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1906...NEWS..JUNE
Brooklyn Standard Union
1 June 1931
CUT BOY'S THROAT TO EXTRACT QUARTER
Dr. William E. BUTLER, surgeon in chief of the Williamsburg Hospital,
and Dr. Edward HIDGES cut the throat of five-year-old Charles LOW,
of 267 Powers street, to-day in order to extract a tin disk which
the child had swallowed. While the boy was being taken to the
hospital in an automobile the doctors worked over the throat,
and when the institution was reached he was in readiness to
be operated upon.
The boy had put the disk in his mouth in the belief that it
was a quarter of a dollar, and had swallowed it in an anxety
(sic) to prevent another boy for seizing it.
FOUR ARRESTED FOR ILLICIT DISTILLING
Officers of the Internal Revenue Department swooped down on
an alleged moonshine distillery in the old town of New Lots
last midnight. Four men, all Russian Jews, not one able to
speak more than a few words of English, were arrested. The
raided house is a small two-story structure at 91 Hegeman
avenue, detached and having a stable in the rear. It has
been known that a large quantity of illicitly distilled
whiskey has been made recently in or about Brooklyn. The
house in question is in an out of the way place and the
officials agree that no better location could have been
chosen for moonshining. It is claimed that the still has
been in operation there for at least two months.
Chief Deputy Collector BURNS got the tip about the place
a short time ago, and last night he sent out five men to find
out what was going on. The force included Deputies :
J. J. MULLEN,
George RAY,
George N. DICK,
Fred GOODWIN and William HERMAN.
They reached the house late in the evening and there was a
still in full operation, in an upper room. A sixty-gallon
still was confiscated. It was full of mash. In the place
were also found twelve barrels of sugar mash and twenty-five
gallons of whiskey.
Three men were at work. They took the raid quietly and
appeared not to know what they were up against. Their names,
so far as the officers could understand them, were
Davis KAHN, Samuel KIRTMAN and Max SMOLE. The men said
that the place was run by the lessee of the house,
Phillip KALOUSNEY, of 290 Osborne street. The officers
went to that address and got KALOUSNEY.
The four were locked up in the Adams street police station and
later taken to the Federal Building. It happened that the
Federal Grand Jury was in session, and the evidence was
immediately taken before that body.
The four men waited nearly all day in the Marshall's office
for the Grand Jury to finish its work. They presented a
forlorn appearance.
TURNED WIFE OUT AND FOUGHT POLICE
Policemen O'BRIEN and MCGRATH, of the Clymer street station,
had a lively time this morning with Henry BERGER, 48 years old,
of 180 Harrison avenue, when they went to his house to arrest him.
BERGER was recently released from jail for maltreating his
wife Sophia.
Last night when he reached his home, it is alleged that he
drove his wife and three children from the house and they were
compelled to spend the night in an adjoining hallway. Some one
told the police of the woman's plight. The sergeant sent
O'BRIEN and MC GRATH to investigate.
BERGER had locked himself in and he refused to open the door.
The policemen broke in the door. BERGER, they say, attacked them
with a long knife and they were compelled to use their night sticks.
Hearing was adjourned in the Lee avenue court to-day.
SLASHED HIS THROAT; CONSIDERED INSANE.
Frederick HACKER, 26 years old, committed suicide to-day by
cutting his throat from ear to ear in his boardinghouse,
199 East Fourth street, Manhattan. He was out of work
and despondent.
NO EVIDENCE OF ROBBERY: TIGHE TEARS UP COMPLAINT.
James BRADLEY, who is employed by a laundry man as a collector,
was arrested last night on complaint of August VAN WACHTEL, who
has a furnished room at 89 Henry street. According to the housekeeper,
Mrs. McLAUGHLIN, BRADLEY had been permitted to go into Mr. VAN WACHTEL'S
room to get his laundry, and had stolen a gold chain
Magistrate TIGHE to-day tore up the affidavit when he read
it and discharged BRADLEY on the ground that there was not a
particle of evidence to show that BRADLEY took the chain which
Mr. VAN WACHTEL missed two days after the visit of BRADLEY to his room.
SLASHED HIS THROAT FROM EAR TO EAR.
Patrick F. MENNEUINE, a laborer, 40 years old, of 180 Bridge street,
was committed to the Flatbush asylum by Magistrate TIGHE, in the
Adams street court to-day, to have his mental condition inquired
into. MENNEUINE made a desperate attempt at suicide yesterday
by slashing his throat with a knife in the brewery where he was
employed, at Jay and Front streets.
FAILING HEALTH PROMPTS POLICEMAN'S RETIREMENT.
Michael J. FLANNERY, a patrolman who has served ten years on
the Prospect Park squad and seven years in the Flushing Avenue
Precinct, was retired on half pay yesterday, owing to ill health.
He is now living in Georgia.
ODD ACCIDENT AS RESULT OF RUSH TO BOARD CAR.
In the rush to board a trolley carat East Seventy-third street and
Third avenue, Manhattan, early to-day, a man and woman bumped in
to each other with such force that both were thrown to the pavement
and received injuries that necessitates their removal to the
Presbyterian Hospital. They were Edward DINKER, 34 years old,
of 440 East Seventy-seventh street, contusions to the head and
body; Margaret WHITLEY, 24 years old, of East seventy-seventh
street, sprained ankle and contusions.
"LEANED" THROUGH SALOON WINDOW.
Martin REILLY, a boilermaker, of 19 Dennett place, while leaning
against the window of Henry JASS' saloon, at 28 Myrtle avenue,
last night, leaned to hard and fell through. He received lacerated
wounds of the face and arms and was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital.
AGED MAN STRICKEN WITH HEART FAILURE ON STREET.
William BOYD, 68 years old, living at Jay and Willoughby streets,
was taken sick with an attack of heart failure at Fulton and
Tillary streets last night and was removed to the Brooklyn
Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon MOORE.
FOUR GRADUATE FROM ST. CATHARINE'S HALL
Yesterday was "academic and preparatory day" at St. Catharine's Hall.
This is a private school for young ladies connected with the
Episcopal Diocese of Brooklyn, and is situated on
Washington avenue near DeKalb.
The four graduates were :
Miss Elsie VOGEL
Miss Grace GRAEF
Miss Genevieve ALLEN
Miss Marjorie WELLS
16 June 1906
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
-At 1 o'clock this morning Irving HEIDIG, of 892 Hancock street, Brooklyn,
a conductor in the employ of the Long Island Electric Railway Company, while
his car was in motion at Fulton street and Vogel avenue, slipped and fell to
the street, receiving concussion of the brain. He was removed to the Jamaica
Hospital.
-At 3:30 this morning James MONGOLO, 27 years old, of 429 Seventh street,
Long Island City, while at work in the shop of the Ainslee Mining and Railway
Company, at the foot of Greenpoint avenue, Long Island City, had his hand
caught in a pulley and his left arm broken in two places. He was removed to St.
John's Hospital.
- Peter DEHRMAN, 33 years old, a carpenter, of 248 St. Nicholas avenue,
Brooklyn, while at work on a new building on Curtis avenue, near Hillside avenue,
yesterday afternoon, fell from the first floor to the cellar and received
contusions of the right hip. He was attended by Dr. McNEVINS, of St. Mary's
Hospital and taken to his home.
-Brian RILEY, 36 years old, a driver of Rochester and New York avenues,
East New York, fell from a truck he was driving in Rockaway road, near Fisher
avenue, Jamaica, yesterday. The wheels of the truck passed over him. His jaw and
two ribs were fractured. He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital.
CHILD PITCHES FROM WINDOW
FRACTURES SKULL
Late yesterday afternoon little Pauline LAVENDER, 5 years old,
of 52 Seigel street, in leaning out of the front window of her home,
fell three stories to the street and sustained a fractured skull.
She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon WITMORE and
removed to St. Catherine's Hospital.
WOMAN FLEEING FIRE
IMPALED ON PICKET
Severe injuries to a woman and her son and the narrow escape of many other
tenants marked a fire which late last night did $10,000 damage in the
apartment house at 689 De Kalb avenue. Mrs. Kate BROWN jumped from a fire
escape and was impaled on an iron picket fence, her left leg being torn
from the ankle to the knee. Her 11 year-old son, Berthold, also jumped
and was similarly wounded.
The fire started in the basement and had gained much headway when
discovered by Julius MILLER, a clerk in Wischertsch & Dozier, druggists
on the ground floor. Before the arrival of the firemen the flames had
spread to the upper floors and cut off escape by the stairs.
Mrs. BROWN and her two young sons, Berthold and Walter, were asleep in
their apartment on the second floor when the alarm was given. Finding the halls
choked with smoke and flame, they went out to the fire escape and Mrs. BROWN
and her sons jumped to the street, a distance of fifteen feet. Walter escaped
unhurt, but Berthold and his mother struck the iron fence and were both badly
injured. They were removed in an ambulance to the home of friends.
Bernard McGUIRE, who occupied the top floor, rescued his wife and four
little children by carrying them to the roof and into an adjoining building.
SERVANT DRINKS CARBOLIC
IN HOME OF EMPLOYER
Rhoda HILL, 19 years old, a servant employed by Edward BENEDICT, 104
Buckingham road, attempted suicide last night by drinking a quantity of carbolic
acid. Her groans were heard by Mrs. BENEDICT who summoned an ambulance from the
Kings County Hospital. Ambulance Surgeon CONRAD responded, and after a half
hour's work pronounced the girl out of danger, and removed her to the hospital,
a prisoner.
SAILED FOR GLASGOW
Mrs. Chauncey E. HUTCHINSON, who was Clara BETZ, the famous beauty, was
among other passengers on the Anchor Line steamer Columbia, sailing to-day for
Glasgow. Others were:
Edward SCHIESS,
Mrs. Hugh D. WILSON,
Miss Lily J. WILSON,
James KERR,
Robert T. KERR,
Walter A. ARDERY,
Frederick H. ARDERY, all of Brooklyn.
TUMBLED OFF SCAFFOLD AND FELL IN LOVE
When Charles LUSTIG, a painter, of 157 Christopher street, fell from the
scaffolding of a house in Brownesville, he fell in love, too. As he whirled
toward the ground he struck the sill of a window on the second floor of the
building and managed to hold fast.
Annie PAULTER, a dressmaker, of 120 Boerum street, was in the room when
LUSTIG's body struck the window sill. She rushed to the window and grabbed him
by the shoulders. The paint pot had followed him and had spilled over his
clothes, but she held on to the painter. Looking up, the painter saw that his
rescuer had nice eyes. She pulled him into the room.
"My!" gasped LUSTIG. "I've ruined your pretty dress."
She glanced ruefully at her soiled skirt and waist.
"I'd like to buy a new one for you," gasped LUSTIG
The one he did buy was very becoming and LUSTIG found that he just
couldn't stay away from that girl. Yesterday they called at the Essex Market court,
Manhattan, and were directed to Joe Levy, the "Duke of Essex Street" who
married them.
17 June 1906
BOYS RAID CONEY RING THE CANE BOOTH
When Charles LANG, of West Sixteenth street, Coney Island, went to open
his place of business on the Bowery and Jones' walk, last night, he found that
some one had been ahead of him and removed some of his property.
LANG is in the cane-you-ring-is-the-cane-you-win business, but as
yesterday was a better day for umbrellas, LANG shut up shop until it stopped raining.
When he took an account of stock he found that a number of knives and
revolvers were missing.
He had seen a boy run out from behind the building and decided to find out
what the lad had been doing, Later he saw the boy again and had him locked
up. In the station house, the prisoner said he was George DOWNEY, 11 years old,
of 388 Sixth street, Manhattan.
He denied having taken anything, but upon admitting that "anudder boy done
it" the sergeant thought best to send his little prisoner to the Children's
Society.
RESTAURANT DOG BITES A BOY CUSTOMER
Charles HALLAHAN, 13 years old, of 164 Adams street, while in Max
SIMONSON's restaurant at 7 Myrtle avenue, last night was bitten by SIMONSON's dog.
Surgeon MOORE of the Brooklyn Hospital, cauterized the wound.
ANYBODY FIND WALLET WITH $800 IN IT?
Robert A. POTTER, of 260 Twenty-second street, reported to the police
yesterday that while out walking near his home he lost his wallet containing a
$500 bill and three $100 bills.
TAKEN INSANE FROM HOME TO HOSPITAL
Joseph LONGLEY, 38 years old, was removed from his home, 210 Ninth street,
last night, to the observation ward of the King's County Hospital suffering
from acute mania.
SWIM FOR LIBERTY; IN WATER SIX HOURS
BROTHERS LONSBERG LEAP FROM SHIP - ACCUSE FATHER OF SELLING THEM
It was the choice of an unwelcome voyage to China and back without pay or
a dash for liberty and a two mile swim that confronted John and Louis
LONSBERG, of Brooklyn, yesterday as they stood on the deck of the Standard Oil ship
Arrow, passing rapidly down the Narrows with the ebb tide, outward bound, on the
long, tedious trip to the Orient, and they took to the water, with the result
that John was drowned, it was thought, and Louis was rescued.
A tale of a heartless parent was told by the surviving brother, who
declared their father had bargained with the skipper of the Arrow to get rid of his
sons. He said he and his brother were enticed aboard the sailing ship as she
lay off Tompkinsville Thursday night ready at the word to weigh anchor, and in
spite of their protests they were confined below until the ship actually got
under way.
Although both lads were landlubbers, they were strong swimmers.
According to the story told by Louis, the Arrow was short handed, and the
skipper went to Manhattan, but found difficulty in getting men. It is claimed
that the skipper, meeting LONSBERG, senior, made a bargain by which the two
sons were to be enticed aboard the Arrow and forcibly detained there. Louis
LONSBERG, who refused to give the address of his father, said that as the ship was
passing rapidly down the Narrows they realized that it would be many months
before they would again be so near home, and they decided to jump overboard.
Some hours later Louis was rescued, boatmen off Stapleton picked up the
other brother, who was floating on his back well nigh exhausted and being
carried out to sea. He was landed on the Jersey coast and started for his Brooklyn
home. He had been in the water nearly six hours, but soon recovered and was
apparently little the worse for his experience.
WHOLE FAMILY POISONED BY COLORED LEMONADE
Five members of a family were poisoned yesterday by drinking red lemonade.
Samuel OHENKOV, 41 years old, his wife, Ida, 32, Max and John, 13 and 9 years
old respectively, and Annie, one and a half years were the victims.
Harry SUERBERG, who kept a lemonade stand at 129 Ridge street, Manhattan,
was arrested charged with having sold the poisoned fluid and his stand closed
by the police.
The attention of the Board of Health has been called to the case.
BROWNELL'S ACCOMPLICE
MOORE CALLED AT JAIL TO SEE HIM AND WAS NABBED BY THE POLICE
James MOORE, an iron molder, 42 years old, was arrested yesterday
afternoon in front of Raymond street jail by Detectives DOLAN and HAYES when he came
there to have an interview with John B. BROWNELL, now awaiting examination on a
charge of attempted burglary.
On June 7 BROWNELL with another man went to Walter NEWMAN's cigar store at
337 Bedford avenue and were caught by NEWMAN trying to force an entrance.
BROWNELL was captured, but his companion escaped. From a description given of
BROWNELL's companion and the fact that he came to the jail to get an interview
with BROWNELL led the detectives to believe he was the man wanted.
MOORE, when taken to Police Headquarters, gave his address of 173 Gold
street.
AUTOIST HIT BY WAGON POLE; HAS RIBS BROKEN
William J. MARTIN, of 1558 Fulton street, a truck driver employed by the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, while driving a truck around the corner at
Bedford and Greene avenues, last night, ran into an automobile owned and operated
by Walter DAVIS, of 207 West 103rd street, Manhattan. DAVIS, in trying to
avoid the collision, fell out of his machine and was hit by the pole of the wagon,
sustaining a fracture of the ribs. MARTIN was thrown from his seat and
slightly injured.
Both men were taken to St. Mary's Hospital by Dr. PARKER, and then went
home.
MEYERS REARRESTED AFTER BEING RELEASED
MINEOLA, June 16 - Israel H. MEYERS, the Brooklyn real estate man, was
bailed out before Supreme Court Justice BURR at the Nassau County Court House, he
being charged with assault in the second degree, for which he had been
indicted, the assault alleged to have been committed upon his housekeeper at his
country home in Bellmore last year.
MEYERS was recently granted a reversal of conviction by the Appellate
Division from that of the Nassau County court, finding him guilty of an
unprintable offense, and yesterday he obtained bail in the amount of $10,000.
Immediately after, MEYERS was rearrested on the charge of assault.
MEYERS had just returned from Sing Sing, where he served nearly a year of
a four year sentence.
ONLY CUSTER SURVIVOR LIVES IN BROOKLYN
When, on Monday, June 25, the members of the Gen. George A. CUSTER
Garrison, Army and Navy Union, gather to decorate the grave of the hero of the battle
of the Little Big Horn, Bugler John MARTIN a Brooklyn man, and said to be the
only living survivors of that terrible massacre, will blow "taps."
CUSTER is buried at West Point and for eighteen years it has been the
custom of the CUSTER Garrison to decorate the grave. The trip to West Point is in
charge of the Memorial Committee of the Garrison who are: Senior
Vice-Commander Alexander MC LEAN, chairman; Adjt. Edward V. MINTAUGH, secretary and
treasurer; Chaplain Thomas MEADOWS, and officer of the guard, M.J. RYAN.
Sergeant MARTIN, after having served for thirty consecutive years in the
army, was honorably discharged, and his papers prove that he is, without a
doubt, the only living member of CUSTER's heroic band. On the morning of June 25,
1876, when CUSTER saw he was trapped, he sent MARTIN with a dispatch to Reno
asking for reinforcements. CUSTER ordered MARTIN to return at once if the road
was passable, but not to attempt the return if the way was dangerous. MARTIN's
horse was shot three times during the trip, but he was successful in reaching
his goal. He returned with the reinforcements, under the command of Reno, but
they arrived too late.
BOY PLAYING WITH GUNPOWDER BURNED
Harry JOHNSON, 10 years old, of 101 Pacific street, played with gunpowder
in his back yard yesterday afternoon. He set a match to it to see it burn.
There was a flash and Harry was badly burned about the face and eyes.
MARRIED
MAC EVITT - PHELAN married Wednesday, June 13th, at St. Ambrose's Church,
Chicago, by Rt. Rev. P.J. MULDOON, D.D., Miss Elizabeth Mary PHELAN and Dr. James
MAC EVITT, of Brooklyn.
18 June 1906
DEMAND LIFE OF ITALIAN SLASHER -
MOB FURIOUS AT DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO STEAL UNPROTECTED WOMAN'S EARRINGS
ONE EAR ALMOST SEVERED
POLICE OFFERED $1000 TO DELIVER PRISONER TO CROWD
Infuriated at the sight of a woman whose face had been terribly slashed in
an attempt to cut off her ears in order to get her diamond earrings, a mob on
the East Side, Manhattan, attempted to lynch an Italian, who had done the
slashing, when he was arrested by the police early this morning. Mrs. Rebecca
KUPFER, of 25 Clinton street, Manhattan, was the victim, and she was disfigured
for life.
Having spent the evening at the home of friends in First street, Mrs.
KUPFER declined an escort when she started for home shortly after midnight, as the
streets through which she had to pass are usually crowded at that hour on
Sunday night. As she passed into First avenue, a tall, swarthy Italian looked at
her in a way that made her feel uneasy. She then noticed that the rain had
driven the people from the streets and she became alarmed. A downpour of rain
made her seek a doorway for shelter as she turned into Houston street. Looking
back she saw that the Italian was following her. Frightened, she began to run.
The Italian pursued her. Easily catching up with the fleeing woman he did
not attempt to stop her but slashed at the right side of her face trying to
cut off her ear, which held a sparkling diamond. His last stroke almost severed
the ear, but it hung on by a thread of flesh.
Mrs. KUPFER's shrieks brought a crowd and Patrolman Louis LORSH and
Private Watchman Gustave WEIR. The crowd held back at the sight of the Italian, who
is over six feet in height, with the gleaming knife in his hand. When LORSH
appeared the Italian made a vicious lunge at him. The patrolman dodged and as he
came up dropped the Italian to the sidewalk with a blow on the jaw. LORSH
then drew his club, wrenched the knife from the Italian's hand and beat him into
submission.
Mrs. KUPFER was removed to a nearby drugstore where she fainted. The news
of the assault spread like wildfire throughout the neighborhood and the diners
in all the cafes and restaurants in Houston street ran to the street. They
flocked about the drug store and became greatly excited. When the ambulance had
removed Mrs. KUPFER to GOUVERNEUR Hospital the mob cried to get at the
Italian. LORSH took his prisoner and started for the station house. The crowd tore at
the prisoner, knocked him down and cried, "Lynch him." LORSH telephoned for
the reserves who formed a square about the Italian and took him to the atation
house. One man in the crowd offered $1000 to the police if they would only
turn him over to them for a few minutes.
At the station house, the Italian said he was Guiseppe CAPPACIA, a cook,
23 years old, married and living in 320 East Eighteenth street.
CHRISTENING WINDS UP IN A FREE FIGHT ONE GUEST IN HOSPITAL WITH STAB WOUNDS
AND HOST IS HELD WITHOUT BAIL
A christening at 220 Java street, last night, was turned into a riot in
which over a score of men, women and children participated. As a result of the
fight seven men were taken to the Greenpoint avenue station house by Detective
LAU and Patrolmen MORGAN and RUDDER and Anthony FUCHWICZ, 25 years old, of 217
India street, was taken to the Eastern District Hospital with stab wounds in
the head and face.
William IDELHOFF had invited a number of friends to the christening of his
boy. There was plenty of refreshments at the party and everybody felt happy.
Mr. IDELHOFF made several impromptu speeches and his guests also indulged in a
flow of oratory until about 11 o'clock, when the host suggested it was time
for them to depart. His friends laughed and told him, it is said, that the
occasion should be prolonged by further feasting.
Mr. IDELHOFF consented, but about 12 o'clock he told his guests to leave.
They remonstrated and it is alleged that IDELHOFF had some words with several
of them, telling them imperatively to leave. This they refused to do and a
free fight ensued, in which the women and children mixed it up with the men.
It is alleged that IDELHOFF struck James MURPHY, 17 years old, of 217
India street, with a sharp instrument. Anyway, MURPHY had a laceration of the left
shoulder. By this time the police arrived and they rounded all the men, and
IDELHOFF was arrested charged with felonious assault. Others arrested were:
Julius BOLZ, 17 years old, of 226 India street; John CONVILL, 18 years, of 136
Franklin street; Thomas DOLLIGAN, 361 Manhattan avenue; Harry SMITH, 22, of 215
India street, Theodore SALSON, 18, of 132 India street; and James MOONEY, 17,
of 228 India street.
In the Manhattan avenue court to-day all the prisoners except IDELHOFF
were paroled for examination. He was held without bail by Magistrate O'REILLY to
await the result of FUCHWICZ's injuries.
LOST MUTH BOY NOT WITH BROOKLYN RELATIVES
POLICE THINK HIS FATHER IS TREATING WITH THE KIDNAPERS FOR HIS RETURN
Following the announcement made in a morning newspaper That Freddie MUTH
who was kidnaped in Philadelphia last Tuesday, is safe in Brooklyn with
relatives Capt. McCAULEY of the Detective Bureau, telegraphed to Philadelphia
and was told that he would receive a letter to-morrow explaining the case.
Captain McCAULEY said it was very strange, if the boy is with relatives,
why the relatives don't admit it.
Mrs. Gustavus BRANDUS, of 440s St. Marks avenue, is the only relative the
MUTHs have in Brooklyn, and when seen this morning she said she had not seen
or heard from the boy.
"He is not with us and I don't know where he can be if he is in Brooklyn."
It is the opinion of the Brooklyn police that the boy is not in Brooklyn,
but in some New Jersey town, and that he will be returned to his parents in a
few days, as there must be an understanding now between the MUTHs and the
kidnapers.
HUNT FOR BURGLARS, THEN FOR LOST WOMAN
RESERVES GET A FALSE ALARM FROM SEVENTEENTH A.D. REPUBLICAN CLUB
A burglar hunt that was not a burglar hunt aroused the reserves of the
Gates avenue police station at 6 o'clock this morning.
It all happened because Mrs. Harriet SL:ATER, wife of Ernest SLATER, who
is the janitor of the Seventh Assembly District Republican Club, at 435 Gates
avenue, is sick. She has been ill for several weeks, but lately has been
subject to attacks of hysteria. This morning she had one of these attacks and woke
up at 8 o'clock. She went down to the parlor floor of the clubhouse, and going
to the back room, she opened a window to an extension that runs in the rear of
several houses. Stepping out onto the extension, she walked across to the
windows of the house next door at 437 Gates avenue. She opened the window and
climbed in and aroused the household.
She said there were burglars in her house. Someone in the family
immediately called the police at the Gates avenue station and the "cops"
were hustled down.
Arriving on the scene they were met by Mr. SLATER, who could not say
anything about burglars, but insisted on turning the burglar hunt into a woman
hunt. He had awakened and missed his wife. He immediately began a search, and was
just about giving it up and calling in aid when aid came apparently of its own
accord in the reserves.
A little investigation led them to the house next door, where they learned
the facts.
Mr. SLATER was called in and his lost wife was found. He picked her up in
his arms and carried her back to her room.
STOMACH PUMP ANTIDOTE FOR OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE
Michael FROMBA, 21 years old, a druggist, of 1428 Herkimer street, had
cramps at noon yesterday and took some morphine. A few seconds later he
discovered that he had taken an overdose and Dr. Eugene STELLA, cum laude Pacific
street, with whom he was talking at the time, tried to relieve him. He called an
ambulance to his aid and Dr. KENNA, of the Bradford Street Hospital, responding,
applied the stomach pump remedy.
It worked finely.
MRS. EDITH HARRISON NABBED AS SHOPLIFTER
Mrs. Edith HARRISON, 34 years old, of 69 North Oxford street, was arrested
this morning as she was leaving a Futon street department store. She was
taken to the Adams street police station, where the police say she admitted having
taken four pieces of dress goods. Mrs. HARRISON said she didn't know why she
took the goods as she didn't need them. The arrest was made by Grace BERG, a
store detective. Mrs. HARRISON was searched and the store people say the goods
were found in the woman's possession.
DROWNING MAN GRIPS RESCUER BY THROAT
Only police grit saved the life of Abraham KALFONE, of 706 Willoughby
avenue, this borough, in Pelham Bay yesterday. The Brooklyn man jumped from a
rowboat intending to swim around it and was soon at the mercy of the waters.
Crowds on the bridge which leads to City Island heard his cries of help.
Seeing the man was drowning Patrolman BORST, in full uniform, jumped from the
bridge, about twenty-five feet above. KALFONE seized the policeman and in his
fear nearly choked him. It seemed both would drown.
From the end of the bridge Patrolmen KUHLMAN and WOOD saw the death fight.
WOOD ran out on the bridge and leaped in, while KUHLMAN got a boat. WOOD kept
the interlocked men up until the boat arrived, then KALFONE had to be beaten
to make him relax his grip.
When shore was reached both Patrolman BORST and KALFONE were unconscious.
They were rolled on barrels and revived.
FOUR POISONED FROM EATING CANNED SARDINES
Samuel BALANOFF, 88 Debevoise street, his wife and two children were taken
seriously ill last night, after eating canned sardines. The father and a two
year old daughter, Anna, were taken to St. Catherine's Hospital and their
condition is said to be critical, while the mother and the ten year old boy are at
home under the constant care of a physician.
The BALANOFFs had been away from home during the day, and rather than take
the trouble to prepare supper, they decided to purchase the sardines from a
store nearby. Shortly after the meal all four were taken ill and they were so
frightened that the neighbors were called in. After trying in vain to revive
the victims of the quick lunch the hospital authorities were notified and Dr.
MILTIMORE son relieved the mother and son with the aid of a stomach pump.
BALANOFF and the little girl, however, had to be removed to the hospital.
BROKE HIS NOSE IN RUNNING AWAY FROM 'COP.'
Michael SHEEDY was arrested yesterday on a charge of shooting craps at
Pearl and Nassau streets. When SHEEDY appeared in the Adams street court to-day
his nose was done up in splints. He said it was broken. Officer DUNGATE says
SHEEDY, who was with a big crowd of youths on the corner, ran away as soon as he
saw a policeman coming. He tripped while running and landed on his nose.
Apparently he did not realize there was anything serious the matter with him when
taken to the station house, but after getting bailed out he had to send for a
doctor. Sentence was suspended on him by Magistrate DONLEY to-day.
SHOOTING AT TORMENTORS, WATCHMAN WOUNDS BOY
STOOD FOR ANNOYANCE UNTIL HIT BY STONE - BULLET LODGED IN SCHUMACKER'S NECK
Firing his revolver at a crowd of boys who had stoned him, Julius MAYER, a
night watchman, fifty-six years old, of 18 Vandervoort place, shot Peter
SCHUMACKER, seventeen years old, of 154 Knickerbocker avenue, in the neck,
seriously wounding him, at Flushing and Knickerbocker avenues, early yesterday
morning. It is alleged that MAYER was greatly annoyed by a crowd of toughs who
pelted him with stones, on Saturday night, and that one of the stones hit him on
the right side of his head, casing concussion of the brain. He alleges that he
shot at the crowd in self defense.
After the boys would stone MAYER they would run away. The old watchman
swore and decided that he would stop the annoyance. When the next shower of
stones fell about him he drew his revolver and fired. The bullet hit SCHUMACKER in
the right side of the neck. Seeing SCHUMACKER fall to the ground with a cry of
pain his companions became frightened and ran. Another of them is said to
have limped painfully and it is believed that he also was shot.
Captain GARDNER, of the Stagg street station, was notified of the shooting
and with several men he went to the scene. An ambulance was summoned and
SCHUMACKER was removed to St. Catherine's Hospital. Ambulance Surgeon MILTIMORE
also dressed MAYER's wounds and he was arrested on a charge of felonious
assault. In the Manhattan avenue police court Magistrate O'REILLY held MAYER
to await the result of SCHUMACKER's injuries. SCHUMACKER had a narrow escape,
but is expected to recover.
ANOTHER SURVIVOR OF THE CUSTER MASSACRE
To the Editor of the Standard Union:
I take pleasure in informing you that J. MARTIN is not the only survivor
of the Custer massacre living in Brooklyn. H. PETRING, of the Seventh Cavalry,
Company G, is still alive, and lives at 369 Manhattan avenue. Mr. PETRING can
show his honorable discharge and proofs that he is a survivor, and he would
like to meet Mr. MARTIN. Kindly forward Mr. MARTIN's address, and oblige, his
son,
CHARLES PETRING
Mr. MARTIN lives at 58 York street -Ed.
FOUR HURT WHEN CROWDED CAR JUMPED THE TRACK
Four persons were injured and a score or more badly shaken up yesterday
afternoon when a Tompkins avenue car, in charge of Motorman Lawrence BASEL, of
134 Dupont street, and Conductor John GILROY, of 428 Humboldt street, jumped
the track at Neptune avenue and Van Siclen station.
Elsie WEISSMAN, 2 years old, of 134 North Fourth street, who was with her
mother, Mrs. Louisa WEISSMAN, was thrown from the car to the street. She
sustained abrasions of the face and shock, Angelo PUTTO, 19 years old, of 222 Cook
street, and Annie ANGSBURGH, 54 years old, of 69 Bushwick avenue, and Ita
TAILOR of 175 Boerum place were also injured. PUTTA sustained shock and abrasions
of the face, while the ANSBURGE (sic) woman received a sprain of the left
elbow and contusions. The TAILOR woman received lacerated wounds.
All four were attended by Ambulance Surgeons PECK and RICHARDSON and
removed to the Reception Hospital, but later went home. Traffic over the road was
blocked for an hour as the result of the accident.
TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN SHOW;
THEIR FATHER ARRESTED
The Coney Island police had another light day yesterday. Special Policeman
LUDEKE, of the Children's Aid Society, was busy in his crusade against
persons employing children under 16. Last night he arrested Benjamin STALKER, 46
years old, of Henderson's Walk, for permitting his two daughters, Myrtle and
Ella, 12 and 10 years old respectively, to perform at a show with which he is
connected.
SALOONKEEPER ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING EXCISE LAW
Louis FRINGO, 46 years old, of 15 Mermaid avenue, Coney Island, who was
arrested late Saturday night, charged with violating the excise law, by
Detectives O'DONNELL and JOHNSON, of the Coney Island station, was before
Magistrate yesterday. FRINGO pleaded not guilty and VOORHEES, in the
Coney Island court, the case was adjourned.
TWO MEN HURT WHEN CAR HITS A WAGON
Early yesterday while Galard LOCHARD, 63 years old, of Canarsie, and Henry
VAN HOUSEN, 80 years old, also of Canarsie, were driving a horse and wagon
along Rockaway avenue a car of the St. Johns place line struck them at Lavonia
and Rockaway avenues, and knocked the wagon upside down, throwing the two men
to the sidewalk. Ambulance Surgeon CANNA, of the Bradford Street Hospital,
after dressing VAN HOUSEN's wounds, removed LOCHARD to the Kings County Hospital,
suffering from contusions of the back and both legs.
LETTER LED TO HARVEY'S CAPTURE
MISSING BANK MESSENGER AND BOY COMPANION ARRESTED IN TEXAS
WANTED TO BE COW PUNCHERS - WERE WELL ARMED AND HAD $300 IN CASH
Dallas, Texas, June 18;- Wheelock HARVEY, 19 years old, of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
and a companion of about the same age, named David MELVILLE, were arrested by
the Fort Worth police yesterday at Springtown, twenty miles west of Fort Worth,
and are held for the New York authorities. The HARVEY boy was a messenger in
the First National Bank of New York, and on June 8 disappeared after having
been sent by the bank to make collections. He sent back to the bank $200,000
worth of the paper, kept $700 in money and induced David MELVILLE to start for
Dallas on a cowboy adventure. MELVILLE adopted the alias of "Daniel MARTIN,"
wrote home and asked his relatives to write him at Fort Worth under that name.
Another Daniel MARTIN in Fort Worth got the letter sent from New York to the
fugitive, turned it over to the Fort Worth police, and the arrests followed. The
boys are penitent, and hope for leniency from the New York authorities. They
had a camping outfit, cowboy equipment, dirk knives, pistols, etc., and $300 in
money when arrested.
Harvey's father, a teller in the Chase National Bank, Manhattan, said the
day after the boy disappeared; "I shall not interfere in his behalf. I want to
have him put on the right road if he has gone off on the wrong one."
HAD NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH IN AUTO
MAYLAND AND PARTY LEAPED JUST BEFORE WILDCAT ENGINE HIT MACHINE
Freeport, June 18:- An automobile belonging to Roland H. MAYLAND, a
manufacturer at 361 Adams street, Brooklyn, was demolished by a wildcat
engine at the Long Beach avenue crossing of the Long Island Railroad -
here yesterday a second after Mr. MAYLAND, his daughter, her maid, and
Sidney SMITH of Belford, had leaped out of the machine.
With Mr. MAYLAND and SMITH, a friend of the family, on the front seat,
and Miss Bessie MAYLAND and her maid in the tonneau, the car turned from the
Merrick road into Long Beach avenue, which crosses the tracks four blocks
west of the Freeport depot. On reaching the crossing the car was stopped and
all listened. The view was obstructed by the village pumping station and
electric light works and by trees. Hearing no sound and no train being due
the car started ahead. As the slowly moving car reached the rails and the
front wheels were on them a wildcat engine was sighted bearing down upon them.
Mr. MAYLAND and Mr. SMITH jumped and the two young women jumped over the sides.
Just as they did so the engine hit the forward end of the automobile and
smashed it back as far as the seat and swung the car around and overturned it.
Miss MAYLAND sustained a strain of the right shoulder. The engine stopped
at the depot and backed up. The engineer claimed he blew his whistle.
Mr. MAYLAND lives here in the summer time. He used to be head of the
Nassau County Volunteer Firemen's Association and is now president of the
Nassau Firemen's Association.
BROWNSVILLE - MISS VOLKMAN WEDS JERSEY CITY MAN
Miss Lillie VOLKMAN, of 56 Riverdale avenue, was married to Solomon ROSEN, of
127 Watkins avenue, Jersey City, Saturday night by Rabbi HOLENDER, of Jersey
City. The bridesmaid was Miss Sarah VOLKMAN, and the best man was Isador
VOLKMAN. The affair was held at American Star Hall, Christopher and
Pitkin avenues, and was attended by over three hundred guests.
GO TO THE MOUNTAINS FOR THEIR HONEYMOON
The wedding of Miss Tillie FRIED, of 544 Stone avenue, to Jacob KANGER, of
295 Grand street, which was held at Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and
Watkins street, Saturday evening, was attended by over seven hundred guests.
Rabbi Simon TELESMAN officiated and the bridesmaid was Miss Sarah FRIED. The
best man was Meyer FRIED. The couple will spend their honeymoon in the White
Mountains.
MANY FRIENDS CELEBRATE ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
At a party at 38 Thatford avenue, last night, the engagement of Miss Beckie
ROSENBERG, of 148 Hamburg street to Hyman BUSHLOWITZ, of 33 Thatford avenue was
announced. The party was a very pretty event and was attended by a large
number of guests. The young couple are well known in this borough and Mr.
BUSHLOWITZ is one of the leading real estate speculators in the Brownesville
section of the borough.
19 June 1906
FISH - RAFELOWITZ
Miss Ida RAFELOWITZ, of 30 Watkins street, and Jacob FISH, of Linwood
street and Hegeman avenue were united in marriage last night by Rabbi RABINOVIT?
at Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street. The couple are
well known in Brownsville and East New York, and a number of handsome presents
were received by the young bride.
HUMAN CHAIN SAVES LABORER IN QUICKSAND
"MILE A MINUTE" MURPHY AND SERGEANT CLARKE MADE A
NERVY RESCUE IN MADISON STREET
Policeman "Mile-a-Minute" MURPHY, of the Adams street station, who gained the
sobriquet before he became a policeman, because of the record he made on a
bicycle behind a locomotive, bravely rescued a man from a quicksand yesterday
afternoon, while a brother officer held on his legs to keep him from being
submerged.
Murphy was passing 125 Madison street, when a woman ran out and said that
a workman, who was constructing a floor in the cellar, had fallen into the
earth and could not be seen. MURPHY hailed Sergeant Bernard CLARKE of the
Greenpoint station, who lives nearby, and ran into the cellar. There he found that
the quicksand of a submerged well had swallowed Constant ALBERT, a workman, and
that he was in an opening almost ten feet below. Sergeant CLARKE and one of
the laborers grasped MURPHY about the ankles and he went head first after the
imprisoned man. It was half an hour before he succeeded in bringing ALBERT to
the surface.
ALBERT had sustained two nasty cuts in the head from stones which had been
dislodged in the struggle to save him, and he was pretty well used up
generally. MURPHY was so exhausted that he needed the attention of the ambulance
surgeon who came from St. John's Hospital in answer to a call. ALBERT was taken to
the hospital. He lives at 27 Wycoff avenue.
GIRL'S HEAD CUT BY BOTTLE THAT FELL FROM WINDOW
While playing in her yard at 360 Hudson avenue, Pauline WARNER, 11 years old,
was struck on the head by a bottle, which had fallen from the second-story
window, and sustained a scalp wound.
DRIVER BADLY HURT IN CRASH WITH CAR
Joseph WOTZ, 35 years old, a truck driver living on Barren Island is in the
German Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and a laceration of the
right ear, which he received last night when a Broadway car crashed into his
truck at Flushing avenue and Bogart street and threw him into the street.
GREENPOINT- LATE STORY OF THE SEA TRIP OF THE BARNACLES
The Ink Fish of the Barnacles sends by wireless (delayed in transmission)
this account of a recent outing of that famous bunch of fisherman:
Why mourn? It happened and there are several witnesses. Our skate (mate)
fish made as good as his namesake (Van Ness) did at Gravesend on Friday. He
came in first, but needed help to pull in the largest fish caught by fishermen
leaving Wreck Lead this season. The Barnacles were out with bells on and they
jingled June 10th as they left Murray's Wreck Lead Hotel. They stopped jingling
when they reached Buoy 2, and with a bulging face one after the other looked
over the side of the boat as if with a feeling of interest mingled with doubt
and whatever they had for breakfast. A few of the skeptical fisherman aboard
felt unkind and expressed the fact that chumming was unnecessary. This did not
please the chumming element one bit, but only served to encourage them with
more vim. They finally tired of their efforts and met in the cabin, where they
conspired to inaugurate a "Down and Out" club. They succeeded admirably and had
more applicants for membership than cushions would allow. In the meantime the
Barnacles aboard fished and caught fish to the tune of 246, of which probably
two-thirds were sea bass. The balance, ling, fluke, whiting, blackfish were
caught in smaller proportions. The Barnacles responsible for the results were:
J. KOHLMAN,
W. RUSSELL,
C.SIEGERT,
C. WELLNER,
J. WALKER,
A. VAN NESS,
S. KISER,
R. SIEGERT,
G. MENZE,
W. MAC CONNELL,
B. SIEGERT,
J. DIMMLER,
E. STEHLIN,
G. HUHN,
G. RUSSELL,
W. HOFFMAN,
A. JANSEN,
J. JACOBS
BROWNSVILLE- SERGEANT GEORGE CHARLTON RECOVERS FROM ILLNESS
Sergeant George CHARLESTON (sic), of the Brownsville station, has returned
to his duties at the station house after a three weeks illness. The sergeant
is well known in the Brownsville district, as well as at Sheepshead Bay, where
he was stationed before his transfer to Brownsville, and no doubt his many
friends will be pleased to hear of his recovery.
YOUNG DRUGGIST TOOK TOO MUCH MORPHINE
Michael TROMBA, 21 years old, a druggist, of 428 Herkimer street, took an
overdose of morphine yesterday afternoon in his store. Ambulance Surgeon
CANNA, of the Bradford Street Hospital, had to be called to keep him out
of danger.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
-Charles McHIFF, of Abbott street, Jamaica, was arrested last night charged
with assaulting Abram KEMZ, of Lyndall street and Liberty avenue, by throwing
a stone at him and breaking his left leg.
-Mikado STANSKO, 48 years old, of 65 Beaver street, Jamaica, was arrested
last night charged with assaulting Ilko LAMBERS, of the same address by hitting
him on the head with a hammer. SAMBERS (sic) was attended by Dr. MARTING, of
St. Mary's Hospital. STANSKO was held on a charge of felonious assault.
-A bicycle valued at $40 and owned by Michael CALLON, was stolen yesterday
afternoon from the hallway of his residence, at 98 Beaver street, Jamaica. The
thief took the wheel to the bicycle repair shop of A.C. Adriance, on Fulton
street, Jamaica, and offered it for sale at a low figure. Mr. ADRIANCE
recognized the wheel as one he had just repaired for Mr. CALLON, and while
questioning the man how he came by the wheel, he ran out of the store.
He was followed by a number of persons and after a long chase was arrested
by Detective KENADY.
At the police station he gave his name as Lester WALLACE, 20 years old, and
said that his home was in Fallsburg, N.Y. He was held for examination.
TRIO MADE MERRY IN A VACANT HOUSE
An excited woman ran into the Bedford avenue station last night and told
Sergeant BRENNER that two men had dragged a woman into a vacant house at 156
Roebling street. Capt. PINKERTON immediately summoned Detective HOLLAND, and with
Patrolmen CLANCY, SHAUGHNESSY, SNEDEKER, and Roundsman KENMORE they drove to
the Roebling street address in the patrol wagon. PINKERTON rapped on the door
for admission but o one answered.
Then the police forced open the door and searched the house. On the top
floor they found the two men and one woman. The tri were laughing and telling
stories and seemed greatly surprised at the intrusion of the police.
When taken to the Bedford avenue station they said they had merely gone
into the house to rest.
Before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court, to-day the trio
pleaded not guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct and were fined $5 each.
RUNAWAY GIRL FROM CORONA FOUND AT CONEY
While doing patrol duty along Surf avenue, Coney Island, at 11 0'clock last
night Patrolman HUMPHRIES saw Sadie CEDERLOS, 19 years old, wandering aimlessly
along without an escort. The patrolman promptly arrestedthe gir; for
vagrancy, and she was arraigned this morning in the Coney Island court.
To Magistrate VOORHEES she said that her home was in Corona, L.I. and that
she had run away from there two weeks ago to go to the house of a friend.
Last night, she said, she had gone out, and then couldn't find her way back again
to the house of her friend. The magistrate held her for examination Friday on
the charge of vagrancy.
20 June 1906
COP' NEARLY DROWNED BY WOULD-BE SUICIDE
Frederick LYNCH, 39 years old, of 137 Throop avenue, became tired of life a
bout dawn to-day. He had been wandering about Coney Island in search of a job
and had failed. All through the night he walked, and this morning he ran
along the jetty at the foot of Sheridan's walk and jumped into the water.
Policeman William FITZGERALD saw him go in, and peeling off his coat, he
followed. When he got to the drowning man there was a struggle and FITZGERALD
would have been dragged down with him had not William WIELDER, of the Mill
road, gone to his assistance. When LYNCH was finally taken from the water he was
in bad shape from immersion and was taken to the Emergency Hospital a prisoner.
He was able to be in the Coney Island Court to-day and was held for
examination on a charge of attempting suicide.
TWO BURGLAR SCARES AND ONE REAL ROBBERY
The police of the Gates avenue station had two burglar hunts last night
that proved to be false alarms.
The first alarm was given to the police at 9 o'clock by William CARTIER,
of 104 Quincy street. He noticed a window open in the home of John A. SPOFFORD,
at 100 Quincy street, and thinking of burglars, he notified the police by
telephone. The reserves were sent out on the run and, arriving at the house, they
went all through it, but found that everything was O.K.
About 11 o'clock they got another call. This time Mrs. G. DILLOSIER, who
lives at 351 Macon street, was returning from a walk when she discovered that
the vestibule door of her house was open. She too, immediately connected the
fact with burglars and notified Policeman TAYLOR, of the Gates avenue station.
He called the reserves who, after a thorough search, found there was nothing
wrong.
What was a real burglary was reported to the Gates avenue police station
by Charles TIETJEN last night. He reported that someone had entered his
apartment on the second floor of 678 DeKalb avenue yesterday morning and stolen
jewelry valued at $40.
YOUNG WOMAN AND MISSING RIG FOUND
SHE IS IN NASSAU JAIL, AND THERE IS MUCH MYSTERY ABOUT HER IDENTITY
MINEOLA, June 20.-The young woman who last Thursday, as Miss PALMER, of the
Hotel Wellington, Manhattan, hired a rig at Howlett & Leihy's stable, 850
Seventh avenue, Manhattan, is locked up in Nassau County jail and will have a
hearing at Lawrence Friday. She was arrested yesterday at Lawrence, in the home of
William PEARSALL. The PEARSALLs were astonished at her arrest. They said they
had known her as Miss Ethel POWELL when she was a nurse in the Eye and Ear
Hospital on East Eighteenth street, Manhattan.
When taken before Justice DeMott at Lawrence the woman seemed dazed. She
gave her age as 23, said she was a native of Richmond, Va., and that her name
was Mrs. Elizabeth HOWELL. She said she was married at 17, and then separated
from her husband, George HOWELL, whose address she gave as 132 Centre street,
Manhattan.
She said that on Thursday, after she hired the rig from Howlett & Leihy,
with her husband, she drove around all day. They put the horse up Thursday
night at the Hoffman Stables, in East Twenty-third street. Friday they drove out
on Long Island. On Sunday they were run into by an auto. She paid $7 to have
the trap mended, took her husband to a railroad station and drove to William
PEARSALL's at Lawrence. She says she never tried to sell the rig, which she put
up at Borth & Weston's stable, in Lawrence.
21 June 1906
CROSSED NEWTOWN CREEK IN BOATS - GREENPOINTER REMINDED OF OLDEN TIMES
WHEN BRIDGE FAILED TO WORK SPAN HIGH IN AIR FOR HOUR
CROSSED WIRES DELAYED MORE THAN 5000 PERSONS
More than 5,000 excited people, including many women and children,
gathered at both ends of the bridge which spans Newtown Creek shortly after ten
o'clock this morning. The cause of all the excitement was the failure of the
electrical apparatus to lower the Greenpoint end, after it had been raised to allow
a vessel to pass by. Traffic was stopped for an hour, and row boats and tugs
pressed into service to carry the belated shoppers and business people across
the creek.
The bridge is of the roller lift pattern, being divided in the middle. By
means of powerful motors, both halves of the span are lifted into the air at
certain times, and then lowered again, very much after the fashion of the gates
placed at railroad crossings.
The bridge connects Manhattan avenue, on the Greenpoint side, with Vernon
avenue, in Long Island City. Since its erection, about nine months ago, the
traffic has increased tremendously. Therefore, when the bridge was raised this
morning there gathered a crowd of considerable dimensions, waiting for it to be
lowered. The Long Island City end responded to the electric power, and coming
down, rested in its usual position, but the other half remained in mid-air,
and the best efforts of the machinist could not make it come to its regular
horizontal position.
Meanwhile the crowd was growing. People began to grow impatient and it
wasn't long before rickety rowboats were called into service by the shoppers and
commuters. The only way of reaching the boats was down a ladder placed sheer
up the side of the stone foundation of the bridge, and the ascent was dangerous
in the extreme, but nevertheless down the ladder went women and children, as
well as men. That there was no accident is a miracle.
After the machinists had made several investigations, they found that some
of the electric wires that carried the current for the motors on the affected
side had become twisted in such a manner as to break the circuit. This defect
was remedied and the half of the bridge lowered, after having been suspended
in mid-air for fully an hour. This is the first time that such an accident has
occurred on the bridge since it was built.
SALOONKEEPER WHO SOLD COCKTAILS HELD
Herbert STENNECK, the proprietor of the saloon at 103 Sumpter street, who
on Sunday last sold the pitcher of cocktails, the drinking of which was
followed by the death of Mrs. Jennie BOSQUET, a teacher in Public School 125, and
Joseph HIRSH, her cousin, both of whom resided at 222 Chauncey street, was
arrested last night on the technical charge of violating the liquor tax law and of
selling liquor to minors. In court to-day STENNECK was held.
Coroner's physician WUEST, who performed an autopsy on the bodies, to-day
reported that death had been caused by some poison, the character of which is
unknown. A chemical analysis will be made of the contents of the stomachs. The
cause of death is attributed to wood alcohol.
It was learned that Joseph COOK, 15 years old, made six trips to the
saloon and each time brought back a pitcher of cocktails. This was enough to make
forty-two cocktails, and as the saloon-keeper charged only a dollar and a half
for each pitcher the drinks cost less than four cents each.
The funerals of Mrs. BOSQUE (sic) and the young man HIRSCH (sic) have not
yet been arranged.
SCHOOL GIRL, WITH MAN OF 34, ARRESTED AS VAGRANT
On a charge of vagrancy Policeman GOODALE, of the Bedford avenue station,
last night arrested Abraham KAPLAN, 32 years old, of 170 Henry street, and
Lizzie KAUFMAN, 14 years old, of 230 East Third street, Manhattan, who were found
loitering around the park under the Williamsburg Bridge. The girl's parents
told the police that Lizzie left home yesterday to go to school and did not
come home. In the Lee avenue Court to-day the man and girl were held for further
examination by Magistrate HIGGENBOTHAM.
CAME NEAR GETTING STEAMER OFF BAR
Wrecking tugs began pulling on the Italian steamer Vincenzo Bonanno, which
went ashore near the ....Island light Sunday night while .....from
Mediterranean ports for New York, at high tide early this morning in an effort
to float her. After working from 4 o'clock until 7:30 the tugs succeeded
in moving the vessel about three-quarters across the sand bar on which she
stranded. The Bonanno was swung around and instead of lying broadside on
the beach she is now heading directly on the beach.
On account of the falling tide further efforts to float the vessel were
postponed until the next high water at 6:30 this evening. The wreckers think
that the Bonanno will have to be further lightened, and it is likely that more of
her cargo will be loaded on scows during to-day.
The wind is low and the sea is running smooth, so that the vessel is in no
danger.
SLEEP-WALKING GIRL FRACTURES HER SKULL
Mary MORAN, 19 years old, of 530 Seventeenth street, while walking in her
sleep, fell off the stoop in front of her home last night, and fractured her
skull. Dr. Joseph MURPHY, of 1507 Eighth avenue, was called and was treating
the child, when Ambulance Surgeon HUTCHINSON, f the Seney Hospital, arrived in
response to a call from a neighbor. He refused to handle the case when he found
Dr. MURPHY there.
After prescribing for the child Dr. MURPHY left. At 2 o'clock this morning
the child's condition became so serious that Dr. M.E. CLAFFEY, the family
physician, was summoned. He ordered the removal of the child to Seney Hospital.
Serious doubts are entertained for her recovery.
PUT OUT OF JAIL WHEN HE WENT TO SEE DAUGHTER
MINEOLA, June 21.- A rigid investigation is to be made into the action of
Warden DUNBAR of the jail here because he refused to allow William I. CIPPELY, a
decorator, of Corona, to see his daughter, Victorine CIPPELY, who is in jail
here, charged with stealing a horse and buggy. She was arrested a few days ago
at Lawrence and has since been in jail here.
Mr. CIPPELY came here this morning and obtained a permit from a clerk in
the Sheriff's office to see his daughter. He says the Warden told him his
daughter didn't wish to see him. "She says she has no father, and therefore I
cannot allow you to see her," added the warden. CIPPELY insisted that he was her
father and would see her, if he had to stay there all day. He was told, he
says, that he would have to leave the warden's office, and he refused and then he
was practically evicted.
He consulted a lawyer immediately and will bring charges against the
warden. He says he received a letter from his daughter three months ago in which
she wrote that she had just been appointed a nurse in the Health Department and
had been assigned to Flatbush Hospital, Brooklyn. He admitted that his
daughter had recently been transferred to Blackwell's where she has since been acting
as a nurse.
THEATRICAL MAN, LUXURIOUS LIVER, HELD AS THIEF
Harley H. FORSYTH, 24 years old, of the Hotel Morganthal, Park avenue and
125th street, Manhattan, employed as assistant treasurer at Proctor's 125th
street Theater, and said to be a scion of an old Vermont family, was held in
$1,000 to-day, in the Centre street court, Manhattan, on a charge of grand
larceny.
FORSYTH is alleged to have stolen $400 in cash and 500 tickets. Detectives
said he had a wardrobe fit for a prince and had been living far above his
means.
O'KEEFFE ABOLISHES THE 'EMPTY HOUSE SQUAD'
In previous summers the Police Department always had what was called a
"Empty House Squad" for the convenience of people who closed their homes in the
city and went to their country residences to spend the summer. This was a big
drain on the department, as probably as many as 300 men were assigned to visit
these houses and make nightly inspections of them. As a rule the patrolmen
with strong political friends got these jobs, and they were very anxious to get
them, too, as they were in possession of the keys and during the long watches
of the night they could regale themselves with refreshments left by the people
for the patrolman's convenience. Deputy Commissioner O'KEEFFE has decided to
abolish this squad and has notified the captains that the patrolmen on the
posts will be held responsible for the safety of these residences.
Deputy Commissioner O'KEEFFE has also cut down the vacations around
Headquarters, with the exception of the sergeants, to ten days. In previous years
the men always received fifteen days. This was done on account of the scarcity
of men.
SUICIDE NOTE IN COAT LEFT ON FERRYBOAT
At 10 o'clock this morning George COLE, of 28 Butler street, a deckhand on
the ferryboat Union, found a black derby hat and gray sack coat in the boat's
cabin as the boat was pulling into the slip at the foot of Main street.
In the pocket of the coat was a letter which read as follows:
"I can feel my mind giving away rapidly, and if anything happens to me
notify James P. WYNNE, of 990 Columbus avenue, New York, and also notify James
DOYLE, an undertaker at York and Bridge streets. My last wish is for him to take
care of my body and prepare it for burial as soon as possible. Make sure the
body is dead and plant it at once."
(Signed) "John P. WYNNE"
"P.S. -The grave deed and funeral expenses will be attended to O.K. Jimmy
DOYLE is dead, John KENNY and my brother Jim are friends. J.P.W."
At DOYLE's undertaking establishment to-day it was said that WYNNE was
known there and that the note was believed to be genuine.
22 June 1906
TWO STORE STECTIVES HAD A LIVELY TUSSLE
Miss Grace BERG and Nellie SUYDAM, store detectives, had an exciting
experience yesterday afternoon with an infuriated woman whom they had accused of
shoplifting, and Traffic Policeman Joseph KANE and several citizens had much
trouble saving the young women from serious injury. Miss BERG's shirt waist and
gloves were torn in shreds and Miss SUYDAM had her hands scratched painfully
during a scrimmage on the street, while attempting to detain the woman, who when
taken to the Adams street station in a patrol wagon, gave her name as Ella
MULLANEY, and her address as 49 Wycoff street.
According to the detectives she came into a Fulton street department store
dressed in a white lawn suit and a picture hat. She carried a handbag and as
she passed the glove counter, it is alleged, she put a few pairs in. Then she
went to the bead counter and helped herself, all the time being watched by the
alert young women. They followed her to the street, intending to call a
policeman, but when they attempted to detain her, trouble began. In a rage the
woman opened her satchel and began throwing the contents away. When the
detectives laid hands on her she fought like a tigress, biting, scratching and
swearing. Finally Officer KANE came along and summoned a patrol wagon. The prisoner
fought all the way to the station house. She was taken before Magistrate DOOLEY
in the Adams street court to-day and held for examination.
To-day the woman gave her name as Helen BELLAMY, and her address as 52
Wycoff street. The police say her real name is FERGUSON and that she lives in
East New York.
RILEY GRANNAN'S WAD MADE THEM STARE
Riley GRANNAN, famous at one time as a race track follower and plunger,
when taken before Magistrate VOORHEES in Coney Island Court to-day on a
non-support charge, preferred by his wife Daisy, was held for examination on
Friday at his request.
Although fashionably dressed, Mrs. GRANNAN appealed to the Magistrate for
immediate aid. She said she could not wait a week for the money as she was in
need. GRANNAN offered to give her eighteen dollars upon which to support
herself until next Friday, but when Mrs. GRANNAN demanded twenty-five, he flashed a
roll that made everyone in the court room stare. He calmly peeled off a
twenty and a five, handed it to his wife ad all walked out of the court.
GRANNAN was arrested at the Sheepshead Bay track at the close of the races
yesterday.
AS EXPLOSION IN RESTAURANT CELLAR
A terrific explosion occurred at noon to-day in the three-story dwelling
at 450 Keap street, in which a score or more were hurt, two seriously. The
injured were so frightened that they ran pell-mell from the scene of the
explosion, and only two names were given. The explosion was caused by escaping
gas. Two plumbers, who had been sent into the cellar of the building to
repair the gas pipes, as the gas had been escaping in large quantities,
lighted a candle as they went down, and combustion followed immediately.
One side of the lower floor of the building is occupied as a restaurant by
Abraham SAMUELSON, and on the other side is a vacant store. At the time of
the explosion, the restaurant was crowded with noon-day diners, and when the
noise and crash were heard, men rushed hither and thither in wild confusion, and
many were trampled in the fierce melee.
The walls of the cellar were blown out by the force of the concussion, two
large plate glass windows were destroyed in the front of the building and the
partition that separated the two stores was shaken down.
The two plumbers were badly burned about the face and head. Their clothing
hung in shreds, and their features were blackened beyond description. They
were attended by Surgeons from the Williamsburg Hospital, but absolutely refused
to go in the ambulance. They are Abraham BREENSTEIN, of 116 Graham avenue,
and Joseph VALNOR, of 523 Metropolitan avenue.
When the explosion was first felt in the restaurant the diners set up a
yell and made a rush for the doors. There were alarms of fire sent in and hurry
calls sent to the Williamsburg and Eastern District hospitals. To add to the
confusion a crowd gathered so quickly that it became unmanageable, and a dozen
reserves from the Bedford avenue station were called to quell the excited mob.
The fire that started in the cellar was soon checked.
It was found that the place had been damaged to the extent of $1,000. A
hunt was made for injured people, but those who had been caught in the
restaurant, when the partition was thrown down by the explosion, had fled.
MOTOR 'COPS' TO STOP SPEEDING AUTO DRIVERS
Complaints of speeding autoists on the Ocean Parkway has compelled Deputy
Police Commissioner O'KEEFFE to put two more motor-cycle policemen on that
thoroughfare. To-day he ordered Patrolmen PATTERSON, and George J. SHEPARD, of
the Liberty avenue station, to report for motor-cycle duty on the boulevard.
CUT HIS GULLET OPEN TO REMOVE FALSE TEETH
Frank ANDERSON, 22 years old, of 195 Columbia street, after having had his
gullet cut open and a set of false teeth removed from his esophagus near the
stomach, is rapidly mending to-day at Norwegian Hospital, and the doctors say he
will be out in a week. ANDERSON went to the hospital on Wednesday and told Dr.
LATTA that he had swallowed his teeth. An x-ray examination revealed that the
teeth had lodged in the esophagus about opposite the seventh rib, and near
the entrance to the stomach. Efforts to move them up or down were ineffectual.
The set consisted of four upper front teeth and the gutta percha plate to which
they were attached.
23 June 1906
HOSPITAL SURGEONS SEW WOUND IN HEART
UNUSUAL OPERATION ON MAN STABBED IN ROW AT GREENPOINT CHRISTENING
The surgeons of the Eastern District Hospital yesterday performed a
remarkable operation on Anthony SAVAGE, 22 years old, of 227 Ellery street. SAVAGE
had, while in a brawl which followed a Greenpoint christening, sustained four
knife wounds, one of which was directly over the heart. This wound caused
internal hemorrhage, and it was decided that in order to stop the flow of blood the
auricles which had been cut must be sewed.
Dr. Silas C. BLAISDELL, assisted by Drs. Charles H. TAGG, H.V. DUGGAN,
Edwin H. BULWINKLE and Frederick KIRCHBAUM, yesterday morning cut away two of the
rib cartilages and discovered an opening in the left plural (sic) and a
two-inch wound in the heart sac.
It was decided to stitch the wound and this required a great amount of
speed and skill. While this was being done SAVAGE grew weaker by degrees and for
a time it was feared that he could not live. Strychnine was administered to
stimulate the heart action. The doctors worked very quickly and to this is due,
in a great measure, the apparent success of the operation. The entire time
taken was thirteen minutes.
SAVAGE was able to talk last night, but was naturally very weak and
exhausted.
The doctors as yet are unwilling to make any statement as to the possible
success of the operation, and they await anxiously the developments.
ITALIAN WRESTLERS FALL FROM SECOND-STORY WINDOW
Antonio MONFROSO, 24 years old, of 41 Columbia street, and Salvatore
BELIA, 32 years old, of 123 Harrison street, fell out of the second story window of
MONFROSO's home yesterday afternoon. MONFROSO received a lacerated wound of
the left leg, and BELIA sustained a fracture of the right arm and contusions of
face and body. They were both removed to the Long Island College Hospital by
Ambulance Surgeon PATTON. When asked how they both came to fall the men
claimed they were wrestling and didn't notice the window.
POKER GAME BRAWL MAY END IN MURDER
"BEAU BRUMMEL," OF FLEET PLACE STABS WHITE MAN FOR INSULTING "HIS PUSSONAL ATTIRE."
Robert HALL, 32 years old, of 551 Waverly place, said to be a salesman for
a New York lace house, went into JOHNSON's saloon at Myrtle and Hudson
avenues at 8 o'clock last night and ordered a drink. The place was filled with
colored men at the time, and as HALL turned from the bar and was walking towards
the door he was approached by George STOKES, 40 years old, of 55 Fleet place,
and is sort of a "Beau Brummel" in his neighborhood, who invited HALL to join
him and two companions in a game of cards.
HALL consented and the four proceeded to the back room and a poker game
was started. After playing about an hour, HALL had taken a good deal of the
colored men's money, and as a result they were in an ugly mood.
An onlooker made a remark about a pair of "dizzy" socks that STOKES was
wearing, when HALL, in an off-hand way, said: "You can't tell a man's income by
the color of the open-work socks that he wears." Whereupon STOKES, who was
ready to fight at anything jumped up and declared that he had been insulted and
that he wouldn't take any "guff" from a white man. STOKES demanded an apology
from HALL. The latter, it is alleged, remarked, "No black man would make him
take water." With that STOKES pulled a pocketknife with an eight-inch blade from
his coat and made a lunge at HALL, who in turning to grapple with his
assailant received a stab wound in the back below the left shoulder. With a groan
HALL sank to the floor and the colored men fled from the place.
Patrolman Patrick PHELAN of the Adams street station, who was standing on
the corner, saw the men running out of the side door of the saloon and upon
making an investigation found HALL lying in the back room, unconscious, in a
pool of blood. Ambulance Surgeon MOORE was summoned from the Brooklyn Hospital
and when he arrived he found that the blade of the knife had penetrated HALL's
left lung and internal hemorrhages had set in and he was hurriedly removed to
the hospital.
STOKES was arrested at his home by Patrolman PHELAN. When taken before
Sergeant McCORMICK, STOKES said, according to the police, that he had stabbed
HALL because "dat man insulted my pussonal attire."
TEN-YEAR-OLD LAD "SOUSED"; 'DON'T TELL MOTHER,' SAYS HE
Frank BENST, 10 years old, of 64 Franklin avenue, was found at Park and
Marcy avenues, last night, suffering from alcoholism. When he was being removed
to the Cumberland Street Hospital, he pleaded with Ambulance Surgeon GEISER
not to tell his mother and added, "This is the first time I was ever "soused".
He refused to tell how he obtained the liquor.
24 June 1906
FIRECRACKER; SMALL BOY; MAY LOSE EYESIGHT
Seven-year-old Sherley BARBARI, of 330 Jerome street, was a victim of a
firecracker explosion late yesterday afternoon. One hung fire and he went to
pick it up. As he leaned over the cracker exploded in his face, seriously burning
him about the eyes. Ambulance Surgeon CANNA took the little lad to Bradford
Street Hospital. It is feared he will lose his eyesight.
CATCH PICKPOCKET IN THE BETTING RING
Joseph Brown, 18 years old, who gave hisa address as 122 East 120th
street, Manhattan, was arrested at the Gravesend race track yesterday afternoon by
Detectives COUGHLIN, DUANE, GLOSTER and MC CORMAC, who caught him stealing a
pocketbook from Sekismund FEITEL, of 129 Duane street, Manhattan, while the
latter was in the betting ring. The pocketbook was found on BROWN when searched.
ROUTED FROM BED, HE GETS SUPPOSED BURGLAR
The noise of someone trying to force open the kitchen door of his home, at
246 Montrose avenue, with a "jimmy" last night, attracted the attention f
Jacob OPPENHEIMER, who resides at the above address with his family. He got out
of bed and went to the front room door, which he opened softly in time to see
two negroes making a dash for the stairway. OPPENHEIMER gave chase, and
succeeded in getting a hold on one of the men.
After catching the one man OPPENHEIMER yelled for help and Policeman
SWEENEY, of the Stagg street station, who was in the neighborhood, came up on the
run and arrested the other man, who gave his name as John BRADLEY, 30 years
old, of 80 Lorimer street.
Both were taken to the Stagg street station on a charge of attempted
burglary.
CLIMBS ON RUNAWAY'S BACK TO STOP IT
Seeing a runaway horse galloping along St. Marks avenue towards Rockaway
avenue last evening, Patrolman Joseph HUNSTEAD, of the Brownesville station,
caught the rear of the buggy, to which it was attached and swung himself into
the vehicle. The reins were trailing along the ground and HUNSTEAD was forced to
climb out on the horse's back to get hold of its bridle and bring the
frightened animal to a stop.
The sight of a rnaway horse with the policeman in full uniform clinging to
its back frightened the passengers of a Rockaway avenue car with which it
narrowly escaped collision. A short distance further on, HUNSTEAD managed to stop
the horse. He led it back to Stone avenue, where it was supposed to have
started from, but could not find the animal's owner. From the appearance of the
buggy it might have been a doctor's rig.
The horse and buggy are at the Brownesville station and the owner is
expected to appear and claim it.
DAUGHTERS SEEK THEIR LOST MOTHER
FRAIL WIDOW OF SEVENTY YEARS STRANGELY DISAPPEARS FROM HER HOME
At seventy years of age, to vanish as though into thin air, and to be lost
to all her relatives in Brooklyn for two days is the fate of Mrs. Amelia
SACHS, a frail widow, whose home is at 452 Warren street. Mrs. SACHS two daughters
are distraught, and after vain appeals to police and hospital and other
authorities, asked The Standard Union last night to aid in the search.
"Our mothers' fate is dreadfully worrying us. We have tried every
seemingly possible place and failed to find a clue to her whereabouts." said Mrs.
OLLIFFE, of 188 Bergen street, one of the daughters, with tears in her eyes. "Our
mother left her home in Warren street, where she lives with my sister, about
ten o'clock Friday morning, saying she was going to visit me, as was her
custom. No one seems to have seen her since. She is frail and subject to short
lapses of memory. One time, about a year ago, she wandered away to Wallabout and
your paper put a piece in about her and we found her. This time she seems lost
entirely. We have tried the police, the hospitals, the Charities Department and
even the Morgue, but nobody seems to have even heard anything of her."
The grief stricken daughters almost broke down as they spoke. They are
humble people, but their pride has been in keeping the old lady well supplied
with comforts in her old age.
Mrs. SACHS when she left home wore a black and purple wrapper, a black
shawl, straw bonnet and button shoes.
LITTLE BOY SEVERELY BITTEN BY TRAMP DOG
While Benjamin BRADSHAW, 6 years old, of 208 Washington avenue, Rockaway
Park, was playing with some other boys near his home yesterday a tramp dog
attacked him, seizing him by the leg. Two men went to the boy's aid, but he was
badly bitten on the leg and arms before the dog could be beaten off. The boy was
taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where it is said his condition is critical.
WANTED IN PHILADELPHIA ON WOMAN'S ACCUSATION
Donald G. PITCHER, a stenographer, 28 years old, was arrested last night
at his home, 825 Monroe street, by Detectives HAYES and DOLAN at the request of
the Chief of Police of Philadelphia. PITCHER is wanted in the City of
Brotherly Love on a charge made by a young woman.
He was locked up in the Adams street station house last night.
JEALOUS HUSBAND USES TEETH ON RIVAL
Enraged because he thought George GOEL, who lives in the same house with
him, had become too attentive to his wife, George MITCHELL, 30 years old, of
483 Quincy street, attacked GOEL late last night, and is alleged to have bitten
a piece out of GOEL's ear. GOEL was attended by Ambulance Surgeon BROMBERG, of
the Bushwick Hospital. MITCHELL was locked up in the Gates avenue station.
SOUTH BROOKLYN -DOG LIKES CHILDREN, BUT IS OVERFOND
"He's a harmless dog and he likes children," said John HAMILTON, in Coney
Island Court yesterday, when he was summoned by Mrs. Paula GABEL, who told the
magistrate that the dog was a nuisance and that her children were constantly
in danger because of the animal.
"I should say he is fond of children, " answered Mrs. GABEL with a shudder
at the thought of a big bulldog becoming over-fond of her little ones.
"You had better get rid of the animal or keep him tied," said Magistrate
VOORHEES, and upon HAMILTON's promise to do so no complaint was taken. The
HAMILTONS and GABELS live at 1053 and 1057 Eighty-sixth street and Mrs. GABEL says
that the dog is a nuisance. She brought the entire GABEL family - her
husband, her brother, her daughter and her servant to corroborate her statements
before the court.
- DETECTIVES NAB TWO WHO ACTED SUSPICIOUSLY
Charles LEONARD, who gave his address as Paterson, N.J. and Harry SMITH,
of Manhattan, were arrested at Coney Island Friday night by Detectives GLOSTER,
COUGHLIN and DUANE, who saw them moving among the throngs on Surf avenue in a
way that caused the officers to suspect they were bent on some unlawful act.
There was no complaint against them yesterday in the Adams street court and
they were discharged.
GREENPOINT - BOY AT PLAY CUT ON LEG WITH BROKEN BOTTLE
While playing with several boy companions at the corner of Norman and
Kingsland avenues yesterday morning 10 year old Benjamin BAUMSCHLAG met with a
mishap, being struck in the leg by a broken bottle, cutting him severely. One of
the other lads probably threw the broken bottle in anger and then slipped away
after having seen the damage he had caused. Ambulance Surgeon SCHNEIDER, from
the Eastern District Hospital, dressed the boy's leg, and he was taken to his
home, 175 Russell street.
MOTORMAN ARRESTED FOR FORGING CHECK
Arthur E. SNYDER, 30 years old, a motorman, of 1341 Tremont avenue, the
Bronx, was arrested at his home by Detectives KANE and HUGHES on a warrant
issued on April 9 by Magistrate FURLONG, charging him with forging the name of Paul
LONZO, of 1083 gates avenue, to a check for $100, which he cashed at a
Brooklyn Bank.
STRANGER BANGED HIM JUST FOR A PASTIME
Without provocation a stranger walked up to William BENGLER, 32 years old,
of 541 Fourth street, at Court and Huntington streets, last night, and
remarked: "I'd like to soak you in the nut."
Instead he smashed BENGLER on the jaw with so much force that BENGLER fell
to the sidewalk and fractured his right shoulder. Ambulance Surgeon HARRIS
removed BENGLER to the Long Island College Hospital.
BENGLER says that he never saw the man before, and that he apparently hit
him only for a pastime.
SLIPPED FROM CAR INTO STREET EXCAVATION
In attempting to alight from a Myrtle avenue car at Myrtle and Tompkins
avenues, last night, Katherine McGRANE, 48 years old, of 898 Myrtle avenue,
slipped from the running board and fell into a three-feet-deep excavation which is
being dug at that corner. She received several cuts about the face and chest,
but after being attended by Dr. FREEDMAN, of the Eastern District Hospital,
she left for home.
THREE DOLLARS A DAY FOR BROOKLYN STOKERS
The stokers and firemen in the city's employ in this borough will be rated
at $3 a day by the Board of Estimate at its next meeting Friday. The men
would have gotten the increase at the last meeting of the Board upon the request
of President COLER but for the fact that the mistake was made in the calendar
that they claimed the "prevailing rate of wages."
As a matter of fact, $3 a day is above the "prevailing rate" paid by
private firs in this borough. But the $3 a day rate is the Manhattan rate. So to
this level the Brooklyn men will, it is assured, be raised.
FAIRY TALES OF OLD KINNAN HOME
DETECTIVES NOT TO SEARCH SECOND PLACE HOUSE AND NO LETTERS HAVE BEEN FOUND
MRS. STENTON ON THE RACK UNDER THIRD DEGREE PRESSURE, DENIES SHE MURDERED DAUGHTER
That the detectives of the local headquarters have or are going to make a
search of the house of mystery at 11 Second place is a myth, according to
Acting Capt. McCAULEY, of the Detective Bureau. He says that he knows absolutely
nothing about the matter, and that as the case rests at present he will take no
action.
The owner of the house, who lives at 62 Second place, Martin EAGAN, is in
a high state of indignation over the affair, according to his mother, who
violently denounces her neighbors for the way they have furnished stories to the
newspaper men who have visited them for the purpose of soliciting information
which they could not get from the family.
Mrs. EAGAN and her son are much incensed over the article printed in a
Manhattan newspaper recently that mother and son had a motive for revenge against
Mrs. KINNAN and hinted they might have been implicated in the murder. Martin
EAGAN bought the property at 11 Second place from the late Mrs. KINNAN paying
$2500. When the latter discovered she did not own the property she agreed to
refund the money paid by EAGAN. Because of the published insinuation Mrs. EAGAN
says she proposes to bring suit against a certain Manhattan newspaper.
Among the many tales that have been told about the Second place house is
that it contained chests and trunks filled with papers and documents. It was
reported that the police had confiscated them. This is denied by Mrs. EAGAN, who
says that no letters have been found in the old KINNAN home.
That the house was dirty when they took it was absolutely true, for Mrs.
EAGAN says that twenty-seven loads of rubbish were carried out of the place, of
such a character that junkman refused t buy it. Everything was moth-eaten or
moulded (sic), and after all this stuff had been removed there was nothing
left but some old furniture and a few old-time pictures. A large number of beds
were found. In every room of the house was an old-fashioned bed, and in some
rooms two were found.
Two Manhattan detectives who called at the house a few days ago found
nothing of any importance and told the EAGANS not to be bothered by curious people
who might want to roam around through the house.
Aged Mrs. Louise STENTON, the mother of Mrs. Alice KINNAN, was subjected
to a "third degree" examination yesterday that put some of the methods used in
the Police Department many years ago to wring confessions from suspects, to
shame. Placing a piece of her daughter's skull and a hammer, which it believed
was used by the murderer in the mother's hands. Assistant District Attorney
CARDOZA asked Mrs. STENTON if she committed the murder. "no," screamed the old
woman and her voice was heard a considerable distance from the room in which the
examination was held.
The star chamber policy of the past two days prevailed yesterday, when the
aged mother was brought to the office of the Bronx Coroners. Six officials,
including the Coroners, Assistant District Attorney CARDOZA, and Capt. PRICE,
questioned the woman, hoping that she would throw some light on the identity of
the slayer. On the way to the Coroners office from her temporary home, at
2964 Briggs avenue, Mrs. STENTON asked Capt. PRICE to drive past the old home. As
she passed it, Mrs. STENTON said to the police captain "Poor Alice. There's
where she was killed. I know a man did it. Have you found him yet?" Capt. PRICE
replied in the negative. Asked by Assistant District Attorney CARDOZA to tell
what happened on the night of June 8 Mrs. STENTON said:
"I was lying on my bed and Alice was reading a book of Byron's poems to me
when the bell rang. I cautioned Alice about going to the door, but she went.
I waited some time. When Alice did not return I was worried about her absence.
I went to the door with a lamp in my hand. Then I kept on outside. I found
Alice lying in a pool of blood at the end of the porch."
Shouting out questions and answers in tones that could be heard through
closed doors, Assistant Attorney CARDOZO and Mrs. STANTON had a dialogue after
she had told her story, which rose to its climax when the prosecutor asked
bluntly:
"Did you do it?"
"It referred to the murder of Mrs. STANTON's daughter, Mrs. KINNAN. Again
and again the mother's denial rang out. She tried to leave the room, but was
held back by force and with threatening words. It was the most dramatic scene
in the hole inquiry.
"Who came to your house on Friday, June 8?" asked Mr. CARDOZO.
"Nobody," replied the old woman.
"Didn't a man come to see you on that day?"
"No, Nobody called."
"Wasn't there a violent quarrel upstairs between you and your daughter
after the man left?"
"No, there was not. No man was there."
"Didn't Mary SHIPPO come upstairs and ask what you and your daughter were
quarreling about?"
"No, she did not."
BOLD ROBBERS GOT HER FATHERS CASH
SALOONKEEPERS DAUGHTER HELD UP ON WAY FROM BANK AND $1500 TAKEN
POLICE OUT ON COLD SCENT
HIGHWAYMEN EVIDENTLY WERE PRIMED FOR CRIME
Jennie SAKOL, the seventeen-year-old girl who says she was robbed of $1500
yesterday afternoon by two men, told her story to the detectives who were
placed on the case last night at the home of her father, 420 Stone avenue.
She declared that all she knew about the affair was that a satchel
containing the money was suddenly snatched out of her hand by one man, while the
other gave her a sudden push which caused her to stagger on the sidewalk at
Atlantic and Snedeker avenues. She finally fell heavily to the ground, sustaining a
few bruises on her arms. She maintained that the attack was made so suddenly
that she had no time to scream for assistance.
The two men escaped in a covered wagon, she claims, for which the police
are searching. It was reported that they have discovered the name on the
vehicle, which they refused to divulge last night.
W. A. DAVIS, of 435 East New York avenue, said he had heard the
excitement, and discovered the men making off. He gave a description of them to the
detectives.
The girl's father, Samuel SAKOL, keeps a saloon and assembly room at the
Stone avenue address. He cashes many checks on Saturday, and for that purpose
keeps on hand a supply of cash. Just before the close of banking hours
yesterday he sent Jennie to the Atlantic avenue branch of the United Bank with
a check for $1700, which he told her to cash. She carried a hand satchel
in which to carry the money home.
Well known to the bank officials, she was soon ready to return with a
large number of bills of small denomination.
Suddenly, according to Jennie, two men stepped up to her from a doorway.
They were young and well dressed. One smashed her on the jaw and knocked her
across the sidewalk. She fell, half stunned, while the other man grabbed the
satchel.
As she struggled weakly to her feet the men jumped into the wagon that had
apparently waiting on the curve and drove away. Before pursuit could be
organized they were out of sight.
Jennie hastened to her father's saloon and told him of her adventure.
SAKOL was naturally overwhelmed. Excitement rendered him incoherent, and there was
some delay in notifying the Liberty avenue station of the experience of
Jennie. By the time the detectives reached the place where Jennie located the
robbery the trail was cold.
Mr. SAKOL does not question the truth of his daughter's story. She is
described by him as a truthful little girl with no entangling alliances in the
shape of flirtations with young men who might know of her weekly trips to the
bank. The saloonkeeper believes that the thieves were in his place to-day when he
started Jennie for the money, and knowing the route she generally took,
intercepted her.
One witness declared that the name of "L. WEISS, L. I. " was on the wagon
in the case.
IN AUTOS TO SEE P. J. DUFFY WED
SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT TO TURN OUT FOR CHURCH CEREMONY
"An automobile wedding? Bet your primary vote!" say all good Democrats of
the Second Assembly District.
One Patrick J. DUFFY is about to take unto himself a wife - that is, "one"
Patrick J. DUFFY in Europe and elsewhere, except the Second Assembly
District, where he is just "Our Pat," politician and business man.
The bride-to-be is Miss Mary MORRISEY, a belle of the Third Assembly
District, living at 213 Warren street. The wedding will be celebrated at St. Paul's
Roman Catholic Church, Court and Congress streets, Tuesday evening at 7:30
o'clock, the ceremony to be performed by the Rev. Father BURKE, who will be
assisted by Father James LANGAN, of the Church of the Assumption. The bride will
be attended by her sister, Miss Catherine MORRISEY; the best man will be
Anthony BURKE, and the ushers will be Edward J. MEANEY, who aspires to leadership in
the Second District; M. HAYES and Martin F. CONLY, Jr.
But the automobiles? Well, it is not fair, perhaps to tell it, but the
members of the Second Assembly District Democratic Club are going to attend the
wedding in a body in as many automobiles as will hold them, which, say the
wiseacres, may, in this instance, be ten, but more likely fifty. The club will be
headed on this joyful night by the indefatigable Martin F. CONLY,
ex-Councilman.
And they do say down there that the whole district is presently trying to
get used to the automobile sensation by essaying the Rocky Road at ten cents a
shock at Coney.
25 June 1906
GIRL WANTED TO DIE; CHOSE THE GAS ROUTE
With an end of a rubber tube attached to the open gasjet and another in
her mouth, Ida BERNSTEIN was found in her home, at 418 Sutter avenue, in a
semi-conscious condition to-day. She was quickly revived, arrested and taken to the
Gates avenue court, charged with attempted suicide. She would give no reason
for the act, but insisted that she wanted to die.
WEAK-MINDED SERVANT GIRL TAKEN TO ASYLUM
Freda HAUFMAN, 20 years old, a domestic employed at 79 Palmetto street,
was removed to the Kings County Hospital this morning suffering from a mild form
of insanity. The girl had been acting queerly of late.
TOOK PARIS GREEN, BUT NOT ANXIOUS TO DIE NOW
Mrs. Clara De JAUNG, 27 years old, of 736 Washington avenue, was taken
before Magistrate STEERS in the Flatbush court to-day, charged with trying
suicide by taking Paris Green at her home on June 15. She told the magistrate it was
all a mistake and she had no desire to die, whereupon she was discharged.
GOT AN OLD PERAMBULATOR? MRS. YETTA LEVINE CAN USE IT
Neighbors have told Mrs. Yetta LEVINE, of 437 Sutter avenue, that if she
could only let some rich people know that she had two young gentlemen born to her
last month, that some gentle person would send her a go-cart built for two.
Mrs. LEVINE is the wife of Isador LEVINE, who is a coatmaker and who has been
out of work for the last few weeks, and as baby carriages don't grow on trees,
Mrs. LEVINE has no means of securing one. So Mrs. LEVINE has written to The
Standard Union, asking that some reader who has a perambulator in his storeroom
for which he has no use to present it to Mrs. LEVINE, who will then have a
chance to take her twins out to breathe the sweet zephyrs of Brownesville, and let
their infant eyes sweep over the landscapes of East New York. Mrs. LEVINE has
got an idea that a baby carriage built for one would fill her want, because
two babies are a pretty big armful for a frail woman like Mrs. LEVINE to take
walking.
SAYS SHE FELL OVERBOARD; DENIES TRYING SUICIDE
Elizabeth SHEA, twenty-three years old, of 119 Conover street, attempted
suicide yesterday afternoon by leaping into the river from the pier at the foot
of Commerce street. Daniel WILSON, on a steamship moored at the pier, managed
to reach her with a boat hook and fished her out.
After Dr. HARRIS, of the Long Island College Hospital revived her she was
arrested. The young woman declared she had been suffering from a severe
headache, and had accidentally fallen overboard.
POLICEMAN DRAGGED BY RUNAWAY GRIMLY HOLDS ON.
An automobile yesterday afternoon frightened a horse attached to a surrey
belonging to Charles LUTZ, of Harrison avenue and Gerry street, standing in
front of LUTZ's home. Mrs. LUTZ and her two children had taken their seats in
the vehicle and were waiting for Mr. LUTZ.
The horse bolted down Gerry street. The surrey was upset at Harrison
avenue and Mrs. LUTZ and the children thrown out. They landed in a pile of dirt and
escaped injury. The horse ran along Gerry street in the direction of Marcy
avenue, where there was a parade of Sunday school children. Policeman ROBINSON,
of the Clymer street station, caught the horse's bridle, and after being
dragged a hundred feet or more, finally stopped the animal.
FIND KNIFE ON MAN SENTENCED TO DIE
WENZEL HAD WEAPON IN POCKET -
NO ONE KNOWS HOW HE GOT IT
NEGRESS TRIES TO KILL SELF
COURT OFFICERS FIND HER SLOWLY STRANGLING
Judge ASPINALL in the County Court to-day sentenced John WENZEL,
ex-soldier, ex-sailor and ex-convict, to be electrocuted in Sing Sing in the week
beginning Aug. 6. Wenzel last Wednesday was found guilty of murder in the first
degree in shooting saloonkeeper George SPATZ at his place of business, Marcy
avenue and Hopkins street, May 7.
A sensational feature of the proceedings this morning was the discovery on
the person of the condemned man of a large pocket knife which in some way had
been slipped into his hand, and with which he undoubtedly intended to commit
suicide. WENZEL did not have the knife with him when he left Raymond Street
Jail. It is supposed that some fellow prisoner passed the knife over to him as
they were getting out of the van to enter the County Court building.
Another sensation was afforded by a morbid looking negress named Mary
LAWRENCE, who was sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days in jail on
conviction of assault in the third degree in having attacked Mabel PERKINS with a
knife. After the sentence the officers found Mary nearly strangled to death
with a handkerchief twisted around her neck. An ambulance was sent for, but as
she was being led down the stairs she attempted to break away from the officers
and throw herself down the stairs.
J.T.OAKLEY'S PRIVATE SECRETARY ARRESTED
Martin OAKLEY, 24 years old, of 65 Marion street, who says that he is
private secretary for John T. OAKLEY, but would not say whether he was a son of
the ex-Water Commissioner, was taken to Coney Island police court to-day with
Joseph SMITH, who gave 341 East Seventy-first street, Manhattan, as his address,
charged with disorderly conduct. They were arrested last night by Patrolman
KEYES as they were climbing through the window of a car. Upon pleading guilty,
sentence was suspended.
FIVE DUMPED OUT BY RUNAWAY HORSE
SERIOUS MISHAP TO MERRY PARTY RETURNING
FROM CONEY ISLAND
ALL OF THEM WERE HURT
HIRED A COACH AND WENT TO THEIR HOMES IN MANHATTAN
Five persons were badly injured early to-day in a runaway that took place
in Manhattan avenue. The party was returning from Coney Island at the time and
all were in a merry mood when the horse became frightened and bolted. Before
the animal had gone far the vehicle collided with a telephone pole and the
occupants of the vehicle were scattered along the pavement.
The driver of the carriage was Jacob DIAMOND, 34 years old, of 60 East
119th street, Manhattan. In the vehicle with him were Freda DIAMOND, 14 years
old; Ada DIAMOND, 28 years old, of the same address and Esther DIAMOND, 14 years
old of 64 East 119th street and William BERGER, 12 years old of 62 East 115th
street, Manhattan.
DIAMOND decided to return to Manhattan by way of the Thirty-fourth Street
Ferry from the foot of Greenpoint avenue. It was nearly midnight when the
party left the Island and nearly two hours later when they turned from Broadway
into Manhattan avenue. When the vehicle reached the corner of Montrose avenue
the horse became frightened and ran. DIAMOND tried to check the animal but could
not control the horse.
At the corner of Meserole street the horse dashed suddenly to the right
side of the street and the wagon collided with a telephone pole. The carriage
turned over and the occupants were thrown out. The cries of the injured drew a
large crowd, A call was sent for the ambulance of St. Catherine's Hospital and
Drs. COYLE and PALMER responded.
For half an hour the ambulance surgeons were busy attending to the bruises
of the injured. They found that Jacob DIAMOND had received internal injuries;
Esther DIAMOND, contusions about the body; Freda DIAMOND, internal injuries
and bruises about the body; William BERGER, a sprain of the left ankle, and Ada
DIAMOND, internal injuries. The doctors wanted to remove the entire party to
the hospital, but the injured insisted upon hiring a coach and were driven to
their homes.
After the carriage had overturned, the horse tore loose from the wagon and
ran to the corner of Manhattan avenue and Grand street, where it was caught
by Policeman CARROLL, of the Stagg street station. The carriage was a wreck.
BOYS NABBED MAKING FOURTH OF JULY HAUL
SMASHED WINDOW AND WERE LOADED WITH
PISTOLS AND FIREWORKS WHEN ARRESTED
Just before daylight to-day Policeman BENDER, of the Ralph avenue station,
passing along upper Broadway, noticed two youngsters acting in a suspicious
manner around a stationery and candy store, owned by Leonard ROWLEY, at 1554
Broadway. He stepped into a doorway and awaited developments.
After trying the doors the youngsters picked up a brick and smashed in a
plate glass window. They then secured a piece of wood, to which they attached a
hook, and proceeded to clean the window of the stock, consisting of cartridge
pistols and fireworks.
After they had pulled out about half the stuff the policeman nabbed them.
At the Ralph avenue station they said they were William DURYDA, 16 years old,
of 79 Halsey street, and Russell DOUGHTY, 13 years old, of 788 Halsey street.
Each were well dressed and appeared to come from good families.
When the two boys were taken before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Gates
avenue court, they waived examination through their counsel and were paroled
for the Grand Jury.
WOMAN SOMNAMBULIST WALKS OUT WINDOW FALLS TO GROUND, FRACTURING HIP AND SKULL -
WILL PROBABLY DIE
Mrs. Kate QUINN, 26 years of age, who resides with her husband and family
at 179 Vernon avenue, Long Island City, was seriously and perhaps fatally
injured early this morning when she fell from the third-story window of the house
to the street, a distance of about twenty-five feet. She struck on her back
and head, fractured her skull and hip and suffered internal injuries. She was
attended by Dr. GALLAVAN and removed to St. John's Hospital, where it is said
she has only a slight chance of recovery.
The woman is subject to spells of somnambulism and this morning while
asleep, she got out of bed, unnoticed by her husband, and went to the window,
which was open, and walked out, landing on the sidewalk below.
Her screams when she fell were heard by people in the neighborhood and
soon her husband was at her side. When the ambulance arrived the woman was
unconscious and she was still unconscious at the hospital this afternoon.
WOMAN HEALTH INSPECTOR THROWN FROM AUTO
Dr. Novella G. LEGRAND a sanitary inspector attached to the local Health
Office, was thrown to the street shortly before noon to-day from her electric
runabout in front of Public School No. 1, Adams and Concord streets, where she
had been making an inspection of the premises. She sustained severe
contusions.
The auto had become unmanageable and struck the curb, unseating the
occupant. It brought up against a telephone pole at the northwest corner of
Concord and Adams streets, and the forward wheels were badly damaged.
Medical aid was summoned by Principal O.D. FLEMING, who had learned of the
accident from one of the teachers, and he assisted Dr. LE GRAND into the
school building. Dr. LE GRAND refused treatment and was taken to her home at
48 Johnson street. It is said the doctor met with a similar accident
several weeks ago.
WOMAN OF EIGHTY RUN DOWN BY CAR
Margaret SPRUCE, 80 years old, of 101 Prospect place, was run down by a
trolley car of the Ocean avenue line, at Rogers avenue and Butler street,
yesterday afternoon. The fender of the car struck the woman's body, hurling her some
distance. A neighboring physician attended her and found that her right leg
and two ribs were fractured, and that she was suffering greatly from shock.
Mrs. SPRUCE was taken to her home. Grave fears are expressed that she will not
recover because of her advanced age.
MAN WITH SEWED-UP HEART SMILES AT REPORT OF DEATH
Anthony SAVAGE of 217 Ellery street, on whose heart an unusual operation
was performed Friday, when doctors in the Eastern District Hospital put three
stitches in the auricle, had rallied to such an extent that he was able to
smile at published reports of his death. His condition was encouraging, and the
doctors were more confident than ever of his recovery.
BROOKLYNITES IN MANY NEW CORPORATIONS
(Special to the Standard Union)
ALBANY, June 25 - Brooklynites are interested in the following new
corporations, the certificates of incorporation of which have been filed with the
Secretary of State within the past few days:
-Miller's Laundry of Brooklyn; capital $10,000; directors and stockholders,
M.D. FRISBY, C.C. BRUEN and G.E.BRUEN, all of Brooklyn.
-Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal of Brooklyn (transportation and storage
warehouse); capital, $100,000; directors, R.F. POTTER, J.B. EUSTIS and J.W.
MASSON, Jr., of Manhattan.
-Woodrich Realty Company, of Queens Borough; capital $12,000; directors,
Thomas COATES, Thomas F. WAGNER and F.S. CHAPMAN, of Woodhaven.
-W.H. McCABE, of Brooklyn, is a director and stockholder in the Opportune
Realty Company just incorporated with a capital of $30,000.
-Benjamin Bros.' Muenchner Brewery, of Brooklyn, was incorporated last
Saturday, with a capital of $200,000 by the Secretary of State. Directors J.
BENJAMIN, B. BENJAMIN and B. BENJAMIN, Jr. of Brooklyn.
-Bacon Mills Company, of Brooklyn, to deal in teas and coffees, capital
$20,000; directors L.F.H. ROOT and J.T. ROOT, of Brooklyn, and I.E.CLAPHAM, of
Manhattan.
-A. SMITH of Brooklyn, is a director in the S.S. Bandeau Company, of
Manhattan, a millinery concern, with a capital of $1,000.
-The Meserole Ice Company, of Brooklyn, has a capital of $25,000; directors
C.P. URL, Henry KROEGER and G. BRUENMER, all of Brooklyn.
-The Ella Breeze Camp Association, of Lawrence, Nassau County, just
incorporated with a capital of $6,000, has for its directors, S.R. CHICHESTER,
V.SMITH and S.L.. JOHNSON, of Inwood, Nassau County.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
At 2:45 o'clock yesterday morning fire occurred in the one-story frame
building in Grand street near Maiden lane, Maspeth, owned by Charles KINGHAM,
causing a damage of $1,000.
Fritz LENTEZER, 15 years old, of 16 Catherine street, while getting off a
trolley car at Grand street and Maiden lane, Maspeth, yesterday fell and broke
his left arm. He was removed to the German Hospital.
Stephen CANBRUSKI and John KRONSKI, of Elm street, Jamaica, were arrested
last evening on a charge of assaulting John HOWAK, of Elm street, Jamaica, by
knocking him down and beating him on the head with a tin pail, inflicting
severe scalp wounds. He was attended by Dr. McNEVINS and removed to St. Mary's
Hospital.
Nicholas JOHN, 33 years old, of 136 Farrington street, Flushing, was found
at his home last evening sick and destitute and removed to the Flushing
Hospital.
BRAVE POLICEMAN HURT STOPPING RUNAWAY HORSE
Patrolman Charles A. ISAACSON, of the Brownesville station, was badly cut
about the head and body and his uniform torn in stopping a runaway horse
yesterday afternoon. The animal was standing in front of 560 Blake avenue, when it
took fright and dashed off in the direction of Atlantic avenue. The owner, A.
HILLMAN, of 280 Grand street, was in the house at the time. The horse was
frightened by the blowing of a whistle on one of the elevated trains nearby.
At the corner of Riverdale and Vesta avenues, the policeman saw the
runaway and grasped the bridle. He was dragged over fifty feet by the frightened
brute. After being attended by Surgeon PARKER, of St. Mary's Hospital, the
policeman was taken to his home, 206 Bainbridge street.
WOMAN BADLY INJURED BY FALLING DOWNSTAIRS
Dora SAINGRED, 55 years old, of 298 Osborn street, fell down a flight of
stairs at her home this morning and fractured her right arm and possibly her
skull. She was removed to St. Mary's Hospital.
ICE CREAM FACTORY DAMAGED BY FIRE
Fire in the four-story brick building at 1199 Atlantic avenue, yesterday
afternoon, caused damages estimated at $3,000. The building is oened by the W.
S. WEED Ice Cream Co. The fire was discovered on the fourth floor, which was
unoccupied. The police are investigating.
26 June 1906
YOUNG BRONX COUPLE WED IN STATION HOUSE
"Please, Captain, can I get married in here?" asked a blushing young man,
who approached Captain HARKINS in the Coney Island station this afternoon. "We
have been keeping company for over one year and we want to be married."
The young man, who gave his name as Max GROSS, of 1619 Washington avenue,
the Bronx, was followed by his fiancee, Ethel GOLDBERG, 21 years old, who
lives a few doors away from GROSS in the Bronx.
Captain HARKINS was taken somewhat by surprise, but he ushered the couple
into his office and called Joseph COHEN, a notary public, who tied the knot in
the presence of the captain and Roundsman BROWN. After the ceremony the
captain kissed the bride and wished them the best of success. Then they left for
the Bronx to surprise mamma and papa.
RECOVERS LOST WALLET AFTER FINDER SOLD IT
Alexander CICHAESKI of 226 Twenty-sixth street, lost his pocketbook on
Third avenue, Sunday night, with $100 in it, and yesterday little John MURPHY saw
it and picked it up. Three men saw him pick it up and offered him twenty-five
cents for it, which he accepted. A friend of CICHAESKI saw the transaction
and pointed out the men to CICHAESKI, who had them arrested. They said they
were: Alexander PLOSKI, 28 years old, of 95 Nineteenth street; Stanley PRYGOSKI,
36, of 145 1/2 Eighteenth street, and Frank ALESEJIER, 22, of 212
Twenty-seventh street. PLOSKI told CICHAESKI that he had $33 of the money
and returned it, as did the other two, who had $34 and $33 respectively.
YACHT DISABLED, PARTY SPENDS NIGHT ON WATER
Dr. F.B. KEPPY, of 62 Hancock street, were adrift all night in an open
launch on Moriches Bay. The propellor broke down during the evening and it was
not until the party saw the lights of the Beach View Hotel at East Moriches
early yesterday morning that they were able to pole their boat near enough to the
shore to be heard.
GREENPOINT -GIRL MAY LOSE FINGERS MANGLED IN MACHINERY
Miss Elizabeth MORTON, 19 years old, of 341 Kingsland avenue, while
working in the shop of L. SCHENKER, Greenpoint avenue, caught her third and fourth
fingers in a machine. She was removed to the Williamsburg Hospital. It may be
necessary to amputate her fingers.
BROWNESVILLE -RABINOWITZ, HURT BY FALL, TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Morris RABINOWITZ, 23 years old, a painter, of Sackman street and Pitkin
avenue, while working on a building at Riverside avenue and Bristol street,
fell from the window sill of the second floor to the ground. He received
contusions of the right shoulder and back. He was removed to the Bradford Street
Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon CANNA, of that institution.
SHEPPARD SHIFTED TO HEADQUARTERS SQUAD
Bicycle Patrolman George SHEPPARD, of the Brownesville station was
transferred to the Borough Headquarters Squad yesterday and assigned to duty in
Brooklyn and Queens on a motorcycle. SHEPPARD's transfer leaves a vacancy in the
Brownesville section for a bicycle patrolman and the officers of the station
expect Police Commissioner BINGHAM to assign one of the men in one of the other
precincts to fill the place of SHEPPARD.
FIRE IN KOENSTIT'S HOME DOES LITTLE DAMAGE
Brownesville had another small fire yesterday afternoon when the
apartments of Isador KOENSTIT, at 355 Chester street, were damaged to the extent of
about twenty-five dollars. The building is owned by a New York builder, and
KOENSTIT's loss is entirely covered by insurance.
SOUTH BROOKLYN - DEMENTED YOUTH FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN LOT
-Frank HAFNER, 22 years old, of 72 Lewis avenue, was found unconscious
yesterday afternoon in a vacant lot at Harway avenue and Bay Thirty-ninth street.
He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGARD and removed to the Norwegian
Hospital suffering from dementia, it is said.
-FATHER RECLAIMS GIRL ARRESTED AT CONEY
Sadie CEDERIOF, 17 years old, of Corona, who was arrested some days ago at
Coney Island, charged with vagrancy on complaint of Patrolman HUMPHRIES, of
the Coney Island station, was discharged by Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney
Island court yesterday and left for home in company of her father.
Charles STERN and Mabel FISCHER, of West Fifth street, who were arrested
in connection with the case, were also discharged.
ACCUSED OF WOUNDING MAN WITH DART
Isador MITCHELL, 29 years old, of 210 Eldridge street, Manhattan, was
before Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney Island court yesterday, charged with
felonious assault, on complaint of Charles MORRIS. MORRIS alleges the defendant
shot him in the left ankle with a "dart" at one of the shooting galleries on New
Iron Pier Walk. The accused pleaded not guilty, and the case was adjourned
until to-morrow.
MITCHELL was also charged with disorderly conduct in fighting in the
street, and on this complaint, he was fined $10.
HOWLING DOGS MURDER NEIGHBOR'S SLEEP, HE SAYS
Dr. John E. DEMUND, who lives on Bay Thirty-ninth street, was held for
examination by Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court to-day on a charge of
violating Section 108 of the Sanitary Code, in that he kept seven dogs, which
disturbed the neighbors by their howling and barking. William CHIPMAN of 102
Bay Thirty-ninth street complained at the health office and made a formal
complaint in court to-day that the noise made by the dogs murdered the sleep of
himself and family and thereby endangered their health. The case will be held on
Thursday.
TWO B.R.T. EMPLOYES SHOCKED BY THIRD RAIL
Two employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, who were walking along
the "L" structure at Pitkin and Alabama avenues, yesterday, accidentally
touched the third rail and were knocked down. They were severely burned and
rendered unconscious.
They were James GRANT, 50 years old, of 305 Stanhope street, and Henry G.
HESSE, 45, of 285 Schenck avenue. Fellow workmen lifted them to the station
platform and summoned an ambulance from the Bradford Street Hospital, to which
place they were removed.
HER DAUGHTER DRINKS AND STAYS OUT NIGHTS
Miss Ethel COOMBS, 18 years old, of 191 Skillman street, was sent to
Ozanam Home on the complaint of her mother, Mrs. Anna COOMBS, to await examination
in the Myrtle avenue court Friday. The girl's mother said she drank
continually and stayed away from home nights.
BROKE JAW IN FALL FROM WAGON
Henry SCHMIDT, 40 years old, of 132 Hamburg avenue, fell from the seat of
a wagon he was driving yesterday afternoon at Milford street and Atlantic
avenue, and striking the pavement, sustained a fracture of the left jaw. His
removal to the Bradford Street Hospital followed.
BROOKLYNITES ON YALE'S HONOR LIST
New Haven, Conn., June 26 - A long list of honors was announced at Yale
to-day. Among them were the following Brooklynites:
History, L.O. BERGH, Sheffield Scientific School, honors in special studies
not recipients of general honors, C.M.FIELD.
SAYS ROOSTER'S STOLEN, BUT CAN'T PROVE IT.
Lost, strayed or stolen, a rooster from the yard of Fidele MALITO, 1229
Sixty-seventh street, and any person seeing a stray "king of the barnyard" will
greatly oblige the owner by notifying him at once and relieve him of further
anxiety. For Fidele has even had to go to court for his lost fowl, having been
told by neighbors, one Vincent PALAIA, of Sixty-sixth street and Fourteenth
avenue, that he, Vincent, was sure that the rooster had been stolen. He also
says he knows the thief.
Whereupon Fidele asked and was given a summons for the appearance of
Salvator MENSIZI, a lad of 15 years, who lives at Sixty-Fifth street and Fourteenth
avenue, but when Salvator appeared in Coney Island court to-day and was asked
by Magistrate VOORHEES to tell what he knew of the theft he answered
innocently:
"Nothing, your honor."
At that Vincent burst out wrathfully: "I saw him, your honor. He took the
rooster, put a string around his leg and tied him to a tree. Pretty soon a man
came along and Salvator got 75 cents for the rooster."
But Salvator told the magistrate quietly that Vincent must be mistaken,
that he knows nothing about it.
Magistrate VOORHEES refused to accept a complaint: Salvator was let go and
now Fidele is looking for his bird.
CHILD FALLS FROM WAGON; WILL PROBABLY DIE
Walter SCHICK, 6 years old, of 161 Thirty-fifth street, while riding on
the back of a B.R.T. repair wagon, was thrown to the street at the corner of
Third avenue and Thirty-sixth street. When picked up he was unconscious, and was
removed to the Norwegian Hospital, where his condition is said to be critical.
He sustained contusions of the left thigh, two broken ribs and a possible
fracture of the skull.
POLICE HEAR OF THREE MORE ROBBERIES
The following burglaries were reported to the police to-day: Leopold
HUPZER, of 272 Division avenue, complained that the door of his apartments had been
forced open and $40 worth of jewelry and clothing stolen.
The house of Joseph FAUDE, of 327 Oakland street, was robbed of $215 in
jewelry.
TRIED TO KILL SELF; HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Mrs. Ida BERNSTEIN, 65 years old, who made two unsuccessful attempts to
end her life by inhaling gas in her apartments at 413 Sutter avenue yesterday
was taken before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Gates avenue court to-day on a
charge of attempted suicide.
She admitted that she had tried to end her life and said that she was
tired of living. She was held for the Grand Jury, and later paroled in the custody
of her sister-in-law.
EXPERIENCE APPARENTLY LOST LESSON FOR ADAM
Adam SCHROEDER, 35 years old, of 30 Thames street, who is out on bail
awaiting trial at Special Sessions on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, was
a prisoner of the Manhattan avenue court to-day on two charges, one of which
was that of having a revolver in his possession.
Last night SCHROEDER went into the saloon at Bogart and Varet streets,
and, it is alleged, started to shoot up the place. A policeman led him to the
Stagg street station, where he was locked up.
Magistrate O'REILLY held SCHROEDER for a hearing on Friday.
THREE SMOKE MAKERS IN GREENPOINT ARRESTED
David TERRY, of 276 Greenpoint avenue, William STEAD, of 29 Greenpoint
avenue, and John GOEGHEGEN, of 255 Cayler street, were each sent to Special
Sessions for trial to-day in the Adams street court on charges of using soft coal
in their factories. Daniel MELODY, a Health Department inspector, made the
complaint.
THROWING THE WEDDING SHOE
How old is the custom of throwing the wedding shoe? In the "Housekeeper"
it is stated that the custom of throwing one or more old shoes after the bride
and groom is so old that the memory of man stretches not back to the time of
its beginning. Some writers have surmised that it is a lingering trace of the
custom among savage nations of carrying away the bride by violence, but the
more probable conjecture is that it is a relic of the ancient law of purchase,
implying formerly (sic) surrender by the parents of all authority over their
daughter. It certainly has a likeness to an old Jewish custom mentioned in the
Bible, in the book of "Ruth." There, when the kinsmen of Boaz gave up his claim
to the inheritance of Ruth, and to Ruth also, he indicated his concession by
plucking off his shoe and giving it to Boaz. The shoe was once held to be the
emblem of rule, as shown by the medieval custom of placing the husband's shoe
on the head of the nuptual couch, in token of his domination of the house.
PRISONER SHY AT WEDDING COMPLAINANT
Court Officer Christian HOLDERLIN, of the Adams street court in company
with Daniel PITCHER, spent three hours this morning hunting up a clergyman to
marry the young man to Ethel STEINRUCK, the young Philadelphia girl, on whose
complaint he was arrested. At the last moment, when HOLDERLIN found out
positively where he could find a clergyman PITCHER backed out and told the officer
that he would have to consult his brother before entering into the bonds of
wedlock. In the meantime, the girl and her father sat patiently waiting in the
Adams street court for the arrival of the young man and the minister.
There was another consultation in which Mrs. JOYCE, the probationary
officer, joined and finally persuaded the young man as to his duty. The party left
the courtroom together, after Magistrate O'REILLY had signed a bail bond for
PITCHER's release in $1000. It is understood they will be married this
afternoon.
MRS. MARY WILLIAMS TRIES TO END HER LIFE
Mrs. Mary WILLIAMS, 25 years old, of 209 Skillman street, attempted to
commit suicide by inhaling illuminating gas this morning during a fit of
despondency. She was discovered unconscious by her sister-in-law, Catherine WILLIAMS
and was removed to St. Mary's Hospital.
27 June 1906
HORVITZ-MOCKOWITZ WEDDING LARGE AFFAIR
Miss Sophia MOCKOWITZ, of 1861 Prospect place, was married at Metropolitan
Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street last night to Samuel HORVITZ,
also of 1861 Prospect place. The ceremony was attended by over five hundred
guests and was performed by Rabbi HOVITZ, of Manhattan. The young couple are
well-known in Brownesville and they received a number of handsome presents.
MISS GRACE LEWIS WEDS JOHN J. COELLER
On Sunday afternoon last John J. COELLER, of Brooklyn was married to Miss
Grace LEWIS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George LEWIS, of Sheepshead Bay. The
marriage was performed at St. Mark's R.C. Church on East Fourteenth street by the
Rev. Father MC CARREN. Miss Mary HINES acted as bridesmaid and Charles
SCHEIRAND acted as best man. The bride carried a large and handsome bouquet of white
roses, the gift of Miss Margaret MUSSE.(sic)
After the wedding ceremony the newly married couple returned to the home
of G. NEUSSE, West avenue and Second street, where the wedding supper was
served. Among those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. COELLER
Mr. and Mrs. G. NEUSSE
Miss M. NEUSSE
W.M. TAUGH
F. GRAF, Jr.
H. DEEDHOF
C. TURER
J. JOSEPHS
J. KENSON
C. SHERIDEN
Miss May HEISS
Miss M. MILLER
Miss E. COLE
Miss H. HITTWEES
Miss J. DORAN
T. REILLY
F. NEUSSE, Jr., and
Master D. NEUSSE
GHETTO MOTHERS IN ODD "MURDER" PANIC OPERATION ON SCHOOL CHILDREN GROWS
TO REPORT OF WHOLESALE THROAT CUTTING
One of the worst panics in years on the lower East Side, Manhattan,
occurred there this morning when hundreds of mothers dashed through the
streets screaming that the throats of their children were being cut in
the schools. The maddened women did not stop until the different schools
had been besieged and the children, to the number of about 50,000 had
been released from their studies. No one was injured, which is considered
miraculous in view of the panicky state of the people.
The panic started from the fact that a number of children had an operation
performed on Thursday last in Public School No. 110, Broome and Cannon
streets, for adenoids, or a slight growth in the throat. The operation is
simple and is not attended with any danger. Dr. Emil MEYER, with three
operators and eight attendants on Thursday disposed of eighty-eight cases
in eighty-five minutes.
The report spread this morning that additional operations were to be
performed in the schools in the fourth and fifth districts, which takes in the
Ghetto, and the residents immediately lost their heads. Order was not restored
until all the reserves in the Delancey and Union Market police station had been
called out and rushed to the schools, eight in number. As soon as the women got
their children and found that their throats had not been cut, they returned
to their homes and brought their children with them.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF
Elizabeth MILLER, 35 years old, of Eighth street and Snediker avenue,
Union Course, while crossing a vacant lot on Dover avenue yesterday, tripped on a
piece of wire and fell, sustaining a fracture of her right foot and a sprain
of the ankle. She was attended by Dr. McWIREN, of St. Mary's Hospital, and
removed to her home in the ambulance.
John LARNSKY, 35 years old, a laborer, residing at Maspeth, was struck by
a train on the Long Island Railroad at Clinton and Railroad avenues, Laurel
Hill yesterday, and instantly killed. His body was removed to Trudden's morgue.
The graduating exercises of Grammar School No. 52, of Richmond Hill were
held last night in the assembly room of the High School building. There was a
lengthy programme of vocal and instrumental music and recitations, all of which
were well rendered. Principal Isaac N. FALLOR presented the diplomas. There
were sixty-one members of the class, fourteen of them honor pupils. The
officers of the class are: Howard R. HILL, president; Ruth H. SACKMAN,
vice-president; Nora T. TRICK, secretary, and Allan R. HORTON, treasurer.
In the Court of Special Sessions, held at the Town Hall, Jamaica,
yesterday, Paul BEYER, of Richmond Hill, was tried and convicted on a charge of
beating his wife, Augusta. When asked by the Court if he had ever beaten her before
she replied,"Yes, If I had a nickel for every time he has beaten me I would
have a good sum of money." He was sent to the County Jail for thirty days.
Raffello MARRULLO, of the Rockaway road, Jamaica, was tried and convicted
on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, a loaded revolver and a razor. He
was sent to the County Jail for thirty days.
MANHATTAN VISITOR INJURED AT CONEY ISLAND
Mrs. Rose STEIN, 37 years old, of 1953 Second avenue, Manhattan, while
attempting to board a train at the Sea Beach depot had her right hand caught in
the gate of the car and sustained contusions. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon PECK and left for home.
JOCKEY MORGAN ESCAPES FROM THE HOSPITAL
Leroy MORGAN, a jockey, who has been in the Coney Island Emergency
Hospital for three weeks suffering from concussion of the brain, caused by being
thrown from a horse, jumped out of a second-story window at 10 o'clock last night
and ran up Ocean Boulevard. He had no clothing.
In front of the Hotel Riccadonna he evaded his pursuers by climbing a
telephone. Missiles threats and bribes failed to dislodge him.
Finally, Patrolman PETERSON, of the Coney Island station rushed through
the crowd, shinned up the pole and took MORGAN back to the hospital.
MAN SEVERELY BURNED WHILE READING PAPER
Louis WEIS, 23 years old, of 2049 Bergen street, was removed to the Kings
County Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon CANNA, of the Bradford Street Hospital
to-day, suffering from several burns on the legs and body. A newspaper he was
reading in his home this morning came in contact with a lighted candle and
before WEIS discovered the fact his clothing was ablaze.
NOISY AMERICANIZATION CAUSED RIOT AND ARREST
Matthew BELLES, a Lithuanian, 22 years old, of 252 Berry street, who has
been in this country only a few months, learned yesterday for the first time
the true significance of the Fourth of July. After he had been told how the
Americans won their independence from England he felt so good that he thought it
was up to him to celebrate. Last night he invested in giant firecrackers and
started to set them off at the corner of Havemeyer and Grand streets.
BELLES didn't watch where he threw the crackers and one of them landed in
a crowded open trolley car. The cracker went off with a great report causing a
small panic among the passengers. One woman found that her dress was ablaze,
but she quickly extinguished the flames. The passengers jumped from the car
and surrounded the frightened Lithuanian. He couldn't understand English and was
at a loss to comprehend the commotion he had caused.
Someone sent word to the Bedford avenue station that a riot was on and
several policeman were hurried out. Before they arrived Roundsman BLIUNT appeared
and got BELLES from the mob that was getting larger every minute. At the
station house the prisoner was charged with prematurely celebrating the Fourth.
When the prisoner was taken before Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee
avenue police court this morning he explained that he did not know he was
violating the law. The magistrate suspended the sentence.
FOUR HURT AND TWO CARS WRECKED IN CRASH
Four persons were injured and two cars were wrecked early to-day when a
car of the Franklin avenue line ran into an open switch at Broadway and Kent
avenue and crashed with considerable force into a car of the Metropolitan avenue
line that was standing there. According to the police of the Bedford avenue
station, the accident was caused by the failure of the motorman on the Franklin
avenue car, who was making his first trip on the line, to notice that the
switch was open.
The Metropolitan avenue car was thrown from the tracks and ran for some
distance on the pavement. Both platforms were smashed. William HART, a lawyer
and well-known politician, of 89 Ross street, was a passenger on the rear car.
He was thrown from his seat and received a bad bruise on the forehead. Three
persons sustained slight injuries while on the forward car. They were Edward
HOFFMAN, of 85 Marion street; Edward CORRIGAN, of 43 Rush street, and Harry
REILLY, 101 South Second street. None was seriously enough hurt to need the
attention of a doctor.
Traffic was tied up for an hour while the wrecking crew cleared the track.
28 June 1906
ABBOTT'S WIDOW HELD FOR SHOPLIFTING
Mrs. Laura ABBOTT, widow of Charles ABBOTT, the miser junkman who was
murdered in his junkshop, in Chapel alley, two years ago, was in the Adams street
court to-day as a shoplifter. Although ABBOTT was said to have left a snug
fortune, his widow said she was poor. Her friends say troubles have unsettled her
mind. When arrested yesterday in a Fulton street departrment store she had a
large bag with a false bottom. In the bag were some lawn remnants, two
shirtwaists and other small articles, which she is accused of stealing. At police
headquarters she gave the name of FRANKLIN, but the police recognized her as
ABBOTT's widow. She pleaded not guilty in court to-day and was held in $500 bail
for examinateion next Tuesday.
A son of Mrs. ABBOTT's died about a year ago in te Elmira Reformatory.
DIVER BREAKS HIS NECK DOING TRICKS IN WATER
In an attempt to execute a fancy dive, with a cigarette in his mouth, John
KAVAN, 34 years old, of 153 Saratoga avenue, broke his neck at Bath Beach
yesterday fternoon. He is at the Norwegian Hospital, where the surgeons are
trying to save his life.
KAVAN is a skillful swimmer, and had been performing before a crowd all
afternoon. The last time he dived into shallow water and was rendered
unconscious. A life guard brought him ashore, and an ambulance from the Norwegian
Hospital took him to that institution.
HIS HEAD BROKE IN FIGHT OVER CARDS
Charged with assaulting Harry JOHNSON, of 504 Hicks street, Charles SMITH,
of 406 Degraw street, and Peter PETERSON, of 576 Hicks street, were in the
Butler street court to-day by Patrolmen McTIERNAN and John O'LEARY, of the
Hamilton avenue station, who on the statement of Martin DONALDSON, of 168 Hamilton
avenue, arrested the two men at Hamilton avenue and Rapelyea street where the
assault occurred last night. JOHNSON had a laceration over the right eye and
it is believed his skull is fractured. He is in the Long Island College
Hospital unconscious and in a serious condition.
It is thought the row in which JOHNSON was hurt was over cards.
The two prisoners are held in $1,000 bail for examination. They say they
know nothing about the affair. DONALDSON says he saw them strike JOHNSON.
SHE SAYS HOT WAVE DROVE HER TO DRINK
Patrolman Richard MC HENRY, of the Fulton street station, at 1 o'clock
this morning saw a woman apparently unconscious in the gutter on Fulton street
near Sands. He summoned a patrol wagon. When she reached the station house she
was able to say she was Annie COSTIGAN, and that she was employed in the
Kingston Hospital. It was the heat that made her drink, she explained to Magistrate
DOOLEY to-day in the Adams street court, and sentence was suspended.
DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR REFUSING TO PAY TWO FARES
There was a lively row in the Coney Island police station yesterday
afternoon, when Dr. Sylvester J. MC NAMARA, nephew of Police Captain MC NAMARA, was
brought in under arrest on a charge of refusing to pay his second fare to
Coney Island. The doctor, a man who had defended his refusal, a B.R.T. special
policeman, and one of his friends, all made complaints and counter complaints and
created such confusion that the sergeant ordered them all out of the room and
told them to appear in court to-day.
In the Coney Island court this morning Dr. McNAMARA pleaded not guilty and
was held in $500 bail, and the case adjourned until July 3 upon the
furnishing of the bail by the defendant's wife. He is 37 years old and lives at 303
Union street.
CAPT. WYNNE RESIGNS TO AVOID DISMISSAL
Rather than suffer the indignity of being dismissed, Capt. Robert F.
WYNNE, of the U.S. Marine Corps, handed in his resignation yesterday. He had
expected that the President would intervene in his case to stay the sentence of the
court-martial but he was finally compelled to withdraw.
Capt. WYNNE is a son of Robert J. WYNNE, Consul-General at London.
BROWNESVILLE-
DIDN'T NEED DEPARTMENT TO PUT OUT THIS FIRE
A fire which slightly damaged the apartments of Abraham KLEYMANDAN, on the
second floor of 325 Sackman street, broke out yesterday afternoon from some
unknown cause. The building is owned by Abraham BERNSTEIN, of 2131 Bergen
street. The blaze started in the kitchen of the apartments and was quickly
extinguished by KLEYMANDAN with the assistance of the other tenants in the house,
before the arrival of the fire department.
FRACTURED HIS KNEE BY FALL IN STREET
While going along Thatford near Pitkin avenue yesterday afternoon Joseph
ABRAHAM, 9 years old, of 109 Chester street, slipped and fell, fracturing his
right knee. The boy was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PARKER, of St. Mary's
Hospital, who took him home.
DAVID KLANE PURCHASES SIX-FAMILY HOUSE
Another real estate sale was made in the Brownesville section last night
when Max MATZKIN, of 1831 Sterling place, sold to David KLANE, for $8,000, a
six-family house situated on Howard avenue, near Prospect place. The building
has been erected recently and contains first-class improvements.
FULL OF QUININE WHEN HE TRIED TO DROWN HIMSELF
Fred LYNCH, who was rescued several days ago by Patrolman FITZGERALD of
the Coney Island station after he had dropped off a pier, was before Magistrate
VOORHEES in the Coney Island Court, on a charge of attempting suicide. He said
he had been ill and had taken an overdose of quinine and that he did not know
what he was doing. He said that he did not wish to end his life.
BOY HELD FOR SHOOTING ANOTHER IN PRIZE CONTEST
Isador MITCHELL, 19 years old, of 210 Eldridge street, was before
Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney Island Court, yesterday, charged with felonious
assault on Charles MORRIS, 14 years old, of 27 Beaver street.
MORRIS stated that MITCHELL shot him in the left ankle on Sunday at a
prize shooting gallery. MITCHELL pleaded that the affair was an accident. The
Magistrate held MITCHELL for the Court of Special Sessions.
WOMEN WARNED IN COURT AND DISCHARGED
Mrs. J. STEIN, of 189 Bay Twenty-sixth street, Bensonhurst, was in the
Coney Island Court yesterday on complaint of Mrs. ???? LINDSAY of 187 Bay
Twenty-sixth street who stated that Mrs. STEIN annoyed her and called her names
every time she appeared on the street. After warning Mrs. STEIN to cease annoying
Mrs. LINDSAY the magistrate dismissed the complaint.
On compalint of George MANHAUSER, of 70 Sheriff street, Mrs. TEITELBAUM of
Ste?????'s Walk, Coney Island was in court. MANHAUSER alleged that on Sunday
last, after being served in the TEITELBAUM restaurant he declined to accept
the order and declined to pay for the meal. MANHAUSER alleges that upon his
refusal to pay, Mrs. TEITELBAUM struck him in the face. The complaint was
dismissed.
James WILSON of West Fifth street and Neptune avenue, and Samuel MITNIK,
of 144 Essex street were charged with fighting in Brighton Beach Park. Both
pleaded guilty and sentence was suspended.
HURLS CHILDREN OUT OF WINDOW
POLICEMAN TYRELL, BY DASHING THROUGH SMOKE-FILLED HALLS, SAVES FOUR LIVES
WOMAN JUMPS TO SAFETY
TWO YOUNG WOMEN HURT IN TWO-STORY LEAP
A kerosene lamp which exploded shortly after 10 o'clock last night in the
apartments of Mrs. Henry ASHLEY, a negress, on the top floor of 144 Willoughby
street, caused a $2,000 fire that would probably resulted fatally for at
least four people if it had not been for the heroism of Policeman TYRELL, of the
Adams street station. A passer-by discovered smoke coming from the house and
notified the policeman, who was a block away. TYRELL started on the run for the
place and was joined by Patrolman RUDDY.
When they reached the house flames were shooting out of the windows. While
RUDDY went to send in an alarm TYRELL ran into the house. It was with extreme
difficulty that he made his way through the halls, which were filled with
smoke. The tenants on the first and second floors were aroused and then TYRELL
stumbled up to the top floor, occupied by Mrs. Fannie SUMMERS and her three
small children. They were sound asleep. Waking the woman, TYRELL told her to keep
quiet and that he would take care of her three children.
The officer guided the woman to the rear window. Below was Policeman RUDDY
and some citizens. TYRELL told them to get a blanket and catch the woman as
she dropped out of the window. It was impossible to go through the halls. The
blanket was secured. The woman didn't hesitate to drop. She landed right in the
center. One of the men lost his hold and she fell heavily to the ground,
fracturing her right shoulder.
Making his way into the bedroom TYRELL took the children in his arms and
one by one dropped them out of the window into the outstretched blanket below.
They all landed safe and sound and were taken care of by neighbors. TYRELL
then rushed to the street through the halls, but in doing so was painfully burned
about the face and hands.
Anna WHITE, 22 years old, and Fannie SIMMONS, 21 years old, who lived on
the second floor, jumped from the window and both sustained fractures of right
legs.
Mrs. ASHLY when she reached the sidewalk became hysterical. All were
attended by Ambulance Surgeon SANDER, of the Cumberland Street Hospital. The WHITE
and LENNON girls were removed.
The flames were quickly conquered when the firemen arrived.
SHOT DOWN MAN WHO BEAT HIS MOTHER
YOUNG ITALIAN FIRES FOUR BULLETS INTO STEPFATHER OUT OF REVENGE
VICTIM NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE
WITH HOUSE FULL OF POLICE THE ASSASSIN ESCAPES
Enraged when told that his stepfather, Angelo CARSCALA, 45 years old, of
161 York street, a "longshoreman," had assaulted his mother, Savaraco LORITO,
22 years old, of 446 Union street, shot CARSCALA four times. The victim is in
the hospital alive, but is expected to die. His stepson escaped.
Police say the shooting followed a drinking bout in the home of Louis
ENERNO, 34 Atlantic avenue. In the rear of ENERNO's place lives Anna CARSCALA, the
wife of the dying man. The husband and wife have not lived together for some
time on account of CARSCALA's alleged brutality. Mrs. CARSCALA lived with a
young son, the son who did the shooting living in Union street with friends.
Last night LORITO came to the Atlantic avenue address to visit his mother.
He found his stepfather there, and was told he had beaten his mother. He
learned that his stepfather was visiting with ENERNO. Rushing into the room where
CARSCALA was carousing he whipped a revolver from his pocket and fired a ball
into his stepfather's chest. Before he fell LORITO fired two more shots, one
taking effect in the cheek and the other in the right arm. A fourth shot
lacerated ENERNO's cheek.
Hearing the shots, Detective GANNON and Patrolman KELLY rushed to the
house. A call sent to the Amity street station brought Sergeant IVORY and about a
dozen reserves who had to beat back the crowd of nearly 500 Italians that
jammed the entrance to the house.
Meanwhile a call had been sent for an ambulance, bringing Dr. HARRIS, of
the Long Island College Hospital, who gave little hope of the man's recovery
and rushed him to the hospital.
During the excitement the stepson made his escape.
JILTED, SHOOTS SELF, THEN BLAMES STRANGER
Staggering into his home, at 311 Ninety-second street, last night, Edward
TIETJEN, 24 years of age, told his family that he had met two strange men on
the street, and they invited him to have a drink with them. He accepted, and
the three went to a vacant lot of Seventy-seventh street and Fort Hamilton
avenue, where one of them produced a flask and they all had several drinks. TIETJEN
said that then one of the men drew a revolver and without any cause fired at
him. The bullet struck him in the right side of the forehead, causing a slight
flesh wound.
His folks notified the police and an ambulance was summoned from the
Norwegian Hospital. Drs. BUNGARD and LATTA responded and dressed the wound. Capt.
MURPHY and Detectives WHITE, SEELEY and WARREN, of the Fort Hamilton station,
questioned TIETJEN, and he stuck to his first story.
This morning they again began to investigate by plying TIETJEN with
questions, putting him through the third degree. He then admitted that he had shot
himself, having tried to commit suicide.
He told the police that he had for some time past been calling on Miss May
DUDLEY, who lives at Gelston avenue and Ninety-second street. Last night the
young woman had told him to stop calling, and he had become despondent over
it. She said, according to TIETJEN, that as she had several suitors she was
gaining too much notoriety and he must not attempt to see her again.
He was placed under arrest, and brought before Magistrate VOORHEES in the
Coney Island Court to-day and held in $500 bail for examination to-morrow.
SHOOTING AFFRAY IN THE GREEK QUARTER
Andrew NANOS, of 107 Washington street, was shot and seriously wounded by
Peter DOUROS, of 6 Albany street, this morning. The shooting occurred in front
of 73 Washington street, Manhattan. The cause of the shooting has not been
ascertained.
FISHER RESCUED AFTER SEVENTEEN HOURS' WORK
Imprisoned in a trench ten feet deep, with only his head above the ground,
from four o'clock yesterday afternoon until nine o'clock this morning, was
the experience of Herman FISHER, of Tompkinsville, Staten Island For seventeen
hours rescuers dug away the dirt that covered his body. His condition is
serious.
WEDS WOMAN WHO HAD HIM ARRESTED
David LITTLE, Jr., the livery stable keeper, who was arrested on complaint
of Frances LIVERMORE, a pretty young woman who accused him of breach of
promise, was discharged to-day in the Adams street court with the consent of
Assistant District Attorney WHITE.
Miss LIVERMORE has changed her name. She is now Mrs. David LITTLE, Jr. She
looked happy to-day when she signed a withdrawal of the complain
29 June 1906
HORSE KILLED DRINKING LIGHTENING CHARGED WATER
Driving a horse and wagon belonging to Peter BORSCHER, of Eighty-sixth
street and Fourteenth avenue, early this morning, John MILLER stopped to give the
horse a drink at a watering trough on the corner of Eighty-sixth street and
Thirteenth avenue. It was thundering and lightning at the time, and when the
horse put his head into the trough he was shocked to death by electricity from
the water, which had become charged by a bolt of lightening. MILLER himself was
not hurt, though he received a slight shock.
ALL DANGER OF SCHOOL RIOTS IS NOW PAST
The excitement among the Hebrew residents of the Eastern District caused
by the rumors of children's throats being cut in the schools, had not entirely
died out this morning. Yesterday afternoon graduating exercises were held in
the schools in the Ghetto, and the police of the Stagg street station had their
hands full maintaining order.
The last sessions of the schools were held this morning, and in
anticipation of a renewal of the trouble a score of policemen from other precincts were
sent to reinforce Capt. Gardiner's men. Crowds gathered about some of the
schools, but the police prevented any demonstration.
ARREST ITALIAN AS A FAKE GAS COLLECTOR
Policeman DONNELLY, of the Clymer street station had a long chase after
Demento RAFFETE, who it is alleged has been representing himself as a collector
for the Brooklyn Union gas Company. For several days the police had received
complaints about the Italian, and yesterday afternoon a man who lives at Union
avenue and Broadway, pointed out RAFFETE as the man.
As DONNELLY approached the Italian ran. The policeman chased him into the
cellar of SCHULTZE's bakery, on Harrison avenue. In the Lee avenue police
court he was held in $300 bail for examination.
SAYS HER BUSINESS RIVAL KISSED HER
Morris RAYNER, proprietor of a clothing store at 199 Manhattan avenue, was
in the Manhattan avenue court to-day on a summons obtained by Mrs. Pauline
NEINEKIL, who is his business rival, with a store at 222 Manhattan avenue. She
charged him with kissing her against her will.
She told Magistrate O'REILLY that on several occasions RAYNER got her in
his store and then embraced her. She said it was an outrage as she is a married
woman and has six children. Mrs. Ida JACOBS was in court to corroborate her
mother.
RAYNER denied that he had been guilty of kissing Mrs. NEINEKIL, either
against her will or otherwise. He and a lawyer who appeared for him, said the
charge was a result of business jealousy.
Magistrate O'REILLY dismissed the summons.
FIVE PERSONS OVERCOME BY LEAKY GAS MAIN
Escaping gas flowing from a defective street main into the basement of one
of the big department stores partially asphyxiated four women employes of the
concern and a man who had been sent around by the gas company to make an
inspection.
Drs. SMITH and MOORE, of the Brooklyn Hospital, treated the persons
overcome, and after bringing them around had them placed on small cots on the top
floor of the building.
The persons affected are: Adele OBENELL, 19 years old, saleswoman, of 946
Halsey street; Mary CAREY, 14, stock girl, of 44 Gold street; Clara MANN, 28,
of 524 Central avenue, Saleswoman; Agnes HEALY, 19, saleswoman, of 315 Gold
street, and Edward RANDALL, 52 years old, of Bath Beach.
Elm place had to be dug up this afternoon in order that repairs might be
made.
LIGHTNING DESTROYS BARN AND KILLS HORSE
The barn of Adam STRONGSTERN, of Bay avenue and Chestnut street, was
struck by lightning this morning, destroying the barn and killing one horse.
EXONERATE SELLER OF DEADLY COCKTAILS
"We find that the deceased died from toxic gastritis, from the internal
poison, caused by drinking too many cocktails, and we, the jury, exonerate
Herman STENECK from all blame for the death of the deceased."
This was the verdict rendered yesterday afternoon by a Coroner's Jury at
the inquest into the deaths of Mrs. Jessie BOSQUET, a school teacher, and her
young cousin, Joseph HIRSH, who had been commonly supposed to have met their
deaths from wood alcohol poisoning. STENECK is the saloonkeeper who mixed their
drinks.
It was brought out in the testimony that the pitcher of cocktails was
emptied seven times by the school teacher and her party. There was no evidence to
show that STENECK had put wood alcohol in the drinks.
The jury returned its verdict after a brief deliberation. It is said that,
despite the findings of the jury, District Attorney CLARKE will take the
matter before the Grand Jury.
PATROLMEN'S WIVES OPPOSE TWO PLATOONS
The two-platoon system was denounced at a meeting of the members of the
Patrolmen's Wives' Benevolent Association, of Greater New York, at a session
held at the Murray Hill Lyceum yesterday afternoon. The women adopted a
resolution declaring their organization was ready and willing to do anything
to help the Patrolmen's Association in the present emergency.
FIRST "COP" TO QUIT UNDER TWO PLATOONS
Patrolman Harold Lee HERRICK, of 173 Seventh street, who was appointed to
the police force September 21, 1905, resigned yesterday. He says the
two-platoon system doesn't give him enough time with his wife and child.
HERRICK gave up a $1,100 job to take one at $800 as a policeman. He was
attached to the Tenderloin station. He is the first policeman to quit the
force, giving the present platoon system as an excuse.
JOCKEY O'CONNOR RIDES WINNER IN GERMAN DERBY
Jockey "Winnie" O'CONNOR sent a cablegram from Happegarten, Germany, this
morning to his brother Frank, who lives at Bay Ridge West, notifying him that
he won the German Derby yesterday afternoon. O'CONNOR is riding for
WEINENBERG, the German banker.
COMPLAINS DRUNKEN 'COP' INSULTED HIM
Inspector Adam A. CROSS will begin an investigation into the charges that
have been made against Patrolman William B. GERKEN, of the Grand avenue
station, who is accused by Albert W. LINGATE of insulting him while under the
influence of liquor, last night.
According To LINGATE, he was sitting on his stoop, at 1179 Atlantic
avenue, last night with a neighbor, James GILDEY, when GERKEN and his other officers
of the Grand avenue station, CLELLAND and MC CORMACK, came along in citizen's
clothes. GILDEY knew GERKEN and asked him how he was enjoying his vacation.
"Pretty good," replied GERKEN, "CLELLAND and MC CORMICK are on their vacation
too, and the three of us took in a picnic at Ulmer Park and had a good time."
Then GILDEY introduced LINGATE to GERKEN, but GERKEN refused to
acknowledge the introduction, saying it is alleged, "I like you GILDEY, but your friend
looks like a bum skate."
LINGATE resented this and GERKEN became abusive. Then LINGATE went to the
station house and reported that GERKEN had insulted him and furthermore, he
was of the opinion that the officer was intoxicated.
Sergeant KNOX went out to look for GERKEN and found him on Atlantic
avenue. He brought him to the station house and summoned Dr. TERRY. The doctor very
scientifically diagnosed the case as one of alcoholism and GERKEN was sent
home.
FREES BUT LOCKED UP FOR RIDING ON FREIGHT CAR
"This is a habeas corpus case, your Honor," said Lawyer NEWBERGER, in
Special Term of the Supreme Court to-day, to Justice MAREAN. "The boy is under 16
years of age, and was arrested and sent to a reformatory for riding on a
freight car without leave. "The warrant specifies no offense."
"Your Honor," said Assistant District Attorney ELDER, "the law says it is
unlawful to ride on freight cars, but if it had been a parlor car, I presume
it would have been no offense."
"Let him go," said the court promptly.
FEAR W.W.ARRENDALE IS VICTIM OF FOUL PLAY
A general alarm has been sent out for Walter Williams ARRENDALE, 39 years
old, of 22 Johnson place, who has been missing from home since June 26. His
family fears foul play. When ARRENDALE left home, he had a considerable amount
of money in his possession.
TWO WOMEN HELD FOR ROBBING DYING SISTER
Miss Adelia McHUGH and Miss Marjorie McHUGH were held for the Grand Jury
in the Butler street court to-day on a charge of having robbed their sister,
Mrs. Hugh McGONIGLE, of 151 West Ninth street, while she lay dying, of $300 and
a fur boa to a value of $45. Knowing that she was about to die, Mrs. McGONIGLE
summoned her sisters to her home to look after it. Miss BARTON, a nurse, of
172 Huntington street, who was taking care of the sick woman, was the principal
witness against the sisters.
EATS CANNED LOBSTER; DYING FROM POISON
After eating some canned lobster, Mrs. Charles NELSON, 53 years old, f 359
Hamilton avenue, was stricken with ptomaine poisoning this afternoon in her
home. Ambulance Surgeon HUTCHINSON, of Seney Hospital, removed Mrs. NELSON to
that institution in a dying condition.
BROWNESVILLE - MRS. VALENTINE SCHALL THROWN FROM BUGGY
Mr. and Mrs. Valentine SCHALL, of 661 Bushwick avenue, went out riding
yesterday afternoon in a horse and buggy. The horse became frightened at a
passing automobile on New Lots road, near Rockaway avenue, and started to run away,
but while Valentine (sic) was trying to hold the animal the horse upset the
buggy. Mrs. Valentine sustained a fracture of the elbow. She was attended by
Ambulance Surgeon CANNA, of the Bradford street Hospital, and later removed to
her home in a cab.
GREENPOINT - MAN DROPS IN STREET OVERCOME BY HEAT
John HERSON, 40 years old, of 195 Sutton street, was overcome by the heat
yesterday at Manhattan and Greenpoint avenues. He was removed to the Eastern
District Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon DREYHAM.
SOUTH BROOKLYN - RHEUMATIC HOTEL GUEST REMOVED TO HOSPITAL
Charles JOHNSON, 34 years old, a guest of the Horseshoe Hotel on Surf
avenue and Oceanic walk, Coney Island, was removed to the Kings County Hospital
yesterday afternoon by Ambulance Surgeon RICHARDSON suffering with inflammatory
rheumatism.
30 June 1906
GOT RESERVES OUT ON FALSE ALARM
The reserves of the Flatbush station were hustled out late last night to
hunt for a supposed murderer. Some one called up the station house on the
telephone and told the sergeant at the desk that an Italian in the section
known as "Pigtown" had killed his wife. When the reserves reached the place
they found the woman who was supposed to have been murdered sitting on
her front stoop talking to a friend. Evidently some practical joker
had worked one on the police.
FATHER AND TWO SONS THROWN BY RUNAWAY
A horse driven by Frank PATERNO, of 182 Johnson avenue, ran away in Union
avenue this morning and the driver and his two sons, Anthony, 19 years old,
and Joseph, 14, were injured. When the runaway turned from Union avenue into
South First street the wagon was upset and the three occupants were thrown out.
PATERNO had two ribs broken and also received internal injuries. Anthony
received a scalp wound and Joseph contusion about the head. Ambulance Surgeon
SNYDER of the Eastern District Hospital attended the injured and removed Frank
PATERNO to the hospital.
FIVE MEN SHOT IN AN ITALIAN ROW
Rivalry in Business Leads to Shooting - One man may die
POLICE LET NO ONE ESCAPE
Reserves Beat Back Mob and Assist wounded
What is said to be business jealousy resulted in a hot fight this morning
in the Red Hook section. That more people were not hurt is a wonder, as the
streets were filled at the time with workingmen, principally "longshoreman,"
on their way to the docks, who stopped in Columbia street, where a group of
Italians were talking excitedly. Challenge and retort seemed to be going from one
to the other, when suddenly Thomas CAMPANIO, 31 years old, of 95 Union street,
whipped out a gun and fired it at Guiseppe BERNARDO, 32 years old, of 45
Sackett street. BERNARDO made a leap for the armed man, but fell to the
ground with a bullet in his chest. Immediately the rest of the Italians
closed in on CAMPANIO, who continued to shoot.
Junio ARNIO, 32 years old, of 54 Union street, received a ball in the
neck. Sylvester GENARO, 19 years old, of 116 1/2 Union street, got one in the
right hip, and suddenly, from some unknown quarter, CAMPANIO himself got one in
the upper part of the right arm, and William EDDEN, a longshoreman, 77 years
old, of 362 Pearl street, Manhattan, who was going along Van Brunt street,
suddenly dropped with a ball through the calf of the leg.
Hearing the fusilade (sic) of shots, Roundsman LAMB, Detectives, NOLAN and
DESCHER, and Patrolmen HAVERLING and LYNCH, of the Hamilton avenue station
came running up and found the wounded men bleeding on the sidewalk.
A hurry call had been sent to the Long Island College Hospital for
ambulances and Dr. HARRIS was soon on the scene. Seeing the precarious condition
of BERNARDO he was rushed to the hospital, while the other four, after emergency
treatment, were put in the patrol wagon, likewise taken to the hospital, all
under arrest.
At the hospital ARNIO identified CAMPANIO as the man who shot him.
All the men are in the cigar business and as far as can be learned one was
jealous of the other's success.
Capt. DOOLEY is complimenting his men on the fact that this time no one
escaped arrest. Perhaps it is on account of the extra number of men out, due to
the two platoon system.
MISS WOLTMANN DOESN'T WANT TO LIVE HOME
Reported Missing Last February, She Has Been Stopping at Brother's House
Nineteen-year-old Grace WOLTMAN the young woman who was reported to the
police in February as missing from her home, 1289 Nostrand avenue, by her
mother, Mrs. Maria WOLTMANN, was in Flatbush court to-day on the complaint of her
mother.
Mrs. WOLTMAN told the Magistrate that since her daughter was reported
missing she had not been seen by her until a few days ago, when she found that her
daughter was living with her married brother, William WOLTMANN, at 611 Ralph
street.
The girl said she had been living with her brother since she was reported
missing. During her absence she had written to her mother telling her she was
doing well, but never saying where she was.
The mother told Magistrate STEERS she wanted her daughter to stay at home
nights. Grace, she asserted, was in the habit of staying out late, and was, in
fact, rather wayward. She did not want Grace to live with her sister-in-law,
as she didn't think the sister-in-law was a fit companion for her.
The case was adjourned until next week, and it appears as though the girl
is going to stay with her sister-in-law despite her mother's protest. She left
the courtroom in company with the afore-said sister-in-law. When questioned,
Grace said that she could not get along with her mother and for that reason
left home.
The daughter was paroled in the custody of Miss MEURY, probationary officer.
HEAT KNOCKS OUT MANY; COOLER WEATHER COMING
Forecaster Says There Will Be Thunderstorms This Afternoon and To-night -
Thousands Sleep on Coney's Sands - Parks May Be used by the People - Woman Made
Insane - Some Deaths and Several Prostrations Reported - Yesterday Hottest June
29 in Five Years - Humidity Unusually High This Morning
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Several deaths and heat prostrations are reported by the police. During
the night whole families from the tenement districts in Manhattan and Brooklyn,
who had suffered in their coop-like houses, fled to Coney Island and nearby
beaches in the hopes of securing a breath of cool air. At daybreak the police at
Coney Island were watching over the forms of thousands of sleepers. The Park
Commissioners issued an order to-day permitting citizens to remain in the
parks all night without molestation until the heat wave subsides.
Shortly after midnight, Mary CURTIS, 54 years old, of 681 Sterling place,
was removed to Kings County Hospital, suffering from acute mania, caused by
the heat. There were three similar cases in Manhattan last night.
Calogero VILARVE, 51 years old, who had a grocery store at 47 Humboldt
street, dropped dead last evening while waiting on a customer in his store. He
had been complaining of the heat all day, and while at work he gave a gasp and
sank to the floor. Ambulance Surgeon AVERY, who was called from the German
Hospital, said death resulted from heart failure brought on by the heat.
Mrs. Gustavia DIETERICH, 40 years old, of 229 Cook street, died suddenly
last night. She was a large woman and the heat affected her considerably. Last
evening while seated at an open window she fell to the floor and was dead on
the arrival of Ambulance Surgeon RYAN of St. Catherine's Hospital
These prostrations have been reported:
James SALVA, a laborer, 50 years old, of 52 Franklin avenue, while at work
in a cellar that is being dug at 1205 Myrtle avenue, was overcome and after
being attended by an ambulance surgeon was removed to his home.
-Charles HABA, 44 years old, of 621 Park avenue; Williamsburg Hospital
-William THOMPSON, 35yrs old, 33 No. Elliott pl; Cumberland Street Hospital
-Otto WENZEL, 26yrs old, 614 Court street; Long Island College Hospital.
-Henry RUTLEDGE, 54 yrs old, 571 Sterling place, overcome while at
work in the B.R.T. powerhouse, at Tompkins avenue and Fulton street;
St. Mary's Hospital
-James MEEHAN, 30 years old, of 500 Henry street, Long Island College Hospital.
-James HAND, 56 yrs old, 406 Ave D, Flatbush, overcome in the Hall
of Records, was attended by Surgeon MOORE of the Brooklyn Hospital & sent home.
-William J. FOX, 26 years old, of 880 Park avenue, was overcome at DeKalb
avenue, near Sumner, attended by Dr. STEVENS, of Bushwick Hospital, and taken
home.
Seeking a momentary relief from the broiling heat in their ovens of
tenement homes, thousands of East Siders stormed the public bathhouses in that
district as soon as they were opened at 5 o'clock this morning. At two houses,
at 133-135 Allen street, and 538 East Eleventh street, the crowd was so large and
eager to reach the cooling shower baths that the police reserves had to be
called from the Eldridge street and Union Market stations to restore order.
So eager were the heat-stricken people to get inside that regular lines
could not be preserved, and the people fought for precedence at the showers, and
it was necessary to increase the force of police.
NAB ALLEGED THIEF WHO GOT GIRL'S $1,500
Detective CONNOLLY, of the Brownsville station, last night arrested Jacob
MILLER, a saloonkeeper living at 380 Osborne street, who is accused by Jennie
SAKOL, 18 years old, of 410 Stone avenue, as being one of two men who held her
up on Saturday morning last at East New York avenue and Sackman street, and
stole $1,500 which the girl had just drawn from the Atlantic Bank.
Since last Saturday the detectives have been searching through Brownsville
and East New York for the highwaymen. Last night detective CONNOLLY took the
girl to the saloon where she identified the proprietor, MILLER as being one of
the men who held her up. In the Gates avenue court MILLER denied having ever
seen the girl before. He was held in $1500 bail for further examination by
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM.
CRAZY MAN ATTACKS A POLICE SERGEANT
Sergeant MC CORMACK, of the Adams street station, had a tussle with a
crazy man this morning. A wild-eyed man rushed into the station house, saying that
he was being pursued. A policeman took him into the sitting room, where he
quieted down. Then he suddenly arose and darted out of the room and attacked
Sergeant MC CORMACK behind the desk. There was a short tussle and the man was
made prisoner. He gave his name as James MC MANAMY and his address as 380 Gold
street. In the Adams street court Magistrate DOOLEY directed that MC MANAMY be
taken to the hospital for observation.
TWO HIT BY FREIGHT IN L.I. CITY R.R. YARDS
Two men were seriously injured last night by being run down by a freight
train of the Long Island Railroad in the yards at Long Island City. They were
E.S. HINES, 32 years of age, of 190 Willoughby street, and Isaac W. HACKETT, 25
years old, of 288 Bergen street.
The two men are employed in the yard, and were going home from their work,
taking a short cut across the yard. A freight train, in charge of Engineer
W.LODER, and Conductor R.M. HAYES, struck them, and HINES received a fracture of
the skull and severe injuries to the body, while HACKETT had his right hand
and left foot cut off.
It was some time before they were found, Laying beside the track by a
passerby. The two men were unconscious when found. An ambulance removed them to
St. John's Hospital in Long Island City.
WIND BLEW OUT GAS; SERVANT OVERCOME
Miss Kate LINCOLN, 20 years old, colored, employed by C.H. BUELL, of 182
Quincy street, was overcome by gas in her room this morning. She left the gas
burning and the wind blew it out. She was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PARKER,
of St. Mary's Hospital, and not removed.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- THIEVES GET $200 IN BOOTY FROM MORANIO
Joseph MORANIO, of 741 Fourth avenue, reported to the police yesterday
that a horse and wagon, valued at $150 and $50 worth of junk had been stolen from
his barn.
-RACE TRACK TIPSTERS FINED $10 IN COURT
John KURTZ, Richard WATSON, Abraham WAGNER, Benjamin LANG, Howard WRIGHT,
Edward CHRISTY, and Leon SCHWARTZ were before Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney
Island court charged with selling tips on the races in the vicinity of the
Sheepshead Bay track. The arrests were made by Detectives CUNNINGHAM and
MCDONALD, who stated that the defendants annoyed the people on their way to the
races. They all entered pleas of guilty and were fined $10. KURTZ was fined $2.
-LAD UPSET SHOWCASE AND MAY DIE FROM INJURIES
Four-year- old Edward RIFF upset a showcase filled with shoes yesterday
afternoon in his father's store at 643 Fifth avenue, and the child's antics
nearly caused his death. A portion of the falling showcase hit the child and
pinned him to the floor. He sustained scalp wounds, concussion of the brain and
internal injuries. He was attended by a surgeon from Seney Hospital and removed
to that institution.
-HAMPSEN SAVES YOUNG LAD FROM DROWNING
Goodman HAMPSEN, of 859 Fourth avenue, rescued from drowning yesterday
afternoon at the foot of Fifty-seventh street, 7-year-old John WALSH, of 164
Fifty-seventh street, who had fallen overboard accidentally while walking the
stringpiece. An ambulance brought Dr. LIVINGSTON from the Norwegian Hospital and
the boy's removal to the institution followed.
-HELD FOR EXAMINATION ON PICKPOCKET CHARGE
In the Coney Island court, Edward CUTTY, 32 years of age, of 128 Hester
street, Manhattan, was held in $500 bail for examination, charged with having
taken a gold watch and chan, valued at ???from the pocket of Alexander D.
???ins, on Tilyou's walk.
GREENPOINT- DISLOCATED HIS ELBOW PLAYING IN STREET
Eight-year-old Solomon SCHAAD, who lives with his parents at 170 India
street, dislocated his left elbow while playing on the street in front of his
home last night. He was attended by an ambulance surgeon of the Williamsburg
Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE- PLANK FELL ON HIM AND BRUISED HIS LEG
While Charles FISHER, 29 years old, of 882 Hart street, was removing
planks from the cellar of 386 Sutter avenue yesterday afternoon one of the planks
fell on him. Ambulance Surgeon CANNA, of the Bradford Street Hospital, found
him suffering from contusions of the right leg. The surgeon dressed his wounds
and removed him to his home.
-EIGHT B CLASS GIRLS FORM SECRET SOCIETY
A secret society, which consists of the girls of the 8B Class of Public
School 84, Glenmore and Stone avenues, has been organized and has a membership
of over forty.
The officers are:
Miss Sarah LEVINSON, president;
Miss Ida MONDSHAIM, vice-president;
Miss Annie FREEDMAN, corresponding secretary;
Miss Annie WICHSLER, corresponding secretary;
Miss Gertrude LANDSMAN, treasurer;
Miss Florence SHENKLER, sergeant-at-arms;
Miss Lillian LEON, chief of police.
-GONE TO MOUNTAINS TO JOIN HER PARENTS
Miss Yetta LEVINE, of 202 Snedeker avenue, left this city yesterday
afternoon for the Catskills, where she will join her parents for the summer
months. Miss LEVINE is the daughter of Louis LEVINE, the well-known real
estate speculator of the State Bank Building at Pitkin and Stone avenue.
-DEVELOPS HYDROPHOBIA AFTER BITE BY PET DOG
Henry MARKS, 51 years-old, was seized with hydrophobia at his home, 858
Belmont avenue, yesterday afternoon as a result of having been bitten by a pet
dog on May 28 last. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon CANNA from the
Bradford Street Hospital and removed to the Kings County Hospital.
HER RIGHT TO SLEEP ON HIS SHOULDER
Carful Missed Row Because She Had a Woman's Way of Stopping Guying
Ungloved Engagement Hand
Then the Jibes About Spooning in Public Ceased
A little incident on a Brighton Beach train last night showed what a woman
with a little tact can do.
A girl about 20 - she could not have been older - entered the car at the
Brighton Beach station, accompanied by a young man, probably 25. She was a
beautiful little thing, with a faint color of rose in her cheek, dazzling white
skin and wavy brown hair, parted simply over a low, but beautiful brow. She wore
a princess dress of expensive dark goods that fitted perfectly her shapely
form. Her escort was of athletic build. His clothes were well tailored.
It was very late, and as the car was crowded with people returning to the
city the couple were the cynosure of all eyes. They found a seat in the rear
of the car, and when the train started the man entwined his arm around the
girl's waist and drew her toward him. But she was not comfortable. She whispered
to him and he carefully removed her hat. She patted him on the cheek and
nestled her brown head on his shoulder.
Behind the couple sat a party of four young people, two girls and two
fellows, who were enjoying themselves thoroughly. It did not take them long to
"get on" to the couple in front of them and they began to make laughing remarks
about "spooning" and "holding hands" and "cutting that kind of foamy stuff out
in public."
The young man's face reddened and he said something in an undertone to the
girl, who attempted to sit up. He restrained her, but the party behind still
kept up their bandinage.
Finally she whispered to him and, releasing her, he arose and went to the
end of the car and returned with a glass of water, which she drank. As he took
the glass back again, he paused for a moment beside the seat occupied by the
guying party, as if to chide them, when the girl turned her head. Her glance
of appeal stopped him. When he took his seat beside her again even the casual
observer could see that she was ill and deathly pale. Then the little piece of
fact manifested itself. Without raising her head, she removed her glove from
her left hand and reaching around to the back of her head, gave her hair a
little pat and push.
A blonde girl in the party behind noticed the hand and, poking her
companion, said, "Gee, Billy, they are engaged; pipe the engagement ring." The girl
slipped her glove on again and when her young escort assisted her from the seat
on the arrival of the car in Brooklyn the jolly party behind stood aside,
embarassed, while they passed out of the car.
A fat woman, who sat across the aisle from the couple, nudged her husband
and remarked: "That was a clever piece of work, wasn't it, Oscar? It was much
better than if they had quarreled with them, don't you think so.!"
HUNTED FOR LEAKY GAS PIPE WITH A CANDLE
Janitress and Two Sons Injured in the Explosion That Followed
A terrific explosion in the five-story apartment house at 562 and 564
Bedford avenue shortly after 9 o'clock last night resulted in the serious injury
of three persons. The building had just been completed and is unoccupied except
by the janitress, Mrs. Annie DEBROSKY, and her two sons, William 12, and
George, 10 years old. The odor of escaping gas attracted their attention and all
three went upstairs to look for the leak, Mrs. DEBROSKY carrying a lighted
candle. They had just reached the corridor on the third floor when the explosion
took place and were thrown to the floor and badly burned about the face, hands
and body. All were attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHNEIDER and removed to the
Eastern District Hospital.
MISS RAY FREEDMAN TO HAVE A LARGE WEDDING
At Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street, on Sunday
evening, July 8, Miss Ray FREEDMAN will be made the bride of Otto ERENZWELAND.
The ceremony will be performed by Rabbi FINKLESTEIN. Over seven hundred
invitations have been sent out for the affair, and a large gathering is expected.
The best man at the ceremony will be Harris FREEDMAN. The bridesmaid has not
been decided upon.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by
Maureen Sullivan Crews
Mary Musco
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