Phelps v. McAdoo

Gaynor, J.:

A captain of police, with twenty-five policemen armed with axes, suddenly broke into the rooms of the West Side Club on the second story. They did not seek admission in an orderly way by the door, but ran up ladders and broke in the windows. They thep broke and smashed, with axes and other weapons, doors, windows, ceilings, mantelpieces, water closet bowls and urinals, electric fans, pictures and other things. The photographs exhibited to the court show that they wrecked the place. They arrested three persons, but Mr. Justice Blanchard, of the Supreme Court, discharged them on a…