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1906...NEWS..April
Brooklyn Standard Union
1 April 1906
-LONG ISLAND NOTES
-A farewell reception will be given on to-morrow evening to the Rev.
W.H. MCMASTER, pastor of the Elmhurst Methodist Church in the church
parlors by the members of the congregation.
-J. OGDEN ARMOUR, of the Armour Packing Company of Chicago, has
purchased the S.T. BAKER farm of 20 acres on the South Country road,
west of Babylon.
-There are at present thirty inmates at the Oddfellows' Home, Hollis, 22
males and 8 females.
-The Sisters of St. Joseph are to enlarge their academy at Brentwood to
accommodate the large number applying for admittance.
-Long Island duck raisers are just now greatly interested in a new
invention by which ducks are to be plucked by electricity.
-Mrs. JOHN MCCALL, of Commack, whose husband used to be called land
poor, has recently sold to a New York syndicate 1,000 acres of her
holdings for $60,000 and retained 300 acres and the homestead.
-PETER WENNER, of Hicksville, has purchased the old Daniel PETTY farm of
350 acres at Middle Island for $9,000. This farm has been in the PETTY
family since 1772.
-The Rev. W.H. LAWRENCE, pastor of the Morris Park Methodist Church,
will not be returned to his present charge this year, and will preach
his farewell sermon this evening.
SIX SHIPS BRING 8,458 IMMIGRANTS
Steamer AMERIKA Detained on Account of Case of Smallpox on Board.
TWO DEATHS ON WAY OVER
Stowaway Was Discovered on Board LA TOURAINE
Six transatlantic steamers arrived in port yesterday, bringing 8,458
steerage passengers.
The Hamburg American Line steamer PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE came in
after an 18 days' cruise to the West Indies. Her 104 tourists reported
a most delightful voyage in summer seas.
The French Line steamer LA TOURAINE, from Havre, had fine weather,
except the first day out from the Channel. On March 26 a stowaway was
discovered among the steerage passengers. He was a French sailor named
GRIMAULT. The steamer brought 281,325 francs in specie.
The AMERICA, from Hamburg, Dover and Cherbourg, brought 649 cabin and
2,041 steerage passengers. On March 26, W. BRUCE MACK, a saloon
passenger, died of heart disease. His body was brought to port. Mr.
MACK was accompanied by his wife. His home was in New York. A child
died on March 22 and was buried at sea.
The AMERIKA was detained with one case of smallpox in the ship's
hospital. The patient, a young woman, was taken to the Kingston Avenue
Hospital. The passengers who occupied the same compartment in the
steerage were transferred to Hoffman Island for observation and the
steamer disinfected. Among the passengers were:
Frank B. ADAMS
John C. BROOKMAN
W.G. BUSHNELL
J. STEWART BARNEY
Hazen J. BURTON
J.G. BERGQUIST
Albert BOKER
Albro BLODGETT
Alexander BROWN
Allan B. CAMPBELL
J.H. MAYNE CAMPBELL
C.B. DILLINGHAM
Samuel D. DODGE
Paul DANA
Henry C. FLOWER
Amos TUCK FRENCH
Nat GOODWIN
Charles HAYES, vice-president and general manager of the Grand Trunk
Railway
A.W. HITCHCOCK
Duncan B. HARDING
E. HOLLINGSWORTH
John C. KNIGHT
J.R. LOOMIS, Jr.
Gustav LEDERER
Mrs. George W. LAW
Daniel HARRIS MORGAN
Director W. MULLER
W.W. MORRISON
Baroness Von NEUFVILL
Baron NEXKULL
Daniel ODAY
Prince Andre PONISTOWSKI
Alexander N. PHILLIPS
George J.S. PERRY
James W. SINGER
A.M. SHOCK
P.F. SHEEDY
Reginald C. VANDERBILT
Orin S. WILSON
H.C. WHITE
A.H. YOUNG
Among the passengers who arrived on board the steamer ETRURIA, from
Liverpool and Queenstown were:
G. ANTOINE
Walter BROWN
Lionel B. HARRIS
C.W. TARNAY?
Rafael LINDALL
J.G. OLIVER
Bryan ROTHERHAM
A.W. D. SHIPTON
W.A. WHITCOMB
HIT AND SERIOUSLY HURT BY A FALLING CRANE.
While at work in the iron foundry at Rodney and Ainslie streets
yesterday afternoon, Peter BANGLE, a laborer, of 133 North Sixth
street, was hit by a crane and probably fatally injured. The crane
fell from its fastenings and hit BANGLE on the head, knocking him to
the ground. When he was removed to the Williamsburg Hospital by
Ambulance Surgeon BRUNING it was found that he had sustained a fracture
of the skull and other injuries.
FIREMAN BADLY HURT SLIDING DOWN POLE.
Frank SAMPLE, a fireman attached to truck No. 64, at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-third street, was badly injured last night sliding down the pole
in the firehouse to answer a false alarm. He lost his grip on the pole
and landed on his head on the floor. He was taken to the Norwegian
Hospital suffering from possible internal injuries and fracture of the
skull.
IN FEAR OF MOTHER, BRIDE IS LOCKED UP
Girl Who Jilted One Man to Elope With Another Keeps Behind Chained Doors
MET HUSBAND AT A DANCE.
Rumor Says Acquaintance Was of Six Weeks' Duration.
In fear, it is said, that her own mother or her former sweetheart, whom
she jilted to elope with a South Brooklyn baker, may do her bodily harm
should they find her, pretty nineteen-year-old Laurel Adelaide HANSEN
is spending her honeymoon at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Emily
WHITTAL, 442 Third street. Since the wedding last Thursday evening,
the bride has been barred up in the house and no one has been allowed
to see her.
The girl, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. De Lynch HANSEN, of Gates
avenue, was a stenographer employed in Manhattan. About two years ago
she met Robert ECKERT at a social held in the upper Bedford section and
the couple became friendly. Their relationship ripened into love and
they became engaged to be married next June. The match was approved by
Mrs. HANSEN.
All went well until about six weeks ago, when Miss HANSEN, in company
with some girl friends, attended an entertainment and reception in
Lexington Hall, at Gates and Reid avenues, which is but a short
distance from her home. During the course of the evening, according to
the story, she was introduced to a fair-haired young man, Alfred DeHart
WHITTALL, a baker in a shop at 183 Seventh avenue, kept by his aunt,
Mrs. JACHENS. He lives at 442 Third street in a three-story brownstone
dwelling. At the close of the reception WHITTALL volunteered to escort
Miss HANSEN home and she consented.
According to the story, on the pretense that she was going to a
surprise party, Miss HANSEN last Thursday evening met WHITTALL.
Accompanied by his brother, Daniel, and Mrs. J.C. ROE, the party went
to the home of the Rev. Charles R.MCNALLY, pastor of the Sixth Avenue
Baptist Church, where the couple were united. After the ceremony the
bridal party went to the home of Alfred PAYNE, the groom's uncle, at
127 Seventh avenue, where supper was served.
After the supper Mr. and Mrs. WHITTALL went to the groom's home.
The news was carried in some way to Mrs. HANSEN and she became furious.
She threatened to dig her daughter's eyes out, it is said, and to have
her arrested.
This threat was carried back to the bride and she decided to barricade
herself to visitors.
When a reporter called at the WHITTALL homestead yesterday afternoon,
the evidence of the attempt at barricading was apparent. Finding the
door leading into the hallway open, the reporter continued up to the
top floor, where, after frequent knocking, the door was opened a few
inches. A stout chain was fastened from the door to the wall inside.
After much persuasion the door was finally opened and the scribe
allowed to enter. WHITTALL's sister, Hattie, who opened the door
refused at first to discuss the marriage, but she finally consented to
give the bare facts of the case, omitting the elopement.
In the midst of the conversation, the bride walked into the parlor
saying, "Am I going to be arrested? Well I did it and I suppose there
will be no end of trouble," she continued, "but if you will do me a
favor, reporter, you will make the thing big in the paper. That is
make the announcement of my marriage as big as you can. Make a big
bluff and maybe somebody will see it. I hope"----
Here Mrs. WHITTALL checked herself and refused to say who the somebody
was.
"Laurel did a very naughty thing," spoke up Miss WHITTALL. "She
married Mr. WHITTALL although she was engaged to another young man."
"I know I did," continued Mrs. WHITTALL, "but what else was there for
me to do? I met my husband about six weeks ago at a dance and it was a
case of love at first sight. I thought I loved the other young man,
but I guess I was wrong. I am sure I love Alfred and I am sure I will
be happy."
When WHITTALL was seen shortly afterwards in the bakery on Seventh
avenue he was very reticent. He had just come out of the cellar. He
is a good looking young man, about 22 years old. All he would say
concerning the affair was that he had known the girl since childhood,
although she herself had said a few minutes before that she had only
known her husband six weeks.
"I don't want to say anything about the affair," concluded WHITTALL.
"See my wife. She will tell you all. I have only seen ECKERT once and
I don't know whether or not my wife was engaged to him. I sympathize
with ECKERT, for I'll tell you he has lost the best girl in all the
world, but there, that's another story."
Here the young baker disappeared among his barrels in the basement.
MARRIED.....
REEVES-NILSSON -- Announcement is [.....] the marriage of Bertha N.
NILSSON to [ ] C. REEVES, by the Rev. John FLOYD [?], March 28, 1906
ADVERTISEMENT:
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425 Fulton st., near Jay
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2 April 1906
SYRIAN RUG DEALER GONE; WIFE FEARS FOUL PLAY
Luther GUKAYAN, a dealer in rugs, has been reported to the police as
missing by his wife, who lives at 189 1/2 Steuben street. She says he
had $800 in cash in his possession when he left home Saturday and she
fears that something has happened to him.
William SCHWARTZ, 40 years old, has been missing from his home, 677
Marcy avenue, since March 26.
UNION STREET WANTS RATS DRIVEN AWAY.
The latest thing to which Borough President COLER has been asked to
give his attention is the driving out of sewer rats on Union street,
which are said to be causing the property owners between Clinton and
Henry streets on Union a great deal of trouble. The trouble all comes
from a broken sewer in Union street.
B.F. WARREN, of 224 Union street, one of the men who is affected by the
trouble, called on Borough President COLER to-day to solicit aid. Mr.
WARREN said that the sewer broke some time ago and that no steps have
been taken to fix it. As a result of the broken sewer the rats have
been able to burrow through into the street and up to the houses and
have managed to get into the cellars of home places. There has also
been a great accumulation of sewer gas, and of late the odor has been
so strong that people have been compelled to move away in order to
avoid sickness.
Mr. COLER assured Mr. WARREN that he would give the matter his prompt
attention and drive out the rats.
HELPLESS INVALID CAST INTO STREET.
Dispossessed in Manhattan and Driven in Express Wagon to Long Island City.
CARTED AROUND FOR HOURS
Suffers From Effects of Dog Bite Three Years Ago.
Thrown into the street because she could no longer pay her rent, Mrs.
ANNA GILLER, a widow, 46 years old, a helpless invalid, was driven in
an express wagon to St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, yesterday
afternoon. The woman is suffering from chronic ulcers caused by a dog
bite and is believed to be incurably afflicted.
Mrs. GILLER was dispossessed last Saturday from her home at 2131
Madison avenue, Manhattan. Neighbors cared for her that night, but
yesterday morning she was loaded into an express wagon with such of her
household effects as could not be sold or pawned, and driven to the
home of the Rev. Dr. EVANS, a Methodist clergyman, in Jamaica. He has
befriended the woman, but having no way of caring for her, paid the
expressman to drive her back to Long Island City. After the woman had
been carted around the streets for hours, she was taken to the Fourth
street police station and from there to the hospital.
Mrs. GILLER was bitten by a rabid dog three years ago and thought when
the wound had been cauterized that the germs had been killed. A year
later ulcers formed on her legs and her husband spent their savings of
years in a vain effort to have her cured. He died about two months
ago, and what little money he left was soon spent. The rent became
overdue and on Saturday afternoon Mrs. GILLER was cast out into the
streets by her landlord. She was unable to walk and lay on the
sidewalk for nearly an hour before neighbors, touched by her plight,
agreed to shelter her for the night.
HOME LOOTED WHILE FAMILY WERE AWAY
Flatbush Resident Thinks Thieves Lived There Several Days
POLICE HAD BEEN NOTIFIED
Burglars Cleaned Out Larder and Wardrobe
Another in the string of robberies which have startled Flatbush
residents was uncovered in Flatbush on Saturday when Mr. and Mrs.
H.T.J. FUEHRMANN and their daughter returned to their home at 544 East
Twenty-sixth street, after a three weeks' trip to Havana. The burglars
made themselves at home, having finished the contents of a whiskey
flask, and the remnants of various eatables were found on the second
floor. They had not finished their job, as considerable stuff was
found tied up in bundles.
The first suspicion the family had that their home had been looted was
when Mr. FUEHRMANN entered the dining room and found everything upside
down. The sideboards and closets had been stripped of their contents
of silverware, cut glass dishes and crockery. In fact the only things
left were the chairs and table.
Upon investigation on the second floor the same state of affairs was
found, only the robbers had not had time to get away with the booty, as
a number of bundles containing costly bric-a-brac and ornaments were
heaped on the carpet.
In the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. FUEHRMANN a safe had been pried open
with a jimmy, and papers, jewelry and two watches had been taken. One
of the timepieces, a repeating watch, was valued at $425. In one
corner of the room was found a half a can of lobsters, cake, crackers
and burglars' tools.
The closet containing Mr. FUERHMANN's winter outfit had been cleaned
out. The lost articles included three suits, two overcoats, full dress
suit, three hats and various other things. In the place an old hat,
several pieces of underwear and old trousers were left. In the
bathroom several valises filled with his wife's clothing were
discovered all ready to be lugged away.
The thieves had gained entrance through the cellar window and by
forcing their way through the door leading to the first floor. They
had evidently worked at night, as a number of short candles were found
scattered over the floors, but none of the neighbors had noticed any
lights in the windows.
It is thought the burglars may have intended firing the place, as two
towels soaked with kerosene oil were found on the second floor under
some clothing.
Mr. FUERHMANN places his loss at $1,000. When asked if he suspected
anybody, he replied," When my daughter went to get the key from a
neighbor, a mulatto about five feet ten inches and wearing a pair of
trousers that resembled one of the stolen pairs, stepped through the
hedge and walked the lawn. I called to him, but he would not turn
back. As I did not know of anything wrong at the time I thought he did
not hear me. He is the only one that I can suspect in any way."
He added: "Before we left on our short trip I notified the police of
the Flatbush avenue station and also my neighbors to keep an eye on the
house. It seems rather strange that the burglars could really live
here without some one noticing their going and coming. My loss is
covered by insurance."
Acting Capt. John WOOD immediately put his detectives on the case when
he was notified, but they have found no one to direct their suspicions
on as yet.
Mary RICHARDSON, of 1705 Atlantic avenue, reported to the police of the
Atlantic avenue station that two men, one a negro and another a white
man, came into her apartments, and while the negro held a pistol at her
head, the other one went through the bureau drawers. All he got was a
$2 bill. She was afraid to make an outcry she said as the negro
threatened to shoot her if she did.
A thief got into the home of Albert DOANS, at 206 Hewes street,
Saturday night, by way of a rear basement window and stole all the
silver and glassware worth taking off the dining room dresser. An
overcoat which was lying in the dining room was also carted off, but
the thief abandoned it after climbing into the next yard.
Edith TEATS, of 1620 Forty-first street, reported to the police that a
thief got into her house through a rear basement window and stole $150
worth of jewelry and $5 cash.
John WILSON, a trainer at the Gravesend Race Track, reported to the
police that his gold watch, chain and locket, besides $80 in cash, had
been stolen from his clothing, which he had placed in Stable No. 6.
FOUR FALL FIVE STORIES WITH CAR
Elevator Cable Link Breaks and Precipitates Workmen to Cellar
TWO PERHAPS FATALLY HURT
Others Saved by Falling on Their Comrades in Wreck.
Shortly before 8 o'clock this morning, while a large freight elevator,
in charge of Andrew BUCK, of 239 Second street, was ascending to the
upper floor of the large factory building of the Robert GAIR Company,
at the northwest corner of Washington and Water streets, and which had
just reached the fourth floor, the link which connects the cable with
the roof of the car suddenly parted, allowing the car to drop to the
cellar.
With BUCK in the car were three workmen, Wesley THOMAS, of 3 West 135th
street, Manhattan; Neil LAFFERTY, of 99 York street, and Frederick
KRAUSE, of 124 Boerman place, Brooklyn.
The elevator car was wrecked, and the men when taken out were
unconscious.
THOMAS and LAFFERTY had both legs fractured and suffered internal
injuries, besides being badly cut and bruised about the head and body.
BUCK and KRAUSE had evidently fallen on the other two men. They were
injured internally and sustained lacerations and contusions. All were
removed to hospitals, where it was said that THOMAS and LAFFERTY were
in a critical condition.
Members of the firm refuse to discuss the cause of the accident.
SEVERAL HURT WHEN "L" TRAIN BANGS PLATFORM
A three-car train of the Lexington avenue division of the Brooklyn
Elevated Railroad, in charge of Motorman John MCELWEE, on its way from
Manhattan to Cypress Hills, just making the terminal station at Jamaica
avenue and Crescent street, about 7 o'clock this morning, crashed into
the bumper at the end of the tracks. The bumper was splintered and the
motor car smashed into the platform.
The half a dozen passengers in the car were thrown to the floor amid a
shower of broken glass and badly shaken up. Two of them, Samuel
WILLIAMSON, 22 years old, of 73 Division avenue, who was cut about the
face, and Edmund BAREZEY, 53 years old, of 76 Berry street, who was cut
about the left leg and knee, were attended by Dr. SCHLOSS, of the
Bradford Street Hospital, and went home.
SLIPPED ON SIDEWALK; REMOVED TO HOSPITAL
Edwin J. WALLACE, 31 years old, of 62 Hicks street, slipped yesterday
on the sidewalk at Third avenue and Seventeenth street and was badly
injured. He was taken to the Long Island College Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE- BOY TAKES MA'S PART AND PUTS PA OUT OF FIGHT
During a quarrel with his wife yesterday Patrick IRELAND, 44 years old,
of ? Bancroft place, was struck in the head with a tea pot and
sustained a scalp wound. The pot was thrown by his son, James, 16
years old, who took up his mother's side of the fight. The lad escaped
after the quarrel, and his father refused to make a complaint.
3 April 1906
SAYS HE WAS HELD UP AND LATER DENIES IT.
EDWARD B. MURTHA, 30 years old, of 514 Bedford avenue, was found lying
unconscious on the sidewalk at the corner of Bedford avenue and Wilson
street, early to-day. He was bleeding from a bad cut in his forehead.
Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT took him to the Eastern District Hospital,
where the injured man said he had been attacked by a stranger who had
tried to rob him.
When the police of the Clymer street station were told of the man's
story a detective was sent to the hospital to learn more of the
details. MURTHA then denied that he had been attacked, but said that
he had fallen and hit his head on the curb.
SUSPECTED HORSE THIEF CAUGHT OUT OF STATE.
Detective Sergeants BONNER and CULLEN of local headquarters last night
arrested NATHAN SOLOMAN, 22 years old, of 28 Essex street, Manhattan,
in New Haven, Conn., on a charge of grand larceny, preferred by HARRIS
RACHLESON, of 173 Glenmore avenue, this borough, who accuses SOLOMAN of
stealing a horse, carriage and harness valued at $275 from his stable
at 182 Junius street last Friday.
When RACHLESON, who is in the bottling business, went to his stable
Saturday morning his horse, carriage and harness were gone. He told
the Brownsville police he suspected SOLOMAN. That night RACHLESON
learned that SOLOMAN had taken a boat to New Haven.
The Detective Bureau was notified and Sergeant BONNER was sent to
Connecticut in search of SOLOMAN. He found him last night and brought
him to Brooklyn.
In the Gates avenue court to-day SOLOMAN told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM
that he had been hired by a man named JACOBSON to take the horse to New
Haven. The case was adjourned. SOLOMAN was held without bail.
GIRL DRANK KEROSENE OIL BY MISTAKE
ANN TOOMEY, 15 years old, of 188 Rutland road, last evening drank a
quantity of kerosene oil by mistake. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon CUMISKY, of the Kings County Hospital.
WOMAN WHO WANTED TO DIE TAKES PARIS GREEN
Josephine NELSON, 30 years old, attempted suicide yesterday afternoon
at 159 Franklin street, by taking paris green. Ambulance Surgeon
BAXTER, of Williamsburg Hospital, was summoned, and pronounced her
condition as very serious. She was taken to the hospital.
FISHED OUT OF RIVER AFTER A COLD BATH
JOHN WESTON, 27 years old, of 5 Water street, fell from the dock at the
foot of Amity street last night. He was fished out nearly drowned and
removed to the Long Island City Hospital.
WOMAN FOUGHT MEN WHO WOULD SAVE HER.
After creating a panic on Broadway and causing several women to faint,
last night, Mrs. MARY MONTAG, 34 years old, of 59 South Eighth street,
is in the Williamsburg Hospital suffering from burns, with little
chance for recovery. Shortly before 7 o'clock she gathered the rubbish
in the cellar and back yard of her home and set fire to it. A piece of
burning paper blew against her skirt and ignited it. She ran screaming
into South Eighth street and then into Broadway and, crazed by the
pain, she fought the men who tried to stop her and put out the flames
by wrapping their coats about her. She was finally tripped by by
Policeman FARRINGTON, who succeeded in extinguishing the flames with
the assistance of FREDERICK LOHMAN, of 62 South Eighth street, but not
before they had been scratched and torn on the face and hands by the woman.
IRON GIRDER FALL ON TWO WORKMEN
ABRAHAM BENNEFELT, 23 years old, of 473 Hopkinson avenue, and 'LARRY'
COMISKY, 20 years old, of 354 Rockaway avenue, were seriously injured
late yesterday afternoon while at work on a new building on Howard
avenue near Bainbridge street. An iron girder fell on them. BENNEFELT
had his nose fractured and COMISKY sustained a severe scalp wound.
There were attended by an ambulance surgeon and went home.
WON'T IDENTIFY ITALIAN SHE SAID STABBED HER.
Italian reticence and fear are hampering greatly the work of justice in
the case of PHILIP CORETTA, 26 years old, of various addresses, who was
brought before Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney Island court this
morning on the charge of having cut Mrs. OLYMPIA DE AMBROSIO in the
cheek on March 30 last, at her home, 2858 West Fifty-eighth street,
Coney Island. Although she swore to the detectives on the day of the
cutting that CORETTA was the assailant, in court this morning Mrs. DE
AMBROSIO retracted her words, and declared that she had made a mistake
in her identification, and that CORETTA was not the man who stabbed her.
CORETTA's picture is in the Rogues' Gallery, and the police say he has
been in many shooting and stabbing affrays. Disgusted at not having
been able to secure a positive conviction, Detective CARRAO turned to
the Magistrate, and said, pointing to two Italians in the courtroom:
"There are two people in this room who are working for a settlement of
this case outside of the court; there is one of them, and there is the
other."
The two Italians were summoned to the bench, and after being cautioned
not to interfere in the case, were ordered out of the court. The
hearing was adjourned for one week, during which time the detectives
will do their utmost to gather some real evidence.
SET HOUSE AFIRE AFTER QUARREL WITH WIFE.
But WOLF Doesn't Remember What He Did -- Held on Two Charges.
AUGUST WOLF, a truckman, 29 years old, of 304 Floyd street, was before
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court to-day on a charge of
arson preferred by Battalion Chief BERNARD MATSCHKE. The prisoner's
wife, Kate, was also in court to charge her husband with intoxication.
According to the story told in court, WOLF came home last night in a
state of intoxication and found that his wife had packed up the
furniture. Her sister, Mrs. MARY KINKLE, was with her. When WOLF
asked her why she had got ready to move she said she couldn't stand his
treatment any longer.
The two had some words and then WOLF, it is alleged, picked up the
lighted lamp and hurled it across the room. The blazing oil set fire
to the couch and Mrs. WOLF and her sister ran screaming to the street.
Someone turned in an alarm, and when Battalion Chief MATSCHKE arrived
and learned the cause of the blaze, he notified the Vernon avenue
police station and WOLF was arrested several hours later in a saloon in
the neighborhood.
The prisoner said he had no recollection of what occurred last night.
The magistrate held him in $500 bail on the arson charge and $100 on
that of intoxication, for examination.
BRUNO SPIESS SUSPECTS COACHMAN BLEW OUT GAS.
JANOS MARGET, 29 years old, a coachman employed by BRUNO SPIESS, of 198
Bay Seventeenth street, Bath Beach, was nearly asphyxiated last night.
He either blew out the gas when he went to bed or turned the burner on
after he had turned it off. He was found unconscious in bed this
morning. Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGARD treated him and took him to the
Norwegian Hospital.
FIRE CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE FLUE IN ADJOINING HOUSE.
A small fire occurred this morning in the home of CHARLES R. BUCKLEY,
at 112 Montague street. It started in a store room in the attic from a
defective flue in the house at 110 Montague street. The damaage was
placed at $100.
CROKER HAS INJURED FIREMAN DRAGGED FROM AMBULANCE
Fire Chief CROKER and Patrolman APFEL of the Oak street station,
clashed at a fire under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge last
night, over the removal to the hospital of a fireman overcome by smoke.
CROKER insisted that the man should not be taken away. APFEL called
an ambulance and when the surgeon arrived the unconscious form of the
injured fireman was used as a sort of rope in a tug-of-war. CROKER and
some of his men tried to tear the man away from the police and surgeon.
He ordered his men to drag O'CONNOR, the fireman, from the ambulance
and it was several minutes before he would be persuaded that the man
was in bad shape.
TRUCK DRIVER WITH 50 CLOCKS TO SELL ARRESTED.
CHARLES W. FICKEN, a truck driver for W. L. STRONG Trucking Company,
was in the Butler street court to-day on complaint of Andrew MCCLOUD,
of 1039 Lafayette avenue, a representative of the Waterbury Clock
Company, who charges FICKEN with having stolen fifty clocks, valued at
$50, from the company while carting them from the New Haven Railroad
Company's East River pier to 10 Cortlandt street. It is alleged FICKEN
went into the pawnshop of MITCHELL HARLEN, 264 Columbia street, this
borough, and offered for sale a clock, saying he had forty-nine more of
like design.
HARLEN grew suspicious, and, while he kept his customer dickering, had
a clerk call up the Hamilton avenue police station. Detectives Peter
MCGLOIN and MOLIN arrested FICKEN.
He was held for further examination.
SLAKES HIS THIRST WITH STOLEN TEXT BOOKS.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY, of 314 Hudson avenue, became so thirsty for whiskey
yesterday, that he robbed a school boy of two books and tried to get a
drink on "Two Feet, Four Feet and No Feet." He reserved Eggleston's
"History of the United States" for a future occasion, but was arrested
with his book in his possession. FRANK CONDON, of 333 Furman street,
had just got two of the books from the Library, in Montague street,
when he met CONNOLLY on Myrtle avenue near the Red Onion restaurant.
CONNOLLY snatched the books and made for the nearest saloon. Policeman
STOVER caught him and CHARLES W. FARRINGTON, the librarian, made a
charge of larceny against CONNOLLY to-day.
YOUTHFUL CAR ROWDIES SENT TO INSTITUTION
Two boys who made passengers on a Fulton street "L" train uncomfortable
during the rush hours last evening, were haled before Justice FLEMING,
in the Children's Court to-day. They will be sentenced to some
institution on April 10.
The boys said they were WILLIAM HENNESSEY, 15 years old, of 1087 Wyona
avenue, and ERNEST TROUTMAN, 14 years old, of 265 Milford street.
According to some of those who suffered, the boys had bean shooters
with which they proceeded to test their skill on other passengers'
heads. Tiring of this, they danced about on the toes of the men and
women. Finally they began to fight between themselves and made things
so disagreeable that the police were called to arrest them.
FIVE MORE ROBBERIES REPORTED TO POLICE
The following robberies have been reported at police headquarters:
-While Miss EVELYN HIGGINBOTHAM, of 438 Third street, was attending
Sunday School in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, a thief got into
a cloak room and stole her gold watch which she had left in a handbag.
-JOHN C. REID, of 417 Throop avenue, reported at the Gates avenue
station, that while standing in front of 498 Lexington avenue, late
Sunday night, two men attacked him and while one held him, the other
went through his pockets taking $21 in cash and some other things.
-GEORGE A. FORMAN, of 413 Pulaski street, left his bicycle on the
sidewalk temporarily and a thief made away with it.
-Mrs. E.F. HAVILAND, of 1318 Dean street, engaged a young man who gave
his name as GEORGE WHITNEY, to clean her parlor windows. When he got
through and left, she missed her gold watch and some jewelry worth $150
from the bureau drawer.
-CHARLES E. SHOBER, of 184 Ninth street, Elmhurst, and CARL E. WILHELM,
of 173 Seventh street, Elmhurst, have reported to the police that their
houses were entered by burglars. Mr. SHOBER lost about $75 worth of
silverware and cut glass, and Mr. WILHELM places his loss at $40.
CRUSHED BY IRON BAR; BOTH LEGS BROKEN
While moving machinery in the brewery at 18 Beaver street to-day,
CHARLES KUHPLER, 30 years old, had both legs fractured. A rope broke
and a heavy piece of iron falling pinned him to the floor. He was
taken to St. Catherine's Hospital.
4 April 1906
MOVING VAN IN FLAMES; FURNITURE BURNED.
Furniture valued at $250 was destroyed by flames yesterday afternoon on
a moving van owned and driven by LOUIS BENNINGER, of 113 East 109th
street, Manhattan, at Seventh and Bay Ridge avenues. The stuff burned
so rapidly that BENNINGER had to make a hasty leap from his seat to the
pavement to prevent his clothing from being singed.
The horses were in imminent danger and BENNINGER had both hands
severely burned while unhitching them from the blazing vehicle. He was
attended at the Fort Hamilton precinct station by Dr. BONGARD, of the
Norwegian Hospital and sent home.
BENNINGER was taking the furniture to the residence of GEORGE
DICKINSON, at 2 Bay Twentieth street, Bath Beach, when a pedestrian
called his attention to the mysterious fire. The damaged truck was
valued at $75. The cause of the fire is unknown.
EXPLOSION ON CITY LAUNCH; ENGINEER TERRIBLY BURNED.
One of the coil pipes connecting with the machinery of the Dock
Department launch, "Kill," exploded yesterday afternoon in Sheepshead
Bay near shore, and LAWRENCE J. HALARAN, 31 years old, of 358 East
Twenty-third street, Manhattan, a department engineer, had his face,
arms and hands terribly burned by spluttering naphtha. He became
unconscious and had to be removed in an ambulance to the Kings County
Hospital for treatment. HALARAN was cleaning the machinery when the
explosion occurred.
The damage to the launch was considerable, but it remained afloat.
AN INTERESTING programme was enjoyed by the members of Court Bushwick,
No. 127, F. of A., last evening at the Henschel's Hall, Bushwick avenue
and Cooper street. The occasion was the installation of the new
officers of the lodge. The staff is a popular one and a most
successful administration is anticipated.
Those taking office are:
Chief Ranger - OSCAR H. MOTT;
Sub-Chief Ranger - JOSEPH W. SHEPARD;
Treasurer, GEORGE P. KAISER;
Financial Secretary, WILLIAM E. WILSON;
Recording Secretary, PETER T. MURPHY;
Senior Woodward, G.G. DIETRICH;
Junior Woodward, V. FAGGIANI;
Senior Beadle, D.F. MULLER;
Junior Beadle, P.H. KEEGAN;
Lecturer, JAMES J. WHITE;
Trustee, LOUIS J. ZETTLER;
Physician, FRANK E. WILSON;
Organist, ALBERT E. WILGUS;
Junior Past Chief Ranger, GEORGE PRENTZEL.
ITALIAN WEDS GIRL HE HAD ABDUCTED
When the case of VINCENZO ROMEO, 22 years of age, of 504 East Eleventh
street, Manhattan, who was charged with the abduction of pretty
13-year-old MARIA NUNZIATTA, of 221 Van Brunt street, was called this
morning in Butler street court the pair appeared before Magistrate
TIGHE smiling happily. ROMEO lad before the judge a marriage
certificate signed by the Rev. Mgr. DUFFY, rector of St. Agnes' R.C.
Church, at Sackett and Hoyt street, where the young couple were married
since ROMEO's arrest. The complaint was dismissed.
SOUTH BROOKLYN
'LONGSHOREMAN INJURED AT BUSH DOCKS.
FELIX LUMHURST, 27 years old, of Third avenue and Nineteenth street,
while at work at the Bush docks yesterday afternoon, fell from a bale
of jute and sustained contusions of the head and back. He was attended
by Ambulance Surgeon LIVINGSTON, of the Norwegian Hospital, and went
home.
SERIOUSLY INJURED TRYING TO PLAY HORSE.
SAMUEL ARNOFF, the 16-year-old son of JOSEPH ARNOFF, of 208 Division
street, a furniture mover, was driving a single truck across the
Williamsburg Bridge, loaded with furniture, from Manhattan, at noon
to-day. When the boy had driven as far as the middle span of the
bridge he stopped and unhitched his horse, leaving the wagon standing
there, and started back along the bridge to assist his father, who was
driving a double truck loaded with furniture and was having a difficult
time.
The boy had just started, when a policeman called to him to watch his
wagon, as it had started to roll of its own volition down the incline
towards Brooklyn. He dropped his lines and ran to the truck and got in
between the shafts, trying to stop the wagon. The wagon had gained
such headway by this time, however, that all he could do was to guide
it past the other wagons on the roadway. It kept gaining speed so
rapidly that he could not even get away, and had to keep running. As
it passed the Brooklyn tower several policemen made a vain attempt to
stop it, and when the wagon reached the trolley station at the terminal
the boy was so exhausted he could not guide it, and it crashed into the
side of the station, smashing the wagon and scattering the furniture in
every direction. Young ARNOFF received a fractured skull, and was
taken to the Eastern District Hospital. He was still unconscious up to
a late hour.
ITALIAN SETTLEMENT WORK IS SUCCESSFUL.
Report summarizing the year's work and declaring it successful were
received by the members of the Italian Settlement Society who gathered
last evening at the home of their president, NORMAN S. DIKE, 194
Columbia Heights, for their fifth annual meeting. The year's work, as
discussed by the members, would indicate that the settlement, formed
with a modest membership five years ago, has grown to be a factor in
the life of the Italian people of Brooklyn. The settlement is located
at 29 Front street, and its officers and contributing workers include
many promising residents of Brooklyn. R. FULTON CUTTING sent his name
and contribution to last evening's meeting.
The settlement was founded and is conducted on the principle that any
Italian section is primarily a colony of pioneers in our civic
Eldorado. It divides the Italians into three classes, according to
their status, the highest being the store owners. Secretary and Head
Worker W.E. DAVENPORT read his yearly report last evening. The report
shows a remarkable progress. Three hundred and twenty-five new
students have been enrolled. The daily attendance is 135 and the
evening classes 36. Three boys' clubs have been organized and 200
members are depositors in the settlement's savings bank system.
Sixteen teachers have charge of the work. The receipts for the year
were $2,628 and a balance is left the settlement above expenses. The
institution has as a motto the following: "If our institutions are to
continue unimpaired, it is all important that the foreign population
should believe in our friendship." Mr. DAVENPORT said that one of the
chief stumbling blocks in the way of education was the fact that the
illiterate parents of the Italian emigrant children, never having had
education themselves, do not look on education for their children as
essential. He said that the intellect of the average Italian child was
remarkably bright. When given to understand that good wages may be
earned when they acquire the average education and master the language,
Mr. DAVENPORT said that the rapidity of progress made by them rivals
the progress of the American schoolboy. The following directors, whose
terms expired, were re-elected:
ISAAC H. CARY,
HENRY J. DAVENPORT,
A. AUGUSTUS HEALY,
ANNE E. LUPTON and ELIZA WHITMAN.
A number of contributions were received. Among these were:
Mrs. JOHN BOYLE,
WILLIAM D. MARTIN,
Col. GEORGE A. PRICE,
E.R.L. GOULD,
EVERLY CHILDS,
EDWIN K. ALDEN and FRANCIS JORDAN.
GIRL ACCUSED OF THEFT SUDDENLY GETS YOUNGER
Her Case Is Put Over Because Store Detective, It Is Said, Is to Wed.
In addition to a charge of petty larceny now hanging over her head,
LILLIAN DIAMOND, of 560 Lorimer street, may also be charged with
perjury. LILLIAN, who was a salesgirl in a Fulton street department
store, is charged with stealing money handed to her for cash sales.
She was first examined in the Adams street police court, where she gave
her age as 17. After several adjournments, she was held for Special
Sessions.
Then she said she was only 15, so the case was sent to the Children's
Court, where it came up to-day. She was born in New Jersey, and search
is being made there now of the record of her birth.
Miss IDA BERG, the store detective, requested that the case be
postponed until May 2. Asked the reason for such a long delay, she
blushed and refused to state. It was whispered about the court,
however, that she is to be married in a day or two.
CLAIMS ITALIANS HOLD HIS WIFE PRISONER
Mr. and Mrs. ROCO PROHIA, of Fifty-seventh street and Eleventh avenue,
were in the Coney Island court to-day on a summons issued by Magistrate
VOORHEES at the request of ROCO SREDICE, of Sixty-sixth street and
Fourteenth avenue, who claims that the PROHIAs are keeping his wife,
ANGELINA, a prisoner in their house. He produces witnesses to
substantiate his complaint.
One of the Italians who testified said that he had called at the
Fifty-seventh street house yesterday and had a talk with the alleged
prisoner. She told him, he said, that she had had nothing to eat for a
week and that she was slowly starving to death. He got her something
to eat.
PROHIA and his wife said that Mrs. SREDICE had never been at their
house. The magistrate adjourned the case until Friday morning. In
the meantime the police of the Fort Hamilton station will investigate.
POLICE ASKED TO FIND MISSING OCTOGENARIAN
JOSEPH HEIGERT, 84 years old, of 27 Bartlett street, has been reported
to the police as missing from his home since Sunday morning, when he
went out ostensibly for a short walk.
NOCQUET MISSING; HIS BALLOON FOUND.
Life Saver Discovers Car on Jones' Beach, Near Water's Edge
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND.
No News Received From the Daring Frenchman
The balloon of PAUL NOCQUET, the aeronaut and sculptor, in which he
ascended from the Bronx last night, and was last seen drifting toward
Montauk Point, was found late last night on Jones' Beach, on the south
coast of Long Island, across from Freeport. The aeronaut is missing.
Footprints leading from the balloon indicate that NOCQUET landed
safely. No news has been received as to his whereabouts, not even word
reaching any of his friends in New York, or his residence on
Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan. A telegram has been received from Fire
Island, addressed to M. NOCQUET, and advising him that his balloon has
been found.
While some friends fear that he has been lost at sea, the most
plausible explanation of his disappearance is that he is in hiding in
some village near where his balloon was found, hoping thereby to create
a great sensation for a few days. NOCQUET has declared at various
times that when he made an ascension he would, as he expressed it,
give the people something to talk about. If he has hidden himself, and
contrives to remain hidden for several days, he will certainly have
accomplished his object.
The balloon was discovered by JACOB BALDWIN, a member of the Jones'
Beach life-saving crew. It was ten o'clock last night when he came
across it. He had left the station an hour before and had been
patrolling constantly up and down the shore, so that the presumption is
that the balloon had descended a very short time before it was found.
It was still inflated and was dry, showing that it had not been washed
ashore, but had descended to the ground. There was no coat or other
article of clothing in the balloon, the only thing found it in being a
copy of a New York newspaper of Monday's date.
On finding the balloon BALDWIN at once notified Capt. STEPHEN AUSTIN,
of the Jones' Beach life-saving station, and an investigation was
quickly begun. An examination showed that there were footprints
leading away from the balloon in a north-westerly direction toward
Amityville. There appeared to be two sets of footprints and the theory
is that a fisherman or other person who had been out on the beach had
come along just as the balloon struck the ground and that the aeronaut
had gone along with him, perhaps to get assistance to transport the
balloon to a place from which it could be sent to New York.
From all the circumstances it is the opinion of the lifesavers that the
aeronaut will be found alive and well. At 10 o'clock this morning
Capt. AUSTIN reported that he and his men had made a careful search of
the beach and meadows but failed to find any trace of the missing
aeronaut.
Capt. AUSTIN stated that on the beach near where the basket came to a
halt, a number of newspapers and portions of newspapers were found.
Lying on the bottom of the car a number of buttons were scattered
about, which the Captain believes were torn from the clothing of
NOCQUET in his haste to leave the basket.
NOCQUET made his ascension yesterday afternoon in a specially
constructed balloon from the Central Union gas works, at 138th street
and Walnut avenue, in the Bronx. The course of the balloon up to
nightfall is as follows: Over Jamaica at 7 P.M., Garden City at 7:15,
Wesburty at 7:20, Cold Spring Harbor at 7:50 and Huntington at 8
o'clock.
Members of the Aero Club remained at their headquarters, the Automobile
Club, throughout the night, in the hope of hearing from NOCQUET. A
general alarm was sent out over the police wires, and a patrol was
established along the beaches at Rockaway and Far Rockaway.
NOCQUET has attained distinction as an artist, sculptor and writer, as
well as aeronaut. He came from Paris two years ago, and was considered
one of the most daring members of the Aero Club of France. NOCQUET's
courage had been attested fifteen times in balloon ascensions in his
own country. Two years ago he planned to cross the Atlantic Ocean is a
balloon, but was deterred from his object by his friends.
CARPENTER HURT BY FALL FROM BEAM
THOMAS REDDY, a carpenter, 54 years old, living at 192 Palmetto street,
was removed to the Kings County Hospital to-day with a severe scalp
wound, received by falling from a beam on the second floor of a new
building at Schenectady and Atlantic avenues.
The Rev. CHARLES M. COLLINS, formerly pastor of the Broadway
Congregational Church of Flushing, has accepted a call to the pastorate
of the Reformed Church at Steinway. The Rev. HENRY M. PHIRFER, of
Brooklyn, has received a unanimous call to the place vacated by Mr.
COLLINS. It is understood that he will accept.
The Flushing Cemetery Corporation has elected the following officers:
President, THOMAS S. WILLETTS; vice-president, W.K.MURRAY; secretary,
GEORGE W. POPLE; treasurer, WILLIAM L. JAMES.
Queens-MAYME NELSON IS IN POLICE TOILS AGAIN.
MAYME NELSON, 26 years old, of 1184 Broadway, was before Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM, in the Gates avenue court, to-day, on a charge of
intoxication and malicious mischief preferred by DAVID S. DAVID, of 235
Ralph avenue, who accused MAYME of throwing a stone through a large
plate glass window in his store at the Ralph avenue address yesterday
afternoon.
"Were you ever arrested before?" asked the court of MAYME.
"Oh, yes, a few times, I guess," replied the girl with a smile.
"Three hundred dollars bail for examination on April 11th," concluded
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM.
5 April 1906
CORONER HARBURGER STIRS POLICE TO ACTION
Prompt action of the part of Coroner HARBURGER caused the arrest in the
case of Edward L. BERGER, an express agent who was killed by a Sixth
avenue "L" train while walking along the elevated tracks near Rector
street, Manhattan, last night. When the accident was reported to the
Coroner's office by the police Coroner HARBURGER asked that an arrest
be made.
The police replied that they had no information, as the Interborough
denied the story.
The Coroner then informed the police of the Church street station that
if they did not arrest the motorman of the train that killed BERGER
that he would go before Police Commissioner BINGHAM and prefer charges
against all in the station house.
As a result Joseph CALL, 53 years old, of 107 West Ninety-fifth street,
was arrested and taken before Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street
court to-day on a charge of homicide, and remanded to the Coroner, who
held him in $3,000 for examination on Friday. Wallace E. PALMER,
another motorman, of 17 Lindsay avenue, the Bronx, offered as bail
property valued at $10,000.
SAILORS ON BARQUE ILL WITH BERRI BERRI
Two Norwegian sailors were taken from the barque 'Anita', lying at the
dock in Furman street, last night and removed to the Long Island
College Hospital, where their disease was diagnosed as berri berri.
The barque had come from Sumatra, and was loaded with coffee.
CRACKS SKULL TRYING TO GET LOST HAT
While jumping from a Crosstown car yesterday afternoon, at Washington
and Flushing avenues, Michael NECHKA, a Pole, 34 years old, fell to the
street, lacerating his scalp. NECHKA's hat had blown off and he sprang
from the rapidly moving car to get it. He was taken to the Cumberland
Street Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon SAUNDERS.
BOISTEROUS ITALIAN HAD DIRK AND REVOLVER
John BARONE, of 92 Hudson avenue, charged with carrying concealed
weapons, was held for examination in the Adams street court to-day. He
had a loaded revolver and a dirk when Policeman LYNCH arrested him on
the street for being disorderly.
RIOT FOLLOWS ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP IN BROWNSVILLE
The reserves of the Brownsville station were called out last night to
quell a disturbance at Watkins street and Blake avenue, caused, it is
claimed, by the attempted hold-up of Harry SLOTSKY, 18 years old, and
his brother, Isadore, 24 years old, both of 326 Stone avenue, by three
men, who were later arrested.
When taken to the station house the prisoners said they were Charles
KAPLAN and his brother Jacob, of 321 Livonia avenue, and Abe
FRANKENSTEIN, of 600 Sackman street.
In the Gates avenue court to-day the three prisoners denied having
attempted any hold-up and were held in $200 bail for examination April 12.
GREENPOINT-
WRIST FRACTURED BY CHUNK OF CEMENT
While Arrico DOMINICO, 48 years old, an Italian laborer, who lives at
116 Union street, was carrying cement aboard a barge at the foot of
Oakland street yesterday, his wrist was struck by a large piece of
cement from an overhanging bucket and badly fractured. He was attended
by Ambulance Surgeon DE VERONA, of St. Catherine's Hospital.
SAYS HE WAS CHEATED IN JEWELRY TRANSACTION
Frank L. LAMB, 37 years old, of 258 West Fifty-fifth street, Manhattan,
was arrested yesterday on a charge of larceny on the complaint of Paul
E. BENYAL, of 135 Franklin street. BENYAL claims that he was cheated
out of $8 in a jewelry transaction with LAMB.
SEARCHING FOR MAN WHO STABBED UNCLE
Coroner Henry J. BREWER to-day took an ante-mortem statement from
Pasquale NAVALLO, 36 years old, of 77 Front street, who is in the
Brooklyn Hospital in a critical condition as the result of four knife
wounds in the abdomen, which he received at the hand of his wife's
nephew, Ercola GLANDIO, a young man who boarded with them.
NAVALLO says that on Monday he expostulated with GLANDIO over his
attitude about the house and told him to leave. He says there was no
fight, but that the nephew simple drew a knife and plunged it into his
abdomen.
The police are looking for GLANDIO.
SOUTH BROOKLYN ITEM
CUT HIS THROAT RATHER THAN BE DEPORTED
ZITO SEBASTINO, 26 years old, a native of Genoa, cut his throat
yesterday while waiting to be deported to Italy on board the steamer
'Sicilian Prince', lying at the Bush Stores, Forty-fifth street. He
was taken to the Norwegian Hospital, where it was said to-day his
condition is critical.
TWENTY-TWO GIRLS IN PLOT TO ESCAPE
One of Them Got Nervous and Told the Training School Head
TWO RING LEADERS ARRESTED
Had Clothing Packed and Were Caught in Time
Only just in time was a deep laid plot nipped, whereby twenty-two of
the inmates of the Brooklyn Training School and Home for Young Girls,
at 1483 Pacific street, were to escape last night. None of the
adventuresses are more than 15 years old, and they range from that age
down to 10 years. As a result of the plot, the two ringleaders were
this morning haled to the Children's Court and summarily sent to the
New York Training School for Girls at Hudson, N.Y.
Miss Elizabeth BREWSTER, superintendent of the Training School,
appeared in the Children's Court this morning, as complainant against
the two girls, who, she declared, were the leaders of the plan whereby
they and twenty other girls were to shake the dust of the institution
from their feet. She said the girls were Maud E. JUNIOR, colored, 15
years old, and May WILLIAMS, 15 years old. Both were committed to the
home on complaint of their parents, as disorderly children.
Miss BREWSTER stated that it was only by the "breaking down" of the
twenty-second recruit in the conspiracy that she found out that there
was a plan for the girls to escape. This one, whose name she would not
give, became very nervous and wept when questioned. This was last
evening, a short time before the escapade was to be made. An immediate
investigation was made, with the result that the clothes of the girls
were found to be neatly rolled up, ready to sling on their shoulders
and carry off. Further investigation proved the fact that the plan had
been evolved some time ago and was to be put into effect at the first
favorable opportunity. A system of signals had been planned out by the
JUNIOR girl.
A more strict watch is to be kept over the other girls now to prevent
them from entering into any more conspiracy.
LAUNDRY WAGON AND CAR COLLIDE; DRIVER HURT
Harry YOUNG, of 65 East Fourth street, Manhattan, while driving a
laundry wagon shortly before midnight last night, was struck by a
south-bound car at Manhattan avenue and Huron street and YOUNG was
thrown to the street and received contusions of the body.
SERVANT GIRL SAYS DOCTOR "RUBBERED"
SAMUEL H. WARNER, A.M., Ph.G, M.D., of 475 Franklin avenue, was accused
in the Gates avenue court to-day of flirting with MARGARET MCCARTHY, an
18-year-old domestic, employed at 475 Franklin avenue. The girl said
he was in the habit of making "goo-goo" eyes at her and even
"rubbering" when she passed by.
"What do you mean by 'goo-goo' eyes and 'rubbering'? " asked Magistrate
FURLONG of the girl.
"Why, your Honor, he does this," responded Miss MCCARTHY, who at the
same time smiled and winked at the Judge.
"Nothing of the kind," interrupted Dr. WARNER. "This girl is
slandering me and ruining my practice by going around and telling all
the servant girls in the neighborhood that I am in love with her. I
admit that I have looked at the girl, but that is no crime. I am
privileged to look at any one passing through the streets as long as I
don't molest them."
"I guess you are accusing the doctor of something he is not guilty of,
Miss MCCARTHY," said Magistrate FURLONG. "Case dismissed. Don't be so
touchy, Miss MCCARTHY, and everybody will get along better."
POLICE LOOKING FOR TRIO OF RUNAWAYS
Three boys have been reported to the police as missing from their homes
and general alarms were sent out for them.
Walter JOHNSON, 11 years old, of 170 Nostrand avenue, left home on Monday.
Charles DUTTON, 12 years old, of 63 St. Marks place, went away last Sunday.
John FREVILE, 15 years old, left his home, 388 South Third street, on March 30.
GREENPOINT ITEMS..
BIG MASONS TO CONFER SUBLIME MASTER'S DEGREE
An interesting evening is promised Greenpoint Masons to-night, when the
officers and fellowcraft team of Greenpoint Lodge will confer the
sublime degree of Master Mason on Alfred H. DAY, Charles G. SPRIGADE,
William HEINRICH,
Webster SHELDON
William M. WINSHIP.
W. Earl ADAMS will present the working tools.
During the second section Alfred S. HUGHES, Master of Hyatt Lodge, will
occupy the east, Alfred O. DRESNER, Master of Oltmans Lodge, will
occupy the west, and Edward T. SALESBURY, Past Master of St. Albans
Lodge, will deliver the historical lecture, and George G. B. IRISH will
act as Seafaring Man. The Masonic Quartet, of Manhattan, will render a
full choral service.
SMALLPOX IN CABIN; 1,000 VACCINATIONS
The North German Lloyd steamship "Wurzburg," which arrived last night
from Bremen, is detained at Quarantine with smallpox on board.
Solomon EPSTEIN, a cabin passenger, was taken sick March 24 and
immediately isolated. The disease proved to be smallpox. All of the
seventeen cabin passengers, as well as the 986 steerage passengers,
were vaccinated by the ship's surgeon.
The patient was taken to the Kingston Avenue Hospital. A number of the
passengers are held at Hoffman Island for observation. The steamer was
disinfected and released this afternoon.
HIT INFANT WITH LIFTER IN TENEMENT HOUSE ROW.
John KAY, 28 years old, of 220 Johnson street, was held in $1,000 bail
by Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court to-day, on a charge of
assault. Frank MARINO, a diminutive Italian, and Annie DELANEY, of 319
Hudson avenue, showed bruises which they said KAY had inflicted with a
stove lifter. An infant in arms was also on exhibition with a cut
cheek, received during the quarrel. Mrs. DELANEY says she was trying
to save the baby, which MARINO had in his arms when KAY attacked him,
and got a whack on the cheek herself.
BOY BADLY INJURED BY TROLLEY CAR.
While crossing Myrtle avenue at Sanford street, last night, Louis
BERGER, 6 years old, of 99 Sanford street, was hit by a car of the
Myrtle avenue line and knocked down. He was pinned beneath the fender
and held there for several minutes. When he was taken out in an
unconscious condition he was hurried to the Eastern District Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, who found that the boy had sustained
internal injuries, a fracture of the right foot, and that his condition
was serious.
6 April 1906
POLICE ASKED TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
The police have been asked to try and locate Charles GOEBEL, 19 years
old, who left his home, 350 Chauncey street, on Wednesday.
George RAYNOR, 14 years old, left his home, 203 Stuyvesant avenue, on
March 3, and has not been heard from since.
William SCHIUTEN, 28 years old, of 204 Fifth avenue, Long Island City,
has been reported as missing since March 31.
INFERNAL MACHINE FOR SALOONKEEPER
Harry CARSTENS, JR., a well-known saloonkeeper of East New York, who
conducts a store at Crescent and Glen street, received through the
mails last night an infernal machine about five inches long.
Fortunately CARSTENS grew suspicious of the way the box was wrapped and
opened it carefully. This probably saved him from being blown to
pieces.
The box was three-quarters filled with black powder on top of which was
a small piece of gun cotton. Over the gun cotton was a circular piece
of sandpaper. The cover of the box was coated with a sticky substance,
thought to be paste, and in this substance was stuck eighteen short
matches. The affair was so arranged that should the opener of the box
unscrew the cover, the matches would strike the sandpaper and ignite
and the flame would reach the gun cotton and black powder. A small
portion of the powder was touched with a match and it exploded with a
deafening sound.
The box was sent to the Bureau of Combustibles this afternoon.
STRUCK MATCH ON MANTEL; SET PARLOR ON FIRE.
A blaze on the parlor floor of the four-story brownstone house at 95
South Oxford street, occupied by Lindsley P. BALDWIN, was put out last
night at 6 o'clock after the furniture and hangings had been damaged to
the extent of $50. The fire started by the striking of a match on the
parlor mantelpiece. While on his way to the fire Howard GILL, 17 years
old, employed at 297 Adelphi street, who was mounted on a bicycle, ran
into the rear of a fire engine in Lafayette, near Carlton avenue, was
thrown to the street and was cut about the face. Ambulance Surgeon
WHITE, of St. John's Hospital, administered treatment.
BOY'S DELUSION IS HUNTING INDIANS
George QUINN, 19 years old, of 54 Washington avenue, was committed to
the Kings County Hospital by Magistrate FURLONG in the Gates avenue
court to-day to have his sanity inquired into. He was arrested several
days ago by Policeman THOMPSON, of the Gates avenue station, who found
him wandering in the streets.
QUINN's mother told Magistrate FURLONG to-day that she believed her
son's mind was unbalanced. She said when he was home he was in the
habit of getting out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning and going out
in the street for a half hour or more. When he returns he tells his
parents he has been out West shooting Indians.
The last night QUINN was home his mother said he came into the house on
a run at 4 o'clock in the morning and said he had just shot fifty-six
Indians without killing any of them.
WOODEN INDIAN AND BARBER'S POLE AROUSED THEIR IRE
John ROALEF, 18 years old, of 181 Navy street, and Frederick WALSH, 19
years old, of 467 Carlton avenue, last night got into an altercation
with a wooden Indian standing in front of the cigar store of Louis
MICHNOFF, at 74 Fourth avenue, and ended up by utterly demolishing the
sturdy chieftain. They then turned their attention to a barber's pole
in front of Dominck PALADINO's shop at the same address, breaking it to
pieces. Patrolman Thomas KEENAN, of the Bergen street station,
arrested them and charges of malicious mischief were made against them
in the Myrtle avenue court this morning. They were held in $500 bail
each for the Grand Jury for damaging the figure of the Indian and in
$300 bail each for Special Sessions, for breaking the barber's pole.
CAUSED ARREST OF STRANGE BOY FOUND IN CELLAR
Seventeen-year-old Thomas KEARNS, of 733 Macon street, was held in $500
bail for examination in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge of
malicious mischief preferred by Isaac KASTON, of 966 Brook avenue, Bronx.
KASTON, who is the owner of a flat-house at 813 Hancock street, says he
saw KEARNS coming from the cellar of the house yesterday. He went into
the cellar immediately and found one of the doors in the cellar forced
open. He called KEARNS and asked him his business in the cellar. The
latter was unable to answer, and a policeman placed his under arrest.
STILL LOVES HUSBAND FOR WHOM ANOTHER WOMAN DIED.
The love of Mrs. BARDELEBON for her husband, who had registered with
Mrs. Walter RAWSON, of Philadelphia, at the Palmer House, Chicago,
where she killed herself yesterday, has not bee diminished. She will
welcome him with arms open upon his return to the city.
"I still believe in my husband," said Mrs. BARDELEBEN* to-day, "and I
still believe he loves me. I will not blame or censure his for what
has happened. The tragedy was of the woman's own making. The woman is
always to blame in such matters and not the man." *two different
spellings
HAND NEARLY SEVERED BY BLOW WITH AXE.
While at work in the Fireproof Door Company, at Calyer and Brewer
street, this morning, Isidor SCHOFER, 18 years old, of 61 Pitt street,
Manhattan, almost severed his left hand with an axe. He was removed to
the Eastern District Hospital.
ACCUSES MAN OF BREAKING INTO HOUSE
William JOHNSON, of Coney Island, was complainant against William
AUSTIN, of 34 West Second street, in the Cony Island Court this
morning. JOHNSON says that AUSTIN entered his house and robbed him of
goods valued at $25. AUSTIN was held for further examination.
INVITED DOWNSTAIRS AND HORRIBLY BEATEN
John RYAN, 22, of 491 Court street; Geo. WHITE, 18, of 477 Hicks
street; John WHITE, his brother, 23, and Edward HUGHES, 25, of 161 West
Ninth street, were in the Butler street court this morning, charged
with assault by John and Daniel TEEHAN, brothers, if 477 Hicks street,
who said the prisoners called them downstairs last night, and then
jumped on them and unmercifully beat them. Both were battered up when
they appeared in court.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF:
Angelo VENALO, 19 years old, was found at his home, 395 Flushing
avenue, Long Island City, last evening, sick and destitute, and removed
to St. John's Hospital.
SHOOTS WIFE AND TRIES TO KILL SELF
Young FORSTER Wanted Her to Withdraw Abandonment Proceedings.
MARRIED ONLY EIGHT MONTHS
He Is Wounded in Head and May Not Recover
Walter FORSTER, 18 years old, an upholsterer, of 180 Saratoga avenue,
went to the home of Dr. George F. KERN at 207Eldert street, to-day and
shot his wife, Margaret, 16 years old, who was a daughter of Dr. KERN
and was living with her parents. He then turned the revolver on
himself and put a bullet in his right temple.
It appears that the young couple were married eight months ago and went
to live at 979 Madison street. FORSTER did not work steadily and
couldn't support a wife, so they separated and she went to live with
her father. Dr. KERN is a veterinary surgeon and lives in a
fashionable part of the Bushwick section.
She went to the Lee avenue court and got a warrant from Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM for the arrest of her husband on a charge of abandonment.
The case was adjourned till the following Wednesday and changed to the
Gates avenue court where Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM was then sitting. He
tried to reconcile the couple but failed and postponed the case till
next Monday.
FORSTER obtained work in a department store about six weeks ago and
went to board with his brother in Saratoga avenue. About 10 o'clock
this morning he went to his father-in-law's home and, going upstairs,
met his mother-in-law in the hall and asked her where Margaret was, as
he wanted to talk to her. He mother called her and she and FORSTER
went into the parlor together.
FORSTER said: "Margaret, won't you drop the proceedings against me?
You don't want me sent to jail, do you?"
"I'll drop them if you promise to support me. You've been working for
six weeks now, and I think you can," she answered.
He then asked her to kiss him and she asked what for. He said, "I've
decided to end it all now. We can died together." With that he pulled
out a revolver and fired at his wife. She raised her right arm and the
bullet went through the fleshy part of the arm and hit the wall.
Mrs. FORSTER then ran screaming into the room where her mother was and
the two women heard a shot in the parlor. They ran out in the hall and
screamed for help. Neighbors went into the parlor and found FORSTER
lying on the floor with a revolver in his right hand and a bullet wound
in his right temple.
Policeman MILLER, of the Hamburg avenue station, sent in a hurry call
for an ambulance and Dr. AVERY, of the German Hospital, responded.
FORSTER was removed to the hospital in a dying condition. Mrs.
FORSTER's wound is only slight and was dressed by a doctor in the
neighborhood.
FORSTER's marriage was the result of a threat which he made last
August. It is claimed he told his wife that unless she married him he
would blow her brains out and put a stick of dynamite under her
father's house and blow it up. The girl finally became so frightened
that she eloped with him.
7 April 1906
THREE INJURED IN CRASH OF TROLLEY CAR.
A Gates avenue trolley car, in charge of Motorman John YONKER, of 1516
Gates avenue, and a Myrtle avenue car, with Samuel GLUCKMAN, of 305
East Houston street, Manhattan, in charge, and bound in the same
direction, collided at Washington and High street, yesterday afternoon.
GLUCKMAN was thrown over the dashboard of his car and had his spine
severely injured, while John KELLY, a city fireman, who was a
passenger, and Kate WRIGHT, of 194 Powers street, were thrown to the
floor of the car and cut and bruised about the head and body. All were
attended by a physician and left for their homes.
GIRL LEAPS FROM CAB WHEN HORSE RUNS AWAY.
Sidney AUSTIN, a cabby, who was driving Miss Edith ADAMS, of 54
Montgomery place, home last night, had an attack of vertigo and fell
from the box while the cab was on Eastern Parkway, near Flatbush
avenue. The horse bolted and Miss ADAMS, fearing that the rig would be
smashed against the masonry at the Willink entrance of the park, opened
the door and jumped into the street. She landed on her knees and was
severely scratched and shaken up, but not otherwise hurt.
Miss ADAMS was assisted by Alfred BEEBE and John ELINGER, who was
passing in an auto, and after brushing the dust from her dress and
hands, proceeded to her home in a car. The horse continued down Ocean
avenue to Sheepshead Bay, where he was stopped by a policeman.
SAY HE FIRED BLANK CARTRIDGE AT WOMAN
Frank GIBSON, 19 years old, of 403 Hoyt street, was in the Butler
street court to-day charged with attempted felonious assault by Mrs.
Nellie STONE, and with assault by Mary GLEASON, both of the same
address, in behalf of George STONE, 8 years old.
It is alleged that GIBSON while intoxicated started a row in the
apartments of the GLEASON woman, and finally threw a kettle at her
which she dodged, the little boy receiving the blow on the scalp. The
boy's mother, hearing the noise, went to see what happened, and GIBSON,
she alleges, then turned on her and said:
"I'll give you more before I am done," and with that pulled out a
revolver and fired at her, the shot not taking effect, GIBSON said that
the cartridge was a blank, and he had only tried to frighten the woman.
He was held in $1,000 bail for examination.
SHOOTS MOTHER-IN-LAW ON RELEASE FROM PRISON.
Following his release yesterday from the Kings County Penitentiary,
where he had served a year for burglary, Henry DEAME, 28 years old,
went to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary CUOSONE, on Union
avenue, Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, and attempted to kill his wife
and her mother. The women were in bed when DEAME broke open the door.
He answered their cries of alarm by opening fire with a revolver, one
of the bullets smashing Mrs. CUOSONE's jaw and another shattering the
bedpost over her head. DEAME then fled and is now being hunted in the
woods near Crystal Lake.
Mrs. CUOSONE, who is 55 years old, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Her condition is critical.
BURGLARS STILL BUSY; POLICE MAKE NO ARRESTS.
Clothing valued at $50 was stolen from the home of William H. HANDS,
who lives on the fourth floor of 662 Park place.
Cut glass and table ware worth $100 were stolen from the home of Mrs.
Annie SCHMACHER, at 129 Halsey street.
Thieves broke into a vacant house at 71 Hooper street and carried off a
large quantity of lead pipe from the cellar. The house is owned by
Gilbert P. TRUSLOW.
Frank HULTZ, of 716 Grand street, reports that his watch was stolen
from him by an unknown thief.
While Joseph NORTH, of 454 South Fifth street, was asleep in the rear
room of a saloon on Broadway, a thief removed a diamond ring from his
finger and the diamond stud from his shirt front.
FEARS BROTHER-IN-LAW WILL MURDER HIM.
A crowd ran all the way from Atlantic avenue and Smith street this
morning, folowing[sic] a policeman who had a prisoner whose shirt
collar was bloody and his left eye swollen and black.
Close behind the prisoner was a young man wearing gold-rimmed
spectacles, under which was a bunch of absorbent cotton. When the
prisoner reached the Adams street station the crowd dispersed.
He was Philip LEPFEL, of 354 Atlantic avenue. The young man was Louis
BLUMBERG, of 284 Atlantic avenue. He told Sergeant KENNEDY that LEPFEL
had drawn a knife on him and threatened to cut his throat.
"He had threatened me before this," said BLUMBERG, "and I an afraid he
will kill me. I had him arrested before, but the Judge let him go. He
attacked me with a knife then."
The men are brothers-in-law, and there is a family feud. They met in
the street this morning and an old quarrel was renewed. Policeman
COOTS arrested LEPFEL.
BLUMBERG was told to come to court in the morning and make a complaint.
LEPFEL was bailed out by a friend.
DETECTIVES MUM ON HUDDLESTON'S ARESRT[SIC]
George HUDDLESTON, 50 years old, a broker of 610 Sixth avenue,
Manhattan, was before Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street court to-day
accused of the alleged larceny of $5,000 from Louis STRAUS, a business
man of 50 New street. Information regarding the exact nature of the
transaction was refused by the Central Office detectives who made the
arrest, on the ground that publicity would defeat the ends of justice.
It was intimated that other arrests would be made in connection with
the case.
Bail was fixed by Magistrate MOSS at $2,000. Pending the finding of a
bondsman HUDDLESTON was locked up in the Tombs.
BROWNSVILLE - YOUTHFUL DRIVER HURT IN LIVELY RUNAWAY
While Joseph OSTER, 15 years old, of 441 Rockaway avenue, was driving a
horse owned by SILVERMAN & HOPKIN, real estate brokers, of 336 Rockaway
avenue, yesterday, the animal became unmanageable at Rockaway avenue
and Osborn street, and ran away. At Pitkin avenue OSTER was thrown
from the wagon and received a fracture of the right arm and right foot.
The horse was caught at Belmont avenue by Policeman KEARNEY, of the
Brownsville station. The boy was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street Hospital, and after his wounds were
dressed he went home in the wagon.
TRIED TO STEAL 85-FOOT CHIMNEY
Army of Boys Has Been Carrying Away What Was Left of Glass Works Ruins
ONE CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Sold Bricks They Stole for 40 Cents a Hundred.
Ever since the fire in the plant of the De Muth Glass Works, at
Gardiner avenue and Newtown Creek, last December, the business has
been at a standstill. Yesterday when Frank DEIS, a superintendent,
visited the buildings he was surprised to find that thousands of
dollars' worth of material had been carried away.
An investigation showed that an army of boys had been at work about the
plant since the fire, and that they had practically torn down and
carried away several small buildings. Bricks, iron and lumber had been
carted away. The brick walls that were still standing were without
doors, and the sashes of the windows had disappeared.
DEIS hurried to the Herbert street police station and told what he had
discovered to Capt. KNIPE. The captain sent Policeman HECKER with the
superintendent to make an investigation. When the two reached the
works they saw a boy on top of the 85-foot brick chimney. He was
busily engaged in throwing the bricks from the top of the chimney.
Policeman HECKER ordered the boy to come down, but the lad refused.
Finally, after some parley, the boy descended from his high perch and
was taken to the station house, where he was locked up on a charge of
malicious mischief. The boy said he and others had been selling the
bricks for forty cents a hundred.
Before Magistrate NAUMER, in Manhattan avenue court to-day, he was
paroled for a hearing.
WOMEN SHOPLIFTERS WORE FIVE SKIRTS
Ten Stolen Shirt Waists Found on Them---Refuse to Give Their Names.
Mrs. Mary KIRCHOLSKY, 22 years old, and Mrs. Mary MILLER, 30 years old,
both of whom refused to say where they lived, were before Magistrate
NAUMER in the Manhattan avenue court to-day, on a charge of shoplifting
preferred by a woman detective of a Broadway department store. When
they were arrested ten shirt waists belonging to the store were found
on the two.
The detective's attention was called to the women by a customer who
told her that she had seen one of them slip a waist under her raincoat.
The detective called in a policeman and the two were taken to the
Herbert street station, where there is a matron. When the matron
examined the prisoners she found that each had on five skirts. The
openings of the skirts, instead of being in the back, were on the side
so that they could be used as pockets.
The inner skirt was arranged so that articles tucked within it would
not fall to the floor. It was beneath this skirt that the shirt waists
were found. Neither woman could speak English and they refused to talk
through an interpreter. They were held in $300 bail each for
examination.
NURSE GET FORTUNE FOR HER KINDNESS.
[Special to The Standard Union]
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, April 7,---Because she cared for them in a
sympathetic manner when they were ill, Miss Esther MARVIN, a trained
nurse of Rockville Centre, has been left a comfortable fortune by Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin RHODES, of Hempstead. Mr. and Mrs. RHODES grew old
without children. When either of the aged couple were ill Miss MARVIN
would always be sent for because her care was more than perfunctory.
When they died recently they left property valued at nearly $75,000 to
the trained nurse. The will has been probated by Surrogate Edgar
JACKSON, of Nassau County.
LIVELY CHASE AFTER BOY BAG-SNATCHER
Harry GOODMAN, 16 years old, who gives his address as Second avenue,
near 107th street, Manhattan, was arrested yesterday afternoon on
Broadway, near Van Buren street, by Special Deputy Sheriff Albert G.
REES, treasurer of the Citizens' Protective League. It seems Mrs.
Julius CLEARY, who lived in Monroe street, near Ralph avenue, was going
along Broadway, when, she says, she saw GOODMAN open the bag of another
woman some distance ahead, who also saw him in the act and tried to
grab him, but he got away. She, however, made no effort to pursue him.
Just then Mrs. CLEARY's own pocketbook, one of the swinging kind, was
jerked away from her by the fleeing boy as he passed her. She
attempted to catch him, but he eluded her, too.
The officer, following a short distance in the wake of Mrs. CLEARY, saw
GOODMAN snatch her pocketbook, and gave chase to the boy, who was then
joined by another who ran with him. GOODMAN dashed around the corner
into LUBIN's stable, on Van Buren street, near Broadway. His partner
fled on. REES followed GOODMAN to the stable and caught him after a
struggle.
REES then took his prisoner to the Ralph avenue station, where he was
locked up.
Mrs. CLEARY said there was $1.95 in her pocketbook at the time. The
confederate of the boy, it is supposed, got the pocketbook. GOODMAN
will be taken to the Gates avenue court this morning.
BROKE HIS THIGH IN SACK RACE AT ARMORY.
Arthur KIRSAAN, 18 years old, of 74 Clifton place, one of the
contestants in a sack race held in the Fourteenth Regiment Armory last
night, fell while making the run and broke his thigh. He was attended
by an ambulance surgeon and taken to his home by some friends.
MANY JUST ESCAPE AS WALL TOPPLES.
Lives of twenty families were imperiled yesterday afternoon by the
collapse of the rear wall of a five-story tenement, at 67 Oliver
street, Manhattan. All escaped injury but one child, a girl of 8
years, whose skull was fractured.
Lizzie PRANNITO, the child who was injured, was playing in the rear
yard when five bricks fell from just under the cornice of the building.
One of them struck her on the head.
Tenants in all the nearby housed were panic-stricken. The neighborhood
is thickly populated with Italians, and it was hours before the
excitement quieted down.
Superintendent of Buildings Edward S. MURPHY made an examination last
night and gave it as his opinion that the fall of the wall was due to
the overloading of the fire-escapes. He ordered that the building
should be razed and a force of laborers were immediately put to work to
pull the building down.
MAN, TANGLED IN BELTING, NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH.
While at work in a leather factory at Bogart and Seigel streets
yesterday afternoon, John CALLAHAN, 33 years old, of 191 Bedford
avenue, got his right leg caught in a belt and had a narrow escape from
death. He was being whirled toward a large fly wheel when another
workman shouted to the engineer to shut off the power. He was removed
to St. Catherine's Hospital with a fracture of the right leg.
LITTLE GIRL RUN DOWN BY TROLLEY CAR.
Irene CONNOR, 6 years old, of 750 Bergen street, while running across
the street opposite her home last night was knocked down by a Bergen
street car. The motorman, James MCGUIRE, stopped the car in time to
save her life, but the fender caught her in the side, causing severe
contusions. She was removed to St. John's Hospital.
SECOND THIEF NOT BEST OWNER THIS TIME.
Christopher EVERS, 16 years old, of 626 Sterling place; Thomas RUSSELL,
same age, of 988 Degraw street, and John O'GRADY, 9 years old, of 986
Degraw street, were arrested yesterday charged with stealing a gold
watch belonging to Krauss SUFFERING, of 825 Classon avenue. The two
larger boys, it is alleged, took the watch from O'GRADY after he had
stolen it. O'GRADY "squealed" and the three were arrested.
WOMAN SEEKS DEATH BY RIVER ROUTE
Caroline WAGNER, 50 years old, of 400 Winthrop street, Astoria,
attempted suicide yesterday by jumping into the East River at the foot
of Eighth street, Astoria. She was rescued in an exhausted condition
and attended by Dr. SCHIREKERT and removed to St. John's Hospital, Long
Island City, a prisoner.
ELOPED AFTER THEY HAD BEEN WED FIVE MONTHS
Pretty Suffolk School Teacher Stirs Gossips and Gives Them the Laugh
RIVERHEAD, April 7.---
A pretty young schoolma'am has solved the problem
of how to get married and still retain her job as teacher. She just
sought out a clergyman who is an insurance agent and was married. The
clergyman agreed not to speak of the wedding until the teacher was
ready to resign from her school.
Miss Elsie SCHAEFFER, the eldest daughter of August SCHAEFFER, a
taxidermist, of Riverhead, and well known among sporting men, taught
school in Baiting Hollow for several years. When she left town a week
ago on the same train with LeRoy REEVE, the son of A.F. REEVE, of Sound
avenue, Riverhead, and checked her baggage to the same place REEVE had
named as his destination, there was gossip. After a week it was
declared to be an elopement, and then the news arrived that REEVE and
Miss SCHAEFFER had been married since last November. They were married
by the Rev. Mr. EAGAN, of Good Ground. The pretty bride said she
wanted to keep her position for a while, and asked that nothing be said
of her marriage until she was ready to resign. She chose April Fools'
Day as the day of her departure, and considers that she completely
fooled her friends. Mr. and Mrs. REEVE have not set a date for their return.
9 April 1906
KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET NEARLY THREE MONTHS
Then "a Friend" Notified Family With an Anonymous Letter
Congratulations of a hundred friends poured in on Mr. and Mrs. John A.
FRAZEE, nee Kathyrn [sic] L. DIBBS, both of St. Marks place, to-day
when it became known that not only were they married but had been so
for nearly three months.
"Just to think of them going away so quietly and we girls just dying to
see a wedding," pouted an old school friend when she heard of it.
It was just to avoid the fuss of a formal church wedding and, perhaps,
any paternal question that might arise as to the youth and matrimony
that the young couple slid away to the Rev. Father MCCARTY, of St.
Augustine's Church, Sixth avenue, on Jan. 21 last. The groom is 23
years old and very popular in the neighborhood. The bride in 19 and a
favorite socially. A well known young man and his sister acted at
witnesses. After the ceremony the party adjourned to New York's best
hotel where supper had been ordered. It was agreed not to divulge the
wedding just to see how long Cupid could keep his secrets. Mr. and
Mrs. FRAZEE went to their homes at 80 and 129 St. Marks place,
respectively. The coy little god held out until yesterday. Then the
astonished Mrs. FRAZEE received the following letter:
"Dear Friend--As a friend of your family I feel as though I should
inform you that your son John and Kathryn DIBBS have been married for
the last three months. If you do not believe this communication just
ask the pastor of St. Augustine's Church or refer to the Hall of
Records, Brooklyn.
"A Friend."
When the parents of the happy pair got over their surprise there was
another wedding supper as well as paternal blessings.
WOMAN HURT WHEN HORSE SHIES AT AUTO
An automobile owned by Dr. George R. KUHN, of 122 Clinton avenue,
frightened a horse driven by Miss Katie MCCARTHY, of 281 Clermont
avenue, yesterday in St. James place. Miss MCCARTHY was thrown out,
her nose broken and her face and scalp cut. She was removed to her
home in an ambulance.
FELL INTO SUBWAY AND CUT HIS HEAD.
James DOOLEY, a switchman employed by the Long Island Railroad Company,
went to the Grand avenue police station at 3 o'clock this morning and
said he had fallen into the subway at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.
He was suffering from a severe scalp wound and contusions of the hip,
which were dressed by an ambulance surgeon and he left for his home,
599 Bergen street.
-QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF-
- Harry WURFORST, 35 years old, a farmer of Hyde Park, while driving
across the tracks of the Long Island Railroad on the Union Turnpike,
near the Hoffman Boulevard, Newtown, was struck by a train. WURFORST
had his right thigh broken. He was attended by Dr. NEVINS and removed
to St. Mary's Hospital.
- A one-story frame barn on Vine street, Morris Park, owned and occupied
by William D. BOYD, was set on fire yesterday afternoon by burning
grass, causing a damage to building and contents of $200.
- Joseph VISCHO, a saloonkeeper at 96 Rockaway road, Jamaica, was
arrested yesterday afternoon for violating the liquor tax law and held
for examination.
- At 7:20 last evening fire caused by the falling of a lighted lamp from
the table occurred in the two-story frame house at 14 Washington
street, Jamaica, owned by John LEONARDI, of 410 Fulton street, Jamaica,
causing a damage of $600 to building and $500 to contents. The fire
spread to the adjoining two-story frame dwelling at 16 Washington
street, owned and occupied by Frank SMITH, causing a damage of $250 to
building and contents.
HANDWRITING REVEALS ABUSIVE LETTER WRITER.
Tell-tale handwriting to-day satisfied County Judge ASPINALL that Lucy
HERBERT, a negress living in the Fifth Ward, had been sending
threatening letters to Fannie FITZGERALD, another negress, who lives in
the same vicinity. When called before the judge in the County Court
and asked it she had written a letter full of the most abusive
expressions toward Fannie FITZGERALD, which was handed to her by the
judge for identification, Lucy HERBERT said that she had not.
Judge ASPINALL directed the prisoner to write her name and several
words. Lucy did so and the handwriting was so much like that in the
abusive letter that His Honor was satisfied she was the guilty party.
She was dismissed with a severe lecture.
SILVERWARE STOLEN IN CLERMONT AVENUE.
Silverware worth $26 was taken from the third floor apartment of
Frederick C. NOBLE at 416 Clermont avenue yesterday afternoon. The
theft was reported at the Classon avenue station.
MAKE THUMB PRINTS OF ALLEGED HOTEL SNEAK.
In the arrest of Henry JOHNSON, a negro, last Friday night the police
believe they have captured a clever hotel crook who has been operating
in England.
With two pawn tickets found in JOHNSON's pockets the police recovered
two diamond pins, which were identified as the property of guests of
the Waldorf-Astoria, where JOHNSON was arrested. The police also found
a London newspaper clipping in JOHNSON's pockets which read: "It is
stated that the man who robbed Lady Gilbert PARKER, wife of the auther
[sic], and who was formerly Miss Anna VALENTINE, of New York, of L500
has sailed for America."
The police believe that JOHNSON is the man the article refers to. For
the first time in the history of the police department prints were made
of a prisoner's thumbs. This was done in JOHNSON's case and the prints
forwarded to London.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS OVERCOME BY GAS
Mrs. Jane WICKETT, 40 years old, and her three daughters, Nellie, 17;
Mary, 18, and Nora, 15, were overcome by gas yesterday in a bedroom at
the home of Mrs. Sarah WILLIS, 255 Twenty-first street, the key of a
gasjet having been left partially turned on by one of the occupants of
the room when the mother and her children retired on Saturday night.
Mrs. WILLIS, who is a sister of Mrs. WICKETT, smelled gas escaping and
rose from her bed to investigate. She found her four relatives
slightly overcome by the fumes and later they were attended at the
house by Dr. ZIMMER, who had been summoned from Seney Hospital. None
of the victims was removed to the hospital.
AGED PRIEST REPORTED MISSING FOR FIVE DAYS
The Rev. Father James QUINN, 72 years old, has been missing since April
4 from his niece's home, 31A Stuyvesant avenue. When last seen he was
at the Saranac Hotel, Broadway near Forty-second street, Manhattan, and
wore a clerical suit.
ARREST MAN WANTED FOR MURDER IN SPRINGFIELD
On a request from Police Commissioner DOYLE, of Springfield, Mass.,
Detectives O'LEARY and SULLIVAN, of the Manhattan Detective Bureau,
arrested Clark LANGFIELD, 20 years old, a laborer, of 110 Third avenue,
Manhattan, at the Grand Central Station last night. He is wanted in
Springfield for highway robbery and murder.
REINSTATED POLICEMEN ASSIGNED TO DUTY
Police Capt. HICKMAN and Sergeants WHITE and MCGRATH, of Brooklyn, who
were recently ordered reinstated by the courts, will be assigened to
duty this afternoon by Commissioner BINGHAM.
TAILORS IN A FEUD; BOTH EXHIBIT WOUNDS
Louis BLUMBERG, an Atlantic avenue clothier, who caused the arrest of
his brother-in-law on Saturday, was himself a prisoner in the Adams
street court to-day on a charge of assault made by Philip LEFLER, also
a tailor on Atlantic avenue. When the case against LEFLER was called
yesterday BLUMBERG did not appear and a complaint was filed against him
and LEFLER was discharged.
BLUMBERG said in court to-day that he was too ill to come to court
yesterday.
LEFLER's head was in bandages and BLUMBERG's eye was closed. He says
LEFLER did it with a knife.
Counselor George GRU, who appeared for LEFLER, said to-day that the
feud between the brothers-in-law began after LEFLER married a second
time shortly after the death of his first wife, who was a sister of
BLUMBERG. LEFLER had brought a civil suit for damages against BLUMBERG
for assault, which is pending, and every time the men meet in the
street there is trouble.
BLUMBERG wanted to make a counter complaint against LEFLER, but
Magistrate DOOLEY put him off until Wednesday, when the feud will be
threshed out.
MAY BE REDUCTIONS FOR TWO CAPTAINS.
Police Inspectors Thomas DRUHAN and Elbert O. SMITH, who were retired
by Commissioner MCADOO on grounds of physical disability, have been
restored to duty, and the question now arises as to where they will be
assigned to duty, as there are now no vacancies in the inspectors'
ranks. The last two men promoted to inspectorships are NALLY and
SWEENEY. When a contingency of a similar kind occurred before, two
inspectors were reduced to the rank of captain. Should Commissioner
BINGHAM decide to reduce NALLY and SWEENEY to make room for DRUHAN and
SMITH, there will probably be a suit for reinstatement.
TRIED TO CRACK SAFE WITH $3,000 IN IT
It was discovered to-day that burglars broke into the clothing store of
BROWNING, KING & Co., at DeKalb avenue and Fulton street, Saturday
night or yesterday. They were apparently frightened away after
removing the combination knob of the safe.
The safe stands in the cashier's office on the DeKalb avenue side of
the store. There is a window leading to a vacant lot not far from the
office, and this had been forced. There was about $3,000 in the safe.
A few years ago burglars drilled a hole in the party wall of an
adjoining building and got into the store and carried off several
hundred dollars' worth of clothing.
POLICEMAN REPROVED FOR MAKING ARRESTS
Three young men, employes of the Long Island Railroad, were before
Magistrate FURLONG in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge of
playing baseball in the street. The policeman could produce no
evidence to prove his charge and the men were discharged.
The prisoners, who gave their names as Daniel TAYLOR, Harry GRAHAM and
Henry DODGE, told Magistrate FURLONG that they were working in the
railroad yards at Atlantic and New York avenues, when a ball was
suddenly thrown over the fence. TAYLOR picked up the ball and threw it
at GRAHAM, who in turn threw it over the fence into the street.
Policeman ROONEY then appeared and accused the men of playing ball and
arrested them.
Magistrate FURLONG told ROONEY he had no business to go into the
private grounds of the railroad company, and then discharged the prisoners.
INSANE MAN WRECKS HOUSE AND TRIES SUICIDE
John SALTUS, of 74 1/2 North Fifth street, became violently insane last
Saturday morning following an attack of the grip. Yesterday he tried
to jump out of the window and fought violently when half a dozen
persons restrained him. attacking the woman whom he boards with, with a
knife. He also tried to cut his throat and finally drove all the
persons in the house to the street and wrecked the furniture. It took
four policeman to get him to the Kings County Hospital.
ACCUSED OF STEALING $25 SET OF HARNESS
William AUSTIN, 34 years old, of West SEcond street, Coney Island, was
held in $500 bail by Magistrate VOORHEES, in Coney Island court to-day
on a charge of grand larceny, preferred by William JOHNSON, of West
Third street. JOHNSON says that AUSTIN stole a set of harness from his
stable valued at $25.
BADLY BURNED BY KEROSENE EXPLOSION
Louis TILLEBAUM, 28 years old, a painter, of 131 Thatford avenue, was
painfully burned about the head and face last night in the cellar of
his home by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil. He was taken to
the Kings County Hospital.
SOUGHT PEACE WITH PISTOL AND RAZOR
Charged with felonious assault on his wife Anna, Frank DISCO, 41 years
old, of 343 East New York avenue, was held in $500 for examination
to-day by Magistrate O'REILLY in the Manhattan avenue court. According
to the woman her husband attacked her last night in the house at
Harrison place and Morgan avenue, where she had been living since she
separated from him several weeks ago.
Mrs. DISCO left her husband because of his treatment, she said, and
yesterday he came to the house and tried to effect a reconciliation.
When she refused he displayed a revolver and a razor. Mrs. DISCO ran
screaming from the house and her husband, who followed her, slashed her
in the left arm with the razor.
FERDINAND FEARED FATHER AND FLED.
Ferdinand OLSEN, 10 years old, took fifty cents from his mother's
pocketbook a few days ago and his sister told him she was going to tell
"pa." This frightened Ferdy and he left the house Friday afternoon.
His mother, who lives at 1668 Forty-second street, has been searching
for him ever since. To-day she appealed to the police and an alarm was
sent out.
DENTIST'S INSTRUMENTS AND GOLD STOLEN
Allen B. MCDONGAN, a dentist, of 456 Fifth avenue, reported to the
police to-day that some person entered his office yesterday and took
several instruments and gold fillings valued at $163.
PICTURE MACHINE EXPLODES AND BURNS THE OPERATOR
Visitors to Coney Island last night were treated to an occurrence of
unusual interest. The incident was a fire, caused by the explosion of
a moving picture machine in the pavilion of Abraham LENT, in Kensington
Walk and Bowery. The pavilion was crowded at the time watching the
pictures showing the life of a fireman, when suddenly there was a flash
and report, followed by an excited rush for exits.
Patrolmen LYNCH, TRAVIS and DOOLEY, who were standing on the Bowery at
the time, ran in, assuring the panicky crowd that there was no cause
for alarm. An alarm of fire had been sounded, bringing Battalion Chief
ROGERS and three companies to the scene. Upon their arrival it was
found that Edward DAVIS, of 233 Bay Thirty-fifth street, the operator
of the machine, had been badly burned about the face and hands. He was
attended by Dr. John W. PIERCE, of West Eighth street, and left for
home. The damage caused by fire was slight.
RUN DOWN AND BRUISED BY CROSSTOWN CAR
A car of the Crosstown line ran down and severely injured Nichola
FRANK, 25 years old, of 21 Prince street, Manhattan, yesterday
afternoon, at North Eleventh street and Driggs avenue. He was taken
home by friends after his injuries were dressed.
POLICE LOOKING FOR JERSEY DAIRYMAN'S SON
The police have been asked to find Thomas GOLDEN, 14 years old, who
father is a dairyman at Elizabeth, N.J. A very touching letter was
sent to Inspector CROSS by the father, who is greatly worried over his
son's disappearance. The boy left home several days ago.
MAN FALLS IN STREET AND BREAKS HIS KNEE.
While William HINKEY, of Sixty-fifth street and New Utrecht avenue, was
crossing the street near his home to-day he slipped and fell,
sustaining a fracture of the left knee. He was taken to the Norwegian
Hospital.
10 April 1906
WOMAN ROBBED WHILE AT PRAYER IN CHURCH
The arrest of a pocketbook thief this morning after a hot chase
interrupted a solemn mass in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, at Sixth
avenue and Carroll street. Shortly after the service had begun, and
all were kneeling in prayer, a shabbily dressed young man carefully
slipped his hand over the top of the seat in front of him and grasped a
pocketbook which a fair worshiper had left there while she knelt.
As he arose and started to tip toe out, a score of persons who were
sitting nearby and had seen the theft jumped up and started in pursuit.
The thief made a dash for the door, and after throwing the purse in
the gutter started down Carroll street, closely followed by the alert
churchmen. On reaching Fifth avenue, the man attempted to board a
passing car, but was caught just in time by Patrolman CARROLL and
Detective GLEASON.
The pocketbook, which contained $28, was picked up afterwards and
identified by Miss Kate MONJO, 25 years old, of 856 President street,
as the one she had with her in church. In the Myrtle avenue court this
morning Thomas MURPHY, of 93 Carroll street, pleaded guilty to the
charge of grand larceny, and was held by Magistrate NAUMER in $300 bail
for the Grand Jury. After making the complaint Miss MONJO told the
magistrate she wished to withdraw it, although she refused to state why.
TWO SCALDED WHEN BOILER CAP BLOWS OF[F]
Thirty Men Flee From Steam-Filled Room- One of the Injured May Die
The cap of a boiler in the Franklin Steam Boiler Works at 13 Franklin
street blew off early to-day when thirty men were in the boiler room.
The steam pressure in the boiler was at 90 pounds, and the cap blew off
with a loud report, filling the room with scalding steam. The men ran
for their lives, and none was seriously burned except Alfred ALLDAY, 49
years old, the engineer, of [3?]3 Meserole avenue, and George O'NEIL,
37 years old, of 117 Franklin street. O'NEIL is in the Eastern
District Hospital terribly burned and may not recover. He was taken home.
The people in authority at the boiler works refused all information and
would admit no one except the police and the ambulance surgeon into the
building. From the police it was learned that the cap blew off last
night and that men worked all night replacing it. This morning steam
was got up and while the men were at work the cap blew off again. The
report was heard for blocks around and people thought the boiler had
exploded.
ALLEGES WOMAN THREATENED TO SHOOT HIS CHILDREN
Mrs. ROBINSON, of Sixtieth street and Eighteenth avenue, was in the
Coney Island court to-day to answer a summons obtained by Hugh
THOMPSON, who lives at Sixty-first street and Eighteenth avenue.
THOMPSON said his neighbor had threatened to shoot his children, and he
feared she might carry the threat into execution.
Mrs. ROBINSON denied making any such threats, and said that THOMPSON's
children were constantly annoying her and that she would like them
warned to keep away from her place.
"The best thing for you two to do," advised the magistrate, "is to go
home and forget this."
OLD COUPLE PLANNED TO END LIFE WITH GAS.
John O'NEAL and his wife, an aged couple living at 1028 Jefferson
avenue, were found overcome by gas in their kitchen to-day. Gas was
escaping from an open burner, and it is believed they planned to die
together. The woman's condition is not serious, but her husband was
taken to Bushwick Hospital.
WOMAN FIVE TIMES WED ACCUSED BY HER AUNT
There was an exciting episode in the Adams street court to-day when
Mrs. Cynthia SEYMOUR, of 184 Bridge street, accusing her niece, Mrs.
Minnie O'CONNOR, of using abusive language. Mrs. SEYMOUR told the
magistrate that her niece had been married five times and only one
husband was living. Mrs. O'CONNOR was discharged.
POOR SHOT WITH KETTLE FIRES BLANK CARTRIDGE
Frank GIBSON, 19 years old, of 403 Hoyt street, who during a brawl
Saturday morning, threw a teakettle at Mary GLEASON, of the same
address, and struck 8-year-old George STONE in the head, lacerating his
scalp, and who also, it is charged, fired a shot at the boy's mother,
who interfered on behalf of her son, was this morning sent to the Court
of Special Sessions on the charge of assaulting the boy. The other
charge was dismissed on the ground that the revolver contained only
blank cartridges.
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF BY SEVENTH AVENUE CAR
Peter FLANAGAN, 35 years old, a machinist, of 35 Prospect street, was
attacked by a little mongrel dog last night in Fulton street, and in
attempting to escape ran in front of a Seventh avenue car, and both his
legs were cut off close to his body. He is not expected to live, and
is at the Brooklyn Hospital. James DUNN, motorman of the car, was
arrested.
STRUCK BY MOTOR TRAIN AND DRAGGED FIFTY FEET.
Isador HANZER, 15? years old, of 50 Chirstopher street, had an
exceedingly narrow escape from death yesterday at Snediker and Atlantic
avenues, where he was struck by a Long Island Railroad motor train, as
he attempted to cross the track under the fast lowering gates.
His first warning of the presence of danger was when he was thrown to
one side by the fender, a projecting rod of which he seized.
When the train stopped after dragging the lad fifty feet, he pleaded to
be taken home, but was first attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSS, of
the Bradford Street Hospital, whose examination resulted in the
discovery of scalp wounds, severe body bruises and probable skull
fracture.
PASSOVER WINE SPILLED INTO THE EAST RIVER
A push cart filled with Passover wine for residents of the Eastern
District Ghetto was spilled in the East River this morning on the
Williamsburg Bridge when a moving van collided with the push cart. The
wine was the property of Selig WIENER, of 244 Wallabout street. He was
coming over the south roadway and when near the centre of the span the
van driven by Henry ROSSITER, of 244 Havemeyer street, came along.
When near the push cart the horses became frightened and the driver
could not control them. They jumped to the side of the roadway and as
a result the push cart was overturned. The bottles containing the wine
were broken and the liquid flowed into the river. WIENER was knocked
down and bruised about the body.
A horse, attached to an express wagon driven by F. STANBURG, of 18
Mapleton street, Newark, N.J., took fright on the Brooklyn Bridge this
morning and ran away. STANBURG was thrown from his seat and slightly
injured. He refused medical attention, however.
The horse was caught by Policeman NOLL near the Brooklyn end of the
bridge. The wagon was only slightly damaged.
WIFE'S SURPRISE BREAKS UP THEIR HAPPY HOME.
James LYALL, of 714 East Thirty-fifth street, Vanderveer Park, was in
the Flatbush court to-day to answer a charge of abandonment preferred
by his wife, Ida, who is now living with her father, Fred RININSLAND,
at 922 Flatbush avenue. The LYALLs have been married not quite two
years.
They had been living until a few weeks ago, with Mr. LYALL's mother,
Mrs. Catherine WELSARD. She and her daughter-in-law never got along
together and Mrs. LYALL went back to her parents. She was willing to
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HAND AMPUTATED AFTER ACCIDENT IN FACTORY
While at work in the Rotary File and Machine Works at 589 Kent avenue
last night, Bernard MCGUIRE, 19 years old, of 521 Grand street, had his
right hand caught in a machine and so badly crushed that it was
amputated later in the Williamsburg Hospital.
MOTHER DRUNK AND HER CHILDREN NEGLECTED
Harriet FLYNN, of 19 Hicks street, was in the Adams street court to-day
held for Special Sessions on a charge of endangering the health and
morals of her two children who are now at the Children's Society
shelter. An agent of the society testified to finding the mother drunk
and the children neglected.
JANITOR HELD FOR BEATING SON'S CHUM.
Nicholas PICNIC, 44 years old, janitor of the flats at 81 President
street, was this morning sent to Special Sessions by Magistrate TIGHE
in the Butler street court. He was charged with assault by Frank
PICCIRILLA, 12 years old, a schoolboy, of 63 President street, whom
PICNIC is alleged to have kicked while the boy was in the hallway of
PICNIC's flat getting out a bicycle loaned him by PICNIC's son.
GRINNING CELESTIAL GLADLY DID A QUICK SPRINT
James SINGI, a short and thick-set Chinaman, carrying a policeman's
helmet in his hand, pleaded guilty with a broad smile on his face to a
charge of intoxication before Magistrate DOOLEY in Adams street court
to-day, and when told he could go home he made a profound bow with
outstretched hands, turned and ran out of the court like a deer, while
the spectators laughed outright.
SON ACCUSED OF BLACKMAIL; MOTHER'S HARD-LUCK STORY
Mrs. FAXON, mother of Homer HAWKINS, a timekeeper of the Mott Haven
yards, who is accused of blackmailing Louis R. FULLER, son of Dr. Frank
FULLER, the health food man of 61 Fifth avenue appeared before
Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street court, Manhattan, to-day when
HAWKINS was arraigned and told a hard-luck story.
It was the old story of a second wife turning the husband against his
family, adoption of a youngster who became the favored one in money
matters, jealousy and attempt to turn the tide by questionable methods.
Mrs. FAXON declared her son's misbehavior was justified by pity for her
extreme necessity, as he saw one who was reared in luxury compelled to
earn her living as a seamstress, and announced she would appeal to the
doctor in her son's behalf.
Incidentally the family history received an airing.
HAWKINS was held in $2,500 for examination Thursday and in $500 bail
for Special Sessions for carrying a gun. He went to the Tombs.
MADMAN DECLARED HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE.
After a short visit to the home of his parents, at 134 Vermont avenue,
last Saturday, where his peculiar actions aroused suspicion of his
mental soundness, Samuel SHAPIRO, of 2263 Seventh avenue, Manhattan,
suddenly disappeared, leaving his wife and one child anxiously
endeavoring to ascertain his whereabouts.
A wife from Providence yesterday announced his capture after a hard
struggle with police and railroad officials in the Union Depot of that
city, when he declared he was pursued by persons who were endeavoring
to murder him for his $10,000 life insurance.
Mr. SHAPIRO is engaged in the advertising business, and will probably
be sent to an asylum to-day. His wife is prostrated by the shock of
her bitter experience.
SOUTH BROOKLYN-RUN OVER BY TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING
John DELPHILIPO, 17 years old, of 548 Twentieth street, while driving a
truck along Second avenue at Thirty-seventh street, fell to the street
and the front wheel passed over his left leg. He sustained contusions
and lacerations of the leg. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
LIVINGSTONE and removed to his home.
BROWNSVILLE
Great excitement was caused in the neighborhood on Stone and Pitkin
avenues, yesterday afternoon, when a horse and wagon owned by LEVIN &
DAVIS, two well-known builders of the Brownsville district, with
offices in the State Bank Building, at Pitkin and Stone avenues, ran
away.
The horse, which was standing in front of the building and must have
been frightened by some passing vehicle, dashed up Stone avenue, and
after running two blocks, with a large crowd chasing him, was stopped
at Liberty and Stone avenues by a spectator, who disappeared through
the crowd after he turned the trick.
BADLY BURNED AFTER FALL IN CELLAR.
While entering the cellar of his home yesterday with a lighted candle,
Lewis TITEBAUM, 28 years old, of 131 Thatford avenue, fell at the
bottom of the steps and his clothes caught fire from the candle. He
was burned about the body. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street Hospital and not removed.
DRAGGED THREE BLOCKS STOPPING RUNAWAYS
Policeman Walter DODD, of the Herbert street station, was dragged three
blocks in Grand street yesterday afternoon, while trying to stop a team
of horses that ran away. The team belonged to B. WITTSTOCK, of 294
Central avenue, and had been left standing in front of 679 Grand
street. The street was crowded at the time and several persons had
narrow escapes. The policeman's uniform was ruined, but he finally
stopped the animals.
11 April 1906
HORRORS OF MASSACRE WHITENED HIS HAIR
Aboard the steamship 'Dora', which arrived at the Bush Stores in Bay
Ridge yesterday, was one of the survivors of the recent riots in
Odessa, a Russian Jew, whose hair had been blanched by the horrors of
that dreadful revival of barbarism. Relatives and friends he had been
butchered by the then savage Cossacks, and it was only by the merest
chance that he and his family escaped the sword.
Morris LEBKOVITZ was one of the more prosperous merchants in Odessa
before the massacre of Jews began. His store was sacked, his friends
ruthlessly murdered and their effects burned of scattered around the
streets.
LEBKOVITZ, when the first raid was made, gathered his family and a few
friends about him, and took refuge in a cellar measuring 10 by 12 feet.
Forty-four persons were crowded in that underground dungeon for nearly
two whole days, suffering the horrors of the prisoners in the famous
'Black Hole of Calcutta.' They could only stand up, so closely were
they packed into that hole, and for the time of their imprisonment they
had not a crust to eat or a drop of water to moisten their parched
tongues.
When the Cossacks had passed LEBKOVITZ and his friends came from their
place of refuge, and he and his family escaped to Germany, and thence
to this country. LEBKOVITZ's hair turned white as a consequence of his
experience and every member of his family still bears some mark of
those hours of misery.
AGED MAN BURNED BY OVERTURNING OF LAMP
Michael BARBARA, 73 years old, of 614 Manhattan avenue, received severe
burns about the hands and face last night by the upsetting of a parlor
lamp. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern
District Hospital.
MULKAY FRACTURED HIS LEG AND SHOULDER
While Patrick MULKAY, 21 years old, of 425 Central avenue, was driving
a truck owned by a Manhattan clothing house yesterday afternoon, the
horses became unmanageable at the at the corner of Sackman street and
Dumont avenue, and threw MULKAY from the wagon to the pavement.
He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he was attended by Surgeon
PARKER, who found a fracture of the right leg and shoulder.
WEBSTER CIRCLE DECIDES INDIANS SUFFERED MORE.
The Webster Circle held its regular meeting Sunday afternoon at the
Hebrew Educational Society's building, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street.
The meeting was addressed by Jacob ROSENBERG, who made a stirring
speech in which he tried to establish the Congressional form of
debating, and was opposed by the ex-president of the society, Samuel
KOPOLWITZ, who proved that it would not be beneficial. Jacob ROSENBERG
was elected captain of the newly-formed baseball team.
In a debate, "Resolved, That the Indians Have Suffered More than the
Negroes," the affirmative was argued by Joseph BERNSTEIN, and Jacob
ROSENBERG, while the negative was advocated by Hyman COHN, and Isaac
HERCHOWITZ. The affirmative side won after a long discussion.
POLICEMAN INJURED STOPPING RUNAWAY
An exciting runaway occurred on the Williamsburg Bridge shortly after
noon to-day, when a horse belonging to VANNATTA and TARONE, fruit
dealers, took fright near the Brooklyn tower, and dashed along the
roadway in the direction of Manhattan. William VANNATTA was driving
the animal.
When the animal started on its dash over the bridge, the driver leaped
out, uninjured. As the horse neared the runaway gate, a 'white wing'
cast an ash can in front of the animal, hitting him sufficiently for
Policeman O'NEILL to grasp the bridle. The officer was dragged fifty
feet before the horse came to a stop. O'NEILL was quite badly cut.
DYING IN HOSPITAL AFTER FALL FROM CAR
John DALY, 52 years old, of 141 Nassau street, at noon to-day slipped
from a crosstown car at the corner of Kent avenue and Cross street as
he was attempting to alight. He fell on his head and received a bad
fracture. He is now in the Williamsburg Hospital in a dying condition.
HORSE BADLY INJURES POLICE CAPT. WENDELL
Police Cap. Charles WENDELL, while on mounted duty, was seriously
injured to-day by his horse falling and then rolling on him. The
accident happened at the corner of Aqueduct avenue and 175th street,
the Bronx. Capt. WENDELL received fractures of several ribs, and after
being attended by a physician, was removed to his home.
WOMAN DRIVES OFF THIEVES WITH GUN
Mrs. Annie GAVIN, of 771 St. Johns place, found two strange men trying
to pry open her parlor door to-day. She got a revolver and fired a
shot at them. They ran away, and she went to the window and screamed.
Policemen BENNETT and CLARKE, of the Grand avenue station, caught one
of the fugitives, who said he was Gerald WALSH, 18 years old, of 65
Duffield street. His companion got away.
ANOTHER ARREST FOR LIQUOR STORE ROBBERY
Patrick CARROLL, 23 years old, of 69 West Ninth street, was in the
Butler street court to-day on a charge of grand larceny made by Israel
J. ROSENSTEIN, of 240 Hamilton avenue, and who keeps a liquor saloon at
No. 263 on the same street. The crime was committed on Jan. 12 by
CARROLL, Charles NELSON, and Herman BOHNKEN. NELSON was indicted by
the Grand Jury on Jan. 17 and BOHNKEN held for the jury on the 20th.
No trace of CARROLL could be found until yesterday, when Officer
BATTAM, of the Hamilton avenue station, saw his man on Hamilton avenue
and promptly placed him under arrest.
It is alleged CARROLL held up ROSENSTEIN with his own gun, when he and
his confederates de[.....] with twenty-five bottles of whiskey, the
[.......] and $450 in cash. CARROLL was held in $5,000 bail.
HANDWRITING CAUSES ARREST OF PETREZO
On a charge of sending blackmailing letters to Emil AMASTRICO, a
barber, of 5919 Fourth avenue, Vincenzo PETREZO, also a barber, of
Manhattan, was held in the Adam street court to-day. The complaint
says he recognizes the handwriting in several letters threatening him
unless he pays $350 to the "Black Hand" as that of the prisoner. The
latter pleaded not guilty.
CAUGHT YOUTH TAPPING GAS METER IN CELLAR
Tony GRECCO, 17 years old, of Barbey street and Hegeman avenue, was
held for trial in the Coney Island court to-day, on a complaint of Mrs.
Theresa ROONEY, of New street, Coney Island. Mrs. ROONEY said she
found GRECCO in her cellar stealing money from the prepaid gas meter.
DYING IN HOSPITAL; TWO SUSPECTS HELD
Amolo GRINELDI, 45 years old, of West Sixteenth street and Neptune
avenue, Coney Island, and Philip CARRETO, 26 years old, of 261 Fourth
avenue, were held without bail to-day in the Coney Island court to
await the result of injuries to Dife STANASTASIO, 25 years old, of 125
Neptune avenue, who is in the Kings County Hospital. STANASTASIO was
shot last night in a fight at Neptune avenue and West Sixteenth street.
Patrolman William J. GALVIN, who was on West Fifteenth street, heard
the shots, and, running down to Neptune avenue, he saw a dozen men
shooting and slashing at one another. He sent a hurry call and Capt.
HAWKINS, Sergeant SHEEHAN and Detective-Sergeant Joseph DECANTILLIN
came with the reserves.
When they arrived the fight was over. They found a bloody revolver and
a razor, and STANASTASIO unconscious in the street.
The police arrested GRINELDI at his home on West Sixteenth street.
They found CARRETO washing himself, and the front of his coat was
slashed in ribbons. The thumb on his right hand was slashed with a
razor. Both men have bad records.
STANASTASIO was shot three times, and a little finger of his right hand
almost severed. It is believed he will die.
CHARITY A FARCE, SAYS MAN WHO LEAPED FROM THE BRIDGE
NATHAN ISAACSON, Socialist and Atheist, Health Ruined by Hard Work and
Refused Aid, Sough Death in River--Came Near Landing on
Ferryboat--Fished Out and Hurried to Hospital, Where It Is Said He
Cannot Recover--Physician Ordered Him to Take Rest, But to Support Aged
Mother in Russia, He Had to Keep On.
Passengers who were standing on the forward deck of the ferry boat New
York, of the Twenty-third street line, when it was nearly under the
Williamsburg Bridge on its way to the foot of Broadway, this morning,
shortly after 7 o'clock, saw a man leap from the centre span of the
north roadway of the bridge and turn several somersaults before he
struck the water less than ten feet from the boat.
The man landed on his side and the water was splashed onto the deck of
the ferry boat. Joseph BRECKEL, an engineer, of 364 Gates avenue, and
two deck hands, Hugh DRISCOLL and Edward RADIGAN, who were standing
near the forward end of the boat, yelled to Capt. Moses LONGSTREET, who
was in the pilot house, and the bell clanged in the engine room for the
engineer to go full speed astern.
DRISCOLL and RADIGAN ran to the men's cabin and secured boathooks.
When they reached the forward end of the boat again the bridge jumper
had just come to the surface only a few feet away. The deck hands
quickly reached over and grabbed hold of the man's clothing with their
hooks. He was hauled aboard and carried into the men's cabin. He was
unconscious and the engineer was signaled to proceed with all speed to
the Broadway slip.
UNCONSCIOUS AND BLEEDING
When the boat steamed into its berth the man, who was bleeding from his
nose and ears, was carried into the waiting room and attendants went
out to find a policeman. There was no officer in sight, so Police
Headquarters was notified and asked to send an ambulance to the ferry
house. Dr. BAXTER arrived in a few minutes and saw at once that the
man's condition was serious. He hurried him to Williamsburg Hospital.
There an examination of his pockets showed that he had letters
addressed to Nathan ISAACSON, of 66 Rivington street. When the police
made inquiries later at that address it was learned that he has been
known there as Nathan ISAACSON and that he is 28 years old.
It was some time after the man leaped before the bridge police learned
of it. How the man reached the centre of the span on the north roadway
without being seen is a mystery. It is believed, however, that he had
been in the Eastern District and started back to Manhattan on a truck.
Every morning hundreds of Hebrews who live in Brooklyn, go to their
work across the river by riding over on the trucks that cross the
bridge. It is believed that he dropped off the rear of a truck without
the driver knowing it and then climbed up the seven-foot guard rail on
the north side of the structure and plunged downward.
Among the contents of the man's pockets were papers that showed him to
be a socialist and atheist. The man is evidently well educated for
there were several papers written in a good hand, and from the contents
it is certain that he has been a great reader of socialistic and
economic questions. On one card was written:
"The man who is destitute of property can offer nothing but the
productive energy of himself and family." Another read: "The man who
is a man possesses industry, self-denial, endurance, honesty, patience,
temperance, frugality and productive economy."
MAKES BRIEF STATEMENT
Shortly before noon to-day ISAACSON regained his senses in the hospital
for a few minutes and was able to make a brief statement. He said he
came to this country from Russia five years ago and secured work as a
tailor. He worked fifteen to twenty hours a day, and his health became
bad. Recently he went to see a doctor and was ordered to stop work.
As he was supporting his aged mother in Russia he was compelled to keep
working, and last week became so weak that he had to take a rest.
ISAACSON went to see several men who had the reputation of being
charitable, and asked them to aid him. They refused, and the tailor
decided to take his life. Just before he lapsed into unconsciousness
he declared with great bitterness, "Charity is a farce."
The doctors say that ISAACSON cannot live out the day.
ISAACSON lived with a family named KAMBER. He has a well-furnished
room, and that his is a student of socialism was manifested by the
presence in his room of several works on that subject. There was one
by Henry FRANK, "The Shrine of Silence," and another, "The Freeland,"
by Theodore HERKESKA, and several copies of Maxim GORKY's works.
When a servant went to ISAACSON's room this morning, the gas was still
burning, and from all appearances the occupant of a few hours before
had been writing letters, and had left suddenly. ISAACSON was known to
have been greatly distressed for the last few days over a letter
received from a sister in Russia, which stated that his mother was very
ill. This, together with the fact that his brother died a short time
ago, seemed to weigh heavily upon ISAACSON's mind. He talked with the
members of the KAMBER family last night concerning the great work
Maxim GORKY had don in Russia, and expressed himself as being anxious
to see him at the first opportunity.
YOUNG AND PRETTY WIFE GONE; HUSBAND ANXIOUS
Henry HOGAN, of 451 Gates avenue, is looking for his wife Lena, who is
21 years old and pretty. She was last seen at the corner of
Knickerbocker and Jefferson avenues on Saturday night. Lena was a Miss
WEBER before her marriage and Henry thinks she might be going under
that name. The police have been asked to find her.
Louis LANGWILLO [could be LAUGWILIO], 7 years old, has been reported as
missing from his home, 270 Elton street, since yesterday morning.
12 April 1906
MISS IDA BERG WED, HER SISTER BRIDESMAID
Miss Ida BERG, the well-known store detective, was married last night
at her home, on Fourth avenue, to John Wesley GREENE by the Rev. T.J.
LACEY, rector of the Church of the Redeemer. None but relatives of the
family and Miss May FLORENCE, another store detective, were invited to
the ceremony. Miss Grace BERG, sister of the bride, and also a store
detective, was the bridesmaid. The couple will spend their honeymoon
at Atlantic City.
DOG POISONERS AGAIN BUSY IN BATH BEACH.
Dr. Joseph LADENPA, of Eighty-third street and Stillwell place,
reported to the police to-day that last Friday some one poisoned his
two valuable dogs, a St. Bernard and a setter.
Dr. LADENPA is unable to give any reason why any one would wish to
destroy the animals, as they were not vicious and seldom left his
premises.
Every spring there is a number of dogs poisoned in Bath Beach, but the
guilty parties have always managed to avert detection. Last year sixty
valuable dogs were poisoned in that section.
FELL OVERBOARD WHEN FERRYBOAT HIT SLIP
When the ferryboat Virginia, of the Grand street line bumped into its
slip at the foot of Grand street this morning, Edwin ADDLEY, 67 years
old, of 18 Prince street, Manhattan, who was sitting on the railing at
the stern of the boat, fell into the water. ADDLEY was about to go
under when a member of the crew of the tug Henry A. Peck, on its way up
the river, reached out with a boat hook and hauled him aboard. He was
taken to the Eastern District Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE- BUSINESS CARES INDUCE SUDDEN BREAKDOWN
Samuel SHAPIRO, 26 years old, of 134 Belmont avenue, was removed to the
Kings County Hospital yesterday afternoon by several officers of the
Brownsville police station, suffering from brain fever.
SHAPIRO has not been living in the Brownsville district for some time,
and it is said that he contracted the fever through constant worry over
different real estate deals in which he has been engaged recently.
TAKEN SERIOUSLY ILL WHILE IN FACTORY
While working in the wagon shop of SHAPPARD & Company, at 49 Stone
avenue, yesterday afternoon, John LAKEWOOD, 35 years old, became
seriously ill from blood poisoning and was removed to the Kings County
Hospital.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- TWO ROBBERIES REPORTED AT FIFTH AVENUE STATION.
Mrs. Morris HOSCH, of 668 Fifth avenue, reported to the police of the
Fifth avenue station yesterday that some one had forced open a showcase
in front of the store at that address and stolen neckties and shirts
valued at $3. Patrolman John J. REARDON also reported that the
unoccupied house at 199 Eleventh street, owned by John MCINERNEY, of
212 Third street, had been forced open by means of the basement door
and $35 worth of copper and $15 of lead pipe stolen.
BOY SKYLARKING FALLS AND BREAKS HIS LEG.
Charles HARLACKER, 14 years old, of 419 Broadway, while skylarking on
the stoop of 14 Woodbine street, yesterday afternoon, fell and broke
his leg. He was removed to the Bushwick Hospital.
SMUGGLER USED ORANGES TO HIDE HIS JEWELRY
Pietro CORATO, of New Haven, Conn., who arrived yesterday on the
steamer Germania was held in $1,000 bail for trial by U.S. Commissioner
BENEDICT on a charge of smuggling $900 worth of jewelry. The jewelry
was found in three oranges, which CONATO watched so closely, that is
aroused the suspicions of the customs inspectors.
HID LOOT UNDER CLARKE'S WINDOW
Youthful Burglar Cached Cigars and Umbrellas at Court House.
BROKE INTO NEWSSTAND, TOO.
Came Back for Plunder and Was Captured.
Probably the height of audacity in the "trade of robbery" was reached
early this morning when 12-year-old "Patsy" DONOVAN broke open the
enclosed news stand in front of District Attorney CLARKE's office
window and abstracted therefrom fifty boxes of cigars and hid them
under the District Attorney's window in the courtyard between the
County Court House and the Municipal Building. The boy evidently had
no home, and so had no place to conceal the stolen goods. In his
quandary as to where he should hide his ill-gotten gains, he bethought
himself of the District Attorney's office. There, piled up against the
County Court House, was a heap of stone flagging which had been stored
pending the digging of the subway, so "Patsy" tucked the cigar boxes
under the District Attorney's window.
So pleased was "Patsy" with his brilliant idea that he determined to
enlarge upon it, and he forthwith broke into a store in Court street
and stole a number of umbrellas and quickly hied himself to his "safety
deposit vault" under the District Attorney's windows, and then went on
his way rejoicing in the consciousness that he had the law keeping
guard over "his" property.
"Patsy's" plan was to return to this window some time when the police
were not looking and take the plunder to a pawn shop or some other
place where he could dispose of it at a profit. District Attorney
CLARKE, however, has a reputation of "smelling crime a mile off" and
when he entered his office this morning and saw a crowd outside the
window he opened the window and saw the ill-gotten goods. "Patsy" had
returned at an unfortunate time for his plunder, notwithstanding the
fact that is was Good Friday, and in attempting to remove the cigars he
was caught in the act and taken to police headquarters. He will be
presecuted [sic] in due course of time.
HADN'T HEART TO PUNISH MOTHER OF SIX CHILDREN
Peter CURRY, 35 years old, and his wife Annie, 30 years old, of
Ninety-third street, Fort Hamilton, were in the Coney Island police
court to-day, charged by Patrolman SEERY with intoxication, attempted
assault and cruelty to animals. Mrs. CURRY was also charged with
disorderly conduct.
SEERY testified that CURRY abused a horse he was driving in
Ninety-third street yesterday afternoon. When he interfered CURRY
attempted to assault him. While SEERY was taking CURRY to the station
Mrs. CURRY ran up and began to abuse SEERY and she was also arrested.
Magistrate VOORHEES held CURRY in $100 bail for Special Sessions. The
couple have six children, the youngest 7 months ole, so sentence was
suspended in the case of Mrs. CURRY.
Agent SOWER, of the Children's Society, testified that the father and
mother were endangering the morals of their children.
RIOTOUS STRIKERS FIGHT WITH THE POLICE RESERVES
Wagon Load of Patrolmen Arrives as Attack on Strike Breakers Is Getting
Hot---Hebrews and Italians Clash and Shots Are Fired---One Sympathizer
With Gun Tries to Hold Up Patrol Wagon, Which Was Taking Strikers
Away---Three Arrests Made.
The reserves of the Liberty avenue station were called out this morning
to quell a riot in which several shots were fired in the neighborhood
of Sheffield and Belmont avenues, where the strikers from EISNER &
Co.'s clothing factory have been holding forth for several weeks.
It was shortly after 8 o'clock when Bicycle Policeman MCMURRAY, who has
been stationed outside the factory since the strike began several weeks
ago, heard a shot a block away. He notified the Liberty avenue station
and the reserves, headed by Roundsman KAISER, were sent to the scene in
the patrol wagon.
When the police arrived fully 800 persons had gathered. The crowd was
composed of the strikers and several of the strike-breakers who were
trying to fight their way into the building. The strike-breakers are
mostly Italians. They have been hired by EISNER & Co. to succeed the
800 strikers, most of whom are Hebrews.
BRUTALLY BEATEN WITH CLUB.
Samuel MENDELSOHN, of 41 Watkins street, one of the strike-breakers,
appealed to Policeman MACMURRAY to escort him to the factory. As he
reached the corner of Belmont avenue with MACMURRAY he was set upon and
brutally beaten with a club similar to a policeman's nightstick. One
of the men who struck MENDELSOHN, who later gave his name as Joseph
LEVY, 27 years old, of 340 Wyona street, pulled a revolver and fired
several shots. Fortunately the bullets went wild. Roundsman KAISER
turned and grabbed LEVY and his companion, Nathan SCHNABEL, 35 years
old, of 422 Sheffield avenue. Both resisted arrest, and had to be
clubbed before they were finally bundled into the patrol wagon and
taken to the station house.
PULLED GUN ON POLICE
Herman LEWENBERG, of 422 Sheffield avenue, tried to stop the patrol
wagon as it was driving off with LEVY and SCHNABEL and it is claimed
fired several shots. He was arrested by Policeman MCMURRAY and taken
to the Liberty avenue station.
Shortly after the three prisoners reached the Gates avenue station,
Ellis COHEN, 24 years old, one of the strikers, appeared in court and
wanted to make a complaint against a strike breaker who, he said, had
struck him. While Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM was hearing his complaint,
Julius SCHWARTZ, a strike breaker, stepped up and accused COHEN of
being the man who had fired a shot at him. SCHWARTZ told the
magistrate that he saw the bullet whiz past his face. This remark
caused the court room to snicker.
ALL THE PRISONERS HELD.
All of the prisoners denied their guilt. LEWENBERG was held in $100
bail for examination on April 17, and LEVY and SCHNABEL were held in
$500 bail for examination on the same day. COHEN was paroled in the
custody of his counsel.
The strike has caused the residents of East New York in the
neighborhood of the factory no end of trouble. Hundreds of windows
have been broken by stones, and several residents have complained to
the police that they have been set upon and beaten by the strikers, who
have mistaken them for strike-breakers. A regular detail of policemen
is kept in the neighborhood of the factory by Capt. CULLEN, of the
Liberty avenue station.
13 April 1906
MARRIAGE FOLLOWS CHANCE MEETING OF PLAYMATES
A romance which began in Bukranis, Austria, several years ago,
resulted, to-day, in the marriage, in the Third District Municipal
Court, by Justice ROSENTHAL, of Jacob CANDERER, 23 years old, and Miss
Tillie FRIED, 22 years old. The husband, who is a jeweler, at 294
Grand street, came to this country five years ago. A year later Miss
FRIED, who had been playmates in the old country, came to the United
States with her parents, who live at 36 Belmont avenue.
One day this week Miss FRIED happened to go into CANDERER's store to
look at some jewelry. They had not heard from each other since he left
Europe. It didn't take them long, however, to renew the acquaintance
that had been broken off, and when the jeweler proposed marriage he
was quickly accepted. As Justice ROSENTHAL is a friend of the bride,
it was decided to have him perform the ceremony.
LOCKED UP AS DRUNK, MAN HAD FRACTURED SKULL
An unknown man, who was found early this morning at Fulton and Sands
streets, apparently under the influence of liquor, was removed to the
Brooklyn Hospital this afternoon suffering from a fracture of the
skull. The man was unconscious in a cell from the time he was
arrested this morning until he was taken to the hospital.
EXCHANGES DIAMONDS FOR PASTE STONES
Obliging Swindler "Loans" Woman $20 to Complete Bargain, Then Skips.
Mrs. Mollie BRESSIN, of 130 Boerman street, is mourning the loss of her
$100 set of diamond earrings, which she gave to a stranger in exchange
for another pair she thought were more valuable. An examination by a
jeweler showed that they are nothing but paste.
Mrs. BRESSIN was passing through the hallway of the apartment house in
which she lives yesterday afternoon, when she was approached by a man
who said he was in need of money and that he would like to sell a pair
of diamond earrings, valued at $200. Mrs. BRESSIN looked at the
stones, but said she did not have the $50 which the man wanted for
them. Finally the stranger said he would let her have the diamonds in
exchange for those Mrs. BRESSIN was wearing and $20 in money.
While the two were talking another man came into the hall and, on
overhearing the conversation, told Mrs. BRESSIN that she ought to
accept the offer. The second man said he was the proprietor of a store
in the neighborhood, and that he would loan her the money. He took $20
from his pocketbook and gave it to the first man, while Mrs. BRESSIN
handed over her diamonds.
Some time later Mrs. BRESSIN became suspicious and took the earrings to
a jeweler. He said they were worth about 20 cents. Mrs. BRESSIN then
went out to find the merchant who had advanced the $20, but found that
he was probably a confederate. She hurried to the Stagg street station
and detectives are looking for the two men.
FLOURISHED A RAZOR AND THREATENED LIFE
Michael COLLANDER, 25 years old, of 28 Roebling street, was before
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court charged with disorderly
conduct by Policeman CANTWELL, of the Bedford avenue station, who
arrested the Italian after he had flourished a razor and threatened the
life of Arthur CARLSON, an employe of the Street Cleaning Department.
CARLSON accidentally hit COLLANDER with the handle of a broom with
which he was cleaning the pavement at Roebling street and Metropolitan
avenue yesterday afternoon. COLLANDER flew into a rage and pulling out
the razor chased CARLSON for several blocks before the policeman
appeared and disarmed the Italian. In the court hearing was adjourned.
THINK MISSING BOY LOST IN PARK LAKE.
Believing that her fifteen-year-old son, James, had been drowned in one
of the lakes of the reservoir in Central Park, Mrs. Catherine MCMANUS,
of 115 West 106th street, called at the information bureau at Police
Headquarters, Manhattan, this morning to ask that a search be
instituted for the youngster. He was last seen yesterday afternoon
playing with his brother near the reservoir.
GENERAL ALARM OUT FOR EDWARD SCHMIDT
The police of the Hamburg avenue station have sent out a general alarm
for Edward SCHMIDT, a silk weaver, 49 years old, who disappeared from
his home, 310 Harmon street, on March 31. His wife, Sophie, who
reported his absence, said he left to secure work at his trade. She
said she thought her husband had gone to New Jersey.
EX-DETECTIVE CAPTURES AN OLD OFFENDER.
John D. MAHER, of 326 Fifty-third street, formerly a detective attached
to District Attorney JEROME's office, while riding on a Church avenue
car last night, between Third and Fourth avenues, caught a fellow who
had tried to pick his pocket and took him to the Fourth avenue station,
where he said he was Thomas MARTIN, 24 years old, but refused his
address.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- INTERNALLY INJURED IN FALL AT BUSH DOCK.
John O'CONNELL, a laborer, of 153 Forty-second street, while working at
Bush docks, fell from a shed to the ground, a distance of twelve fee,
and sustained internal injuries.
He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGART and removed to the
Norwegian Hospital.
FRACTURED HIS SKULL BY FALL INTO HOLD.
Henry MCGOWAN, 30 years old, a sailor on the vessel "Myrtle Dean,"
lying at the Morse docks, fell from the main deck to the hold yesterday
afternoon and sustained a fracture of the skull. He was removed to the
Norwegian Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon LATTA.
MAN WITH JIM JAMS TRIED TO BITE TOM CULLEN
Thomas CULLEN, of Ocean Parkway, Coney Island, while on his way home
last night, at the corner of West First street and Park place, had his
attention attracted by a man beating his head against a brick building,
shouting that he had been bitten by a mad dog and that he was going to
die in the morning. CULLEN approached the man, who said he was Otto
WHITE, 40 years old, no home, and then beat a hasty retreat. WHITE
made a dash for CULLEN and made several attempts to bite him in the
arm. Both struggled in the street for some fifteen minutes, until the
arrival of Patrolman Courtland BURCKHARDT.
WHITE was removed to the Coney Island police station and later to the
Kings County Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon COMMISKEY, suffering from
mania caused, it is said, by excessive drinking.
BROWNSVILLE - STRUCK BY HEAVY TRUCK AND HIS SCALP CUT
Max JACOBS, 6 years old, of 634 Chester street, was struck by a heavy
truck in front of 303 Watkins street yesterday afternoon and received a
severe scalp wound.
The child was attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSS, of the Bradford
Street Hospital, and removed to his home. Both driver and owner of the
team are unknown.
LITTLE TOT KNOCKED DOWN AND INJURED.
While Yetta BAKER, 4 years old, was playing in front of her home, 1020
Pitkin avenue, yesterday afternoon, she was struck by a horse and wagon
owned by Frank MOORE, of 557 Kosciusko street, and driven by his
brother, Stephen MOORE, who lives with him.
The child was knocked down by the vehicle, taken home by her mother and
attended by Dr. PHILLIPS, of 287 Sackman street.
JEALOUS WOMEN IN FRACAS OVER A MAN
Mrs. Eliza TAYLOR and Mrs. Mary EGRESS, both living in West Second
street, Coney Island, were in the Coney Island court to-day. The
TAYLOR woman charged Mrs. EGRESS with assault. According to the
testimony, it was a hair-pulling match over a man. Both were penitent
this morning. Mrs. EGRESS was held in $100 bonds to the keep the peace.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF-
Louis CAFAUD, 27 years old, an iron worker, of 953 Third avenue,
Manhattan, while at work yesterday afternoon on a new building at
Fulton street and Union avenue, Jamaica, was struck on the left leg by
an iron beam that was being hoisted in its place, receiving injuries
that necessitated his removal to the Jamaica Hospital.
14 April 1906
WOMEN HELD UP AND ROBBED MAN
FEIERABEND's Cries Brought Police, and the Two Were Captured
PURSE FOUND; CASH GONE.
Burglars Steal $400 Worth of Handkerchiefs and Cloaks.
Charged with robbing Frank FEIERABEND, of 178 Stockholm street, of $18,
Lillian ERRINGTON, 23 years old of 104 Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was
held without bail, and Alice CRAWFORD, 22 years old, of 60 Sixth
Avenue, Manhattan, was held in $1,000 bail for examination in the Lee
avenue court to-day by Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM.
For several weeks Capt. HOLAHAN, of the Clymer street station, has
received complaints about two women who have been holding up men and
robbing them in the neighborhood of the Broadway ferries. One night
recently a man, who was slightly under the influence of liquor, was
relieved of $150. There have also been complaints of robberies under
the Williamsburg Bridge.
It was shortly after midnight when Policeman LARRIGAN, who was standing
at Wythe avenue and South Eighth street and saw two women hurrying in
the direction of South Ninth street. He overtook them and led them
back to South Eighth street, where FEIERABEND, who had made an outcry,
told the policeman that the ERRINGTON woman was the one who had taken
his pocketbook containing $18. The pocketbook was found on the
sidewalk, but the money had been taken out of it.
The two women could not tell Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM what they were
doing in Brooklyn. They will have a hearing on Monday.
HANDKERCHIEFS AND CLOAKS STOLEN.
Burglars broke into the factory building at 76 Broadway some time last
night and carried off $400 worth of Irish linen handkerchiefs and
cloaks. On the third floor of the building is the cloak factory of
COHN & SCHWARZBERG, while the handkerchief factory of John TWINER is on
the floor above.
It is believed that the burglars got in by means of false keys, for the
policeman on the beat tried the door at frequent intervals and found it
locked. The police of the Clymer street station believe that the
thieves were well acquainted with the firms in the building, since the
shirt factory runs two shifts of workers, and is open the twenty-four
hours of the day except during the Jewish Sabbath.
NEIGHBOR KICKED GIRL'S LITTLE BOW-WOW.
Miss Helen RALPH, 17 years old, who lived at 388 Graham street, had her
neighbor, Bert APPLEBEE, of 390 Graham street, arrested on a charge of
cruelty to a dog. Miss RALPH says that APPLEBEE kicked her pet in the
stomach, causing severe physical pain to doggy.
Mr. APPLEBEE, in the Adams street court, to-day admitted kicking the
dog, but denied that he caused it physical pain. The dog was snapping
at his heels and he kicked at it, he said, causing it to "yelp in
rage." APPLEBEE was paroled until April 26.
INVOLVE PROMINENT PEOPLE IN CASE OF GIRL THIEF.
Mary HADDON, 18 years old, who was indicted by the Grand Jury for grand
larceny on a charge made by Gussie HEYMAN, of 260 Arlington avenue, was
arraigned before County Judge CRANE this morning and pleaded not
guilty. Some mystery surrounds the case of the girl and District
Attorney CLARKE has taken up the case for special investigation. It is
claimed that a scandal involving some well known persons will be
unearthed. The girl is in the custody of Miss Ida TIETJEN, probation
officer in the Gates avenue police court.
THREE MEN BURIED UNDER FALLING WALL
Seventeen Others Got Out of Danger Zone Just in Time
Three Italians were injured this morning by the falling of a twelve
foot wall of a building they were razing at the corner of Fourth street
and West avenue, Long Island City. The property was recently occupied
by CALMAN's varnish works, but the Belmont tunnel people purchased it
and a gang of Italian laborers have been working on it for the past
week. This morning about twenty men were at work when the wall was
seen to totter and the foreman shouted a warning. All except three
managed to get out of the way. These were buried in the ruins and it
was at first believed they had been killed, but they were dug out and
only one of them was seriously injured, although the other two were
badly cut and bruised. Michael MORANI, 26 years old, of 236 Avenue B,
Manhattan, has a fracture of the right leg and lacerations of the face
and body. His condition is serious.
A large crowd gathered at the scene when news of the accident spread
about the neighborhood, but the police reserves soon drove them off and
the work of demolishing the building continued.
RIVER THIEF FIGHTS AND DUCKS POLICEMEN.
Caught plundering a tool house at the Third avenue bridge over the
Harlem River, early this morning, Michael THOMAS, one of four thieves,
dived into the river and before he was captured gave three policemen
from the Alexander avenue station, the Bronx, an unintended bath. His
companions were caught after a long chase and THOMAS was pulled out of
the river after battling off the police for nearly an hour.
LOOK TO YOUNG MAN TO SOLVE GIRL MYSTERY.
Disappearance of Pretty Niece of Wealthy Whitestone Man Puzzles Police.
The Flushing police, in their effort to find Miss Helen RICHARDSON, 16
years old, who disappeared Monday from her home, 19 West Thirteenth
street, Whitestone, are trying to locate a young man, whose home is in
College Point, and in whose company the girl had been seen very much of
late.
Miss RICHARDSON is an orphan, and lived with her uncle, D.A. SKINNELL,
a wealthy silversmith, whose place of business is at 123 West Thirtieth
street, Manhattan. Her uncle said to-day that he couldn't explain her
disappearance, as her home life was always happy, and she had no love
affairs, as far as he knew, and few male friends. The College Point
man seemed to have been her favorite suitor.
Miss RICHARDSON was away from home Sunday night. Monday evening, as her
relatives were contemplating notifying the police, she returned. She
had been crying, and appeared very much distressed, but refused to tell
where she had spent the night. She remained in the house only a short
while, and went out again about 9 o'clock, since when [sic] nothing has
been heard from her.
On Wednesday evening an employe of Mr. SKINNELL's found a bag in the
cellar of the house, which contained some of the girl's clothing, which
she had discarded before she went away.
Miss RICHARDSON, although only 16, looks to be 19 or 20. She is
good-looking. She wore a gray suit, gray cap, black stocking and laced
shoes when she left her home on Monday night. She is described at
about 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, light hair and blue
eyes. She had about $8 when she went away.
BROWNSVILLE.- MRS. TONKONOGY HELPS POOR OF BROWNSVILLE
Mrs. TONKONOGY, of 1765 Pitkin avenue, has done a great many charitable
acts during the past week by sending food, clothes, and in some cases
furniture, to the poor the her section. She never turns away from her
home any poor soul who may need help, and she has brought sunshine in
many homes this Passover.
WILL PETITION TO HAVE CAPT. ROONEY RETURNED.
The transfers of Capt. Owen ROONEY from the Brownsville station to the
Liberty avenue station yesterday afternoon, and Capt. CULLEN, from
Liberty avenue station to the Brownsville station, are causing much
discussion. Capt. ROONEY was connected with the Brownsville police to
two years, and it is said that several well-known lawyers and other
business men of Brownsville, will apply to Deputy Commissioner O'KEEFE
to request the return of this popular officer.
GREENPOINT.- GIRL OF 7 GETS WINED; CARRIED OFF TO HOSPITAL.
Bella MCCLAIN, 7 years old, of 227 India street, entered the apartments
of Alexander REED, of 228 India street, a neighbor, last night while
the latter was away attending the funeral of his wife, and drank a
small bottle of port wine, causing her to become stupefied. She was
removed to the Williamsburg Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon RECKTER, who
said she was suffering from alcoholism. Her condition this afternoon
was critical.
Bella gave some of the wine to Rose MURPHY, 6 years old, of 226 India
street, but she was revived without being taken to the hospital.
YOUNG MAN ARRESTED AS A JEWELRY THIEF.
Frank STEIN, 21 years old, of 15 Second avenue, Manhattan, was arrested
yesterday by Plain Clothes Men O'MATTHEWS and LUN, charged with
entering the apartments of Rind PAUL, of 1903 Manhattan avenue, on
Wednesday and taking jewelry valued at $135.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- BASEBALL HITS BOY AT PLAY IN LOT.
George MATISON, 6 years old, of 369 Fifth avenue, while playing ball in
a vacant lot at Sixth street and Fifth avenue yesterday afternoon was
struck in the head by a baseball. He sustained contusions of the head
and was attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM and left for home.
PAINTER BADLY HURT BY FALL OF SCAFFOLD.
While Andrew HALL, 24 years old, of 5914 Fourth avenue, was painting
the front of 756 Fiftieth street yesterday afternoon, the scaffold rope
broke, throwing him to the street, a distance of sixteen feet. He
sustained contusions of the body and internal injuries. He was removed
to the Norwegian Hospital.
TIFFANY EMPLOYE ROBBED OF $25,000 IN GEMS
Amelio SERGES, of 118 Thompson street, Manhattan, rushed into the
Tenderloin station early this morning and said that he had been held up
by two negresses at Sixth avenue and Twenty-seventh street and relieved
of $25,000 worth of jewelry he had in his pockets. He didn't explain
what he was doing with the jewelry at that hour, but the police
accepted the complaint as genuine, and detectives were sent out to hunt
up the stolen property.
GIRL BADLY BURNED WHILE PLAYING AROUND BONFIRE.
Four-year-old Berthenia SERINE, of 1002 Sutter avenue, was seriously
burned about the body yesterday while playing about a bonfire at Sutter
avenue and Fulton street. She was taken to Kings County Hospital.
TRUAX AND RODEY QUIT THE MANHATTAN CLUB.
Judge Charles H. TRUAX has resigned as president of the Manhattan Club
and William RODEY has resigned as chairman of the house committee.
Both resignations were accepted by the club on Thursday night.
15 April 1906
MARRIAGE- WEALTHY BAKER TO WED INTO CLERGYMAN'S FAMILY
The announcement has just been made of the coming marriage of John
GLASGOW WARWICK, proprietor of the Morton Scotch Bakery, at 581 Fulton
street, to Miss Helen Louise LINDSAY RICHARDSON, granddaughter of the
Rev. J. SANDERSON, D.D., a retired Presbyterian minister of Boston and
New York, of 264 West 131st street, Manhattan, which is to be
solemnized on June 1. Following the wedding Mr. WARWICK will take his
bride for a ten weeks' tour of England, Scotland and Ireland. They
will sail on June 2 and when the newly married couple return they will
reside at 43 Fort Greene place.
BROWNSVILLE- PREPARING FOR BOLLOWITZ-SIMON WEDDING
Preparations are being made for the coming wedding of Miss Lena SIMON
to David BOLLOWITZ at the bride's parents' home, 1845 Park place, on
Sunday, May 13. The young couple are well known in Brownsville.
FOUR BOYS ARRESTED ON ANOTHER'S CONFESSION.
On warrants issued by Judge FLEMING, of Special Sessions, four boys
were arrested yesterday for being concerned in a burglary committed
Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Emma SMITH, at 1 Spencer Court.
Henry Reed GREGORY, another boy, was arrested at the time, and
implicated John AUGUISTAN, 14 years old; Fred TILL, 15, Stephen
FARADAY, 11, and Henry BRACKEN, 10.
FALLS DOWN STAIRS AND FRACTURES HER SKULL
In attempting to carry a scuttle of ashes from an upper floor to the
yard, yesterday afternoon, Julia POITZ, 58 years old, of No. 368
Knickerbocker avenue, stumbled and fell to the bottom of the stairs.
Her skull was fractured and she was taken to the German Hospital in a
critical condition.
TEN DUSKY BELLES CLAIM NEGRO DOCTOR
Want Not Only Him, But Gems They Say He Kept as Souvenirs of Marriages
Hot on the trail of Dr. Paul Randolph ROBINSON, colored, have been no
less than ten women during the past two weeks or more. Dire mutterings
of vengeance have been heard against him from feminine lips, for all of
the women say that at one time or another he called them wife, with an
emphasis all his own, he being the loveliest man, but----
Now Dr. ROBINSON is a prisoner, charged with bigamy, and also with
keeping a number of valuable jewels and lot of ready cash as souvenirs
of his many alleged marriages. The amiable doctor usually hangs up his
hat in Manhattan, but he also resides once in awhile at 90 Kenney
street, over in Newark. Last night, however, he was arrested in
Atlantic City, N.J., where he had gone for reasons of his own.
Detective-Sergeant Charles FARLEY, of the District Attorney's office,
in Manhattan, had gone to that seashore resort in order to arrest him
and he said he had a very much surprised individual on his hands when
he took the doctor into custody.
The detective first went to Newark, but he had hardly reached there
when he received a telegram from Inspector MCLAUGHLIN telling him that
he would find his man in Atlantic City. FARLEY was also told to look
for John J. BOYLE, 25 years old, of 559 West Forty-second street,
Manhattan, as gasfitter, in Newark, who was charged with abandonment.
He got the man quickly.
FARLEY had little trouble in arresting ROBINSON. Both prisoners swore
they were innocent of the charges made against them, but FARLEY put
them aboard a train and brought them to Manhattan.
The first complaint against Dr. ROBINSON was lodged by Florence Ophelia
GROENEVELOR, who lives at 312 West Fortieth street, Manhattan. She
put the matter in the hands of a lawyer, who found that there were
several other women who claimed Dr. ROBINSON as husband. A warrant was
then sworn out for his arrest.
Detective Sergeant John FARLEY went to Providence, R.I., yesterday to
arrest John REASS, of 1954 Grove street, that city. His wife, Mary
REASS, who has been living at 334 West Nintieth[sic] street, Manhattan,
said he deserted her on April 6.
HISTORIC HOTEL PROPERTY SOLD
Land That Cord MEYER Bought a Dozen Years Ago for $17,500 Brings
$179,900.
CORNER SELLS FOR $31,600
Main Building Was Washington's Headquarters
The famous old PETTIT Hotel property, in Fulton street, Jamaica, was
sold yesterday afternoon. The hotel itself, which is so old that no
one knows just when it was built, brought $675. The other buildings
upon the property, including stables, a cigar store, a couple of small
frame buildings used for store purposes, a frame house and a barber
shop, brought $1,540. The land upon which the buildings stand brought
$179,900.
Cord MEYER bought the property some ten or twelve years ago from
PETTIT. He paid, it is reported, $17,500. He leased and afterward
sold the property to Charles RICHTER, who paid him $37,500 for it.
RICHTER made money in the hotel business. In December he contracted to
sell the property, including the buildings upon it, for $125,000.
The intending purchaser got cold feet and forfeited his deposit. Then
RICHTER raised his price $5,000, and sold the place in January to a
syndicate for $130,000. These men, including ex-Sheriff William C.
BAKER, of Queens County; Henry M. VAN ALLEN, Stephen A. VAN ALLEN, the
well-known rifle shot, and others, never took title to the property,
but advertised it for sale in building lots. There were twenty lots,
fronting upon three streets. The location is regarded as the very
choicest in Jamaica. Stephen A. VAN ALLEN, the auctioneer, told the
story of the gradual growth of the place in value since George
WASHINGTON used the hostelry as a headquarters, and got good prices.
The best corner sold for $31,600, and the cheapest lot went for $4,300.
KING, the clothier of Manhattan, bought the best lot, and the adjoining
lot for $16,500; Mr. HUNTER, of Dey street, Manhattan, bought the next
lot for $12,100; Charles L. BURNHAM, of 72 Wall street, Manhattan, paid
$11,300 for lot 4, $9,900 for lot 5, and $9,200 for each of lots 6 and
7; William WILLET, of Far Rockaway, paid $10,000 for each of lots 8 and
9; KING bought lot 10 for $5,200; Henry WHITEHOUSE, of Jamaica, paid
$4,800 for lot 11; STOKES & KNOWLES, real estate dealers, bought the
remaining lots, from 12 to 20, paying therefore, $4,800 for 13 and 13
[sic], $5,800 for 14 and 15, $8,050 for 16, and $5,040 for the
remaining lots.
The prices were regarded as only fair. Those in the syndicate expected
the proceeds of the sale to exceed $200,000. Everybody laughed when
the hotel building was sold for $675, after the land had brought so
much, and a shout went up when a tiny frame house on the property
brought $880. It is about one-twentieth the size of the hotel.
TWO BROOKLYN MEN ARE HURT IN TROLLEY CRASH.
Cornelius CONSIDINE, 34 years old, of 264 Atlantic avenue, and Albert
KELLER, 38 years old, of the same address, were badly cut by flying
glass last night in a trolley accident at Canal street and Broadway,
Manhattan. Peter KEPPER, of Jersey City; Isaac DRETTO, of Manhattan,
and David KINNEY, of 953 Sixth avenue, motorman of car No. 518, were
the other injured. The motorman was the most badly hurt, and he was
removed to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Car 518 slipped along on the rails and smashed into one ahead,
demolishing it and throwing the passengers to the ground. Glass flew
in all directions. There was a panic among the persons on the other
car, but fortunately they were not injured. Besides being cut by the
glass, CONSIDINE and KELLER were bruised about the body. They refused
medical attendance.
Traffic on Broadway was held up for more than half an hour by the
accident.
DENTIST, ARRESTED, HAD GUN, BUT NO MONEY.
Dr. Albert LONGNECKER, 45 years old, a well-know dentist who has an
office at 491 Fulton street, was arrested last night at Fulton street
and Gallatin place on a charge of intoxication.
When several passersby noticed LONGNECKER lying on the sidewalk his
respectable appearance attracted considerable attention. A small boy
notified Policeman MCCORMICK, of the Adams street station, who took the
dentist to the station house. When he was searched a loaded revolver
was found on him. He had no money.
PASSENGERS HURT IN CRASH OF TROLLEY CARS.
In a collision between a Myrtle avenue and a Gates avenue car at Fulton
and Washington streets, this morning, several passengers were cut by
broken glass. Mrs. Lena SCHUTLER, of 417 Hart street, was taken from
the Myrtle avenue car unconscious. She was revived by Ambulance
Surgeon SMITH, of the Brooklyn Hospital, and taken home in a cab.
DRAGGED HALF MILE BY RUNAWAY RACER
Little Exercise Boy Badly Hurt--Ear Almost Ripped From Head
While galloping a racehorse on Ocean Parkway yesterday, Isaac PRESTON,
13 years old, an exercising boy employed by Charley OXX, who has a
racing stable at the Brighton Beach track, was thrown from his mount
and with his left foot caught in the stirrup was dragged from Sea
Breeze avenue to the ocean, nearly a half mile, where the horse was
stopped by Mounted Policeman Edward DAVID, of the Coney Island station.
PRESTON was riding his horse on the boulevard when it became frightened
at a passing automobile and ran away. DAVID, who was doing duty along
the boulevard, saw the runaway and galloped after it.
An ambulance was summoned and the boy, who was unconscious, was found
to have a fractured skull, internal injuries and his left ear was
nearly torn from his head.
Ambulance Surgeon COMISKY hurried him to the Kings County Hospital,
where it was said last night he had a good chance for recovery.
STRIKEN WITH HEART DISEASE IN GREENWOOD.
A woman about 60 years old was found unconscious in Greenwood Cemetery
yesterday afternoon. When revived by Ambulance Surgeon LAWSON she gave
her name as Maria BOYD and her address as 44 West Eighty-eighth street,
Manhattan. She has heart trouble.
TAKEN HOME IN HACK THAT KNOCKED HER SENSELESS.
Rolled in the mud in her white Easter dress under the outfit that
knocked her down, Ruth GORDON, of 143 West Eighty-second street,
Manhattan, was taken home in the carriage that did the damage,
yesterday.
WAS LOOKING FOR TROUBLE AND GOT SKULL FRACTURED.
Charged with felonious assault, Henry RULLO, 20 years old, of 536
Driggs avenue, was locked up in the Bedford avenue station last night.
The complainant was John FRANK, of 538 Driggs avenue, who is in the
Eastern District Hospital with a fracture of the skull and a scalp
wound.
The two men had a long-standing grievance according to the police, and
RULLO went to his neighbor's home to have it out. In the altercation
which followed RULLO, it is alleged, grabbed a bottle and hit FRANK
over the head.
Policeman FOERSTER, who was called to the house, had a hard time
arresting RULLO, but finally landed him in the station house.
Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT took him [FRANK] to the hospital.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- ARRESTED FOR VAGRANCY AND PUT IN CUSTODY
-Patrolman WALCOTT, attached to the Bath Beach police station, found
Minnie SEIDER, 70 years old, with no home, wandering the streets.
She was taken to the Coney Island police court, charged with vagrancy,
discharged, and turned over to the custody of Miss HUGHES, the
probationary officer.
-YOUNG FLORIST MISSING SINCE LAST SATURDAY.
Patrick SAMPSON, 25 years old, a florist living at 101 Twenty-first
street, left home last Saturday ostensibly to look for work. His wife
has been searching for him ever since, and yesterday asked the police
to aid her.
Louis DING, a bricklayer, and a member of the Bricklayers' Union, left
home last Monday and did not return. He lived at 453 Tenth street.
-MAUDE GETS FLOWERS AT FIFTH AVE. STATION.
The desk of Police Capt. Thomas T. MAUD, at the Fifth avenue station,
last night, was covered with flowers, sent with best wishes, by his
many friends, both in and out of police circles.
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BROWNSVILLE- BICYCLE RIDER BREAKS LITTLE GIRL'S LEG.
-While Lena ELITT, 8 years old, of 92 Osborn street was playing in the
street in front of her home yesterday afternoon, she was knocked down
by a bicycle ridden by Jacob DICKER, of 73 Osborn street. The child
sustained a fracture of the right leg. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street Hospital and taken home.
-DANGEROUS BATHING IN BRISTOL PLACE.
While taking a bath yesterday afternoon Joseph GOLDBERG, 12 years old,
of 60 Bristol place, cut his right leg on a nail in the bottom of the
tub. GOLDBERG was attended by Ambulance Surgeon SMALLMAN, of the
Bradford Street Hospital.
EAST NEW YORK BITS
Five young women of East New York are among the highest of those who
took the recent examination for public school teachers, and are justly
proud of their efforts. They are:
Miss Adele M. HARRINGTON, 2815 Atlantic avenue
Jessie F. ALLEN, 49 Norwood avenue
Natalie THOMPSON, 158 Logan street
Pauline BERKOWITZ, 188 Jerome street
Anna R. TOOTHILL, 107 Hull street.
CARRIER THREW AWAY MAIL TO SAVE WORK OF DELIVERY
A large quantity of mail matter, consisting of 81 pieces of first-class
and 17 pieces of second-class matter, was found a few day ago in some
bushes on the Trains Meadow road, on the property of G.F. RANDALL, near
Elmhurst.
As far as the investigation has gone it looks as if George SMITH, a
substitute letter carrier in the Elmhurst Post Office, had thrown the
mail away to save himself the trouble of delivering it.
SMITH claims that he must have dropped it without his knowledge and
whoever found it threw it in the bushes.
MOTORMAN SAVES BOY WHO FELL IN FRONT OF CAR
While playing tag near his home, 9 Amboy street, yesterday afternoon,
Herman CITRONE, 9 years old, fell in front of a St. Johns place car.
The motorman made a quick stop, but the fender struck the boy on the
head, causing a scalp wound. Dr. KATZ, of 1611 Pitkin avenue, dressed
the wound.
GIRL'S FOOT CRUSHED BY CROSSTOWN CAR.
Emma ROACHE, 8 years old, while playing near her home, 73 Wolcott
street, on Richards street, was knocked down by a Crosstown car. Her
right foot was crushed and she sustained a scalp wound. She was
removed to the Long Island College Hospital. There were no arrests.
POLICEMAN CAPTURES RUNAWAY HORSE.
A horse attached to a business wagon belonging to Samuel LIEBMAN, of
163 Myrtle avenue, took fright at the noise of a passing elevated train
while standing in front of the store last night and ran down Myrtle
avenue, followed by Patrolman Mortimer STOVER, of the Adams street
station. While the horse swayed from side to side the wagon collided
with an awning post and the horse got loose from the harness. STOVER
caught it and returned the animal to its owner. The wagon was only
slightly damaged.
ARREST OF YOUTH
Arthur BOWERS, 14 years old, of 133 Sands street, was arrested
yesterday afternoon by Detectives MAHON and CARBERRY on complaint of
Mrs. Catherine MANLEY, of 211 Adams street, who accused BOWERS of
breaking into her woodshed and stealing a bicycle. The wheel was
removed by the detectives.
THREW BIG BILLS, WATCH AND DIAMOND IN STREET.
Yesterday when a policeman introduced John BARROW, of 1764 Washington
street, to the Westchester court in the Bronx, he told Magistrate WAHIE
he found him at daybreak, the centre of a small crowd scattering his
wathc, diamond fob, and $50 bills to the four winds.
When asked where he worked, he said he was with Charlie GATES. the
magistrate said, "Oh," and discharged him.
LUDLOW CRUSHED BY HIS AEROPLANE
Paralyzed Below Waist, He Is Being Rushed From Jacksonville to New York
LIFE HANGS IN BALANCE
Aeronaut Glad No One Else Was In Accident
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 14.--- Crashing for more than two hundred
feet through the air with the huge wings of the aeroplane folded over
and pinning him in his position, Israel LUDLOW, the New York attorney
and aeronaut, to-day was so badly injured that his life is despaired
of, and in the one hope remaining to save him he is being rushed to
New York. The two lower vertebrae have been forced out of alignment,
and LUDLOW is paralyzed below the waist. He is cool and collected.
Charles K. HAMILTON, the aeronaut who made the ascension Monday, is
traveling with LUDLOW, and LUDLOW's mother has been telegraphed to meet
the party in Richmond, though physicians here are extremely doubtful
whether the injured man can survive the necessary jar of the trip for
that distance.
Two large White steamers, driven by drivers participating in the
automobile tournament here, had the big kite in tow, the aeroplane
being constructed so that it had twice the lifting power of the one
used by HAMILTON. A strong south wind lifted the big kite easily and
in an instant, it lifted to 250 feet. Then the hundreds of spectators
on the beach heard the crash of the bamboo that told the story of the
broken kite frame work. An instant later they were horrified to see
the front of the kite bend backward and fasten LUDLOW in his seat,
cutting off every opportunity he had of saving himself by climbing over
the supports.
The kite, shorn of its lifting power, shot downward like a rock.
LUDLOW landed on the hard beach, striking squarely on the base of his
spine, and then the upper portion of the aeroplane crashed down over
the head of the helpless man. He was taken to the hotel, where he was
placed in a cot, taken to a train, and the journey northward began.
The injured man discusses the accident freely and keeps repeating, "I'm
so glad no one was in it with me."
WATCHED BURGLARS AT WORK BUT THEY MANAGED TO ESCAPE
Manual Training High School Principal's House in Flatbush
Ransacked--Made Good Haul, But Dropped Some of the Loot in Running
Away--Neighbors Join in Hunt--Dr. LARKINS and Family Not at Home--His
Daughter, Pistol in Hand, Makes Search of the Rooms.
Burglars succeeded in getting into the home of Dr. Charles D. LARKINS,
principal of the Manual Training High School, at 217 Argyle road,
Flatbush, early last night. There were two men who 'pulled off the
job,' but they were scared away before they had time to make off with
any considerable quantity of valuables. There was sufficient taken,
however, to make the thing worth while.
There was nobody in the house at the time of the robbery. Dr. LARKINS,
with Mrs. LARKINS and their daughter, Ina, went to Old Point Comfort a
week ago last Friday. They returned last night, but Ina was the only
one to visit the house, her father and mother spending the night in
Manhattan.
NEIGHBORS SAW THEM AT WORK
It was about 8:30 o'clock when the neighbors, Mr. GOFF, who lives at
225 Argyle road, noticed two suspicious looking characters on the
LARKINS' porch. He watched their movements. They first rang the front
door bell and, getting no response, walked to the rear of the house.
They lost no time in applying a jimmy to one of the rear windows and
forcing it open. Both then wormed their way into the house. The thing
was done so thoroughly and neatly that Mr.GOFF lost the movements of
the burglars until he made a close examination. When he perceived the
open window he ran for assistance and was not long in finding one of
the special officers who patrol this section of Flatbush. The latter
promptly blew his whistle, to which a roundsman of the Parkville police
station, who happened to be near, responded. The roundsman, with
several neighbors, who had been attracted by the commotion, approached
the house. As they did so they heard the burglars throw the contents
of bureau and chiffonier drawers on the floor. As they went around to
the rear of the house the burglars, who had evidently been warned by
the movements outside, jumped from the window and made themselves
scarce around the corner. As they landed on the ground they dropped
several dozen silver knives, spoons and forks and other tableware.
Several of the reserves of the Parkville station reached the scene by
this time and an examination was made of the house. The furniture of
almost every room had been thrown about in a search for valuables.
Everything was turned topsy-turvy.
MISS LARKINS INVESTIGATES
Miss LARKINS returned to Flatbush about 10 o'clock, her intention being
to spend the night with neighbors. When she learned that the house had
been entered, she was determined to learn the extent of the loss. She
would not be persuaded from entering the place. She secured a pistol
and, accompanied by a friend, went through the rooms. Besides the
silverware, though, she could find that very little was taken besides
two pairs of opera glasses. Further search, it is expected, however,
will reveal that the burglars made a pretty good haul.
A good description was given of the robbers by several of those who got
a peep at them as they took to their heels. The description tallies
with that given by other Flatbush residents who have been robbed
recently. The police state that they have sufficient evidence against
these two men to send them to jail for terms aggregating twenty years.
It is said they have a 'den' in Coney Island avenue.
16 April 1906
BROWNSVILLE- TO ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT; CARDS OUT FOR BANQUET
On next Sunday afternoon the engagement of Miss S. JACOBSON, of 347
East New York avenue, to Jack COHEN, also a resident of Brownsville,
will be announced at the home of Miss JACOBSON.
Invitations have been sent out to the friends of the couple for a party
and banquet to be given at the house by Miss JACOBSON's parents in
honor of the engagement.
THREE LAID OUT IN SALOON FIGHT
The reserves of the Clymer street station were turned out early to-day
to quell a fight that started among twenty-five Austrians who were
drinking in the saloon of John FINK, at 52 Throop avenue. The police
found three men lying unconscious on the floor and the saloon wrecked.
While passing the saloon shortly after midnight Policeman RICKERT heard
men quarreling. He pounded on the sidewalk for help. Policeman
DENKERT came up on the run and the two went in. a general fight, in
which bottles, glasses and dishes from the lunch counter were used, was
at its height.
The policemen ducked and sent for the reserves. Before the patrol
wagon arrived all but the three injured men escaped. These were FINK,
the proprietor, who had a bad cut over the right eye and a scalp wound;
John KRESS, of 733 East Eleventh street, Manhattan, and Joseph SOBRITZ,
of 12 Throop avenue.
The ambulance of the Williamsburg Hospital was called, and Dr. HANCOCK
worked over the three men for an hour before they were in condition to
be taken to the station house. There the proprietor was held on a
charge of violating the excise law, and the other two for disorderly
conduct. When the three were taken before Magistrate TIGHE in the Lee
avenue court to-day FINK was held in $500 bail for examination and the
two were discharged.
FATHER SAVES SON FROM DEATH IN FIRE
Seven-year-old William STIELES, son of George STIELES, narrowly escaped
being burned to death early this morning in a fire which destroyed the
house in which they lived at Hulse avenue and Grand street, Dunton,
L.I. The father had rescued two other children and then ran back into
the house again to get the other two. Grabbing a little girl, Emma, he
told Willie to follow him down the stairs.
He reached the street with the girl, but the little fellow was nowhere
to be seen. STIELES ran into the house again and found the boy lying
in the hallway near the head of the stairs where he had been overcome
by the smoke. He soon had him out of the building, but not before both
he and the boy had been badly burned.
The cause of the fire is unknown. It was a two-story structure,
STIELES and his family living on the top floor and George MCGALE and
his wife occupying the first floor.
The building was totally destroyed. The loss is about $4,000. The
house was owned by Thomas BAYLIS, of Oyster Bay.
WAYLAID AND ROBBED UNDER ARC LIGHT
Mrs. Amy MAJOR, of 1666 Nostrand avenue, was held up and robbed within
a block of her home Saturday night, by a young man who had evidently
been concealed in a shadow waiting for the victim. The robbery was
committed early in the evening, and, although a score of men responded
to Mrs. MAJOR's cries and searched for the thief, he made good his
escape.
Mrs. MAJOR was walking quickly along Canarsie lane to her home when
attacked. She was near Lott street, near an electric light post, when
a man jumped from the shadow of a hedge, grasped her around the waist
and threw her violently to the street. Mrs. MAJOR tried to scream,
but the robber smothered her cries with his hand. With the other hand
he wrenched away her chatelain bag and darted across a vacant lot
towards Flatbush avenue.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- WOMAN BECOMES INSANE AND LEAPS OUT WINDOW.
Marie LEWIS, 35 years old, during a fit of insanity yesterday at her
home, 1252 Thirty-ninth street, leaped from a front window on the
second story to the ground, sustaining a fracture of the right wrist
and internal injuries. She is recovering to-day in the Norwegian
Hospital.
GREENPOINT- THREE CHILDREN HURT ON EASTER SUNDAY
Three children were hurt by falls yesterday and had to be removed to
hospitals.
Three-year-old Gladys SOUTHWICK leaned too far out of a front window at
her home, 38 Howard street, and falling to the sidewalk sustained a
fracture of the frontal bone. She is at the Eastern District Hospital.
-Gertrude MARTIN, another three-year-old, dropped through a skylight on
the roof of her home, 243 Eagle street, and suffered a fracture of the
arm in addition to internal injuries. She was taken to St. Catherine's
Hospital.
-Joseph O'NEILL, 14 years old, of 153 Engert street, fell from the roof
to the basement of 14 Diamond street, where a new building is being
erected, and was picked up with a fractured skull. He was removed to
the Williamsburg Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE-GASHED HIS CHEEK IN FALL FROM TROLLEY CAR
Thomas GORMAN, of 1352 Bergen street, fell from a Bergen street car
yesterday afternoon at the corner of Liberty and Stone avenues and
received a severe gash in his right cheek.
He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street
Hospital and later went to his home.
NEW WOODMEN LODGE TO BE KNOWN AT IMPERIAL
The lodge of the Woodmen of the World, recently organized, has decided
on the name "Imperial Lodge of Brownsville" and will meet every Tuesday
evening at Brown's Hall, Rockaway and Sutter avenues. It was decided
at the last meeting that the installation of officers be held on April
27, but where the installation ceremonies will be held had not yet been
decided.
The officers to be installed are: P. JACOBS, organizer; L.J. COHEN,
counselor commander; P. JACOBS, banker, and H. WAGNER, general.
SECOND DEGREE FOR FIVE AT EAST NEW YORK LODGE.
East New York Lodge, No. 852, F.& A.M., held its regular meeting
Saturday night at the Knights of Pythias Temple, 432 Hopkinson avenue,
and conferred the second degree upon the following candidates: Louis
SALTZMAN Albert M. LEHMAN, Jacob WAXMAN, Moses RUBENSTEIN, Morris
KOPPELMAN, Jacob J. GOTTHEIF and David SHAPIRO.
The meeting was well attended, and after the session the members
adjourned to a nearby cafe, where supper was served.
THREE FIGHT IN DINGHY, IGNORING POLICE PISTOLS.
Intense excitement was caused by a fierce fight between three sailors,
Patrick QUINN, Charles ANDERSON, and Frank JOHNSON, of the crew of the
three-master E.C. Knight, off Red Hook, yesterday morning.
QUINN, who was covered with bruises, says he was going ashore with two
friends when he was pursued, dragged out of the yawl into a dinghy and
severely beaten by ANDERSON and JOHNSON, to whom he had refused a loan
of money.
His friends pulled ashore and notified the police, who hastened to the
scene in a launch from Pier A, at the Battery.
When Roundsman ELLIS ran his boat alongside the dingy [sic] the men
were fighting viciously and paid no heed to the brandished revolvers of
the police.
Force of arms, however, ended the unequal battle. ANDERSON and JOHNSON
were jailed and QUINN consigned to the care of Dr. MERRILL, of the
Hudson Street Hospital.
PATROLMAN HUGHES DISMISSED FROM FORCE
Deputy Commissioner O'KEEFE and Borough Inspector CROSS started this
morning from headquarters to make a tour of inspection of the
stationhouses.
It was announced by Secretary KIRSCHNER to-day that Patrolman William
HUGHES, of the Flatbush station, had been dismissed from the force by
Commissioner BINGHAM for absenting himself from duty without leave.
The rules of the department are that any policeman absenting himself
for five consecutive days may be dismissed.
HUGHES was under charges of abducting a girl under 17 years and failed
to appear for trial.
17 April 1906
EASTER TUESDAY ELECTIONS
In St. Mark's P.E. Church, on Adelphi street, of which the Rev. Spencer
S. ROCHE, D.D., is rector, the Easter elections resulted as follows:
Wardens: Clement LOCKITT and Charles A. BRYAN
Vestrymen: E.J. CAMPBELL, Edward M. JOHNSTON, Divine F. BURTIS, A.W.
MERRILL, J.H. de les DERNIERS, Edwin F. PAGE, John WILSON and Frederick
WEBSTER.
St. Stephen's Church:
Wardens: N.C. HEIDENHEIM, W.S. PANGBORN
Vestrymen: J.W. CLARK, F.W. FARNHAM, J.H.G. ATKINSON, W.F. HICKS, R.
BABCOCK, A.T. MART, H.V. RAYMOND,Jr., and E.Y. FULLER.
BROWNSVILLE - STRUCK BY TROLLEY CAR, CHILD HAS SCALP WOUND
While Louis MARKS, 7 years old, of 166 Henry street, Manhattan, was
crossing Saratoga avenue, at St. Johns place, yesterday afternoon, a
car of the Bergen street line struck him, inflicting a severe scalp
wound. Dr. ROSENSKY, of 1627 Pitkin avenue, dressed the injury and
sent him home.
KNOCKED DOWN BY TEAM AND HIS FOOT FRACTURED
Israel SCHWARTZ, 10 years old, of 193 Watkins street, was struck by a
wagon, owner unknown, at the corner of Lavonia avenue and Watkins
street, yesterday afternoon, and suffered a fracture of the left foot.
He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street
Hospital.
FELL FROM A STREET CAR; WENT HOME UNASSISTED.
Mrs. D. GORMAN, 35 years old, who gave her address of 5618 Fourth
avenue, fell from a car of the Hamburg avenue line, at Fulton street
and Rockaway avenue, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. GORMAN refused medical
attendance, called a cab, and went to her home.
GREENPOINT. -BOYS HAD $400 RIG THEY WANTED TO SELL FOR $10.
William HENRY, 15 years, of 307 Oakland street, and James SMITH, 17
years, of 190 Meserole avenue, were arrested by Detectives MATTHEWS and
LAU, charged with breaking into the stable of David MCMILLAN, at 52
Diamond street, yesterday.
It is alleged that HENRY and SMITH broke into the stable door with a
jimmy and took a horse, wagon and set of harness, valued at $400. When
they were arrested they were trying to dispose of their booty for the
insignificant sum of $10.
SLASH AND SHOOT ON CROWDED CAR
A crowd of Italians who had been celebrating Easter at Coney Island got
in a row on a Smith street car at Coney Island avenue and Avenue H,
last night, and one man was shot and two stabbed before reserves of the
Parkville station seized the car and stopped the disturbance. A young
girl, who was in the party, is said to have been the cause of the
fight. The men wounded are:
-Vincenzo CARERE, 25 years old, of 223 Johnson street, shot in the abdomen;
-Camilio [Camillo] SINNERILLI, 18 yrs old, of 45 Withers st, stabbed in the neck;
-John MATINO, 23 years old, same address, stabbed in the wrist and arm.
The car was crowded when it left Coney Island, probably twenty of the
Italians being Italians, who had stayed at the resort over Sunday.
SINNERILLI was with a young Sicilian girl who lives on Bridge street.
All were singing and laughing.
When the car approached Newkirk avenue, one of the men in the party,
who had been drinking, made a sneering remark at the girl with
SINNERILLI. The girl flushed and told him not to repeat the remark.
SINNERILLI said there would be trouble if he did. Women who were in
the car moved uneasily towards the door, but there was no further
trouble until the car reached Avenue H.
What caused the disturbance then is not clear, but every one in the
party jumped up and one man pulled a revolver and blazed away. CARERE
fell back wounded. SINNERILLI and other of his friends returned the
attack, and before the car had gone fifty feet revolvers were flashing
and stilettos being lunged in all directions. SINNERILLI fell with the
blade of a dirk broken off in the back of his neck, and MATINO's arm
spurted blood from an ugly gash that extended from the wrist to the
elbow. Three women in the party joined in the melee and added their
cries to those of the panic-stricken passengers who were trying to get
out of the way.
Clanging the gong and shouting at the top of their voice, the motorman
speeded the car to Foster avenue, where the Parkville station is.
Somebody had already telephoned the police that there was a riot moving
towards them, and when the car stopped the reserves piled aboard. They
sailed in with clubs and revolver butts and had the row quelled in a
twinkling. Then the Italians tried to lose their weapons. While
ambulances were being called to attend the wounded, the police lined
the passengers up an searched each as he or she left the car. Five of
them they held as prisoners.
Emilio PASARILLO, of 215 Navy street, was locked up for carrying a
revolver and shooting CARERE; Alfonso LIGUINO, 17 years old, of 104
Navy street, was held for stabbing SINNERILLI, with a bloody dirk found
in the leg of his trousers; John LOLLA, of 115 Navy street, and James
SORENTA, of 188 Navy street, were accused of knifing MATINO, and Louis
BORK, of 227 Hudson street, was made a prisoner for having a stiletto
in his pocket. On the floor of the car when the prisoners were taken
out were found three revolvers, all of which showed signs of very
recent use, two stilettos, and a blood-stained clasp-knife, that had
been abandoned when the police swarmed aboard the car.
CARERE was taken to Seney Hospital and from there to his home;
SINNERILLI, to the Kings County Hospital and MATINO was sent home after
his wound was dressed.
The prisoners were held in the Flatbush court this morning for
examination on April 24.
GERONIMO CRITICALLY ILL ON RESERVATION
LAWTON, Okla., April 17.-- The old Apache warrior, GERONIMO, is
critically ill at his home on Fort Sill Reservation. He is 76 years
old. He is living with his eighth wife, to whom he married last
Christmas. Members of his tribe declared to-day that the old chief
could live only a few days.
CATCH MAN SUSPECTED OF MANY BURGLARIES.
John HILLMAN, of Franklin Square, Hempstead, was arrested to-day as he
stepped from a Hempstead train at Long Island City by Detective GRAHAM.
The police suspect that HILLMAN is implicated in all the robberies
which have taken place within the last couple of months in Nassau and
Queens counties. They say he has served two terms in Auburn prison.
When arrested this morning he had $470, and at his home the police
found 50 pawn tickets for watches and jewelry. Two of the tickets call
for gold watches which it is believed were stolen recently from Charles
GARDENDOCK's home at 942 Steinway avenue, Long Island City.
HILLMAN was remanded for examination in the Long Island City police
court this morning. The police will visit pawnshops in the hope of
finding the loot.
17 April 1906
CAUGHT THIEF'S HAND; HELD HIM FOR POLICE
Thomas DOLAN and James MYLES, both of Manhattan, were held in $1,000
bail in Adams street court to-day on charges of grand larceny, made by
William GEGENHEIMER, of 603 East Third street, who swore they relieved
him of his diamond stud while he was coming across Brooklyn Bridge last
evening.
GEGENHEIMER held on to DOLAN's hand as he was withdrawing if from his
shirtfront, and when the car reached Brooklyn, complained to Officers
ENGLISH and MULVIHILL, who arrested DOLAN and his chum.
POLICE SUPPRESS NEWS OF BROWNSVILLE BURGLARY
Burglars last night forced an entrance into the plumber's shop of Anton
SACHS, at Hopkinson and Sutter avenues, and stole lead pipe and tools,
valued at over $100. Entrance to the house was forced through a small
window which fronts on a vacant lot adjoining the plumbing shop.
Although the robbery was immediately reported to the Brownsville
station by Mr. SACHS, no information concerning it could be ascertained
from the sergeant at the station house this morning.
KIDNAPED CHILD WHEN WIFE REBUFFED HIM
Timothy HANIGAN, 25 years old, of 749 Tenth avenue, Manhattan, was
arrested last night just as he boarded the ferryboat, Bowery Bay of the
Ninety-second street line. The technical charge against him was that
of disorderly conduct but he was arrested for kidnaping his child from
the home of his mother-in-law.
HANIGAN has been separated from his wife, Annie, for the past two
months. She has been living with her mother, Mary VOGEL, at 746
Eleventh avenue, Long Island City. Yesterday afternoon HANIGAN went to
the Long Island City house and tried to persuade his wife to return to
him. She refused, telling him he had abused her and failed to properly
provide for her. He then threatened to kill her and the whole family,
it is alleged, if she didn't do as he wished, and went away.
In the evening, Mrs. VOGEL place her little grandchild, who is about
one year old, in a go-cart, and then joined her daughter in another
part of the house. They heard the baby cry, and, running back,
discovered the baby carriage empty and a window open.
They telephoned to the police that HANIGAN had kidnaped the baby, and
Patrolman BROWN, of the Astoria station, hurried to the Ninety-second
street ferry to intercept him if he attempted to cross.
BROWN saw a man with a bundle in his arms and stopped him to examine
the bundle. It was the HANIGAN baby wrapped in an overcoat. He
brought the man back to the station, where the child was restored to
the mother and HANIGAN locked up.
In the Long Island City Police Court this morning Magistrate CONNORTON
held BROWN in $500 bail for examination next Tuesday.
POLICEMEN FINED FOR TAKING LIFE TOO EASY
Deputy Police Commissioner O'KEEFE to-day dismissed several of the
charges against policemen.
He fined Sergeant Sol C. HAUPTMAN, of the Stagg street station two
days' pay.
John A. HAGAR and James CROWLEY, who are attached to the Williamsburg
Bridge Squad, two days' pay for laxity of service.
William BIGALL, of the Ralph avenue station, and Jefferson CARNEY, of
the Greenpoint avenue station, were each fined five days' pay for being
found off post.
AMY POOLE FOUND AT CONEY ISLAND
Amy POOLE, 17 years old, and Jennie WITTE, 21 years old, were arrested
yesterday afternoon at Coney Island for vagrancy. In the Coney Island
court this morning Amy's mother and brother testified that she had
always been a good girl, but ten days ago disappeared from home.
Magistrate FURLONG paroled Amy in custody of Mrs. HUGHES, the probation
officer, for examination on Friday. Jennie WITTE was sent to the House
of the Good Shepherd.
NEGRO SHOT IN HEAD IN POOLROOM ROW.
As the result of a quarrel last night in a poolroom at 394 Bergen
street, Joseph HUMPHREYS, a negro, lies in a critical condition in the
Brooklyn Hospital with a bullet wound in his head.
Joseph HARROLD, 22 years old, of 814 Pacific street, was arrested for
the shooting and in the Myrtle avenue court, to-day, he was held
without bail to await the result of HUMPHREY's injury.
18 April 1906
NURSES RESCUE SICK WOMAN FROM FLAMES
Keep Cool When Fire Breaks Out in Millionaire's Home, and Telephone
Alarm Flames threatened serious damage to-day to the handsome residence of
Lowell M. PALMER, the millionaire cooperage and coal man, at 206
Clinton avenue, and only the prompt arrival of the firemen saved the
lower floors of the building.
The damage by smoke and water is estimated at about $2,000. Mr.
PALMER's daughter, Mrs. J. GIBSON MCILVANE, who had been ill and was
convalescing, had to be assisted from her father's house to the home of
a neighbor nearby. Her two nurses, Miss FITZPATRICK and Miss WEHNER,
were quick to realize the possibilities of danger to their patient and
lost no time in getting her ready to be taken from the second floor
through the halls which had begun to fill with smoke. Mrs. MCILVANE, it
was said later, was not seriously affected by her experience and was
resting comfortably, though slightly nervous.
Miss FITZPATRICK, about 9 o'clock this morning, smelled smoke in the
sick room, and going downstairs opened the door leading from the
basement to the cellar. A puff of black smoke drove her back and she
hurried upstairs after closing the door and notifying one of the
servants to send in an alarm for the engines by telephone, which was
promptly done.
Pending the arrival of the engines the servants tried unsuccessfully to
extinguish the fire with buckets of water. The loss is covered by
insurance.
SHOOTS DOWN MAN WHO WANTED HER TO ELOPE
John DE LOUISA, a married man, was shot at the corner of 116th street
and First avenue, Manhattan, this morning, by Mrs. Patria DE LOUISA,
the mother of five children and a cousin by marriage of John.
The woman had a baby in her arms when John, who has been annoying her
for weeks past, seized her by the arm and urged her to elope with him.
She drew the revolver shooting him between the shoulders. DE LOUISA
was sent to the Harlem Hospital and the woman was arrested.
MILL MAN TAKEN BECAUSE HIS CHIMNEY SMOKES
The first case this year in the Butler street court of a violation of
the smoke ordinance, came up to-day when Augustus LIPPETT, who runs a
saw and planing mill at 373 Fourth street, was accused by Health
Inspector James ENNIS. LIPPETT was held in $300 bail for hearing.
E.R. THOMAS' NEW AUTO FLASHES BY POLICE
The new automobile recently brought to this country by E.R. THOMAS, the
millionaire, and which its owner claims is capable of attaining a speed
of two and one-half miles a minute, made its appearance in Long Island
City yesterday afternoon and went through the city like a flash, before
the startled policemen could stop it.
They were on the look out for it when it came back last night.
Policeman MCHUGH saw it coming down Steinway avenue, and arrested
Gustav SHAAW, the chauffeur, and William LUZZ, a machinist.
In the Long Island City police court this morning the men claimed that
when going through the city in the afternoon the machine became
unmanageable and they had difficulty in reducing its speed. Magistrate
HEALY warned them to be more careful in the future and they were both
discharged.
WOMAN OF 75 TOOK BRACER; WASN'T DRUNK, SHE INSISTS.
Annie KELLY, 75 years old, of 447 Neptune avenue, was arrested
yesterday by Patrolman NOLAN, of the Coney Island police station for
intoxication. In the Coney Island court this morning she pleaded
guilty, saying she had taken the liquor to strengthen her.
Magistrate FURLONG paroled her until May 15 in the custody of Mrs.
HUGHES, the probationary officer, saying as he did so, "Ann, you are
getting old. Leave liquor alone. Liquor makes the strong weak, and
the weak, weaker."
THREE ASSAULT NEGROM EATING IN A RESTAURANT
Richard BRAZIER, a negro, was eating soup in a Myrtle avenue restaurant
to-day, when three young men came in and began throwing things into his
soup "for fun." When he objected they assaulted him. In the Adams
street court they said they were Thomas MATTHEWS, Chester BARLOW, and
Frank JOHNSON. They were held in $500 bail.
VICTIM OF ITALIAN SHOOTING RECOVERING.
Annlo GRINALDO, of West Sixteenth street and Neptune avenue, and Philip
CARRETI, of 261 Fourth avenue, who have been in Raymond street jail
since last Wednesday, charged with felonious assault, were admitted to
bail in the Coney Island court this morning. They were arrested after
the shooting of Bife STANASTASIO, of 125 Neptune avenue, last week, and
have been held without bail since, awaiting the result of STANASTASIO's
injuries. A report to the court this morning from the Kings County
Hospital said STANASTASIO was improving.
COOK FELL 25 FEET INTO VESSEL'S HOLD
Jerry COOK, 28 years old, of 102 Washington street, Hoboken, N.J.,
while at work on the steamer Caroline, lying at the foot of Atlantic
avenue, fell into the hold, a distance of twenty-five feet, this
morning, and was severely injured.
THE BROOKLYN THEATRE FIRE
To the Editor of The Standard Union:
Will you please answer the following: A says the Brooklyn Theatre was
burned where the Post Office stands now. B says it was where the Eagle
Building is. Please decide. What year was it?
Bill.
Brooklyn, April 17, 1906
--
The Brooklyn Theatre stood on the site now occupied by the Eagle
Building. It was burned on Tuesday night, Dec. 5, 1876. The play was
"The Two Orphans" and Kate Claxton was the star.--[Ed.]
WON'T ALLOW INJURED CHILD TO BE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Annie FINLEY, 4 years old, of 32 Division avenue, was knocked down and
run over by a delivery truck driven by Walter PONZ, 21 years old, of 78
South Fourth street, at Division avenue and Berry street, last night.
When Ambulance Surgeon FRIEDMAN of the Eastern District Hospital was
called he found that she had received possible internal injuries and
that her condition was serious. Her parents refused to permit her
removal to the hospital.
A policeman of the Clymer street station, who was near, arrested PONZ.
He was not to blame for the accident and was discharged in the Lee
avenue court this morning.
FOUR DAUGHTERS BORN; TWO DIE, TWO MAY LIVE
Dr. G.I. DORN, of 553 Graham avenue, announced to-day that two of the
four daughters born to Mrs. Anna KOSSINGER last night, at 148 Frost
street, may live. Two of the babies died last night, but the other two
are doing well. Each weighs about two pounds, while those dead,
weighed a half a pound less.
Mrs. KOSSINGER is 39 years old and is the wife of John KOSSINGER, an
iceman.
BINGHAM DIRECTED TO REINSTATE SERGEANTS
Supreme Court Justice MADDOX this morning granted, in Special Term, a
peremptory writ directing Commissioner BINGHAM to restore to their
former positions as sergeants, James KEENAN and Thomas WILLIAMS, who
were removed May 9, 1905, for alleged physical disability. They had
been assigned to the telegraph department at Police Headquarters,
Manhattan.
DISLOCATES HIS SHOULDER DRIVING A TOW HORSE
William HOBSON, 37 years old, 95 James street, Manhattan, employed by
the New York Lath Company at the foot of India street, while driving a
tow horse, became entwined in the lines, and received a dislocation of
the left shoulder. He was removed to the Williamsburg Hospital by
Ambulance Surgeon FRIEDMAN.
FENDER HIT "COP" ON LEG; MOTORMAN ARRESTED.
Policeman R.A. HELWIG, who is stationed at Fulton street and Court
Square, to-day arrested Julius PINCUS, a motorman, on the charge of
failing to stop his car at the crossing at that point. In the Adams
street court later it developed that the car was stopped, but the
fender hit HELWIG on the leg when he was escorting a girl across. The
case was dismissed.
WILL MAKE THEIR HOME HERE
Mrs. Bertha DIMMEY, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. JOHNSON, who was
married to James C. DIMMEY, of Princeton, N.J., on April 15, by Rev.
D.W. WYNN, will entertain a few friends to-morrow evening , April 19,
at her parents' home, 1530 Prospect place, after which the happy couple
will leave for Philadelphia, Pa., where they will remain until October.
They will then return to Brooklyn and make their home here.
19 April 1906
BOILER TUBE BURSTS AND SCALDS TWO MEN AND BOY.
By the bursting of a boiler tube in the S.O. PIERCE & Co.'s factory at
30 Tiffany place to-day, Joseph MCQUADE, of 338 Smith street, the
engineer, and Matthes BRIEN, a fireman, of 1432 Fulton street, were
badly scalded. They were taken to the Long Island College Hospital.
Edward FITZGERALD, 18 years old, a laborer at 18 Tiffany place, was
also scalded. He was taken home. The engineer's condition is said to
be serious.
FOUR MEN ARE INJURED BY FALLING BRICKS
Succo JOMOLUSO, 22 years old, of Twentieth street and Fifth avenue,
Amaula AUSTIRIO, 28, of 555 Seventeenth street,
Dipprosuo JINNTIO, 31, of 594 Union street, and
Joseph SOMMEKILL, 30, of 557 Seventeenth street, were injured by
falling bricks this morning, while working in an excavation for the
cellar of a new building at the corner of Ninth avenue and Twentieth street.
The first two, received slight injuries and went home, but JINNTIO has
a fractured skull and SOMMEKILL is badly injured internally, so
Ambulance Surgeon QUINN held them at Seney Hospital.
GREENPOINT ITEMS
-WOMAN HANGING CLOTHES FALLS FROM WINDOW
Mrs. Ann WYER, of 120 Clay street, while hanging clothes from the rear
window of her home yesterday, fell and sustained a dislocation of the
bones of the left foot. She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT,
of the Eastern District Hospital.
-FERRYBOAT HAND BADLY SQUEEZED BY A TRUCK.
Charles WEIBERT, employed by the New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company on
the ferryboat Greenpoint, was struck by a heavy truck, while it was
backing into the ferryboat yesterday. He was injured internally and
had to be removed to the Williamsburg Hospital, by Ambulance Surgeon BRUNNING.
-BRICK FELL ON HIM AND LAID HIS SCALP OPEN
Antona GEORGIO, of 25 Georgia avenue, while working on an unfinished
building, at Graham and Meeker avenue yesterday was hit by a falling
brick and received a scalp wound. He was attended by a surgeon from
St. Catherine's Hospital.
-CHEMIST, DRUNK, STRUGGLES TO JUMP INTO RIVER
While the ferryboat Long Beach was making the 2:30 trip this morning
from Thirty-fourth street, Manhattan, to Long Island City, the
deckhands had a hard struggle with a man who tried to jump overboard.
He had divested himself of his clothing and was half way over the
railing when he was seized. On the arrival of the boat at her slip in
Long Island City he was turned over to the police of the Fourth street
station and sent to St. John's Hospital for examination, as it was
believed he was suffering from the effects of a drug. The doctors at
the hospital said he was suffering from alcholism.
In the Long Island City police court this morning he said he was Homer
WESTFALL, an expert chemist, stopping at the Park Avenue Hotel,
Manhattan. He wore and Elk pin of Lodge 693, Grand Rapids, Mich.
He was fined for intoxication.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF.
-George MILLER, 10 years old, of 220 Franklin street, Astoria, fell from
a pile of lumber in Wardell street, Long Island City, yesterday
afternoon and sustained concussion of the brain. He was removed to St.
John's Hospital.
-Augustine LOCCONIE, 28 years old, of 26 Marion street, Long Island
City, while engaged yesterday screening sand at Jamaica avenue and
Sherman street the bank caved in upon him, fracturing his left thigh.
He was removed to St. John's Hospital.
-The police have been asked to look for Pauline NICKEL, who has been
missing from her home, 104 Smith street, Evergreen, since Sunday last.
She is 15 years old, but looks older.
POST-EASTER ELECTIONS
At the annual Easter election for 1906, held April 18, in the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement, Seventeenth street, near
Fifth avenue, the Rev. e. Horner WELLMAN, Ph.D., rector, the following
were duly elected:
Warden: Homer H. WELLMAN, A. SIMPSON;
Vestrymen:
George COLLINS,
James R. DEADS,
Frederick FITCHTELMAN,
W.H.JANES,
N.A. MULRADY,
James J. THORNLEY and F.D. WELLING.
ARRESTED FOR ROBBING HIS EMPLOYER OF $1,500
Louis PRITCHARD, of 239 East Eighteenth street, Manhattan, was arrested
to-day on complaint of Henry PHILCHBORN, a wholesale dealer in women's
clothing, at 12 West Twenty-third street, Manhattan, by whom PRITCHARD
was formerly employed as a shipping clerk. It is alleged that by the
aid of a companion he stole goods to the value of $1,500. A bonding
company, which went on PRITCHARD's bond, has paid $1,000 to his
employer.
PLAYING WITH BONFIRE MAY COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Five-year-old Alford KELLAR, of 473 Essex street, was probably fatally
burned to-day while playing around a bonfire. August SWANSON, of 37
Rapelyea street, and Walter KELLY, of 195 Thatford street, who beat out
the flames, were severely burned about the hands.
SOCOLOV IS NOW KNOWN AT SOKOLOFF
Declaring that his name constantly held him up to contempt and ridicule
because of its foreign character and because it was difficult to
pronounce and was mostly misspelled, Louis SOCOLOV, 44 years old, of
644 Driggs avenue, petitioned Supreme Court Justice MADDOX for
permission to change his name to Louis SOKOLOFF. SOCOLOV was born in
Preluk, Russia. He says he is a salesman and in injured in his
business by his last name. He deposed that he has two grown-up sons,
one a clerk in the General Post Office, Manhattan, and another in a
large insurance company, who have already changed their names to
SOKOLOFF. Justice MADDOX granted the petition.
20 April 1906
NEW YORK SLEUTH GOT OUT DAY BEFORE DISASTER.
A New York detective, Theodore SNYDER, attached to headquarters in
Manhattan, had a narrow escape from the Frisco* disaster, and Inspector
MCLAUGHLIN, who had been worrying about him, [story continues on
another page not copied]...
*San Franciscans do NOT refer to their city as 'Frisco'.
VIBRATIONS RECORDED IN MANHATTAN SUBWAY
Chief Engineer RICE has reported to the Rapid Transit Commission that
vibrations of the earth, coming from the San Francisco earthquake, were
recorded in the subway at Thirty-third street on Wednesday morning. At
this station a crude instrument has been placed to record vibrations
caused by the blasting in the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal
excavation at Ninth avenue. Mr. RICE produced blueprints, showing that
the needle had recorded pronounced vibrations from 8:31 to 8:45
Wednesday morning, which time corresponds with the registrations of the
seismographs at Washington and Albany.
"The vibratory wave took exactly nineteen minutes to travel to New
York," said Mr. RICE.
GIRL TRIES TO DIE BECAUSE TEACHER DOESN'T LIKE HER
Twelve-year-old Rosie ENDRES, of 48 Wyckoff avenue, gave as an excuse
in the Children's Court to-day for attempting suicide yesterday that
her teacher at school had a grudge against her.
"I have been disgusted with life for a long time," she declared.
After Rosie had trouble in school yesterday she went home and took
carbolic acid. The she screamed and her mother got a doctor who saved
her life. This morning she told Justice FLEMING that she was sorry for
what she had done and was paroled in the custody of her mother.
WAYLAID AND ROBBED BY JAY STREET FOOTPADS
Robert TAFNEY, 21 years old, and James O'TOOLE, 18, were held for
examination in the Adams street court to-day on a charge of assault and
robbery. George W. FLETCHER, of 241 Sumner avenue, says the two young
men knocked him down in Jay street last night and robbed him as he lay
on the sidewalk.
ALARM OUT FOR BOY OFF TO CALIFORNIA
The police of the Bath Beach station to-day sent out an alarm for
Thomas FARLEY, 14 years old, of Bay Eleventh street, who ran away from
home yesterday morning. He talked of going out to California.
CABLES AN OLD FRIEND $1,000 TO AID 'FRISCO
Municipal Justice William RASQUIN, an old friend of the PRICE family,
yesterday received a telegram from the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough,
who was the widow of the late Louis C. HAMMERSLEY, of New York, and
originally Miss Lillian PRICE, of Troy, asking him to pay on her
behalf, $1,000 for the relief of sufferers at San Francisco.
The cablegram was received in Flushing yesterday afternoon and was
acted upon to-day. It was sent from Deepdene, Dorking, England.
Justice RASQUIN is an old friend of the PRICE family.
TROLLEY AND FREIGHT COLLIDE, 2 HURT
Legs of Policeman and Motorman Fractured---Passengers Cut.
ANOTHER BRIDGE CAR ABLAZE
Second in Thirty-six Hours on the Williamsburg Structure
Policeman Ignatz FUDZINSKI, of the Newtown precinct, is in St.
Catharine's Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg which he
received early to-day when a car of the Grand street line on which he
was a passenger crashed into a freight car standing on a siding at
Grand street and Newtown Creek. The motorman of the car, Eugene HAHN,
of 207 Helen street, also received a fracture of his right leg and was
taken to the hospital.
The car, which was in charge of Motorman HAHN and Conductor Richard
BLAKE, was on its way to Newtown when the accident occurred. Policeman
FUDZINSKI was standing on the front platform with the motorman. The
freight car had pulled into the switch in front of the passenger car
and the spur of the switch had not been thrown back.
The Grand street car was under good headway when it struck the switch.
There were half a dozen passengers abroad. The passenger car struck
the freight car with sufficient force to wreck the front platform, and
FUDZINSKI and HAHN were pinned in the wreckage. The passengers were
hurled from their seats.
After the two cars had been hauled apart, a call was sent for the
ambulance of St. Catharine's Hospital and Ambulance Surgeon RYAN
responded. He found Policeman FUDZINSKI unconscious, and after
attending to some of the passengers, who had been slightly cut by
flying glass, he removed him and HAHN to the hospital. Later the
motorman was taken to his home.
CAR ABLAZE ON BRIDGE
For the second time within thirty-six hours a car was ablaze on the
Williamsburg Bridge this morning. The car, one of the Ralph avenue
line, in charge of Motorman George HARRIS, blew out a fuse while on its
way from Manhattan near the Manhattan tower. As the smoke came up
through the floor of the car the passengers ran to the rear platform
and made their way to the south roadway.
Policeman HAGER, of the bridge squad, telephoned to James CLARK, the
superintendent of the bridge, and the chemical engine was ordered out.
When the engine arrived the lower part of the car was burning lively,
but it was quickly extinguished.
21 April 1906
ANOTHER BOMB FOR FULTON ST. HOTEL.
An explosive bomb, the second to be found on the premises within two
weeks, was discovered this morning in the vestibule of the Hotel
Lafayette, Fulton and Crescent streets, East New York, by Leonard
CUZZUBBO, who was on his way to the dining room on the ground floor.
The partially burned section of newspaper containing the bomb
indicated that some one had tried to set if off with the intention of
causing a scare among the guests and employes. Holes were singed in
the carpet and the rug where the bomb lay, but for some reason the long
fuse had failed to carry the flame to the black powder contained in the
one and three-quarter inch brass tube which was nine inches long.
Mr. CUZZUBBO hastily notified an employe of his discovery and the
police were called in. After a hurried investigation the bomb was
taken to the Liberty avenue station, thence to the bureau of
combustibles at Fire Headquarters.
The first bomb found in the hotel less than two weeks ago was picked
up at the foot of the main staircase. It had been fashioned out of a
small metal can. The police had since learned that several months ago
a male employe, who was discharged by the proprietor, made threats on
leaving.
Less than four weeks ago a powder bomb made out of a shaving soap case
was received in the afternoon mail by J. Henry CARSTENS, another hotel
proprietor almost opposite at Crescent and Glenn streets. Had this
bomb been opened by Mr. CARSTENS in the manner intended by the sender
there certainly would have been an explosion that might have
permanently injured the recipient.
MARRIED
COE-SMITH.--- On Wednesday, April 20, 1906, at the residence of the
bride's parents, 1213 Dean street, Brooklyn, by the Rev. R.W.M. BLACK,
assisted by the Rev. James SMITH, Evelyn CROSBY, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert C. SMITH, to Benjamin S. COE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
L. COE, of Waterbury, Conn.
GIRL STENOGRAPHER AND BOY FOUND STABBED
Both Say Man Attacked Them, But Police Believe They Had a Quarrel.
A strange story is told by Bella HECHT, 15 years old, who is in a
critical condition in the Hudson Street Hospital, Manhattan, as the
result of stab wounds. She and Jacob MEYROWITZ, of the same age, were
found badly wounded in the office of MEYROWITZ Brothers, 37 Maiden
Lane, Manhattan, yesterday afternoon, by Walter SCOTT, who has offices
in the building. The boy is a nephew of the head of the firm and the
girl lives at 91 Court street, Brooklyn.
When questioned by the Coroner in the hospital, both told the same
story, that a man jumped into the office through a window and stabbed
them with a knife he took from the cash drawer and them made his
escape. The police are inclined to discredit this story.
The stabbing occurred during lunch hour when Rose MEYROWITZ, who has
charge of the office, was out.
SCOTT told police he heard screams and running downstairs he found the
girl supporting herself against the wall in the hall. According to
SCOTT, she shrieked "He tried to put a towel over my mouth!" SCOTT
found young MEYROWITZ lying on the office floor. He says the boy
grabbed a knife and made a lunge at his leg. He disarmed the boy and
sent for an ambulance and called the police.
Detective THAYER, of the Old Slip station, says he learned that the
boy and girl quarreled. His theory is that the boy stabbed the girl,
who, being the stronger, disarmed him and fought back with the knife.
The girl's mother said her daughter had several times mentioned the boy
and had hinted that he had quarreled with her, but never to a serious
extent. She had been in the employ of the firm only five weeks, and
was working as a stenographer.
None of the boy's wounds in serious. The most serious wound received
by the girl was in the abdomen, and it was found necessary to perform
an operation. Jacob was slashed in the leg and chest.
RELATIVES IN BROOKLYN ALARMED AT NO NEWS.
The Standard Union has received a number of anxious inquiries from
residents of Brooklyn concerning the safety of relatives and friends in
the adjoining cities and towns of San Francisco and in some localities
as far south as Los Angeles. Those who have relatives on the Pacific
coast should bear in mind that the principal disaster has fallen upon
San Francisco. Because of the collapse of the telegraphic service in
that city it is practically impossible to send messages from or to
there. Even if messages could be received in the devastated metropolis
there is no way of delivering them, as thousands of homes have been
destroyed and the families scattered in all directions. The
probability is in favor of supposition that all afflicted persons who
have not notified their relatives and friends in Eastern cities have
not been able to either send a telegram or a letter, but that they are
still in the land of the living. It is best to adopt this view until
definite news to the contrary or word has been received from the
missing ones, which may be expected in from one to three weeks.
There should be no anxiety over persons in Southern California, as that
section has wholly escaped any damage from earthquake. Pasadena is a
suburb of Los Angeles, and all the towns and cities in that section are
just as full of life and prosperity as they were before the earthquake
ruined the northern metropolis.
-Gardiner D. MATTHEWS, whose son and family are in Pasadena, has been
delighted to reply to the numerous inquiries of their friends that they
are safe in that city. John A. MATTHEWS, who had planned to spend this
week in San Francisco, happily changed his mind and escaped the
possibility of suffering, injury or death.
-Mrs. Ellen LEONARD, of 326 Leonard street, is informed that the
reported loss of life in Santa Cruz is exaggerated. Michael LEONARD
and Mrs. FRANCIS, in the absence of definite information to the
contrary, may be regarded as safe in that city, and the same may be
said of Thomas O'CONNOR and Mrs. CARSON in Alameda, the latter city
suffering little damage from the disaster which has overtaken the bay
sections of the Golden Gate.
The general situation of the country in the bay section and Southern
California may be inferred from the telegram received at the New York
office of the Santa Fe Railroad regarding the passenger train service
to the coast points. The telegram, which is from General Passenger
Agent CONNELL reads:
"The Santa Fe is open to Point Richmond for passenger traffic. All
trains running as scheduled, and ferry between Point Richmond and
Market street, San Francisco, is in operation. At present authorities
prevent people entering San Francisco, but it is expected restrictions
will be removed within two or three days. Our service to Los Angeles,
San Diego and San Francisco has not been disturbed or interrupted."
WOMAN HIT BY AUTO REFUSED TO PROSECUTE
Frank SANDFORD, of 531 East 142d street, Manhattan, was discharged
to-day in the Adams street court on the statement made by Patrolman
WHITE, who arrested him, that Mrs. Itel JACOBS, of 115 Clark street,
did not desire to make any complaint.
SANDFORD was driving an automobile up Fulton street last night,
accompanied by a woman. Mrs. JACOBS, who is 60 years old, was crossing
Fulton, at Clinton street, when the auto knocked her down. She
sustained painful but not serious injuries. SANDFORD was arrested.
NURSE HELD UP; THUGS ESCAPE IN HANSOM
Returning to her home at 105 West Forty-seventh street, Manhattan, at
dawn this morning, after watching all night by the bedside of a patient
in Brooklyn, Miss Lena ALVERSON, a trained nurse, was held up and
robbed at Forty-fifth street and Sixth avenue. Two men sprang at her
from a doorway, and after snatching her pocketbook, jumped into a cab
and were rapidly driven towards Fifth avenue. The thieves wore opera
hats and one of them carried a gold-mounted cane.
Miss ALVERSON screamed and Patrolman MAHONEY ran up. While she was
relating the robbery, a hansom drove up and Miss ALVERSON said that it
was the one in which the thieves had escaped. The driver was arrested.
He said he was James STAFFORD, 28 years old, of 168 West Forty-sixth
street.
AGED WOMAN FOUND BROOKLYN CHANGED
Policeman MARSHALL, of the Bradford avenue station, early to-day found
an old woman wandering in a dazed condition in the neighborhood of
North Sixth street and Kent avenue. He took her to the station house,
where she said she was Mrs. Wilhelmina HINDERLEIN, 80 years old, and
that many years ago she lived with a family names HALE in the
Fourteenth Ward.
After leaving Brooklyn the woman went to live with a daughter in
Boston. Recently, she said, she decided to return to the HALE family,
and came to New York yesterday on one of the Fall River boats. After
leaving the pier she became confused, and on reaching the Eastern
District could not recall the street in which the HALEs lived. She
said she thought she would be able to reach the house by old landmarks,
but that the streets have changed so since she was here that she lost
her way.
The old woman was without money, and when she was taken before
Magistrate FURLONG, in the Lee avenue court, on a charge of vagrancy,
it was decided to send her to the care of the Charity Society until her
relatives can be informed of her plight.
NEGRO ESCAPES AFTER ATTACKING SERVANT
While returning from a visit to a friend last evening, at 8 o'clock,
Louisa OTT, a servant in the employ of Herman LUDERMAN, of Eighty-third
street and Eleventh avenue, was attacked by a negro at Eighty-fourth
street between Second and Third avenues. The negro escaped.
The girl, in a fainting condition, reached the home of her employer,
and Mr. LUDERMAN notified the police of the Eighty-sixth street
station. Ambulance Surgeon LIVINGSTON, of the Norwegian Hospital, was
called to attend the girl at the station house and pronounced her in a
serious nervous condition. She was taken to the hospital and is better
to-day. Detectives are searching for the negro, but Miss OTT thinks
she would probably not be able to identify the negro.
SAILOR, REPORTED MISSING THOUGHT TO BE DROWNED
Jacob ANDERSON, a sailor, 60 years old, who was employed on a scow at
the foot of Twenty-fourth street, has been reported to the police as
missing. A pair of shoes supposed to have belonged to him were found
on the dock, and the supposition is that he has been drowned.
DYING, SHE FORGIVES BRUTAL HUSBAND
In Rage He Knocks Down and Kicks Mother of His Fourteen Children
HER ONLY THOUGHT OF THEM
If He'll Be Good to Them She Will Die Happy
Charged with assaulting his wife, who is the mother of fourteen
children, Philip HAMMER, 45 years old, a foreman, of 225 Cook street,
was held without bail to await the result of his wife's injuries in the
Manhattan avenue court to-day by Magistrate NAUMER. Mrs. HAMMER is in
the Eastern District Hospital, where her antemortem statement was taken
to-day by Coroner KENNEDY.
HAMMER returned home early yesterday afternoon. He had some words
with his wife. Then, it is alleged, he knocked her down and kicked her
in the abdomen. Neighbors interfered and the ambulance was summoned
from St. Catharine's Hospital. When Dr. DE VERONA arrived he found the
woman in a serious condition, but she refused to go to the hospital,
saying she had to take care of her children.
Later the woman's condition became so alarming that the Eastern
District ambulance was called and Dr. FRIEDMAN hurried her to the
hospital. There is was found that she would probably die, and the
police and the coroner were notified. HAMMER was arrested and taken
before his wife for identification. At the bedside she said she would
forgive her husband if he would promise to care for the children when
she was gone.
To-day Mrs. HAMMER was very weak and the doctors do not think that she
will live many hours.
THREE NEGROES ACCUSED OF ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
Charles JONES, George MIDGET and Jesse MEYER, all colored, of West
Third street and Park place, Coney Island, were held in $500 bail for
examination next Wednesday by Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney Island
court to-day on the complaint of William JOHNSON, also colored, who
accused them of attacking him on Surf avenue Thursday night and robbing
him of $7.50.
FAMILY OF MISSING GEORGE SHARP IS IN WANT
George SHARP, a pressman on a Manhattan newspaper, has been missing
from his home, 95 Dean street, for two weeks, and his wife, Mrs. Adele
SHARP, is in straitened circumstances. Her four small children are
suffering from measles. SHARP received $42 for repairing a cottage in
Arverne, and since then she has not heard from him. Before leaving, he
pawned her clothing. She then tried to support her sick children with
the money earned by her aged mother.
TWO SERGEANT MCADOO RETIRED ARE RESTORED
Supreme Court Justice GARRETSON has granted peremptory writs of
mandamus compelling Police Commissioner BINGHAM to reinstate Sergts.
Henry HURLBUT and Daniel J. REARDON to duty. They were retired last
May for physical disability. This was consequent on the decision of
the Court of Appeals in the Metcalf car.
BROWNSVILLE - BOY CUTS HIS FOOT RUNNING FROM OFFICER
While trying to escape from an office of the Brownsville police
station yesterday afternoon, Louis BERKOWITZ, 10 years old, trod on a
piece of glass at the corner of Thatford and Belmont avenues and
lacerated his right foot. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
MCQUEENEY at the station house and removed to the Bradford Street Hospital.
RICHARDS' FRIENDS TO SEE HIM TACKLE MULE
Several hundren residents of Brownsville will surely attend the
performance at a local theatre on Thursday evening next, when John
RICHARDS, formerly of Brownsville, will compete in an attempt to ride
a wild mule. The manager has offered a reward of $100 for a successful
rider. RICHARDS who was born in the West, declares he can to the stunt.
OFFICER USED SAND TO KILL A TAR FIRE
Offficer UHLIG, of the Brownsville station, had his hans full yesterday
afternoon when several small boys started a fire in a vacant lot at the
corner of Osborn street and Liberty avenue. Some one left a barrel of
tar there and the boys touched a match to it. The neighborhood was
full of smoke when the officer arrived on the scene, and he immediately
extinguished the blaze with sand, much to the sorrow of the
aforementioned small boys.
GREENPOINT -HAS HIS HEAD CUT OPEN IN MELEE OF GREEKS.
An altercation between two Greeks in the lumber yard at Manhattan
avenue and West street last night resulted in a general battle between
friends of the combatants. Michael SLOZENSKI received a bad cut in the
head with a knife. He appeared in the Manhattan avenue court this
morning as complainant against Michael GERDICH, 35 years old, of 29
Avenue C, Manhattan, who, he declared, wielded the knife. GERDICH and
SLOZENSKI quarreled about a trivial matter and the friends of each took
part in the fight that followed. When Patrolman MCCORMICK, of the
Greenpoint avenue station, arrived on the scene he found SLOZENSKI
lying on the ground with his head cut open. All the others had taken
to their heels. He succeeded in catching GERDICH, however. The latter
was held by Magistrate NAUMER in $1,000 bail for examination.
PEACEMAKER SPENDS NIGHT IN POLICE CELL
Because he played the part of peacemaker to a crowd of boys last night
on Manhattan avenue, Cornelius O'NEIL, 22 years old, of 23 Maujer
street, was arrested and locked up on a charge of disorderly conduct.
O'NEIL went in among the boys and tried to stop their blows. He was
the only one who stood his ground when Patrolman James EAGEN, of the
Greenpoint avenue station, ran up. O'NEIL's protests that he was not
concerned in the hostilities except as a peacemaker did no good and he
was hustled off to the station. Magistrate NAUMER discharged him this
morning in the Manhattan avenue police court.
22 April 1906
ENGAGED.
WINFIELD-LAMPE.--The engagement is announced of Miss Agatha LAMPE, the
well known elocutionist of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and
daughter of Henry LAMPE, of 62 South Fourth st., Brooklyn, to Mr.
Charles Douglas WINFIELD, of Brooklyn.
JEWELRY STOLEN WHILE THE KIRCHMANS SLEPT
Nathan KIRCHMAN reported to the Brownsville police yesterday that his
home of the first floor of 66 Anthony street, had been entered early
yesterday morning while the family were asleep, and several pieces of
jewelry taken. Detectives CONNELLY and CONLY were assigned to the case.
POLICEMAN RUN DOWN BY AUTO HE WAS PURSUING.
While chasing an automobile that was exceeding the speed limit
yesterday, on Jerome avenue, Bronx, Bicycle Policeman GOLDMAN fell
beneath the machine and was badly injured. He was removed to the
Fordham Hospital.
NO WORD FROM BROTHER IN STRICKEN CITY
Police Sergeant STRACHAN, of the Sheepshead Bay station, is anxiously
awaiting news from his brother who was located in business on Water
street, San Francisco.
JOSEPH BALMER GIVES HUNDRED DOLLAR CHECK
Joseph BALMER, proprietor of the BALMER bathing pavilion at Coney
Island, yesterday gave the Rev. William D. HUGHES, a member of the
Thirty-first Ward Board of Trade, a check for $100 for the relief of
the San Francisco sufferers.
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SOUTH BROOKLYN- SHOOTING GALLERY "BOOSTER" THUMPED SLEUTH'S JAW
Harry DICKES, 20 years old, of 154 Rivington street, was arrested last
night by Detective Richard SANGUNITTO, of the Detective Bureau, at
Coney Island, charged with disorderly conduct.
It appears that DICKES is a "booster" at one of the shooting galleries
and during an argument attracted a crowd. He was ordered to move on by
the detective, but replied with his fist, landing one SANGUNITTO's jaw.
SANGUNITTO, who is an athletic young man, was able to cope with the
situation and in a short time DICKES was occupying a cell in the Coney
Island station. When searched a revolver was found in his pocket,
which he said he had won while "boosting" at the shooting gallery.
FIRED AT PEDDLER WITH HIS SHOTGUN
Valentino DE AMBROSSIO, 48 years old, of 2628 West Fifteenth street,
was arrested late yesterday afternoon by the police of the Coney Island
station, charged with attempted felonious assault by Louis LOTTO, a
peddler, of 177 Moore street.
According to the story told by LOTTO, he with his partner, Thomas
FEELEY, of 63 Central avenue, while peddling in West Fifteenth street,
was called into DE AMBROSSIO's store by the latter's wife and
questioned as to the price of potatoes. He says after an agreement had
been made as to a barrel, an argument followed. DE AMBROSSIO, is it
said, went to the rear room, returned with a double barreled shot gun
and threatened to shoot LOTTO. Mrs. DE AMBROSSIO grabbed her husband
to prevent him shooting LOTTO, and in the melee that followed the gun
was discharged. The contents narrowly missed LOTTO and lodged in the
wall behind him.
DE AMBROSSIO will be taken before Magistrate VOORHEES this morning.
WOMAN BADLY BURNED; SAYS HUSBAND THREW LAMP
Mrs. Bridget KEINS, of 34 Sumpter street, was removed to the Cumberland
Street Hospital last night, badly burned about the head and body,
after, as she claimed, her husband, Thomas, had thrown a lighted lamp
at her. The dress worn by Mrs. KEINS, which became saturated with
kerosene oil, caught fire. Patrolman PETERS arrested KEINS after his
wife had preferred a charge of assault.
UNCONSCIOUS IN STREET; STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY
An unknown woman, about 50 years old, was found unconscious at the
corner of Central avenue and Cooper street, last night. She was well
dressed, but there was nothing about her to lead to her identification.
People on the street noticed the woman stagger and then fall. The
ambulance was called from the German Hospital, and Ambulance Surgeon
AVERY took her to the hospital. There it was found that the woman had
suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
SMALL BOY IN RUNAWAY THROWN OUT AND HURT.
A horse, owned and driven by Andrew KEENEY, of 590 Dean street, ran
away yesterday afternoon at Dean street and Carlton avenue. William
MCGINTY, 10 years old, of 503 Dean street, was thrown from the wagon
and sustained a severe scalp wound. He was removed to St. John's
Hospital.
MAN AND BOY TRYING DOORS HAD DAGGERS
Detectives CARAO and SIMONETTI, of the local Detective Bureau, on a job
last night in Union, near Van Brunt street, saw two men trying doors.
They took them to Police Headquarters. Each had a dagger and a bunch
of keys. One of the prisoners gave his name as Vincenzo MONZULLA, 43
years old, whom CARAO recognized as an ex-convict recently released
from a three years' sentence for burglary. The other prisoner gave his
name as Ferdinand BALLASTIERE, 17 years old, of 23 President street.
They were locked up.
CAUGHT BOY ON BICYCLE THAT HAD BEEN STOLEN
Guilbert LE NOIR, of 656 Vanderbilt avenue, left his bicycle on the
curb in front of 127 Court street last night. When he came out the
wheel was gone. Detective BURNS, of the Adams street station, found
Benjamin GEASIN, 16 years old, of 240 Sackett street, with the wheel in
Myrtle avenue, and arrested him. Mr. LE NOIR identified his wheel and
young GLEASON [different spelling] was locked up.
GET THREE WITH A STOLEN SILVER SERVICE
Emil LOESER, 21 years old; Edward GOLDEN, 19, and Michael RICE, alias
RESITELLO, 23, were arrested yesterday by Detectives GRAY, MCCLOSKEY,
Ed. MURPHY and James RALEIGH, of Brooklyn Headquarters, while trying to
dispose of a solid silver tea service in a store on Atlantic avenue.
The property belonged to William PRAEGER, of 120 East Seventy-fourth
street, whose house was entered Friday night by prying a rear basement
window.
WISHED BOYS JAILED ON "SUSPICION" ONLY
Julius GLAZIER, who has charge of a small fair on Atlantic avenue,
caused the arrest of two small boys who were taken to the Adams street
station last night by Patrolman Frank YUNKER. GLAZIER said that they
had broken into a box at the rear of his tent. When asked if he would
make a complaint by Sergt. MCNULTY he refused.
"I don't want to make any complaint. Can't you lock them up on
suspicion?"
Sergt. MCNULTY refused to lock the boys up "on suspicion" and told
them to run home.
WOMAN ACCUSES HIM OF STEALING HER SAVINGS.
Michael POLOCK, of 182 East Houston street, Manhattan, was arrested
yesterday by Detective Sergeant BUTTLE on complaint of Flora LEBEWITZ,
of 1225 Manhattan avenue, on a charge of grand larceny. She alleges
that POLOCK last December induced her to draw $400 from the bank on a
promise of a better investment and disappeared with the money.
WILLIAM GRAY'S FAMILY IS SAFE
Receives Telegram From His Son, Who Is in the Stricken City.
HAS 27 RELATIVES THERE
Also Gets Letter Telling of Glorious Easter Sunday.
"San Francisco, Cal., April 20, '06.
"William Gray, 150 St. James place, Brooklyn, N.Y.:
"Fire under control; all well; don't worry. WILLIAM GRAY"
This telegram was received yesterday by William GRAY, secretary of the
National Association of Retail Grocers of the United States, from his
son, William, who is a member of the firm of GOLDBERG, BOWEN & Co., of
San Francisco.
This large grocery concern announced on the first day of the disaster
that its stock was at the disposal of the city authorities, but before
nightfall its buildings were consumed by the fire.
Mr. GRAY has twenty-seven relatives in San Francisco and its vicinity,
and until the telegram was received he feared that the worst had
befallen them. Mr. GRAY's son and his family live in Mill Valley, down
the bay a few miles [transcriber's note: actually it's north] from the
city of San Francisco. He also has a daughter, Mrs. Albert LEE, living
at 1993 Green street; two sisters, Mrs. Jennie GRAY and Mrs. William P.
LENFESTY, of 1900 Green street, near Van Ness avenue. Mrs. LENFESTY
has three married children, two of them living near her with their
families, and one living in Oakland.
Mr. GRAY also received a letter this morning from his sister, Miss
Jennie GRAY, dated April 15. In it she speaks of the perfect weather
there last Sunday and the beautiful sight the women of San Francisco
presented as they thronged the promenades dressed in their Easter
finery. She says: "It was an ideal day here in this beautiful city by
the Golden Gate. The weather was warm and mild and the sun shone
brightly all day on the gayly dressed, light hearted women and girls
dressed in their Easter suits of bright colors who promenaded the
thoroughfare with their escorts. You must certainly envy us here, as I
promise in New York spring will not begin for another month."
Mr. GRAY in speaking of the disaster said that when he visited San
Francisco twenty years ago, he warned his brother-in-law, Mr. LENFESTY,
that some day the city would be visited by an earthquake which would
play havoc with the frame buildings there.
WILLIE COLLIER AND HIS COMPANY ESCAPE
Word was received by Charles FROHMAN last night that William COLLIER
and the company who left New York some days ago, intending to tour
Australia, and who were thought to have been lost in the San Francisco
disaster, had escaped all injury. Luckier that the Metropolitan Opera
singer, they saved most of their baggage. They were to have sailed for
Sydney last Thursday, but it is thought this plan was abandoned.
Information on that point was not received.
NEW YORKERS WHO ARE HURRYING HOMEWARD
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.--The following passengers left San Francisco
last night, bound for New York City, on the Santa Fe train. They were
all in the earthquake disaster: Mr. and Mrs. J.L. RUSSELL, Edwin
GOLDMAN, J.J. MCINTYRE, W.C. LUTZ, C. CHAPMAN.
TULARE, Cal., April 21.--These persons who were in the earthquake
disaster left San Francisco for New York City by a train on the Santa
Fe Railroad: Louis STRAUSS, Theodore E. BURNES, Mr. and Mrs. W.H.
RANDALL, Nicholas MADDEN, J.E. HYNES.
LOS ANGELES, April 21.--Among the Eastern refugees who are here are:
Frank K. QUINN, shoe manufacturer, New York; D.B.CHANDLER, salesman,
New York; L. MONTEIM, W.P. GARWIN, F.J. HANOLD, Fred W. OWEN, Louis
WEIL, T.H. MITCHELL and wife, Winfield SCOTT and wife, Edgar ALLEN,
Emilie LA CROIX, Lillian May MOLLER, F.A. BAKER, Louis G. HIRSCH, L.H.
HEILBROTER, J.C. MONTGOMERY, G.E. ORR and A. DALRYMPLE, all New Yorkers.
W.J. QUINN, who is injured, is on a hospital train now proceeding from
Los Angeles to New York, where his father resides.
ARREST IN FULTON ST. BOMB CASE
Inventor, Former Patron of Lafayette Hotel, Accused of Planting
Explosives
SPITE CASE, SAY DETECTIVES
Attempt Made on Life of Another Saloonkeeper
On the charge of being the person who has been laying dangerous-looking
bombs in saloons in the vicinity of Fulton and Crescent streets for the
past month or so, Otto ADAMS, 47 years old, of 359 Van Siclen avenue,
was locked up last night in the Liberty avenue police station. ADAMS
swore that he never had seen a bomb of any description in all his life,
but on the testimony of Mrs. Celia KOERNER, of 233 Crescent street, he
was held and will be taken to the Gates avenue court this morning.
According to the complaint, ADAMS is said to have been detected in the
act of going into the Lafayette Hotel, at Fulton and Crescent streets,
yesterday morning acting in a suspicious manner. He denies this,
however. Ten minutes later Leonard CUZZUBBO, on his way downstairs,
stumbled over a hard substance on the ground floor, and discovered it
to be a brass tube nine inches long, which contained black powder. It
was wrapped tightly with a newspaper. A fuse had been lighted, but the
flame had not reached the powder. Several holes were burned in the
carpet.
There was a slight scare at this discovery, and the police were
hastily called in. The "cops" carefully picked up the bomb and took it
to the station house, where it was later transferred to the bureau of
combustibles at Fire Headquarters.
Another bomb was found in the same hotel less than two weeks ago, at
the foot a the rear stairway. It had been fashioned out of a small
metal can.
About a month ago a can full of powder was received in the mail by J.
Henry CARSTENS, a saloonkeeper, at Crescent and Glenn streets. Had the
bomb been opened in the manner desired by the sender, CARSTENS would
probably have been seriously hurt.
CARSTENS was a witness against ADAMS in a case of assault for which
the latter was arrested some time ago. ADAMS lived at the Lafayette
Hotel at the time. After his arrest he awoke the neighborhood one
night by firing his revolver out of the window. Roundsman RYAN, of the
Liberty avenue station, ran into his room and attempted to arrest him.
ADAMS then swore out a complaint against the policeman, on the charge
of unlawfully entering his room. The case came up before the Deputy
Police Commissioner, but RYAN was immediately discharged, as it was
proved that he had done nothing but his duty. ADAMS on the stand said
that the policeman had broken his watch and struck him on the face.
ADAMS claims to be an inventor. Detective BAKER, of the Central
office, and Detectives DOUGHERTY and STEVENS, of the Liberty avenue
station, who made the arrest, said that much evidence against him was
found last night in the room he formerly occupied in the Lafayette
Hotel. They said it is a "spite" case.
OUT OF "L" TRAIN INTO BEER WAGON UNHURT
Two-year-old Theodore SACHRIN, of 627 East 132d street, Manhattan, had
a miraculous escape from death yesterday. While riding on a Third
avenue elevated train in Manhattan, with his mother, Theodore fell from
a window, as the train was passing Sixteenth street. A brewery wagon
was standing in the street and the child landed on the hood of the
wagon. As the little one rolled from the canvas hood the driver caught
him in his arms, apparently uninjured.
The train was stopped at the next station, and the mother, with
several other persons, ran back, expecting to find the child dead. The
mother's joy at finding her child uninjured was manifested in profuse
thanks which she bestowed on the driver, Adolph LANGREHN, of 307 East
Ninety-first street.
CAPT. RIED'S GRAVE TO BE DECORATED.
He Was the Designer of the American Flag as it Now Stands.
MOUND HAS BEEN NEGLECTED
Exercises at National Cemetery on May 27.
The Memorial Committee of the Army and Navy Union of Greater New York
is making elaborate arrangements for the annual memorial exercises and
decoration of graves to be held in the National Cemetery, Cypress
Hills, on Sunday, May 27, at 2 P.M. Rev. Father John P. CHADWICK,
pastor of St. Ambrose R.C. Church, Manhattan, formerly chaplain of the
battleship Maine, and National Chaplain of the Army and Navy Union,
will be orator of the day. The Honorary Committee will include Gen.
Horatio C. KING, of the Medal of Honor League; National Commander
Joseph W. RAY, of the Union Veteran Legion; Congressmen John J.
FITZGERALD and William M. CALDER, State Senator Charles COOPER,
Assemblymen Otto G. FOELKER and Thomas O'NEILL, James R. HOWE,
Controller Herman A. METZ, Past Senior Vice-Commander Champe S.
ANDREWS, of the United Spanish War Veterans; Dr. H.F. EICHAEKER, Major
Frank KECK and Albert E. KLEINERT.
One of the features of the parade preceding the exercises, which will
form promptly at 1:30 P.M., at Jamaica and Alabama avenues, will be the
George B. MCCLELLAN Garrison, No. 77, of Manhattan, composed entirely
of policemen who have honorably served their country in the army or
navy branch of the service, and are now members of the New York police
force. They will carry at the head of their column a handsome stand of
silk colors, recently donated by Mayor MCCLELLAN. They will be
commanded by Detective Sergeant B.A. FLOOD, of District Attorney
JEROME's office.
Another interesting feature of the parade will be 500 American
Volunteer Cadets, with their drum corps and field music, under the
command of Capt. Thomas H. AVERY, who is a member of Gen. George A.
CUSTER Garrison, No. 2, of Brooklyn. The Cadet National Guard, under
the command of Capts. W. ATWOOD FRENCH and John A. ANDERSON, will also
parade on this occasion.
The army will be represented by special detachments from Governor's
Island and Fort Hamilton and the navy by a special detachment of
marines and blue jackets from the local navy yard. Visiting garrisons
from Peekskill, Newburg, West Point and Albany will also be in line.
On the morning of May 27 a special detachment from CUSTER Garrison
will leave headquarters, room 2, Borough Hall, and proceed to Greenwood
Cemetery to mark and decorate the neglected grave of Capt. Samuel C.
RIED, U.S.N., who was the designer of the American flag as it now
stands.
23 April 1906
PARENTS BEAT MAN THEIR GIRL ACCUSES
On the complaint of thirteen-year-old Jennie RINGHARTZ, of 178 Nevins
street, George A. POPE, 52 years old, was held in $1,000 bail in the
Butler street court to-day on a charge of assault. POPE had boarded
with the RINGHARTZ family six years, and last night Mrs. RINGHARTZ met
him coming out of the girl's room. She flew at POPE and beat him with
her fists. Then the girl's father gave him some more and threw him into
the street and called a policeman.
SUNDAY WORKERS ARRESTED; DISTURBED CHURCH SERVICES
Charges with violating the Sunday law, six men were held for a hearing
in the Lee avenue court to-day by Magistrate TIGHE. They were arrested
yesterday after several members of St. John's Methodist Episcopal
Church, Bedford avenue and Wilson street, had reported to the police of
the Clymer street station that the workmen were making so much noise in
a house in Taylor street near the church that the services were
disturbed.
MRS. GERRIE TELLS STORY OF ALLEGED BLACKMAIL
Mrs. Amelia GERRIE, of 357 Halsey street, to-day told on the witness
stand before Judge ASPINALL in the County Court her story of how she
was alleged to have been blackmailed out of $500 by Benjamin MARKOWITZ,
of Nicholas avenue. She told how she first met MARKOWITZ in a Fulton
street car Oct. 1, 1904, when he introduces himself, so she declared,
as being a person who had met her before. She described how they got
off the car at Nostrand avenue, where they had refreshments.
"What kind of refreshments?" asked Lawyer RIDGWAY for the defendant.
"Oh, just soft drinks."
"In what kind of a place did you get the refreshments?"
"In a restaurant," replied the witness with evident hesitation.
Further questioning brought out the fact that the refreshment was had
in the rear room of a saloon and that Mrs. GERRIE paid for it.
Mrs. GERRIE told how their acquaintance had ripened into friendship
since that time, how defendant had said that he was in the "same boat
with her" [meaning that he also was divorced], and how he was manager
in an insurance company and would get her father a "good job," and how
he had lavished diamonds and silks on his divorced wife in the hope of
making life with her endurable. Mrs. GERRIE declares that MARKOWITZ so
won her confidence that she loaned him money to the extent of $500, she
declaring that defendant used threats when she refused to advance him
sums. The case is still on.
SOUTH BROOKLYN - JOCKEY ISAAC PRESTON UNCONSCIOUS TEN DAYS
Isaac PRESTON, the 14-year-old jockey, who was thrown from a
two-year-old race horse on the Ocean Parkway ten days ago, is still
unconscious in the Kings County Hospital.
GREENPOINT - AUTO STRIKES OLD MAN AND SPEEDS ON
Gaston KENICHNER, 66 years old, of 114 Greenpoint avenue, while
crossing the street at Greenpoint and Manhattan avenues, yesterday, was
struck by an automobile and received a fracture of the left leg and
foot. The occupants of the automobile escaped. KENICHNER was
attended, in the Greenpoint police station, by a surgeon from the
Eastern District Hospital and sent home.
GRADUATES' SOCIETY HONORS DR. CAMPBELL
Dr. John A. CAMPBELL, of Norman avenue, Greenpoint, one of the most
prominent physicians in that section, has been elected to honorary
membership in the New York Graduates' Society of McGill University of
Canada. He is the second physician to receive that honor.
...BOOTY OF A ROBBERY
Detective Sergeants FLAY, LANG and STRANSKY, of the Manhattan Central
Office, arrested yesterday Emil LOESSER, 20 years old, and Michael
REZTIPPELLO alias WRIGHT, 22 years old, of 376 Jay street, and Edward
GOLDEN, 29 years old, of 24 Johnson street, this borough, at the Jay
street address on suspicion of knowing something about the robbery of
the home of William CRAGER, at 129 West Seventy-fourth street,
Manhattan, on April 21. A search of the Jay street house revealed a
lot of silverware which was identified as having been the property of
Mr. CRAGER.
WOULDN'T HOLD HIM OF FATHER'S ACCUSATION
Robert TAFFENDA, a tailor, who has a shop at 23 DeKalb avenue, charged
his son David, who is married and lives on St. Edwards street, with
having discolored both his eyes, and cut his forehead. Mr. TAFFENDA,
who is whitehaired, insisted on pressing the charge despite the fact
that David looked as though he had come from the war, his head was so
bandanged [sic].
The facts brought out at the hearing convinced Magistrate O'REILLY
that David did not assault his father at all, and that his injuries
were caused by another young man who was trying to defend himself from
TAFFENDA's attacks with a poker.
David was discharged after swearing that he never laid his hand on his
father. He said he had been assaulted by a friend of his father after
his arrest on his father's charge. The testimony showed that a great
deal of mixed ale had been drunk, before the fight occurred.
ARRESTED AS BURGLARS; "SWAG" IN THEIR ROOM
Emil LOESER, 20 years old, who said he lived at 376 Jay street; Michael
RIZZITIO, alias RICE, giving the same address, and Edward GOLDMAN, of
Johnson street, were arrested to-day on a charge of burglary at William
PRAGER's home, 129 East Seventy-fourth street, Manhattan, on April 21.
Part of the loot, silver valued at several thousand dollars, was
recovered in the rooms occupied by LOESER and RIZZITIO. [see 2d
article above.]
MISSING BARTENDER MAY HAVE BEEN DROWNED
Michael COLLINS, a bartender, has been reported missing from his home,
169 Douglass street, since Saturday. A hat and coat, said to have
belonged to COLLINS, was picked up at a dock along Gowanus Canal
yesterday and the supposition is that he either jumped or fell
overboard.
Edward KELLY, 19 years old, a driver, who lived with his grandmother at
571 Butler street, had been reported missing since last Thursday.
PRISONER SAYS MAYOR IS FRIEND OF HIS.
John KREMMELBEIN, 35 years old, of 197 Avenue B, Manhattan, who says he
holds a responsible position with a gas company and is a friend of
Mayor MCCLELLAN, was in the Butler street court this morning charged
with raising a disturbance on a Culver train, this morning, by getting
into an argument with a guard. He was discharged.
RUN OVER BY CARRIAGE IN FRONT OF HER HOME.
While crossing the street in front of her home this morning Meta
SCHWARTZ, 8 years old, of 92 Seigel street, was knocked down and run
over by a light runabout driven by Louis FIEHN, of East Ninth street,
Manhattan. She received a fracture of the right leg and bruises about
the body.
NEGRO SLASHED BY HIS HOUSEKEEPER
Washington SPRATLEY, a negro, living at 197 Duffield street, quarreled
with his housekeeper, Charlotte SAUNDERS, last night. The result was
his removal to the Brooklyn Hospital with a slashed face. Charlotte,
who is a negress, used a razor on him. he alleges. The wound is not
dangerous.
DENOUNCES MAN ACCUSED OF ROBBING WASHWOMAN
John PENDERGAST, 29 years old, of 220 McDougall street, was held
without bail for examination April 26 by Magistrate FURLONG in the
Gates avenue court yesterday, on a charge of highway robbery preferred
by Lena WHITE, 28 years old, a washwoman, of 597 Hopkinson avenue, who
accused PENDERGAST of taking her pocketbook containing $9 at Blake and
Rockaway avenues, Saturday night.
Mrs. WHITE was on her way to the home of a customer when she met
PENDERGAST at the corner of Blake and Rockaway avenues. She stopped and
asked him which direction Sutter avenue was in, and he volunteered to
show her.
The man grabbed Mrs. WHITE by the arm and after throwing her to the
street, wrenched the pocketbook from her hand and ran. Her cries
attracted a policeman who was standing a block away, and he caught the
highwayman.
In court yesterday PENDERGAST denied the charge made against him.
"I think you are the meanest kink of a thief," said Magistrate
FURLONG, "and I am going to hold you without bail. You won't get a
chance to get out of jail, if I can help it."
POLICEMEN ROUND UP LOT OF ALLEGED CRAP SHOOTERS
There was a great showing of activity in South Brooklyn yesterday
against gamblers. Policemen John MEYER and Benjamin LOEFFLER, of the
Fifth avenue station, in plain clothes arrested seventeen men in a
place said to be kept by Charles MILLER in Forty-eighth street, between
Eighth and Ninth avenues. They found nine men shooting crap. With
drawn revolvers they prevented the players from escaping. MILLER was
arrested, and in the Butler street court to-day was held on the charge
of keeping a gambling resort. The other prisoners were discharged.
At Fourth avenue and Thirty-second street the same policemen rounded
up Joseph WRIGLEY, of 178 Thirty-first street, and three others, and at
Fifty-third street and Second avenue they arrested John MILLER, of 318
Fifty-sixth street, and three others. All were charged with shooting
crap, but escaped with a reprimand to-day.
GALA NIGHT FOR BURGLARS IN EXCLUSIVE SECTIONS
Among the robberies reported at Police Headquarters to-day, was that of
Abel GILBERTZ, 684 St. Marks avenue. Thieves entered his home last
night through a basement window, after which they went to the third
floor, which was ransacked. More than $1,000 worth of valuables were
carted away. Robberies were also reported at 462 Hancock, 342
Jefferson avenue, and 200 McDonough street. Most of the losses were
very small.
O'REILLY ARRESTED MAN WHO CALLED HIM A DUB.
Alonzo HATCH, 45 years old, a broken down actor who lives at 2222
Fulton street, spoted [sic] a benevolent looking gray-haired man
standing at the corner of Ralph avenue and Halsey street about 8
o'clock last night. He approached the stranger and asked him for five
cents to get a drink.
"Do you think you could get a drink on Sunday if you had a nickel?"
asked the old man.
"It would be a cinch," replied HATCH. "The captain of this precinct,
O'REILLY, is a dub and the saloons are wide open."
"Is that so," said the white-haired man. "Well, allow me to introduce
myself. I am the dub you speak of . You're a panhandler and you're
under arrest."
In court this morning HATCH admitted that he had been begging.
Magistrate VOORHEES gave him two days in jail to sober up.
OLD MAN TOPPLES FROM "L" STATION TO TRACKS
While waiting for a Fulton street elevated train at the Ralph avenue
station, this morning, Peter ECKLER, 84 years old, of 44 McDougall
street, was taken ill and fell from the station to the tracks. When
attended by Ambulance Surgeon PARKER, of St. Mary's Hospital, the old
man was found to be suffering from shock and wounds of the face and
body. He was taken to the hospital.
GRANT'S WIFE VANISHES; THINKS SHE ELOPED
Mrs. Elizabeth GRANT, wife of George R. GRANT, of 76 India street,
Greenpoint, disappeared from her home last Wednesday night.
GRANT says that ever since Jan. 1 his wife has been nagging him to
allow her to take a boarder. She said the man offered $7 a week, and
she was insistent on taking him. GRANT did not know who the proposed
boarder was, and furthermore he told his wife he wouldn't have a
boarder in the house at any price.
Wednesday night, he says, after he went to bed about 11:30 o'clock,
his wife came into the room with her hat and coat on, told him she was
going to leave for good, and walked out. He dressed quickly and
started after her, but she had eluded pursuit.
The GRANTs have two little daughters aged 2 and 5 years. From the
oldest girl GRANT has learned that a Greenpoint man had been a frequent
visitor to the house, and GRANT is inclined to believe that his wife
has eloped.
Mrs. GRANT's parents, who are wealthy, are greatly wrought up over the
affair. Her maiden name was BRICKNER and she is 26 years old. Before
leaving she told her husband she would send for her clothes. She has
not done so as yet.
POLICEMAN FEARS FOR HIS BROTHER'S LIFE
Patrolman NICHOLSON, of the Coney Island precinct, is anxiously
awaiting news of his brother, who resided in the destroyed district of
San Francisco.
CAME HOME DRUNK AND SHE ARRESTED HIM.
Mrs. Mary SCHAFF, of 132 Manhattan avenue, arrested her husband,
Frederick, 59 years old, and landed him in the Stagg street station
when he came home in an intoxicated state last night. Policeman
SWEENEY was standing near the station house when he saw the woman
leading her husband toward him. On reaching SWEENEY Mrs. SCHAFF said:
"Officer, this is my husband, and he is also my prisoner. I want him
locked up." In Manhattan avenue court today SCHAFF was held in $100
bail for examination.
MANY JOSTLED BY SMALLPOX VICTIM
All day yesterday physicians from the Health Department were busy
vaccinating the patients and attendants in the Jewish Dispensary, at 70
Johnson avenue, and several hundred persons living in the immediate
vicinity of that institution. This unwonted energy was due to the fact
that Benjamin NOPER, 21 years old, who was suffering from smallpox in
an aggravated form, walked into the dispensary Saturday afternoon and
applied for treatment. There was great commotion among the doctors of
the institution when the nature of NOPER's illness was determined. The
fear spread to the patients in the place.
Dr. MAXFIELD, assistant sanitay [sic] superintendent in charge of
Brooklyn, was communicated with at once and he issued orders at once to
have NOPER transferred to the Kingston Avenue Hospital.
NOPER has been in this country but a short time. He went to board at
143 Debevoise street. Friday he became very ill, and Saturday, when he
seemed to grow worse, was advised to go to a hospital for treatment.
He walked unsteadily from the boarding house to the dispensary,
jostling men, women and children on his way.
As soon as Dr. MAXFIELD learned of the case he sent half a dozen of
his medical staff out to the dispensary and there were no exceptions
made in the work of vaccination. About 450 persons were innoculated
[sic]. There were protests from scores against having their arms
scratched, but "kicking" was to no avail.
The vaccinators treated all the boarders at 143 Debevoise street.
They think they have eliminated any danger of a spread of the disease.
NEW YORKERS ON WAY HOME FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Below is a list of persons living in greater New York who escaped in
the disaster which overwhelmed San Francisco and are now on their way
to their homes in the East: [transcriber's note: left side of page cut
off and missing leading 2 letters of each name.]
IN OAKLAND,
[ ]AMS, CHARLES, New York
[ ]HAM, CHARLES I., 1294 Bergen street, Brooklyn
[ ]MELMAN, CHARLES, New York
[ ]LLER, CLIFFORD H. New York
IN SALT LAKE CITY
[ ]ERNBERGER, of firm of STERNBERGER, SINN & CO., New York
[ ]ERZ, HENRY, of New York
[ ]UNG, Mrs. CAESAR, of New York
[ ]LLAN, LOTTIE, of New York
IN PORTLAND, ORE.
[ ]NDFIELD, J.M., of New York
[ ]ARCUS, Mrs. A., of New York
[ ]AUB, Mr. and Mrs. HARRY, of New York
[ ]CLAHAN, Mrs. S.S., of New York
[ ]RROLL, R. WARD, of New York
IN COLORADO SPRINGS
[ ]ALTER, V. MARSH, in charge of the National Express Company's
business in New York, and wife
[M]RS. AUMONT
[MI]SS FLORENCE AUMONT
[MI]SS A.M. HAEHNLEN
[ ] MILLARD KESSLER
IN LOS ANGELES
[ ]AKER, F.A., of New York
[ ]ARKER, DR. FRANK, of New York
[ ]ATLER, MRS. M, of Brooklyn
[ ]ORTON, S., of New York
[ ]EVY, MRS., of New York
[ ]EVY, MISS BERTHA, of New York
[ ]OLEMAN, MRS., of New York
[ ]IN, FRANK K., shoe manufacturer of New York
[ ]ANDLER, D.B., commercial traveler, New York
[ ]LSBY, C.T., of New York
[ ]AUBLE, OSCAR, of New York
[ ]ENGLER, J.F., of Wehawken, N.J.
[ ]CLEON, N.W., of New York
[ ]OHRER. P., of New York
On trains bound east on the Santa Fe:
[ ]UNNINGHAM, JOHN J.
[ ]UZUK, H.H.
[ ]EALEAR, F.F.
[ ]ASE, F.B., Jr.
[ ]AULDING, E.S., wife and daughter
[ ]TACEY,N.
[ ]ESSLER, GEORGE A.
[ ]LZAS, S.L.
[ ]AYLOR, L.M.
[ ]EYNEMAN, E. I.
[ ]DEERING, J.H., all of New York
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24 April 1906
CROWD JOSTLED; WILSON OBJECTED; NEGRO FIRED
Capt SHAW, of the Adams street station, has several detectives
investigating the shooting of Henry WILSON, 52 years old, of 59 Stanton
street, Manhattan, last Saturday night, by some one in a crowd of young
colored toughs, who jostled him on Navy street, and when he objected,
the shot was fired.
WILSON thought the wound in his head unimportant at first, but
yesterday he had to be removed to Bellevue Hospital.
CAPT. SWEENEY LANDS JOB OF INSPECTOR
Police Commissioner BINGHAM to-day raised Capt. Dennis SWEENEY to the
rank of inspector. SWEENEY was reduced recently. It was thought at
first that Capt. HODGINS, of the Manhattan Tenderloin, would step up.
The appointment of SWEENEY to-day was therefore a surprise. SWEENEY
will take charge of the Sixth Inspection District, Harlem.
WOMAN OF PROPERTY ARRESTED AT A BEGGAR
Mrs. Mary EAGAN, an old woman, was in the Adams street court to-day on
a charge of begging in Fulton street. Mrs. EAGAN was accompanied by
her daughter, a well-dressed woman, who told Magistrate O'REILLY that
her mother was not accountable for her actions. She had no need to
beg. Policeman John D. GODFREY, who arrested Mrs. EAGAN, says she is
worth about $10,000, having sold a house recently for $6,500. She has
been arrested before for begging. She was discharged.
ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING HIS WIFE WITH STICK.
Pasquale SALZANO, of 180 Navy street, was held by Magistrate O'REILLY
in Adams street court to-day to answer a charge of assaulting his wife,
Uriella, with a stick. The case will be heard on Thursday.
SERGEANT HIMMEL SUCCEEDS KESSLER
Police Commissioner BINGHAM has transferred Sergeant Oscar HIMMEL, from
the Greenfield sub-police station, to the Brownsville police station,
in place of Sergeant John KESSLER, who went to the former station
yesterday.
Sergeant HIMMEL has been on duty at the Greenfield sub-station for the
last two months, previous to which, he was attached to the Tenderloin
police station in Manhattan.
HIS FEET BADLY SCALDED BY PAIL OF BOILING WATER
Edward HAMES, 21 years old, of 45 Flatbush avenue, while at work in the
B.R.T. power house, at the foot of Fifty-second street, yesterday, was
badly burned about the feet by a pail of boiling water falling upon
him. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGARD, of the Norwegian
Hospital.
PATROLMAN NICHOLSON'S BROTHER REPORTED SAFE
Patrolman NICHOLSON, of the Coney Island station, has received
work[sic] from his brother, in San Francisco, that he is safe, although
he has lost practically everything.
ACCUSER NOT THERE; GOLDSMITH RELEASED
Joseph GOLDSMITH, 21 years old, of 77 East Seventh street, Manhattan,
was in the Coney Island court yesterday on a charge of picking the
pocket of John SMITH, who lives in the Eastern District. Complainant
did not appear and he was released.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED; SUPPER SERVED TO 400
The engagement of Miss S. JACOBSON, of 347 East New York avenue, to
Jack COHEN, of Hopkinson avenue, Brownsville, was announced last Sunday
afternoon at the residence of the lady's parents. Over two hundred
couples were present, to whom supper was served in the evening.
WOMAN RECOVERS AFTER BRAIN IS EXPOSED
As a result of a remarkable operation for a scalp wound, Cora WILSON,
known as Mrs. Cora HALL, of 226 East Forty-first street, Manhattan, was
discharged as cured in forty-eight days from Bellevue Hospital. Mrs.
HALL sustained sometime ago two wounds on the skull, both of which
penetrated the external membrane of the brain. An operation was
performed to remove a sliver of bone between the two wounds, enabling
the operators to see a living human brain exposed.
WARNED FROM ONE HOUSE, OWNER DEMANDS HARTT'S
An interesting story will be told in the Coney Island Court next Friday
as the result of a summons issued this morning by Magistrate FURLONG to
Mrs. Mary BIRMINGHAM, of Neptune avenue and East Third street.
The complainant is George HARTT of the same address, who says that
about a month ago he leased a house for a year from the defendant, for
$180, payable monthly. Shortly after he took the lease, the defendant,
who occupies the house next to the one in question, sold the one he
lives in to Joseph BURCKHARDT, of Neptune avenue and West Third street.
She now wants HARTT to move so she can occupy the house he is in.
BURCKHARDT says unless she is out of his house by to-morrow, he will
dispossess her. She says unless HARTT is out of her house, she will
tear it down with him in it.
THIEVES GET JEWELRY WORTH $335 IN 5TH STREET
Mrs. Herman YOUNGS, of 384 Fifth street, reported to the police of the
Fifth avenue station that during her absence this morning thieves
entered her apartment by breaking a window and stole $335 worth of
jewelry.
WOMAN BAILS COLONEL SHE HAD ARRESTED.
Col. H.D. BRYAN, a retired army officer and an intimate friend of
Police Commissioner BINGHAM, was held this morning in $500 bail in the
West Side Court, Manhattan, on a charge of carrying a revolver. Mrs.
Alice WARD, of 249 West Fifty-fifth street, who had him arrested last
night on a charge of assault, and who withdrew the charge this morning,
went out to get bail for him.
MANAGER KEENEY TO AID THE SUFFERERS
To-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock the great Victor and his band of
twenty-five musicians will leave KEENEY's Theatre on Fulton street,
where they are appearing this week and parade down Fulton street,
followed by DARLING's circus. They will be accompanied on one side of
the street by Frank L. KEENEY, proprietor of KEENEY's Theatre, and on
the other side by Theodore WENZLIK, his manager, who will take up
collections from pedestrians and patrons of the department store for
the San Francisco sufferers. Billy [SINGLE] CLIFFORD will also
accompany the party and sell Mr. KEENEY's latest songs for the same
purpose. Mr. KEENEY has invited all the professional and amateur
billiard players of Greater New York to his Knickerbocker Billiard Hall
at the corner of Jay and Fulton streets, next Friday night, where
exhibitions will be given in aid of the sufferers. The entire receipts
will be forwarded to the proper parties in San Francisco.
CONEY ITALIANS SHOOT NO ONE INJURED
Policeman O'DEA, of the Coney Island station, was attracted by the
sound of shooting at West Third street and Park place this morning. He
saw two Italians running away. Policemen NAVIN and MURPHY, who were
passing on a trolley car, jumped off and joined the chase.
One Italian ran into a machine shop and O'DEA following, arrested him.
He was Jerry TISCOPIE, 25 years old, of West Third street and Park
place. Policeman NAVIN ran into the adjoining building after the other
man and found Joseph TOUCHEY, 22 years old, of the same address, hiding
under a bed. He was arrested.
O'DEA also arrested Charles TOUCHEY, 17 years old, a brother of
Joseph, on the charge of attempting to assault TISCOPIE's wife.
Magistrate FURLONG held him in $500 bail for examination.
Joseph TOUCHEY and TISCOPIE were charged with carrying concealed
weapons and discharging firearms in the streets. There [sic] were held
in $1,000 each for examination. The two men then made counter charges
of felonious assault, for which $1,000 bail each was fixed.
At this point Samuel BLAKEMAN, a tinsmith on West Third street, came
in and said two shots had entered his window and a third had smashed a
$100 place glass window. Bail was then fixed at $500 on each man for
this charge. No one was injured.
The police say there is a disagreement between TOUCHEY and TISCOPIE,
who owns the house the former occupies and has threatened to dispossess him.
GEN. AVERY OBJECTS TO HIS NEIGHBOR'S DUST
Gen. AVERY, 66 years old, of 98 Second place, was the complainant in
the Butler street court to-day against Mary DICKINSON, of 87 Third
place, who, he says, caused dust to float in his window by her beating
a carpet in her yard. The case was adjourned.
WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN OR QUIT THEIR JOBS
Notwithstanding much outside influence, Controller METZ refused to-day
to recommend the transfer to another department, of Examiners of Sewers
Martin J. MCMAHON and John B. SCANLON who were tried in Brooklyn along
with Lawyer MILES and his clerks in connection with the sewer claims
frauds. Both MCMAHON and SCANLON were discharged by the jury, but
their immediate resignations as examiners would not be refused by Mr.
METZ, according to his own statement to-day. Unless they resign the
Controller will have them before him in a hearing on charges of
misrepresentation arising out of reports which they made to him as to
the number of sewer claims held by Lawyer MILES and TOWNS & MCCROSSIN.
Mr. METZ's declaration that if other administrations were fooled he
does not propose that his shall be, was repeated to-day. It transpires
that Mr. MCKINNEY, formerly of the GROUT administration, and whom Mr.
GROUT has taken in as his law partner, interceded in behalf of MCMAHON
and SCANLON so as to have them transferred to some other department,
and thus assure their retention on the city payroll.
"These men will either have to explain their reports to my
satisfaction or get out," said Mr. METZ. MCMAHON is drawing $2,700 a
year and SCANLON $1,350.
25 April 1906
SHE TRIES SUICIDE IN A STREET CAR
Passengers Excited as Woman Attempts to Kill Herself With Paris Green
POLICEMAN ON THE SPOT
Seizes the Powder and Rushes Trolley to the Hospital
In the presence os a dozen passengers in a Bushwick avenue car to-day
Mrs. Rose TELLKAMP, 43 years old, of 179 Harmon street, attempted
suicide by taking paris green. She swallowed some of the powder, but
the greater part was spilled over her dress by Policeman BROWN, of the
Stagg street station, who knocked the package from her hand. He then
wiped as much of the powder as he could from her mouth with a
handkerchief.
The woman's act caused considerable excitement among the passengers.
Before she made the attempt on her life she had attracted attention by
her strange conduct. Her dress was disarranged, and she glanced wildly
about the car, as if in fear of something. As soon as the policeman
found that the contents of the package was paris green he ordered the
motorman to run the car with all speed to the corner of Bushwick avenue
and Meserole street. Mrs. TELLKAMP was taken from the car there and
carried to St. Catherine's Hospital, two blocks away.
At the hospital the doctors found that she had not swallowed much of
the poison and the she would probably recover. She refused to say
why she intended to die.
At the woman's home in Harmon street it was learned that she is the
wife of Edward F. TELLKAMP, a prosperous printer. The janitor of the
house said that the woman has no children and that for some time she
has been acting queerly. This morning she went to the janitor's
apartment and asked him to let her have a quarter. The janitor gave
her the money and she left the house without saying where she was going.
NARROW ESCAPE FOR TWO FROM DEATH BY GAS
John and Joseph DUSCHAMI, brothers, 26 and 21 years old respectfully,
who live at 342 Wythe avenue, had a narrow escape from death this
morning when they were overcome by illuminating gas. Another tenant in
the house smelled gas and traced it to a room adjoining the one in
which the two brothers were sleeping. The door was forced open and the
two found unconscious. They were hurried to the Eastern District
Hospital, where, it is said, they are out of danger.
STRICKEN IN CHURCH WHILE ATTENDING FUNERAL
James TRIMBLE, a painter, living at 303 Water street, while attending
the funeral of a friend at St. Joseph's R.C. Church, on Pacific street,
near Vanderbilt avenue, to-day, became suddenly ill and was removed to
St. John's Hospital in an unconscious condition.
LITTLE GIRL BURNS HANDS PLAYING WITH BONFIRE.
While playing near a bonfire in a vacant lot near her home, 496
Hamilton avenue, this afternoon, Tillie FALBERSON, 5 years old, had her
hands severely burned. An ambulance surgeon from the Seney Hospital
dressed the wounds at her home.
GIRL TOOK IODINE FOR TOOTHACHE---ARRESTED
As a result of using iodine for a toothache, pretty Josephine BUFFIN,
20 years old, of 248 Lorimer street, was a prisoner in the Manhattan
avenue police court this morning on a charge of attempted suicide. She
took a large amount of the liquid in her mouth last night, and was
found lying on the floor in great agony by a member of her family.
An ambulance was summoned from the Eastern District Hospital, and Dr.
FRIEDMAN quickly had her out of danger. A policeman of the Stagg
street station who had been called to the house then placed the young
woman under arrest on a charge of attempting to take her life. In
court the girl denied that she wanted to die, and said that the pain
of the toothache was so great that she didn't realize what she was
doing. She was discharged.
PURCHASED REVOLVER TO RESENT INSULTS.
Fred PRITCHARD, 32 years old, of 192 Willoughby avenue, who created
considerable excitement in front of a saloon owned by John STOECKLIN at
292 Ralph avenue last Friday by firing two shots at the proprietor, was
arrested to-day.
According to the story told in court by the saloonkeeper, PRITCHARD
came into his place and tried to use the telephone, which was out of
order. Because he could not get the number on the 'phone, STOECKLIN
claims the prisoner became boisterous and was finally ejected. He
returned in about half an hour and fired two shots in through the door.
STOECKLIN was not hurt.
The prisoner claims he was insulted in the saloon when he asked
STOECKLIN what was the matter with the telephone. "I don't carry a
revolver," he said. "I was insulted by this man and I went out and
purchased the revolver and then returned to his saloon and fired in the
air to frighten him."
PRITCHARD was held in $1,500 bail until April 30 for further
examination.
FLATBUSH WOMAN ESCAPED INJURY--SECOND EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. Hattie NEFFLIN, of 329 Westminster road, to-day received a letter
from her daughter, Mrs. Alfred M. DE LISSA, who has been stopping at
the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco. Mrs. NEFFLIN, up to this time, had
received no word at to the safety of her daughter. Mrs. DE LISSA gave
a vivid account of the earthquake and the ensuing conflagration. This
is the second experience of the kind through which she has passed. She
was the last person to board the last departing train at the time of
the Johnstown flood.
There was considerable joy in Flatbush over the announcement that Mrs.
DE LISSA was safe, as she has a wide circle of friends there.
BROWNSVILLE - TEAM KNOCKS BOY DOWN AND BREAKS HIS LEG.
While crossing at the corner of Stone and Belmont avenues yesterday,
Manuel MARCIS, aged 5 years, of 110 Belmont avenue, was knocked down by
a pair of horses and a heavy truck. The child sustained a severe
fracture of the right leg, and would have been run over but for the
prompt action of the driver, Max RATNER, of 248 Osborn street. The boy
was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PARKER, of the Bradford Street
Hospital, and was taken to his home.
GREENPOINT - WOMAN FALLS IN YARD AND BREAKS HER ARM
Mrs. Mary MITCHELL, 48 years old, of 410 Oakland street, fell in the
rear yard of her home yesterday and sustained a fracture of the right
arm. She was attended by ambulance surgeon of the Eastern District
Hospital.
David MCKEEN, 83 years old, of 1091 Manhattan avenue, was run over by
a delivery wagon near his home yesterday. He sustained a fracture of
the left leg and foot, and was removed to the Eastern District Hospital.
WOMEN IN RAFFEL TO AID A NEEDY WIDOW
The regular meeting of the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society was held at
the Temple Beth El, Noble street, last night. A large amount of new
business was disposed of. A gold tray was raffled, and over $50 was
realized, which will be given to a needy widow.
The Young Folks Auxiliary League, of the Temple Beth El, met at the
temple last night. This club was organized for the purpose of raising
funds to build a new house of worship. On April 29 the club will give
a shirtwaist dance at Capitol Hall, Manhattan avenue. The Arrangements
Committee consist of: Morris I. ROSENTHAL, chairman; Gus STERN, R.
HYMAN, Thomas MEYER, M. GOLDBERG, Morris STERN, Rose BARNETT, Rose
WEILL, David JUDAS, and Miss BARNETT.
26 April 1906
BABY IN SILKS FOUND IN BENSONHURST STATION
While awaiting a train at the station of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit at
Bath avenue and Thirty-fifth street, Miss Anna ENNIS of Bay Shore road
discovered, lying upon the seat in the waiting room, a handsome baby
boy about 3 months old, evidently abandoned. The child was prettily
and expensively dressed, including a silk dress, handsome knitted roll
coat, silk socks and expensive baby shoes. The appearance of the child
denoted that it belonged to people of means. The baby was sleeping
when Miss ENNIS found it. She notified Policeman OWENBORF of the Bath
Beach station, who took it to the station house, and it was later sent
to the City Nursery.
TROLLEY CAR RIOTERS THREW CREW INTO STREET
Antonio REITZ, 30 years old, of 173 Columbia street; James LEON, 21
years old, of 158 Columbia street, and Frank EMOTA, 21 years old, of
173 Columbia street, were in the Coney Island court to-day charged with
disorderly conduct. Policeman HURLEY, of the Fort Hamilton station,
said the trio had boarded a Fort Hamilton car and chased the motorman
and conductor off the car and raised trouble generally. Magistrate
FURLONG fined REITZ $10, LEON $5, and suspended sentence upon EMOTA.
BOY TURNS ON HIS ANNOYERS WITH A KNIFE
Taunted by young men who nightly congregate in Tompkins Park and annoy
people, Charles LINK, 18 years old, of 352 Sumner avenue, last night
turned on his annoyers and stabbed one of them three times.
LINK, who is employed in a Manhattan brokerage office, had been on an
errand to Lafayette avenue and Emerson place, and was on his way home
about 9 o'clock last night. Passing through the pare, LINK was
surrounded by boys and young men who called him names and made fun of
his clothes. He resented the remarks, whereupon one of the crowd
threatened to lick him. They followed LINK to the street. At Throop
and Lexington avenues, Bernard GILL, 18 years old, of 888 DeKalb
avenue, came up back of LINK and it is claimed dealt him a severe blow
on the jaw. LINK pulled the penknife and struck GILL in the arm
several times. Policeman PEDEN, of the Gates avenue station, arrested
LINK. In the Gates avenue court to-day the boy admitted his guilt and
was held in $1,000 bail for examination.
HUSBAND IN TOMBS; JEROME HELPS WOMAN
Mrs. Rachel RAYMOND, of 8 Monroe street, whose husband Joseph, an
upholsterer, has been locked up in the Tombs for several months
awaiting trial for stealing silk, came to the office of District
Attorney JEROME to-day with a two-months-old baby in her arms.
She told the District Attorney a story of eviction, starvation and
futile efforts to sustain a family of four children.
After listening to the wife's story Mr. JEROME pulled out a roll of
bills and selecting two tens, handed them to Mrs. RAYMOND.
"Take this, my good woman," said the District Attorney, "and don't
hesitate to see me again."
Mrs. RAYMOND, with tears rolling down her cheeks, thanked the giver,
who hurriedly wished her "Good morning."
HAD REVOLVER FIGHTING NEGRESS GAVE HIM; HELD
Benjamin GIBSON, a young negro, was held in the Adams street court
to-day for examination on a charge of carrying a loaded revolver.
Georgia REED and Laura LORD, also colored, had a fight at the corner of
Main and York streets yesterday over GIBSON, and when Patrolman KELLY
swooped down on them, it was said, Laura took a revolver and passed it
to GIBSON.
The women were held for disorderly conduct.
MAN HELD ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT
Thomas WILLIAMS, 25 years old, of 28 Kosciusko street, who was arrested
yesterday on complaint of Abe SCHLINDER, a tailer [sic] of 58 1/2
Kosciusko street, who charged him with assault, was discharged by
Magistrate VOORHEES in the Gates avenue court to-day.
OVERCOME BY GAS WHILE REPAIRING PIPE LEAK
Charles BEDELL, the janitor of Public School No. 33, in Heyward street,
near Broadway, was found unconscious in the basement of the school this
morning, with gas escaping from a leaky pipe.
He was hurried to the Williamsburg Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon
RARICK, who quickly had him out of danger.
The janitor said he went to the cellar to repair the pipe and was
overcome while at work.
ARRESTED FOR GREASING TRUCK ON SIDEWALK
Jake APPELBAUM, of 182 Bridge street, was charged with violating a
corporation ordinance by greasing his truck on the sidewalk on Prospect
street, and spilling axle grease all over the sidewalk, t the disgust
and inconvenience of the people living in the vicinity. Gene BANNIGAN,
of 178 Prospect street, is the complainant. The truck is used to carry
earth from the excavations made at the new bridge terminal.
ORGANIST IN ONE CHURCH FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
John HYATT BREWER will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his
service as organist and choirmaster at the Lafayette Presbyterian
Church next Sunday night. There will be a special musical service in
honor of the event.
GOSSIP SAID "COPS" PAID FOR HER GOLD TOOTH
Verna JOHNSON, an employe of the Western Union Telegraph Company in
Manhattan, and living at 44 Sands street, came to the Adams street
court to-day and complained that her neighbors had made life miserable
for her simply because she had a prominent gold tooth in the front of
her mouth. They have been twitting her and insulting her by declaring
openly that the "cops" of the Fulton street station paid for the tooth,
she said, and recently several of them assaulted her when she tried to
get into her apartments.
A warrant was issued for one of her alleged assailants.
HIS FACE BADLY BURNED BY A PREMATURE BLAST
Michael CORSOMONO, living at 114 Sullivan street, had his face severely
burned early to-day by a premature explosion while blasting at
Vanderbilt avenue and Fulton street. He is in the employ of the New
York and New Jersey Telephone Company.
TEN MEN INJURED BY FALLING WALL
By the collapse of a brick wall in Fif[tie]th street, near Sixth
avenue, yesterday, ten men were injured, two so seriously that they may
die. Four of them were taken to the Norwegian Hospital. The seriously
injured were
-Joseph RILEY, [ ] Fort Hamilton avenue and Ninety-[ ]th street,
whose eye was put out, nose broken and skull fractured,
-[ ]muel FELANI, of 280 Third avenue, whose jaw was broken, and who also
suffered internal injuries.
-John DES[ ]OND, of 96 Degraw street,
-Felipe [ ]SPANI, were also badly injured.
Some time later, three men employed [ ] a roofing company, and at
work on [ ] warehouse of the Bush Dock Company, at Forty-sixth street
and Second avenue, were buried by a brick wall [ ]ty feet high.
Several others were [ ] by falling bricks. Those most seriously
injured are Joseph BRENNAN, of [ ] 1-2 Sixth street, fractured elbow;
Olaf [ ]lsen and Adolph GUNERSON, who were [ ] and bruised severely.
"BEAVER POND A MENACE" QUEENS JURY DECLARES.
The Queens County Grand Jury, at Flushing, yesterday, handed up a
pre[ ]atment against the American Ice Company, for maintaining in Beaver
Pond "a menace to the health of the community and a drawback to the
ma[ ]ial progress of that section of Jamaica.
Beaver Pond's overflow intermingles with the water supply of Brooklyn.
ACCUSED OF STEALING JUNK BY THE CARTLOAD
Patrick HEALY, 40 years old, of 415 Myrtle avenue, was arrested by
Detectives O'MATTHEWS and LAIR, yesterday, charged by Jacob
MENDELOWITZ, of 215 East Seventy-ninth street, Manhattan, with stealing
a quantity of junk, enough, it is said, to build an engine, which
MENDELOWITZ had stored at 26 Guernsy [sic] street. The junk was
recovered at a junk shop at 232 Driggs avenue.
CALLED AMBULANCE FOR BOY WHO HAD COLIC
Patrick SLAPTERN, 17 years old, of 114 Greenpoint avenue, was taken ill
while at work yesterday in a factory at 158 Freeman street. He was
attended by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern District Hospital,
who said that SLAPTERN was suffering from colic.
SHE DROPS FROM WINDOW TO ESCAPE ARREST
Actress Who Kidnaped Son in Auto Gives Detective a Long Chase.
Before she was finally captured, after an exciting automobile chase,
Mrs. Katherine BABIEX, an actress, who kidnaped her son, L.F. George
BABIEX, from the Odd Fellows' Home in Unionport, Bronx, yesterday, this
morning dropped out of a window and scaled a high board fence in the
back yard. She was caught near her home, 228 West Thirty-ninth street,
Manhattan, by Detective GAYNOR of the West Chester police.
The son of Mrs. BABIEX is 9 years old and was put in the Unionport
institution by Magistrate Julius MAYER to keep him from his parents,
who quarreled eight years ago. Mrs. BABIEX appeared at the place
yesterday in a large automobile and requested the privilege of taking
the lad for an outing. This request was granted. Mrs. Mary SINGER,
the superintendent of the home, went back to get the child's coat, as
it was windy, and Mrs. BABIEX dashed off in the auto.
This morning she was located by the sleuth, who found her in bed. She
begged the privilege of dressing, which was granted. Then she locked
the door to her room. The detective heard her opening the window, and
rushed in just as she was dropping from the window. He followed, and
she scaled the fence. She was soon caught.
She was taken to the West Chester court and locked up on a charge of
abduction. She seemed satisfied, however, with what she had done, for
she declared that her son was with friends in New Jersey and was out of
the jurisdiction of the New York courts. A man who gave his name as
Elmer FENGER and who said he was the husband of the actress tried to
bail her out, but failed.
NEW ENGINEER BEGINS HIS WORK FOR COLER
R.W. CREUZBAUR, who was recently made consulting engineer to Borough
President COLER, reported this morning. His salary is to be $8,000 a
year. Mr. CREUZBAUR is considered one of the most competent engineers
in the profession. He has been connected with the Controller's office
for some years. He will have under his direct charge the organization
of the Underground Bureau.
PROF. DALY MARRIED TO A BROOKLYN GIRL
The friends of Miss Helen STEITZ, of Macon street, were surprised to
learn to-day of her marriage on Easter Sunday to Maj. George DALY,
professor of mathematics in the College of the City of New York and
professor of military science in St. John's University, Fordham.
Prof. DALY, who is 28 years old, met Miss STEITZ a year ago and has
been devoted to her since. The bride is a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and her husband is a Catholic. The Rev. Father
CRYAN, S.J., of St. John's University, performed the ceremony, it is
said, at the home of the bride's parents.
DIDN'T ABDUCT GIRL, SAYS YOUNG ARMBRUSTER
Seventeen-Year-Old Ada SUCHOW Declares That He Married Her on March 19.
Detective Sergeants DOLAN and HAYES, of the local Detective Bureau,
last night arrested Albert ARMBRUSTER, 22 years old, of 212 Patchen
avenue, on the charge of abduction seventeen-year-old Ada SUCHOW, of
1014a Gates avenue.
According to the story told by the girl's mother in the Gates avenue
court to-day, young ARMBRUSTER took her daughter to Manhattan last
September and kept her in a room on Second street, near the Bowery.
This house, according to Mrs. SUCHOW, bears an evil reputation. The
girl was away seven weeks before her parents ascertained her
whereabouts.
Both ARMBRUSTER and the girl deny this story. They claim they were
married on March 19 by the Rev. Dr. Olin CAWARD, assistant pastor of
the Bethesda Congregational Church, Ralph avenue and Chauncey street.
Miss SUCHOW told Magistrate VOORHEES in court to-day that she loved her
husband and did not want to be separated from him. Magistrate VOORHEES
adjourned adjourned the case until May 1, holding ARMBRUSTER in $1,000
bail on the abduction charge and the girl in $300 bail on a charge of
vagrancy. He has asked the detectives to investigate the young man's
story.
Detective DOLAN told Magistrate VOORHEES that the young man served
three and one-half years in the penitentiary about five years ago on a
charge of burglary. On another occasion, he said, ARMBRUSTER was
arrested by Detective FARRELL of the Ralph avenue station on suspicion
of being implicated in a robbery in the Stuyvesant section. ARMBRUSTER
was released after a hearing.
27 April 1906
SAW TERRIBLE SIGHTS IN 'FRISCO
Brooklyn Man Leaves the Stricken City to Return to His Home
SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE
Sends Paper Containing Full Accounts of Disaster
John R. MALONE, of 786 Washington avenue, who was in the catastrophe
which overwhelmed San Francisco, has sent to The Standard Union a copy
of the Sacramento "Union," of the date of April 21, which is full of
accounts of the disaster. Mr. MALONE writes: "I have been in San
Francisco since Thursday morning. Left there last night [April 21].
Smallpox has broken out there, so I am coming home to Brooklyn. I will
call and tell you about the terrible sights I have seen. I send this
paper en route on the train."
The Sacramento "Union" prints a number of photographs showing the
complete destruction which was wrought by the fire following the
earthquake. Two scenes show reins of business blocks at Montgomery and
Bush streets and Fourth and Market streets. Only portions of walls are
left standing, while in one picture the ruined dome of the "Call"
building looms like a solitary monument over the desolate scene.
Another picture presents a large fissure, in the earth caused by the
shock, while one shows a portion of the tenement district south of
Market street to be completely razed to the ground. The agencies of
destruction did their work very thoroughly, and the photographs portray
the ruins far better than the imagination can visualize them from the
written descriptions in the news dispatches.
The following excerpts from the news accounts will be of interest to
the reader. Under the head "Adversity Makes Strange Bedfellows"
appears:
"San Francisco, April 20,---At the Ferry station there was utter
confusion. Mingled in an indescribable mass were people of every race
upon the earth. Common misfortune and the paramount emotion of
man--hunger---obliterated all racial distinctions. Degraded Chinese,
lying on their pallets of rags, slept next to exhausted white women
with babes in their arms. Bedding, household furniture of all
description, pet animals, and bric-a-brac, luggage and packages of
every sort, packed almost every foot of space. Men spread their
bedding on the asphalt pavement and calmly slept the sleep of
exhaustion, while all around a bedlam of confusion reigned. This,
even, is an inadequate description of the scenes that marked the exodus
of San Francisco's population. This, with the added terrors of hunger,
is the situation at the Ferry station to-night."
The adventures of Miss Bessie TANNEHILL are described as follows:
"Los Angeles, April 20,---Miss Bessie TANNEHILL, of the Tivoli
Theatre, at San Francisco, reached Los Angeles today:
"I was asleep in the Hotel Langhan, Ellis and Mason streets, when the
shock came," said Miss TANNEHILL. "There were at least 100 persons in
the building at the time. At the first shock I leaped from bed and ran
to the window. Another upheaval came and I was thrown from my feet. I
groped my way out the room and down the dark stairway. Men, women and
children, almost without clothing, crowded the place, and praying as
they rushed out.
"When outside, I saw the streets filled with people, who rushed about,
wringing their hands and crying for carriages. Proprietor D. LISSER,
of the hotel, offered a cabman $50 to take himself and his wife to the
Presidio Heights, but he refused. He wanted more money. We finally
secured a carriage by paying $100. Fire was raging at this time and
people were panic-stricken.
"After getting outside of the danger region I walked back, hoping to
aid some of the unfortunates. I have heard about big prices charged
for food. I wish to testify that the merchants on upper Market street,
and in nearby districts, threw open their stores and invited the crowds
to help themselves. The mobs rushed into every place, carrying out all
the goods possible.
In the account of his experiences Wells DRURY, city editor of the
Sacramento "Union," who, with his family, was in San Francisco at the
time, describes the following incident:
"It was when the flames were surging up the California street hill,
and had taken hold of the Fairmount [sic] Hotel, the veritable
acropolis of San Francisco, that a pitiful occurrence nearer at hand
demanded the most painful attention. A woman who was unusually well
dressed was carrying a baby in her arms, while she had harnessed
herself with ropes attached to a huge trunk. She was slowly drawing
this trunk up the cement sidewalk, when another woman, evidently a
neighbor, rushed up and asked the woman with the trunk where her
husband had gone. With a sob the reply came that he had gone away to
be absent a minute or so, and that he had met with some dire accident;
yet she did not dare to stop even for a moment, as the breath of the
flames was even them felt upon her cheek. With silent tears she
finally released herself from the rope harness and, leaving the big
trunk to its fiery fate, pressed forward with her infant held to her
bosom, resolutely forcing her way through the surging throng in the
direction of Golden Gate Park, where it was conceded that immunity from
danger could be positively secured."
The staff correspondent of the "Union" pays the following tribute to
the spirit of the people of the stricken city in their hour of
affliction:
"Through all this great affliction the people of San Francisco are
displaying a cheerfulness and a fortitude that is nothing short of
admirable. The dark prospects of the future, the loss of property and
of home, the shortage of food and the lack of water---all these are
regarded with equanimity. Each man and woman loses sight of personal
misfortune in the expression of sympathy for the rest; in praise for
the firemen and the soldiery, who have faced their duty
uncomplainingly, sleepless, hungry and footsore. Even to the children
this spirit extends, and the little ones on the streets play even while
the cinders fall about them and the smoke hides from view the flames
that have wrought such awful destruction.
"Such regard for personal comfort, such uniform politeness and
consideration between strangers; such a general readiness to be of
assistance somehow or anyhow, and such practical philanthropy and
unselfishness are almost beyond comprehension in this time of
desolation and tears. Yet there are sunny smiles on faces paled with
worry and exhaustion and on faces grimed with smoke and soot. The
general need has made firm friends of those who were as neighbors
almost strangers, and there is abroad throughout the city the spirit of
a charity bountiful enough and powerful enough to tide a people through
any crisis the future may hold in store."
MRS. JOHNSON'S GOLD TOOTH CAUSES ASSAULT
Jane GOLDIE, who lives at 44 Sands street, a house which is designated
by the police as the "musical flats", was charged in the Adams street
court to-day by Vernon L. JOHNSON, of the same address, with assault.
Mrs. JOHNSON is the possessor of a large gold tooth, and she says her
neighbors are constantly annoying her about it.
Mrs. GOLDIE denied assaulting Mrs. JOHNSON, and was paroled until
Monday, when the case will be heard.
BEGGED PRICE OF DRINK ON COURT HOUSE STEPS
Daniel MCGLYNN, a man with a very red face and a bald head, was sent to
the penitentiary for two months by Magistrate TIGHE in Adams street
court to-day, for begging on the rear steps of the County Court House.
Detective HINES and Officer GODFREY, of the Bureau of Charities, told
the court that MCGLYNN made it a practice to accost people coming out
of the Court House and ask them for "the price of a drink."
WOMAN DYING FROM INJURY BY TROLLEY CAR
Mrs. Sarah VELSOR, 49 years old, of 54 Grant avenue, is lying in the
Bradford Street Hospital at the point of death suffering from a
fractured skull, which she received by being knocked down by a Fulton
street trolley car at Crescent and Etna streets, last night. The
woman's sister, Mrs. Ida JOHNSON, 46 years old, of 37 Crescent street,
and her 3-year-old grandson, George SUTTER, are also suffering from
injuries received at the same time.
Mrs. VELSOR and her sister and the child were going home when they
were struck by the car. Mrs. JOHNSON was carrying the little boy.
The motorman of the car, Adrian RICKLEFS, did not see the women until
his car, going at a fast clip, was on top of them. The fender struck
Mrs. VELSOR and she in turn fell against Mrs. JOHNSON.
Examination by Dr. HOLTHAUSEN, of the Bradford Street Hospital, showed
Mrs. VELSOR to be suffering from a fractured skull. Mrs. JOHNSON and
the little boy were painfully injured about the back. They refused
medical attention and were taken to their homes. Mrs. VELSOR was
hurried to the hospital.
STOLE FROM WOMAN WHO BEFRIENDED HER.
Charged with the larceny of a skirt belonging to Mrs. Mary WILDER, of
511 Flushing avenue, Lizzie GRANDER, 16 years old, of 38 Walworth
street, was before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court
to-day. The girl had lived with her grandmother at the WALWORTH street
house until recently, when she disappeared. She went to Mrs. WILDER's
home, where she told a story of having no friends or relatives. Mrs.
WILDER took her in out of pity, and yesterday morning, it is alleged,
the girl left the house and took Mrs. WILDER's skirt with her. Mrs.
WILDER notified the police. Later a policeman saw the girl going into
a pawnshop and arrested her. Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM sent Lizzie to
the House of the Good Shepherd pending examination.
GREENPOINT - WIFE WAS DYING OF POISON; RHEUMATISM SAYS SURGEON
John WHALEN, of 940 Manhattan avenue, rushed into the Greenpoint avenue
station yesterday afternoon and told Sergeant BOWES that his wife,
Catherine, had taken poison and was near death. The sergeant sent a
policeman to make an investigation. He summoned Ambulance Surgeon
PRECHT, of the Eastern District Hospital, who found that the woman was
only suffering from chronic rheumatism.
BROWNSVILLE - RUNS DOWN SMALL BOY AND LEAVES IN A RUSH
-While Solomon SACHMAN, 8 years old, of 29 Osborn street, was playing
in the street in front of his home yesterday afternoon, he was knocked
down, and run over by a horse and wagon, whose owner is not known.
After the driver saw the damage he had done he whipped up his horse and
dashed away before any one arrived on the scene of the accident.
The boy, attended by Ambulance Surgeon HOLAUSS, of the Bradford Street
Hospital, was removed to that institution
-INJURES SCALP IN FALL FROM A TROLLEY
Late yesterday afternoon, Harry FALK, of 216 Monroe street, tripped and
fell from a car of the Hamburg avenue line, at the corner of Rockaway
and Liberty avenues.
He received a severe scalp wound, was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
PARKER, of St. Mary's Hospital, and later went to his home.
SOUTH BROOKLYN - FOUR-LEGGED CHICKEN HATCHED AT CONEY
Among the latest and greatest freaks at Coney Isle was the arrival on
Monday last of a chicken with four legs. It is one of eight chicks
hatched and is now a feature at the home of Fred SMITH, of West Eighth
street.
Mr. SMITH is the foreman of the B.R.T. emergency crew at Coney Island,
and resides near his station and has a fine back garden for raising
chickens. Everything went lovely until last Monday when an octet of
chicks arrived, one of which has four distinct legs. The legs all
protrude from the body at the same point with all the toes pointing to
the front. The front pair of legs are used by the little chick to
walk, while the other pair drags after.
Mrs. SMITH has been unable to do any housework, as she is kept busy
showing the neighbors and friends the freak.
28 April 1906
STORK VISITS HOME OF AGED EDUCATOR
John H. THIRY, a member of one of the local school boards of Queens
Borough, who is 84 years old, is the father of a bouncing baby boy
which arrived yesterday. The mother was formerly Miss Margaret
O'CONNOR, as is 30. They live at 181 Academy street, Long Island City.
Since their marriage, nine years ago, they have had four children.
Two other children, a boy and girl, aged 2 and 4 respectively, are
living. Mr. THIRY is a wealthy Frenchman, and his hobby is education.
He is the father of the school savings bank system in this country.
NEGRESS KILLS WOMAN WHO HAD BEATEN HER
Seeking revenge for a beating which she had received several weeks ago,
Bella BAILEY, a habitue of the Tenderloin, to-day shot and killed Marie
Louise BAKER, in front of 129 West Twenty-seventh street, Manhattan.
The murder occurred after the two women had engaged in a hand-to-hand
struggle, and was the climax of a long-standing quarrel which existed
between them. Later the BAILEY woman surrendered to the police. Both
are colored.
GAS EXPLOSION BLOWS OUT MARKET WINDOWS
An explosion of gas in the fish market of Frederick GERKIN, at 10
Sumner avenue, last night, caused excitement. The explosion blew out
the plate glass window and startled people in the neighborhood. The
firemen quickly put out the blaze. The damage was $300.
BRIDGE JUNPER'S MIND BLANK AS TO HIS LEAP
Nathan ISAACSON, 28 years old, of 66 Rivington street, Manhattan, the
tailor who on April 11 jumped from the Williamsburg Bridge, was in the
Lee avenue court to-day on a charge of suicide. He has entirely
recovered from his injuries.
The bridge jumper told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM that he did not know
why he had jumped from the bridge. He said he had not been well for
some time, and that he was mentally upset over the death of his brother
and sister a short time before. He also worried over the condition on
his parents in Russia. ISAACSON said he did not remember taking the
leap.
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM adjourned the hearing until May 3, and will
try to get some charitable organization to take care of the tailor
until he recovers his health.
RETURNED WATCH HE TOOK FROM SAILOR; DISCHARGED
Patrolman GARCIA, of the Adams street station yesterday afternoon ran
into a man who was closely followed by a marine in Hudson avenue. The
marine told the officer that the man had his watch. The policeman then
placed him under arrest. The marine proved to be Charles HAMLIN, a
Lancashire lad, attached to the Hancock. The prisoner said he was
James BATES, of Boerum place. HAMLIN told the court that he did not
want to press the charge if BATES would only give him his watch. BATES
did so and was discharged.
SLUG SLEUTH WITH HIS OWN REVOLVER
Green Goods Men Detect Weapon, and Lay Out Supposed "Come-On"
FIGHT IN AN E.D. HOTEL
Swindlers Flee Before Detective Recovers Consciousness
Detective Sergeant John W. VAUGHN, of the Central Office in Manhattan,
had a desperate encounter with green goods men in Brooklyn yesterday
afternoon, in which he was severely beaten. His assailants made their
escape.
VAUGHN for some time past has corresponded with the men under the name
of John TUCKET, a farmer of Rockwood, Ill., and yesterday morning met
one of the men, who gave the name of "John D. RICE," by appointment, at
the Grand Union Hotel, in Manhattan. RICE took his prospective victim
over to Brooklyn, and after riding about in trolley cars for about two
hours brought him to the saloon of Joseph FOX, at Lee avenue and
Heyward street. There they met a second man who suggested that they
go upstairs to talk over business, and they went to a back room over
the saloon, where they were joined by a third man. After some
conversation it was agreed that VAUGHN should have $3,000 in
counterfeit money for $400 in legal money.
VAUGHN agreed to this proposition and reached for his inside pocket,
as though to get the money, but in reality for his revolver. One of
the men, who evidently had become suspicious, caught the gleam of the
weapon, jumped on him and pinioned him, while another took the revolver
from him, and beat him over the head with it until he became
unconscious. Then the three fled from the place.
When VAUGHN recovered his senses he made his way down stairs and
telephoned to the Clymer street police station. Capt. MONAHAN
responded with reserves. They were unable to get any trace of the
green goods men and finally arrested Joseph LAZARUS, the bartender who
was held as a suspicious person. He denied that he had any knowledge
of or acquaintance with the detective's assailants. He said they had
engaged a room there just before VAUGHN and the swindler, who had acted
as pilot, appeared.
PAINTS HER FACE JUST LIKE MAMMA
Only Eight, and Mother's Stage Ambition, Father Says, Has Broken Up the Family
WIFE SAYS IT'S THE RACES
Gets $8 Alimony Pending Her Suit for Separation
"Why, I painted my face like mamma does because I want to be an actress
same as mamma," is the answer eight-year-old Maude SCHOONMAKER is said
by her father, William J. SCHOONMAKER, to have made to him when he
asked her why she daubed up her face with paint and powder. Little
Maude lives with her mother, Mrs. Ella J. SCHOONMAKER, at 865 Halsey
street, and sometimes runs over to her grandmother's home, at 762
Halsey street.
According to Mr. SCHOONMAKER's affidavits, filed to-day in the County
Clerk's office, his home has been broken up because his wife is
stage-struck, and persists in taking lessons at $1 per, from a
theatrical teacher in Manhattan, where he says that she is being
prepared to take part in a sketch which her teacher declares he will
soon put on the stage.
So strained have become the relations between Mr. and Mrs. SCHOONMAKER
that some time ago Mrs. SCHOONMAKER left her husband's home and went to
live with her sister at 865 Halsey street.
In his affidavits Mr. SCHOONMAKER declares that his wife, who has two
children, Maude and William J., the latter 6 years old, spends too much
of her time in preparing for the stage. He says he went over to the
Manhattan place where she is rehearsing and found his 8-year-old
daughter painting and powdering her face. When Mr. SCHOONMAKER asked
her why she did so, it is alleged little Maude replied as above
stated. Mr. SCHOONMAKER declares that he has done everything in his
power to induce his wife to live with him, but that she persistently
refuses to do so. On the other hand, Mrs. SCHOONMAKER deposes that her
husband is unkind to her, goes to the races and does not give her
proper means for the support of her daughter and son. She has brought
a suit for separation in the Supreme Court. She says that they had to
leave a boardinghouse in Greene avenue, near Tompkins avenue, not long
ago because of his conduct toward her. She asks for $25 a week
alimony. Justice MADDOX allowed Mr. SCHOONMAKER $8 a week and left the
determination of counsel fee to the presiding Justice.
TRIED TO SHOOT SECRET SERVICE MEN
Silk Weaver, Taken as Counterfeiter, Puts Up a Fierce Fight
BOGUS MONEY IN HIS HOUSE
Has Served Two Terms on Same Charge
In the arrest of David THOMAS, a silk weaver, of 252 Devoe street, this
morning, the United States Secret Service men claim they have one of
the cleverest counterfeiters with whom they have had to deal in months
past. The man has been out of prison only six months, after serving a
term of six years on a similar charge.
THOMAS was arrested at 7:15 o'clock this morning as he left his home
in Devoe street. He was not taken easily. When he perceived that the
Government agents had closed in on him he pulled a pistol and did his
best to discharge the weapon at them.
It was found on examining the house at 252 Devoe street, where THOMAS
had made his home for the past six months, that a complete counterfeit
outfit had been set up there. Spurious coins representing $200, of the
$1 denomination, were seized. It is claimed that a large amount of the
counterfeit dollars has been put in circulation by THOMAS.
Secret Service men William J. FLYNN, KLINKE and KOENICH were given
orders last night to watch the premises where THOMAS was known to live
and to take him into custody should he leave the house. It was learned
that the house has been under surveillance by the United States
authorities ever since THOMAS took up his residence there. The agents
had practically an all night wait, as it was after 7 o'clock when
THOMAS left the house. FLYNN, KLINKE and KOENICH immediately closed in
on him and subdued him after a fierce fight. On searching his pockets
it was found that THOMAS had $13 in counterfeit $1 coins, similar to
those which were afterwards discovered in the house.
THOMAS' wife was taken into custody also. It is thought that she will
not be prosecuted. THOMAS has already served two terms in prison. He
was sentenced in 1895 to a term of five years. In 1901 he was
sentenced again for counterfeiting for a term of six years. He has at
various times assumed the aliases CARMINE and RHODES.
When taken before United States Commissioner MORLE in the Federal
Building, THOMAS pleaded not guilty. He was held for examination.
DRUGGED, HE SAYS, WHEN MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE
S.E.ST. AMANT, of 292 Quincy street, who says he is a 'journalist', has
begun an action to have his marriage annulled on the ground that the
ceremony was performed while he was under the influence of drugs.
According to the story told by ST. AMANT he met his wife about one
month ago. He claims she became infatuated with him and sent him
numerous letters and pictures. He claims he paid no attention to her
advances.
Shortly after the acquaintance was formed ST. AMANT was taken to the
hospital to be operated upon as a result of a railroad accident. When
he came out of the hospital about two weeks ago he was compelled to
make a statement regarding the accident. He was so weak at the time
that he was compelled to take drugs as s stimulant, he says.
After making this statement, ST. AMANT claims he went to the office of
his lawyers in the Temple Bar Building where, he claims, he was married
to the girl by Alderman LINDE. He alleges he was under the influence
of the drug at the time and did not know what he was doing, and did not
know he was married until two days later.
He has placed the matter in the hands of a lawyer.
29 April 1906
MOTHER SEES HER GIRL IN FLAMES
When She Falls Into Bonfire Her Frightened Playmates Run Away
SHE WILL PROBABLY DIE
Parent Refuses to Let Her Go to Hospital
With her clothing blazing from head to foot, 5-year-old Mariena
CARTESE, of 21 Meserole street, ran through the street near her home
yesterday afternoon, and before she fell senseless to the pavement her
clothing had been burned from her body. The little girl's mother, who
witnessed the accident, tried to catch Mariena and extinguish the
flames.
The girl and several companions were playing about a bonfire in the
street, made of refuse lumber of a building that is going up near her
home. In some manner,Mariena fell in the fire and her dress ignited.
Her companions, to frightened to aid her, ran away. The girl quickly
scrambled to her feet and then ran screaming about the street.
Mrs. CARTESE, who stood in front of her home talking with some
neighbors, saw Mariena fall into the fire. As her child ran wildly
about the mother chased her, but was unable to get to the flaming human
torch before the girl fell unconscious. Mrs. CARTESE carried the child
into the house and some one summoned an ambulance from St. Catherine's
Hospital.
When Dr. DE VERONA arrived he found that the little girl was in a
serious condition and he wanted to take her to the hospital, but the
mother, who was hysterical, refused to let her be taken from the house.
Dr. DE VERONA says the child cannot live.
GIRL UNHURT AFTER FALLING THIRTY FEET
That Loretta FAGAN, 3 years old, of 135 Ryerson street, was not
instantly killed last night by falling thirty feet from a window, is
considered a miracle. While being held at an open window, in the arms
of her brother Edward, who is 14 years old, she suddenly jumped from
his arms and plunged out. the child landed on the roof of a shed. An
ambulance surgeon, after a thorough examination, declared that she was
unhurt.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- SAYS HE BEAT HER WITH A TABLE LEG
Edward THOMPSON, 47 years old, a carpenter residing on West Eighth
street, Coney Island, was arrested last night by Patrolman James O'DEA,
of the Coney Island station, on a charge of intoxication.
While he was being questioned in the station house his wife, Sarah,
entered and preferred a charge of assault against him. She said that
during an altercation at home he struck her on the head with a leg of a
table, inflicting a lacerated wound of the scalp. She was attended by
Dr. John W. PIERCE, of West Eighth street.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL FALLING, INJURES ARM
Helen TIMKE, 11 years old, of 99 Nineteenth street, while playing in
front of 89 Nineteenth street, yesterday afternoon, fell and sustained
lacerated wounds on the right arm.
She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon LIVINGSTONE, of the Norwegian
Hospital at her home.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- SPRAINED HIS LEG WHEN RUNG OF LADDER BROKE
While John ORIANG, 27 years old, of 527 Carroll street, was at work in
the pipe yard of WILSCH & BAILEY, 85 Ninth street, tying up pipes, the
rung of the ladder broke on which he was working, and he was thrown to
the ground. He sustained a sprain of the left leg.
After being attended by Ambulance Surgeon GRAHAM, of the Seney
Hospital, he was taken home.
GREENPOINT - RUN OVER BY DELIVERY WAGON AND FOOT HURT.
While crossing the street at Greenpoint and Manhattan avenues, Philip
HESS, of 175 Huron street, was run over last night by a delivery wagon
driven by Joseph O'RORKE. He received a laceration of the left foot
and was taken to the Williamsburg Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon RORICH.
O'RORKE was arrested.
GREENPOINT - BENDER RETURNS FROM EUROPE ON DEUTSCHLAND
Louis BENDER, one of the most prominent merchants in Greenpoint,
arrived home from Europe yesterday on the steamship Deutschland. Mr.
BENDER spent ten weeks in Germany, and he also toured Switzerland and
Italy. While visiting his parents he devoted some time to his business
interests on the other side.
LONG ISLAND NOTES
-Mrs. Martin BROWN, of Sag Harbor, gave birth last week to her third
pair of twins.
-Willis D. VAN BRUNT and Herbert A. JAGGER, of Southhampton, will
together plant 100 acres of potatoes this season.
-Joel PHILLIPS, of Eastport, on Friday evening was thrown out of his
wagon by his horse running away, and fell against a barbed wire fence,
tearing one of his ears half off.
KICKED BY ITALIAN; WOMAN WILL MAKE NO COMPLAINT
Maggie MCNAMARA, of 20 Flushing avenue, was removed to the Cumberland
street hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from contusions of the
abdomen, which, she said, were caused by an Italian who kicked her.
She refused to make a complaint and was later taken home in an
ambulance.
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TROLLEY RAMS BUILDING; FOUR PERSONS INJURED.
Car Jumped Switch at Full Speed and Dashed into Pharmacy at Bergen
Street and Grant Square--Part of Wall Crushed In and Windows
Smashed--Blind Boy and His Brother, Who Were in Store, Taken to
Hospital--Cars on Rampage in Other Sections--Five Hurt, One Fatally.
Four persons were injured, many others badly shaken up, and the side
[of a] building crushed in, late yesterday afternoon when an Ocean
avenue car [jum]ped a switch and crashed into a [drug] store at Bergen
street and Grant Square. One of the injured was a blind boy, 13 years
old, who was in the drug [store] at the time of the accident.
The smash-up occurred at 5 o'clock, [ ] was witnessed by large
crowds [stand]ing on the two corners waiting for [ ] Car 2568 of the
Ocean avenue line, [in ch]arge of Motorman Michael MCALONE [and]
Conductor Abraham EDER, was on [the w]ay toward Broadway ferry when
[it ju]mped the switch and crashed into [the] wall.
[Mo]torman MCALONE had stopped a few [ ] from the switch, and was
reaching [ ] the switch iron when his coat caught [ ]
controller and the car suddenly [ ]ed forward at full speed.
[ ] the car turned to corner it swerved, [ ] after jumping
the switch, ploughed [ ] ay across the pavement and into the
[drug] store window and side of the building. Six feet of the side of
the building was crushed in, and the plate [glass] window and doors of
the store were [comp]letely demolished. The drug store [is occ]upied
by George CHRIST. Inside of [the st]ore at the time of the accident
was a [blind] boy, who lives at 1309 Bedford avenue, and his brother,
Leslie, 12 years old. [Bysta]nders who witnessed the accident [ ]
that CHRIST, upon hearing the [ ]ing shouts of the crowd when the
[car ju]mped the track, ran to the front of [the s]tore and closed the
doors, thereby [preve]nting those inside from escaping.
[The] force of the collision wit the side [of the] building tore away
the entire front [of the] car and threw the motorman, MCALONE, over the
dashboard. The half [ ] passengers in the car were thrown [out
of] their seats and badly shaken up. [A] woman passenger, whose name
was [not ta]ken, fainted.
[The] crash of the breaking glass and the [ ]s of the
passengers and motorman [ ]ted a big crowd. A policeman who [was
i]n the neighborhood ran inside the [ ], picked up the two boys
and car[ried] them across the street. The con[dition] of the blind boy
was most pa[ ]. He lay on the sidewalk groaning from his injuries
and begging the [ ] about him to tell what had hap]pened. His
brother, Leslie, who had [ ]ed with slighter injuries, leaned [
] Edward and tried to comfort him.
[ ]urry call for ambulances was sent, [ ] Dr. PARKER, of St.
Mary's Hospital, Dr. VOSPER, of St. John's Hospital [respon]ded. The
reserves from the Grand avenue station, under Capt. Lawrence [MURPH]Y,
also appeared on the scene. It was at first thought that several
persons [had b]een hurt, but after the crowd had [been] driven back the
only ones injured were found to be the RICHARDSON brothers and the
motorman and conductor.
Edward RICHARDSON, the blind boy, suffered from a wound of the head
and cuts about the hands and legs. His brother, Leslie, received a
lacerated wound of the scalp. Both boys were taken to St. Mary's
Hospital. MCALONE, the motorman, and the conductor, EDER, received
cuts on the hands and knees. They were attended by an ambulance
surgeon and returned to the car, which was pulled over on a side track
and later taken to the railroad yards by a wrecking crew. Capt. MURPHY
took the names of the conductor and motorman, but made no arrests. The
damage to the drug store is estimated by the police at $1,000.
The proprietor of the drug store refused to discuss the matter at all
last night. When asked whether or not he closed the door and prevented
the two boys from getting out as the witnesses had stated, he refused
to make any reply.
CARS BANG INTO WAGONS
About fifteen minutes previous to the accident, car No. 3123, of the
Bergen street line, going west, crashed into a wagon, at Classon avenue
and threw two passengers to the street, injuring both slightly.
The car was making along Bergen street at a fast clip, when a wood
wagon, owned by B.C. MILLER and Son, of 955 Dean street, and driven by
Frank KEENAN, of 659 Classon avenue, tried to cross Bergen street. The
fender of the car struck the rear of the wagon and threw the driver to
the street. He received bruises about the face, but refused medical
attention. The two front windows of the car were demolished.
Two passengers on the car, Frank DAVIS, of 172 Bristol street, and
James HALLEN, of 674 Sixth street, who were standing on the rear
platform of the car, were thrown to the street. They were attended by
Ambulance Surgeon VOSPER and taken to St. John's Hospital, suffering
from wounds about the head and face. The wagon was a complete wreck.
No arrests were made.
While driving a department store delivery wagon across Vanderbilt
avenue last evening William GILLEN, 21 years old, of 705 Bergen street,
was struck by a south-bound Vanderbilt avenue car at Gates avenue and
thrown from his seat, cutting his knee severely. He was attended by an
ambulance surgeon from the Brooklyn Hospital and went to his home.
BOY FATALLY HURT
Charles EYERS, 7 years old, of 119 South Fourth street, was fatally
injured last night in front of 415 South Fourth street. He was taken
to the Williamsburg Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon RARICK, who found
that he had received a fracture of the skull and internal injuries.
The motorman of the car was not arrested.
30 April 1906
RESCUE SEVEN FROM BOARDINGHOUSE FIRE
Mrs. JOST Burned Out on Anniversary of Husband's Cremation
POLICE FORMED HUMAN CHAIN
Widow Grieves When Urn Is Found Sans Spouse's Dust
The police of the Bedford avenue station and firemen early to-day
rescued seven persons from the two-story house at 134 North First
street, when they were overcome by the dense smoke that accompanied a
blaze which started in the basement. One of the men, Thomas MURRAY, a
boarder, who had fallen unconscious across the ledge of a window on the
second floor, was rescued by three policemen, who climbed up on a high
fence and formed a human chain.
The house is owned by Mrs. Betty JOST, who with her six-year-old son,
Fritz, occupied the rear room of the first floor. On the floor above
were five men who boarded with Mrs. JOST. They were Rudolph PFEINDER,
Frederick KABLE, Gustave ROMBERG, Charles HERMAN and Thomas MURRAY.
The blaze started in the basement and was caused by the explosion of a
lamp. The flames got a good start before they were discovered by a
person passing the house. This man ran to the Bedford avenue station,
a block away, and told Sergeant LYONS, who, after telephoning to Fire
Headquarters, sent Policemen KENFER, MASTERSON and FITZGIBBON to the
house.
When the policemen reached the house none of the occupants had
escaped, but they saw the form of one man lying across a window ledge
on the second floor. There is a high fence separating the front yard
of No. 134 from that of the adjoining house. Policeman KENFER got up
on this fence and tried to reach the prostrate form, but the distance
was too great. Policeman MASTERSON then climbed up on KENFER's back
and was able to reach the unconscious man. He was hauled out and
handed down to FITZGIBBON.
When the firemen arrived they went into the building with the police,
and the other boarders, together with Mrs. JOST and her son, were
carried out. They were all unconscious as a result of the dense smoke,
but quickly recovered.
The blaze completely gutted the interior of the house before it was
under control.
Mrs.JOST's husband, Fritz, died in 1904, and just two years ago to-day
his body was cremated at the Fresh Pond Crematory. The urn in which
the ashes were inclosed was destroyed by the fire this morning and the
ashes lost. This seemed to cause Mrs. JOST greater grief than the
destruction of her house and its contents.
HOLD HUSBAND OF WOMAN WHO DIVED UNDER TRAIN.
Gunther O. HEMPEL, 27 years old, a clerk in the Bank of New York, at
No. 48 Wall street, Manhattan, whose wife jumped in front of a train
Saturday night at Eighteenth street and Third avenue, Manhattan, was
given a hearing to-day before Coroner SHRADY and released in $2,000
bail. He said that he had lived with her at No. 1066 Lexington avenue
and that she was subject to melancholia. Her act was so sudden, he
said, that he did not have time to stop her.
HUMAN CHAIN SAVES MAN FROM DROWNING
A human chain, formed by four passengers on a train inbound from
Rockaway Beach, was the means of saving Amos SCHLEYER, 40 years old, of
243 East Thirty-second street, Manhattan, from drowning in Jamaica Bay
last night. In passing from one car to another a sudden lurch of the
train threw SCHLEYER to the long trestle that spans the bay. He lost
his balance and toppled into the water. Several passengers witnessed
the accident, and a signal was given to bring the train to a halt. One
of the guards grabbed a red lantern and ran back over the ties to stop
an oncoming train.
While a rope tackle was being rigged up to be thrown to the man in the
water, who was clinging to a pile and yelling lustily, a heavy man was
lowered over the trestle, two men holding him by the legs. Then a
smaller man climbed over the large man's shoulders and succeeded in
reaching SCHLEYER, who was almost exhausted when rescued.
TWO HELD ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
Robert FAGNEY and Jospeh O'NEIL were held for the action of the Grand
Jury by Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court to-day on charges
of assault and robbery. George W. FLETCHER, of 44 Sands street, was
the complainant. He testified that on the morning of April 20 he was
on his way home at the corner of Jay and Prospect streets, when three
men attacked him and, after knocking him down, rifled his pockets.
His cries for help attracted Officers SWEENEY and CONROY, who chased
the men several blocks, finally capturing FAGNEY and O'NEIL. The other
man escaped.
DENIES HE STOLE $20 FROM HIS EMPLOYER
Philip O. DELL, a grocer, of 70 Court street, appeared in the Butler
street court to-day against George STUBENFORD, 30 years old, of 223
Twenty-sixth street, whom he accused of stealing $20 on March 28.
STUBENFORD was formerly employed by DELL as a driver. On the date
mentioned he was sent to Wallabout Market with instructions to purchase
a quantity of fruit. The twenty dollars was given him to make the
purchase. This was the last DELL saw of his employe. STUBENFORD
denied the charge against him and was held for further examination by
Magistrate TIGHE.
CHILDREN STARVING, SHE TURNED THIEF
When confronted with a charge of stealing two overcoats belonging to
Charles PETERSON and Severt HANSON, of 108 Sackett street, Mrs. Bridget
MURPHY, 32 years old, of the same address, broke down to-day in the
Butler street court and admitted to Magistrate TIGHE that she had
stolen the coats. She told the court with tears in her eyes that she
was compelled to steal in order to provide for her two children, both
of whom, she said, were starving. The woman's husband, Michael, is a
laborer and is at present out of employment. She was held for the
Grand Jury.
MIDSHIPMAN MARTIN, OF BROOKLYN, RESIGNS
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 30.---Arthur C. MARTIN, of Brooklyn, has resigned
as a member of the present senior class of midshipmen at the Naval
Academy.
DEPUTY SHERIFF'S BADGE NO GOOD ON FIRE LINE
Fire destroyed the stables of the Charles H. REYNOLDS & Son Coal Co.,
at 1183 Grand street, yesterday afternoon, and for a time threatened
to spread to the large lumber yards and docks that line Newtown Creek
in the neighborhood of that thoroughfare.
Edward KLEIN, a salesman, 20 years old, of 278 Devoe street, refused
to stay outside the fire lines established by the police, and was
arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. He displayed a Deputy
Sheriff's badge which he said entitled him to admittance within the
lines, but the police disagreed.
In the Manhattan avenue court to-day he was held in $300 bail for
examination.
ITALIANS HUG WOMEN AND FIGHT POLICE
While Capt. PINKERTON and Detective HOLLAND, of the Bedford avenue
station, were standing in front of the station house last night several
young women who were passing were stopped by two Italians who, it is
alleged, tried to hug them. The captain and HOLLAND ran up and grabbed
hold of the two men, who, not knowing they were in the hands of the
police, put up a lively fight. They were finally subdued and landed in
the station house. In the Lee avenue court to-day the hearing was
adjourned.
USED BALL BAT TO ESCAPE ARREST FOR ASSAULT
Rocco GELAMANO and John PUGLESE pleaded not guilty in the Myrtle avenue
court to-day to charges of assault made by Giuseppi ANGELIS and were
held in $200 for examination. GELAMANO was held in an additional bail
of $300 for attempting to escape from Policeman Francis GILL, of the
Bergen street station, yesterday, when arrested by striking him with a
baseball bat.
HELD UP BY THREE MEN; POLICE MAKE AN ARREST
While on his way home late last night, Peter MCLAUGHLIN, of 131 Frost
street, was held up and robbed of his watch and pocketbook by three
men who stopped him at Manhattan and Driggs avenues. While the
highwaymen were going through his pockets, MCLAUGHLIN yelled for help,
and was heard by Policeman WOODS, of the Herbert street station.
On the approach of the policeman then three men ran away, but WOODS
and MCLAUGHLIN gave chase, and after a run of ten blocks through the
streets, WOODS arrested Lorenzo FARINO, 19 years old, of 81 Kingsland
avenue. He denied that he had taken part in the attack on MCLAUGHLIN,
but the latter identified him as one of the robbers. MCLAUGHLIN's
watch was found a short distance from where the men had held him up.
When FARINO was taken before Magistrate O'REILLY in the Manhattan
avenue court to-day, he was held in $1,000 bail for examination on
Wednesday.
TWINS AT SEA BRING STRANDED COUPLE LUCK
While the steamship Coamo, of the New York and Porto Rico Line, which
arrived her yesterday, was two days out of San Juan, the stork left
twins for Herbert MORRISON, of Brooklyn, who was returning after a
siege of hard luck in Porto Rico.
Several years ago MORRISON took his family from Brooklyn to the
Bermudas and went into the bean business. He prospered, and decided to
try his fortune in Porto Rico. He failed, and with his wife and five
children became stranded. Friends raised money enough to pay their
passage to New York, and when the twins came the women aboard the Coamo
raised $200. Saturday the arrivals, a boy and a girl, were christened
by the Rev. Dr. Robert MCLEAN, a Presbyterian minister, and, after a
luncheon, the gift was presented to the family. The boy was named
Ramon HADLEY MORRISON, after the ship's surgeon, and the girl Coamo
DALTON MORRISON, after the ship and its captain, T.J. DALTON.
TROLLEY SMASH SLIGHTLY INJURES MISS LINDEMAN
While turning from Third into Tremont avenue yesterday, Westchester car
No. 256, crossing from the west bound to the east bound tracks, crashed
into a waiting Williamsburg trolley.
Miss Helen LINDEMAN, of 833 Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, was among the
number of passengers who were slightly injured.
BOY FOUND IN STREET IS STILL UNCONSCIOUS
Twelve-year-old Albert JASPER, of 9 Nostrand avenue, was found lying in
the street at Broadway and Graham avenue, last evening, suffering from
internal injuries, and lacerations and contusions of the head. An
investigation made by men assigned from the Stagg street police station
failed to disclose whether the boy had been beated in the street or
upset from a passing car. The boy was taken to St. Catherine's
Hospital where his is still unconscious.
NORMAN H. CHURCHILL MISSING SINCE FRIDAY
The police of the Ralph avenue station have sent out a general alarm
for Norman H. CHURCHILL, a retired merchant, 74 years old, who
disappeared on Friday from his home at 726 Monroe street. CHURCHILL is
a widower and lives with his sister and a niece. He set out on Friday
morning to take a walk, as was his daily custom, and failed to return.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Marilynn Wright
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