When they PRECAUTION J] board tho oe, perhaps they are nlightly per- BETTER THAN spiHing. "Whe tho body is in this condition It ts MEDICINE. easily chilled, Thin 1s ospectally true when @ porson Is sitting, Heginning a street car ride In tho middle of the day and ending it In the gvening al- niost tnvariably requires extra wraps, but | people do not observe these precautions, henea they catch cold, Colds ars very tregiiout In the Spring on thls account, and asthe NIP COLDS Bummer advances they 0 not decrease. During eet the “Spring months ne , Jone should think of Bi Gt riding on the car withe vut being provided with » wrap. ‘A cold chught in the Spring Is Wable to Inst irough the entire Sumimer. Great el caution should be ob- PE-RU-NA served at this genson against exposure to cold, PREVENTS J During the. first. tew COLDS. pleasant daya of Spring je ability of catching cold ia great, No wonder so many people acquire mus- cular rhoumatism and catarrhal diseases during this season. However, in spito of the greatest procau- tions colds will be caught, At the appearance of the first symptom Peruina sbould be taken according to di- rections on the bottle, and continued unt!) every symptom disappears, Fiery Liquid Dashed on of Newark Man as He Slept. | (Special to The Evening World.) _ NEWARK, N. J., Aprit 18.—‘Phomal) Winston, a young clerk, of No, 221 Wan, ren street, is in the City Hospital one of his eyes burned out by acid and the other badly injured. threw the corrosive poison on his fi while ho was asleep in hls room at aa) early hour to-day, ston, he retired about midnight and wal, soon asleep. A noise in the room awak ened him about 8 o'clock. As he open his eyes he felt a quantity of ery tigi splashing on his face and heard thb sound of footsteps retreating down tht hall and passing out of @ rear door, He shouted for help, and persons if: the house hurried to his When tho Hghts were turned up It wat seon that his face and eyes were how ribly burned, By the time he reached’ tho hospital the sight of one eye was! totally destroyed. f The young man as: no idea as to the Identit: ant. He has no enemies so fat ax hi knows, 1ils money and valuablos wei not disturbed, so the idea of burglar; is not entertained, From the t tl |} a rear door was left open, pi to ald In the escape of the In is surmised that quainted with th WON’T ORDER B. R. T. MEN house, Rnmor that Company Intended ta) | Warn Motormen and Conductors | Dented by OMicials of Road | ®porting conductors and motormen of | the Ines of the Brooklyn Rapid Trant ®t were disturbed to-day over the port that the corporation was about ta issue an order forbidding its empjoyes to play the races on penalty of dismissal Mt thet thero wi Rumor hed on the ice trains who last year dered their entire earnings In beta on the horses, and that the company. 2 wr tended {(o protect the neglected families this “neamon, John F, Calderwood, vice-president and geueral manager of the B, Ry jehied that the company intends t@ iague such an order, "It would be infringing upon the ‘* sonal |$berty of our men to forbid them to bet,’ he sald, "But it ts a fact that we prefer men who do not gamble.” Dow 8, Brith, general euperinten also ead there ‘would be no such o1 ery “AS ANY COLD MAY LEAD TO CATARRH—PERUNA SHOULD BE KEPT IN EVERY HOME,”—Dr. S. 8, Hartman, Do hot put it off. Do not waste timo by taking other renvodl Hein at once to take Peruna and cons TAKE Unuo taking tt until you . tro positive that the PERU:NA J coia has entirely Aisap- IN TIME, peared. This may save You a long and perhaps serious {Incas later on. Mr. George Livingston, a promi n= Mect and butider of Los Angslos, Gn Writes from the Census Om Washington, D.C. aa follows: oui ‘‘T do not hesitate, when I ave a friend or acquaintance suffer- ing froma cold that is stubborn and threatening to become chronic, to recommend Peruna, “It relieved mo from a long and dias tressing caterrhai trouble and brought ba¢ the strength the disoase had taken awa: T recommend it ay a cure and a tonle that cannot be surpassed." 4 Mrs. B, Schober, 231 10th St., Portland, Ore., writes: ‘Y am pleased to testify t the wonderful curative value o: Peruna in cases of colds and a rundown condition of the sy6- tem, I took it for acold which I could not get rid of, and in Jess than a month it had cured jme. I feel like a different per- |son, “You certainly deserve success,” Wo have in olin files theusundy ot Tetters | from grateful people who have been et by Perna, says that some person unknown to itd lj According to the story told by Wi 4m asala| ae trader, iy © was & person BB j | A NOT TO PLAY RACES)’ “a — ‘ ) they give you a vi you're wedded t Quaker Gray and be in ib Tailor Shops: 110 Fifth Avenue Atterbury System Clothes range in price from $20 to $45, but other ready-for-service garments, Get a divorce and save half the money you're used to spending on apparel “Ask the Man Who Weare Them” Easter dives you a chance (o blossom out in alue not known in If 9 custometailoring, correct fashion for $25