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1906 NEWS
Brooklyn Standard Union
17 OCTOBER 1906
DASHES VITRIOL ON THE MAN SHE LOVES
Young Woman's Revenge for Being Jilted-Tries to Kill Herself in Cell
Infuriated because the man she loved had wedded another woman, Annie
JASNER, a pretty young woman, armed herself with a fruit jar of vitriol and
showered Ernest WILDMAN, the bridegroom, as he came from his home last
night on Staten Island. The victim fell writhing to the ground and the girl fled.
The jilted girl tried to-day to beat out her brains against the sides of a
cell in the Stapleton police station. She had to be bound to keep her from
killing herself.
Miss JASNER heard that WILDMAN had married another girl last month and was
living with his bride on Staten Island. Filling a fruit jar with sulphuric
acid she went to Staten Island.
18 October 1906
TRIED TO JUMP TO DEATH FROM TRAIN
Henry BECKER, 20 years old, of 152 Lewis street, Manhattan, was arrested by
Patrolman James O'DAY and Roundsman HOGAN, of the Coney Island police
station at the elevated station at Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street,
charged with disorderly conduct. BECKER had just lost his job and was on
his way to Coney Island, when after the train had left Sixteenth street, he
tried to jump from a window.
There was a great commotion and it was with difficulty that he was held by
several citizens until the train reached the Thirty-sixth street station.
When the police arrested him he refused at first to be taken to the station
house. In the Butler street court this morning Magistrate TIGHE fined him $3.
OVER THE OCEAN
Abandoned in England, Wife Finds Him in Brooklyn With Another Woman.
Her Bigamy Charge Fails
Handsome Widow He Won Won't Prosecute Him
Only one wife appeared before Magistrate DOOLEY in the Gates avenue court
to press a charge of bigamy against Philip KORBACHENSKY, 35 years old, of
644 Stone avenue, this morning, and Magistrate DOOLEY refused to hold the
man. His wife Sarah, of 137 Thatford avenue, then charged him with
abandonment and he was held in $1,000 bail for examination to-morrow.
The story of KORBACHENSKY goes back to Wilmer, Russia where the woman who
appeared in court this morning alleges that he married her on Oct. 4,
1900. She says he abandoned her in London on Nov. 1, 1904. He is charged
with having since married Becky STROSKY, a widow with whom he is said to
be living in 644 Stone avenue. It is said that he even contemplated another
marriage with a Brownsville belle, but she learned that he had at least one
wife, and said that she thought that one wife was enough for one man.
Wife No. 1 heard that her spouse had come to this country and tracked him
through the mazes of the city and located him in Brownsville. There,
through friends she learned that KORBACHENSKY had married again and was
living at 644 Stone avenue.
Wife No. 1 was advised to consult a lawyer and went to Joseph GOLDSTEIN of
137 Thatford avenue. He advised her to press a charge of bigamy against her husband.
GOLDSTEIN learned that KORBACHENSKY is an iron worker. He asked him to come
to his office last night to give an estimate on some work that he wished
done. KORBACHENSKY went to the office and as he entered the door saw his
wife. He drew back in amazement, according to GOLDSTEIN, and dramatically
said: "What! You here?"
She was there all right and angry. Detective CONLIN, of the Brownsville
station was summoned and placed KORBACHENSKY under arrest. Both wives were
at the station house and claimed the man as their husband. In court this
morning wife No. 2 failed to appear. Wife No. 1 made a complaint against
the iron worker, but as the second wife was not on hand Magistrate DOOLEY
said that he could no hold him. The charge was then changed to abandonment.
Mrs. Sarah KORBACHENSKY is 28 years old, and has one child and would not be
considered a beauty. The widow, Beckey, who is alleged to be wife No. 2,
is said to be a handsome woman. KORBACHENSKY is not handsome. The second
wife also has a child.
BOY INVENTOR LOSES ARM EXPERIMENTING
Morris SCHAEFFER, the eighteen year-old Brooklyn inventor, who sailed for
France with his secretary in the latter part of August to make experiments
before the French naval authorities with his latest discovery, a marine
searchlight cabled to The Standard Union to-day saying that he had lost his
left arm in the course of the experiments. SCHAEFFER reports, however
that his experiment was successful from a practical and scientific standpoint.
Details of young SCHAEFFER'S latest discovery are meagre, but it is a
marine searchlight with revolving rays which he claims can e focused on an
enemy's battleship without disclosing whence they come. In other words,
the appliance would enable the ship having it to reconnoitre and obtain a
perfect view of the enemy's movements in the blackness of night without
being discovered.
SCHAEFFER will return to Brooklyn in the first week in November,
accompanied by his secretary. The loss of his left arm will possibly prove
a severe handicap to the future efforts of the youthful genius. It is
believed, however, that the fighting spirit that has characterized his
previous efforts to obtain recognition will not allow him to become
discouraged on account of his misfortune.
OLD TICKET TAKER TOO FOXY FOR LAWYER
Eden MASON, 73 ye4ars old, a ticket taker employed at the Manhattan Beach
end of the Marine Railroad who lives at 23 Park Row, Manhattan, was charged
with assault in the Coney Island court this morning by Frank TAYLOR, 25
years old, a lawyer living at 557 Brookklyn avenue.
Taylor says that when he was at Manhattan Beach on Aug 19 last, accompanied
by Frank SHEA, Annie JORDAN and May JORDAN, MASON ordered him to close the
door he had opened in the station, which he refused to do. The old ticket
taker thereupon attacked him, he says, and attempted to choke him.
TAYLOR admitted in the court this morning that the reason he had brought
this suit against MASON was that he might learn the name of the company
employing him and bring suit against it. The old man was too foxy,
however, and TAYLOR couldn't get the information he wanted. Magistrate
VOORHEES reserved decision.
ENGLISH TEACHERS WILL BE HERE ABOUT NOV. 1
The White Star Line steamer Baltic which arrived to-day from Liverpool and
Queenstown, made the run in 6 days, 20 hours and 56 minutes, at an average
speed of 16.85 knots per hour, the best run the Baltic has ever
made. Amont the passengers of whom there were 724 in the cabin and 1,080
in the steerage were Sir Alfred MOSLEY, head of the National Educational
Commission, who says his first party of teachers will arrive here about
Nov. 1; Miss Cecilia LOFTUS, who says she has a new one-act play and will
not appear in vaudeville until December, when she joins WEBER;
Hon. C. S. ROLLS, who won the tourist auto car race in the Isle of Man;
John M. BOWERS,
the Rev. L. G. BROUGHTON,
William J. CHAMBERS,
Lee COUNSELMAN,
E. E. COLT,
the Rev. James O. D. FINDLAY,
Mrs. Paul L. FORD,
Shrimant Jaisingrao GAIKWAD,
Richard HAZELTON, M.P.;
Capt, C. E. HUTTON,
A. D. GUILLARD,
Col. Theodore KITCHING,
J. M. KETTLE, M. P;
Hugh SELIGMAN,
Stephen H. TYNG,
Mrs. John WESTERVELT and Eugene KELLY.
YOUTH ATTACKS 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Flatbush Child Is Later found Dazed, Miles From Home.
POLICE HUNT ASSAILANT
Young Woman Waylaid Last Night-Many Other Cases
The police of the Parkville station are at work upon the case of Jeanette CASTLE,
4 years old, who was assaulted by an unknown boy last Monday morning.
The little girls mother sent her from her home, 481 East Twenty-first
street, to the dry goods store at Frederick A. LIPPOLD, 1120 Flatbush
avenue. She walked along in company with a neighbor who saw her safely to
the store. Whe Jeanette did not appear home within an hour her mother
became worried and about noon notified the police. Several hours
afterward the child was picked up in a dazed condition at Thirty-ninth
street and Twelfth avenue. There were marks upon her throat and neck,
where the assailant had choked her; and it is believed that whoever it was
that had seized her became frightened at her fainting away and left her
where she was found by the police. When she was asked who hurt her
Jeanette said that it was a "big boy."
While she was returning to her home late last night, Miss Jennie SHIELDS,
of 247 East Twenty-third street was seized by two men and dragged screaming
and fighting to a vacant lot. She managed to grasp one of the assailants
by the neck, however, and caused him to cry out with pain. William
HENDRICKSON, of East Twenty-eighth street and Canarsie lane, attracted by
the noise, ran to the rescue of the young woman and the men ran
away. HENDRICKSON assisted her to her feet and took her to her home. She
was unable to give much information to the police last night owing to her
frightened condition.
There have been many hold-ups in Flatbush and its vicinity during the past
few weeks and few young women venture out at night. Nurses of the Kingston
Avenue Hospital say they have been held up on their way to and from that
institution. One night recently, Mrs. Mary DOOLEY, the superintendent, was
attacked but her outcries frightened off her assailants.
Woman parishioners of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Nostrand avenue
and Malbone street have reported to the police that they have been attacked
by men on their way from services.
A HOME WEDDING
There was a home wedding last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick DOUGLASS, 74 Lawrence street when their youngest daughters,
Freddie DOUGLASS, was married to George LILDIE. The parlors were
beautifully decorated for the occasion. Cora CLARK was maid of honor and
Willie BOWER acted as best man. The bride was given away by her
father. Dr. William T. DIXON performed the ceremony. The bride was
handsomely gowned and carried a beautiful bouquet. After the ceremony, the
guests enjoyed themselves dancing until time to repair to the dining room
where a splendid collation was served. The presents were numerous and
useful. At a late hour, the happy young couple left amidst showers of rice
for their new home, 212 West Sixty-first street, Manhattan. They will be
at home to their friends next Sunday.
TARANTULA IN BANANAS BIT C.H.S. WAITRESS
Nora MURRAY, 28 years old, a waitress in the lunch room of the Commmercial
High School, Albany avenue and Dean street, was bitten yesterday on the
thumb by a large tarantula which was concealed in a bunch of bananas. It
was feared for a time that Miss MURRAY would lose her arm as a consequence.
Mis MURRAY'S arm was swollen to almost twice its size when she received
treatment at the St. Mary's Hospital. The thumb was lanced and antiseptic
dressings were applied. It is said at the hospital that she is in no
danger of losing her arm.
GARRETT P. SERVISS HOME FROM EUROPE
Among the passengers who arrived to-day on the steamer Konigen Luise from
Genoa, Naples and Gilbraltar were: Dr. Harlow BROOKS, Baron Paul DE
MATHIES, Garrett P. SERVISS, Frank H. SEVERENCE, George Winslow THATCHER
and Prof. Willisten WALKER
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS AFTER TRY AT SUICIDE
After Shooting, One Man Plunges Downstairs, Another Run Over by Ambulance
One man is dying and two others are in a serious condition in consequence
of the serving of dispossess papers against Christ MEINKE, 55 years old of
84 Coffey street, last night.
MEIKE attempted to take his own life; one man in trying to save him fell
headforemost down a flight of stairs and another man was run down by the
ambulance in which MEINKE was being removed to the hospital.
MEIKE lost his position a few weeks ago through sickness. He was unable to
pay his rent and yesterday was told that he must pay or move.
Shortly after 6 o'clock this morning the tenants were aroused by the sound
of a shot coming from the yard in the rear of his house. Several men ran
to ascertain the cause of the shooting and in the rush one James HOPE
missed his footing and fell down a long flight of stairs.
He sustained painful lacerations of the scalp and slight contusions. An
ambulance was summoned and MEINKE was hurried away.
HOPE was attended by his physician. His condition is not serious.
As the ambulance hurrying at top speed with the dying man swung around the
corner of Henry and Union streets, Richard MALONEY, the driver, was unable
to stop the horse in time to avoid running down William JOHNSON, 60 years
old, of 6 Henry street.. JOHNSON was stunned and suffered severe scalp
wounds. Ambulance Surgeon CRANE and MALONEY lifted the injured man into
the ambulance and removed him to the hospital also.
ACCUSED OF STRIKING POLICEMAN HOOLAHAN
James J. LANGDON, of 229 Concord street was charged in the Adams street
court to-day with assaulting Patrolman John J. HOOLAHAN, of
Manhattan. HOOLAHAN says LANGDON struck him in the face while he had a
prisoner in custody. The hearing was set down for Oct. 23.
LEG CUT OFF BY TRAIN AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY
Boarding a moving trains caused the injury of a man this afternoon who it
is thought will not survive, one of his legs having been cut off just above
the knee. The injured man is Henry MC GINLEY, 23 years old of Little Falls
who has been stopping at Sheepshead Bay for a short time. he was going to
the races at the Belmont Park race track this afternoon and was to take the
racing special on the Long Island road that leaves Sheepshead Bay in time
for the first race. He got to the station just as the train was pulling out.
Running down the platform he swung aboard the train which by this time was
moving pretty fast. he got on the train but his body was not inside the
line of the fence which surrounds the end of the platform, and as the train
passed it he was hit on the back and knocked off, falling under the
cars. His body was very badly crushed and right leg was cut off just above
the knee. He was rendered unconscious.
A wagon was secured and the injured man was hustled off to the Kings County Hospital.
HOWARD-HEATH--
Married on Oct. 13, 1906, by the Rev. Chas BAYLES,
Josephine HEATH to Leonard HOWARD both of Brooklyn.
19 October 1906
BOYS IN FIERCE FIGHT OVER GIRL
One Ends Battle by Drawing Knife and Slashing His Rival's Face
With the sight of his left eye destroyed and his face gashed, Riuzzo
SABASTINO, 18 years old, of 249 Havemeyer street, appeared in the
Children's Court to-day to press a charge of assault against 15-year-old
Anothony BILO of 14 Havemeyer street. The assault was the result of a
quarrel and fight last night over a girl at Nassau and Lorimer streets.
The boys first quarreled a week ago. When they met last night they resumed
hostilities. SABASTINO was getting the better of BILO when the latter
suddenly whipped out what looked like a shoemaker's knife.
With this he repeatedly jabbed and slashed his antagonist until SABASTINO
dropped to the sidewalk.
Then BILO ran to the house at 905 Lorimer street in which a Mr. MURRAY
lives. He shouted for entrance, declaring that he "had killed a man."
Failing to be admitted, the boy ran to a woodshed in the rear and was found
hiding there by Patrolman GILROY of the Stagg street station. The police
say BILO admitted stabbing SABASTINO. He pleaded not guilty, however, in
court to-day and will be given a further hearing on Oct. 25.
LITTLE GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED BY WAGON
Four year old Sadie EPSTEIN of 233 Ellery street was knocked down in front
of her home by a wagon belonging to the Angler Biscuit Company of 71
Bowery, Manhattan, last night and received injuries to her spine and
probable internal injuries. She was taken to Bushwick Hospital where it is
said she is in critical condition.
FENDER SAVES HIS LIFE BUT BREAKS HIS LEG
While crossing Fulton street near York early to-day, Terrence WATERS, 43
years old of 43 Fulton street was struck by a Gates avenue car and received
a fracture of the right leg. he was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital. The
fender saved his life.
ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING ON BAY RIDGE TRAIN
Frank GORMAN, who lives in Forty-eighth street was held for examination by
Magistrate TIGHE in the Adams street court to-day on a charge of assaulting
Vernon LINCOLN of 11118 Fifty-seventh street. The youths were passengers
on a Bay Ridge elevated train and a quarrel arose over some
misunderstanding. While they were fighting, Detective HUGHES, who was also
a passenger on the car, arrested GORMAN.
DRIVER BADLY HURT IN COLLISION WITH CAR
Frank MASON, 28 years old a driver living at 189 Hudson street, Manhattan,
was taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital last night, suffering from
dislocation of the right hip and contusions of the right leg. MASON was
driving a team owned by David HOWARD of 708 Greenwich street, Manhattan,
last evening when he was struck by a Crosstown trolley car at Washington
avenue and E street, Wallabout Market.
SORE-EYE EPIDEMIC AT NAVY YARD
Workmen in the local Navy Yard are suffering from an epidemic of sore
eyes. Many of the men in the shops are forced to work all day long under
electric lights and many of the men in the dry docks are forced to work at
night when orders are received to rush repairs on a boat. This makes their
eyes weak and peculiarly susceptible to this epidemic, that is believed to
be somewhat similar to "pink eye."
VAN IDERSTINE WED WIDOW DAY WIFE GOT DIVORCE
The publication of the announcement of the divorce of Adelaide VAN
IDERSTINE from William P. M. VAN IDERSTINE last night serves to unlock the
secret that on the day the divorce was granted in September VAN IDERSTINE
was married to Kathryne SIBLEY WITHSTANDLEY, a young widow well known in
the Stuyvesant Heights society. Friends of Adelaide VAN IDERSTINE, who is
the daughter of Charles H. REYNOLDS, a wealthy real estate man say that her
feelings were sorely tried by the marriage of VAN IDERSTINE on the day she
divorced him and that his brought about the publication of the
divorce. Mr. VAN IDERSTINE said yesterday he never tried to make a secret
of the wedding and that only recently he sent out the wedding announcements
to his friends.
20 October 1906
AUNT FEARS NIECE IS WANDERING ABOUT CITY
A general alarm has been sent out for 17-year-old Margaret HACKRADT
reported missing from the home of her aunt, Mrs. Adolph KOETTJEN, of Bay
Seventy street and Cropsey avenue, Bath Beath, since Monday. The girl was
subject to nervous spells and it is feared by her aunt she may be wandering
about the city partially demented by her affliction.
The girl came to live with her aunt from Germany last December. Four or
five weeks ago distinct signs of a nervous breakdown were noted and
Margaret was sent to the German Hospital, Seventy-seventh street and
Lexington avenue, Manhattan, for treatment. One day last week she returned
home as cured. On Monday she disappeared, leaving no trace.
MISFORTUNE HAUNTS GIRL LIKE NEMESIS
Victim of Odd Accident Leaves Hospital to Find HOme Gone and Husband in Jail
Louisa MC MAHON a 19 year old girl, walked in the Vernon avenue station
to-day and gave herself up. She said she was homeless and asked the police
to send her to some home. When questioned the girl told a pitiful story.
She said she had lived with her step-father at 734 Myrtle avenue and at one
time worked in a braid factory on Washington avenue. One year old she had
her hair caught in a machine in the factory and the entire scalp was torn
from her head. She was taken to the Kings County Hospital and has spent a
year in the institution. Yesterday she was discharged.
The girl further stated she was married two years ago to a man named
NEFTY. When she was discharged from the hospital yesterday she immediately
went in search of her husband and then for the first time learned that he
had been convicted of burglary and is now serving in the penitentiary.
The girl told the police that she was unable to obtain employment now that
she has lost all her hair. Wherever she went she said she was laughed
at. She was made a prisoner and later taken to the Lee avenue court where
she was held for a further hearing. In the meantime she is in the care of
the probationary officer.
BROOKLYN VETERANS HAD NARROW ESCAPE
WASHINGTON, Oct 20-The three hundred veterans of the old Fifth, Tenth and
Fourteenth New York Volunteer regiments, en route to Manassas battlefield
to witness the unveiling of a monument in their honor, are congratulating
themselves to-day on the narrow escape they had last evening as their
special train was drawing into Washington.
It was derailed on a thirty-foot embankment just after emerging from the
Virginia avenue tunnel, but the cars were held from plunging down the
embankment by the side girders of a bridge at that point. No one was
injured. The trip to Manaassas was resumed this morning.
WALKED A MILE FATALLY STABBED
James Morrow Says Mulatto Girl Plunged Daggar Into Him
NEVER SAW HER BEFORE
Detectives Unable to Locate His Assailant
Shortly before daylight this morning a well-dressed man staggered into the
Eastern District Hospital and told Dr. SNYDER that he had a stab wound in
the abdomen. The man described himself as James MORROW, 25 years old of
251 Clifton place. He refused to tell how he received the stab wound and
pleaded with the doctors not to question him to tell how he was stabbed. He
finally consented, and in a semi-conscious condition he said he had been
visiting friends at Marcy avenue and Lorimer street last night and remained
with them until early this morning. He went to the corner of Lorimer
street and Marcy avenue to wait for a Marcy avenue car.
Whilewaiting a pretty young mulatto girl approached Morrow and introduced
herself. She said she was Gracie SMITH 18 years old and that she lived at
172 Lorimer street. Gracie became quite chummy with MORROW and invited him
to accompany her to her home. MORROW refused and ordered the girl away
from him. The girl became angry and according to MORROW, whipped out a
dagger from under her waist and stabbed him twice in the abdomen.
MORROW claims he remained prostrate on the sidewalk for several
minutes. He finally picked himself up and wandered along Marcy avenue and
landed in the Eastern District Hospital. When the doctors heard MORROW'S
story they immediately communicated with the police of the Clymer street
station. Detectives MINNERLY, CONNOLLY and MC GAUGHAN set out in search of
GRACIE but they were unable to locate her.
MORROW'S condition is serious and the doctors at the hospital fear he will
not recover.
How MORROW could have walked from Lorimer street and Marcy avenue to the
Eastern District Hospital which at Bedford avenue and South Third street ,
a distance of a mile, its a mystery to the police and doctors. A general
alarm has been sent out for the SMITH woman and the police are searching
throughout the city for her.
23 October 1906
ITALIAN WOMAN BULLIED INTO WITHDRAWING CHARGE?
Christina PEROOZA , of Naptuna Avenue, today in the Adams Street Court,
withdrew the charge of grand larceny which she had made against Ernest
MARRIONA "satisfaction having been given." Detectives VACAKEY and MEALL,
who had been to a good deal of trouble to locate MARRIONA, were nettled at
the turn affairs had taken. It is believed that friends of MARRIONA
frightened the woman into withdrawing her complaint, which was that
MARRIONA withheld a valuable gold watch belonging to her.
24 October 1906
KNIGHTED DANE IN COURT FOR ASSAULT
With Fist He Resented Insult of Rival German Inventor
Sir George KIRKEGARD, knighted last week by the King of Denmark for his
scientific inventions, who has a palatial residence at 23 Lenox road,
Flatbush and who is rated the foremost Dane in Ameria, was today in the
Centre street police court, Manhattan, on the complaint of Herr Gustav
KOCH, a German of 1 West One hundred and Eleventh street, Manhattan, who
accuse the Danish knight of assaulting him today in front of 514 Pearl street.
Both men are inventors of international repute.
The German inventor accuses Sir George with having stolen one of his
inventions. Carl FISHER-HANSEN, counsel for the Dane, told the magistrate
that his client had been driven to the assault by the complainant who had
hailed him with "Hello humbug, cheat, swindler."
The men almost came to blows on the bridge and KOCH refused to listen to
suggestions that he withdraw the complaint.
Counsel for the Dane then asked for an adjournment to prove by witnesses
that his client was justified in striking KOCH. The case was adjourned
till tomorrow. Sir George being paroled in the custody of his lawyer.
SMALL BOY LOT ON WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
A small boy wandering back and forth over the Williamsburg Bridge early
this morning attracted Policeman NEUSCHAFFER, of the bridge station. The
lad said he was Joseph BELIKOFF, 14 years old. He was unable to give any
address except New York. He was taken to the station house and transferred
to the shelter of the Children's Society.
SEAMAN ADDRIFT ON PLANK FOR 108 HOURS
On board the steamer C. F. TIETGEN, which arrived today from Copenhagen,
was a shipwrecked seaman named HOECK. HOECK was one of the crew of the
schooner Oliver S. Barrett, which sailed from Port Royal on Sept. 9 for New
York. She capsized in a squall Sept 14. HOECK is thought to be the only
survivor. He was picked up at sea by the Danish steamer Texas from New
Orleans for Copenhagen after he had been adrift on a plank for 108
hours. He was in an exhausted condition and has not been in his right mind
since. He was landed at Copenhagen whence he was sent here by the United
States Consul. HOECK is a German. He was very surly and refused to give
any information about his experience.
SCHOOL MA'AM ASSAULTED, OBJECTS, GETS ARRESTED
"I'm a bachelor lady, Judge, a church singer, and have been a teacher in
the public schools all my life," said Miss Frances SWEENEY, of 380 Halsey
street, when se appeared before Magistrate FURLONG, in the Gates avenue
court this morning on a charge of disorderly conduct. Two detectives, one
sergeant and the matron of the Brownsville police station were in the court
to give their testimony.
According to them, Miss SWEENEY entered the Brownsville station and wished
to make a complaint against some Brooklyn Rapid Transit employee at the
Canarsie Depot, whom she alleged had assaulted her, striking her on the arm
and in the face. She was told by Sergeant DULFER that the Canarsie Depot
was not in that police precinct, and he advised her to make her complaint
at the Canarsie station. Miss SWEENEY did not see the necessity of doing
this and so told the Sergeant, adding a few personal remarks about the
party who sat behind the desk. She insisted that the police at that
station do something for her. Finally, going out on the steps of the
police station, she began to revile the police in general. She was asked
by the Sergeant to move away and refusing was arrested by Detectives MC
GOEY and CONLIN.
Miss SWEENEY showed her arm to the court and it was seen that she had
sustained a large contusion on the forearm. She admitted that she had
talked rather hasty but was angry over the apparent neglect on the part of
the police to do anything for her.
Magistrate FURLONG said that whenever a woman entered a police station to
make a complaint she should be treated with respect, but he thought that
she caused an unnecessary disturbance. He dismissed the case and Miss
SWEENEY walked out of the courtroom with her head high in the air.
Miss SWEENEY'S name does not appear in the Public Schools Directory.
AUTO HITS SMALL BOY AND SPEEDS AWAY
Man in Theatre Crowd Bowled Over Refuses to Prefer Charge Against Driver
A big red automobile going at a high rate of speed came through Fulton
street last night just as 8 year old Henry NOEBEL, of 103 Hale avenue, who
was playing tag with several companions, started to cross the street at
Norwood avenue. Several persons yelled to the boy as he ran directly in
front of the oncoming car but he did not hear in time, and the auto hurled
him into the air, his head striking the curb.
Instead of stopping his machine the chauffeur put on more speed and dashed
away. The boy was carried into a drug store unconscious.
Dr. ALBERTS, of the Bradford Street Hospital, found the boy was suffering
from concussion of the brain and it was said at the hospital today that he
had a possible fracture of the skull, though his condition is not
dangerous. The police have no clue to the owner of the auto.
While crossing Bedford avenue at South Eighth street last night just as a
crowd of people were entering Blaney's Theatre E. J. MORRISON, 42 years
old, of 476 Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was knocked down by an automobile
owned and driven by R. A. JONES, of 61 West Seventy-sixth street,
Manhattan. Ambulance Surgeon KIRSCHBAUM of the Eastern District Hospital,
found that MORRISON had sustained a sprain of the left ankle and a cut over
the right eye. He refused to prefer a charge against JONES and went home.
HERO LIST AND DATE OF THEIR FEATS OF BRAVERY
Thirty-one life savers lined up in the Borough President COLER'S office, in
Borough Hall, yesterday afternoon, and each one, besides other honors
conferred, was the recipient of a silver or a bronze medal. These tributes
to bravery were conferred by the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps,
One woman, Miss Elaine GOLDING, the champion girl swimmer of Bath Beach,
alone received a medal.
The ceremonies accompanying the presentations were interesting. Jame R.
HOWE, president of the Life Saving Corps, presided and made a brief
speech. Mr. COLER, then addressed the candidates for medals,
congratulating them for the part each had played in saving lives. He said
that he was glad to see that the association of which Mr. HOWE is the
active head is taking up the work of te4aching the art of swimming. Mr.
COLER commented on some of the more daring of the rescues that ha been made
by those present, for which the medals were presented.
The room was full of spectators who showed much interest in the
ceremonies. At the end resolutions were passed thanking Mr. COLER for the
interest he had taken in the presentations.
Miss GOLDING was given a medal for saving Miss Vern JOHNSON from drowning
July 18, 1905. Miss JOHNSON had been swimming with friends at the foot of
Twenty-second avenue when she became helpless after swimming out a
considerable distance, Miss GOLDING reached and sustained her until help arrived.
Those who were rewarded yesterday saved persons from drowning during the
past two years. The Life Saving Association had many other instances of
the saving of life on record, but only the most meritorious were awarded
medal honors.
The persons to whom medals were presented the place at which each rescue
was made, and the date follows:
Silver Medals-
CARROLL, Chris-East River, June 26, 1904
THORMANN, Theodore-Coney Island, July 17, 1905
DRISCOLL, Hugh-East River, April 11, 1906
REILLY, John-East River, Dec. 8, 1905
MC GRATH, M. J.-East River, Nov. 19, 1905
MARSDEN, Spencer-Narrows, Aug. 16, 1904
SHAW, Donald (Policeman)-East River, Aug. 11, 1905
JOHNSON, John P.-East River, Nov 9, 1905
SWENSON, Charles A.-East River, Nov. 5, 1905
HEALY, Edward F.- East River,Sept. 17, 1905
GOLDING, Elaine-Bath Beach, July 18, 1905
MARION, Sidney-Rockaway, July 18, 1905
BRISTOL, Frank-Coney Island, July 15, 1905
HILL, Cornelius K.-East River, April 8, 1905
MC GRATH, John (Policeman)-East River, July 21, 1905
Bronze Medals-
SCHWENKEWITZ, John-Hell Gate, Aug. 13, 1905
COURTNEY, William-Coney Island, Apr 19, 1906
CAIRNS, John-Prospect Park Lake, Dec. 20, 1905
WHEATON, William J. (Policeman)-New York Bay, July 21, 1905
CARTER, George-East River, Oct 11, 1905
ROACH, Arthur-Coney Island, Sept. 17, 1905
BROWN, Clarence-Hell Gate, Aug. 13, 1905
BRAUM, G. W.-Bath Beach, July 25, 1905
MILLER, James-Narrows, July 21, 1905
NEILL, John O.-East River, July 16, 1905
NEIL, John O.-East River, April 27, 1906
MITCHELL, Charles Jr.- Coney Island, Sept 8, 1905
KNIGHT, Lester B.-Bath Beach, July 15, 1905
RUBENSTEIN-Harry-East River, June 13, 1906
WILEY, William-Jamaica Bay, May 17, 1905
MARRA, Frank-Coney Island Creek, July 24, 1905
BOURKE, John P-New York Bay, June 11, 1905
25 October 1906
GIRL WHO HAD TWO LOVERS IS MISSING
Mrs. Margaret LYNCH, of 75 Fourth avenue, notified the police today that
her 18 year old daughter Catherine has been missing since Monday. She left
the house Monday to go to work. She was seen in a Fulton street department
store on Monday afternoon, and at a theatre on Tuesday. She is described
as 5 feet 2 inches tall, and weights120 pounds. She has blue eyes and a
fair complexion. Her hair is brown. she wore a black skirt and jacket
with a brown hat and white waist. Mrs. LYNCH said today that her daughter
had been keeping company with two young men, and that she may have eloped.
Mrs. LYNCH is almost prostrated.
DOUBLE ELOPEMENT; ONE COUPLE MARRIED
Wiliam CADDOO, who is connected with the Prudential Insurance Company, was
escorting his sweetheart, Miss Maud M. FROST, of 128 Crystal street, to a
party at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. W. APPLETON, 861 Halsey street,
when they met another young couple. All were friends and some on
challenged the rest for a double elopement and marriage.
The challenge was accepted at one and the four set out for the home of the
Rev. Charles L. ALLEN, in Marion street. It was Saturday night and he was
at home.
Neither couple felt inclined to take the initiative, but at length Mr.
CADDOO and Miss FROST agreed to blaze the trail, and the ceremony was
preformed. The solemnity of it and the fear of a good, round scolding from
her mother caused the other young woman to back out.
Weeping, she declared she was afraid to take the step, and thus broke up
the double combination.
The parents of Miss FROST hesitated with their forgiveness but relented
after a time and are now preparing to give the young couple a fine
reception in the hear future.
26 October 1906
Worth a fortune, yet living in an abandoned butcher shop and using the ice
box as a sleeping room for six children! This was the disclosure made in
the Long Island City police court this morning when John VEPREKE, 38 (?)
years sold, and his wife Fannie, 31 years old, were before Magistrate
SMITH, charged with improper guardianship.
The complainant was John LUDUKE, agent for the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Shildren. Some time ago Agent LUDUKE received an anonymous
letter asking the society to investigate the way the VEPREKE family
lived. They occupied an old meat shop at 399 Hunneywell street, Long
Island City. Beside the couple and their six children, Agent LUDUKE found
VEPREKE'S aged parents were also living in the tottering building.
To all outward appearances the family was destitute and seemed to be living
in abject poverty although every member of the household who is able to
turn in a penny is working. The children in the family are: Antonia, 10
years old; Fannie, 9; William, 8; Charles, 5; Otello, 4; and Mary, 2. The
elder of the children either work or go to school, the four younger ones
being cared for by the grandparents while the mother went out washing.
Agent LUDUKE says he discovered that the family were worth at the very
least $50,000. This property consists of improved and unimproved real
estate. How much more the family is worth Agent LUDUKE was unable to learn
but he is satisfied that their possessions will foot up to quite $100,000.
Armed with a warrant Agent LUDUKE , accompanied by Court Officer Frank
FRELINGSDORF, visited the house yesterday afternoon and brought away the
four younger children. Although not suffering from want of food, yet the
little ones Agent LUDUKE says were woefully in need of care. They were
dirty and scantily clothed. Toward evening, when Mrs. CEPREKE came home
and found her children missing, she lost no time in getting to the police
court. Instead of getting her children she was taken before Magistrate
SMITH and paroled until this morning to await the appearance of her
husband, VEPREKE works in DEVOE'S tin shop in Long Island City and it was
not until late evening that a warrant was served on him by Court Officers
FRELINGSDORF and Owen KAVANAGH.
This morning the parents with their brood of six children were before the
magistrate. The family own the butcher shop in which they live. They will
either be compelled to place the building in proper repair or else move
into better quarters. To permit them to do this Magistrate SMITH postponed
the hearing to Monday. Meantime the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children will continue to care for the younger members of the family
until it is satisfied that a proper place has been provided for them.
HEARST MAN EMPTIES A CAR WITH A GUN
Lands in Tombs On Charge Of Trying to Shoot County Detective
Benneditto SCRIBO, 30 years old, a coal and ice dealer, of 124 North Ninth
street, Brooklyn, was held on $500 bail today in the Centre street court,
Manhattan, charged with attempted felonious assault by County Detective
Edward J. REARDON, on a Fourteenth street car, in Manhattan, early today.
Detective REARDON told Magistrate STEINERT that SCRIBO ran amuck on the
car, brandishing a revolver in the face the passengers, who stampeded for
the door. Several women fainted.
"Me Hearsta man. Hoora for de Tammanh Hall!" yelled SCRIBO, who was full of
Fourteenth street booze. The detective made a grab for SCRIBO, who at once
put the muzzle of his gun in the middle of REARDON'S vest. The detective
gave SCRIBO'S wrist a twist and rolled into the street with the
Italian. SCRIBO pleaded guilty in the police court and was sent to the Tombs.
BAKER SWINDLED BY THE OLD CHANGE GAME
Andrew FRIEDLANDER, a baker living at 151 Tompkins avenue, complained to
the Vernon avenue police today that he had been swindled out of $5 by the
old change game last night by a well-dressed young man.
LITTLE CRIPPLE ASKS FOR GRANDPA SHE NEVER SAW
Last Heard of in Greenpoint-A Mystery Even to His Own Daughter
In a hospital at White Plains is a little cripple, 9 years old, who
repeatedly asks its mother, Mrs. Esther SWINBURNE BONIN, this question:
"Have you heard anything about grandpa?" Mrs. BONIN herself, having been
brought up in an orphanage, never knew the man in question. He was last
heard from some fifteen years ago as a longshoreman in Greenpoint. If yet
alive, Robert SWINBURNE is about 65 years old.
Mrs. BONIN'S first recollection is that her mother visited her in the
Amityville Orphans Home when she was a very little girl. Her sister,
Annie, two years her junior, was in the home with her. Annie died in St.
Catharine's Hospital, Brooklyn, in 1886. Esther SWITBURNE left the
Amityville home in 1888 when she was about 14 and earned her own living
until she married Emil BONIN, a carpenter, ten years ago. They now live at
156` Broadway. Their eldest child, Catharine is the little cripple who
wishes to see her grandpa. She is a victim of the dreaded hip
disease. Selina 2 1/2 years and Emma, 8 months are the two other children
who will joy the heart of Robert SWINBURNE if he is found. Esther
SWINBURNE learned her family history through a nun who had been an inmate
of the Amityville home and was a second cousin of Esther SWINBURNE although
the relationship was not known to either child while there.
BOYS SAY THEIR BOSS MADE THEM REGISTER
Two 16 year old boys, Benjamin MOSKOWWITZ and Ely YUSEN, who work in the
stable of Solomon GITZ, 9 Avenue D, Manhattan, were held in $1,000 bail in
the Centre street court today for having registered in the Fifth Election
District of the Sixteenth Assembly District, Manhattan. The boys said that
they were paid $6 a week, $4 of which was kept back for board. They slept
in a hay loft. They claim that they had been employed by their employer to
register under threats of losing their situations.
The young prisoners were arrested by deputies from the Superintendent of
Elections office.
AGED WOMAN BOWLED OVER BY JAMAICA TROLLEY CAR
Mrs. Mary WRIGHT, 60 years old, of Westford, NY who was visiting at the
home of Dr. Melvin DIX, principal of the Bayside Schoool, was struck by a
trolley car yesterday on the Jamaica line of the New York and Quenns County
Railway, while on the way to visit friends in Jamaica but not run over.
David BUSH, the motorman was placed under arrest.
GIRL OF FOURTEEN IS STRANGELY MISSING
Joseph SCHULE, of 293 Marion street, has asked the police to find his
daughter Emily, 14 years, 160 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, light complexion,
brown hair and eyes who wore when she disappeared last Saturday a brown
skirt, blue waist, gray jacket and brown hat.
TWO BOYS OVERCOME BY GAS; ONE IN HOSPITAL
John and Frank SMITH, aged 17 and 16 years respectively, who roomed
together at 213 Wyckoff street, were partially asphyxiated by escaping
illuminating gas this morning while in bed at that address and John had to
be taken to the Long Island College Hospital in an ambulance for treatment.
MANY OFFENDERERS SENTENCED IN SPECIAL SESSIONS
In the Court of Special Sessions today six cases of automobile speeding
were adjourned until Nov. 16 sentence in seven cases was suspended.
On a charge of assault, Nicholas BOOTHS was sent to jail for ten days,
while Charles BARNES and John COOPER got the same penalty for petty
larceny. Oscar CARLSON, 19 years old, was sent to the Reformatory on
Hart's Island for six months and Herman FERESI was sentenced to three
months in the penitentiary for carrying a loaded revolver.
UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AGAIN IN POLICE NET
Ida LAWRENCE, a woman who was once charged with shooting and killing her
husband when they lived in Pearl street and who has since been arrested on
various charges of larceny, was brought into the Adams street station this
afternoon very much under the influence of liquor. She denied emphatically
that she was drunk and when taken to a cell
shrieked so loud that she could be heard a block away. When tried for
shooting her husband she proved that it was accidental. her husband, while
intoxicated, pointed a pistol at her. She pushed back his hand and the
bullet lodged in his mouth, killing him instantly. Since her husband's
death Mrs. LAWRENCE has had a checkered career. She gave her address as
114 Ashland place.
THREE MEN IN BRAWL IN WOMAN'S SALOON
A drunken brawl in a saloon at 1120 Myrtle avenue, owned by Mrs. P.
SHERLOCK, resulted in the arrest of three men who were held at the Vernon
avenue station. Charles BLUM, the bartender, was struck on the head with a
beer glass. The excitement attracted a policeman who arrested Percy CLAYTON
of 123 Willoughby avenue; Louis DIETRICH, of 37 Buschwick avenue and Jacob
MILLER of 221 Madison street. This morning in the Lee avenue court they
were discharged wit ha warning to keep away from saloons.
HALED TO COURT FOR ILLEGAL REGISTRATION
Policeman JOYCE, of the Clymer street station, today arrested Peter
CHIEFFO, 29 years old , of 550 Wythe avenue on a charge of illegal
registration. It is alleged that CHIEFFO registered in the Seventh
election district of the Fourth Assembly District, although he had only
been living in the county for two months. CHIEFFO was held for examination
in the Lee avenue court.
28 October 1906
STABBED TWICE BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW
A quarrel last night between two Italians resulted in Joseph PISANO, one of
the contestants, 24 years old, of 196 Prospect street, being stabbed in the
left breast and the abdomen with a knife, by Vincenzo PALITO, his
brother-in-law, at the latter's home, 143 Hudson avenue. The injured man
was attended by Dr. PETRAID, of 181 Sands street and went to his home. His
assailant escaped.
ATE GROUND GLASS AND LEAPED INTO RIVER
After eating ground glass, Daniel SULLIVAN 26 years old, wanted to make
sure he would be successful in his attempt to end his life, and jumped into
the East River at the foot of East Sixteenth street, Manhattan. He was
rescued by two boatmen and taken to Bellevue Hospital, a
prisoner. SULLIVAN lives at 119 East Forty-seventh street.
30 October 1906
DELIRIOUS INVALID AN UNINTENTIONAL THIEF
Madly delirious from a severe attack of pleuro-pneumonia. George GIRDTS,
28 years old, of 222 Lefferts place, arose from his bed this morning about
4:30 o'clock, dressed himself, and left the house unknown to his
family. He walked through to Fulton street, where the first thing to
attract his attention was the bakery wagon of Wilton H. PERRY standing in
front of the store at 1187 Fulton street. In answer to an insane desire to
take an early morning drive, GIRDTS jumped into the wagon and drove off
like mad. He was stopped and placed under arrest some distance down Fulton
street by Patrolman James HOLLAND, of the Classon avenue station, who saw
that he was in an irresponsible condition.
Mr. PERRY made a charge of grand larceny against GIRDTS in the Myrtle
avenue court this morning but on hearing what the young man's condition was
when he took the horse and wagon, offered to withdraw the
complaint. Magistrate GELSMAR, however decided to hold the defendant in
$1,000 bail for examination. Still delirious, the young man was bailed out
by his father, John Hl, a well-to-do merchant in Wallabout Market and taken
home in a cab.
BULLET KILLED DOG AND LODGED IN "COP'S" FOOT
Patrolman George MYERS of the Fourth avenue station, today shot a vicious
dog which was snapping and snarling in front of 873 Fifty-fourth
street. The bullet went through the animal's head and lodged in the
"cop's" foot. MYERS was taken to the Norwegian Hospital.
SHOT IN SALOON ROW; ASSAILANT ESCAPES
In an altercation today in the saloon of Carlo Ro??, 22 Second avenue, the
proprietor shot Ton? MASINO, 43 years old of 32 Carroll street in the neck,
then he made his escape. MASINO is dangerously wounded.
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SMALL BOY FALLS INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER
Little Frankie SCHREINER, 2 1/2 years old, of 263 Floyd street, tumbled
into a tub of boiling water at his home yesterday and was almost scalded to
death. his mother carried him to the home of Dr. SCHAEFFER at 257 Vernon
avenue, who advised her to all an ambulance. Instead the mother took her
son home and tried to dress his injuries herself. Last night when the
boy's father came home he realized his son's condition and took the lad to
the Vernon avenue station where the police call Dr. HUBER, of the
Cumberland Street Hospital, who took Frankie to the hospital in a critical
condition.
SHE DANCED HORNPIPE ON A POLICEMAN'S HAT
Denying the charges that she was a common drunkard, Mrs. Mary MURTHA, of
989 St. John's place, appeared in the Gates avenue court today and asked
that she be given another chance. Magistrate FURLONG adjourned the case
until Friday. "When I went to arrest this woman," said the court officer,
"she refused to come to court, knocked off my hat and danced a sailor's
hornpipe on it."
Mrs. MURTHA said this was an accident.
CIGARETTE-CRAZED BOY TRIES MURDER
Young DOWD Chokes Mother and Beats Father With Chair
SIX "COPS" TO SUBDUE HIM
Has Been in Flatbush Asylum Twice in Few Months
After a savage attempt to murder his mother had been thwarted, an eighteen
year old boy last night made an attempt to kill his father. He seized a
heavy chair and brought it down on his father's head, rendering him
unconscious. The boy was finally arrested and overpowered by half a dozen
policemen who took him to the Lee avenue station. The boy is James DOWD,
of 4 Nostrand avenue. he is a cigarette fiend and has been in the Flatbush
Asylum twice.
DOWD has caused his parents no end of trouble during the past few
years. On June 3, he acted so strangely he was taken to the Flatbush
Asylum and detained for a month. He was released and again in the latter
part of last month he was taken back and detained for two weeks. Since his
release from the institution. DOWD has gone back to his old habit of
smoking cigarettes, and last night he began to act queer.
After his mother, Mary, had retired for the night, DOWD sneaked into her
room and grabbed her by the throat. The woman was awakened and her cries
startled her husband Michael a leather worker. He grappled with his son
and succeeded in downing him. After DOWD had turned his back to attend to
his wife, his son grabbed a heavy chair and brought it down on his father's
head. The blow stunned DOWD, who reeled and fell to the floor
unconscious. Neighbors who had been awakened by the excitement ran into
the street and called a policeman. The latter tried to arrest young DOWD,
but he put up such a stiff fight it was necessary to call five other
policemen who clubbed the boy into submission and then took him to the Lee
avenue station where he was held on a charge of felonious assault.
An ambulance was called from the Williamsburg Hospital and DR. MC COY, who
responded, found the elder DOWD suffering from a severe scalp wound and
shock. He dressed his injuries and let him in the care of friends.
This morning in the Lee avenue court DOWD was taken before Magistrate
FURLONG and remanded for a further hearing on a charge of felonious
assault. In the meantime his sanity will be inquired into.
1 November 1906
LOST GIRL IS FOUND; ABDUCTION CHARGED
Geraldine De WHITE, the 15-year old girl who disappeared from her home,
50 Dean street, on Oct. 26, was found to-day by Detectives HUGHES and BUSBY,
of Brooklyn headquarters, in a house at 155 West Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan.
She was with Samuel WILDER, who is said to live at 298 Pennsylvania avenue.
The house is kept by Sadie STONE, who is said to be single.
Mrs. BREE, the girl's mother, is on the verge of insanity over her daughter's
disappearance and has threatened to shoot the man who lured her away.
She said she feared the girl had fallen into the hands of cadets off the
East Side. Geraldine was employed in Manhattan, but recently became
infatuated with a stage career, and had often expressed her intention of
joining a theatrical company.
WILDER and the STONE woman were arrested charged with abduction, and will
be brought to this borough for trial.
SCHOOL POLE-VAULTER BREAKS HIS ARM TWICE
Hugh ROGERS, 16 years old, a pupil at Erasmus Hall High School, while pole
vaulting yesterday, fell when he pole broke and had his arm broken in two places.
PILOT LOST HIS ROLL; ACCUSES TWO WOMEN
Helen BATES, 21 years old, and Bessie MURPHY, 23 years old, who said they
lived at 1077 Flushing avenue, were held in $3,000 bail each for examination
on a charge of grand larceny made by Matthew GRANT, a coast pilot, of
37 South street, Manhattan, in the Myrtle avenue court to-day by Magistrate HYLAN.
The two women met GRANT in a Park avenue saloon early this morning, and
evidently sized him up as a cinch. According to the pilot's story,
the BATES girl, while they were drinking in the saloon, stole $80 from him.
It is said the BATES woman escaped from Raymond street jail some time ago
by means of a rope which she made from the sheets on her bed.
MEET AT A WEDDING; MARRIED IN A WEEK
Meeting for the first time at a wedding last Sunday, Benjamin GRIFFENHAGEN,
21 years old, son of Alderman GRIFFENHAGEN, and Miss Einstein KAFFEL decided
since that time that they could not be happy unless they also were married.
They went to the home of the Rev. Morris HARRIS, pastor of the Temple Israel,
at Tenth avenue and Twenty-fifty street, Manhattan, to-day and asked to be
married. Rabbi HARRIS learned who the young man was, and on the pretext that
he wanted to summon witnesses informed the boy's father. When he arrived he
gave his consent and the young couple were married.
Greenpoint-MANY GUESTS AT SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATION
A most enjoyable time was spent at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander SPEERS, 95 Norman avenue, the occasion being the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. A reception was held from
8 o'clock until 10 o'clock, after which the guests went to the dining room,
where a bountiful collation was served. Dancing followed and was kept
up until long after midnight.
Brownsville-WILLIAMSBURG MAN TAKES BROWNSVILLE BRIDE
At Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street,
last Tuesday evening, Miss Etta BECKER, of 35 Amboy street, and
Jacob SCOLMAN, of Williamsburg, were married by Rabbi RABINOWITZ.
Miss G. ?EFFLER was bridesmaid, and Arthur SELINGER best man.
After the couple return from Washington, D.C., where they will spend a
honeymoon of two weeks, they will reside in the Brownsville section.
2 November 1906
In the basement of John W. DOHLEHER's cigar establishment at 228 Union
avenue this morning, a lighted match set fire to a bale of leaf tobacco
which formed part of the proprietor's stock and an extremely smoky fire resulted.
The damage was less than $500.
When the cry of fire was raised through the building, John UNGER, 35 years old,
of 2 Morton street, rushed into the cellar and tried with hands and feet
to extinguish the smouldering tobacco. He did not succeed very well and was
severely burned on the face, neck and arms. Considerable hair was also singed
from his head and he inhaled enough smoke to render him unconscious. He was
found lying on the basement floor by the firemen, and was hurried in an
ambulance to St. Catherine's Hospital. He may not recover.
Bessie NEWMAN, 3 years old, of 243 Moore street, while playing in the kitchen
of her home early this morning, was badly burned about the arms and body by
hot coffee from a pot which she overturned. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon TIETZ, of the Eastern District Hospital.
While playing about a bonfire in front of her home, Annie ALINO, 3 years old,
of 842 Hopkinson avenue, came in contact with the flames and her dress caught
fire. Before the blazing clothing could be torn from the child's body by
neighbors, the little girl was badly burned about the body and legs.
Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN was summoned from St. Mary's Hospital and
attended the child.
While playing around a bonfire in company with a number of other child in a
vacant lot at Sixth avenue and Forty-seventh street, this morning, two-year
old Anna MCCORMICK, of 601 Forty-seventh street, fell into the fire and was
severely burned before she was pulled out and the fire extinguished by an
unknown man who was passing at the time. He carried her to her home and an
ambulance was sent for. Dr. STRATMAN, of the Norwegian Hospital responded,
and seeing that the child was in a critical condition, removed her to the
hospital with all speed. Little hope for her recovery is held out.
During a fire at 334 to 340 Stanton street, Manhattan, this morning, two watchmen,
hemmed in by flames on the fourth floor, were saved by a pneumatic extension
ladder, recently introduced in the Fire Department. Had the old-fashioned
ladder been used the men would have perished. The new ladder was shot
into position like a bullet. A minute after the men were rescued the
roof of the building collapsed. $100,000 damage was done.
A fire broke out at 12:15 this morning on the first floor of the two-story
building at 137 Bay Ridge avenue, occupied by Policeman Thomas O'KEEFE, of the
Fort Hamilton station. The blaze was caused by an overheated stove. Damage $700.00.
The home of Mrs. Katherine NAUBAS, at 548 Lexington avenue, was damaged to the
extent of $500 by fire this morning. The fire started in the kitchen.
WANT OLD BURIAL GROUND FOR PARK
Demanding more public parks for Brooklyn, a host of Brooklynites stormed the
Board of Estimate meeting in the City Hall, to-day. Most of those present
were there to advocate the laying out of a public park bounded by
Knickerbocker avenue, Putnam avenue, Palmetto street and a new street to
form the southwesterly boundary of said park; in other words, on the old
Union Cemetery site.
Jared J. CHAMBERS, president of the Twenty-eighth Ward Taxpayers' Protective
Association, headed the delegation, which represented thirteen
Brooklyn civic bodies.
Mr. CHAMBERS did all the speaking, because when he got through the Mayor said
Mr. CHAMBERS had fully enlightened the Board, Mr. COLER adding that there was
apparently no opposition. Mr. CHAMBERS said in part: "We are here to advocate
a public playground for the Bushwick and Ridgewood section, on the old
Union Cemetery site, in the Twenty-eighth Ward. Our ward is composed mostly
of tenement houses, and many of the parents who occupy them can ill afford
to send their children to the country in the summer, and the time after school
hours and before dark will not permit the child (even if their parents would
allow them) to visit the playgrounds and large parks in other parts of our borough."
"In 1896, notwithstanding our ward, the Twenty-eighth, was the largest in the
old City of Brooklyn, the authorities purchased a small plot of ground, three
and one-half acres, for a park. This park, Irving Square, is one of the
smallest in the borough, and the children have no room in it to play.
In 1897, the first year of the consolidation, the Union Cemetery, right in the
heart of a congested district of the ward, was sold, and the bodies were
removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery. The ground was left in a terrible condition,
and it is worse to-day than ever. This large plot is surrounded by large
tenements, some of them containing eight familes."
"In view of the fact that this congested section, known as the
Bushwick-Ridgewood district, has no park or playground, and that this site
presented an ideal place for a playground, where the children could play,
exercise and having a breathing place, and as this was unimproved property,
we started a movement to secure a public playground on that site. According to
the census of 1900 the ward numbered 77,913, and so rapid has been the growth
that to-day we have a population over 100,000, and still increasing. A large
part of the Twenty-seventh ward and a portion of the Borough of Queens which
borders on the Twenty-eighth ward would be benefited by this playground, as it
would be very close to them."
4 November 1906
PICKED UP AT SEA LASHED TO A LOG
Thomas ANDERSON's Terrible Experience for Sixteen Hours Off Florida Coast
TELLS STORY AT LIVERPOOL
Says 139 Comrades on Houseboat Were Swept to Death
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4 - With the arrival here, Saturday night, of the
Harrison liner Barrister from Galveston, it was learned that one more of
the supposed victims of the terrible tornado which swept Florida on Oct.
18 had been saved. On board the steamer was Thomas ANDERSON, one of the
employees of the Florida East Coast Railroad Company, who was swept out
to sea on a barge during the storm. He was picked up miles off the
Florida coast, after he had endured hardships and sufferings which rival
those of John RUSSELL, who was landed in New York on Oct. 23, by the
steamer El Paso, which picked him up after he had been thirty-six hours
on a frail raft.
ANDERSON clung to a single log for more than sixteen hours before he was
rescued. He was buffeted by the waves a score of times and was on the
verge of giving up in despair and cutting the rope with which he lashed
himself to the log, preferring death at once to the lingering torment of
his awful postion. When picked up the man was so weak that fears were
entertained he would die. He rallied, however, and was in apparent good
shape when he landed here last night.
ANDERSON's story is a tale of the horrors of shipwreck which has seldom
been equalled. He was one of the 140 laborers washed out to sea on a
houseboat which had been anchored off Long Keys. The storm swept down
on the little island near which the houseboat was anchored without
warning. Before the occupants of the boat realized their danger they
were far out on the sea. The shaky craft, which had never been intended
for anything was but housing the men in quiet waters, did not long
withstand the attacks of the mountainous waves. It soon went to pieces.
ANDERSON was able to pick out a good-sized log to which he lashed
himself. When the frail houseboat finally collapsed the log kept him afloat.
For sixteen hours he was lashed to the log and during every moment of
that time he faced death. He was without food, or water and there
seemed scant hope of rescue. On the day following the wreck of the
houseboat, the Barrister, staggering through the sea, sighted the log
with its human burden. The captain had encountered numerous pieces of
wreckage, and believing it possible that some one might be afloat on
some of the drifting logs had kept a careful lookout. Noting the
peculiar "bump" on a particular log while it was still far off the
steamer's course was altered to pass near enough to give a good view.
ANDERSON had barely enough strength to wave his hand as a signal of his
distress. At great risk a boat was put out and he was pulled aboard the
Barrister.
ANDERSON is confident that practically all his comrades on the houseboat
were lost in the wreck, as he saw scores of them drowned before his eyes.
THREE NEAR DEATH AT GRADE CROSSING
Three persons narrowly escaped death last night when the wagon to which
they were riding was demolished by a B.R.T. train at the Fresh Pond road
crossing, Queens. The horse was killed and the occupants of the wagon
were thrown out of the path of the swiftly moving train.
August FISHER, 42 years old, who lives in Evergreen, was driving with
Charles KOSSLER, 18 years old, and 4-year old Leo KESSLER.*
Dr. HULTZHEIM, who was summoned, dressed the KESSLER boy's wounds and
they were sent home. FISHER was removed to the German Hospital
seriously injured.
*articles lists the names as KOSSLER and KESSLER.
BROTHER STABS WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND
Passing down Twentieth street late last night, Policeman James FARLEY
heard excited cries and yells, and running in the direction of the noise
found a lot of Italians near the house of Tony MORRELLO, at 192
Twentieth street. Going into the house FARLEY found MORRELLO, and his
wife Marie lying on the floor of a room suffering from several stab
wounds. The woman had been slashed across the face a number of times
and was partly unconscious when the policeman arrived.
He summoned an ambulance from the Seney Hospital, and Dr. Hutchison,
responding, sewed up the wounds and the injured. In the meantime,
FARLEY arrested Leo MARAGO, 25 years old, who lives next door, a brother
of the woman. MORELLO and his wife identified MARAGO as being their
assailant, but they refused to make a charge against him. The police,
however, decided to hold MARAGO on a charge of felonious assault. As he
was being taken away, the woman became hysterical, yelled at the top of
her voice and tried to take the prisoner away from his keepers. It took
six patrolmen to subdue her.
OLD MILL NOTES
Joseph WILEY, of this place, was awarded a medal by the United States
Volunteer Live Saving Corps for saving a man from drowning in Jamaica
Bay at the risk of his life in August, 1905. These awards are made
annually after a rigid examination. Joe is displaying his medal with pride.
TUGBOAT CAPTAIN RESCUED FROM BAY
Capt. Thomas HANNA, of the tugboat Maurice, lying at the foot of Bay
Ridge avenue, fell from the ???? last night. James MAHONEY and Olaf
GUNNELDON, employed on the lighter Corcoran, rescued Capt. HANNA with
great difficulty, and it required nearly half an hour to revive him.
5 November 1906
SEIGLE-LUSTER NUPTIALS AT AMERICAN STAR HALL
Miss Fanny LUSTER, of 121 Snediker avenue, and Charles SEIGLE, of 1832
Pitkin avenue, were married last night, by Rabbi GOODMAN, of the Chester
Street Synagogue, at American Star Hall. The bride was attended by her
sister, Miss Etta LUSTER, and Abraham COHEN was best man. After a short
honeymoon in Boston the couple will reside in Brownsville. The
ceremony, which was followed by a reception, was attended by more than
five hundred.
ITALIAN GIRL SHOT BY HER JEALOUS SWEETHEART
Yesterday afternoon during an altercation Grace Omono REVEGIO, 36 years
old, of 92 West Sixteenth street, was shot in the left arm by her
jealous sweetheart, Gaspinio PANERELLO, 35 years old, of 285 W. Sixteenth stt.
The girl fell screaming to the floor and in the excitement PANERELLO escaped.
The reserves from the Coney Island police station were summoned and
searched the Italian colony, but failed to find their man.
Ambulance Surgeon McQUERRY, of the Kings County Hospital, attend Miss
REVEGIO, and she was left at her home.
MAN'S LIFE SAVED BY AMPUTATING HIS ARM
The recovery of Joseph CLEFF, 23 years old, of 49 Tenth street, Long
Island City, who was the subject of an unusual operation in St. John's
Hospital in that city, Saturday, is looked for. He had his left arm
amputated above the elbow and was conscious throughout the entire
operation. Cocaine was used instead of ether which took the operation
out of the ordinary.
CLEFF was one of the men who was burned by the explosion of a tank of
grease in a factory on Tenth street, Long Island City. In his endeavor
to escape from boiling water that flooded the floor and the scalding
steam he broke his way out of a window. In doing so he ripped the flesh
of his left arm open to the bone fro the wrist to the elbow. Then he
started on a run to St. John's Hospital, several block away, but fell
exhausted in the street and was picked up by an ambulance.
EIGHT INTOXICATION CASES AT CONEY
Eight persons, five of them women, were in the Coney Island court this
morning, charged with being intoxicated. Most of them were dismissed.
Annie BURKE, 28 years old, and Joseph ROSE, 60 years old, both of
Eleventh avenue, and Twenty-six street, were fined $10. Joseph LYNCH,
30 years old, of 165 Bay Thirty-first street and William WILSON, of 144
McKibben street, were found guilty of being drunk and disorderly, and
sentence was suspended.
REPORTS HER SISTER, A FACTORY GIRL, IS MISSING
Mrs. Annetta SHARP reported to the police at the Fourth Avenue Station
this morning that her sister, Katie L. THOMPSON, 16 years old, of 355
Fifty-eighth street, has been missing since last Saturday morning. She
left home at that time to go to a candy factory in Twenty-seventh
street, between Second and Third avenue, where she worked, and failed to
return home.
MADMAN TRIES TO LEAP FROM BRIDGE
Poised on Rail of Williamsburg Span When "Cop" Drags Him to Safety.
HORRIFIED CROWD LOOKS ON
Insane Youth Fights Rescuer and is Sent to Asylum.
The terrifying antics of a madman, who perched himself on the iron
railing of the Williamsburg Bridge, seventy-five feet above the sidewalk
and prepared to leap to his death caused an awe-stricken crowd to stand
spellbound under the bridge this forenoon. A mighty shout arose when a
bluecoat was seen to rush along the roadway of the bridge and clutch the
coattails of the would-be suicide just as he was poised for the spring.
The officer yanked the luncatic to the roadway, but could not subdue him
until he had been assisted by several other "cops."
Samuel STROSKY was the name given by the man when he was taken before
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court. He gave his age as 21,
his occupation as that of a tailor and his address, 217 South Third
street. He was committed to the Kings County Hospital to be examined as
to his sanity.
Attention was first attracted to the demented man shortly before noon
to-day as he walked along the footpath of the bridge, just over Berry
street. He was waving his arms wildly and shouting incoherently.
Suddenly he leaped over the railing onto the trolley car roadway. He
ran alongside a car loaded with passengers and essayed to board it.
This was what attracted the attention of Policeman O'BRIEN, of the
Williamsburg station, and he ran after the man.
He was not a moment too soon in getting close to STROSKY, for just as he
ran up the latter had crossed over the roadway and was climbing the
railing. The crowd which had gathered below shouted a warning and
several women averted their eyes from the horrible sight that was
promised. But the "cop" was in time, and grasped the tail of STROSKY's
coat. Luckily the goods were new and held. The officer had to fight
with STROSKY, who was possessed of a madman's strength, and three or
four other officers were called into requisition to subdue him.
Ambulance Surgeon TIETZE pronounced the man insane and he was dragged,
kicking and shouting, to the Lee avenue court, where Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM committed him to the insane ward in the Kings County Hospital.
WEALTHY BREWER RESCUES A GIRL
Locked Along in Home by Mother, She Plays With Matches
SETS HER BED ON FIRE
Rescuers Have to Break in Door to Save Her.
Six-year old Eva WAGNER, daughter of Mrs. Anna WAGNER, is dying in the
Bushwick Hospital as a result of terrible burns she received this
morning while playing with matches in her home, 346 Pulaski street.
Julius SCHARMANN, the wealthy proprietor of a brewery across the street
from the little girl's home, was one of the first to discover the blaze
and rushed across the street to her rescue. He broke down the door to
the apartment and dragged the child from her cot. He was also burned.
Mrs. WAGNER left her home this morning to make some purchases at the
corner grocery, leaving little Eva in bed. She hadn't been gone long
before the girl got hold of some matches and had set fire to her bed. A
passing letter carrier, Louis MEANY, attached to Station A, who was
delivering mail in the house next door, was startled to see a woman
rushing from the apartment in which the WAGNER's live, shouting "Fire!"
At the same time, Mr. SCHARMANN became aware of the blaze across the
street. He and MEANY rushed up the stairs, and breaking in the door,
were just in time to snatch the golden-haired girl from her fiery couch.
Both were burned about the face and hands. A call had been sent in to
the Bushwick Hospital, and when the surgeon arrived he said that the
little girl had been burned so severely that she may die. The mother
was distracted.
INTERFERED WITH QUARREL AND GOT WORST OF IT.
Thomas McGARRY, 42 years old, of 185 Hopkins street, was held for
examination in the Lee Avenue Court today on a charge of having
assaulted Henry KALKUS, a neighbor, with a heavy piece of pipe.
According to witnesses McGARRY was quarreling with his wife when KALKUS
asked him to stop shouting. This caused the two men to get into an
altercation and resulted in McGARRY seizing the piece of pipe and
striking KALKUS over the head with it. KALKUS' skull was fractured. He
is in the Williamsburg Hospital in a critical condition.
FIRE DRIVES TENANTS OUT IN NIGHT DRESS
The tenants of the four story double brick apartment house at 530
Nostrand avenue were thrown into a panic shortly before 3 o'clock this
morning by a fire which started in some unknown manner in the apartments
occupied by George PARKER, a dentist on the second floor front.
The blaze was discovered by Sergeant George E. HARRINGTON, of the Gates
avenue police station, who was passing at the time, and who, after
turning in an alarm, aroused the sleeping tenants, all of whom were
assisted safely out of the burning building.
With the arrival of the Fire Department the flames were quickly gotten
under control and extinguished with a total damage of about $5,000,
nearly all of which is covered by insurance.
The individual losses on furniture and personal effects is as follows:
James BUTLER, grocer, first floor, $500; George PARKER, second floor
front, $150; Mrs. E. S. BIEBINS, second floor rear, $150; H.T. HILDRETH,
third floor front, $500; John MARELL, third floor rear, $100; E.A.
MARELL, fourth floor front, $300, and Otto DAHLBERG, fourth floor rear,$150.
The building was damaged to the extent of $2,500.
6 November 1906
ELECTION ARRESTS
Arrests by the police for alleged illegal voting and illegal
registration on complaint of watchers and also on warrants already sworn
out were quite frequent during the day. The following men were arrested
by the police stationed at the polls:
Bernard KROGER, 30 years old, of 56 Concord street, in the Eleventh
Election District of the Second Assembly District.
Henry ROLOF, 26, 114 Ashland place, Sixth Election District, Tenth
Assembly District.
James O'BRIEN, 48, of 423 Thirty-ninth street, First Election District,
Ninth Assembly District.
Alfred RUGIN, 32, of 113 Franklin street, Nineteenth Election District,
Fourteenth Assembly District.
William CONDON, 40, of 100 Mangin street, Twelfth Election District,
Thirteenth Assembly District.
Giuseppe GUARTELLA, 41, of 270 Scholes street, Eighteenth Election
District, Thirteenth Assembly District.
Isaac KOLISKI, 33, of 46 Varet street, Eleventh Election District,
Twenty-first Assembly District.
George ALLY, 27, of 5611 Third avenue, Eighth Election District, Ninth
Assembly District.
Albert LASSER, 44, of 133 Coffey street, Eighteenth election district,
Third Assembly District.
Thomas POLLOCK, 31, of Hegeman avenue and Union street, Eighteenth
election district, Twenty-second Assembly District.
Morris FRANK, 35, of 373 Sackman street, Eighteenth election district,
Twenty-third Assembly District.
Nathan CROKEL, 47, of 166 Pitkin avenue, Twenty-eighth election
district, Twenty-second Assembly District.
Morris LANG, 41, of 404 DeKalb avenue, Fifth election district, Eleventh
Assembly District.
James ROBERTS, 84, of 231 Gates avenue, Eleventh election district,
Twenty-second Assembly District.
Charles SMITH, 38, of 564 Central avenue, Eighth election district,
First Assembly District.
Walter J. MORTON, 58, of 67 Columbia Heights, Second election district,
First Assembly District.
Michael SULLIVAN, 59, of 3 York street, Second Election District, First
Assembly District.
Cornelius BAVIETT, 53, of 70 Summit street, Twelfth Election District,
Third Assembly District.
Benjamin TOBIAS, 50, of 276 Stockton street, Twelfth Election District,
Sixth Assembly District.
Martin FROKEL, of 2166 Pitkin avenue, arrested and paroled for
examination in Gates avenue court.
Morris FRANK, of 373 Sackman street, arrested and paroled in Gates avenue court.
John F. WELLWOOD, of 439 Enfield street, arrested and discharged in
Gates avenue court.
Isaac KISSEN, of 370 Watkins street, arrested but allowed to go at
station house, as he had not cast his ballot when arrested.
PASSERBY SAVES FALLING MAN FROM INSTANT DEATH
Workmen were hoisting a large iron safe for the purpose of getting it
into the second story of the Liberty Building, 199 Montague street,
yesterday, when a man fell from the top of the safe and was saved from
instant death by alighting on a pedestrian. The falling man came down
head foremost. Both men dropped in a heap on the sidewalk, the man who
acted as a buffer being the most injured, as well as the most
astonished.
There was a brief duet of exclamations and sympathetic onlookers
congratulated the man in overalls, who had escaped a journey to the
Morgue. One real estate dealer with a sense of justice congratulated
the buffer, saying: "It's a mighty good thing for that fellow that you
happened along. If you had been a second sooner or later he would have
been killed."
REVOLVER MISSED FIRE, SO COMPLAINANT LIVES
Christopher SINNOTT, of 66 Hudson avenue, was held by Magistrate GEISMAR
in the Adams street court to-day in $1,000 bail to answer a charge of
felonious assault. Frank FARRELL, of 240 Front street, alleges that
SINNOTT pointed a loaded revolver at him in front of his home and pulled
the trigger. Luckily, the weapon missed fire.
7 November 1906
STRANGE WOMAN GOT THEIR BABY
Took It From Father at "L" Station and Was Lost in Election Crowd
POLICE SEND OUT ALARM
Parents Hope It Was Mistake But Fear Child Was Stolen
The police of the Greater City are looking for a woman in black who
early to-day carried off the 20-month old baby of Joseph BUTTERFASS, of
18? Eldridge street. The parents have the name of the woman and her
Brooklyn address in Twenty-third street, which the woman in black gave
Mrs. BUTTERFASS just before she disappeared with the BUTTERFASS baby at
the foot of the stairway of the Park Place downtown station of the Sixth
avenue elevated road in Manhattan, as the election crowds were making
for their Brooklyn homes from the Tenderloin. It may be a case of
kidnaping, but the parents of the missing baby are hopeful that it is
all a mistake and that the woman in black who took the baby missed them
in the election throng and is to-day looking for the BUTTERFASSES to
claim their child.
Mr. and Mrs. BUTTERFASS had been on a visit to relatives in Manhattan,
and after midnight boarded the Sixth avenue "L" train at the 104th
street station. They say that the woman in black got on the train at
the Fourteenth street station and began noticing the BUTTERFASS baby,
smiling and cooing at it and finally engaging in conversation with the
father and mother.
When the train reached the Park Place station the BUTTERFASSES and the
strange woman got out and started toward Broadway. They had gone less
than a block when Mrs. BUTTERFASS recalled that she had left a package
on the train. Handing the baby to her husband, she ran hurriedly back
to the station. Mr. BUTTERFASS and the woman stood waiting and while
talking the woman gave him what purported to be her card. They talked
and Mrs. BUTTERFASS did not return. Finally Mr. BUTTERFASS became
anxious. The woman volunteered to hold the baby while he went to look
for his wife. Mr. and Mrs. BUTTERFASS returned in a few minutes to find
the baby and the woman gone. They stood for a moment dumbfounded. Mrs.
BUTTERFASS became hysterical and the crowd that was pouring down the
stairs from another train gathered about the couple. Policemen were
called and they searched the crowd for a woman and a baby, but found
none. Mr. BUTTERFASS ran through Park place to see if he could not
catch the woman and the baby on their way to the Brooklyn Bridge, and
when he returned without the child his wife fainted. When Mrs.
BUTTERFASS was revived she went weeping with her husband to the Church
street station and reported the loss of the baby to the police. An
alarm was at once sent out for the missing baby and woman.
SERVANT FINDS BUTLER OVERCOME BY GAS
Mary BROWN, a servant in the employ of Richard L. BREWSTER, of 126
Lefferts place, while passing through the hallway on the third floor
last night, discovered Emile GARGON, the butler, unconscious from
illuminating gas in his room.
RUNAWAY HORSE DASHES INTO BAKESHOP WINDOW
Morris EINBINDER, of 680 Union street, was driving a horse attached to a
butcher's wagon yesterday afternoon, when the animal ran away, turning
the corner of Fourteenth street and Seventh avenue. The maddened equine
dashed into the show window of a bakeshop owned by Mrs. BENNETT, on the
corner of Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue. The horse was badly cut.
Policeman HEPSTEAD, who caught the animal as it was backing out of the
broken window, sent a boy for a veterinary surgeon and the cuts of the
bleeding house were attended to and a bullet saved. The beast was so
badly gashed that the patrolman thought he would have to put it out of
the butcher business.
FLAMES FROM BONFIRE BADLY BURN LITTLE GIRL
Playing around a bonfire yesterday afternoon little Eva LANG, seven
years of age, of 214 Ralph street, got her dress on fire. She is now in
the German Hospital, suffering from severe burns on the body. Her
condition is critical.
8 November 1906
INSANE BARBER EATS GRASS IN TOMPKINS PARK
Children at play in Tompkins Park, at Tompkins and Greene avenues,
noticed a man acting queerly in the park yesterday afternoon. His
actions caused a crowd of children to gather, and when the man went
on all fours and crawled about on the grass the children howled with delight.
After a time the man began pulling handfuls of grass and eating it.
The crowd of children attracted a policeman. He summoned an ambulance
and Ambulance Surgeon PALMER, who responded from St. Mary's Hospital,
said that the man was insane. The doctor learned from the man that his
name was Joseph NARILLO, and that he lived at 708 DeKalb avenue. He was
removed home and there it was learned that NARILLO was a barber, 38 years old,
and that he had been acting queerly for some time.
STOWAWAY ATTEMPTS TO SWIM ASHORE
Harry BESFAELEN, a stowaway on board the steamer Petersburg from Libau and
Rotterdam, jumped overboard and attempted to swim ashore this morning.
The alarm was given, a boat lowered, but the man was picked up by a rowboard
from the Quarantine station and transferred to the steamer's boat.
BESFAELEN was discovered after leaving Rotterdam, where it is thought
he stole on board. He was without funds.
9 November 1906
South Brooklyn-WALKED TO BROOKLYN FROM KINGS PARK ASYLUM
The police of the Fifth avenue station had a lively time yesterday
afternoon with an insane man who, it is said, escape on Wednesday from
the Kings Park Insane Asylum. He was captured near his home on Ninth
avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets by Roundsman BRADLEY
and three patrolmen and taken to the Fifth avenue station and held
waiting the arrival of the officials of the asylum. The man told the
police that after making his escape he walked the entire distance to Brooklyn.
South Brooklyn-MAN FALLS INTO SHIP'S HOLD AND BREAKS SKULL
Frank DUNN, 28 years old, of 76 West Sixteenth street, Coney Island, is in
the Long Island College Hospital, suffering from a compound fracture at the
base of the skull. He will probably die.
DUNN, who was employed on the steamship Berwind, at Pier 35, Atlantic Dock,
was crossing the gangplank when he fell into the hold of the ship. When
taken out he was unconscious and was removed in the ambulance by Dr. CROANE.
South Brooklyn-JOHN SMITH STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY IN STREET
While walking along Fifth avenue last night, John SMITH, 46 years old,
of 445 Third avenue, was taken suddenly ill and removed to Seney Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon HOWELL, suffering from apoplexy.
Brownsville-WOMAN PUTS HER HEAD THROUGH A CAR WINDOW
While Mrs. E. COHEN, of 1497 Gates avenue, was standing in a car of the
Ralph avenue line yesterday afternoon, at Sutter and Rockaway avenues,
the car gave a sudden start, causing her to lose her balance. She fell,
her head going through one of the windows. Ambulance Surgeon ALBERS,
of the Bradford Street Hospital, was called and pronounced her suffering
with concussion of the brain and a severe scalp wound. She refused to
be removed to the hospital, so he removed her to the home of her son,
Harry, who is better known as Kid GRIFFO, at 149 Sackman street.
LONG MISSING FLUSHING MAN FOUND IN NEWARK
Cared for at YMCA - Mind a Blank from Time He Collected Debt
Word has been received in Flushing that Wilfred L. JONES, who has
been missing from his home there for the past four weeks, is in Newark,
NJ under the care of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city.
He was picked up there by a member of the association two or three days
after his disappearance from home and as he appeared to be in a dazed condition,
was taken to the headquarters. Mr. JONES is a member of the association
and had his membership card with him, so that additional interest
was taken in his case.
Mr. JONES is about 35 years old, and is a member of the real estate
firm of JONES & MAURER, whose office is in Amity street, Flushing.
He is unmarried, and makes his home with his aunt, who lives on Boerum avenue.
Four weeks ago he went to Manhattan on a business trip. He collected
$1,000 from a client, the money belonging to him and not to the firm,
and what he did after that is a mystery to himself and his friends.
When found in Newark he still had the money he had collected and it
was evident that no attempt had been made to rob him. Mr. JONES,
according to the report received from Newark, was unable to tell how
he came to be in Newark. He was he remembered collecting the money in
New York, but after that his mind was a blank.
TUMBLED INTO HOLD AND BROKE TWO RIBS
Salvator TARALINA, 29 years old, of 64 President street, while at
work this morning on the steamship Theslir, of the Lamport and Holt
line, at Pier 9, fell from a ladder into the hold of the ship. Two
of his ribs were fractured. He was removed to the
Long Island College Hospital.
ESCAPED LUNATIC IS SENT BACK TO ASYLUM
William WALSH, of 282 Ninth avenue was recommitted to the Kings Park Asylum
today by Magistrate TIGHE in the Butler street court. WALSH escaped
from his cell last night, slid down the water spout to the ground and
made his way to his wife's home in Brooklyn. Mrs. WALSH's sister
informed the police of WALSH's whereabouts and he was arrested.
Although he tried to kill his wife a year ago by strangling her, Mrs. WALSH
pleaded pathetically for her husband in the court today. She said that she
loved him and that he was perfectly sane.
TROLLEY CAR HITS MAN AND BRUISES HIM BADLY
Suffering from serious lacerations of the scalp and painful
bruises about the body, William GERITTY, of 332 Scakett street,
is in Long Island College Hospital. He was taken there late
last night by Ambulance Surgeon CRANE, after having been
knocked down by car No. 473 of the Smith street division
of the Coney Island and Brooklyn line. GERITTY will probably recover.
RELIEVED SCHOONER IN DISTRESS AT SEA
The Hamburg-American steamer Armenia, which arrived today from
Hamburg, brings a distress story from the sea. On
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock a schooner was sighted showing
signals of distress. The steamer was headed that way and brought
to a stop. A boat was launched from the schooner with two men,
who rowed along side and clamborerd to the bridge. They said
their little vessel was the Nova Scotia schooner, M.L. Lewis,
bound for St. Margaret's Bay. She was a coasting craft blown off
her coast and was short of provisions and water. There were five
men on board very weak from hunger and thirst. The Armenia supplied
them with provisions and water for twenty days and gave them some charts.
The Hamburg-American line steamer Pennsylvania, which arrived
today from Hamburg, Boulogne and Plymouth, brought two lions,
several deer and a number of crates of woodcock and other birds.
One child of 5 years, a steerage passenger,
died of contraction of the larynx during the voyage.
Among the passengers were
H.W. MILLER,
Ernst A. KNOBLE,
John B. MEYER and Charles WILSON.
10 November 1906
BRIDE OBJECTS TO OTHER GIRL AND IS DESERTED
Anna SIMPSON, an attractive bride of two months, who is 19 years old,
living at 22 Moffat street, was in the Manhattan avenue court today and
asked Magistrate O'Reilly to have her husband, Philip, who is 20 years old,
arrested for non-support.
Mrs. SIMPSON told the court that they had not been married a month before
her husband began paying attention to another girl. SIMPSON persisted
in his attentions to the other young woman, and told his wife that if
she would consent to his "keeping company" with the other girl, he
would continue to live with her. To this the wife would not consent
and her husband left her early in October.
A warrant was issued for his arrest today.
YOUNG BOY CAGED LIKE WILD BEAST
Inhuman Parents Arrested On Charge of Cruelty Lad's Mind Unhinged
Moving about on all fours and uttering inarticulate cries of joy at his
escape from captivity, the 6-year old son of Peter and Annie
NELSON, of North Hempstead, was rescued yesterday from a horrible
fate by Detectives LAWLOR and BOLTON, of the Flushing police station.
Neighbors had complained that the child had been imprisoned for
months in a corncrib on his father's farm and the two detectives
were sent to investigate. They found the little fellow locked in
the crib, clad only in rags, his hair matted and unkempt, and his
tiny body blue with cold.
When the "cops" entered the crib the child jumped around on all fours,
clawing at the officers' clothes and chattering like a monkey, happy
because he had been released. He was evidently demented. The crib
itself presented a miserable aspect. About the walls of one corner
were nailed strips of carpet and oilcloth to partially shut out the cold
and biting winds. On the floor lay a small, dirty mattress;
while from the roof hung a rope to which the neighbors assert
the boy was frequently tied.
The detectives arrested the parents on the charge of inhuman cruelty, and
they were held on $500 each by Magistrate CONNORTON, of Flushing. They will
be given a hearing on Nov. 16. The child was placed in charge of the
Children's Society of Brooklyn.
Peter NELSON, the boy's father, is considered the wealthiest farmer in Flushing.
His farm alone is valued at $45,000. He is a Dane and has been married
three times. He is now about seventy years old and is considered very
penurious by his neighbors.
11 November 1906
TWO WEDDINGS AT FIRST SWEDISH BAPTIST CHURCH
Wedding bells rang out last evening for two young women members of
the First Swedish Baptist Church, Dean street, near Carlton avenue.
The first couple, Miss Carrie BRANDT and E. Walter JOHNSON,
were married at 7 o'clock. The bride was accompanied by Ella WALQUST
and Ellen BREDEN as bridesmaids. Reghied PETERSON was matron of honor,
and the ushers were Gustav PETERSON,
Eric OLSEN,
Edward BREDEN,
William BRANDT and Ludwig SMITH.
Mildred WALQUST was flower girl.
The bride's gown was of white satin over white chiffon, and she carried a
shower bouquet of orange blossoms.
The bridesmaids were blue gowns and carried bouquets of pink roses.
The matron of honor was dressed in pink silk and carried a bouquet of pink roses.
After the wedding a reception was held at 476 Eleventh street,
the home of the groom's parents. After a trip to Washington and the South,
the couple on their return will reside on the Park slope.
The second wedding, which took place at 9 o'clock, was that of
Selma WALLSTROM and Ernest LINDMARK. The best man was Carl BRUWALL
and the bridesmaid was Esther WALLSTROM. The ushers were Carl USTERLING
and William OLSEN.
The bride's gown was of oyster white silk, and she carried a bouquet of
lillies of the valley.
The bridesmaid's gown was of white satin, and her bouquet was of pink roses.
After the ceremony the bridal party and guests repaired to the hall attached
to the church, where the wedding supper was served.
The pastor of the church, the Rev. O.J. ENGSTRAND, officiated at both ceremonies.
12 November 1906
PULLED STILETTO AND DEMANDED MONEY
Timely Arrival of Policeman Saved Florist from Man He Had Discharged
The timely arrival of Policeman Albert FARRINGTON, of the Clymer street
station, at Bedford avenue and Broadway, last night probably saved
George LASKUS, a well-known florist of 28 Broadway, from being fatally
stabbed by one of his former employees, George AGELOPOULAY, a Greek,
living at 109 Cherry street. The Greek was discharged two weeks ago,
and when he met LASKUS last night at Broadway and Bedford avenue,
AGELOPOULAY, it is claimed, pulled out a stiletto and demanded $3.
While LASKUS was struggling to get possessionof the knife Policeman
FARRINGTON appeared, and AGELOPOULAY took to his heels and ran down
Broadway with the "cop" in close pursuit. As the Greek was about to
run into the ferry-house of the Roosevelt Street Ferry at the foot
of Broadway FARRINGTON grabed him and took him to the Clymer street
station. Thismorning in the Lee avenue court AGELOPOULAY was held
in $300 bail for Special Sessions. The knife was in his hand
when he was arrested.
TWO LARGE WEDDINGS CELEBRATED SUNDAY
Miss Esther SCHWARTZ, of 236 Liberty avenue, and Benjamin WEISER,
of 316 Delancey street, Manhattan, were married last night by Rabbi RABINOVITZ.
The ceremony, which was performed in American Star Hall, was attended by
300 guests. Miss Ross ROSENTHAL was bridesmade and David LEVY was best man.
The couple, after a short honeymoon, will reside with the bride's parents
on Liberty avenue.
Metropolitan Saenger Hall was also the scene for a very pretty wedding
last night when Miss Lena COHEN, of 554 Stone avenue, was married
to Max GOLDMAN, also of the Brownsville section. The hall was
handsomely decorated for the occasion. Rabbi LEVINSTEIN, of the
Sackman street synagogue, officiated before more than 500 guest.
The couple are well known through Brownsville, and after a honeymoon
to be spent in Washington D.C., they will make their home at 199
Belmont avenue, where the bridegroom has furnished an elegant home.
Miss Edna SCHAFEUR was the bridesmaid and Alexander HORWITZ acted as the best man.
BRIDEGROOM SLAIN AT WEDDING FEAST
Police Find Him Dying in Arms of Bride - Guest Mortally Wounded
JEALOUSY THOUGHT MOTIVE
Assassin Escapes After Breaking Up Italian Celebration
Within two hours of the time that he had been married, Augustino SYLVESTRO,
20 years old, of 17 Garfield place, was shot and killed last night.
It was at a time when the merrymaking was at its height that the trouble
occurred, during which SYLVESTRO was stabbed and one of his guests was shot.
There was a long list of guests at the festivities at the bridegroom's house,
following the ceremonies that made SYLVESTRO and Marie ARNESTINO,
the belle of Garfield place, man and wife. It was just about midnight,
after the hours had passed serenely and quietly, and a crowd had
gathered outside SYLVESTRO's home to listen to the singing and see the
dancing figures flit by the windows, that the neighborhood was thrown
into excitement by reports of a number of pistol shots. Men and women
fled from the house in a panic. Someone sent word of the shooting to
Capt. MAUDE, of the Fifth avenue police station. With all the reserves,
Capt. MAUDE hurried to SYLVESTRO's house, which he found in darkness
and apparently deserted. The crowd had scattered from before the premises.
With drawn revolvers the police made their way into the house. After
lighting the gas, they perceived the young bride seated on the floor,
holding her husband in her arms. He had been stabbed in the stomach,
through the arm and through the shoulder. Near them lay Pedro DEPATINO,
554 Carroll street. He had been shot through the chest and again
through the right arm.
The wounded men were hurriedly removed to the Seney Hospital, where
both were at once operated on. Within half an hour, however, SYLVESTRO
had died of his wounds. The doctors stated that DEPATINO cannot recover.
The cause of the fight is shrouded in mystery. Detectives searched all
night for Antonio SYLVESTRO, a brother of the dead man, but they refused
to state whether they thought he had taken a hand in the crime.
Gaetano FERREOLLI, arrested on suspecion of doing the stabbing, was held in
Myrtle avenue court today.
Some of those who were at the nuptials declare that jealously was at the
bottom of the fracas. Earlier in the evening Louis CALISINA, 14 Garfield place,
fought with Louis NOBLE, who lives in the same house, and cut him on the arm
with a razor. It is said that NOBLE was formerly a suitor for Miss ARNESTINO's hand.
It is also said that the fight between NOBLE and CALISINA resulted because
the former attempted to be one of the wedding party, to which he had received
no invitation.
ALARM IN SCHOOL FOR A FORMER PUPIL
Principal RAFFERTY of Public School 19, Keap and South Second streets,
had a notice read in all the classrooms of his school yesterday that
Annie YOUNGFEST, 19 years old, of 457 Keap street, formerly a pupil at
No. 19, has been missing from home since Aug. 20. Six of the missing
girl's brothers and sisters attend the school, and Principal RAFFERTY
had taken a personal interest in the search for her.
The girl's mother is heart-broken over the disappearance of her daughter,
and is in a very serious condition. A few days ago one of Annie's sisters
who was her constant companion when she was at home was sent away to the
Catskills because of her mourning for her sister.
Annie is the daughter of William YOUNGFEST, a wheelwright, and when she
disappeared was employed as a servant in the family of Dr. GALLAGHER at
Lenox road and Flatbush avenue.
FATHER, IN RAGE, BROKE HIS LITTLE GIRL'S NOSE
John FOLEY, who is said to be in the last stages of consumption, but
does not look it, was held for Special Sessions in the Adams street
court today on a charge of assaulting his 12-year old daughter, Harriet.
The girl swore that her father broke her nose with a stick of wood.
14 November 1906
WAR VETERAN RUNS WHEN WIFE USES BROOMSTICK
Joachim BESEN, who says he is a Spanish War veteran and lives at
295 Ellery street, in the Lee avenue court today, accused his wife,
Millie, who lives with friends at 265 Floyd street, of having assaulted
him with a broomstick. BESEN produced a bunch of discharge papers
and proudly told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM that he had fought for his
country and was willing to stand the firing of an enemy, but he was
unable to handle his wife when she had a broomstick.
Mrs. BESEN told the court that her husband was only a tin soldier.
Then she said he never supported her and she had to use a broomstick
on him to keep him away from her home. At this point BESEN agreed
to give his wife $1.50 a week for her support and the case was dismissed.
SHOCK OF ARREST MAKES WOMAN ILL
When Husband Deserted Her She Pawned Goods She Bought on Installment
Deserted by her husband and accused of a crime, Mrs. Jennie MEYERHOEFFER
is lying today in the German Hospital ill from hysteria.
Mrs. MEYERHOEFFER, who is 21 years old, has with her year-old baby, been
boarding at 585 Hart street. Her husband left her some weeks ago. They
were keeping house then. On Oct. 29 she bought a clock, four rugs,
two comfortables and two pairs of lace curtains, all valued at $28.38,
from an installment house and gave a chattel mortgage on the goods.
When her husband deserted her, to keep herself and her child from starvation,
she says she pawned the goods.
The installment house sent the police after her, and Detective-Sergeant GILLAN
found her at 583 Hart Street. When she was accused, she denied her identify,
declaring her name was Jennie TISSELL. Finally she broke down and admitted
she was the woman who bought the goods and pawned them.
When she was taken to the Hamburg avenue station to be locked up,
Mrs. MEYERHOEFFER broke down and became so hysterical that she was removed
to the German Hospital.
Magistrate O'REILEY adjourned the case until Friday, when the doctors say
she may be able to appear in court.
WAFFLES FULL OF DIRT: VENDER IS ARRESTED
Gerard CALABRESE, of 287 Hudson avenue, a waffle vender was in the Myrtle
avenue court today charged with violating the Health law. John PRICE,
of 138 North Oxford street, yesterday afternoon bought some waffles of
CALABRESE. He said they were so full of dirt and dust that he carried
them to Policeman Charles PETO, of the Flushing avenue station, and had
him arrest CALABRESE. The peddler was held in $200 bail for Special Sessions.
TWO BADLY BURNED BY BENZINE EXPLOSION
Mrs. Julia KADISH, of 261 Seventeenth street, attempted to light a fire i
n the kitchen stove about 2 o'clock this afternoon. The heat caused
a bottle of benzine on the kitchen shelf to explode. Mrs. KADISH's
clothing was ignited, and she screamed for help.
Her husband, Louis, who was in the front room, ran to her assistance
and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. He was severly burned
about the face and hands. Mrs. KADISH was badly burned on the
body and arms. An ambulance surgeon was summoned who dressed their
wounds. The fire caused about five hundred dollars damage.
S. Brooklyn-BRAVE FIREMAN GETS CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
Philip C. PREGENZEL, a fireman attached to Engine Company 144, Coney Island,
was called before Fire Commissioner LANTRY yesterday, and in the presence
of Chief CROKER and others of the department complimented for his bravery
in saving two lives at Coney Island. The Commissioner pinned on PREGENZEL's
breast the Congressional medal which had been awarded him by the
Volunteer Life Saving Association.
PREGENZEL, when in swimming at the Island on Aug. 2, 1904, rescued
Mrs. Annie GERAGHTY, of 3017 West Twenty-third street, Coney Island,
from drowning. He nearly lost his own life in so doing. On Aug. 23, 1905,
PREGENZEL rescued ex-Police Capt. Adolph HASSLACHER from the water off Sea Gate.
Brownsville-FAIR SEX IN FLUTTER OVER COMING WEDDING
The fair sex are in a flutter in anticipation of the wedding of
Miss Rebecca RATNER, of 341 Stone avenue, and Abraham SPIGELGASS,
of Bristol street, which will take place Thanksgiving night in the
Ohev Sholom Congregation Synogogue on Thatford avenue, and will be
followed by a reception in Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue
and Watkins street. Mr. SPIGLEGASS is a well known attorney, with
offices on Pitkin avenue, and Miss RATNER is quite prominent in the
social as well as the charity world of Brownsville. She is at
present secretary of Queen Esther Temple of the Rathbone Sisters,
as well as secretary of the Young People's Auxiliary of Brownsville
to the Jewish Hospital of Biden.
*In article name spelt Spigelgass and Spiglegass.
BROADHURST-JUHRING
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1906, at the residence of the bride's parents,
396 Hancock st., Brooklyn, NY,
by Rev. Robert J. KENT, Alice Louise JUHRING,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis JUHRING,
to William Channing BROADHURST, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John T. BROADHURST, of Brooklyn.
15 November 1906
MR. AND MRS. B. CARLOCK DECIDE TO SEPARATE
The separation of Mr. and Mrs. Benton CARLOCK, of
703 Manhattan avenue, became known to-day when Mr. CARLOCK
publicly announced that he would not be responsible for any
debts contracted by his wife. Mr. CARLOCK declared to-day that
attention of some Greenpoint men was responsible for the separation.
Mrs. Ruby CARLOCK, according to Mr. CARLOCK, is now living at
the home of her mother, Mrs. DEVOE, of Herkimer street. Mr. CARLOCK
said that his wife and himself were unable to agree and after
considering the matter decided to break up their home at 703 Manhattan
avenue, which they did last Saturday.
HURT IN STREET FIGHT; MAY LOSE EYESIGHT
James MUCCIO, of 480 Court street, and George BELLATORI, of
459 Court street, fought in the street near their homes last night.
MUCCIO was arrested and BELLATORI was fixed up by an ambulance
surgeon and taken to the Seney Hospital. His eyes were blackened
and bleeding and his face was badly scratched. MUCCIO was in the
Butler street court to-day held for examination. The doctors say
that BELLATORI will probably lose the sight of one or both of his eyes.
16 November 1906
Girl Got Married To Avoid Working
Dreading the thought of work, and arriving at the conclusion that the
only way to avoid it was to marry some thrifty fellow, Anna DEVLIN, a
pretty, demure little miss of 17, of 1410 Sterling place, took the advice
of some of her associates and married Thomas CASEY, 19 years old, of
582 Baltic street, a sporty appearing fellow whom Anna met on the night
of Nov. 5. Whether she will regret her hasty decision is the thing that
is now worrying her parents, and judging by the tears shed by her mother,
Mrs. Jennie DEVLIN, and Anna's little sister, Cora, in the Gates avenue
court this morning, they have grave fears that she will.
Anna and young CASEY were married by the Rev. William NICHOLS, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Cchurch, Bond street and Atlantic avenue, who was
deceived by the young couple and their two witnesses, in regard to Anna's age.
After the marriage ceremony all four left and went to CASEY's home,
where the young married couple were found a week later by Cora DEVLIN,
who had been looking for her missing sister.
When Cora entered the CASEY home she found the house full of company
having an uproarioous time. She learned the pastor's name, and the
following day the Rev. Mr. NICOLS was summoned to court. He swore that
Anna had given her age as 18, as did the witnesses. The mother clearly
proved that her daughter was only 17. Then Terence O'BRIEN, a witness of
the marriage, admitted that he had deceived the pastor.
Mrs. Devlin to-day asked Magistrate FURLONG if something could not be done
so she could have her child back home once more. She said that Anna was not
a bad girl, but that her girl companions had influenced her to do as she did.
The Magistrate placed Anna on probation under the care of Mrs. TEITJEN, and
told CASEY to come back to court on Dec. 24.
Laborer, Hit By Car, Loses His Legs and Dies
While pushing a cart loaded with iron across the car tracks at East New York
avenue and Bristol street, yesterday afternoon, Phillip COHEN, of 1825
Prospect place, was struck by a car of the Ralph avenue line and run over.
The wheels passed over both legs, and when he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon CORWIN, it was found that they both had to be amputated.
COHEN died a few hours later.
Boy Born in Ambulance Hurrying to Hospital
Mrs. Anna TRAPPIN, 24 years old, of 26 Thatford avenue, becaame ill
yesterday afternoon in her home, and Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN, of
St. Mary's Hospital, was called. Upon his arrival the surgeon removed
Mrs.TRAPPIN to the ambulance, after which he instructed the driver to make
haste and go to St. Mary's Dispensary on Dean street. While on the way to
the dispensary a little boy baby was born to Mrs. TRAPPIN. The surgeon
delivered his two patients to the head nurse at the dispensary, and it was
announced last night that the mother and child was getting along nicely.
Qualifies For Job He Has Held Four Years
David BERGER, who recently passed the Civil Service examination for police
interpreter, tendered a dinner to his many riends last night at his home,
15 Sherlock place. Mr. BERGER has acted as interpreter in Magistrate
FURLONG's court for four years, and a number of his friends will be surprised
to hear that he passed the examination only a few days ago. Some of those
present were Magistrate FURLONG, David ROSENBERG, W. CONNOLON,
Joseph CONLY, Floyd ADAMS, Jake LEVY, Jacob BOLOWITZ, Samuel MARATCHUCCK,
Arthur MERORGER, William COLE, Abraham MICHAEELEN and Chas. BOWER.
Woman Hit By A Car And Seriously Hurt
While Mrs. Nasser GLICK, 55 years old, of 47b Rockaway avenue, was crossing
the street yesterday afternoon in front of her home she was knocked down by
a Ralph avenue car. Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN, of St. Mary's Hospital, was
called and he removed her to that institution suffering from a severe
scalp wound and internal injuries.
Factory Workers Head Split Open In Fight
Frank OHLER, of 150 Meserole street and Edward RYAN, of 348 Fifty-third street,
got into an altercation yesterday afternoon in the factory where they are
employed at 30 Boerum place. OHLER struck RYAN on the head with a piece of iron,
opening his scalp.He was arrested, and RYAN had his would dressed by an
ambulance surgeon. He was unable to appear in the Adams street court to-day,
and OHLER was held for the Grand Jury by Magistrate DOOLEY.
Accused By Blind Man Of Withholding Pension
George WILLIAMS, colored, totally blind, was the complainant in the Gates
avenue court to-day against John CORNEL, also colored, of 1784 Atlantic avenue,
with whom WILLIAMS lives and whom he charges with unlawfully retaining $33, part
of his pension fund. WILLIAMS claimed that he had given CORNEL $33 to hold for
him and when he asked for it CORNEL refused to part with the cash.
CORNEL claimed that WILLIAMS was a boarder at his house and that he owed the
money for back board bills. He was held in $100 bail for further examination.
17 November 1906
December Wedding
Cards have been sent out for the wedding of Miss Emmie HAND, of 1559
St. Marks Avenue, and Max SHIEDLE, of Manhattan. The ceremony will be
performed by Rabbi RABINOVITZ, on Sunday evening, Dec. 16, in Metropolitam
Saenger Hall. Miss HAND is a member of several social and charity
organizations of Brownsville. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in
the banquet hall, after which the young couple will depart for a short honeymoon.
Four Men Injured by Collapse of Wall
Report That Many Had Been Killed Drew Big Eastern District Crowd
Four men were injured in a cave-in of a foundation wall at 38 Leonard
street this forenoon. They are Thomas DEMARO, 43 years old, of 221 North
Seventh street, internal injuries, probable fracture of the skull and
contusions about the body; Adam REINGOLD, 28 years old, of 216 East Third
street, Manhattan, cuts on the face, legs and arms, and Tony AHRENS and
Joseph MUNSON, both of 34 Withers street, who sustained painful contusions.
The four laborers were members of a gang of twenty-five working on the
foundation of what is to be a double-decker tenement house, to occupy 36 and
38 Leonard street, corner of Seigel, now being built by Morris DENBROWSKY. A
half dozen of the workingmen were placing props in position against the stone
foundation of a frame building abutting on the lot, for the purpose of
shoring it up until sufficient of the new foundation should be built to act
as an adequate support for the frame building.
Shortly after 11 o'clock, as the men were straining every effort to
prop up the foundation of No. 34, the wall caved in. The men scattered in all
directions, shouting in Italian. Four of them were caught and pinioned under
the stones. They were dragged out after a few moments work.
In less than five minutes a crowd of fully six-hundred men had
assembled from the thick populated Jewish section, and calls were sent in to
the Stagg street station for the reserves, and another to St. Catherine's
Hospital for an ambulance. It was rumored that a building had caved in and
scores of persons hurt.
DEMARO and REINGOLD were taken to the hospital by Dr. FILLMORE. The
crowd was dispersed, orders were issued by the police for the tenants to
vacate the frame house, and the Building Department was notified.
Lid Off; Coal Gas Overcomes Girl
Miss Duda SHESKER, 25 years old, of 677 Knickerbocker avenue,
accidentally left the lid off the kitchen stove last night before retiring.
She was found this morning in an adjoining room overcome by the coal gas
fumes. She was taken to St. Catherine's Hospital, where she is in a serious
condition.
Man Who Wore Gems Punched An Inspector
Henry C. FLOGEL, who had a big roll of bills and wore a diamond scarf
pin and a diamond ring, smilingly paid a $10 fine imposed by Magistrate
GEISMAR to-day in the Adams street court on the admission of disorderly
conduct. Arthur A. HASTINGS, a railroad inspector, employed on the Broadway
Bridge, made a charge of assault against FLOGEL last night, but changed the
accusation to disorderly conduct to-day.
FLOGEL was on a bridge car coming toward Brooklyn at 11 o'clock last
night. His language was such that HASTINGS ordered him off the car. As he
left the car, it is alleged, he struck HASTINGS on the nose with his fist. He
was arrested by Bridge Policeman Luke B. DURYEA.
FLOGEL, who said he lived in First avenue, Manhattan, admitted that
he had been drinking and used bad language.
Blew Dog's Head Off With Old Musket
White Bull on the Bridge Had a Fit and Frightened Walkers
If it had not been for an old army musket, which Patrick FLYNN keeps
in the small shelter near the Manhattan tower of the Brooklyn Bridge for
emergency, several persons might have been seriously injured this morning
when a white bulldog tried to bite every one within reach on the Bridge
promenade.
About 9 o'clockthe "cop" was standing near the Manhattan tower when he
heard a woman scream and looking around saw a crowd of pedestrians huddled
near the railing about a hundred yards away from him. He ran up to see what
was the cause of the disturbance, and what he saw made him draw his
revolver, for lying on the ground was a large white bulldog evidently in a
fit and foaming at the mouth. The first shot FLYNN fired hit the dog in the
ear and evidently brought it to life, for the animal jumped up with a snarl
and made for the officer, who fired again. The shot went wild, and the dog
began to run down the promenade toward Manhattan with the officer in pursuit.
FLYNN kept on firing and when he had exhausted his ammunition thought of his
musket and made for the shelter. Fortunately when the dog reached a spot near
the shelter it had another fit. This gave FLYNN time to secure his gun, and
with one shot he blew the animal's head off.
No one seemed to know where the animal came from. Some say it was seen
coming from Brooklyn.
Rival Barber In Jail As A Thrower
Frank PASSANNANTI, of 734 Flushing avenue, was arrested to-day under
an indictment charging him with having thrown a bomb into the barber shop of
Frank MESSINEO, of 280 Bushwick avenue, at 2 o'clock on the morning of Nov.
4. He was committed to Raymond street jail and will be arraigned Monday
morning.
PASSANNANTI at one time was employed by MESSINEO, but owing to a
disagreement opened a shop of his own at 734 Flushing avenue, and shortly
afterward MESSINEO began to receive threatening letters demanding $1,500 the
writer declaring that a member of the gangg was in jail and they wanted
$5,000 for his defense of which sum $3,500 already had been raised.
Threats of blowing up MESSINEO's shop were made, and on the night of
the explosion the shock was so great that nearly every window in the vicinity
was smashed and two men standing half a block away were knocked to the ground.
Bensonhurst Man Gives Cat Funeral
Henry DREYER, proprietor of a hotel in Bay Thirty-second street,
Bensonhurst, invited his friends to view the body of his "late departed
companion Abbey Dreyer" yesterday.
The expressed surprise, knowing DREYER as a confirmed bachelor. When
they arrived at the hotel they saw no emblem of death on the door nor any
sign of mourning within.
DREYER met them and insisted that his company should eat, drink and be
merry. He then conducted them to the bier of Miss Abbey, an aged Maltese cat,
which had been in the DREYER household seven years. Abbey was laid out in a
tiny white casket which reposed in the middle of the room. At the head of the
casket stood four lighted candles. A silver plate bore the inscription,
"Abbey, at rest."
DREYER and this cat had been inseperable friends. Abbey followed her
master like a dog, and always slept at the foot of his bed. She died
yesterday from poison. Grieved at the death of his four-legged friend, DREYER
determined to give the animal a funeral.
Detective Had Narrow Escape From Death
Morris ELISCHER, who says he lives at 268 Avenue B, was arrested last
night and identified to-day as one of the men who tried to rob a woman in her
home at 140 Henry street, Manhattan, last week. When Detective DUGGAN grabbed
ELISCHER at Fourteenth street and Second avenue, there was a scuffle and
ELISCHER tried to shoot DUGGAN. He pulled the trigger of his revolver twice,
but it missed fire.
Refuses To Support His Mother-In-Law
In the Manhatten avenue court to-day Mrs. Rachel LEVISON had her
husband on a charge of abandonment and non-support, and when LEVISON told his
story to Magistrate O'REILLY the latter sagely remarked: "Yes, yes, the old
story-the deviltry of a mother-in-law."
Mrs. LEVISON, who said that she and her husband were married five
months ago in Toronto, Canada, coming to Brooklyn in September, is a handsome
brunette. LEVISON is a baker. They live in Bushwick avenue, near Grand
street. He is willing to support his wife but objects to supporting her
mother. He was held in $300 bail for further examination on Monday.
Like Pickled Peaches
If one does not happen to have any pickled peaches for the Christmas
dinner she can make so excellent a substitute as to deceive an epicure. Take
a pound and a half of sugar and a half cup of vinegar, and boil them with a
tablespoon of whole cloves tied in a bag and three sticks of cinnamon. When
the sugar is dissolved and the syrup has cooked five minutes, drop in some
large fine apples, peeled, cored, and quartered, only enough to fill the
surface of the syrrup well; cook them until they are transparent, and take
them out on a skimmer. Cook the syrup down till it is thick annd pour it over
them. - Harper's Bazaar
East New Yorkers Want SCHENCK Mansion Saved
Will Urge That Historic Building Be Kept in New Park as Museum
It was evident from the tone expressed at last night's meeting of the
Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade, held in Penn-Fulton Hall, that no more bona
fide landmarks in East New York will be removed without the citizens stirring
up heaven and earth to prevent it. The matter came up when Mr. WESTON called
attention to the fact that Park Commissioner KENNEDY had made a remark to two
members of the board that he considered that no house now standing on the
strip of land the city recently acquired for park purposes, adjoining
Highland Park, was of enough value to render it worth while to keep it in
repair, and so the Commissioner thought the best thing to do was to tear down
all these houses. It happens that one of these houses is the old SCHENCK
mansion, which, Mr. WESTON declared was more than 250 years old, and might be
as old as 300 years. While this house was never occupied by Gen. WASHINGTON,
so far as any positive proof can be had, Mr. WESTON said it had been
established that some of Washington's officers had it for their quarters
there, and after the retreat of the American army from Long Island in the
Revolution, the British and Hessian officers had it for their headquarters.
Mr. WESTON said this mansion was really about the only one of the landmarks
left to East New Yorkk in the march of progress, and on Mr. WESTON's motion a
resolution was unanimously adopted to the effect that this building should be
preserved in this new park, where it could be used as a museum or for other
purposes, as the house itself was in a fairly good state of preservation.
18 November 1906
Last Chance To Save Old SCHENCK Homestead
Park Commissioner KENNEDY has appointed Tuesday, at the Litchfield
Mansion, Prospect Park, as the time and place for a hearing upon the matter
of preserving the old SCHENCK homestead, in Highland Park.
As this property is advertised for sale at public auction on Nov. 28,
it is of the utmost importance to all who have interested themselves in the
matter of saving this quaint old building, which is said to be 300 years old.
A. H. WESTON, known in East New York and adjacent communities as the
"father of Highland Park," has sent out notices of the meeting and East New
Yorkers are urged to either attend the hearing or write Mr. KENNEDY.
Happy Family Reunion in East New York
Monday night at their residence, 187 New Jersey avenue, Mr. and Mrs.
John F. FLYNN celebrated their silver wedding. Many relatives and friends
joined in makin the event a happy one, and an elaborate musical programme
affoeded sufficient entertainment to compel the wishes on the paart of the
guests that the hosts might celebrate the golden anniversary equally well
when it should come around. There were a nu mber of talented musicians in the
party, and they vied with the orchestra in rendering the most praisewworthy
relections.
The house was fancifully , yet tastefully, decorated from top to
bottom. Not the least among the enjoyable features of the evening was the
elaborate supper that was spread. There were, of course, dozens of handsome
gifts. Among those present were Mrs. S. E. TRASK,
Miss Mary E. TRASK,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GREEN,
Mrs. G. N. LENFESTER,
Miss Maud PURTELL,
Miss Annette HARRIGAN,
Alexander PROCTOR,
Robert TRASK,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey COTY,
Mr. MARTIN,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert JACOBS,
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. HEBB,
Miss M. L. HEBB,
Mr. and Mrs. DAVENPORT,
Miss Jessie CHECKLEY,
Bert SMITH,
John FREDLAND,
Mrs. Amy STOKER,
Miss Ruth STOKER,
the Misses Anna, Edna, Dorothy, Alice and Ethel FLYNN,
and John and Arthur FLYNN.
Boy Who Went To Two Schools Has Vanished
Henry WERNER, of 189 Sands street, a pupil at Public School 1, at
Concord and Adams street, is missing from home. A short while ago his father
was surprised to learn that Henry had been attending both day and night
school since the beginning of the school year. At first he was regarded as a
precocious pupil, who seldom studied. He was rated at the head of his class.
Mr. WERNER had no idea that his son was performing double school
duties until he received a notice yesterday that if Henry wished to continue
at the head of his class in night school, he had better review his studies at
the earliest opportunity.
A week ago Peter WALSH, of 148 Nassau street, a chum of the missing
boy, met him on Court street. Henry said he was looking for work. He has been
missing about three weeks.This the second time that he has run away from home.
Boy Accused Of Highway Robbery
Harry NEWMAN, an errand boy, 16 years old, who gave his address as 62
Eldridge street, Manhattan, was arrested yesterday afternoon by local
headquarters' detectives, on complaint of Mamie CASSIDY, of 1050 Fifty-ninth
street, who said he snatched her pocketbook while she was walking on Fulton
street. The pocketbook was thrown away by NEWMAN, it is claimed, while he was
running away from the police. The accused was locked up in the Adams street
station on a charge of highway robbery.
Youths Held For Train Rowdyism
Three Kensington youths were arrested yesterday afternoon, charged
with dissorderly conduct on a Culver line car. They are Joseph URELL, 17
years old, of 420 Avenue E; Langdon GARNER, 17 years old, of 214 Avenue E ,
and Archibald BOYD, 17 years old, of 711 East Third street. They were
arrested on complaint of Stephen FITZGERALD, a guard employed by the B. R. T.
FITZGERALD said the lads boarded his car at Bridge street and
congregated on the rear platform, where, he alleged, they raised a
disturbance, singing, dancing, using profane language, and finally breaking a
window. Their cases will probably be heard before Magistrate TIGHE in the
Butler court to-day.
19 November 1906
Police Search In Vain For Abducted Girl
Two Women and Three Men Charged With Knowledge of Her Whereabouts
For almost two weeks the police of the Hamilton avenue station have
been endeavering to locate Annie GOTTAPLANE, the 17-year-old girl who it is
charged was spirited away from the home of her parents, at 149 Broome street,
Manhattan, and taken to a house of ill repute at 206 Hamilton avenue.
In the Butler street court to-day Jennie GOTTAPLANE, the mother of the
girl, appeared as complainant against two women and three men, whom she
charged with having to do with the girl's abduction. The defendants were
Samuel BOOKMAN, 22 years old, of 227 Rivington street, Manhattan; Freda
SIEGAL, 29 of 36 Stanton street, Manhattan; Mary BATTENELLI, of 206 Hamilton
avenue; Nicholas SAMONA, of the same address, and "Tony" MURI, of 200
Hamilton avenue.
BOOKMAN and the SIEGAL woman were each held in $1,000 bail for
examination, charged with abduction, and the others were held in $200 each,
charged with harboring a minor in a disorderly house.
The girl disappeared from her home Nov.7 and was located at 206
Hamilton avenue on the following Friday night.
When detectives went there the next day she had disappeard again. As
yet they have not found the girl, and they believe she is being held in some
Italian colony until the affair blows over.
Trouble Piles Up For Man Wife Accused
When summoned before Magistrate NAUMER in the Myrtle avenue court this
morning on a complaint of not supporting his wife, William RYAN, 42 years
old, a bartender of 686 Sackett street, became so violent that at the order
of the magistrate it took five court officers to put him in the pen to cool
off. Later, when he had calmed down somewhat, he was brought up again and
held in $1,000 bail for the Special Sessions on a charge of disorderly
conduct and for good measure was also given "$10 or ten days" for
intoxication.
Woman Screams And Sleuths Get Burglar
Christopher CHRISTENSON, 32 years old, of 132 Maryland place,
literally fell into the hands of the police last night and in consequence
was held in $1,500 bail in the Butler street court to-day charged with
attempted burglary.
While Mrs. Alice McGUIRE was sitting home alone in her home at 99
Fifteenth street last night, she heard someone enter the hall by way of the
window from the fire escape. She crept quietly to the door and saw a burglar.
He saw her at the same time and ordered her to be still, but she screamed and
the man fled.
Detectives FENNELL and HUSSEY heard her cries and ran up in time to
see CHRISTENSON on the fire escape. As he dropped they captured him. At the
station house two jimmies, a sheath-knife and twenty-eight pawn tickets were
taken from him.
Lineman Falls Forty Feet From a Pole
While climbing a pole in front of 220 Wyckoff avenue to-day, William
McFADDEN, a New York and New Jersey Telephone Company lineman, fell to the
ground, forty feet. He received a possible fracture of the skull and
concussion on the brain. He was taken to the German Hospital in a critical
condition. He is 26 years old and lives at 49 Albany avenue.
Two Supposed Italian Blackmailers Held
Pasquale CHRISTIANO, 22 years old, of Harrisburg, Pa., and Luigi
MAZZITELLI, 27 years, of 238 Columbia street, were held in $500 bail, on a
charge of blackmail made by Mizabbelli DONATI, of 98 Skillman street, for
examination to-morrow, by Magistrate O'REILLY in the Myrtle avenue court.
They were arrested Saturday night by Capt. REYNOLDS, of the Flushing avenue
station, at Bedford and Flushing avenue, where they threatened to shoot the
complainant if he refused to give them $500, it is claimed.
Mounted "Cop" In Mile Chase For Runaway
A horse attached to a sulkey and owned and driven by Walter BENNETT,
of 258 Conover street, ran away on Ocean Parkway, at Avenue O, yesterday. He
was stopped by Mounted Patrolman John O'BYRNE, of the Coney Island station
after a mile chase. BENNETT was thrown out, but was unhurt.
Claims She Was Thrown In River
Mary O'CONNOR Tells Strange Stories To Physicians In Hospital
Says Assailants Beat Her
Then Denies All and Delclares It Was Accidental
The many different statements by Mary O'CONNOR, the domestic who was
rescued from the East River at the foot of North Eighth street early
yesterday morning, have caused the detectives of the Bedford avenue station
to begin a rigid investigation. The woman's condition in the hospital is
serious. Her entire body is a mass of bruises, both her eyes are blackened
and she has a deep gash in the back of her head. She is unable to tell how
she received there injuries. Thomas SHORTELL, the fireman who rescued the
woman from the dock says he heard no talk on the dock before he saw the woman
in the river.
It was at first thought that the woman had attempted suicide. Fireman
SHORTELL, who is assigned to the fire boat, David A. BOODY, at the foot of
North Eighth street, heard a splash, and when he ran to the dock he saw a
form in the water. SHORTELL threw off his coat and dived into the river. When
he reached the form in the water he discovered that it was the O'CONNOR
woman, and he got hold of her. She struggled with SHORTELL and tried to free
herself, but the fireman succeeded in getting her to the dock. An ambulance
was immediately summoned from the Williamsburg Hospital and Dr. McCOY, who
responded, found that the woman was in a critical condition. She was scantily
clad and suffering from exposure. Dr. McCOY took her to the hospital.
When she was examined at the hospital Miss O'CONNOR's body was found
to be a mass of bruises. She denied she had tried to commit suicide and to
her ramblings told a strange story of how she had left the home of her aunt,
Mrs. James BRODERICK, at 30 DeGraw street, and wandered over to the Eastern
District in search of friends. Abbout midnight she found herself aat Driggs
avenue and North Eleventh street, where she met two men. They volunteered to
take her home, but instead took her to a vacant lot where, she says, she was
brutally treated. This was the last she remembered until she found herself in
the fireman's arms in the East River. She claims she had struggled with
SHORTELL because she at first thought he was one of her assailants who was
trying to bring her back to the vacant lot.
Miss O'CONNOR caused so much excitement in the hospital last night
that she had to be taken from the patiients' ward and put in a private room.
She persisted in yelling for the police to get her assailants. This morning
the woman has quieted down considerably. She denied she had been assaulted.
To a Standaard Union reporter she said she had taken a walk from her aunt's
home in DeGraw street to the Eastern District. She says she walked down
North Eighth street and fell into the river. She denied she was intoxicated
and claims that it was all an accident.
The police are working on the theory that Miss O'CONNOR was assaulted
by a gang of men who threw her into the river in an effort to hide their
crime. Mrs. BRODERICK says the O'CONNOR woman was sick when she left home on
Saturday night.
20 November 1906
Overcome By Gas While Taking Nap
Mrs. Dora A. SISIN, 25 years old, took a nap this morning at the home
of her sister-on-law, Mrs. Marcy TIEN, at 293 Sutter avenue, but forgot to
examine the gas jet. It was slightly open, and when Mrs. TIEN returned, she
found the young woman unconscious. An ambulance was hastily summoned from
Kings County Hospital. Mrs. SISIN was removed to the institution in a serious
condition.
Prisoner Identified as Old and Dangerous Offender
Had Andrew EHRING reckoned with his host, he never would have tried to
force an entrance in the stationery store of Mrs. Mary KAISER, at 161 Wyckoff
avenue, late last night. EHRING prowled around to the rear of the premises,
and, seeing no one about, and the entire place in darkness, he started to
raise the rear window of Mrs. KAISER's store. He had hardly got one foot in
the room before he was seized by the throat by a hand which pulled him
inside. Then a light was turned on and the burglar found that he was
caprtured by the woman whom he meant to rob. She screamed for the police, and
then struggled to hold he captive. She apparently had the better of him, for
his face presented a swollen, cushion-like appearance, and Mrs. KAISER had
not even a scratch to give evidence of a tussle when the prisoner was brought
before Magistrate O'REILLY, in the Manhattan avenue police court to-day.
According to Mrs. KAISER's statement in court, her daughter sat on the
man's legs while she attended to his face, waiting until the arrival of
Patrolman Andrew STABB, of the Hamburg avenue station, who, with some trouble
arrested the man.
In the examination to-day it developed the EHRING is an old offender.
Three years ago he was arrested by Patrolman BUCKHART, whom he stabbed. At
one time, when he escaped from the Raymond street jail, several of the
employes there were implicated in the escape and dismissed.
EHRING said that he was a steamfitter by trade, 27 years old, and
lived at 422 Stanhope street. He was held in $1,000 bail for examination on Friday.
22 November 1906
Officers Board Ship To Arrest SCHMITZ
The steamer Patricia, with Mayor SCHMITZ, of San Francisco, aboard,
arrived in port this afternoon. Officers went down the bay with warrants for
SCHMITZ's arrest. He has been indicted in 'Frisco on bribery charges in
connection with granting of licenses for places where liquor is sold.
Old Timer Taken To Sanitarium
Sad Plight of Descendant of One of the Oldest Families of Brooklyn
Coaxed to Cab by Nephew
Relatives Think Rich Old Man is Insane
The old VAN PELT mansion, situated at the corner of Bay Twenty-first
and Eighty-sixth streets, got an airing for the first time in seven years
to-day. This occurred when the 70 year old man, who occupied it during that
period, was taken to the Bensonhurst Sanitarium.
The man in question, Jacob Lott VAN PELT, was coaxed into a carriage
by his nephew, James VAN PELT and Dr. VOORHEES and taken to the sanitarium.
He was standing outside the Bath Beach Post Office with a score of medals
pinned on the breast of an old vest when the carriage drove up. He had his
morning mail in his hand at the time.
Jacob Lott VAN PELT is a descendant of one of the oldest families in
South Brooklyn. His ancestors, 300 years ago, secured large tracts of land
from the Long Island Indians and practically purchased, among other
properties, the whole of Bath Beach. His mother, who was over ninety years
old at the time of her death, passed away seven years ago. Since that time
old Jacob became careless in his dress and habits and lived the life of a
recluse as far as his home conditions were concerned. He dismissed the
servants and no one was known to have entered the mansion at Bay Twenty-first
and Eighty-sixth street after his mother's dead body was taken out the door.
The eccentric old-timer was known to every resident of Bath Beach
and Bensonhurst. He had an observatory on the roof of the old mansion and
displayed weather signals daily. His predictions were not always absolutely
correct. On each Fourth of July he would parade around the Bath Beach section
with a large American flag in one hand and a Japanese lantern in the other.
He claimed there were only two great nations in the world-America and Japan.
James VAN PELT, the nephew who got the old man into the sanitarium
said that his uncle was run down through "nervous disability and neglect of
his person." He said a commission will be asked for in a few days for the
purpose of determining the mental condition of the eccentric old Bath Beacher.
23 November 1906
Octogenarian Falls and Breaks His Arm
WILLIAM STEINBERG,82 years old, fell downstairs in his home,367 Hooper
street,last night and broke his arm.He was taken to the Eastern District Hospital.
TOM JOHNSON'S SON SECRETLY WED
Through the filing of a marriage certificate yesterday with the Bureau of
Vital Statistics in Tarrytown,NY,by the Rev.CLARKE WRIGHT,a Methodist
clergyman. The marriage of LOFTIN E.JOHNSON,the only son of Mayor
TOM.L.JOHNSON,of Clevland,Ohio to Miss EMMA HAFNER,daughter of one of the
wealthiest residents of West Nutley,NJ,became know to their friends.The
ceremony took place in Tarrytown on Aug 21 last,while the couple were on a
little automobile trip up the Hudson.The minister did not know at the time
who JOHNSON was, but consented to perform the cermony,and his wife and
housekeeper acted as witness.
Cleveland society is mystified at the wedding and at the identity of the bride.
WEDDING ANNOUNCED FOR OPENING OF NEW YEAR
Two weddings are scheduled to take place in the Brownsville Section in
January.On New Years night,Miss LENA RINKIN and SAMUEL CHESTER will be
married at Metropolitan Saerger Hall.The ceremony,for which more than three
hundred invitations have been sent out.
Cards have been sent out announcing the wedding of Miss FRANCIS DORIS to
MORRIS BASS at Apollo Hall,Sunday evening,Jan 6. The ceremony will be
performed by RABBI RABINOVITZ,of the Stone Avenue Synagogue.
24 November 1906
HOMELESS MAN ENTERS WOMAN'S APARTMENT
ANDREW LINDEN,who says he has no home,was arrested shortly before noon today
by officer HOLLAND,on complaint of Miss SVEA ACKERMAN,of 217 Atlantin
avenue,who charged him with unlawfully entering her aparment. When
discovered, LINDEN told the young woman that her father had sent him to get
some clothes he had promise him. Miss ACKERMAN remembered that she found
LINDEN in her apartment on a previous occasion and missed some silverware
after his departure. When searched, nothing was found in LINDEN possession.
PRETTY WIFES PLEA DIDN'T SAVE HUSBAND
When LEON BOCK,22 years old,appeared in the Manhattan court to-day, in answer
to a charge of malicious mischief, preferred by ALBERT DAVIS his pretty wife
came to the court room and weeping,pleaded with the judge to be lenient with
her husband, who,she said, never meant to do any harm. DAVIS,who is a
motorman on a Graham avenue car, said that BOCK started to get off the car
when it was near Broadway.He went to the front platform and DAVIS asked him
to go to the rear of the car.An argument ensued,and BOCK broke one of the
front windows of the car.He was arrested and to-day was held in $200 bail for
Special Sessions.
CHILD FRACTURES SKULL SLIDING ON BALUSTRADE
'' I"m going downstairs,WILLIE. I"m tired of playing.'' Nine-year -old JOHN
HUGHES,an inmate of the Home for Destitute Children,217 Sterling place,
stopped playing at building blocks with his companion on the third floor of
the building this forenoon and left the room.A half hour later a nurse,
passing along the corridor on the main floor,found the boy unconscious on the
flogging,suffering a compound fracture at the base of the skull.
It is believed that the child either fell over the balustrade,or sliding
down,slipped off. An ambulance was summoned from St.John's Hospital and the
boy was attended by ambulance surgeon BECK,who ordered his removal.
A CHURCH WEDDING
The main floor of the Bridge street Memorial First A.M.E. Zion Church, was
well filled last Friday night when the wedding of the daughter of Mr & Mrs.
THOMAS HOBSON, MAUD E.AUGUSTA to JOSEPH S.BRIDGEWATER took place.
Mrs E.HUNKIN was bridesmaid, J.S.BRIDGEWATER acted as bestman.
The bride was given away by RICHARD BRAZIER. The ceremony was performed by
Dr.F.M.JACOBS, assisted by B.B.BAKER,who is in charge of the Wesleyan
Mission,of which the couple are members. The bride was handsomely
gowned.After the ceremony, a reception was held at the residence of Mr
&Mrs.EDWARD WILLIAMS. Among those present were ; ALBERT FRANCIS; JJ.GRIFFIN;
SAMUEL MAYNARD; JAMES FRANCIS; J.A.RICHARDS; JOSEPH PROPHET;
JOSEPH FRANCIS; LEM WARNER; CHARLES JAMES; G.A.HUNKINS;
Miss K.BRIDGEWATER; Mrs.JAMES FRANCIS; Miss NANNIE FULL;
Miss FLAHARTY; JOHN BAILEY; E.M.DOUGLAS; W.A.McINTOSH; P.B.MOODY
Miss G.HADLEY; EDWARD WILLIAMS; Miss JESSIE WILLIAMS; LAURA ADELL
Mrs FLORENCE TAYLOR; Mrs H.L.WILLIAMS; Mrs NARCISSUS HADLEY;
Mr.WEBB; Miss SARAH FIELDS.
At a late hour the bridal couple left amidst showers of rice, for their
temporary home.They will be at home Jan 6 1907,at 200 Johnson street.
'' CONDEMNED'' BY JURY OF HIS PEERS
It is seldom that a prisoner finds himself in pleasant surroundings and
among friends when the jury has refurned the verdict of ''Guilty''. It was in
such a position that HARRY F.TOWIE,formerly of the Boy's High School and
recently appointed principal of the Curttis High School of Staten
Island,found himself last night.He had been charged with being a good fellow
and his friends had found him guilty.
A special term of the ''court'' had been called and convened last night in
the banquet hall of the Lincoln Club. Mr.TOWIE had responded to the
''summons'' served upon him and appeared before 'Judge' THOMAS O.BAKER and an
augmented ''jury'' of more than one hundred of his friends,on the promise of
a dinner.His trail followed.
It was nearing midnight when the 'jury'' returned the verdict, without
leaving their seats,as Foreman WILLIAM McANDREW expressed it, and the
prisoner was given an opportunity to make a final plea.
As he stood before the Judge and started to speak,he was interrupted for a
moment while every one in the 'court room' stood up and sang '' For He's a
Jolly Good Fellow,'' followed by a rousing ''Tiger'' from a number of the
members of his Alma Mater. The prisoner was perceptibly agitated as he saw
that all was lost and that even his friends had condemned him. As many a man
has done before,he pleaded ignorance and said that he was not aware that he
was a ''good fellow''.
He thanked his friends for the compliment they paid him,and after a few
remarks in his own defense,gracefully accepted the verdict.
25 November 1906
MAN TRIPS OVER HOSE AND HURTS HEAD
While running to the stable fire on Prospect place last night. Thomas
CORLISSA,
of 667 Classon avenue,tripped over a hose line lying in the middle of
St.Marks avenue and struck his head on the pavement.He sustained a contused
wound of the forehead, which was dressed by an ambulance surgeon.
BAR ROOM FIGHT MAY END FATALLY
During an altercation last night in a bar room at 534 Court street,between
the bartender,Paul TOLL and Thomas NELSON,a laborer. NELSON was shot in the
chest by TOLL with a .32 calibre revolver. The wounded man was removed to the
Long Island College Hospital by ambulance Surgeon CRANE,who believing the
wound would prove fatal, notified the Coroner.
Detectives LEAVY and McCARTHY arrested TOLL and locked him up on a charge of
felonious assault.
Brownsville-TWO FIRES DAMAGE TO EXTENT OF $1500
Two small fires broke out in Brownsville yesterday afternoon.In the
apartments of Phillip HOFFMAN on the first floor of the three story at 1400
St.Marks avenue, a blaze was discovered by the owner of the building,Mrs.Rose
LEFKOWITZ. The fire which broke out from some unknown cause, damaged the
building and furniture to the extent of $1,000.
Shortly after the fire was discovered in HOFFMAN'S apartments,neighbors
discovered a fire in the cellar of the three-story frame dwelling at 376
Sutter avenue.The building,which is owned and occupied by Benjamin FREEDBERG
was damaged to the extent of $500.
FALLS FROM SCAFFOLD AND BREAKS COLLARBONE
John ROGERS,29 years old,of 325 Forty-eight street,while working on a
scaffold at the gas plant at Ninth avenue and Fifty-fifth street, fell to the
ground and received a factured collarbone,and several ugly scalp wounds.He
was taken to his home by ambulance Surgeon SCOTTMANN,of the Norwegian Hospital.
DRINK, HIS EXCUSE FOR KISSING WOMAN
Thomas SLAY,20 years old,who says he lives at 272 Engert avenue,was a
prisoner in Lee avenue Court today on complaint of Mrs.Mary MENSINGER,of 272
Grand street,who accuses him of having embraced and kissed her in front of
her home last night.SLAY pleaded that he had been drinking heavily and didn't
know what he was doing.He was held for further hearing.
SHOOT GIRL, HER LOVER AND THEN HIMSELF
For passing some remark to her, which is believed to have been an
insult,Antoinette MACLOCE,a pretty daughter of Sunny Italy,19 years old,who
lived at 26 Carmine street, spatted the face of Guiseppe SIGLIA,28 years old,
as a result she was shot to death by the Italian in the clothing factory.The
fiance of the girl attempted to take the revolver from SIGLIA,and was also
shot, after which SIGLIA turned the weapon on himself and sent a bullet into
his head.Both men were removed to St.Vincent's Hospital in serious
condition.The girls body was taken to Elizabeth street station.
26 November 1906
TURPENTINE ON STOVE; PARENTS AND SON BURNED
A can of turpentine exploded yesterday in the home of Meyer MENDELSOHN,151
McKibbin street,and severely burned him,his wife and their son,Samuel
MENDELSOHN had been told to place a can of turpentine in a kettle of boiling
water to disinfect his home. He put the kettle on a red hot stove,and a few
drops of turpentine fell on the stove and quickly blazed up. The flames
spread to the can of turpentine and the explosion followed.MENDELSOHN and his
son were enveloped in fire,and Mrs.MENDELSOHN in her efforts to help
them,burned her hands.
ONE DEAD,NINE HURT IN RUNAWAY TROLLEY
One unidentified man died yesterday in the Bradford Street Hospital in
consequence of injuries sustained on board runaway trolley car 3137, of the
Hamburg avenue line,whose controller box blew out with a blinding flash,
throwing the motorman,William HIRSCHBERG,32 years old,of 162 Belmont
avenue,to the ground,and leaving the car without a controlling hand. The
explosion did not bring the car to a stop, but on the contrary,its speed
became accelerated to such a degree that in an instant it was flying along
the rails in Rockaway avenue,between Atlantic and Dumont avenue,at the rate
of about twenty-five miles an hour.
HIRSCHBERG,the motorman,was burned on both hands and also sustained shock.He
was attended by Dr.ALBERTS,of the Bradford Street Hospital,and sent home. The
man who lost his life as a result of a fracture of the skull and internal
injuries passed away in the Bradford Street Hospital without regaining
consciousness.He was about 32 years old,wore a brown mustache,and was neatly
dressed in dark clothing. A card addressed M.LAVIN,59 Bartlett street,was
found in one of his pockets. The body was removed to the morgue.
-All of the injured who were unable to go home were taken to the Bradford
Street Hospital,their names being as follows;
William ISENBERG,23, of 162 Belmont avenue;contusions of scalp and body.
Freda HAUSER,25, 536 Watkins street;contusions of face,abrasions of arms and shock.
Morris SIEGEL,21,of 349 Osborn street,scalp wounds and shock.
Isaac LEVIN,28,of 107 Thatford avenue, scalp wounds,contusions of legs and arms.
Louis VITA,22, of 260 Dumont avenue,lacerations of hands arm and hips.
-The following injured persons left for home,
Hyinan WIEGELSKI,29,of 25 Osborn street,; contusions of body.
Samuel EPSTEIN,21,of 219 Liberty avenue; contusion of face and hands.
Philip HOCK,20, of 51 Christopher avenue; contusion of face and body .
Anna PRESS,26,of 92 Watkins street, scalp wounds.
THREE NOVEMBER BRIDES HAVE LARGE WEDDING
In the Brownsville section last night three more weddings were solemnized.
At American Star Hall, Miss Mollie COHEN and Louis POPKIN were married. Rabbi
BERNSTEIN, of Manhattan,officiated before more than three hundred relatives
and friends.Miss Louise BUBENSTEIN was bridesmaid,while Harry ELMER was best
man. After a short honeymoon,Mr & Mrs POPKIN will reside at 44 Christopher avenue.
Miss Sarah SHAPIRO and Simon COHEN,were married last night in New Washington
Hall.Two hundred guests witness the ceremony,which was performed by Rabbi
FINKELSTEIN,of the Ohev Sholom Congregation. Miss Bella MILLER and Samuel
MILLER were the bridesmaid and best man. The couple will reside with the
brides parents on Powell street.
Metropolitan Saenger Hall was the scene of a very pretty wedding Saturday
night, when Miss Jennie KAPLAN,and Jacob DORGIN were married by Rabbi
GOLDSTEIN of the Sackman street synagogue. Miss Bella KAPLAN, a sister of the
bride,was bridesmaid,while Abraham KNIGHT was the best man.
OLD JACOB VAN PELT IMPROVING RAPIDLY
First reports that there was a serious turn in the health of Jacob VAN
PELT,70 years old,who is a patient in the Bensonhurst Sanitarium, are said by
his family, Mr VAN PELT is rapidly improving, he will leave the sanitarium
next week.
South Brooklyn-WED'S GIRL HE SAVED FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
Cupid in a bathing suit is the latest appearance of the successful little
god, and Miss Lillian BARTZ,of Gravesend avenue, and Richard HALTZELL,
of 718 East Fourth street, are his latest victims.
It was a romance of the greedy sea, which sought to take Miss BARTZ,who was
saved by HALTZELL, who last night married her in the Dutch Reformed Church.
Last summer Miss BARTZ and a girlfriend, both of them exceedingly fond of
aquaties, were at Brighton Beach in bathing,with a party of friends. Each had
a great reputation as a swimmer and the friends,wishing to see a contest,
began bantering them. HALTZELL was not in the party,but was standing on a
raft about a hundred yards from the shore. Miss BARTZ and the friend
eventually got into a playful argument and a match was at once arranged. The
course was around several life boats and finally the raft,a distance about a
mile in all.
The powerful strokes of the girls weakened as they reached the finish mark,
and before they reached the raft Miss BARTZ'S friend was so exhausted that
she had to be lifted out of the water.
Miss BARTZ,however,seemed to be able to finish the course and no lifeboat
followed her.But when she reached the raft she threw up her hands and
disappeared.HALTZELL leaped instantly, brought her to the surface and carried
her ashore.There he resuscitiated her and their friendship began when she
opened her eyes.
26 November 1906
BROOKLYNITE ARRESTED FOR SETTING FIRE TO HAY
Joseph MILLER,of Brooklyn,after being placed in jail to-day,admitted having
set fire to the hay press of Mrs.Ella HARKER,of Wrightstown, last
night,causing a damage of $500.He attributes the fire to carelessness,in
lighting cigarettes.
WIFE OF BIGAMIST GRANTED DIVORCE
Supreme Court Justice JAYCOX has granted an interlocutory decree of divorce
to Mrs.Jennie D.HAWTHORNE from her husband,Robert W.HAWTHORNE,who was last
week sentenced by Judge ROSALSKY in Manhatttan to a term in Sing Sing on
pleading guilty to a charge of bigamy.Mrs.HAWTHORNE formerly lived in
Elizabeth N.J., but has her present home at 132 Jefferson avenue.She was
married to Mr.HAWTHORNE, May 11,1892,and has one child,Robert
28 November 1906
Wedding Brownsville SPIGELGASS- RATNER WEDDING TO- MORROW
To-morrow night the elite society of Brownsville will turn out for the first
time in some months and attend the wedding of Miss Rebecca RATNER to Abraham
SPIGELGASS. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev.Dr.SEIGLE,in the Ohev
Sholom Congregation Synagogue,on Thatford avenue. A reception will follow in
Metropolitan Saenger Hall. Miss RATNER is a daughter of Louis RATNER,one of
Brownsville most prominent builders.Mr.SPIGELGASS is also of one of
Brownsville early settlers.
BOTH SEEK TO END UNHAPPY MARRIAGE
Romance of GEORGE SCHROTER and His Beautiful Greek Bride Short Lived.
Wedded last June at his sister's home,101 Rugby road,GEORGE SCHROTER,a
wealthy mining engineer,has evidently not found married life ideal.He is now
in Mexico,where he has extensive mining interests,while his bride is in the
city to
contest the divorce proceedings he has brought.
The story of their courtship and brief term of wedlock is romantic.Mrs
SCHROTER
is by birth a member of a noble and prominent Greek family. She was formerly
a great favorite of the Greek court and an intimate companion of the
queen.Her father
is a Judge of the Aeropagus,the highest tribunal in Greece,and she is a
granddaughter of Gen.KOLOCOTRONI,whose portrait hangs in the royal palace in
Athens,as one of ''the twelve great men who regenerated the kingdom and broke
the power of Turkey in the War of Independence,1821-1827.'' Her maiden name
was Sofi PAPASPIRIDI and she was formerly wedded to Count de Rilly, of
France,in 1898.Shortly after the marriage the Count and Countess came to
America,where the latter succeeded in obtaining a divorce.SCHROTER first met
the former Countess at a ball given at the American embassy in the City of
Mexico, and was at once smitten.He followed her across the continent to New
York,and they were wedded last June. *the rest has been cut off,sorry
SAVES MANY LIVES MAY LOSE HIS OWN
John JOHNSON,21 years old,of 1035 Fulton street,who is employed in an
office on the first floor of the building at 994 Fulton street,was working
late last night.Hearing a series of slight explosions,he ran to the cellar
and found a lot of rubbish in flames.
He extinguished the blaze,but not before he was seriously burned about the
face,hands and body.
The house is occupied by six families,and when they learned that there was
a fire in the house they gathered up their effects and made their way to the
street.
A policeman was attracted to the house by the commotion,and on going into
the cellar found JOHNSON unconscious and nearly suffocated by smoke.An
ambulance was summoned from St.John's Hospital and JOHNSON was removed
there.His condition is serious.
The fire did no damage to the house.
30 November 1906
MISS LULU HILLEBRAND WEDS JAMES J.HUNT
A very pretty wedding was solemnized early Wednesday evening in St.Anthony
Church,when Miss Lulu HILLEBRAND, daughter of Mrs.S.HILLEBRAND,was united in
marriage to James J.HUNT. What lent a particularly impressive air to the
occasion was the fact that both of the interested parties are leading lights
in Greenpoint social set,and the number of invitations issued showed the
multitude of friends that the young couple had.
The ceremony was preformed by the Rev.Monsignor O'HARE. Miss Florence DOYLE
acted as maid of honor, and the duties of bestman fell upon Charles YOUNGER.
The bride was dressed in a gown of pure white silk,trimmed with foreign
lace,and she carried a shower bouquet of white roses. Immediately following
the ceremony an adjournment was made to the home of the bride,where a wedding
supper was held,and telegrams of congratulations from many out-of-town
friends poured in throughout the evening.
A wedding trip through the Southern States will be taken.The couple intends
returning in a month to take up their home in Greenpoint,where Mr.HUNT is
engaged in business.
CELEBRATES THANKSGIVING BY GETTING SKULL CRACKED
John JOBER,of 86 North Third street,is in serious condition in the Eastern
District Hospital,where he was removed last night suffering from a probable
fracture of the skull,which he received last night in a saloon brawl at North
Eleventh street and Kent avenue.
Two men describing themselves as Zacherias VALENTINE,and Valentine DUMER,
were arrested,charged with being JOBER'S assailants and were held without
bail in the Lee avenue court to-day to wait the result of their victims injuries.
WOMAN WHO TOOK ACID TO DIE IS SET FREE
Julia HALPRIN,of 103 Duffield street was in the Adams street court yesterday
on a charge of attempted suicide.She told Magistrate TIGHE that she did not
intend to kill herself when she took carbolic acid.He let her go.The young
woman had been despondent over financial difficulties and poor health.
LITTTLE WORSHIPER HORRIBLY BURNED
Ran Into Their Arms, A Mass of Flames
While worshiping before the shrine of the Blessed Virgin on the top floor
of an Italian tenement in Metropolitan avenue this morning, a seven year old
child was horribly burned. Two working girls on the way to their place of
employment saved her from being burned to death.At it is,the little girl is
in serious condition in the Eastern District Hospital.
The little girl is Teresa TARDO,whose parents live at 2 Richardson street.
It has been her custom for some time past to stop at the home of her grandmother,
Mrs.Marie PALMASSO,on the third floor of 359 Metropolitan avenue,and pray
before the image of the Virgin Mary which was in a rear room in Mrs.PALMASSO
home.Teresa came to her grandmothers home this morning and after greeting her
grandmother went into the room where the image is,to pray.
Mrs.PALMASSO left to go on an errand and the little girl knelt down to
pray,while her head was bowed,a candle which is always burning on the image
ignited the little girls dress,and in an instant she was in a mass of
flames.The child ran screaming into the hallway and darted downstairs.On the
first floor she met Mrs.Mary MURACINI,she picked the little girl up and
tried to smother the blaze with her hands.In doing so Mrs.MURACINI'S
hands were badly burned.
Teresa darted out of the door and ran into the arms of two girls,Jennie
GIVANNI,and Nettie CUTRITA,who were on their way to work.The two girls seized the
child in their arms and succeeded in partly smothering the flames.Neighbors
heard the child screams and summoned an Ambulance from the Eastern District
Hospital,Dr.TIETZE,who responded removed Teresa to the hospital.
When Mrs.PALMASSO returned home she became greatly excited and
fainted.Dr.TIETZE was compell to attend her and Mrs.MURACINI, in addition to
caring for the little girl.
1 DECEMBER 1906
Musical Mascot of Ulmer Park Kickers
The violinist who urges on the Gaelic football players at Ulmer Park to
heroic action in their county games in a young player who believes in
originally. He is a Langford boy named Michael J CLARK of 901 Dean
Street, and has been playing the violin since he was five years old. He
avoids such old-timers as "Miss McCloud's Reel" and plays the latest
music, much of it being his own composition. He is a big favorite at Ulmer Park.
Masquerade Hose Party for Mrs. O'CONNELL
A Masquerade house party was given at the house of Mrs. M O'CONNELL, 65
Guernsey Street, Wednesday evening. Dancing singing and games served to
make an enjoyable evening.
J.M. NELLUS, J KELLY, and M DINEEN gave piano and violin solos,
C O'NEIL and Miss R. COLEMAN sang.
At midnight a collation was served. Among those present were
O. COLEARE,
Miss R. COLEMAN,
C. KRENCHER,
Miss H O'NIEL,
G QUIGG,
Miss A. MCLOUGHLIN,
A. HOLMES,
Miss K. O'NIEL,
J THORN,
Miss M COLEMAN,
T O'CONNELL,
Miss M LYDAN,
C O'NIEL,
Miss M SHEEHAN,
W BEET,
Miss Agnes MCLAUGHLIN,
J KEILEY,
Miss S SMITH,
J O'CONNELL,
Miss M WALLA,
J MCNIELUS,
Miss M MCLAUGHLIN,
G MAGUIRE,
Miss V BEARE,
D O'CONNELL,
Miss R WALLA,
M DINEEN,
Miss H MAGUIRE,
Miss K JOYCE,
J CONNOLLY,
Mrs Margaret O'CONNELL,
W O'CONNELL,
E O'NEIL,
Miss K MAGUIRE,
T MCLAUGHLIN,
Miss H MAGUIRE,
J YULE,
Mrs M CONNOLLY,
Mrs M HAYDEN,
Mr and Mrs D SHEEHAN,
Mrs J SCOTT,
K, LEONARD,
Mrs J HUBBARD,
Mrs K MAGUIRE.
Lynch Followers prepare for their annual ball
The regular weekly meeting of the Patrick F LYNCH Democratic Assembly
District was held at it headquarters, Rockaway Avenue and Fulton Street,
Wednesday night. The meeting was largely attend, but adjourned within a
short time. The committee, which consists of
Charles F MCKEON,
Morris WACKTER,
Patrick MCDERMOTT,
Chales SCHWARTZ,
Charles ROGAN,
James POWERS,
Alexander DRESCHER,
Daniel L MCCANN,
Francis H FOLLARD,
Phillip REILLY
William DONEGER, appointed to arrange for the annual
ball of the association at Labor Lyceum on Monday evening, Feb. 4,
reported progress. The committee appointed to arrange for the
entertainment and smoker of the club which takes place on Saturday
evening, Dec 8, reported that all arrangements were completed for the affair.
Mutual Aid Society Elects its officers
The annual election of officers of the Young Ladies' Mutual Aid Society
was held last night in the headquarters of the Brownville Republican
Club, 65 Thatford Avenue.
The staff of officers elected for a term of one year consist of
Miss Celia SEIGMEISTER, President;
Miss Anna WITDORCHIC, vice president;
Miss Jennie GRALLA, recording secretary;
Miss Dora SINGER, financial secretary;
Miss Edna SPELLER, treasurer;
Miss Rose GOLDSTEIN, first trustee;
Miss Rose PIERCE, second trustee,
and Miss Rose KASS, third trustee.
After the election the Arrangement Committee reported that all
arrangement for the annual ball of the society, which takes place on
Saturday evening, Dec 8, at Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pltkin Avenue and
Watkins Street, had been completed.
2 December 1906
Girl Skips After Arrest of Youths
Mrs. George ELLIOTT is considerably worried over the disappearance of
her beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter, Jennie, who has not been seen
for the past three days. Mrs. ELLIOTT asked the police last night to
devoted all their energies to find the girl. Mrs. ELLIOTT's home is at
418 Forty-fourth street, and her daughter is well known in South Brooklyn.
Jennie is well built for a girl of her age and can be readily taken for
18. She has taken part in amateur theatrical on a number of occasions.
It is the fear of Mrs. ELLIOTT that her daughter has been abducted. She
disappeared directly after her mother had caused the arrest of two you
men on the charge of arson. She says she does not have any idea whether
they have anything to do with the girl's disappearance or not, but
hardly had they been locked up at her instance, when her daughter
received a mysterious note and left home.
The young men who figure in the case were held by Magistrate TIGHE in
Butler street court yesterday. They described themselves as John SMYTHE,
19 years old, of 33 Sixty-fifth street, and Peter WALSH, same age, of
507 Fifth avenue. They would be given a hearing on Monday.
Assailant Flees After Shooting Man in the Head
James LOUGHRAN, 51 years old, of 834 (?) East 165th street, the Bronx,
was shot in the forehead last night by an unknown man, who made his escape.
The police believe that the shooting was the outcome of an altercation,
and are making an investigation.
LOUGHRAN is in a serious condition at the Lebanon Hospital.
Narrow Escape for Navy Tug Powhatan
It was learned at the Navy Yard this morning that a fainting pilot at
the wheel of the navy yard tug Powhatan last Saturday night place the
lives of a number of army and navy officers and their wives in jeopardy
by colliding with a heavy railroad car float just off Governors Island.
Aboard the Powhatan with Admiral COGHLAN were:
Mrs. COGHLAN
Major Gen. And Mrs. Frederick Dent GRANT
Lieut.-Col G.P. SCRIVEN
Lieut.-Col H.C. CARBAUGH
Two of Gen Grant's staff
Mrs. SCRIVEN
And several of the Admiral's staff and their wives
The Admiral and his party were on their way home from the army and navy
football game and had boarded the Powhatan at the Pennsylvania Railroad
depot, Jersey City. The tug was in charge of Skipper John HENNESSY. As
the Powhatan neared Governors Island where they were to stop a few
minutes, the Admiral took his friends up into the pilot house "to
initiate them into a few navy pranks"
On looking ahead of them Admiral COGHLAN saw a railroad tug which the
Powhatan seemed to be making for at a lively clip. As he turned to call
HENNESSY's attention to the craft ahead the skipper reeled and fell to
the floor. Admiral COGHLAN grabbed the wheel and succeeded in turning
the tug so that she was only stuck a glancing blow, which smashed a good
sized hole in her side.
The skipper explained afterwards that he had been seized with a fainting
spell when he left the wheel. When questioned about the accident this
morning one of the crew of the Powhatan said with a broad smile:
"Skipper HENNESSY was in a fainting spell all day long last Saturday."
Wife's Lack of Cash Drives Hubby to Suicide
Because his wife came to this country from Austria recently and did no
bring with her $300 that he thought she would have, Phillip KLINE, 29
years old, and Austrian tailor, attempted to commit suicide yesterday by
drinking chloroform liniment in his home at 1046 DeKalb avenue.
Ambulance Surgeon KNOPF, of the Bushwick Hospital, removed KLINE to the
hospital. He is expected to recover.
4 December 1906
Fighter Taken to Hospital After Attempting to Shot His Wife
Drink is Responsible. Match with Young CORBETT may be called off.
"Terrible" Terry MCGOVERN, the fighter, was taken to the Kings County
Hospital this morning, a raving maniac, after he had attempted to shoot
his wife and her father, Joseph KENNY, and had thrown his neighbors in a
panic of fear. MCGOVERN was to have fought Young CORBETT on Jan 6, but
it is doubtful if the match can be pulled off. Liquor and reverses on
the race track are supposed to be responsible for his present condition.
MCGOVERN went to Washington last week to see one of his horses race
at Bennings. The horse lost, the jockey being thrown, and Terry sought
consolation in drink. His wife and her father went to the capital city
yesterday to see what he was doing, and found him leaving a theatre. He
agreed to return to Brooklyn with them after his wife had promised to
"buy him wine"
The party left Washington on the midnight train and Terry mad no
disturbance until they boarded a Fifth avenue train at the Park Row
terminal of the bridge. Then he began to talk incoherently, and when
the party arrived at his home, 205 Eighteenth street, he refuse to enter
the house. Instead he went to the house next door, shouting, "I am
doing penance!" lifted an ash barrel high in the air and spilled the
contents all over himself.
He did this with two other barrels, and then running up the porch
of his home, kicked in the door, ran into the parlor, and kicked out the
windows.
Kenny and Terry's wife tried to pacify him. The fighter demanded a
revolver. They gave him one, after removing the cartridges, and he
chased his wife and her father from room to room, crying that he "wanted
their blood." Word was finally set to the Fifth avenue police station,
and Policeman BARKER hurried around to the house. He found MCGOVERN on
the sidewalk, pointing his revolver at passersby. The whole
neighborhood was in a panic. Women screamed from the windows, and men
cursing just as loudly from the safety of hallways.
Barker led the fighter around the station and Ambulance Surgeon
HOWELL of Seney Hospital, was called. He said MCGOVERN was crazy, and
the pugilist was removed ________________ ward at the Kings County Hospital.
The doctors there said this afternoon that his recovery, if al all,
would be a matter of many weeks.
Blaze in Eastern District power house threatened to tie up big part of
Brooklyn's car service.
The Eastern District came very near having one of the biggest
railroad tie-ups in its history early this morning, when a fire broke
out in the new power house at the foot of Division avenue. For a while
it was feared by the officials in charge of the power house it would be
necessary to stop the huge dynamos, which keep constantly revolving day
and night. Had it been necessary to shut down these dynamos it would
have meant that every trolley car from Greenpoint to the Brooklyn
Bridge, covering the entire eastern section of Brooklyn, would have been
brought to a standstill.
The blaze was discovered shortly after 7 o'clock by an employee.
He was walking among the immense boilers on the first floor when he saw
a blaze on the top of a group of huge boilers. The blaze had originated
from a pile of rubbish, which had been left on the boilers since the new
addition to the power house was completed several months ago. A cry was
raised, and the fire corps attached to the power house responded.
If was soon seen that the volunteer corps of firemen was unable to
cope with the blaze. An alarm was turned in and in a few minutes the
city Fire Department was on the scene. The firemen succeeded in getting
the blaze under control in a short time. In the meantime a line of
Crosstown and Greenpoint cars which go through Kent avenue past the
power house were blocked on both tracks. All the cars were crowded with
men and women on their way to work, and the crowd became restless and
insisted upon getting out of the cars and crowding around the fire. A
call for reserves was sent to the Clymer street station, and a patrol
wagon full of policemen was sent to clear the streets.
All the time the blaze was being fought the huge dynamos were kept
running. Once it was feared it would be necessary to stop them, but the
firemen succeed in extinguishing the blaze.
Pretty Mute Abandoned Asks Husband's Arrest
Miss Nevada Beatrice WALSH, a pretty mute who has been abandoned by
her husband, went to the Adams street court to-day and asked, in
writing, that her recreant spouse be arrested. She carried a baby,
which cooed as Magistrate DOOLEY questioned the woman on paper.
Mrs. WALSH wrote that she was destitute, and has been living with a
friend, a Mrs. GREEN, at 213 Howard avenue. The warrant was granted.
White-Haired Man Pleads in Vain for Woman
Mary HILL, a white-haired woman, who says she lives at 291 Fifth
avenue, was in the Adams street court to-day accused of larceny by Susan
REARDON, store detective, who says she saw her picking up some small
articles in the store. A white-haired man came to court with the woman
and asked that sentence be suspended. Magistrate DOOLEY heard his plea
and then held the woman for Special Sessions.
Aged Man Falls in Street, Breaking Skull
John STATE, 55 years old, of 322 Throop avenue, last night fell in
front of 132 Nostrand avenue, sustaining a lacerated scalp wound and a
possible fracture of the skull. He was taken to the Williamsburg
Hospital by Dr. WESTOVER.
Love of Candy Gets Small Boy into Trouble
Jessie HACSATZ, 13 years old, of 299 Tompkins avenue was captured
by Lloyd LAWTHER, of 412 Gates avenue tampering with an automatic
vending machine in front of LAWTHER's store yesterday afternoon and was
turned over to Patrolman BURNS, of the Gates avenue station; charged
with robbing the machine. The youthful prisoner was brought to the
children's court to-day and arraigned on that charge.
School Janitor Held as Robber
Another South Brooklyn assault with robbery as the motive was
brought to light to-day in Butler street court, when Edward J. HEALY, 24
years old, of 341 Forty-fourth street, was held for examination.
George WAGNER, a night watchman of 615 Forty-sixth street, declared
that while he was coming out of a building in Forty-ninth street,
between Sixth and Seventh avenues, something hit him on the head. He
said that before he began to forget things he saw HEALY swing a piece of
lead pipe. Two other men were with HEALY, he said. When WAGNER woke up
his pockets had been rifled of $32 and a gold watch and chain.
HEALY, who is the janitor of the public school at Sixth avenue and
Fiftieth street, was later arrested.
Horses Responsible for Three Men's Hurts
Three men are in hospitals to-day from injuries received while
handling horses.
Russo ROSCH, of 749 Belmont avenue, while at work in the stable of
Henry HOGAN, of 749 Belmont avenue, last evening was kicked by a
fractious horse and received a facture of the nose and two ribs. He was
taken to Bradford Street Hospital.
William HAY, of the Street Cleaning Department, who lives in 232
Bradford street, while driving along Jamaica avenue yesterday afternoon,
was thrown off and received concussion of the brain. He was also
removed to Bradford Street Hospital.
While harnessing a horse this morning, Nathan GOLDNER, of 141
Belmont avenue, was kicked by the horse in the face. His lower jaw was
fractured. He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital.
5 December 1906
Stealing Baby Carriage Wheels Latest Craze
The pushmobile craze has gotten a firm hold on the younger element of
Greenpoint. A young matron, who does not wish her name divulged, tells
the following story to illustrate the truth of this statement: "A few
days ago," said the young matron, "I was returning from a walk with my
baby. I left the little one in front of the house in the baby carriage,
while I went inside, intending to return immediately and continue the
airing. Household duties occupied me for a longer time than I had
anticipated, and probably fifteen minutes had elapsed before I returned
to the street. On opening the door a strange sight met my eyes. The
baby was sitting in the carriage yelling at the top of her voice and
hanging over the side of the carriage. The wheels were missing. The
young highwaymen had gone with their loot. I summoned a policeman, and
he said that he had received several complaints of a like nature within
that last few weeks, but had been unable to land the culprits, who, he
said, were going into the pushmobile manufacturing business on a
wholesale scale."
The mother bought a new carriage. Now she does not leave it in
front of the house.
Woman Drags Unconscious Man into Police Station
Edward JOYCE, a row-boned athletic looking man, was sent to jail
for five days by Magistrate NAUMER to-day on a charge of intoxication.
He was found unconscious on the sidewalk by a woman last night. She
dragged him to the Fulton street station house, a distance of nearly two
blocks. JOYCE had a slight scalp wound on the back of his head, which
he had sustained by a fall. The woman who brought him to the station
house is unknown.
Three College Point Boys Bring Brides Home
Otto MEYER, John J. FRICK, and Walter VANARDT, of College Point,
have been chums for years. In one thing only they found trouble in
getting along. MEYER's best girl lived in Newardk, FRICK's in
Manhattan, and VANARDT's in Long Island City. Visiting nights they
traveled together form College Point to Long Island City. They met on
the return and went back in company.
Last Sunday evening all three and their sweethearts met in
Manhattan and were married.
MEYER married Miss Julia FRANK,
FRICK, Miss Lizzie SIEBERGER,
VANARDT, Miss Mamie KANE.
The three bridal couples attended a "sacred concert" that evening and
the next day was spent in sight seeing. Yesterday the six landed
home in College Point.
COMACK-FRIED Wedding at American Star Hall
Next Sunday evening, at American Star Hall, another pretty wedding
is scheduled to take place. Miss M. FRIED, of 1831 Prospect place, will
be married to Louis COMACK, a well-known resident of East New York.
More than three hundred invitations have been sent out for the ceremony,
which will be performed by Rabbi GOODMAN, of Manhattan. The young
couple are prominent members of several social organization of
Brownsville. A reception will follow the ceremony.
6 December 1906
Marriage-Double Celebration for Mrs. SCHLIEMANN
Mrs. Charlotte SCHLIEMANN, of 207 Calyer street, was tendered a birthday
party by host of friends at her home last evening. It was also the
twenty-seventh anniversary of her marriage, and the double event packed
the house. The time was spent pleasantly in games and recitations.
Refreshments were served and dancing was kept up until an early hour
this morning. The Daughters of Liberty attended in a body, as Mrs.
SCHLIEMANN is one of the most enthusiastic members of the order.
Tenants Get a Scare as Boy Falls Downstairs
While 10-year0old Abraham MOSKOWITZ was playing with several companions
in the hallway of his home on the top floor of the tenement at 77
Belmont avenue, yesterday afternoon, he fell downstairs, a distance of
almost twenty feet. His screams aroused the tenants. Ambulance Surgeon
Griffin of St. Mary's Hospital, pronounced the child suffering from a
severe scalp wound and internal injuries.
Falls into Ship's Hold, Fracturing his Skull
While walking across the deck of the Steamer Ryand, lying at the foot of
South Third street, Stanislaus DAVIDS, 35 years old, of 52 North Third
street, fell down the hatchway and, landing upon his head, fractured his
skull early to-day. A call was sent to the Eastern District Hospital
and Ambulance Surgeon TIETZE responded. DAVIDS was removed to that institution.
7 December 1906
Deserted Wife Find her "Turtle-Dove"
A women steerage passenger with two children arrived to-day on
board the steamer Graf Waldersee, from Hamburg, on a long journey from
Poland, to find her husband, who had deserted her. One day, shortly
after leaving port, the woman suddenly ran against her husband on deck.
He was a fireman on board the steamer. A fight ensued, causing such a
row that the officers interfered and on learning the woman's story
locked the man up. The second cabin passengers made up a purse for
the woman and her children. The humorous side of the story is that the
husband's name is TURTELTRAUBER, in English TURLEDOVE.
The White Star steamer Celtic arrived this morning from Liverpool
and Queenstown after a very rough passage. Strong winds and fresh gales
prevailed thought. The Celtic brought 2,600 sacks of mail. Among the
saloon passengers where:
Major R.G.J.J. BERRY
Pressley BRISLAND
Kenneth BOARDMAN
Edwin D. DEWITT
D.S. ELLSWORTH
W.H. FORSYTHE
Dr. W. OSLER
Ronald Noel PATON
Henry PHIPPS
Miss Katherine WILSON, daughter of Gen. WILSON U.S.A.
8 December 1906
At Large Two Weeks With Smallpox
Andrew SCRUGG, a negro, 32 years old, of 227 West Sixty-second street,
Manhattan, was arrested last night in Third avenue, by Patrolman CLUNE,
of the Bergen street station, and sent to Kingston Avenue Hospital,
suffering from a well developed case of smallpox. SCRUGG claims to have
been suffering from the disease for two weeks, during which time he has
been at large and without medical attendance. Until recently he was a
member of the negro colony in Cleveland place, where there has been a
considerable epidemic of the disease.
Girl Arrested on Mother's Complaint
Jeanette MULLOCK, 17 years old, of 164 Grand avenue, was in the Myrtle
Avenue Police Court to-day, on complaint of her mother, charged with
keeping late hours and frequenting dance halls and skating rinks in
company of evil associates. The girl's mother, Mrs. Grace MULLOCK, was
prevented by illness from appearing against her but questioning revealed
the fact that the girl is simply a little over fond of amusement. She
has been an inmate of a private institutions where she was sent by her
parents, and appeared thoroughly repentant in court. She was sent to
the Wayside Home until next Saturday pending an investigation of her story.
Aliens Escape and Ship's Officers are in Trouble
Capt. Victor BOULERUC and First Officer LABETUT Of the Faber Line
steamship Gallia were held yesterday by United States Commissioner
BENEDICT in the Federal Building, Manhattan, as the result of an order
from the collector of the Port, issued at the instance of United States
District Attorney YOUNGS, who has asked the captain and first office to
explain why they allowed ten aliens to escape from their vessel
Thanksgiving Day, while it tied up at the dock at the foot of Warren street.
They were charged with negligence. Perrone LEONARDO and Michele
SPECIALE, aliens, swore that they were allowed to walk off the Gallia's
pier unmolested. The captain said that the aliens had escaped while he
was absent visiting the Custom House. Both officers were held in $2,000
bail each for further hearing on Jan 22.
Boy of Runaway Habit Missing Two Weeks
A. FRANTZEN, of 508 Fulton street, has asked the police to locate his 12
year-old son, Charles, who disappeared from his home Nov 21. The boy
is about 4 feet 6 inches tall, has light hair and blue eyes. He wore a
bicycle cap, brown corduroy trousers, blue sweater and a long brown
overcoat. His parents believe he has run away, as he has often been
away from home for two or three days.
Spirits Told Him to Kill Policeman - With Three Bullets in Him "Cop"
Captures Crazy Pole, who Turns Gun on Himself - Buckle Saves His Life -
Wanted to Die and Take Someone with Him, He Says
"Big Al" SCHLECK, a patrolman attached to the Mercer street station,
Manhattan, is at his home, 304 South Third street, Brooklyn, to-day, and
glad he's alive. On the book at the station house he is reported as
being "absent on sick leave" and no wonder, for three bullets were
extracted from his body early to-day in the New York Hospital. The
policeman's escape from death is remarkable, for the man fired four
shots at him at close range. SCHLECK's assailant gave his name as John
OLA at first, and later changed it to John COMMINSKY, describing himself
as a Pole, 33 years old, with a desire to get to heaven by a quick route.
After he had pulled the trigger at the policeman, COMMINSKY placed the
revolver against his breast and tried to send a bullet through his
heart. The bullet flattened against his suspender buckle. Before he
could shoot again SCHLECK had grabbed him, and hit him on the head with
his nightstick so hard that the man's skull was fractured.
The trouble occurred outside the Fourteenth Street store at 5 o'clock
this morning. SCHLECK was patrolling his beat on West Thirteenth street,
near Sixth avenue, when he saw a man in the rear of the store. He walked
up to him rapidly and the man waited for him to approach.
"Say, officer," he whispered, "am I near Thirteenth street?"
"Right at hand," responded the policeman, looking the stranger over.
"Thanks," and off the man strolled.
SCHLECK turned his back intending to follow the man but wishing to give
him a start. He had barely turned when he heard the crack of a revolver
and felt a bullet strike him in the back. Just as he was wheeling around
another bullet struck him. He did not fall but gave a leap after the man
who stood calmly aiming a gun at him from a distance of fifteen feet.
A third missile whizzed dangerously near the patrolman's head while a
fourth plowed its way through his shoulder. "Big Al," who didn't seem to
mind the troublesome metal pellets, gave chase as the stranger turned
and darted into an areaway at 25 West Thirteenth street. Here he halted,
opened the lapel of his coat and calmly put the revolver against his own
body. He pulled the trigger once, but before he could fire again SCHLECK
was upon him.
By this time the policeman had his own revolver out. He did not shoot,
however, but drew his nightstick and gave the man three resounding
cracks over the head. The he rapped for assistance.
A patrolman from the Tenderloin station called an ambulance form the New
York Hospital, to which the policeman was removed and the bullets
extracted. Another ambulance from St. Vincent's Hospital took COMMINSKY
to Bellevue Hospital, where he will be examined as to his sanity.
In an hour or so, SCHLECK said that he wasn't hurt much, and left the
hospital. He reported sick and went home.
When the prisoner at the hospital was asked why he had shot the
policeman, he responded: "I wanted to go to heaven, and wanted some one
to come with me. The cop would have made a good companion. Spires told
me to shoot."
"These spirits, bug-house and religious mania cases are getting frequent
these days," remarked one of the doctors.
Alfred SCHLECK was appointed to the force in 1896. He is 34 years old.
In 1900, when attached to the Delancey street station, he saved many
lives in a fire in Jackson street, in which seven persons perished and
seven were severely injured. His record is good.
According to the statement of the police this afternoon, the cartridges
used in the Pole's gun must have been home made. The weapon was of 44
calibre, and the usual charge of powder behind the bullets would
undoubtedly have killed SCHLECK. As it proved the force of the missiles
were spent after they had plowed through his thick winter clothing.
Waiter's "Kindness" Proves Boomerang
A tall, slender woman, apparently about 30 years of age, and
dressed in a long buff coat, was a prisoner in the Adams street court
to-day, on a charge of intoxication made by Patrolman CRONK, of the
Adams street station, who said he found her in a Myrtle avenue
restaurant asking customers for money.
"My name is Minnie Farrell." Said the woman to Magistrate DOOLEY.
"I came from New Haven yesterday to see the superintendent of the
Crescent Athletic Club about my husband, who is employed by the club at
the Bay Ridge branch. I was cold, and a waiter came out from the
restaurant and told me to come in and get warm. He gave me a hot drink
and a meal and then asked for thirty cents. I had no money and thought
he was doing it out of kindness. I don't recollect drinking anything
until I went into a restaurant."
Mrs. JOYCE, the probationary officer, was asked to go around to the
clubhouse and make inquires. She came back soon afterwards and said
that what the woman said about her husband was true, but that her
husband had said his wife drank heavily. Mrs. FARRELL went to jail
until Monday, on her plea of not guilty.
Officer CRONK says that Mrs. FARRELL when taken to the station
house was quite "flippy," and when asked her age said she was 102. She
was put down on the blotter as 50 years old. She does not look to be over 30.
9 December 1906
Four Families Homeless and Several Houses Gutted in Bedford Section
Big Crowd Cheers the Rescuer
Four families were made homeless in a fire that gutted several building
at Marcy avenue and Macon street late yesterday afternoon and but for
the bravery of the firemen, who, without an instant's delay, entered the
smoke filled homes, many might have been suffocated. For more than two
hours the fire raged and for a time there was great danger to the entire
neighborhood.
Before the firemen arrived a number of the women and children were
rescued by a truckman who was passing. He had been a member of the
department and instinct, he said, after the danger was past, told him to
take advantage of his experience. The others were carried out of the
houses by the firemen, but none too soon. Practically nothing was saved
and two families lost the savings and relics of a lifetime.
As Dr. E.C. HUSKINSON, of 145 Macon street, was nearing his home at 4:30
o'clock, he saw a tongue of flames burst out of the second story window
at No. 123. He ran to the call box and turned in an alarm. The fire
companies responded promptly but even before they reached the scene the
wind had driven the flames through the frame wall of the brick-front
three story building at 121.
Alfred ROSENBERG, a truckman of Mott street, Manhattan, was passing at
the time and ran into No. 121, which is occupied on the ground floor by
C.H. HENBROCKEL, a grocer. On the second floor he found Mrs. PAYNE,
Mrs. NAYLOR and 8 year-old Ethel FLEET rushing frantically about the
rooms in an effort to save some of their belongings. He warned them to
leave all and hurry to the street. They could not resist the temptation
to grasp something. Mrs. PAYNE took a picture of her late husband, who
lost his life only a short time ago in a power house fire. Mrs. NAYLOR
saved a picture of a son who was drowned a month ago and the little girl
groped her way through the smoke filled hallway to the street with a pet
canary in a cage. Nothing else of value was saved.
ROSENBERG rushed to the top floor of the building, where he found Mrs.
Julia E. NEISWENDER, 60 years old, blinded and almost suffocated by the
smoke. He carried her to the window and down a ladder that the firemen
had raised. He was cheered by the great crowd that had gathered, but
immediately broke away from his admirers and rushed back into the
burning building at No. 123 to help the firemen.
The house in which the fire started was occupied by the Rev. Charles
SNOW, assistant pastor of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, his wife and
three young children. Two of the children were in the basement with the
servant, and Mrs. SNOW was on the first floor when she smelled smoke. A
moment later she heard a shot in the street, and running to the window
learned that the fire was in her house. She ran to the basement and
hurried the little ones from the house. In a short time the entire
house was ablaze and was eating its way slowly against the wind into the
house at 125, which was occupied by E.J.WARREN and family
The efforts of the firemen were centered on the SNOW house, and a number
of men were rushed to the roof to prevent the fire from spreading.
Suddenly the flames leaped in a solid mass as the roof of the building
fell, and one of the men who stood on the cornice was lost to view.
Those in the street shouted that a man was lost in the ruins, and a
dozen men rushed to the rescue. But a moment later, as the blaze died
down, the fireman was seen crawling along the edge of the roof unharmed.
As the flames spread to the houses on Marcy avenue, the many occupants
of two big apartment houses further south began to get their valuables
together, for it was feared that the fire could not be controlled before
those building would be reached. The tailor shop of A. COHEN, at 923,
and his home, at 9?? Marcy avenue, were gutted, and the shoe store at
917 was flooded before ?(to faint to read) was under control.
Because of the crowds that filled the streets the reserves, in command
of Capt. ROONEY, of the Gates avenue station, had considerable
difficulty in keeping them out of danger. The fire was in charge of
Chief LALLY, Deputy Fire Commissioner Charles WISE was also at the
scene. Those who were instrumental in saving the lives of the occupants
of the houses were Capt. TRAVIS and Firemen MAHER, NEWMAN, and MULLIGAN.
The building opposite the fire is occupied by the Muncie Sanitarium and
when the inmates learned that some of their neighbors had been made
homeless a sum of money was raised for their relief.
The cause of the fire has not yet be ascertained. The loss is estimated at $30,000.
Fireman's Finger Cut off
A fire broke out at 8 o'clock last night in the apartments of Mrs. Agnes
WILSON on the top floor of the two story frame dwelling at 356 Hamilton
avenue. The flames were easily extinguished when the firemen arrived.
The damage was confined to Mrs. WILSON's furniture and amounted to about $50.
When fire engine No. 102 arrived at the scene, one of the firemen,
Daniel BOYNE, while blocking the rear wheels of his engine had the index
finger of his right hand cut off by the wheel passing over it. He was
attended by Ambulance Surgeon CRANE, of the Long Island College
Hospital, and went home.
Bridge Car Crowd Beats Passenger
Boy Resents Insult to His Mother, and Men and Women help Him
Insulter Finally Conquered by "Cop"
Lugged Off to Police Station for Disorderly Conduct
Passengers on a crowded car of the Fourteenth street line crossing the
Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn last night witnessed the interesting
spectacle of a 14 year old boy Benjamin ALEXANDER, of 392 Fourth street,
the son of Mrs. Bessie ALEXANDER, thrashing a big Austrian, who, it is
alleged, had insulted his mother. The victim of the thrashing, who was
arrested, described himself in the Bridge police station as Antonia
LIECK, 24 years old of 338 East Fifty-fourth street, Manhattan.
The Austrian had had words with the conductor of the car at the
Manhattan approach to the bridge over his fare. Instead of leaving the
car in Manhattan the Austrian remained on it and abused the conductor
continually. Just as the car reached the Williamsburg Bridge and was
coming across to Brooklyn, LIECK, it is said, used indecent language,
which caused the women in the car to shudder and Mrs. Alexander, who
became indignant, turned on the Austrian and denounced him in scathing terms.
"You Villain," she cried out. "If you have no respect for yourself, you
should at least have some respect for the women you see in the car."
The words were scarcely uttered when LIECK turned on Mrs. ALEXANDER and
began to abuse her. It was more than her son could stand, so, jumping
from his seat, he said to his mother, "I'll protect you, mother, form
this scoundrel." So saying, the lad turned on the Austrian and began to
strike him. As LIECK tried to get a rap at the boy a dozen passengers
caught hold of the fellow and aided in thrashing him. By that time the
passengers on the car, which had reached the Brooklyn end of the bridge,
were in an uproar. Policeman DOOLEY saw the tumult in the car and
boarded it as it stopped at its terminal on the upper end of the plaza.
He lost no time in getting inside the car
Men and women had a tight grip on LIECK, and when the "cop" grabbed him
the tatter turned on DOOLEY, and while the two were in a scuffle the
passengers fled. DOOLEY overpowered the man, and, followed by a large
crowd, took him to the police station, where Mrs. ALEXANDER insisted
upon making a complaint of disorderly conduct. She told Sergeant
HARRINGTON that she would be in the Lee avenue court to-day to prosecute the Austrian.
Rearrested as he Left Prison
As he stepped out of Elmira Reformatory yesterday morning a free man
again after being incarcerated for two and a half years on a charge of
burglary and saying to himself he was going to lead a better life
hereafter, John KENNEDY, 22 years old, of 276 Kent avenue was
immediately rearrested by Detective Sergeant Peter MCCORMICK on the
charge of stealing a quantity of brass pipe from the premises of John
AMBROSE and Company, at 45 Grand street.
When he was taken to Police Headquarters last night the tears were
streaming sown his cheeks and he told the detectives he had left prison
with a joyous heart and fully determined to be an honest man.
10 December 1906
MYSTERY SHROUDS GIRL'S ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
Katie MOAKISKI, 17 years old, was locked up last night in the Coney Island
police station on a charge of attempted suicide.
The girl was a domestic in the home of Arthur AMHEITER, at 1606 Surf avenue.
She retired to her room at 10 o'clock on Friday night. Yesterday morning she
was found unconscious in her bed. A cup that had contained carbolic acid was
found beside the bed. Dr. Philip NASH, who was called, worked over the girl
from 8 o'clock yesterday morning until late in the afternoon before he
succeeded in restoring her to consciousness.
When questioned by the police the girl refused to make any statement about
herself and the police attach considerable mystery to the case.
$200,000 FORTUNE FOR BROOKLYN SWEDE
There is a fortune of $200,000 awaiting Alfred AXELMAN, a poor Swede, 65
years old, who is supposed to be living in Brooklyn. Deputy Commissioner
O'KEEFE to-day received a letter from the Swedish Government asking him to
hunt up the man. Thus far the lucky heir has not been found.
BABY SON OF "JOHN SMITH AND MARY" ABANDONED
Another baby was found on the steps to the entrance to the House of the Good
Shepherd, on the Pacific street side near Hopkinson avenue, last night. This
is the sixth baby that has been left there for the Sisters to care for in the
past ten months.
James MCCORMACK, a watchman, found the baby lying on the steps wrapped up in
a warm flannel suit. It was found to be a baby boy about three weeks' old.
Attached to the clothing was found a note that read as follows: "Alfred
SMITH, Born Nov. 12, 1906. Father's name, John SMITH. Mother's name, Mary.
Catholic. Not baptized. The Sisters sent the child to the City Nurse.
HER 'LOST' HUBBY A GLOBE TROTTER
After struggling to exist for over six months with her seven-months-old child
in the hospital, sick and in need herself and always laboring under the
impression that her husband might have met with some fatal accident, Mrs.
Aletha JACOBSON, who is at present living with her sister at 1263 Sixtieth
street, received a letter from her wandering husband last week, asking her to
forgive him for his acts, and inviting her to meet him at a store in Bath
Beach, where he would try to prove how really repentant he was by buying her
a dish of ice cream.
William JACOBSON appeared in Coney Island court yesterday morning and gave
himself up, thus ending a futile search which the court officers have been
making for him ever since his disappearance from his former home, at 31
Charles street, where he had been living happily with his wife and
one-month-old child.
Mrs. JACOBSON awoke on the morning of June 5, and saw that her husband had
left early, quite contrary to his custom. He did not return that night.
Several days passed and still he did not appear. Mrs. JACOBSON becoming
anxious then notified the court officers and took out a warrant for his
arrest, charging him with abandonment. Her baby was sick and she found it
impossible to care properly for the child. Mrs. HUGHES, probationary officer
at the coney Island court and wife of the pastor of the Coney Island Rescue
Home, made arrangements to have the infant placed in the Kings County
Hospital, where it now is. Mrs. JACOBSON had to give up her home and went to
live with her sister.
One day, about two months after his disappearance, she received a letter from
her husband sent from a port in England in which he stated that he had left
New York on a cattle ship and was at that time without money and work. He
asked that she send him money to allow him to return home. Mrs. JACOBSON,
after conferring with her friends, finally answered and told him to get home
the way he went away, as she had no money to pay for his passage. That was
the last communication she had with him until the other day. She began to
regret her sarcastic letter, and had almost come to the conclusion that he
had come to some sad end.
JACOBSON told a story full of hardships to Magistrate VOORHEES yesterday and
said that he had been out of work for weeks prior to his going away and had
spent most of the time sitting around in the parks. He got a job on the
cattle sip and was carried to Liverpool, where he became stranded. He
wandered throughout England, went to Spain and Italy and then shipped on
board a vessel bound for Russia. There he got on board a ship bound for New
York as a stowaway.
After the ship was two days out he came out of his hiding place and mingled
among the other passengers and did so successfully for eighteen days, until
he was finally detected by one of the officers. For awhile they threatened to
send him back to Russia, but on the arrival in New York he succeeded in
convincing the officers of the ship and the immigration inspectors that he
was a citizen of the United States.
JACOBSON appeared to be very sorry for his actions in deserting his wife and
child and wanted a chance to get work and once more support them.
He was paroled for further examination.
Brownsville-COMACK-FRIED WEDDING LARGELY ATTENDED
Fully three hundred relatives and friends attended the wedding of Miss M.
FRIED, of 1831 Prospect place, to Louis COMACK, of East New York, in American
Star Hall, Christopher and Pitkin avenues, last night. Rabbi GOODMAN, of the
Chester Street Synagogue, performed the ceremony, which was followed by a
reception. Many handsome presents were received by the bride, who is a well
known member of several social organizations in Brownsville. Miss Ella FRIED
was bridesmaid, and Abraham CANTERWITZ best man. After a short honeymoon Mr.
and Mrs. COMACK will reside at 1831 Prospect place.
South Brooklyn-FRACTURED HIS FATHER'S SKULL WIN TIN CAN
There were hot words yesterday afternoon on one of the upper floors of 399
Nineteenth street between James WITHERALL, 44 years old, and his 19-year-old
son Charles. During the quarrel the son is alleged to have fractured his
father's skull with a tin can. Dr. RICHARDSON took charge of the elder
WITHERALL and removed him to Seney Hospital.
Charles escaped and plain clothes men attached to the Fifth avenue station
are looking for him.
SEVERELY BURNED RESCUING HORSES
Joseph MEEHAN, 34 years old, of 1424 Fulton street, nearly lost his life
yesterday morning in rescuing several horses from a burning stable at Avenue
I and East Thirty-fifth street, owned by the American Ice Company. MEEHAN
lighted an oil stove, which was old and rusty, and while in another part of
the building it exploded, setting fire to the stable.
Failing in his attempt to put out the fire, MEEHAN started in to rescue the
horses. When he went into the burning stable for the last of the horses his
clothing caught fire, but he did not give up until the frightened animal was
safe in the street. Then he collapsed. An ambulance surgeon took him to the
Kings County Hospital. He is severely burned about the face and hands.
YOUNG GARRETT IS HOME AGAIN
WALKED INTO RESTAURANT BEGGING FOR A CUP OF HOT COFFEE
SLEPT IN VACANT BUILDINGS-RAN AWAY BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN CHASTISED.
Twelve-year old Seymour D. GARRETT, Jr., son of an advertising man residing
at 102 Prospect Park West, was yesterday restored to his parents after the
boy had been recognized by Calvin KENNEDY, a restaurant proprietor, at 267
Seventh avenue, when the lad entered the place and asked to be served with a
cup of hot coffee in the kitchen. KENNEDY charged the boy with being the
runaway GARRETT, which the lad denied. KENNEDY felt sure of his
identification, however, when GARRETT sidestepped him and ran into the
street, KENNEDY followed, brought him back and later called in a policeman
who took the much advertised Seymour to the Fifth avenue station. The boy's
father was then sent for and he took him back home. If young GARRETT is to be
believed he was within hailing distance of the Fifth Avenue police station
during his entire absence, since the night of Dec. 4. He declared he had been
sleeping nights in the basements of unoccupied buildings in Seventh street
between Eighth and Ninth avenues, less than a block and a half from his home.
The fifty cents his mother gave him to purchase some small articles for her
the day he disappeared, he spent for food.
His explanation for running away was that he had been chastised at home for
teasing his sisters and did not like to be sent out to carry bundles home.
It is not likely that Seymour will again run away.
11 December 1906
SHOOTS FATHER WHO BEAT HIM
GLENDALE BOY RESENTS WHIPPINGS FOR BEING BACKWARD IN STUDIES.
THEN FIRES AT POLICEMAN.-BULLETS LAND IN WEEDEN'S HEAD - MAY NOT RECOVER.
Alleging cruel treatment and frequent beatings at the hands of his father
because he was backward in his studies at school, 16-year-old William WEEDEN,
of Glendale, Queens, this morning turned on his parent with a 22-calibre
revolver and shot him twice in the head. John WEEDEN, the father, is in the
German Hospital, where no hope is held for his recovery.
Before he was captured the lad turned on Patrolman Leonard J. WOODIE as the
latter attempted to intercede and fired the remaining three shots at him.
Fortunately none of them too effect, one piercing the "cop's" hat and the
other two going through his coat. WOODIE was forced to knock the boy down
with his club. He took him to the Flushing police court, where Magistrate
CONNORTON held him to await the result of his father's injuries.
"He used to beat me with a heavy rawhide when I didn't know my lessons,"
declared the boy; in his story to the police. "So I made up my mind to shoot
him! I'm tired of being called the dunce at school, and I don't want to go
any more."
From the tale that young WEEDEN related it appears his father was determined
he should make progress in his studies, even if strenuous methods were
resorted to to accomplish the desired end. The boy complained bitterly he was
unable to keep up "with the other fellows," and said every night his father
would put him on the grill for his backwardness.
"He got a big rawhide not long ago," said the boy, "and every morning he
would get out my books and make me go over the lesson. Whenever I made a
mistake, or didn't know the lesson he would beat me. I got tired of that and
yesterday I borrowed the pistol from a friend of mine. This morning he tried
to beat me again and I pulled the gun and shot him."
When young WEEDEN drew the revolver his father rushed at him out in the
street. The home of the WEEDENS is in Washington avenue, near Cooper street.
AS the father pursued his offspring the latter turned suddenly and fired. The
first bullet took effect in the left side of Mr. WEEDEN'S face. AS he
staggered the boy fired another shot, sending a bullet into the back of his
father's head, grazing his brain.
The shouts and screams of women pedestrians and neighbors drew the attention
of Patrolmen WOODIE, who was in the vicinity. He tried to prevent any further
shooting, when he was confronted by the excited lad who fired at him.
12 December 1906
HONOR MEDALS FOR LIFE SAVERS IN QUEENS
Seven members of the United States Life-Saving Corps in Queens were last
night presented with medals of honor in the Borough President's office, Long
Island City. Borough President BERMEL was to have made the presentations,
but, as he was unable to be present the presentations were made by Alfred H.
DENTON, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works.
The following named received medals:
Peter HEIMUS,
John SMITH,
F. J. BRENAN,
Casper GUNTHER,
Thomas WEIPLY, Jr.,
Harry SCHMELIK
John SCHMELIK .
Those who received certificates of honor were
James BARTH,
Percy PELL
Gustave LEIMAN.
HER EYE BLACKENED SEPARATING LOVERS
Despite the fact that Miss Blanche DOWNEY, 19 years old, of 60 Lawrence
street, Astoria, has a black eye, her wedding, which is set for Christmas
Eve, will not be postponed. This announcement was made in Magistrate
CONNORTON'S court, Long Island City, where Miss DOWNEY, accompanied by her
affanced husband, Andrew HOPPE, 21 years old, of 320 Hamilton street, and a
bevy of girl friends, appeared this morning to prosecute her assailant and
former admirer, a young Frenchman named Charles RABOUD, of 65 Bodine Street.
RABOUD and HOPPE had a set-to over the girl at a ball in Schuetzen Park last
Saturday night, capitulated and started home with Miss DOWNEY. On the way
home the quarrel was renewed, and when Miss DOWNEY interfered she received a
black eye. RABOUD was held to-day in $500 for examination next Monday.
MEYER ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE IN PRUSSIA
CASSEL, Prussia, Dec. 12 - Wilhelm MEYER, who has-been on trail here for the
murder of his aged aunt, has been sentenced to fifteen years in the
penitentiary for "aggravated robbery upon the corpse of Mrs. VOGEL." The
states attorney, while fully convinced that MEYER had murdered Mrs. VOGEL
with malice aforethought, finally admitted the inadequacy of his proof, and
asked the jury to convict MEYER of robbery only. He called attention to the
fact that Mrs. VOGEL was a citizen of the United States, and that the United
States had granted the extradition of the prisoner.
William MEYER arrived in New York from Germany last may, and was at once
arrested on the charge of having murdered his aunt in Valdungen. He was
extradited in June.
POLICE ASKED TO SEARCH FOR MISSING PERSONS.
The following missing persons were reported at Police Headquarters this
morning:
Thomas SEDDEN, 31 years old, a fireman, of 967 Fourth avenue;
William MASON, 33 years old, of 19 Sixteenth street;
Frank HES, 20 years old, a printer, of 120 Bergen street;
Bernard KINMETH, 13 years old, of 395 Schenck avenue;
Gustave RITCHMEYER, 20 years old of 2289 Pitkin Avenue,
Lawrence WOOD, 17 years old of 55 Floyd street.
TRIAL MARRIAGE, HE SAYS, PROVED N.G.
Thomas BYRNES, of Bay Fourteenth street, Bath Beach, and Mrs. Annie KUHN, of
Bay Twentieth street, refuse to advocate trial marriages, for their attempts
proved a dismal failure, and to-day both appeared in the Coney Island court.
Mrs. KUHN the defendant in a charge of larceny made by Mr. BYRNES. He had
charged her with stealing furniture from their former home on Bay Fourteenth
street, and she in turn denied the charge, and claimed that this trial was
being pressed merely to offset her suit of breach of promise, which she has
brought against her once fervent lover.
She went to court this morning fully prepared to prove any statements that
she has previously made in reference to Mr. BYRNES' former love and devotion,
and as several letters were read, the court was in an uproar. One dated Sept.
19 was particularly amusing, and in it BYRNES lamented the fact that his
adored one was away on her vacation, as he was troubled by indigestion
brought about by eating at the different restaurants at Bath Beach. He said
that they were "on the bum, and no one can cook like my darling Annie."
Continuing he wrote: "I have lost thirty-two pounds since you have been away.
Of course, I am glad that you are enjoying yourself, but how I long for some
of those dainty little dishes you prepare."
Mrs. KUHN denied that the furniture belonged to Mr. BYRNES and said that she
had paid for it with her own money. When she met her avowed sweetheart she
had been in Bath Beach but a few months and was working as a domestic at 2173
Eighty-third street. BYRNES, according to her, would come around to the house
three times a day and take all of his meals there until she had to drive him
away. She said that the reason he did not want to get married a month after
they had rented the house on Bay Fourteenth street was because he was afraid
the police would make fun of him, as he had been arrested a few weeks
previous for carrying a revolver without a permit.
Mr. BYRNES when he took the stand, became quite worked up as he began to tell
of his experience with his contemplated bride. He gave his occupation as that
of a night watchman and said that in the morning when he returned from work
he would find playing cards and empty whiskey bottles strewn about the house.
On asking Mrs. KUHN to prepare his breakfast she would flatly refuse and he
was compelled to cook his own meals. "One month, of living with that woman
was enough for me, judge." Said he. "she is a dope fiend, and several times I
had to call Dr. JOYCE, of Bay Tenth street, in to treat her. She made me go
to the restaurants to get my meals unless I wanted to prepare them myself."
Magistrate VOORHEES said that he had heard no evidence which would convict
Mrs. KUHN of larceny and he dismissed the case.
13 December 1906
CRAZY WOMAN RUNS AMUCK IN HOSPITAL
Becoming suddenly insane, a big muscular Polish woman, employed as a helper
in St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, went on a rampage through that
institution this morning and for more than half of an hour, the doctors,
nurses and attendants in this hospital had an exciting time, holding the
woman in check until the arrival of the police. Finally the woman was
cornered on the ground floor and made a prisoner.
The hospital is a big institution, taking up half a city block, and is
crowded with several hundred patients. It is controlled by the Sisters of St.
Joseph, and the sisters on duty this morning when the insane woman broke
loose quickly issued orders for the closing of all wards to prevent sounds of
the disturbance from reaching the patients. Fortunately for all concerned the
woman broke loose on the ground floor of the building, which is devoted to
offices, reception rooms, dining rooms and sleeping apartments for the
physicians.
Where the woman came from originally is not known, but several months ago she
was in the police court under the name of Sophie MELINSKY, as a vagrant. The
hospital was in need of a woman to help with the work and the Sisters of St.
Joseph gave her a position in the hospital. She proved an exemplary domestic,
strong and willing. There was nothing unusual in her demeanor, but for the
last few days doctors and other about the hospital have been missing various
articles from their rooms.
This morning, Dr. Henry GLAMARINO'S room on the ground floor was cleaned out.
His suit case and all his belonging vanished. An investigation followed, and
the room occupied by the MELINSKY woman was found stocked with the missing
articles. Among them was Dr. GLAMARINO'S suit case, his shaving outfit and
other articles.
The domestic was summoned to the office and asked to explain, when she
surprised everyone present, by declaring that she owned the hospital. Then
she broke loose.
First she attacked a splendid piano in the reception room and brought out the
inside of the instrument.
Before she got through, or anyone could interfere, the piano was a wreck.
Then she started to tackle the decorations on the wall.
By this time an alarm was sounded through the hospital and Dr. GLAMARINO and
Dr. John HANLEY appeared on the scene, followed by nurses and attendants.
While the woman fought like a tiger, she was finally cornered and kept within
bounds while a telephone message was sent for the police.
Office James T. SHERLOCK responded in the patrol wagon. Although SHERLOCK is
of stalwart build, he was unable to cope with the woman alone and it required
the united efforts of the hospital staff to load her into the wagon.
On the way through the corridor she seized on every object within reach,
among them a hot radiator.
Despite the scalding her hands received, she clung to the radiator almost
tearing it from the floor. Later she was taken before Magistrate CONNORTON,
in the Long Island City police court, and held to await an examination into
her mental condition.
MAN WANTED FOR SHOOTING FOUND IN HOSPITAL
Harry STAHL, who has been evading arrest since last May on a charge of
felonious assault, was brought to Brooklyn to-day by Detectives MCCLUSKY,
GLOSTER and HAGGERTY, from the Gouverneur Hospital, in Manhattan, where he
had been confined with a bullet wound received during a fight. STAHL was
placed on trial on a charge of murder in Manhattan but was acquitted. STAHL
met a brother of the murdered man at Coney Island early in the summer and
there was a quarrel during which STAHL, it is alleged, shot the other man.
After the shooting STAHL left New York and had been out West until recently,
when he returned to this city.
A charge of vagrancy was made against him this afternoon in the Adams street
court, pending a formal complaint of felonious assault by FITZPATRICK, who
lives at 84 Ridge street, Manhattan. FITZPATRICK has recovered from his wound
and will probably come to Brooklyn to-morrow to make his complaint.
Walter WHALEN, 26 years old, of 14 Clinton street, was found in his room by
Clara BUCKNER this morning. The gas was escaping from a partly opened burner.
The victim was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital by Dr. CAREY. His condition
was reported as serious.
William HIGGINS, an electrician employed by the Edison Illuminating Company,
was working in a conduit opposite 449 Greene avenue this morning when he was
overcome by escaping gas. He was removed to St. John's Hospital by Ambulance
Surgeon BECK. Higgins lives at 308 Greene avenue.
BARBER ATTACKS FAMILY WITH RAZORS AND LANDS IN HOSPITAL
OVERPOWERED BY POLICE.-PATROLLED STREETS WITH BROOMSTICK AS PLAIN CLOTHES MAN.
It required the combined strength of two husky policeman to drag William J.
BROWN a barber, 36 years old, living at 41 Taylor street, to the Clymer
street station last night after he had made a vicious attack on his wife and
four small children with two razors. An ambulance surgeon who examined BROWN
later at the station house pronounced him insane and had him removed to the
Kings County Hospital.
BROWN, who is a good looking, big fellow, weighing nearly 200 pounds, is
employed in a downtown barber shop. Among his customers are a number of
policemen with whom BROWN has always been very popular. Frequently the
policemen who visited the barber shop where Brown was employed told him he
was too good looking and too husky to be a barber. They frequently told him
that he ought to be on the police force.
At first BROWN regarded the advice of the "cops" as a joke, but recently he
began to believe that he was cut out to be a guardian of the peace. After his
work at night he was in the habit of walking through the streets watching
policemen on duty. So much thought did BROWN give to the workings of the
Police Department that his wife began to notice that he was acting queerly.
She advised him to see a doctor, but he only laughed at her and said that
some day he would be a chief of police.
Three weeks ago BROWN resigned his position in the barber shop and told his
wife he was going to get on the force. She tried to persuade him not to give
up his trade, but instead of heeding her advice he became insanely jealous
and told her she was trying to shadow his ambitions. Since he quit his job in
the barber shop BROWN has made it a point to leave his home every midnight
armed with a piece of a broomstick the size of a policeman's billy. This we
would put in his hip pocket and start out saying that he was doing plain
clothes duty.
BROWN continued to grow worse until last night when he became violently
insane. He attacked his wife with a piece of broomstick and threatened his
four children. Sometime after midnight BROWN became so violent that his wife
picked up her youngest child and ran to the Clymer street station, where she
told her story to Sergeant EASON.
Policeman ROBINSON and YOUNGS were sent to investigate. When they arrived at
the BROWN house they found him armed with two razors, threatening to cut
anyone to pieces who went near him. The "cops" had a struggle with the man,
but finally succeeded in dragging him to the station house, where he was
examined by Dr. TIETZE, of the Eastern District Hospital, who pronounced him
insane and took him to the Kings County Hospital.
14 December 1906
BIGGEST CHRISTMAS MAIL ON THE MAJESTIC
The heaviest Christmas mail that has ever crossed the Atlantic is coming on
the White Star liner Majestic, which is carrying 4,568 sacks. This is a
record-breaking shipment of mail.
Among the passengers who arrived to-day on the steamer Baltic, from Liverpool
and Queenstown, was H. J. GRANT, a second cabin passenger who is a Mormon
missionary returning to Utah.
Among the saloon passengers were
Lady ANTRIM,
Capt. P. Agnew APPLETON,
A. A. BARBER,
Dr. Comyns BERKELEY,
Col. F.B. BUIST,
A. S. COCHRANE,
E. DECARTIER DE MACHIENNE, councillor to the Belgian Legation;
Vicomtesse J. DE JONGHE,
Hon. William ERSKINE,
Robert GLENDENNING,
Pedro GOMEZ,
Mona,
George E. GOODERHAM,
W. T. P. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Esme HOWARD, attache British Embassy, Washington;
Mrs. Foxhall KEENE,
Hon. Rowland LEIGH,
Lady Louise LODER,
J. E. MCGOWAN,
F. S. MEIGHEW,
Morton H. MEINHARD,
J. P.MORGAN, JR.,
Sir Weetman PEARSON, BART;
Right Hon. Sir Horace PLUNKETT,
Lord TURNOUR,
Augustus H. VANDERPOOL,
Craig W. WADSWORTH,
Louis WORMSER,
the Earl of Dunmore and
Col. J. M. TEMPLETON,
C. M. G. V. D. F. I. A.
WORKMAN'S FACE BURNED IN SLAKING LIME.
James FOX, 36 years old, of 27 Crescent street, was horribly burned about the
face and eyes this morning in front of the new building being erected for the
Girls' High School at Rodney street and Marcy avenue, by an explosion which
was caused by pouring cold water over some lime. Dr. VOGT, of Williamsburg
Hospital, removed FOX to his home.
15 December 1906
BOYS FIND SKELETON OF DECAPITATED CHILD
CONEY ISLAND POLICE SEE LITTLE CHANCE OF SOLVING MYSTERY.
The police of the Coney Island station were confronted this morning by a
murder which apparently occurred about three years ago, when the skeleton of
a child about eight years old was discovered buried in a pile of manure near
the Sea Beach Railroad tracks on the east side of Luna Park. The gruesome
discovery was made by two boys, Dennis MCCARTY, 14 years old, of 118 Sands
street, and Harry TONACHIO, 13 years old, of 312 Forty-eighth street.
The boys were startled by seeing the skeleton of a child's arm protruding
from the pile of manure near which they were playing, and notified Sergt.
Charles MARTIN and Patrolman FITZGERALD of their discovery. The skeleton was
unearthed and it was found that the head was missing. The skeleton was
removed to the morgue of KOWKSI & JENTCER, on West Eighth street.
An attempt will be made to identify the remains, but the chance of
identification are slight.
CUTS THROAT AND WRISTS WITH RAZOR; WILL DIE.
Despondent over the loss of friends, home and money, Emil LINDSTROSS, a
sailor; 42 years old, slashed his throat and wrists with a razor last night.
He was found bleeding and unconscious in an open lot in Richards street,
between King and Pioneer streets, and was hurried to Long Island College
Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon BRENNER. His condition is critical and he will
probably die.
ARRESTED FOR CARTING UNCOVERED MEAT IN STREET
Carl GREENWOOD, a butcher, living at 229 Concord street, was arrested this
morning in front of 644 Myrtle avenue by Thomas LOFTUS, of 366 Bradford
street, a meat inspector, who charged GREENWALD with violating the Sanitary
Code by carting meat through the street without having it covered. He was
taken to the Lee avenue court where he was held for a hearing.
ALLEGED WINDOW SMASHER CAUGHT AFTER CHASE.
Richard CAMPBELL, 20 years old, of 91 Manhattan avenue, was arrested early
this morning by Policeman MORGAN, of the Greenspoint avenue station, after he
had given the patrolman a run of several blocks. MORGAN was standing on
Manhattan avenue, near Greenpoint avenue, when he heard the sound of falling
glass. He saw three men running away from a cigar store owned by Charles A.
BROWN, at 875 Manhattan avenue. They had thrown a paving stone through a
plate window when they heard the sound of the policeman's footsteps. After a
chase he succeeded in catching CAMPBELL.
In the Manhattan avenue police court to-day CAMPBELL pleaded not guilty and
was held in $500 bail for examination on Wednesday.
STOLE WATCH TO GIVE SWEETHEART
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD ISAAC MILLER TOOK TIMEPIECE FROM TEACHER'S DESK.
NOW HE IS UNDER ARREST-TOLD LITTLE GIRL HE BOUGHT IT FOR HER CHRISTMAS.
A twelve-year-old schoolboy was arrested this morning, charged with stealing
a gold watch and chain from his teacher's desk in the classroom in Public
School No. 33, Heywood street and Harrison avenue. After taking the watch the
lad presented it to his sweetheart, who is Anna BELL, pretty and 12 years
old, who lives with her parents at 140 Harrison avenue. The boy is Isaac
MILLER, of 101 Harrison avenue.
Yesterday afternoon the lad's teacher, Miss Annie V. RYAN, was called from
her classroom to the principal's office. Before leaving the room she
appointed Isaac monitor, and left him in charge of the room. This was a
special assignment for Isaac who was looked upon as enjoying the well wishes
of all the teachers in the school. Before the teacher had been out of the
room for any length of time, Isaac opened the desk and took the watch and
chain which Miss RYAN values at $20.
Miss RYAN didn't miss the watch when she returned to the room, and it was not
until she was about to go home late in the afternoon that she realized her
watch had been stolen. She questioned several of the pupils and learned that
Isaac had opened the desk while she was out of the room. The police of the
Clymer street station were notified and detectives were sent to search for
the boy.
In the meantime Isaac had left the school building and hustled to the home of
his sweetheart, Anna. He confided to her that he had saved some money and
bought the watch for her as a Christmas present.
This morning Isaac was surprised to see two detectives arrive at his home and
place him under arrest. The lad was taken to the Clymer street station, where
he was questioned by the captain. While the youngster was busy denying he had
stolen the watch, Anna BELL strolled into the station house and presented the
watch to the sergeant, saying it had been given to her by Isaac, but that her
mother refused to let her keep it. When Isaac saw Anna he grew pale, but said
nothing. He was hustled off to the shelter of the Children's Society.
So.Brooklyn-OCTOGENARIAN FALLS TO DEATH OUT OF WINDOW
Andrew HARRISON, 80 years old, an inmate of the Home for the Aged, Eighth
avenue and Sixteenth street, fell yesterday afternoon out of a third story
window of that institution and was killed. The home is conducted by the
Little Sisters of the Poor. HARRISON went to the third floor to see a friend.
A window at the end of the corridor on that floor is so low that the sill
almost reaches the floor. It was out of this that he fell.
16 December 1906
2-MONTHS-OLD CHILD DESERTED ON STEPS OF CONVENT OF MERCY
An infant, about 2 months old, dark complexioned, with dark eyes, and dressed
in a pink dress and wrapped in a shawl was found lying on the steps of the
Convent of Mercy, on Willoughby avenue, last night, by Edward HARRIS, of 885
Kent avenue, who brought it to the Classon avenue station. The child was
turned over to the city nurse and detectives have been placed on the case.
TWO INJURED IN CRASH WITH CAR
Samuel FALLIEL, of 200 Sackman street, went out driving last night with his
wife, Lizzie, in a buggy on Eastern Parkway. While crossing Nostrand avenue
the wagon was hit by car 37? of the Nostrand avenue line, and FALLIEL and his
wife were thrown out. Mr. FALLIEL sustained contusions of the hip and other
slight injures. Mrs. FALLIEL sustained a scalp wound.
They were removed to their home.
SCHOOL CAR BANGS INTO MOTOR TRAIN
GREEN B. R. T. MOTORMAN GETS REAL EXPERIENCE AS TO COLLISIONS.
PHYSICIANS PATCH UP TWELVE PASSENGERS
PICKPOCKETS GET BUSY DURING EXCITEMENT.
Twelve passengers were injured on a West End Bath Beach and Ulmer Park train
when an instruction car of the B. R. T. crashed into the train on which they
were riding and shoved it off the tracks and against a building at the B. R.
T. railroad crossing in Eighty-sixth street, 100 feet south of Eighteenth
avenue, yesterday afternoon. A green motorman, who was being schooled on the
instruction car, is supposed to have been responsible for the accident.
One boy who was riding on the rear platform of the forward car was thrown
against the wall of an unfinished building adjoining the tracks at that
point. He was rendered unconscious, and when revived by Ambulance Surgeon
STRATTMAN, of the Norwegian Hospital, gave his name as Joseph ALDRICH, and
his address as Bay Thiryt-sixth street and Cropsey avenue. He was removed to
his home in serious condition.
When the cars crashed, the passengers were thrown into a panic. There were a
number of pickpockets in the crowd and they immediately got busy, as several
women complained to the police afterwards that they had lost their
pocketbooks.
The motor train, bound for Ulmer Park in charge of Motorman A. J. CLEARY, of
528 Fiftieth street, was crossing Eighty-sixth street and Eighteenth avenue
about 4:30 o'clock when the instruction car came bowling along. The train had
the right of way and all cars crossing the tracks there are supposed to stop.
Although the police have not been able to learn positively, it is believed a
"green" motorman was in charge of the instruction car at the time. Ignorant
of the rules of the road, he allowed his car to bowl along right up to the
tracks.
When the car was a short distance from the railroad crossing the train shot
out in its path. The "green" motorman is said to have made frantic efforts to
stop, but without avail. The instruction car crashed into the rear of the
first car of the train. That end of the car was thrown from the tracks as was
the front of the second car. Young ALDRICH went scaling through the air. The
cars were jammed up against the unfinished building on the corner. ALDRICH
struck against the wall and fell to struck against the wall and fell to the
ground. The windows in the two cars were shattered. Flying glass cut many.
The passengers rushed for the doors. Women, many of them injured in the
collision, and others who had fainted from fright, were trampled under foot.
As a fitting climax the pickpockets did their work.
Under Acting Captain GROVES the reserves were rushed from the Bath Beach
station, a short distance away. They restored order and summoned the
ambulances. The B. R.T. people at first would not disclose the names of any
of the men on the instruction car who had been injured and spirited them
away. They refused any information to the police and several of the B. R. T.
men had to be threatened with arrest before the particulars could be learned.
The instruction car was said to be in charge of John CUMMINGS, of 5805 Third avenue.
It was then learned that the motor train was in charge of Motormen A. J.
CLEARY, of 528 Fiftieth street, and Conductor Charles ARCHIBALD, of 440 Tenth
street.
In addition to young ALDRICH the injured are:
The Rev. H. H. MOYER, of Bay Thirty-fifth street and Cropsey avenue, shock.
James BRADLEY, of 768 Bay Twenty-Fourth street, shock and contusions.
J. J. BAHR, of Bay Twenty-fourth street, cut by glass.
Mrs. F. RUDOLFF, of 2242 Harway avenue, Ulmer Park, cuts, contusions and
shock. She also lost her pocketbook.
Walter MCGOWAN, of Bay Twenty-fifth street, shock.
Michael WHITE, of Bay Thirty-second street, cuts on both hands.
Frank C. TAYLOR, of Twenty-first avenue, shock.
Charles GOODWIN, of Bay Fourteenth street, shock.
Emil FOGLEY, of Bay Fourteenth street, cuts, bruises and shock.
Edward TIETJEN, of Hardway avenue, Ulmer Park, cuts and shock.
Mrs. M. FAGAN, of Eighty-Sixth street, bruises and shock.
Ambulance Surgeon STRATHMAN and a number of physicians in the neighborhood
attended the wounded. Many of them left without giving their names to the
police. The instruction car was a complete wreck and the road was blocked for
an hour and a half before the wreckage was cleared away.
17 December 1906
LILLIAN DUDLEY, HABITUAL DRUNKARD
WELL-TO-DO WOMAN COMMITTED TO HOUSE OF MERCY.-FATHER THE COMPLAINANT.
THREATENS HIS LIFE WHEN TAKEN TO COURT.
Lillian M. DUDLEY, of 730 Marcy avenue, was sent to the Episcopal House of
Mercy for six months by Magistrate NAUMER, in the Myrtle avenue court his
morning, on a charged off habitual drunkenness. The complainant was the young
woman's father, Henry M. DUDLEY, 60 years old, of 484 Greene avenue. Miss
DUDLEY'S anger knew no bounds when she heard her fate and she was heard to
exclaim, "If I had known that my father was going to make this charge against
me I would have shot him and myself, too."
Mrs. DUDLEY comes of a great family and her friends and neighbors have been
shocked by her intemperate habits.
While waiting to betaken to the House of Mercy, Miss DUDLEY was closely
watched in court by the officers, as it was feared she would carry out a
threat she made and attempt to jump from the window.
Miss DUDLEY'S home is a brownstone house on Marcy Avenue, facing Tompkins
Park, and was left to her mother, who died a year ago. She has lived there
since the death of her mother, surrounded by every luxury to be gotten with
money, but as a result of having no definite aim in life became intemperate.
DEATH SOON FOLLOWS HOSPITAL WEDDING.
James Watt DRYSDALE, a young iron worker, who was married in Bellevue
Hospital a week ago to Miss Christine FRASER JOHNSTONE, his boyhood
sweetheart, died yesterday. His wife, who was present, fainted.
DRYSDALE lived at 113 Bush street. While working on a building in Manhattan,
on Dec. 6, his foot became entangled in a rope and he fell from the eleventh
floor to the basement.
In the hospital he rebelled against marrying the girl of his choice, for if
he recovered he knew he would be a cripple. Miss JOHNSTONE, however, wouldn't
hear of refusal, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Edward SMITH,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Paul, at Richards and
Sullivan streets. An operation followed, from which Drysdale never rallied.
AGED BROOKLYNITE FOUND SUFFERING FROM EXPOSURE.
Charles WEINSHEIMER, 8? years old, of 335 Majer street, was found suffering
from cold and exposure on the Bowery, Manhattan, to-day. He was removed to
Bellevue Hospital.
MANY GUESTS ATTENDED HOFFMAN-ROSEN WEDDING.
At Washington Hall, Thatford and Pitkin avenues, last night, the wedding of
Miss Sarah ROSEN to Abraham HOFFMAN was solemnized. Almost four hundred
relatives and friends of the couple attended the ceremony, which was followed
by a reception. The couple are well known in Brownsville, and the bride was
the recipient of many handsome presents. miss Beckie ROSEN and Harry ROSEN, a
sister and brother of the bride, were bridesmaid and best man.
After a short honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. HOFFMAN will reside at 98 Christopher
avenue.
Some of the immediate relatives of the couple who attended the ceremony,
which was performed by Rabbi Morris RABINOVITZ, were: Mrs. Yetta ROSEN, Mr.
and Mrs. HOFFMAN, Mr. and Mrs. ROCKMORE, Mr. and Mrs. KALANTERSKY, Abraham
ROCKMORE, Joseph WHITE, Louis WHITE, Mr. and Mrs. BAYERS, Mr. and Mrs.
BELONOFSKY, Mr. and Mrs. KONWITHER, Mr. and Mrs. LINSHINSKY, Mr. and Mrs.
MEYERS, Mr. and Mrs. METZERSKY, Mr. BAKERMAN, Mr. and Mrs. LISHINSKY, and
Abraham KALANTERSKY.
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR MISS MARY E. BURKE
Miss Mary E. BURKE was tendered a birthday party last week at her home, 164
Eckford street. A number of out of town friends of Miss BURKE were pleasantly
spent in games and dancing. Among those present were Misses Della DONOHUE,
Molly REIRDON, Ellen DONOHUE, Irene GILLIGAN, Nora REIRDON, James KERNAN,
William FISHER, Herman PETRI, John FALKNER, Richard HURLEY, Mr. and Mrs.
William BURKE and Mr. and Mrs. Louis SHCRODER.
BRIDE COMPLAINS OF VAMP'S KISS
Admitted to House to "Inspect Gas Meters," He Assumed Insulting Attitude.
Fireman MILLER Arrested.
Mrs. Evelyn HANSON Claims He's the "Bold, Bad Man."
Deeply incensed at having a rude man intrude upon her and attempt to kiss
her, she being a bride of only three months, Mrs. Evelyn HANSON, seeks
revenge. She says that he was dressed in the uniform of the regular Fire
Department. She found Oscar MILLER, a fireman attached to Engine No. 133, in
Hull street near Broadway, and identified him as the man who had broken in
upon her honeymoon and dared to kiss her.
Mrs. HANSON is a daughter of William KILEY, ex-president of the Twenty-first
Assembly District Regular Democratic Club. She lives at 24 Shepherd avenue.
On Nov. 21, she says, a fireman in full uniform went to her door and, saying
that he was sent to inspect the gas meters in the house, asked to be
admitted. Not knowing that there are no such inspectors, Mrs. HANSON allowed
him to enter. He went into the cellar, she says, and rummaged about among the
meters. She went to the door, she says to let him out when he placed his arm
about her waist. Mrs. HANSON says that she resisted, but that the "bold, bad
man" kissed her against her will full on her ruby lips.
She told her husband when re returned home. He advised her to get a warrant.
She did not know the name of the fireman or where to find him. Determined to
bring him to justice, however, Mrs. HANSON began a systematic search of the
firehouses in the vicinity. She alleges that MILLER is the man and located
him at Engine No. 133. Court Officer CAULFIELD arrested him there.
MILLER was only recently sent to Engine No. 133. he was stationed at Engine
No. 136, in Liberty avenue, near Crescent street, at the time Mrs. HANSON
alleges that she was "bussed." MILLER live in Union Course. He is a good
looking fellow and pleaded not guilty to the charge in court. Mrs. Hanson
says that Miss Anna ANDERSON, who lives in the same house with her, saw a
fireman enter the house on the day she alleges she received the smack upon
the lips. Neither Mrs. HANSON nor Miss ANDERSON was in court, so Magistrate
HYLAN adjourned the case for a further hearing.
MILKWAGON DRIVER HELD FOR RUNNING OVER GIRL.
James B. DAVIS, 36 years old, of East Ninety-sixth street, Canarsie, was
brought before Magistrate HYLAN in the Gates avenue court, this morning,
charged with being the driver of the wagon that ran over Eva COHEN, 6 years
old, of 283 Sackman street, on Saturday, and fractured her leg. DAVIS was
arrested by Patrolman HATTER, of the Brownsville station, who says that
several residents of the neighborhood in which the accident occurred,
identified DAVIS as the drive of the wagon.
The case was adjourned until Jan. 24 to await the recovery of the COHEN girl
from her injuries.
18 December 1906
SAYS WOMAN THREATENED TO KILL HIS SON.
Mrs. Elizabeth LIEBIG, of 45 St. Nicholas avenue, was charged in the Adams
street court to-day with threatening to kill a boy thirteen years old, Elmer
PERRY, who lives with his father at 12 St. Nicholas avenue.
Mrs. LIEBIG was arrested at her home this morning on a warrant obtained by
Frank A. PERRY, father of the boy.
It appears tat Mrs. LIEBIG accused the boy of having assaulted her daughter.
The case was tried in Special Sessions and Elmer was acquitted.
The acquittal so angered Mrs. LIEBIG that she flew into a rage and in the
presence of witnesses cried out on the street: "Now, I'll take it in my own
hands. I will kill him (referring to the boy) if I have to go to the electric chair."
Mr. PERRY says he fears Mrs. LIEBIG may attempt to carry out her threat, and
the boy is afraid to go out. The case will be heard Oct. 25.
Transcriber:
Chris Hendrickson
Mary Davis
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