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Brooklyn Standard Union
1 April 1931
WORKMEN RESCUE MAN FROM RIVER
George MADISON, 33, of 22 Woodhull Street, is in Kings County
Hospital to-day suffering from exposure and submersion following
his rescue from the East River at the foot of Hamilton Avenue.
Two workmen whose names are not known pulled him from the river
and he was treated by an ambulance surgeon from Holy Family Hospital.
POLICE AIDING FATHER OF EIGHT WHO ESCAPED JAIL FOR LIFE
Detective Accuser at Trial Hunting Job for Him
If Angelo FILOSA, 40, ex-convict, is sincere in his
determination to make a strong fight to maintain by honest work
his wife and eight children, then he is going to find the police
his greatest friends and aid.
Today Detective Harry STATES, of Liberty Avenue station, is trying
to find a job of FILOSA, following his acquittal by a jury on a
charge of burglary in the third degree. It was the testimony of
Detective STATES, as well as the clever and opportune defense
offered by his attorney, John E. BRANDFON, that saved FILOSA
from a term of life imprisonment.
"This man's family has been destitute and the police have been
taking care of it," testified Detective STATES.
"You apparently want to help this man," said Judge NOVA,
of whose sympathy with the attitude of STATES there was no doubt.
JURY CHARITABLE
"I do want to get the entire picture before the jury," replied
STATES as he thumbed a red covered book.
When the jury announced its verdict of not guilty, Judge NOVA
said to them: "Of course your verdict was not founded on the facts.
It is your response to the appeal of this defendant's seven children.
You have been charitable, and I am not going to quarrel with you
on your charity."
Attorney BRANDFON did not put FILOSA on the stand. He rested
his case on the testimony of the people's witnesses, as well as
the introduction of the story of the desperate condition of the
defendant's family.
FOURTEEN YEARS CONVICT
Of his forty years FILOSA has spent fourteen as an inmate of
Sing Sing, Elmira and the penitentiary. Had he been convicted on
the burglary charge Judge NOVA under the Baumes laws would have
been compelled to send him away for life.
The charge against him was that on February 23 last, he had
crawled through a transom into a grocery store at 705 Blake avenue.
He got two dollars and twelve cents in cash, a quarter piece of
which was counterfeit. He had, it was alleged, packed up meats
valued at $25, but he was frightened off without being able to
take this food with him. It was said that he was stealing the
food for his family.
OFFERED LIFT, ESCAPE DEATH IN STOLEN CAR
Thrilling Ride to Theatre Includes Bullets and Embankment Plunge
Vincent MAHNKER, 23, of 216-25 113th avenue, Queens Village,
and Miss Edith VERZL, 16, of 61-15 228th street, Bayside, had a
thrilling experience last night while occupants of an automobile
which they did not know had been stolen and which was the
target for a number of shots fired by a pursuing policeman.
To cap the climax the automobile ran down an embankment
and the couple were fortunate to have escaped injury or
death. The driver of the automobile, who is believed to have
been the one who stole it, is being sought by the police.
MAHNKER and Miss VERZYL, friends for some time, were to
have gone to a theatre in Jamaica. To keep the appointment
the young woman rode by bus from Bayside to Queens Village to meet
MAHNKER. They were standing at Rocky Hill road and Hillside avenue,
waiting for a bus to Jamaica, when the stranger in the stolen
automobile offered them a ride.
PASSED TRAFFIC LIGHT
At Hillside avenue and 175th street, Jamaica, the driver
passed a red light. Patrolman James JONES, of Jamaica, was
nearby in a department car and he gave chase after the other car,
the driver of which put on speed when he realized he
was being pursued. He turned into 172nd street, crossed
Jamaica avenue and continued east through Douglas street
for about five blocks, when the driver lost control of
the car and it went over an embankment. In the meantime
Patrolman JONES had fired three or four shots at the fleeing
automobile but fortunately hit none of the occupants.
ALLOWED TO GO
When the patrolman reached the embankment the driver was
just crawling out from unter the overturned automobile. Under
cover of the darkness he ran away, as the policeman fired
another shot at him.After MAHNKER and the young woman had
freed themselves from the wreckage they were taken to
Jamaica police station. When they told their story they
were allowed to depart.
A short time before the accident the police received a report
the automobile had been stolen from in front of the home of
Cornelius ANDERSON, of 1109 Madison avenue, Manhattan.
TROLLEY FENDER PREVENTS DEATH
While crossing South Fourth and Havemeyer streets with a
load of bundles in her arm last night, Mrs. Ida SLOTNICK
of 322 Rodney street did not notice an oncoming Bushwick avenue
trolley car going south on Fourth street. Her husband, Louis did,
however. As he sought to grab her, both stumbled and fell in
the path of the trolley car. A fender on the front of the
car saved them both from being crushed to death. The car
dragged them two feet. Both were taken to St. Catherine's Hospital,
where they were treated for contusions, lacerations and abrasions,
and then sent home at their own request.
TWIN CHILDREN SAVED FROM GAS
Caroline and Antoinette DE SENA, two-year-old twin daughters of
Mrs. Caroline DE SENA, were made ill by illuminating gas in the
kitchen of their home at 102-12 Ninety-first street, Ozone Park,
last night.
They were playing on the floor when one of them brushed
against a heater opening one of the valves and causing
gas to escape. Their mother discovered them before they had
been overcome by the fumes. She summoned Dr. SAMOWITZ of
Jamaica Hospital, who treated them and left them at home.
ALLEGES STILL OPPOSITE SCHOOL
Frank INGRAHAM, 19, of 354 South Third street, will be
arraigned in Bridge Plaza Court to-day on a charge of
conducting a fire hazard. He was arrested by Detective DUNN,
of Fourteenth Inspection District.
DUNN said he found INGRAHAM, superintendent of a
thirty-family apartment house, operating a fifteen-gallon still
in the cellar at the side of a steam boiler.
The detective also pointed to the fact that the house is
opposite P.S. 50 in South Third street, near Driggs avenue.
GEYSER IN TIMES SQUARE SPOUTS WITHOUT WARNING, SHOWERS THEATREGOERS
Thousands of New Yorkers who never had been within a thousand
miles of Yellowstone Park were shown early to-day what a big geyser
looks like.
The geyser spouted without warning at Times Square as Broadway
was thronged with after-theatre and night club patrons. People ran
screaming in all directions as the cloud of steam and water shot
from a manhole eighty feet into the air, carrying with it bits of
pavement and rock. Two were burned.
A Water Department repair crew descended into a nearby manhole
and discovered that a broken water main had loosened the connection
on an underground steam pipe, and the steam was shut off.
2 April 1931
PATRIARCH, 103, PRESIDES OVER HOLIDAY FEAST
Youngest, 81, Asks Traditional Passover Questions at Jewish Home
Surrounded by his "family" of 387 old men and women, Reuben
MIRSKY, 103-year-old inmate of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital
for the Aged, Howard and Dumont avenues, last night conducted the
Seder service, inaugurating the first night of Passover. The
holiday will continue for a week.
As is the custom, Mr. MIRSKY, as the oldest one in the "family,"
was privileged to read the services, while the others, some of them
"youngsters" in comparison to his five score and three years,
followed, reading from the "Sidders," or prayer books.
This is the first time Mr. MIRSKY officiated over such a large
family, as eight months ago he and his wife lived in a two-room flat
behind an empty store at 365 South Third street. When his wife,
Feige, lost her sight, they were admitted, through the overtures of
friends, to the institution.
Nathan HOLDER, 81-year-old "kid" of the family, asked the four
"koshes," or questions that every youngest member of a Jewish family
asks his father or the one who conducts the services on the "Pesach" night.
The meal was in keeping with the holiday. During the services
and the meal that followed each member of the family was allowed
four glasses of raisin wine.
Throughout the city thousands of stores were closed to-day and
for the first time the public schools were closed in celebration of
the Passover. They will remain closed to-morrow in honor of Good
Friday and all next week.
Festivities began last night in hundreds of thousands of Jewish
homes in every borough of the city, with families reunited to
observe the ancient ceremonies.
Jewish poor throughout the city were remembered with gifts by
political associations, benevolent organizations, social service
groups and by the wealthy of their own race.
The American Hebrew magazine in its Passover issue, pointed to
the history of the Jewish race and of the Passover as an object
lesson in optimism and quotes a number of prominent men, including
John SPARGO, author and Socialist; Heywood BROUN, columnist;
Chares I. SCHWAB, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, and Adolph LEWISOHN, philanthropist.
FEAR WOMAN LOST IN GRAVEL PITS
Nassau County policy of the Woodmere station were examining
to-day the gravel pits between Hewlett and Valley Stream in a search
for Mrs. Gertrude TAPPAN, 26, of 1169 Railroad avenue, Hewlett, who
has been missing two days. It is thought the woman may have
suffered a fainting spell as she was walking past the pits and
fallen into one of them.
The pits are about forty feet deep, and probably contain several
feet of water, due to the recent heavy rains.
Mr. TAPPAN was last seen by her father, Daniel PODAMORE, of the
same address, when she visited him at the Long Island Railroad
crossing at Hewlett, where he is employed as watchman. She chatted
with him for a while, he told the police, then started for home,
going in the direction of the gravel pits. Mr. PODAMORE told the
police that his daughter was subject to fainting spells.
The woman's husband, Albert TAPPAN, reported her disappearance
to the policy after waiting many hours in the hope that she would
return home.
COMPLACENT ABOUT ROBBERT, BUT HE WOULDN'T BE BOUND
Bedford Merchant Grapples With Armed Chicago Youth
Had Edward DUNCAN, 19, a newsboy, who claims to have come to
Brooklyn two weeks ago from Chicago, where he lives on Wabash
avenue, been content to lock the rear door on a victim yesterday and
taken what money there was in the cash register, he might not now be
under arrest.
But he insisted upon binding his victim hand and foot to make
the robbery job easier and thereby brought about his own downfall.
DUNCAN entered the haberdashery store of Adolph MINTZ, at 1218
Fulton street, shortly before 7 o'clock. The proprietor was along
in the place and when the stranger produced a revolver and ordered
him into the rear of the store MINTZ complied.
He also obeyed the order to "lie on the floor," but he became
indignant when the youth pulled out a roll of adhesive tape and
proceeded to bind his arms.
"I lit out with both feet and kicked him in the stomach and when
he fell to the floor I pounced upon him," said MINTZ later in
explaining the incident to Policemen Lucien FIMBELL and Thomas
BENTLEY, who were summoned.
While the bandit and MINTZ were rolling about on the floor in
the rear room a customer entered the store and heard the commotion.
He ran into the rear room and was greeted by a shot from the
bandit's revolver. The bullet, however, went wild and then both men
overpowered the bandit and held him until the police arrived.
The prisoner was taken to the Grand avenue police station where
charges of assault and battery, carrying a concealed weapon and
attempted robbery were made against him. He denied ever having
participated in any other robbery and explained the one of last
night by saying he needed the money. He faced the police lineup to-day.
LEAKY GAS PIPE THREATENS FIVE
Two women and three children were overcome by gas early to-day
in their apartment at 3140 Emmons avenue, Sheepshead Bay section.
They were Mrs. Catherine ASHLEY, 35, and her three children,
Dorothy, 6; Robert 4, and Rita, 3, and Helen GALAGHER, 35.
Soon after the household had retired neighbors smelled gas and
summoned police who forced their way into the apartment and threw
open the windows. Gas was found to be escaping from a defective
feed pipe in the kitchen.
The women and children were revived by the Emergency Squad of
Sheepshead Bay station and Dr. GAUL of Coney Island Hospital and
remained at home.
BORO STUDENTS TAKE PRIZES
The prize for the best poster of eighty submitted in the annual
contest open to all students in art classes at Cooper Union was won
by Robert E. SMITH, 194 Meacher avenue, the Bronx, it was announced
yesterday.
Second place went to :
Sidney COHEN, 1124 College avenue, Bronx,
Third to Edward TUPACK, 33-26 Eighty-ninth street, Jackson Heights.
Other prize winners were:
Abraham HERSCOWITZ, 1626 Union street
Helen MACMURRAY, 118 Chestnut street
Joseph COHEN, 128 Powell street
Frieda ?LU?ATCH, 773 Willoughby avenue
David BAKER, 1521 Ocean avenue
Alvin POLATCHEK, 27 Marcy place, Bronx
Achilles DANIANI, 1926 Seventy-eighth street
Entries were judged for simplicity of color arrangement and
design, general attractiveness, detail of finish, and legibility
from a distance. More posters were submitted than in any previous
contest, many of them being contributed by students in the classes
of Frederic Ehrlich, instructor in commercial design.
WOMAN AND CHILD INJURED IN CRASH
Mrs. Ruby DAVIS, 35, of 544 Eighty-second street, and her
daughter, Dorothy, 7, received minor injuries early to-day when an
automobile in which they were riding collided with another car at
Fourth avenue and Eighty-first street. They were treated by Dr.
SABOTA, of Norwegian Hospital, and went home.
The other car was driven by Walter MURPHY, of 221 Forty-fifth
street. Owen DAVIS was the driver of the car in which the woman and
child were riding.
NEW SERGEANT COP 24 YEARS; SON ON FORCE
Campbell of Jamaica Has Congressional Medal for Service in Marines
George B. CAMPBELL, Jr., who for twenty-four years was a
patrolman assigned to the Queens Telegraph Bureau of the Police
Department, under Acting Capt. William ESTABROOK, shortly after
midnight began his new duties as a sergeant at the Queens Village
station. The promotion was made by Commissioner MULROONEY
yesterday, at the same time seventeen others were announced.
CAMPBELL is a member of a well-known Delaware family. His
great-great-grandfather was Major William DALBOLD, of New Jersey,
the first man to produce tomatoes in this country.
The sergeant was appointed to the police force on April 14,
1905, by Commissioner William MCADOO. He spent two years in uniform
at the Wilson avenue station and then was transferred to the
telegraph bureau.
CAMPBELL was among the members of Company E of the First Marine
Battalion in the Spanish-American War who were given Congressional
medals for the heroic part they played in the battle of Cousko Pass
and the bombardment of Manzinilla. He also saw service as a marine
in the Boxer uprising and the Philippine war.
The sergeant lives with his wife, Anna Jayne CAMPBELL, and
children, Charlotte CAMPBELL and Patrolman George R. CAMPBELL of
Jamaica station, at 85-16 152d street, Jamaica.
COP AND WIFE BADLY INJURED
Patrolman William WOOD, 35, attached to Mounted Squad B, in
Manhattan, and his wife, Viola, 28, received possible skull
fractures and other injuries yesterday when their automobile was
overturned in a collision at Woodhaven boulevard and Sixty-third
avenue, Rego Park. Both were taken to their home at 83-03
Sixty-third avenue, Elmhurst, after emergency treatment by Dr. DE
LEO, of St. John's Hospital, Long Island City.
Patrolman WOOD was driving north on Woodhaven boulevard when his
car was struck by an automobile driven west on Sixty-third avenue by
Percy WHITMAN, of 1833 Cornaga avenue, Far Rockaway, according to
the police.
DRIVER OF TRUCK REPORTS THEFT
Charles W. KLETZ, of 166-22 Bergen place, Jamaica, a truck
driver for the Phillip DORNBUSH Department Store in Jamaica,
reported to the police last night that he was held up by two men in
front of 8415 101st street, Woodhaven, where he was making a
delivery, and robbed of $87.
KLETZ said the men drew revolvers, making him put up his hands,
then took the money, which he said belonged to the department store.
HIT AND RUN CAR SOUGHT BY POLICE
Romeo NICOLETTO, 55, of 1616 Avenue M, received cuts and bruises
of the face and body late last night when struck by a hit and run
automobile driver as he was walking across Ocean Parkway at Prospect
Park Southwest. He went home after treatment by Dr. DAVIS of
Methodist Episcopal Hospital. Police of the Parkville station out
a general alarm for the automobile.
TOO STRONG
"I'm so strong, I don't know how strong I am," John WEISS, 36,
of 365 Fourteenth street, said when arraigned in Fifth avenue court
yesterday on a third degree assault charge brought by his wife,
Dora. The woman alleged he threw her to the floor and then punched
and kicked her. She was treated at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital
for her bruises and had to be aided getting to court.
3 April 1931
George DAVEY, 42, is recovering from the ill effects of gas,
which he suffered yesterday at his home at 62 Eighty-first street,
Glendale. A relative found his prostrate body in the kitchen and
summoned an ambulance doctor from Wyckoff Heights Hospital and the
Police Emergency Squad from Richmond Hill. DAVEY was revived with
an inhalator.
WOMAN THROWN FROM MACHINE
It was only after hours of questioning and investigation by
policy that Miss Bella GRUBSTEIN, 25, of 1345 Teller avenue, the
Bronx, would admit her identity or tell what happened to her before
she was found by a patrolman at Eighteenth and Cropsey avenues at 3
A.M. to-day.
According to Bath Beach policy, Miss GRUBSTEIN said she had been
riding in an automobile with a man friend who had put her out when
she refused to break her relations with her fiancée. In getting out
of the car, she said, she fell.
Now she is in Harbor Hospital, cut and bruised on the face, and
with a possible fracture of the skull. She was found by Patrolman
William DILLON, who took her to the station house when he could not
make her say who she was.
There, Detective Louis White questioned her and found a card in
her bag with the name and address of Rebecca ALEXANDER, 273
Fifty-eighth street, on it.
Investigation revealed, however, that the woman was not Miss
Alexander, after which Miss GRUBSTEIN told of her automobile ride
and the quarrel which ended with her getting out of the car.
FALL FROM TREE HURTS FLIER
ROCKVILLE, Conn., April 3 (UP)
Arthur ("Scottie") ADDISON, 21-year-old aviator, is recovering
from injuries received when he fell from a tree. ADDISON, who never
had a serious flying mishap, fell nearly 70 feet from an elm while
employed as a highway worker, sustaining broken ribs and internal injuries.
LADY MARY HEATH GRANTED LICENSE
Lady Mary HEATH, English flier, who was grounded two weeks ago
for flying low, has been granted a private pilot's license by the
Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Commerce, it was
learned at Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L.I.
Gilbert G. BUDWIG, director of air regulations of the
department, notified Lady Heath that she had been granted License
No. 5333. She passed the tests, including an unusually rigid
physical examination, two weeks ago. Officials wanted to be sure
she had completely recovered from injuries received when her plane
cracked up over Cleveland two years ago.
FALLS TWO FLIGHTS, HURT AND ARRESTED
John HERMIS, 39, of 837 Fifty-seventh street, is in Holy Family
Hospital to-day with a fractured skull sustained when he mistook an
open shaftway for an exit door and fell two flights in an office
building at 194 Court street. He was arrested by Butler street
police and charged with disorderly conduct and intoxication.
PYROMANIAC BLAMED FOR SLIGHT BLAZE
A fire, which police believe may have been started by a pyromaniac,
broke out in the rear hall of a four story tenement at 20 Jewel
street, Greenpoint, early to-day. Patrolman GIMPER, of Greenpoint
station, discovered it, and rang an alarm. Damage was slight.
DINNER FOR DR. MASON
Arrangements are being made for a testimonial dinner to be
tendered Dr. Gabriel R. MASON, principal of Abraham Lincoln High
School, West avenue and Ocean parkway, on Saturday evening, April
25, at the Half Mon (typed as written) Hotel, Coney Island.
Associate Superintendent of Schools Dr. William E. GRADY heads the
committee in charge of arrangements.
4 April 1931
INJURED IN FALL
John O'NEILL, 32 of 227 Cumberland street, attempting to alight
from a Grand street trolley car at South Fifth And Havemeyer
streets, yesterday, slipped and fell to the floor of the car. He
sprained his right wrist and suffered cuts and bruises on the face
and body. He was attended by an ambulance surgeon from St.
Catharine's Hospital and went home.
STEPS OVER CAT, FRACTURES LEG
Connstant FASCIEWSKIA, 39 years old, of 36 Moore street, is in
Kings County Hospital to-day, suffering from a fracture of the left
leg and internal injuries because he avoided stepping on a cat that
was in his pathway in the hallway of his home.
In stepping over the cat he lost his balance and fell heavily to
the floor. He was taken to the hospital by Ambulance Surgeon
MAKOWSKI of St. Catherine's Hospital.
TRUCK DRIVER ACCIDENT VICTIM
While crossing Sutphin boulevard at Archer place, Jamaica,
Cornelius GIBBONS, 36 a truck driver, of 119-37 147th street,
Jamaica, yesterday was struck and killed by an automobile owned by
John HEIDLEMANN, of 298 Miller avenue, Flushing, and operated by
Joseph LINDEMANN, of 33-43 103rd street, Corona. The police
investigated and said it was purely accidental.
CUPID WAITS WHILE COUPLE PROTEST OATH FOR LICENSE
Pastor Says Marriage Bureau Should Change Rules
A Brooklyn church board will, in all probability, seek to amend
or to have amended the rules of the Marriage License Bureau, it was
indicated to-day.
Trustees of the Pentecostal Church at 5111 Fifth avenue, are to
meet Friday to consider the refusal of Thomas L. THOMASSEN, a
laborer, and Miss Amalia SORENSON, a domestic, of 830 Park avenue,
Manhattan, to take an oath to obtain a marriage license in
Manhattan, and the subsequent refusal of the clerk of the bureau to
grant the license.
While willing to affirm to the truth of their statements
THOMASSEN and Miss SORENSON indicated they would wait until they can
go to Norway where an oath is not required in obtaining a license.
According to the Rev. Arne DAHL, of 916 Sixty-second street,
pastor of the church, the couple did right in refusing to take the
oath. He said he felt the Marriage License Bureau should make
exceptions and allow applicants to obey their religious beliefs.
"Sister SORENSON and Brother THOMASSEN did exactly right in
refusing to take an oath," the pastor declared.
"This is one of the tenets of our religion. We take it from
Matthew V. wherein our Lord inveighs against the taking of oaths.
We believe that every Christian should obey the word of Jesus."
THOMASSEN and SORENSON said that they were members of the
Pentecostal Church, and gave this as a reason for not taking the
oath. The church has no edifice of its own but holds services
evenings at a business school at 5111 Fifth avenue.
LODGE HAS ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP OF 2,500 - INSTALLATION APRIL 29
Edward VOGEL was elected dictator of Brooklyn Lodge, 14, Loyal
Order of Moose, at the clubhouse, 482 Franklin avenue.
Mr. VOGEL is an attorney and past president of the Harry WOLKOF
Association and the W. Caro Lodge, I.O.B.A. He is active in the
Brooklyn Lodge of Elks and the Democratic organization of the
Sixteenth Assembly District.
Other officers elected were Magistrate George M. CURTIS, Jr.,
senior past dictator; Reuben B. SMITH, junior past dictator; Homer
I. HARRIS, vice-dictator; Robert MACLEAN, prelate; I. PEIKES,
trustee; Dr. Joseph D. STEPHENS, treasurer; Joseph I. SCHWEINFEST,
secretary; Reuben B. SMITH, delegate to the supreme convention;
Magistrate CURTIS, alternate; Joseph I. SCHWEINFEST, delegate to
the State convention and Isidore JACKSON, alternate.
The Moose lodge has an active membership of 2,500. The lodge
provides sick and death benefits, supports a home for the orphan
children of the deceased members at Mooseheart, Ill., and an old age
home at Moosehaven, Fla. At present there are 1,200 children at the
orphans' home at Mooseheart, and several hundred of the aged
brothers, together with their wives, at Moosehaven.
Installation of officers will be held Wednesday evening, April
29, with Magistrate CURTIS and Dr. Louis D. GROSS as installing officers.
MOONEY RETIRES AFTER 30 YEARS
Patrolman Thomas H. MOONEY, clerical man at the Flushing
station, has been retired from active service upon his own request
by Commissioner MULROONEY after nearly thirty years of service. He
was appointed to the force on June 11, 1901, and his first
assignment was in the West Thirtieth street station in Manhattan.
He was soon afterward transferred to the mounted police and
served in that division in Manhattan from 1904 to 1907, and then was
transferred to the Whitestone station, now a part of the Flushing
station.
In 1915 he was transferred from mounted to bicycle duty, but
remained in Whitestone, even after the merger of the old station
with the Flushing station in 1916, until assigned to clerical duty
on April 6, 1920.
MOONEY lives at 12-02 148th street, Whitestone.
6 April 1931
SUSPECT IS SEIZED IN LAUNDRY HOLDUP
Charged with being one of two men who two weeks ago held up the
Stagg Street Laundry, at 150 North Fifth street, and escaped with
$524, Morris GOLDSTEIN, 24, of 1107 Lenox road, was in jail to-day
awaiting hearing in Bridge Plaza Court. Detective William MURPHY,
of Bedford station, followed a tip, arrested GOLDSTEIN last night at
his home.
SKULL FRACTURE SUDDENLY ACUTE
Rae De PAULO, 33, of 12?3 Thirty-eighth street, is in Coney
Island Hospital to-day with a fractured skull which she has had,
unknowingly, for the past two weeks.
On March 26, while boarding a Church avenue surface car at
Thirty-eighth street, she was thrown to the floor when the trolley
gave a sudden lurch. At the time she was treated by a private
physician and went about her usual routine.
Last night she suffered sharp pains at the nap of her neck and
her head. She was placed in a taxi and taken to Coney Island Hospital.
TENANTS ROUTED BY CELLAR BLAZE
A cellar fire, following an explosion, drove 100 families to the
street from the three three-story tenements at 37-38-41 Graham
avenue early to-day. Patrolman John TAMBORINO, of Stagg street
station, was passing No. 39 at 4 A.M. when a flash of flame and
smoke burst from a cellar window. The cellar was blazing when he
turned in an alarm, and when firemen arrived the blaze had spread to
the curtain and drape shop of Peter ZIDEL on the first floor.
Reserves from Stagg street station hurried tenants in the three
houses to safety while firemen, summoned by two alarms, fought the
blaze. It caused $7,000 damage.
EX-SHOW GIRL'S GEMS SNATCHED
New York was being searched to-day for two smartly dressed
robbers who gained entrance to the home of Marjorie ARDELL at 419
East Fifty-seventh street, Manhattan, on the pretext of delivering
Easter flowers, trussed the former vaudeville actress and her maid
to chairs and stole jewelry valued at $18,000.
The pair was believed by police to have watched Miss ARDELL,
divorced wife of Frank ARDELL, stage and screen comedian, for more
than a week. Miss ARDELL has retired from the stage.
Once inside, the thieves shoved the maid against the wall, drew
revolvers and demanded to know where her mistress was. The servant
nodded toward the bedroom. Leading the maid, the pair entered the
room and threw the covers from Miss ARDELL, at the same time
demanding to know where she kept her jewelry. She first denied
having any. Police compared the robbery of Miss ARDELL to that of
Gertrude WILLIAMS, former show girl, a week ago, when two well-dressed
men robbed her in a similar manner of jewels valued at $24,000.
CHILD INJURED BY STOLEN CAR
Nicholas LANNA, 19, of 1438 Fifty-ninth street, is awaiting
further hearing on charges of grand larceny, assault and leaving the
scene of an accident. He was held by Magistrate BLANCHFIELD in
Coney Island court yesterday in $2,500 bail on the larceny charge
for a hearing Wednesday, and in $1,000 bail each on the other two
counts for hearing in the traffic division of Homicide Court.
LANNA is supposed to have struck Mary ZANGO, 10, of 1552
Seventy-second street, with a stolen car at Seventy-fourth street
and Fifteenth avenue, Saturday, causing internal injuries which
necessitated the removal of the child to United Israel Zion
Hospital.
Patrolman Dennis CLARE of Bath Beach station, who was off duty
at the time, saw the car strike the girl and gave chase. He
reported LANNA was driving a machine stolen at the corner of
Sixty-fifth street and Seventeenth avenue from Aldo DeFEO, of 2172
Sixty-fifth street.
NASSAU COUNTY TO BE BASE FOR ARMY AIR MANEUVERS
672 Planes to Join in Aerial Attach on New York
Details of the forthcoming Army Air Corps maneuvers over Long
Island during May 21-24 have been received by the Long Island
Chamber of Commerce from F. Trubee DAVISON, Assistant Secretary of
War, in charge of Aviation, and Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. FOULOIS,
Assistant Chief of the Air Corps.
Nassau County will be the center of the Army air maneuvers, in
which 672 airplanes will participate. The planes will be housed and
serviced at Mitchel Field, Mineola; Roosevelt Field, Garden City;
Curtiss-Wright Airport, Valley Stream and the Fairchild Field at
Farmingdale. Divisional headquarters will be established by General
FOULOIS at the Army Air Corps bade, Mitchel Field. Thirty officers
will comprise his staff, with a total of 797 officers and 637
enlisted men engaged in the maneuvers.
The planes will arrive on Long Island en masse May 21, flying
here from Chicago by way of Dayton. Among the featured maneuvers
will be a bombardment of New York City at 11:00 P.M. May 22. This
is to be followed by a "main attack," with a great serial review of
the flying forces on May 23. Residents of the entire western half
of Long Island, as well as New York City and the Bronx will be able
to witness the thrilling air maneuvers.
During the visit of the Army Air Corps to Long Island, New
York's City's municipal airport at Floyd Bennett Field, Barren
Island, Brooklyn, will be officially opened. From Long Island, the
Army Air Corps armada of planes will visit the Eastern Atlantic
coast from Bangor, Main, to Washington.
WOMAN ESCAPES DEATH IN PATH OF TROLLEY CAR
Sustains Skull Fracture When Hit by Auto - Other Accidents
Fanny SOBEL, 32, of 142 Herzl street, sustained a possible
fracture of the skull last night when struck by an automobile as she
was crossing St. Johns place, near Ralph avenue. Besides being
struck by the automobile, which was driven by Thomas BEREFORD, of
786 Bergen street, according to the police, the woman narrowly
escaped being run over by a St. Johns place trolley car.
The automobile hurled here in the path of the trolley car, but
the motorman, Joseph ROGAN, of 7 McDonough street, brought the car
to a stop as the fender brushed against the woman. BEREFORD took
the woman to Unity Hospital.
Nathan HERTER, 45 of 60 Columbia street, was crossing Livonia
avenue when he was struck by a Wilson avenue trolley car operated by
Motorman Jerry McCARTHY, of 2183 Atlantic avenue.
HERTER received severe lacerations and contusions on the body,
but he went home after he was treated by an ambulance surgeon from
Brownsville and East New York Hospital.
Mrs. Mary CRODD, 55, and her husband, Edward, 60, both of 9725
115th street, Richmond Hill, Queens, were severely hurt when an
automobile in which they were riding collided with another car at
Bedford and Atlantic avenues.
Edward CRODD's collarbone was fractured and his wife received
lacerations on the face. Both were treated by an ambulance surgeon
from Jewish Hospital. They went home. The other car was operated
by Louis Brotkin, of 1746 President street. No arrest was made as
police decided the collision resulted from a misunderstanding of
signals.
GIRL IN PARK DRINKS IODINE
Miss Elizabeth THOMPSON, 21, of 2234 Ocean avenue, drank a
quantity of iodine, according to the police, when seated last night
on a bench in Prospect Park, at Lincoln road and the East drive.
She went home after treatment by Dr. LANG, of the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital.
The young woman told police that her parents were dead and that
she was out of work and despondent.
THIEVES REVEALED BY SEARCHLIGHT
Three Bronx youths, two of them trapped on a church roof with
the aid of searchlights, were held for robbery to-day after holding
up twenty-five persons at a party in Harlem.
The trio entered the home of Esther DOIVOINEN, at 9 West 126th
street, with drawn revolvers. While two of them covered the guests,
the third rifled clothing of the merrymakers, taking jewelry and
cash valued at $200.
One of the women slipped out a side door unnoticed and notified
a policeman, who summoned reserves. About 50 policemen and
emergency wagon arrived and surrounded the entire block. Others
climbed to the roof and played searchlights on surrounding
buildings. The lights picked out two men crouching on a nearby
church. The third was found hiding in the house where the holdup
occurred.
ROOKIE COPS SLASHED BY TRIO; ARRESTED MEN BADLY BEATEN
Third Still Wanted for Part in Bushwick Battle
Two men held without bail on a charge of beating and stabbing
two rookie patrolmen are much the worse for wear to-day and a third
is likely to be if the police ever get hold of him.
The rookies were attacked by three men in the hallway adjoining
an all-night restaurant at 305 Sumner avenue, early yesterday, but
two of their assailants were captured by another uniformed policeman
and two detectives who subdued the prisoners only with the greatest
difficulty and by means of blackjacks and nightsticks.
The prisoners later identified themselves as Maurice SKELTON,
22, of 361 Jefferson avenue, and Joseph DERRY, 22, of 1211 Fulton
street. Magistrate George H. FOLWELL, in Gates avenue court,
ordered them held without bail for a further hearing, April 9, on a
charge of felonious assault.
ADMIT DRINKING
Patrolmen John MARLEY and Dennis J. GLYNN, both young rookies
assigned to Gates avenue station, were in a police department
automobile, patrolling Sumner avenue, when they saw a man kick his
foot through the glass panel of the restaurant door.
When MARLEY and GLYNN followed the man into the hallway, the
fugitive and two other men met the policemen and the fight started.
Later, the two who were arrested admitted they had been drinking,
and that fact may have accounted for their courage and strength, for
both policemen were overpowered, punched, beaten and kicked
mercilessly.
When the two policemen lay helpless on the floor of the hallway,
one of the others - it was DERRY, the policemen said later - drew a
pocketknife and proceeded to slash their faces, necks and hands.
FIVE SHOTS FIRED
Meantime, the uproar had attracted persons to the street outside
the restaurant, and a citizen telephoned to the Gates avenue
station. Detectives Albert FARRINGTON and Harry BILMS, and
Patrolman George SMITH hurried to the scene in an automobile. As
they neared the restaurant, the three men ran into the street and
separated. The detectives fired five shots and two of the men
stopped, but the other one ran into a hallway and escaped.
But when the detectives and patrolman attempted to "collar" the
two men, they found there was plenty of fight left in the prisoners,
and a large crowd watched a rough-and-tumble between the five men on
the sidewalk, during which the detectives made effective use of
their blackjacks, and SMITH brought his nightstick to bear upon the
situation.
But SKELTON and DERRY, depending wholly upon their fists,
shouted encouragements to each other from time to time, and they
kept on fighting. It was a fight to be long remembered by all who
took part, and by all who saw it. But superior numbers finally
swung the balance, and the prisoners had little fight left in them
as they were dragged and carried to the automobile to be taken to
the police station.
MEDICAL ATTENTION
Meanwhile, ambulances had been summoned from St. John's and Beth
Moses Hospital, surgeons took ten stitches in the cuts on the face,
neck and hands of GLYNN, and eight stitches were required to make
MARLEY whole again. Both were assisted to their homes for further
treatment. Then the ambulance surgeons treated the two
prisoners--and they needed plenty of surgical attention, too.
In the absence of the rookie policemen from the court
arraignment, Detective FARRINGTON made the charges against SKELTON
and DERRY - as forlorn a pair of beaten men as ever appeared in a
courtroom.
MEETS SISTER AFTER 20 YEARS
As happy a trio as exist anywhere can be found in Ridgewood
to-day. Two sisters, who had not seen their brother for twenty
years, celebrated a reunion with him at the home of the elder
sister, Mrs. Katherine FURONE, at 1438 Madison avenue.
The three, James CARAFOLA of Massena, N. Y., Mrs. FURONE and
their sister, Mrs. Frances MATTEO, were brought together through the
efforts of a parish priest, Father HURLEY of St. Mary's Church,
Massena.
Father HURLEY told the story of CARAFOLA's fruitless search,
traced the sisters through the Roman Catholic orphanage in
Westchester County, where the three children had been placed on the
death of their mother more than twenty years ago. About two years
after their admission to the orphanage the two girls were adopted by
a Brooklyn family and later married.
James was also adopted, but he was taken by a family up-State.
Grown to manhood he wandered about in search of his sisters, finally
settling in Massena. His joy was boundless when Father HURLEY told
him he had heard from the sisters and that plans could be made for
the reunion.
RODE IN OX-CARTS, NOW TAKE PLANE
Three persons whose ages approach the century mark, made their
first flight in an airplane yesterday at Roosevelt Field. They flew
in a Waco biplane, piloted by John S. DONALDSON, conductor of a
flying school at Richmond Hill, Queens.
The passengers were Mrs. Andrew MAGILL, 84, of Whitenville,
Mass.; John LEWELLYN, 86, of Jamaica, a civil war veteran, and Amos
DENTON, 96, of Jamaica.
"They all remembered riding in ox-carts as children, but said
they were thrilled by the plane ride," DONALDSON said.
FOUR PERSONS BITTEN BY DOGS
Numerous reports of persons bitten by dogs were received by
policy at Brooklyn headquarters yesterday. In most cases, the
victims were members of families to which the dog belonged.
Morris KATZ, 42, of 525 East Ninety-fifth street, was bitten in
the left leg by a small dog on the street near his home. He was
treated by an ambulance surgeon and went home.
Beatrice SACHER, 7, of 16 Lewis avenue, was bitten on the right
cheek by the family pet while she was playing with the animal in her home.
Arthur GRAHAM, 8, of 2643 East Eighteenth street, was bitten in
the left thigh by a large strange dog on the street near his home.
An ambulance surgeon from Coney Island Hospital cauterized the wound
and permitted the boy to remain at home.
Joseph KANE, 26, of 605 Knickerbocker avenue, was bitten in the
left finger by his dog at his home and was treated by a Bushwick
Hospital ambulance surgeon.
7 April 1931
FREQUENT MINOR ACCIDENTS
Minor accidents happened at frequent intervals in the borough
but only three persons were seriously injured.
Vincent SCOTTO, 38,of 110 First place, suffered a fractured skull
when his automobile struck a crowded street car on
Flatbush avenue, near Prospect Park.
Margaret SPENCE, 54, of 304 St. Johns place, suffered a fracture
of the left leg and Jeanette Brown, 55, of 151 Sterling place,
fractured her right leg when they were struck by an automobile as
they crossed Underhill avenue and Lincoln place.
Others injured in traffic accidents:
Tilly FELZSHER, 30, of 201 East Fifty-second street;
Isaac VINCOR, 23, of 456 Georgia avenue;
Eva ANNAPOLSKY, 49, of 2103 Sixty-second street;
Williams WHALEN, 30, of 506 Ninety-fourth street;
John DINNIGAN, 33, of 47 Reeves place;
Charles DENVIVINGO, 27, of 123 Avenue N;
Angelo MASCIA, 49, of 2270 Eighty-sixth street, and
Samuel DORFMAN, 47, of 507 Avenue F.
SIXTY BOROUGH FAMILIES FLEE BLAZING HOMES
Bay Ridge Radio Shop and Greenpoint House in Flames
Sixty borough families were routed from bed last night and this
morning by two two-alarm fires. One burned out the Maxwell radio
shop and part of the three-story building at 8308 Fifth avenue and
nearly cost the life of David MANN, deaf mute who refused to leave
the top floor apartment and was carried out by policy.
The other starting in the basement of a three-story frame house
at 169 Boerum Street, Greenpoint, forced ten families to the street
in night clothes, spread to the adjoining houses were assisted to
the street by policy, and several overcome by smoke were treated by
the Emergency Squad of the Herbert Street Station.
Patrolmen KENNY, FOSTER, TAMBERINO and Sergeant SHEEHY of
Herbert street station were among the first at the scene. They
helped ten families down the smoke-filled halls of the house at No.
173. After the second alarm, they were joined by police reserves
and firemen in warning other families. Damage was estimated at
$30,000. What caused the fire is not known.
Mrs. MANN and William were escorted out. David held back, but
the patrolman helped him out.
Origin of the fire was being investigated to-day. Samuel
MAXWELL, owner of the radio shop, closed it at 10 o'clock, an hour
before it started, and nothing seemed amiss, he said, when he closed
it and went upstairs to bed. The building was owned by Laura LEE,
167 Seventy-seventh street. Damage was estimated at $25,000.
WINDOW SMASHED, MAN AWAITS HEARING
Thomas GAFFNEY, 31, of 407 West Sixtieth street, Manhattan, was
in Bedford precinct jail to-day awaiting hearing in Bridge Plaza
court charged with malicious mischief. Early to-day according to
Patrolman CANSORA, he kicked in the window of Ruth's beauty shop at
361 Broadway.
BURGLARS FLEE BULLETS OF COP
Burglars, surprised as they tried to force an entrance to a drug
store at 839 Empire Boulevard, at 4 A.M. to-day, escaped in a
waiting automobile as Patrolman Abraham TORKENE, of Empire Boulevard
station fired several shots at them.
TORKENE was on patrol when he saw a car standing at the curb in
front of the store, which is owned by William JACOFF. There was a
man behind the wheel and TORKENE saw the figures of two others in
the doorway. He tried to sneak up on the car, but the driver saw
him and blew his horn.
The other two dropped their task and jumped into the car. As it
sped away TORKENE emptied his pistol after it. Glass from the rear
window crashed into the street.
Police warned hospitals and physicians to be on the watch for a
man or men seeking treatment for gunshot wounds.
LONE BANDIT GETS $112 IN TWO JOBS
A long bandit flourishing a gun held up a Sobel Bros. gasoline
station at Atlantic and Grand avenues early to-day and robbed the
manager, William CAREY, of $65.
A short time before detectives at Police Headquarters learned a
man had been seen leaving a Thomas ROULSTON store at 513 DeKalb
avenue. Investigation revealed the store had been broken into and
about $55 taken.
ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY MOVES TO PRESERVE OLD TIDE MILL
Pledges Support to Browne's Efforts in Marine Park
The St. Nicholas Society of Long Island held it's eighty-third
annual meeting and paas supper last night at the Hotel Bossert. The
organization was founded in 1848 to perpetuate the history of Long
Island.
On motion of Charles A. DITMAS, chairman of the historical
committee and president of the Kings County Historical Society, the
society adopted a resolution to be sent to Park Commissioner James
J. Browne, pledging aid to him in helping to preserve GERRETTSON'S
Tide Mill in Marine Park.
According to Mr. DITMAS, the mill is the only one of its kind in
New York City, dating back to Revolutionary days. Commissioner
BROWNE, a few weeks ago, shortly after the Board of Estimate had
refused to pass on a $20,600 appropriation to help rebuild the old
mill, declared that it could be saved and restored to its former
appearance with an appropriation of $3,000.
BURTIS RE-ELECTED
Clare E. BURTIS, former secretary for the past four years, was
elected as president. He also acted as toastmaster.
Former County Judge Howard P. NASH discussing "Capital
Punishment," said drastic punishment had not proved itself
satisfactory in curbing crime. He urged that punishment be meted
out on a "basis of just deserts."
David W. KETCHAM, retiring president, in reading his report,
disclosed that the organization now had 274 members, all descendants
of the early Dutch. Ten new members were admitted.
The society also appropriated fifty dollars toward continuing
the religious services in the English language in the Reformed
Church in The Hague, Holland.
Reports were handed in by Mr. BURTIS, as retiring secretary;
John J. REMSEN, treasurer; Mr. DITMAS, as chairman of the
historical committee; Harry DeMOTT, chairman of the financial
committee; and William H. KOUWENHOVEN, chairman of the nominating
committee.
COMMITTEES NAMED
The following were appointed by Mr. BURTIS as members of
committees;
William R. LOTT,
J. VAN WICKLEN BERGEN and Charles RAPELJE, nominating committee.
Mr.DeMOTT,
H.A. DITTMARS and H.V. GERRETTSON, financial committee,
Mr. DITMAS, Edward BENNETT and Mr. KOUWENHOVEN, historical committee.
The following were the other officers nominated and elected last
night;
Moses S. LOTT,
George S. MANFORT,
George N. RYERSON,
Wheeler N. VOORHEES,
William J. RYDER,
George E. VAN SICLEN,
Oscar B. WAY and Cornelius D. HOAGLAND, vice president;
Garrett U. S. RYERSON, secretary;
Arthur BENNETT KOUWENHOVEN, assistant secretary;
John T. REMSEN, treasurer;
the Rev. Charles W. ROEDER, chaplain;
Dr. H.M. MILLS and Dr. William H. JESSUP, physicians.
WICKED TO SWEAR, SO COUPLE MAY MARRY BY 'AFFIRMING'
Get License Without Any Violation of Religious Principle
By substituting the work"affirm" for the word "swear", Amalia
SORENSON, waitress in a Park avenue hotel, and Thomas THOMASSEN, of
545 Fifty-sixth street, have obtained their marriage license without
violating the principles of their religion.
They are both natives of Norway and members of a small
Pentecostal Church at 5111 Fifth avenue. Last Thursday, when they
had made out their application for a marriage license, Julius
BROSEN, clerk at the Marriage License Bureau, asked them to raise
their right hands and "swear that to the best of your knowledge the
statements that you have made herein are the truth, so help you
God," They refused to swear, saying it was not right for church
members to swear.
But yesterday they returned, made out their applications again,
and this time, smiling broadly, refused to swear. The clerk was
bewildered.
Their pastor, the Rev. Arne DAHL, of the Norwegian Pentecostal
Church, 5211 Fifth avenue, stepped up and explained to the clerk
that Assistant Corporation Counsel George COWIE, had said the couple
could "affirm" instead of "swearing." He presented a note from
COWIE to the clerk.
BROSEN, too, smiled and said, "Do you solemnly, sincerely and
truly declare and affirm that the answers you have given are true?"
The couple answered yes, with one accord. They had their license.
The clerk looked at the end of the license and with pen in hand
scratched out the work "sworn" and substituted "affirmed." He
signed his name. They will be married Saturday night. They are happy.
PATROLMAN KELLY ON HIS HONEYMOON
Patrolman James W. KELLY and his bride, the former Miss Helen
McGONIGLE of Astoria, are in Atlantic City for their honeymoon. The
couple were married Sunday in St. John's Church, Fifty-eighth street
and First avenue, Manhattan.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGONIGLE of
28-28 Twenty-ninth street, Astoria. Her father is assistant to City
Clerk Michael CRUISE. Patrolman KELLY is attached to the West
Thirtieth street station in Manhattan. His home has been at 214
Beach Eighty-third street, Rockaway, and upon their return from
Atlantic City, the couple will live in the Rockaways.
AUTO OVERTURNS, THREE ARE HURT
Mrs. Mary HYLAND, 44, of 102-12 235th street, Richmond Hill, is
in the Mary Immaculate Hospital to-day suffering from fractures of
both arms and a possible fracture of the skull, and her husband,
William, 44, and a friend, Mrs. Anna AMBROSE, 42, of 94-18 106th
street, are at their homes recovering from injuries following an
accident last night to the car in which they were riding overturned.
According to Richmond Hill police the three were in a car driven
by Reginald HYLAND, of 102nd street and 91st avenue, Richmond Hill
where a car operated by Mary STEWART of 101-52 115th street struck
them and the HYLAND car was overturned. Mrs. HYLAND, the most
seriously injured, was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital in a
serious condition. Mr. HYLAND was treated for abrasions and
contusions of the right arm and chest and Mrs. AMBROSE for
contusions of the scalp and both were sent to their homes.
Neither of the drivers was held,
COLLEGE POINT
The early bird gets the worm, according to the axiom, but,
according to Capt. Robert C. WHITTEN, of the College Point Life
Guards, College Point worms are being dug up by rank outsiders from
Nassau County. He wants something done about it.
Most of the Nassau beach communities have laws forbidding worm
digging by fishermen, Capt. WHITTEN said, and the marauders come to
College Point where they think they are free to dig to their hearts'
content.
The captain protests loudly because he pointed out the College
Point worms have served the anglers of the section for generations.
He said the bait hunters from Nassau arrive in launches and
motorboats and drag the beach with anchors and rakes. Capt. WHITTEN
said he would like the aid of the police.
CHILD SERIOUSLY BURNED AT HOME
Ada SMITH, 8, is in the Flushing Hospital in a serious condition
as a result of burns she sustained yesterday when her dress caught
fire from a kitchen range in her home at 85 Congress avenue,
Flushing.
The flames were beaten out by other members of the family, who
stripped the child of the flaming garments when she ran screaming
through the house.
VETERAN TAKES IODINE AS HE TALKS TO COP
Complains at Bergen St. Station of Delayed Discharge Papers
Fred FITZGERALD, 36, said to be a shell-shocked veteran of the
World War, entered the Bergen street police station last night,
complained that he was not getting justice at the hands of the
Government, then, according to the police, took a phial of iodine
from his pocket and placed it to his lips.
He had drunk a small quantity of the poison before police could
snatch the bottle away from him. An ambulance surgeon, summoned to
the station house from Jewish Hospital, took the veteran to Kings
County Hospital. His condition is not believed to be serious.
FITZGERALD, who is unmarried, lives with his mother and a
brother at 331 Sackett street. He served during the war with
Company I, Eighty-first Infantry. He is said to have undergone
treatment at Government hospitals on several occasions for nervous
disorders resulting from shell shock.
"Do I get justice, or don't I?" FITZGERALD began, as he entered
the station house and posted himself in front of the desk of Lieut.
Frank LONERGAN. "If I don't get justice," he resumed, "I want to
know why. You get better justice in Hell than I get here."
It was at this juncture that the veteran is alleged to have
placed the bottle to his lips. Sergt. Howard SMITH and Patrolman
TERRY, who is doorkeeper at the station house, grabbed the phial.
Policy say they learned that Fitzgerald recently borrowed money
on his adjusted compensation certificate, and that he had brooded
over the actual or fancied holding up of his discharge papers by the
Veterans' Bureau.
8 April 1931
BROOKLYN BREVITIES
SUSTAINS FRACTURE
When she slipped and fell in her home at 2362 West Thirty-fifth
street, Coney Island, yesterday, Mrs. Henrietta WEINRID, 65,
sustained a possible fracture of the left leg and contusions of the
forehead. She was taken to Coney Island Hospital.
FRIENDSHIP BROKEN
There was a time when Thomas STALZER, 65, of 240 Cook street and
George SCHEUERMAN, of Aldermer street and Sixty-third drive, Forest
Park, were friends. But a loan of $25 broke the friendship.
Yesterday STALZER appeared in Bridge Plaza court to answer a charge
of assault in the third degree. SCHEUERMAN said that STALZER struck
him with a cane. This the latter denied, saying SCHEUERMAN struck
him when he asked for the $25.
STALZER was held in $100 bail by Magistrate LIOTA for the Court
of Special Sessions. His personal bond was accepted.
9 April 1931
BLIND BAY RIDGE STUDENT WINS HONORS AT COLUMBIA
Olaf Larsen Makes Phi Beta Kappa - Won Scholarship
Olaf Leonard LARSEN, of Bay Ridge, a blind member of the Class
of 1931 at Columbia University, is among thirty-one seniors newly
elected to the Columbia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholastic fraternity.
LARSEN prepared for college at the New York Institute for the
Blind. After being graduated, he worked for three years as a home
teacher and liaison officer for the Brooklyn Industrial Home for the
Blind earning money for his college work. He entered Columbia with
the Class of 1931.
LARSEN won several awards, among which was the Seth LOW
scholarship for scholastic achievements. At present he is working
on a thesis dealing with the history and origins of American museums
of art for his A.M. degree.
Others who received the key of the scholastic honorary society
last night were Henry WALTER, a member of the Columbia varsity crew;
John N. WEBB, editor of Varsity and former president of the
Philolexian Society; James BOUGH, a Negro who was born in the
Virgin Islands; Leslie TAGGART, for two years leader of the
Columbia delegation to the League of Nations, and Nathaniel WEYL,
son of the late Walter E. WEYL, publicist and author of "Tired
Radicals." WEYL's mother is a sister of the late Ernest POOLE,
Brooklyn Heights resident and noted novelist.
FLEEING YOUTH ON ROOF SHOT BY PATROLMAN
Caught, Police Allege, Entering Skylight Near Gates Avenue Home
John HURLEY, 20, of 225 Gates avenue, was taken to the
Cumberland Street Hospital in critical condition to-day after being
shot over the heart by Patrolman Daniel LANGAN, of Classon avenue
station, according to the police, in the course of a chase over the
roofs of a row of tenement houses in Gates avenue.
At the hospital the youth is held a prisoner, on a charge of
attempted burglary made against him by LANGAN. It is alleged by the
patrolman that he caught HURLEY in the act of trying to enter the
tenement house at 215 Gates avenue, which is five doors from his own
home, through a skylight opening in the roof.
Charles R. WONDLE, a Negro, who lives on the top floor of the
house at 215 reported to the police he had been hearing footsteps on
the roof, and last night Patrolman LANGAN went to the roof and
concealed himself to await developments. He had been there only a
short time, according to the police, when young Hurley came stealing
across roofs from the house in which he lives and began tampering
with the skylight of the house at 215.
LANGAN then stepped from his hiding place and approached HURLEY,
whereupon the latter started running across the roofs toward the
house in which he lives. LANGAN, in pursuit, ordered him to halt,
he said, and when he kept running the patrolman fired a shot in the
air. When this proved ineffective he fired at the fleeing figure
and the youth fell with a bullet over the heart.
HURLEY is unmarried and is an elevator operator.
10 April 1931
MOTHER ACCUSED AS KNIFE HURLER
Accused of throwing a carving knife at her daughter, Aldona, 9,
when the child refused to wash dishes, Mrs. Anna PATRICK, a widow,
36, of 58 Stagg street, is in jail to-day awaiting a hearing before
Magistrate LIOTA in Bridge Plaza court, charged with felonious
assault.
Aldona was standing on a chair before a mirror powdering her
nose, when the call to wash dishes came from her mother, according
to Patrolman Walter FOSTER of Stagg street station, but Aldono
(typed as written) turned up her nose at the idea. The knife came
flying at her and slashed both wrists, FOSTER said.
The patrolman summoned an ambulance surgeon from St. Catherine's
Hospital to attend Aldona and sent Mrs. PATRICK's other daughter,
Stella, 7, to the Children's Society.
SECOND IN CHARGE AT MASPETH PLANT
Thayne S. WILLIAMS has been placed as assistant superintendent
of the Western Electric Company's Queensboro works at 6600
Metropolitan avenue, Maspeth. Mr. WILLIAMS has had ten years of
service with the company. Following his graduation from Purdue he
started in the cable planning department in its Chicago plant. In
1924 he was transferred East when its works at Kearney, N.J., was
under construction. He advanced rapidly there and, before his
appointment to the Queensboro plant, held the position of chief of
maintenance at Kearny.
MOTHER IS HELD AS AUTO DRUNK
Mrs. Mabel A. ERICSON, 36, mother of a 9-year-old son and wife
of an electrical engineer, held in $500 bail by Magistrate Thomas F.
DOYLE in Jamaica court to answer next Wednesday a charge of driving
an automobile while intoxicated, is free to-day, her husband having
given the court the necessary bond.
Patrolman James A. NEVILLE of Troop P declared that on Wednesday
evening Mrs. ERICSON zig-zagged an automobile along 159th street,
near Eighty-ninth avenue. Jamaica. He alleges that when Mrs.
ERICSON stopped at his command he found her to be under the
influence of liquor. Mrs. ERICSON lives in a fashionable home at
88-40 212th place, Queens Village.
L. I. BOYS FOLLOW URGE OF THE SEA
Since the announcement that the Navy has resumed recruiting
throngs are applying daily at the Navy Recruiting Station, 8 Fourth
avenue, and at the branch offices at Jamaica, Long Island City,
Hempstead, Freeport and Huntington.
Among the latest quota to leave for the training station at
Newport, R.I., are: Clifford T. SWANSON, 105-72 130th street,
Richmond Hill; Henry J. BUCKOWSKI, 109-28 Liverpool street,
Jamaica; Joseph H. BOCK, 20-36 Nineteenth avenue, Astoria; Henry
W. WASSBERG, Richard avenue, Islip Terrace; Howard T. GALLETLY, 63
Fern street, Hempstead; John STALTER, Bedell avenue, Babylon, and
Franklyn B. SHOEMAKER, 9115 213th street, Queens Village.
BOY'S MISS TARGET, SHOOT GIRL IN HIP
RIVERHEAD, L.I., April 10--Bertha KELLY, 8, of Upper Mills, a
hamlet one mile from here, was shot in the right hip as she stood in
the year of her home yesterday. Policy arrested four youths, about
18 years old, who were shooting at a target in the vicinity. Bertha
was taken to the Southampton Hospital. The prisoners gave their
names as Henry BOZLUSKI, Kozmer KARCHENSKI, Henry VICTORIA and Leo
CECOWSKI, all of Riverhead.
11 April 1931
POLICE TRACING HER INCOME OF $1,000 A WEEK
Robbery Now Seen as Motive for Strangling of Vice Witness
Thousands of dollars, believed to have been hidden by Vivian
GORDON shortly before she was taken on her death ride, were being
sought by police to-day when it was learned that for months before
her death she was receiving $1,000 weekly, either from blackmail
threats or from a lover. With this latest clue and the arrest of
Harry STEIN's sweetheart, a red-haired beauty whose name police
refuse to divulge, additional developments in the strange mystery
are expected to-day.
During the weeks of investigation after the titian-haired
play-girl was found dead in Van Cortlandt Park, police believed she
had been in dire need of money. There are no bank records of the
thousands of dollars she had been receiving but according to latest
information, Miss GORDON carried huge sums of money with her when
she left her luxurious apartment every night.
If some trace of the money is not found, police believe they can
positively put down robbery as the motive for her murder on the
theory that the money, as well as her expensive fur coat, diamond
ring and her wrist watch was taken by her murderer.
KNEW OF HER INCOME
STEIN, who is charged with her murder, knew that she was
receiving large sums of money every week and that she did not
deposit it in a bank, police said to-day.
STEIN's sweetheart, who somewhat resembles the murdered woman,
was wearing a metal wristwatch similar to the one missing from the
effects of Vivian GORDON, when she was taken into custody to-day,
police said.
The girl was questioned for more than twenty-four hours and told
police that she had been keeping company with STEIN for nearly three
years and that they were engaged to be married. Police said she
denied having any knowledge of the murder and that she believed she
was the "red-headed woman" frequently seen in STEIN's company and
not Miss GORDON.
"I know all about his past record." the girl said when
questioned about STEIN. "I know that he was sentenced for
strangling and robbing a woman and I also know of other things he is
accused of doing. But I love him and we were going to be married."
John A. RADELOFF, the slain woman's attorney, told the police
that Miss Gordon kept all of her money and valuables either on her
person or in her apartment. He said that she feared banks and had
closed out her last account shortly after the closing of the Bank of
United States.
TRACE LARGE PARCEL
Police said to-day that they are coming to the end of their
search for the mink coat and the jewelry taken from Miss GORDON's
body. A large parcel, big enough to have contained the coat, was
taken to STEIN's former apartment at 1312 Park avenue recently and
police believe the pawnbroker who bought it was making an attempt to
return it.
In the meantime, STEIN continued his charges that his arrest and
everything connecting him with the crime was "framed". His
attorney, Samuel S. LIEBOWITZ, predicted last night that the case
would "collapse under its own weight" within a week.
That he was going to fight the case from the start was indicated
by LIEBOWITZ when he announced that when STEIN comes up for
examination Tuesday he will seek his release by denying the
jurisdiction of Bronx officials.
"How does anybody know Vivian GORDON was murdered in the Bronx?"
he was asked. "The spot where her body was found is only a
two-minute automobile ride from the Westchester County line.
Physicians said she had been dead six to nine hours when her body
was discovered, and in that time, she could have been carried from
Utica or Boston before she was deposited in Van Cortlandt Park.
"We don't intend to impede the investigation or hamper justice
in any way. But I predict that this case, in one week, will
collapse of its own weight."
STEIN, in protesting his innocence, said in his cell in Bronx
jail that he isn't in the least worried of the outcome.
"I had absolutely nothing to do with the murder," he said, "and
if I had had, do you think I'd be such a fool as to stay within the
New York City limits?"
VICTIM'S DOUBT FREES SUSPECT
Failure of the complainant to positively identify him led to the
discharge by Magistrate Hughes in the Coney Island court yesterday
of Joseph ROBINSON, 25, of 3712 Fifteenth avenue, on a robbery
charge.
ROBINSON was arrested by Detective Louis WHITE, of Bath Beach
station, on information received that he was one of two men who held
up Louis BERNSTEIN in his butcher shop at 1996 Sixty-second street
on March 22 and robbed him of jewelry and cash of an aggregate value
of $604.
According to WHITE, BERNSTEIN identified ROBINSON on the night
of his arrest. BERNSTEIN admitted this, but said that he could not
now identify him positively. In response to questions by the
magistrate, BERNSTEIN said that he had not been intimidated in any
way by either ROBINSON or his friends.
WIDOW BEMOANS KNIFING DAUGHTER
"I didn't mean to hurt her to hurt her" wailed Mrs. Anna
PATRICK, 36, of 58 Stagg street, when arraigned on a charge of
felonious assault, in Bridge Plaza Court, yesterday. She was held
in $1,000 bail for examination on Monday.
Mrs. PATRICK is charged with throwing a carving knife at her
nine-year-old daughter, Aldona, on Thursday night when she disobeyed
her.
"I didn't purposely throw the knife at Aldona," she said. "When
Aldona wouldn't do as I told her I merely shook my hand at her and
told her she would be sorry. I had the carving knife in my hand at
the time and it slipped from my grasp and struck her. I love her
and my Stella too much to harm them."
Mrs. PATRICK has been taking good care of the children,
neighbors say, since her husband died two years ago. Stella is 7
years old.
13 April 1931
BORO INVENTOR OF TURNSTILE DEVICE MISSING
Frank KELTON Left Flatbush Home March 19--Police Searching
A nation-wide search is being conducted to-day for Frank L.
KELTON, 51, inventor and manufacturer of coin-in-slot turnstiles,
who has been missing from his home at 1066 East Twenty-ninth street,
Flatbush, since March 19.
Mrs. Josephine KELTON, his wife, was unable to give police any
explanation of his disappearance. They had been happily married for
28 years, she said, and he showed no signs of being depressed or in
ill health.
Mr. KELTON packed two suitcases with clothing on the morning of
his disappearance, put them in his coupe automobile and drove off
without giving his wife any explanation. She said she thought he
was starting out on a business trip.
After several days had elapsed she telephoned his factory in
Allentown, Pa., and was informed that he had not been there. She
immediately communicated with Chauncey KELTON, her husband's brother
and business partner, who was on vacation in Miami, Fla., and also
hired private detectives. He immediately came to New York and took
charge of the investigation, enlisting the aid of New York police.
KELTON has large sums of money on deposit, which have not been
touched. When he disappeared he was wearing jewelry valued at
several hundred dollars. It is not known whether he had a large sum
of money with him.
KELTON is five feet six inches tall, weighs 170 pounds and has
gray eyes and gray hair. The license number of the coupe is 4-L86-74.
WATCH HOSPITALS FOR VICTIMS OF BORO DANCE HALL SHOOTING
Twenty Bullets Fired in Fight Between Rival Groups
A close watch was being kept on hospitals throughout the city
to-day, in an effort to round up anyone who may have participated in
the shooting affray which startled the early morning hours yesterday
outside the Momart Dance Hall, 590 Fulton street.
The shots, about twenty in all, were exchanged between two rival
groups who had attended a dance in the hall, and was said to have
started over a remark made by a member of one group which was
resented by a girl with a member of the other group. The dance was
given by the Bellemore Social Club of Fifth avenue and Forty-second
street.
As soon as the shooting started, the dance hall, which had been
crowded with about 200 couples, cleared as if by magic. Later the
police found a fully loaded thirty-two calibre revolver lying on the
floor there.
While pedestrians and motorists fled for safety from stray
bullets, the police were notified, with the result that Inspector
George BISHOP, in charge of detectives of the Eleventh District, the
homicide squad, the gun squad and detectives and patrolmen from the
Poplar street, Bergen street and Butler street stations converged on
the scene.
Meanwhile patrolmen on duty nearby had rushed to the scene of
action and broke up the fight by firing several shots in the air.
Several men found in the vicinity of the fracas were rounded up
and taken to headquarters for questioning.
BANDIT TRIO TAKES $3,500
Three armed bandits took $3,500 from the safe of the American
Yellow Taxi branch office at 140 Thirty-fifth street and escaped
last night after locking the manager and two assistants in a rear
room from which they were subsequently released by chauffeurs who
had been outside the office and did not realize that a holdup was in
progress.
In the office at the time the robbers appeared were Harry M.
JUDGE, of of 825 Eighty-fourth street, the manager and his two
assistants, Edward ORNANZ, of 9101 Third avenue, and Vincent
GARDNER, of 214 Forty-ninth street.
Each of the bandits had a pistol, the victims later told the
police of Fourth avenue station. The safe was open and after
helping themselves the robbers locked the three men in a back room
and left. It is believed they drove away in an automobile.
FIVE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH
Five persons are recovering from injuries sustained when an
automobile owned and operated by Rudolph KRIVOHLANY of 44-40
Sixty-fifth street, Winfield, collided at Roosevelt avenue and 102d
street, Corona, yesterday, with another machine owned and operated
by Daniel BLANEY, 159 Milton street.
The injured were KRIVOHLANY and Mildred BASTA, 22, of 58-15
Lawrence street, Flushing, passengers in the one car, and BLANEY,
James McCAULEY, 20, of 165 Diamond street, and John O'BRIEN, 22, of
1913 Bogart avenue, Westchester. All are suffering lacerations.
O'BRIEN, also is suffering from a possible fractured nose. They
were attended at Flushing Hospital and then were taken to their homes.
TWO MOTORCYCLE PATROLMEN HURT
Two motorcycle policemen, both attached to Motorcycle Squad 2,
were injured in "spills" yesterday.
Patrolman Charles DEEHON, 32, of 1818 East Eighty-seventh
street, was on his motorcycle on Flatbush avenue near Avenue H when
the front wheel of his cycle caught in the car tracks and he was
thrown violently to the street. He was attended by Dr. KEYES, of
Kings County Hospital and went home.
Patrolman Thomas ABBEY, 30, of 7925 Sixty-eighth road, Middle
Village, Queens, on his motorcycle, was chasing a speeder on Eastern
parkway near Rogers avenue when, as he attempted to avoid a
collision with another car, he swerved suddenly. His motorcycle
went out from under him and the policeman skidded along the
pavement. His uniform was torn and his body was cut and bruised.
He went home after he was treated by an ambulance surgeon from
Swedish Hospital.
GIVES HIS BLOOD TO SAVE BROTHER
Edward ROSEENE, 43, of 146 Jericho Turnpike, Floral Park, who,
police say, tried to commit suicide by gas, is in Nassau County
Hospital at Mineola to-day after firemen had kept him alive for
eight hours with oxygen from tanks.
ROSEENE was discovered Saturday night on the floor of the
gas-filled kitchen of his home by his brother, Harry ROSEENE.
Floral Park firemen were called, and worked over the man from 6:15
P.M. to 3 A.M. Sunday morning after which he was taken to the
hospital.
Harry ROSEENE yesterday submitted to a blood transfusion in an
effort to save the life of his brother. This operation was
apparently successful and it is believed that ROSEENE may live.
ROSEENE had been ill for some time and his wife and children were
away from home Saturday night.
DETECTIVE NABS THIEF SUSPECT
Detective Joseph DEEGAN, of Wilson avenue station, saw a man
leaving the H.C. BOHACK chain grocery store at 232 Knickerbocker
avenue, early yesterday, chased him and took him back to the store.
There he found an entrance had been forced and a small safe emptied
of its contents.
The detective said he found $100 in the pocket of the man who he
said, admitted stealing the money from the safe. The prisoner
identified himself as Louis BERGMAN, 22, of 99 Throop avenue.
Magistrate MAGUIRE in Gates avenue court held him in $5,000 bail for
hearing Thursday on a charge of burglary.
STRESSES HELP FOR BORO LAME
Miss Marion BALLANTYNE, supervisor of orthopedic nurses of the
Visiting Nurses' Association of Brooklyn, is representing the
association at the meeting of the International Society for Crippled
Children in Cleveland, opening yesterday, according to an
announcement by Mrs. J. Morton HALSTEAD, president of the
association.
The orthopedic nurses of the association, Mrs. HALSTEAD stated,
care for more than 1,000 crippled children in the borough, many of
them victims of infantile paralysis in the epidemic.
A great many of these children afflicted in 1916, she stated,
are now in high school and there is need for provisions for
orthopedic treatment for children in the upper schools as well as in
the elementary schools.
1 DEAD, 3 HURT AT PARK GATE
One man was killed and three others were seriously injured when
an automobile avoiding a collision to-day crashed into a trolley
pole on Flatbush avenue, near the main entrance to Prospect Park and
the Botanic Garden.
Thomas NATOLI, 22 years old, of 695 Sackett street, was
instantly killed.
The injured are:
Mario NATOLI, 19 years old, of 695 Sackett street, fractured jaw.
Angelina ANATOLA, 14, of 28 President street, fractured jaw and
lacerations of the scalp.
Both were removed to Kings County Hospital. Vincent TISORIERO,
43 Middleneck road, Great Neck, the owner of the automobile, was
driving the car. He suffered lacerations of the forehead. He was
arrested on a technical charge of homicide after the accident.
14 April 1031
THREE PERSONS BITTEN
Three persons were attended by ambulance surgeons from St.
Catherine's Hospital and Greenpoint Hospital for dog bites last
night. Those bitten were: Paul JOHNSON, 19, of 28 Catherine
street; Nicholas DAMBASCO, 13, of 949 Grand street, and William
CLINO, 23, of 3 Maspeth avenue.
HOUSEWARMING
A housewarming will be held by the members of the Coney Island
Democratic League of the Sixteenth Assembly District at the new
quarters, 2901 Mermaid avenue this evening. Several hundred men and
women are expected to be present. Among the scheduled speakers are
Assemblyman Maurice Z. BUNGARD, president of the club; Abraham
MARKER, chief clerk of the Flatbush court; Sandy A. EHRMANN, chief
clerk of the Eighth District Municipal court, and Assistant District
Attorney William W. KLEINMAN.
MAN SLASHED, TRAP SUSPECT IN SUBWAY CAR
One Escapes on Tracks--Victim of Attack in Serious Condition
Charged with felonious assault in connection with the stabbing
this morning of Rudolph BARROT, who is in a serious condition in
Norwegian Hospital. Giacomo PITTICH, 32, of 2115 East Sixteenth
street, was taken to the line-up in Police Headquarters in
Manhattan, after which he was returned to the Fifth avenue court for
a hearing.
BARROT, who is 25 and lives at 136 Twenty-third street, was
engaged in an altercation with two men at Fourth avenue and
Thirty-third street at 2 A.M. One of them suddenly produced a
carving knife and stabbed BARROT in the left shoulder. Both men
fled and BARROT fell to the sidewalk.
The injured man was carried into a nearby store by taxicab
drivers, who sent for Ambulance Surgeon PETRUZZI.
Meanwhile Patrolman BOWMAN of the Fourth avenue station was
pursuing Barrott's two assailants south along Fourth avenue to
Thirty-sixth street, where they dashed down the subway stairs, one
of them fleeing along the tracks, while the other boarded a train
which arrived at that moment.
BOWMAN also entered the train and arrested PITTICK, who, he
said, was one of the assailants. Despite hours of questioning
PITTICK, who came to this country in 1923 but has never become a
citizen, denied he had anything to do with the stabbing. He is a
tilesetter by trade.
GYPSY BIMBO PLAYS DUMB, GOWANUS BANK TELLER SHORT
Court Takes Up Matter of $260 Change Switch
Tene BIMBO, 49, reputed king of the gypsies, is being held in
$5,000 bail to-day after he allegedly so confused a paying teller in
the Union street branch of the Bank of America that the latter gave
him $960 change for $700 he presented.
BIMBO appeared before Magistrate John J. WALSH in Fifth avenue
court yesterday on a chort affidavit by Detective Cal McCARTHY, of
the Hamilton avenue station, who charged him with grand larceny.
At the time he was arrested BIMBO was out in $2,500 bail on a
fugitive from justice charge. According to police he is wanted in
Chicago for conspiracy.
BIMBO, who lives at 1042 Flushing avenue, allegedly tricked
Frank CIMATO, paying teller for the Bank of America at 131 Union
street into giving him $969 change for a roll of $700 in $20 bills
which he presented at the bank on March 25. According to police
BIMBO posed as a man who knew little English and asked to have his
$700 in $1 bills. Later he allegedly asked for $250 in gold and
then for bills in other denominations. He flustered CIMATO, police
say, and walked away with $260 more than he had entered the bank
with.
Although previously arrested in Detroit, Memphis and Los
Angeles, BIMBO's police record shows no convictions. According to
police, he is wanted in Chicago, Concord, N.H., and Rochester on
larceny charges.
15 April 1931
STUDENT THEFT SUSPECTS HELD
Two young men, said by police to have been college students
scheduled to appear in Morrisania court, the Bronx, to-day on
charges of having stolen more than $200,000 worth of jewelry in some
200 apartment house burglaries during the past two years.
They are Leon TIGER, 23, of 980 Sutter avenue, and Morris
ROZNER, 24, of 2140 Kruger avenue, the Bronx. They were arrested
last night in an apartment house at 1475 Grand Concourse, Bronx,
when Miss Helen LETOASKY, a housemaid, recognized the mas (typed as
written) the men who duped her two years ago.
According to police they would obtain entrance to an apartment
by interesting a housewife or housemaid in magazines which they
claimed to be selling to work their way through college and while
one engaged the woman in conversation the other would gather
whatever loot he could find.
YOUTH FLEEING HOLDUP SHOT IN WILLIAMSBURG
Cornered in Cellar, Wounded, Gun Jams When Police Close In
Sigmund GRABOWSKY, 19, led a holdup expedition into a
Williamsburg candy store early to-day, took $13 from its proprietor,
ran into two policy bullets and was captured in a cellar, trying
earnestly, according to Patrolman Jacob ROSENFELD, to shoot him with
a jammed gun.
The youth is a prisoner in Kings County Hospital to-day with
bullet wounds in his thigh and leg, while detectives search for his
companions. He is charged with assault and robbery.
GRABOWSKY set out with John REGAN and Eddy FLUSKY, friends, last
night, he told police to get some money. They had no particular
objective. First they went to Jamaica. Then to Richmond Hill.
They returned to Williamsburg, and walking along South Third
street saw Joseph GOLDSTEIN, who is sixty-five dozing in the rear of
his candy shop at No. 330. As police quote GRABOWSKY's story, he
said:
"Here's where our treasure hunt starts."
LOOT CASH REGISTER
And the three went inside. GRABOWSKY aimed his gun. Mr.
GOLDSTEIN put his hands up. One of the others rang No. Sale on the
register and emptied it of $13. Someone took a supply of
cigarettes. GRABOWSKY said to GOLDSTEIN:
"Much obliged, dad. Now behave yourself and you won't be hurt."
But Mr. GOLDSTEIN didn't behave (article cut off)
COP ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING
Suspended after a police surgeon had pronounced him unfit for
duty, Patrolman John DILLON, 35, of Traffic B, in Manhattan, who
lives at 107-46 109th street, Richmond Hill, was scheduled for a
hearing in Flatbush court to-day on a charge of assault.
Barney KOTINSKY, a taxicab chauffeur, of 746 Linwood street,
charged that DILLON and a friend engaged his cab early to-day near
Borough Hall and were driven to Eighty-fourth street and Fourth
avenue, where the friend left them.
DILLON, he says, then ordered him to drive him to Richmond Hill,
but at Utica avenue and Eastern Parkway DILLON accused him of
"piling up mileage," and getting out of the cab, attacked him.
Several shots were fired by DILLON, it was said, none of which
took effect, however, and finally another policeman came along and
placed DILLON under arrest. He was taken to Empire Boulevard
station, where he was pronounced unfit for duty by Dr. NAMMACH and
immediately suspended by Deputy Commissioner John A. LEACH.
BROOKLYN BULL-FIGHTER SAYS IT ISN'T SO;
NO, SIR, ALFONSO DID NOT QUIT THRONE By DIXIE TIGHE
The tale of the Alfonso abdication is just so much bull-oney to
Sidney FRANKLIN, Brooklyn's toro tamer, who recently enjoyed a
sensational and successful sojourn in Spain.
"I don't believe it," FRANKLIN said to-day in his home, 1538
East Twenty-ninth street, when asked how he thought Spain as a whole
receive (typed as written) the news of its kinkless state.
"I lived there for a year and a half (which is more than the
bulls did when FRANKLIN was around) and I found the people to be
remarkable contented.
"King ALFONSO is enormously popular with his subjects. All
Spain's current progress has been made under ALFONSO's direction and
the story of his abdication simply isn't true."
FRANKLIN, whose way with a bull is a constant delight to Spain,
doesn't care what the newspaper dispatches say. He believes the
reports of the true state of affairs in ALFONSO's life are severely
censored.
"Unless you live there and really know conditions, you can't
understand the situation there," FRANKLIN said.
"Why, as a matter of fact, the Spanish people are not concerned
with politics. They want to be left alone. I never heard a
suspicion of an uprising against ALFONSO. And, as for ZAMORA
(acting President), I never heard of him the whole time I was in
Spain."
So, newspaper reports to the contrary, Sidney FRANKLIN doesn't
believe ALFONSO has abdicated. You can see what influence this
manner of things would have in bullfighting. No matter who said one
of those terrible toros could out-bully him, FRANKLIN wouldn't
believe it.
PERSONAL PARTIES
Franklin wouldn't be surprised if ALFONSO had appointed some one
to work hand in hand with him--but, as for believing that there is a
republic like we home folks have, "No, no," said FRANKLIN the
Famous.
The Spanish influence seemed to be exerting itself quite quietly
last night--Franklin says it's because they knew the King hadn't
abdicated. But, another opinion was that the Spanish were having
little personal parties and not going in for organized, street joy.
There are approximately 2,000 Spaniards in Brooklyn, and the
metropolitan district has about 5,000. The percentage of those in
favor of a president is debatable. The natural deduction would be
that those of them who left Spain were indicating their objection to
a monarchial rule. And, the republic may tend to change the living
conditions of the relatives and friends in Spain, but it could have
little effect on those here.
The Spanish Society, a benevolent organization, has ruled
against celebrating political affairs, but there was certainly joy
in the voices of those who expressed opinions--all unanimous in
their approval of a kingless country.
TWO MEN SHOT IN SPEAKEASY
As the result of an alcoholic argument over the relative
delights of the "good old days in Williamsburg" and the "good old
days in Ridgewood," two men are in Kings County Hospital with bullet
wounds in their arms and legs, and their alleged assailant, Frank
MEYER, 32, of 225 Eldert street, was scheduled for a hearing to-day
in Gates avenue court on a charge of felonious assault.
The injured men are James KENNY, 42, of 667 Bedford avenue,
bullet wounds in both arms and both legs, and James FLAHERTY, 38, of
193 Moore street, bullet wounds in both legs. Neither are said to
be in a serious condition.
The shooting occurred at 2:30 A.M. to-day in an alleged
speakeasy at 406 Central avenue, where the bartender, a midget, only
three feet high, serves short beers, long on alcohol, according to
policy.
What started out to be a friendly argument became warmer and
warmer until, from what the police can learn, MEYER whipped out a
gun and fired wildly at the other two men. He was arrested by
detectives of the Wilson avenue station, and William MARGUANDT, 32,
of 33 Starr street, who had had a part in the argument, was held as
a material witness.
Philip CRAFT, the diminutive bartender, was arrested for
violation of the prohibition law and will have a hearing in the
Federal Building to-day.
MEYER has confessed to the shooting, according to Detective
THORNTON, who questioned him.
STRAY BULLETS IN CIDER MILL WOUND 2 MEN
Bystanders Get Brunt of Fight in Bushwick--15 Questioned
Two men were wounded by stray bullets early to-day when six or
eight pistol shots were fired by an unidentified gunman in Phil's
Cider Mill, at 406 Central Avenue. James KENNY, 43 of 667 Bedford
Avenue, received one bullet in the abdomen and another in the right
leg, and James FLAHERTY, 32, of 193 Moore street, was shot in the
right and left legs. Both were taken to Kings County Hospital by
Dr. MEDEL, of Wyckoff Heights Hospital.
KENNY and FLAHERTY were customers in the place, when the fight
started between the man who fired the shots and another man.
About fifteen men who were found in the cider mill when the
police got there were taken in a patrol wagon to the Wilson avenue
station for questioning.
INJURED OFFICER SERVES SUMMONS
Patrolman George RESCH, 44, of the stantion (typed as written)
repair squad, is at his home, 64-17 McArthur place, Glendale, to-day
recovering from injuries which he sustained last night when he was
struck by an automobile as he was alighting from a Metropolitan
avenue trolley at Mt. Olivet avenue, Glendale.
After he was treated by Dr. SCALZO, of the Wyckoff Heights
Hospital, for abrasions of the right hand and elbow, and lacerations
of the scalp, he served a summons on the driver, Joseph SCHERGER, of
62-21 Myand place, Maspeth, for violation of the eight-foot law.
BITTEN BY DOG
Thomas O'BRIEN, 11, of 217 Java street, was playing in the year
of his home, yesterday, when he was bitten by a stray dog on the
right hand. The wound was treated by an ambulance surgeon from
Greenpoint Hospital.
LEFT LEG FRACTURED
Sidney BIANPAS, 10, of 319 Vernon avenue, was crossing the
street at Myrtle and Lewis avenues, when he was struck by an
automobile. He sustained a fracture of the left leg, cut and
bruises on the face, head and body and was taken to Beth Moses
Hospital. The machine was driven by Robert DEINHARDT, of 537 Greene
avenue.
BRIGHTON BEACH CLUB
A report on the success of the recent reception and ball
conducted by the organization will be submitted at the regular
meeting of the Brighton Beach Democratic Club of the Second Assembly
District which will be held at the clubhouse, Brighton Beach and
Coney Island avenues, this evening. Assistant District Attorney
William W. KLEINMAN is president of the club.
G.O.P. DANCE
The second of a series of dances by the Young People's Auxiliary
of the Seventh Assembly District Republican Club will be held
to-night at the clubhouse, 425 Fiftieth street. The first took
place on April 1 and was so successful that it was decided to
continue with the series.
TESTIMONIAL DINNER
Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen CALLAGHAN will be the
toastmaster at the testimonial dinner to be given in honor of C.
Stephen SOMERS, president of the Park Slope Masonic Club, by members
of that organization to-morrow night at the Bossert Hotel. Max
ARENS is chairman of the committee in charge of the affair.
COUNCIL PARTY
Its sixth monthly card party will be held by the Admiral DEWEY
Council, K. of C., at Columbus Lyceum, 5114 Fourth avenue, to-morrow
night. Past District Deputy John W. COLLINS is in charge of the
committee. He is being assisted by Mrs. Kathryn McCANN who is
president of the ladies' auxiliary of the council.
16 April 1931
COUPLE ELOPED, BUT MOTHER KNEW
The elopement and marriage of Miss Lorna Louise LOWES, daughter
of Clarence M. LOWES, president of the C.M. Lowes Co. of Flushing
and vice president of the Dime Savings Bank of Williams, and Kenneth
P. SHELDON, of East Williston, L.I., on Feb. 28, was admitted
yesterday by the mother of the bride.
Mrs. LOWES, at her home in Flushing, said that she had known of
her daughter's plans before they were carried out.
The bride is a graduate of the Norwalk, Conn., High School and
attended the Finch School. Her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H.D. SHELDON, of East Williston. He is a graduate of Brown
University, Class of '23, and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
The couple are making their home in East Williston.
PARTY AIDS ORPHANS
Proceeds of the annual card and bunco party and reception of the
Aid Society of the Sorrowful Mothers Home last night in the
auditorium of the home, Harrison place and Morgan avenue, will be
used for the home. Several hundred persons attended. George STELZ
is president of the society and the Rev. George LANNING, pastor of
the church.
BOROUGH COUPLE INJURED IN CRASH
HAMMONTON, N.J., April 16--State police continued an
investigation of the automobile accident yesterday which resulted in
the serious injury to Alexander BOSWELL, 32, of 522 Jefferson
street, Brooklyn, and his wife, Mrs. Esther BOSWELL, ?9. Both are
in the Atlantic City Hospital recovering from their injuries.
The police said if able to substantiate information that has
come to them they may arrest Mrs. BOSWELL on a charge of driving an
automobile without a license. BOSWELL said he, and not his wife,
was driving the automobile along the shore road in Spraguetown when
it got out of control and crashed against a pole.
TRUCK THIEVES ACTIVE IN QUEENS
A gang which preys on delivery trucks while the driver calls on
a customer is operating in the Borough of Queens, according to
policy of Jamaica and Richmond Hill.
The second such case within the week took place yesterday
afternoon. George SCHULTZ, a driver for the Metropolitan Tobacco
Company, parked his delivery truck on 161st street, near Shelton
avenue, Jamaica, to make a delivery. When he returned the truck was
gone with $2,000 worth of cigars and cigarettes.
Last Friday the same thing happened to a driver for the Davega
Stores, Inc. The truck was parked at Metropolitan avenue and Audley
street, Forest Hills. When the driver returned the truck was gone
with fifteen radios aboard valued at $1,000.
STABBED IN FIGHT IN RICHMOND HILL
While Detective Fred MORELOCK, of the Richmond Hill precinct,
was searching every haunt for his assailant, Michael AVELLA, 29, of
97-17 Eighty-ninth street, was in the Jamaica Hospital with stab
wounds of the face, scalp and left hand, which he sustained in the
altercation last night in front of 36-09 101st avenue, Richmond Hill.
According to the police, AVELLA and a former business associate,
Patsy GASASELLO, were engaged in an argument which became heated and
CASSELO (as written, name typed 2 different ways) is alleged to have
drawn a knife and slasher (typed as written) AVELLA. Passersby
found the wounded man lying on the street and called an ambulance.
HIT-RUN VICTIM BADLY INJURED
Michael RUBINO, 61, of 111-15 Merrick road, South Jamaica, lies
critically injured in the Kings County Hospital to-day, struck by a
hit-and-run automobile last night at Lincoln avenue and 2115th
street, South Ozone Park.
The injured man was left lying in the roadway and was found
later by a passing motorist. RUBINO was treated for a compound
fracture of the left leg, lacerations of the scalp and internal
injuries.
Violet SCISRIED, 17, of 101-31 111th street, is at her home
recovering from injuries received when she was caught between two
autos, one of which was being towed by the other.
POSTER WINNER ARDENT ANTI
Far from being a dry as described in newspaper accounts, Henry
J. STAHLHUT, 96 Parrott place, Fort Hamilton, winner of first prize
in the National Poster Contest conducted by the Women's Organization
for National Prohibition Reform, declared to-day that his sympathies
are entirely with those who are seeking to bring about the repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment and restore temperance.
In painting the prize winning poster which depicts the figure of
a woman in the act of tearing up a paper scroll marked "Eighteenth
Amendment" STAHLHUT said he was expressing his own convictions and
feels certain he could not have produced a work which would have
merited the serious consideration of the judges without this
sympathetic interest.
PARENTS BLAMED FOR DELINQUENTS
"Vicious homes," those in which a child receives too much
attention from the parents, or where the parents compete against
each other for the child's favor, are the principal cause of
juvenile delinquency, Dr. Joseph C. GAINSBURG, principal of Public
School 35, told the Jewish Big Brother and Big Sister Association
last night at a meeting in the Unity Club, Dean street and Bedford
avenue.
He warned welfare workers to distinguish between the "problem
child" and the "delinquent." The delinquent, he explained, react
normally against an unfavorable environment and may be corrected by
removing the things against which they rebel. The problem child,
however, suffers the things that disturb it silently and is a
subject for a psychiatrist.
The other four reasons he gave for juvenile delinquency are
defective companionship, insufficient recreation facilities, an
abnormal health factor and too severe or too lenient supervision.
LAUNDRY COAL BIN YIELDS OPIUM, PIPE
Detective Patrick HARMON of the Narcotic Squad, will appear in
the Jamaica magistrates' court as the complainant against Loo CHOY,
laundryman, of 117-10 Farmers avenue, Springfield, with a new suit,
a clean white shirt and glossy shined shoes.
The narcotic squad sleuth had to array himself in the new outfit
last night after he shoveled through two tons of coal to uncover two
one ounce jars of alleged opium and a smoking outfit in the bin in
the rear of CHOY's store.
HARMON after cursory search of the store proper, walked into the
coal bin, where for more than a half-hour he shoveled by not in vain.
CHILD SCALDED
Eugene BINASKI, ten months old, of 214 Freeman street, seated in
a chair near the kitchen stove yesterday, pulled a kettle of boiling
water on himself. He was scalded on the face and body, treated by
Ambulance Surgeon ZABINSKI, of Greenpoint Hospital, and left at home.
18 April 1931
"SPEAK" OWNER DYING IN FIGHT
Patrick WHITE, 64, of 281 Nassau avenue, is dying in Kings
County Hospital of a compound fracture of the skull as a result of a
dispute with Mike MORRIS, 21, of 553 Morgan avenue, over what police
say was the discharge of MORRIS as bartender of an alleged speakeasy
of which WHITE was the proprietor.
WHITE met MORRIS at Driggs avenue and Sutton street early
to-day. The latter, according to the police, struck WHITE, who fell
to the pavement and sustained a fracture of the skull. MORRIS was
to be arraigned on a charge of felonious assault in Bridge Plaza
court to-day.
WELL-CLAD WOMAN IS AMNESIA VICTIM
Detectives of the Poplar street station to-day are attempting to
learn the identity of a woman, about 30 years old, who was found
last night in front of 24 Willoughby street. Police say she is an
amnesia victim. In her pocket she had a receipt marked BURGESS, 993
President street. Her description is given as 5 feet, 4 inches
tall, 125 pounds in weight, light complexioned, and well-dressed.
HE'S NO GENTLEMEN, SAYS HAT CHECK GIRL
Betty BUTLER, 19, a hat check girl in a restaurant at 1407 Kings
highway, is at her home, 1501 East Tenth street, to-day, nursing a
badly bruised jaw, because she tried to hand a derby to a man who
had checked a felt hat with her. Enraged, the man swung a hefty
fist into her face, the blow knocking out several of her teeth, and
fled. The police are searching for him to-day.
YOUTH RESCUES CHILD HURT BY FRANTIC HORSE
Baby Carriage Upset as Runaway Dashes Through Powell Street
Benjamin SILVERMAN, 17, of 132 Powell street, is receiving the
congratulations of his friends and the heartfelt thanks to-day of
the parents of Ethel GOLDFARB, 3, of 133 Powell street, for rescuing
the child from under the hoofs of a runaway horse yesterday.
The child was lying in her carriage in front of 138 Powell
street when the horse, drawing a wagon, plunged over the curb and
struck the carriage, overturning it and throwing the baby to the
pavement. Young SILVERMAN picked up the child just as the horse
careened crazily down the street, and prevented her from being trampled.
Dr. REGAN of St. Mary's Hospital found Ethel had sustained
contusions and lacerations of the scalp and sent her home after
treatment.
Police say the horse and wagon were owned by P. SIRULUICK who
has a stable at 276 Williams avenue, and had been rented to a wet
wash laundry. The driver was making a delivery at Glenmore avenue
and Powell street when several small boys began striking the horse
with sticks, causing it to run down Powell street.
After running some distance from where the baby was injured the
horse stopped and was taken in charge by the pursuing driver.
20 April 1931
TWO SLASHED IN GRUDGE ROW
Joseph STARKS, 26, of 102 Fifth avenue, and Joseph MADDOCKS, 23,
of 334 Butler street, are in a critical condition in hospitals
to-day, suffering from wounds inflicted in what police say was an
old grudge fight early yesterday at Douglass street and Third
avenue.
STARKS is suffering from a wound in the left side of his
abdomen, another in his stomach, and a third in his left arm, and
was taken to Holy Family Hospital, while MADDOCKS, stabbed several
times in the chest and also slashed across the throat, was taken to
Methodist Episcopal Hospital.
Edward GILL, 31, of 158 Fourth avenue, and George De ANGELIS,
21, of 147 Fourth avenue, are under arrest charged with felonious
assault. According to police, Gill and De ANGELIS attacked STARKS
and MADDOCKS when they refused to tell Gill where MADDOCK's brother was.
CAUGHT BY COP ROBBING HOUSE
Charged with entering a house at 212 Javva street and filling up
on a dozen fried eggs and a pot of coffee taken from the larder and
then donning a brand new shirt belonging to the owner of the house,
William MANNION, 61, is to appear to-day in Bridge Plaza court.
Last night at about 8 o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCARTHY left
home to go to church. They did not lock the door, as they expected
Patrolman John McDUGALL, Herbert street station, who rooms with
them, to return from duty at any minute.
However, it is alleged, MANNION entered before McDUGALL returned
and proceeded to dine and dress on the bounty of the house.
Apparently, he ate one egg too many for McDUGALL came home as
MANNION was trying on McCARTHY's shirt.
A scuffle ensued, MANNION broke away and McDUGALL had to chase
him several blocks before overpowering him. According to police of
Greenpoint station, MANNION has a record as a robber of church poor boxes.
SHOT BY RIVAL AT HOUSE PARTY
Strong rivalry for the favors of a young woman at a house party
at 837 Kent avenue, over the weekend resulted in the shooting of
Frank PAOCIA (typed as written), 24, of 37 Stone street, Newark,
yesterday. The quarrel between PACCIA and Solomon MALFIA, 54, of
827 Kent avenue, resulted from MALFIA's discovery that PACCIA
apparently had won the girl's affection.
When MALFIA learned of this, according to police, he drew a
revolver and shot PACCIA in the shoulder. PACCIA is expected to
recover, it was said at Cumberland Hospital, where he is a patient.
MALFIA is to be arraigned in Gates avenue court to-day on charges of
felonious assault and possession of a revolver.
TWO MEN SHOT OVER $10 BET
Anton CABROL, 33, and Emanuel MARTIUS, 32, brothers-in-law, of
320 Stone avenue, were shot last night as they were about to enter a
taxicab at Pitkin and Alabama avenues.
The men were taken to St. Mary's Hospital, where it was found
that they had escaped with flesh wounds. CABROL was shot twice in
the cheek and MARTIUS was shot in the right arm and in the right
leg.
Both men told police of Miller avenue station, the police say,
that their assailant was a man they know as Tony RAMOS, who lives on
Williams avenue. The shooting, the victims assert, was the outcome
of an argument over a ten dollar bet RAMOS had with MARTIUS.
Detectives Harry STATES and Albert BERON, of Miller avenue
station, located RAMOS' automobile at Williams place and East New
York avenue but were unable to fine RAMOS.
VILLAGE SMITHY, LAST OF A STALWART LINE, EXPECTS TO BE SHOEING 'EM
UNTIL HE DIES
There is no village where the village smithy stands in Hunters
Point, Queens. Instead, there are rows of tenements and faded frame
buildings in front of which hundreds of children play street games.
What trees there were on Fourth street, Hunters Point, have long
made way for pavements and lamp posts. But the village smithy in
the person of muscular Jim KIELY still beats out sparks on the anvil
near the door of his shop that sports a wooden horse's head over its
entrance.
AT IT 42 YEARS
"Forty-two years, I have been at it," Jim KIELY says, as he
struts back and forth before his shop. Inside the methodic changing
of a hammer against a white-hot horseshoe punctuates his sentences.
Jim BARBERRY, his assistant for thirty-five years, is beating out a
shoe for a docile-eyed truck horse which stands in the rear of the
shop.
"And it'll be me that will be shoeing horses until I die or they
put them on wheels," speaks Jim KIELY, his barrel chest expanding
and his chin jutting out as physical emphasis to his statement.
"Yes, it was me that used to shoe Mayor Paddy GLEASON's horses
when he was in his full glory and Long Island City was not just a
part of over there," KIELY pointed down the street over the tracks
of the railroad and the East River to Manhattan where the Empire
State Building and the Chrysler tower loomed against the sky.
MEN ARE GONE
"Men there were then, and horseshoeing was an art, not a matter
of attaching hardware to the hoofs of truck horses. There was Matt
FAGAN on Jackson avenue. He did the fire horses. Ah, it was a
sight in them days to see them galloping down the avenue with the
bells ringing and the smoke pouring out of the engine.
"Then there was Jack MOONEY. BREEN, that just died, took over
his place. And Pat MIMAUGH, on Eighth street, Patty DUROSS, Ambrose
ROSS and Johnny MONOHAN. They shoed a horse in those days. They
were men, I tell you!
Jim KIELY does business yet. Of course, the nickel-plated
equipage of thirty years ago no longer wheels before his door.
Horsemen of Queens and bridle paths through parks are almost
forgotten memories except to the village blacksmith.
His shop for forty-two years in Fourth street is the last of the
old line. The husky blacksmith who plied his trade with a knowledge
of its tradition, is represented by a lone figure in Long Island
City--Jim KIELY, and be bemoans the fact that he is the last
representative in the community. "But don't forget Jim, me helper.
Now, he's a blacksmith!"
ONLY MEMORIES REMAIN
BARBERRY pounds a reddening horseshoe. A heavy forearm wields a
blunt-nosed, short-handled sledge with a mechanical certainty. He
works at the only anvil in the shop. In the past, up until 1915,
KIELY employed at least three men. And you can be sure their speech
was slurred with the brogue of Erin.
Hunters Point was heaven in those days when Paddy (Battle Axe)
GLEASON ruled with a swashbuckling geniality. Miller's Hotel by the
ferry was the meeting place of the political world of Long Island
City and prancing horses and a shining trap were signs of quality.
"It was then this shop was busy, I tell you," KIELY reminisces. "I
had men working all day shoeing for the best."
A heavy truck lumbers by. Two horses plod slowly. The driver
in a leather jacket shouts a greeting to KIELY. "Those horses were
shod in my shop," says KIELY, "But it's truck horses they are and
not the prancing dandies of thirty years ago."
NO COMPLAINT
KIELY has no great complaint even now. Business still comes in.
Truck horses from the factories and the mills of Long Island City
and Greenpoint are brought to his shop for shoes. But to KIELY they
only contribute to a livelihood and not the pleasure of the '90's
when derbied men in puffed cravats rode proudly to his shop behind
glossy teams.
KIELY takes pride in shoeing the horses of the mounted police of
Long Island City. The horses are stabled in the same street across
the street from the Hunter's Point station house. He handles them
carefully for they are the last of the "prancing dandies" that he
will shoe.
REFUSED MONEY, INJURES MOTHER
Angered because his mother, Mrs. Tessie RUSSELL, 53 refused to give him $175
last night, Vincent RUSSELL, 20, struck her over the head with a piece of lead
pipe in their home, 325 Knickerbocker avenue, police reported. Mrs. RUSSELL
was taken to Wyckoff Heights Hospital in a critical condition. It is feared the
blow fractured her skull. Patrolman George WOLFE, of Wilson avenue station,
called by neighbors, arrested the young man on a charge of felonious assault.
OLD PRATT MANSION A RUIN, CALLED SERIOUS FIRE PERIL FACES BARRICADE BY CITY
Aldermen May Order Fence to Protect Adjoining Property
The skeleton of Willoughby avenue's old PRATT mansion, the building extending
from Clinton to Waverly avenues, which a generation or less ago was
considered on of Brooklyn's residential attractions, is facing the prospect
of being barricaded behind an official fence.
When the Aldermen of the Prospect District's Local Board meet this afternoon
at Borough Hall, according to information which became available today, they
will consider whether or not a fence of the type sometimes used to enclose
vacant lots will have to be erected on the property.
A petition, calling for the erection of a fence, is on the local board's
meeting calendar.
If the petition is adopted by the Aldermen, the residents of Clinton avenue
and the immediate vicinity, including a number of social registerites, may find
their view of the one-time home of Herbert Lee PRATT, the Standard Oil
financier, relieved, in part of least, by a fence that is a six-foot affair or one,
perhaps, or larger dimensions.
MAY ORDER HIGH FENCE
The official regulations, governing fences that Aldermen order erected, are
said to permit of a degree of latitude that runs to fences twenty feet or so in
height and made of metal.
The expense involved would have to be borne, it is said, by the owners of the
property.
While officials at Borough Hall were uncertain as to the action the Aldermen
would take, records on filed in the Bureau of Buildings disclosed that today's
petition shaped up as the latest of a series of vicissitudes through which
the one valuable property has passed. An official notice of violation placed on
the building by the bureau holds that the building, which has long been
unoccupied, is in an unsafe and dangerous condition.
When the property was built by Mr. PRATT in the days before the penthouse and
the kitchenette era, it is said to have cost him $200,000. In 1916 it was
valued by the city for assessment purposes at $167,500. Today, according to the
figures of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, it is down to $70,000.
At the time of its construction the interior of the building was reported to
be of costly trim. Hardware finishing, much of it gold-plated and costing
about $35,000, was reported to have gone into the building. an organ in the music
room was reported to have cost $30,000. The art gallery included works of the
old masters.
WAS SOLD IN 1916
When Mr. PRATT moved to Manhattan he deposed of the property and two years
later, in 1916, it was purchased by Commodore J. Stuart BLACKTON of the old
Vitagraph Company from the Ridgewood Park Realty Company in a transaction which
was said to have involved $750,000. The property was subsequently sold again.
In recent years the building had been unoccupied.
Less than a month ago, records on file in the Bureau of Buildings show, a
notice was served that the bureau had imposed the violation on the building. The
notice was served on a Manhattan lawyer who is listed as representing the
owners.
The violation imposed by the Bureau of Buildings asserted the building was in
an "unsafe and dangerous condition." The Building Bureau's report asserted
the building was unoccupied; that doors and windows were open and unprotected
"and easily accessible to malicious, undesirable and unauthorized persons;" that
all the stair balusters were broken down or removed; that all elevator shaft
doors were removed; that an open hatchway in the attic was unguarded; that an
iron marquise over the main entrance was corroded, loosened and liable to
fall; that several sections of the slated roof had been removed; the plaster
ceilings and cornices had been loosened and had fallen, partly because of exposure
to rain and storm and that a brick retaining wall with a heavy stone coping on
the east side of premises was liable to fall.
IS CALLED FIRE HAZARD
All this, the bureau's report charges, constituted a fire hazard and an
unsafe condition.
Edwin W. KLEINERT, the acting superintendent of buildings, served notice, as
a result, that unless the bureau received an immediate answer he would direct
the institution of court proceedings to have the structure declared dangerous
and unsafe and to compel repairs, the expense of which would become a lien on
the building.
An inspection of the property disclosed today that scores of windows in the
building had been shattered. The whole appearance of the building is one of
considerable ruin. An iron fence and a low stone wall front the Willoughby avenue
side of the property and extend around to the Clinton and Waverly avenue
sides. There are hedges on Clinton and Waverly avenues, but the rear of the
property is not enclosed. It is used as an improvised playground by children in the
neighborhood.
The condition of the property is in marked contrast to the appearance of
other parcels, mainly on Clinton avenue, where private dwellings and apartment
houses are located.
DRIVER TRAILS HOLDUP PAIR
Ka? WULLFELD, 21, of 142 West Ninety-fifth street, and Vicco
ANDERSON, 26, of 115 West Ninety-fifth street, both of Manhattan,
were arrested at Eighty-eighth street and Thirty-second avenue,
Jackson Heights, Queens, early to-day by Patrolman Patrick SHEA, of
Central Park station, who was returning home from duty, on a charge
of assault and robbery. Police said the two men were seamen who
left their ship here two years ago and remained in the country.
Harry KIRSCHNER, taxi driver, of 1145 Forty-third street, said
the two chartered his cab at Seventh avenue and Fifty-seventh
street, Manhattan, to drive them to Jackson Heights. They alighted
and flashing a pistol, robbed him of $7 and threatened him with
death if he followed them.
He did trail them two and a half blocks, until he met SHEA, and
then caused their arrest. They were taken to Newtown station and
then to the lineup. Police placed a charge of possession of a
pistol against WULLFELD.
21 April 1931
SON IN RADICAL CAMP, MOTHER TRIES SUICIDE
Estranged From Mate Over "Red" Tendencies, She Slashes Throat
Because her estranged husband sent their four and a
half-year-old son to a Communist camp in New Jersey, Mrs. Elizabeth
SAPIRO, 24, of 125-06 Rockaway boulevard, Richmond Hill Circle,
attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat with two razor
blades in a garage adjoining her father's house at the Rockaway
boulevard address.
She is fighting for her life to-day in the Jamaica Hospital but
physicians do not believe she will live. She lost a large quantity
of blood lying on the garage floor until found by a young boy whose
curiosity was aroused by the opened garage door.
Detectives James COX and Patrick BRENNAN of the Richmond Hill
precinct who investigated, learned from her father, Michael
PROSTAKOW, that she and her husband separated because she objected
to his Communistic views about six months ago.
At the Jamaica Hospital, although in a weakened condition, she
said she didn't know where her husband was. She maintained that he
left her, taking their son with him. A month ago, without revealing
his address, he wrote to her and said that he had sent the boy to a
Communist camp in New Jersey.
AIR STATION MACHINIST TAKES "HOP" FROM LOFTY TOP OF BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Peter Douglas VERBONUS, attached to the Naval Air Station at
Lakehurst, N.J., was revealed to-day as a second Steve BRODY.
He nonchalantly climbed to the highest point of the pathway on
Brooklyn Bridge and dived to the East River many feet below to win a
bet with a sailor from the U.S.S. Wyoming. Unlike BRODY, his deed
was unheralded and no one knew of the leap until it was revealed by
companions.
"It was just a little hop for me," remarked VERBONUS, who is a
parachute jumper as well as machinist at the air station.
PARTED FROM SON, ATTEMPTS TO DIE
Unwilling longer to endure the torments of the separation from
her son, who has been placed in a school by his father, Mrs.
Elizabeth SAPIRO, 24, 9f 125-06 Rockaway Boulevard, Richmond Hill,
last night attempted to end her life, according to the police, by
cutting her throat with razor blades.
She was found on the floor of a private garage next door to her
home and was taken to Kings County Hospital, where her condition is
said to be serious.
Michael POROSTAKOW, father of the young woman, told Detectives
COX and BRENNAN, of Richmond Hill station, that his daughter has
been living with him since she separated from her husband. He said
his daughter had become very despondent recently because she missed
the companionship of her son.
He told the detectives that the boy had been put in a school
without the knowledge or consent of his daughter.
A boy found the woman unconscious on the garage floor and
notified police.
FINGERS CRUSHED
Mrs. Anna DOWNING, 28, of 204 Jewel street, had her right hand
caught in a clothes wringing machine in her home yesterday. Her
fingers were badly crushed. She was treated by Ambulance Surgeon
FELDMAN, of Greenpoint Hospital and remained at home.
HIS CAR STOLEN, PAYS $10 FINE
Herman BETTS, of 832 Washington avenue, does not think there is
much justice in the world. He paid a fine of $10 as a result of
having his car stolen.
Edward S. KUNTZ, 16, of 41-15 Lincoln avenue, Woodside, who is
charged with having stolen the automobile, was held in the Long
Island City Magistrate's Court, yesterday, on a charge of petty
larceny for the Queens Court of Special Sessions.
BETTS telephoned Friday to Detective BARRETT of the Newtown
station. The conversation touched on automobiles. When BETTS left
the booth and went to the street he saw his car speeding from
Thirty-ninth street and Queens Boulevard where he had parked it.
Calling Patrolman Walter GERHARDT, who was directing traffic,
the two pursued the car in a commandeered automobile. After a few
blocks BETTS' car was forced to the curb.
While KUNTZ was being booked at the Hunters Point station
Detective Joseph BURKE was busy writing out a ticket for improper
plates for BETTS, who paid the fine yesterday.
TIFFT AND TIFFT ONLY; ONE-NAME MAN WON'T BE IN TELEPHONE BOOK
TIFFT-no more, no less-is not to have his name in the new telephone
directory for the first time in many years. He has decided to take
his family on a motor tour of the country.
A great deal of TOFFT'S (as written) has been spent explaining
his name to his friends. That's probably one reason he has decided
on the tour.
Where he was born his mother decided on one Christian name and
his father another. The battle waged until it was decided that
TIFFT should decide his own name when he was old enough.
TIFFT, however, has nominated to stay simply TIFFT.
TWO INJURED BY TROLLEYS
Two persons were injured by trolley cars in Brooklyn early
to-day.
Hans LARSEN, 50, of 80 Fulton street, was hurrying for a Court
street car at Court and President streets, but he apparently
misjudged distances, because he was knocked down by the car. Dr.
SULLIVAN, of Holy Family Hospital, treated LARSEN for lacerations
and a fracture of the skull, and took him to Kings County Hospital.
Madeline CLIN, 65, of 2836 Lexington avenue, Manhattan, was
hurrying for a car of the Norton's Point line and took a shortcut
over the short trestle at railroad avenue and West Sixteenth street,
Coney Island. A trolley was approaching, and she ran, but caught
her foot between two ties and fell. Before Motorman James McNULTY
could stop, the car struck her, although it did not pass over her.
She was taken to Coney Island Hospital, critically injured, with
a fracture of the skull and deep cuts along the scalp and face.
GOOD DEED SAVES JAIL AND FINE
Some time ago, Bertram THOMPSON, a taxicab driver, of 129-15
135th place, South Ozone Park, aided a policeman, and because he
did, the driver to-day is hacking instead of being in jail.
Thompson was before Magistrate Peter M. DALY in Jamaica Court
yesterday to answer a charge of speeding 40 miles an hour along
Rockaway boulevard, South Ozone Park. He pleaded guilty to the
charge as made by Patrolman William KING of Motorcycle Squad 3.
THOMPSON lowered his head when the court imposed a $25 fine, and
said he could not pay the money.
While in the detention pen awaiting a prison van which would
take him to the City Prison for a two-day sentence, THOMPSON
recognized Patrolman John GLASER of Motorcycle Squad 3 in the
courtroom. GLASER thought for a moment as to where he had seen
THOMPSON before, and then remembered him as the one who had helped
him on a sick case.
"That man was the only one of fifty who offered to help me with
an epileptic a few weeks ago," GLASER told Magistrate DALY a few
seconds later.
Magistrate DALY ordered that THOMPSON be again brought before
him. After praising the taxicab driver for aiding the policeman at
the time of need, the court suspended sentence on THOMPSON, and
revoked the jail term.
STOPS HIS CAB, BUT IS ROBBED
Two Men Are Later Held in $25,000 Bail Each
Two alleged bandits charged with robbing Harry KIRSCHNER, a
taxicab driver of Forty-third street, of $7 when he became
suspicious and refused to drive them further at Jackson Heights,
were held in $25,000 bail each for the Grand Jury by Magistrate
Frank GIORGIO in Long Island City yesterday.
The alleged robbery took place at Eighty-sixth street and
Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights after KIRSCHNER had driven the
two from Fifty-seventh street in Manhattan. KIRSCHNER balked and
said he would not go on. One of the men, according to the taxi
driver, pointed a gun at him and made him leave his cab after they
had taken $7.
The two men, Vicco ANDERSON, 114 West Ninety-fifth street, and
Ka? WULFELD, 142 West Ninety-fifth street, both of Manhattan,
boarded another cab after the alleged robbery and ordered the driver
to take them to an elevated station.
KIRSCHNER, shouting for help was heard by Patrolman Patrick J.
SHEA who leaped on a private car and caught the two men after a few
blocks chase. As the patrolman opened the door of the cab the men
occupied, his gun was accidentally discharged and burned the face of
WULFELD.
WULFELD is charged with the possession of a revolver and
ANDERSON is accused of having a length of rubber hose in his pocket
at the time of his arrest.
YOUNG GIRLS LONG AWAY FROM HOME
Two children who have been missing from their homes for several
days were being sought by police to-day. Helen BERCHINSKY, 17, of
91 Berry street, who left her home on April 17, saying she was going
for a walk, has not been seen since that day while Julia MARZA, 14,
of 94 Milton street who went out into the street in front of her
home a few days before that has left no trace of her whereabouts.
Detectives of Bedford avenue and Greenpoint stations are
investigating.
22 April 1931
POLICE CHASE STOPS TRAFFIC
Vehicular and trolley traffic was tied up for 45 minutes in the
vicinity of Broadway and Roebling street to-day while Patrolman
Walter DELCHANTY, attached to Traffic A, with drawn revolver chased
a man, finally capturing him in the hallway of a tenement building
at Roebling street and South Eighth street.
The prisoner gave his name as Frank SCHELL, 35, of 546 Dean
street. He was charged with assault.
William DECOSTA, 33, of 162 Boreum street, employed by the
Department of Sanitation, was sweeping the street at Broadway and
Roebling street, when SCHEIL and several friends appeared and
without any cause whatever, according to the sweeper, began to punch
and kick him.
Women's screams attracted the attention of DELEHANTY and the
arrest of SCHEIL followed. DECOSTA was attended by an ambulance
surgeon from Beth Moses Hospital for lacerations of the scalp and
cuts and bruises about the face.
SCHEIL was to be taken before Magistrate HIRSHFIELD in Bridge
Plaza court.
POLICE CAPTAIN DUFFY TO RETIRE
Police Capt. Thomas DUFFY, 49, of 385 Grand street, to-day put
in an application for retirement from the force which becomes
effective to-night. He has been captain of the Far Rockaway police
station.
He was appointed to the force in 1905; made a sergeant in 1917;
a lieutenant in 1923, and a captain on Sept. 12, 1930. When retired
he will receive a pension of $2,500 a year.
HONEST STUDENT RETURNS PAYROLL
Joseph MATHIAS, 11, of 85 Grand street, was being congratulated
to-day by his classmates in SS, Peter and Paul's Parochial School
for carrying out the class slogan, "Be honest and you'll be happy."
Shortly after 5 P.M. yesterday, the youngster was passing along
South Fifth street, when at Wythe avenue, he picked up a pay
envelope, of the American Sugar Refinery, numbered 18. It contained
$19.
He took the envelope and money to the Bedford avenue station and
turned it over to Lieut. John DURKIN. An investigation disclosed
that number 18 at the refinery was Jack HARKMAN, of 121 Harman
street, who had lost the money on his way home from work. He came
to the station house to recover his money and then went to the
MATHIAS home offering to reward the youngster for his honesty, but
the boy refused to accept anything.
23 April 1931
BOY MISSING
The police of the Bath Beach station have been asked to send out
a general alarm for Albert BAINO, 14, who has been missing from his
home since last Tuesday afternoon. The boy was reported missing by
his grandmother, Lizzie MAZIELLO, with whom he lives.
TWO SMALL FIRES
Several hundred dollars damage was caused by a fire in the
apartment of M. MOSKOWITZ, on the third floor of a three-story brick
tenement at 164 Bedford avenue. The cause is unknown. The
apartment of Mrs. W. WOLF on the third floor of a four-story
tenement building at 285 South Second street was damaged by fire
yesterday afternoon. The damage is estimated at $500.
SEEK MOTHER OF FOUNDLING
Another abandoned baby has joined the ranks of those in Kings
County Hospital. This one is Frederick JORAND, about six weeks old,
who was turned over to the police of the Bath Beach station
yesterday by Frances RISTAU of 180 Bay Fifty-fourth street, who has
a permit to board babies.
Mrs. RISTAU told Detectives Max BLACK and Edward FITZSIMMONS of
Bath Beach station that on March 20 a girl who said she was Dorothy
JORDAN, of 1615 Mermaid avenue, left the baby with her and paid two
weeks board.
On April 4, she said, the girl returned and paid another week's
board. Since then, she said, the mother has not appeared.
Investigation at the Mermaid avenue address revealed that no Dorothy
JORDAN had ever lived there, but a girl known only as Tillie had
occupied a furnished room with a very young baby several weeks
before.
The baby, it was said, was about the age of the abandoned child,
and the two detectives are attempting to-day to trace the girl.
PRIEST CAPTURES POOR BOX THIEVES
James HARIGAN, 25, and his brother John, 21, were in jail to-day
because they could not run faster than the Rev. Philip NOLAN, of
John's R.C. Church in the Bronx, who caught them trying to rob the
church poor box.
The boys made a dash for the street but the priest caught them
by their coat tails and held them until a policeman arrived.
They were also accused of having robbed another poor box earlier
in the day.
BLIND BEGGAR HELD, FAMILY DESTITUTE
Grieving over the predicament in which his wife and three
children are left, without means of support while he is in jail,
Gunnar NORDLING, 51, of 5320 Sixth avenue, who was made totally
blind by two separate accidents, was remanded to await sentence next
Tuesday for begging when arraigned before Magistrate MAGUIRE in
Coney Island court to-day.
Special Policeman Arthur TURNOCK of the B.M.T. arrested
NORDLING, alleging he was begging on the Avenue U station of the Sea
Beach subway. NORDLING said he was selling chewing gum.
An accident while at work took the sight of one eye, he said,
and three years ago he struck against a piece of furniture in his
home and became totally blind.
SHUTTLE FIRE PANIC BLAMED ON BOYS' PRANK
Police Find Pipes Near Track - Nine Injured Recovering
Police and private detectives of the B.M.T. system are to-day
keeping a careful lookout for a group of mischievous boys, believed
to have been responsible for two pieces of pipe found on the third
rail of the Brighton line shuttle which operates between Prospect
Park and Franklin avenue, one of which started a fire last night,
the resulting panic causing injury to nine persons, one of whom is
in Jewish Hospital with concussion of the brain.
The injured are:
BERNARD MULHERN, 9, of 631 Grand avenue, concussion of the brain.
IRVING FREEMAN, 19, 1209 Avenue Z.
ANNA COHEN, 17, of 1595 East Eighteenth street.
ROBERT LANE, 30, of 1060 Dean street.
STANLTY (typed as written) HOLUBAR, 26, of 2099 East Sixth street.
TILLIE POTASH, 32, of 8779 Twenty-first avenue.
ISAAC BAUMAN, 64, of 105-21 Ninetieth street, Woodhaven Queens.
WILLIAM STOLLOF, 32, of 1043 East Twelfth street.
ANTHONY RAYMOND, 37, of 2080 West street.
SMOKE ENVELOPES CARS
All except the MULHEARN boy were treated for cuts, bruises and
shock (article cut off)
YOUTH ATTACKED BY THUGS, DYING
James MURDOCK, 19, of 320 Moore street, is dying in Kings County
Hospital to-day, as a result of an assault in the dark last night.
As he approached Driggs avenue on South First street about 10
o'clock, two unidentified men attacked and knocked him to the
ground. After beating him to unconsciousness they fled.
MURDOCK was taken to Kings County Hospital suffering from a
fractured skull and possible internal injuries.
Police of Bedford avenue station were unable to determine
whether the assault was due to attempted robbery or for personal
reasons.
FOR CANINE HERO
Jamaica police and dog-catchers of the Queens A.S.P.C.A. are on the
lookout for Mickey, who has been missing from the SCHERIFF home at
89-15 182nd place, Jamaica, for several days.
Mickey is a white-haired poodle with brown ears. To Ralph
SCHERIFF and his brother, Edward, Mickey is more than a dog,
however. He is a canine hero. Mickey earned that title about a
year ago when his insistent barking aroused the boys and their
parents while they were sleeping in a house that had been on fire.
The family just had time to get out of the premises before it burned
to the ground.
Since the fire Mickey received the best of food and a
comfortable bed. Just the other day the poodle was frolicking about
the year while his two masters were at school. Ralph and Eddie
returned home later to find their "best friend" gone.
24 April 1931
GIRL INJURED; MYSTERY SEEN
Tessie BABINGTON, 18, is in a critical condition in St.
Catherine's Hospital to-day with a fractured collarbone, a possible
fracture of the skull and internal injuries, and Charles J. ZIMMER,
21, of 895 Grand street, is in jail, charged with felonious assault,
while detectives of Stagg street station investigate his story that
the girl was injured in a strange automobile accident.
Miss BABINGTON, and her sister Fannie, were returning in his
machine from a review and dance at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory
early to-day, ZIMMER told police, when the girls became involved in
an argument.
ZIMMER stopped the automobile at Graham avenue. Miss Fannie
BABINGTON stepped out and her sister took the wheel, he said.
At Graham avenue and Stagg street, ZIMMER continued, Miss
BABINGTON made a sharp turn, the door swung open and she pitched
out.
ZIMMER summoned aid. After questioning him, Patrolman Leo
NADOLSKI arrested him, charging felonious assault and driving
without a license.
Miss BABINGTON's condition was too serious to permit detectives
to ask her what had happened.
COPS ORGANIZE POST OF V.F.W.
The first Veteran of Foreign Wars Post in the Police Department
was organized last night in the board of governors room at the
Seventy-first Regiment Armory, Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street,
Manhattan. There were about 150 policemen present. The post will
be known as Greater New York Post, 1999, V.F.W.
Patrolman Daniel J. PRENDERGAST, of Traffic K, was named
commander. The other officers are:
Patrolman Wallace D. WILSON, Traffic D, senior vice-commander.
Patrolman William J. LOCK, of 105th Precinct, junior
vice-commander.
Sergeant Abraham STERN, Emergency Squad No. 2, quartermaster.
Patrolman William R. WATER, Sixteenth Precinct adjutant.
Patrolman Edward H, COONEY, Manhattan Telegraph Bureau, officer
of the day, and Patrolman John J. SULLIVAN, Manhattan Telegraph
Bureau, judge advocate.
Trustees: Patrolmen Frank COTTER, John FRAZER and August
(Eagle Eye) SCHALHAM.
Addresses were made by George SOLOMON, chief of staff of N.Y.
State; Henry T. THALHEIM, former chief of staff; Stephen PARKER,
State quartermaster, and George McGANN, State adjutant.
The installation will take place at the armory on May 14.
PATROLMAN SHOOTS SELF IN RIGHT HAND
Patrolman Thomas REMY, 32, accidentally shot himself in the
right hand last night while cleaning his service pistol at his home,
160 Luquer street. He was removed to the Holy Family Hospital. The
policeman is attached to Traffic M, in Manhattan.
APPLE THROWING FIGHT NO MOVIE
Patrick HARRISON, 40 of 90 Milton street, has an aversion to
polished apples. When he saw a number of them on the counter of the
Greenpoint restaurant, at 893 Manhattan avenue, yesterday he swept
them to the floor.
But Louis DEUTSCHER, the manager, objected and then pies, fruit
salad and other things were scattered about the place, causing the
patrons to run to the street to escape the missiles.
In Bridge Plaza court HARRISON was found guilty of disorderly
conduct and paid a fine of $5 to escape spending a day in jail.
BARTENDERS KEEP IN TRIM BY MIXING DRINKS (SOFT) WHILE WAITING THE DAWN
Old-Timers Reappear at Annual Ball in Bushwick
By Donald MUNRO
What is a bartender and what has happened to the old-time
dispenser of beverages with a kick? were questions answered in the
wee small hours to-day by the State president and international
representative of all the bartenders in the United States, at the
thirty-fourth anniversary and ball of the Bartenders' Union, No. 70,
held in the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Willoughby and Myrtle avenues.
It is the one organization with an eager eye to the future.
"Most of the old-time bartenders are working in 'soft drink
parlors, said Emanuel KOVELESKI, of Rochester, International
representative to the American Federation of Labor, and president of
the New York Culinary Alliance (bartenders and all those employed in
the dispensing of cheer).
1,000 PRESENT
Those who have any doubt that a bartender can amuse himself when
he isn't behind the bar would have discovered that he does. More
than 1,000 persons were present.
Like the proverbial busman on a holiday, the new style bartender
spends his off time mixing drinks (soft).
The ball was the scene of much cheer and the dance floor was
circled with a ring of tables - those who watched the dancers used
the tables as an elbow rest - nothing else. There were glasses on
the surface of the tables, but they contained only ginger ale.
Several vendors who should have been stopped sold long, green
rubber snakes with red eyes - why, none seemed to know.
"We don't take everyone, said Mr. KOVELESKI, as he rested from
shaking hands with scores of his friends.
"In the old days, a man had to pass a test to show the union
examiners that he knew how to mix a Tom Collins or any real drink.
He took some ice, placed it in a glass, poured the correct amount of
gin on top of that, added a small quantity of pure lime juice and
then topped it off with a small amount of sugar. The examiners
certified by actual experience.
"We have no such tests to-day because this is a dry country,
but, instead, ask certain questions."
LEGITIMATE TRADE
The State president could not specify how dry the State or even
the borough was, or how the 42,000 bartenders in New York and the
96,000 in the nation earned their living, or why bartenders
continued to exist in the "arid United States. He did say,
however, that New York had almost half of the bartenders in the
nation - that is the "legitimate bartenders, not including those
who worked in speakeasies.
In the past year or two almost a thousand of the old-time
bartenders who resigned from the union when the Eighteenth Amendment
was passed, have rejoined, according to KOVELESKI. Before the
"catastrophe there were 78,000 members in New York State alone, but
the membership fell to 42,000 after prohibition had taken its toll.
A modified story was told by Jacob SCHIFFERDECKER, chairman of
the ball committee, who declared that Brooklyn bartenders were
working at soda fountains, at racetracks, at Coney Island and in the
parks.
FATAL BLOW
"I have been a member of the union for forty-six years, said
Mr. SCHIFFERDECKER, "and I know that the old-timers are a better
class of men than those who work in speakeasies. We don't take
those fellows who have only been in the business two or three years.
We want the craftsmen who before they were admitted to the union
showed us that they knew how to mix a real drink.
25 April 1931
RUNAWAY GIRL UNDER ARREST
The troubles confronting Betty SCHRAGER, 16, of 335 Roebling
street, and her sister, Sylvia, 15, are beginning to multiply. Both
girls were reported missing from home last week.
Sylvia returned Wednesday and brought with her a husband,
Emerito SUNIEGO, of 263 Flushing avenue. The girl's mother, Tillie,
called in Detective JENNER of Clymer street station and Sylvia was
charged with being a juvenile delinquent and her husband with
abduction.
Yesterday Beatrice cauntered home to find out what was
happening. First she found an obdurate mother and then she saw
Detective JENNER who immediately arrested her.
Charged with being a wayward minor, Beatrice admitted that she
also is married, and that she and her husband went to Providence,
R.I., on their honeymoon. She declined to state where her husband
now is, and was held for the Women's Court for a hearing to-day.
BASEBALL BAT FELLS BANDIT
A cap pistol holdup at the Cafe of John JANAUSKOS, at Pearl and
High streets, fell flat early to-day, and so did one of the three
bandits, when JANAUSKOS grabbed a baseball bat and started swinging
at the trio. He struck one of them on the head, knocking him to the
floor and causing him to drop his "gun" which later was found to be
a cap pistol.
The man who was felled quickly got back on his feet, and all
three Bandits fled, without getting any money.
Later Patrolman James Flynn, of Poplar street station, arrested
a man giving his name as Walter ROACH, 23, no home, when he saw him
running along Flatbush avenue extension, at Nassau street, with
blood streaming from a wound on his head. He had him treated by Dr.
MINORS of Cumberland Street Hospital, then took him before
JANAUSKOS, who is said to have identified him as the man he struck
with the bat.
Despite ROACH's denial, and his explanation that he had been
beaten up in a fight with two other men, he was locked up on charges
of assault and robbery.
SUSPECT JAILED ON OLD CHARGE
The unusually good memory of Detective John GRYZANSKI of
Greenpoint station to-day had resulted in the arrest of Alexander
DERKALO, 42, of 604 Washington street, Akron, Ohio, for an offense
he is alleged to have committed Jan. 3, 1929.
On that day, according to police, DERKALO got in a fight with
Joseph OWSZANSKI, of 159 Eagle street, near the latter's home, and
slashed OWSZANSKI on the neck with a razor, causing his confinement
to Greenpoint Hospital for over a month.
Last night Detective CRYZANSKI arrested DERKALO, when he found
him looking in a store window on Manhattan avenue. He was to be
arraigned before Magistrate HIRSHFIELD in Bridge Plaza court on a
charge of felonious assault to-day.
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK IN THEFT
Three Negro youths were to be arraigned before Magistrate
HIRSHFIELD in Bridge Plaza Court to-day for a robbery on April 20
when they are alleged to have broken into the home of an uncle of
one of the trio and to have stolen $368, representing his war bonus
compensation payment.
The youths are:
Theodore DAVIS, 20, of 15 Cook street.
Dorothy LAMB, 19, of 15 Cook street
Edward FOSTER, 20, of 34 Johnson avenue.
According to the complaint, the trio broke into the home of
Thomas LAMB, and uncle of Dorothy LAMB and a World War veteran. The
robbery resulted in a heart attack to LAMB, who is now confined to
Kings County Hospital. The three were charged with burglary.
FOSTER with an additional charge of possession of a revolver and a
blackjack.
SIX BORO YOUTHS JOIN THE NAVY
Commander H.B. MACLEARY, U.S. Navy, officer in charge of the
Navy Recruiting Station, 8 Fourth avenue, announces the names of six
Brooklyn youths who have just enlisted in the Navy. They are:
Herman A ALFORD, Jr., 649 Wilson avenue
George E. HAYO, 1528 East Thirty-second street
Arthur F. LONSDALE, 6114 Myrtle avenue
William M. McMURRAY, 9800 Avenue L
Edmond N. SITES, 104 Empire boulevard
Walter H. VOLLKOMMER, 139 Scholes street
USES PARACHUTE AND SAVES LIFE
Anthony SIEKLECKI, 20, who recently was granted a private
pilot's license after completing a flying course, saved his life
yesterday, by jumping in his parachute when his fleet biplane went
into a spin 3,000 feet in the air over Lake Success, near Great
Neck, L.I. SIEKLECKI came down into a tree and received only minor
bruises and scratches. The plane fell into Lake Success and was
badly damaged.
SIEKLECKI said that when he had attained an altitude of 2,500
feet he put the plane into a spin deliberately. He said that it
failed to come out of the spin and that when it had dropped to a
height of 1,500 feel de decided to jump.
SHOW WINDOW RIFLED OF GEMS AS THEATRE GOERS LOOK ON
Bandits Smash Glass, Escape in Auto With $85,000
A daring $85,000 jewelry store robbery, staged on a busy uptown
Manhattan corner, while scores watched in amazement, lent a
melodramatic climax to-day to a series of gem thefts which have
netted the underworld several thousand dollars recently.
The most recent robbery was executed by three bandits who
smashed a window of BERGISON's jewelry store at 125th street and
Seventh avenue and leisurely pocketed jewels in view of several
hundred pedestrians passing the intersection.
The trio drove up to the shop, owned by Herbert BERGISON, just
as the traffic policeman on duty at the corner had been called from
his post to settle an argument. Two of the men stepped from the car
and walked to the elaborately decorated show window while their
companion waited at the wheel.
It was at the height of the theatre hour and hundreds of persons
were walking past the brilliantly lighted intersection. With
seeming unconcern, one of the robbers took a glass cutter from his
pocket and scratched a two-foot circle on the large plate glass.
The other men then drew a padded brick from beneath his coat and
hurled it through the window.
Mrs. BERGISON, wife of the owner, and two clerks, waiting on
several customers, were attracted by the clatter of broken glass.
They rushed to the street to see the robbers scooping up handfuls of
diamonds and other gems and placing them in their pockets.
The thieves secured two trays of diamond rings valued at
$50,000, a pendant containing a 13-carat diamond, 120 other
diamonds, 33 emeralds and several valuable watches.
They then wormed their way through the crowd without any signs
of hurry, stepped in their waiting automobile and drove away.
HUSBAND DYING IN SNYDER-GRAY CASE PARALLEL
Youth Confesses, Woman Denies Part in Divorce Finance Scheme
A housewife of forty who had found her marriage too dull and a
22-year-old youth whom she planned to marry after a Reno divorce
were held to-day as principals in a robbery plot which resulted in
the critical wounding of the woman's husband.
Mrs. Amy CONLIN was arrested in her home at 31-32 Thirty-seventh
street, Astoria, and her confessed admirer, James DE PEW, was taken
in his Broadway hotel room when police became suspicious of the
alleged holdup of John T. CONLIN in the doorway of his room early
Monday.
The youth was said by police to have confessed that he planned
the holdup with Mrs. CONLIN so that she could secure money to go to
Reno for the divorce. He denied, however, that either had planned
to slay the man, saying he accidentally pulled the trigger of his
revolver when he became excited.
Physicians say CONLIN cannot live more than 30 days. He is in a
hospital, paralyzed by the bullet which pierced his spine.
SNYDER CASE PARALLEL
The wounded man, maitre d'hotel of Castle Hall, an Astoria
resort, is insured for $20,000. CONLIN's brother, James, told
police, and authorities said they had found several parallels to the
famous Ruth SNYDER-Judd GRAY case.
Mrs. CONLIN at first denied ever having seen DE PEW, but when
she was confronted by police with several letters from the youth
which were found in her home, she confessed, officials said, to the
illicit romance.
"I met Jim last January," she is alleged to have told police, in
a moment when I was tired of my husband-tired of his absorption with
his men friends, and worn by his coming home drunk and beating me."
She said she had promised to marry DE PEW, whom she believed to
be the son of a wealthy California family. She told police she knew
"there was a plan" to rob CONLIN, but denied being implicated in it.
DE PEW told police he had been receiving money from Mrs. CONLIN
since last January. He readily admitted to police the holdup and
said he had tossed the revolver and an emblem ring which he took
from CONLIN's finger into the East River. He also took $65 in the
holdup but failed to find $265 and a diamond ring which CONLIN had
in another pocket. He said that the robbery had been planned Sunday
night.
FIRED IN EXCITEMENT
"I saw CONLIN drive up to his house in a taxicab with three
other men early Monday," DE PEW told police, "and I followed him
upstairs after the others left. But I didn't intend to kill him. I
just got excited and fired."
As he was being led to a cell DE PEW said, "We are still in love
and if we ever get clear of this thing I'll marry her." He was
later taken to the hospital and confronted by CONLIN, where the
victim accused his wife of plotting to slay him.
DE PEW is said by police to have originally come from Minnesota.
He has served a sentence in Eastview Penitentiary in Westchester
County and other prisons on various charges of petty larceny,
according to police. They said he also is wanted in California,
from which he absconded to Mexico with $8,000 while holding a
position of trust.
SHOE PAYROLL GONE, SLEUTHS SEEK INSIDER
Women Hysterical in $2,100 Bushwick Factory Holdup by Quartet
Working on the theory that the $2,100 payroll holdup from the
office of the Ellbee Shoe Company at 449 Troutman street, was
engineered from the inside, Acting Inspector George BISHOP, in
charge of Brooklyn detectives, had before him to-day all the
employees of the company.
The four armed bandits who terrorized the sixty workers, forty
of them women, shortly before quitting time, Inspector BISHOP
believes, were aided by someone who knew the layout of the place.
PRESIDENT ALSO VICTIM
With those forced to cease working and line up with their faces
to the wall was Benjamin DICKSTEIN, president of the company, who
happened to be in the workshop when the bandits arrived.
The company occupies the entire second floor of the four-story
loft building and the office is partitioned off in one corner of the
workshop. It was shortly before work for the day was over when the
four raiders arrived, looking innocent enough as they inquired from
a worker the location of the office.
However, when they reached the door of the office one of the men
whirled, with a pistol in his hand, and ordered the sixty employees
in the workshop to line up with their paces to the wall. The
workers complied readily and the other three robbers went into the
small office.
MONEY READY
There they found Miss Monica BRITLING, 20, the stenographer, and
Joseph PERSHITZ, the bookkeeper. With little difficulty they
persuaded these two to turn over the payroll which had been
delivered a short time before by the Armored Car Service Company.
The money was in envelopes, ready to be turned over to the
employees.
When this had been accomplished the robber quartette backed out
of the place with an ostentatious display of their bristling
armament. No sooner had they vanished through the door than many of
the women who had been standing with their hands elevated became
hysterical.
By this time the robbers were in their automobile but it looked
for several minutes as if they had been trapped. They had
considerable difficulty in getting the car started. The driver
stabbed futilely at the starter several times while his henchmen
looked anxiously at the exit of the loft building. However, none of
the employees or officials of the shoe company displayed any
tendency to come to the street while the armed robbers were in the
vicinity and eventually they drove off.
27 April 1931
PATROLMAN SAVES 2 FROM GAS DEATH
Alexander SEBO, 45, of 1106 Lorimer street, was found
unconscious in a bathtub in his house by his wife, Anna, last night,
as gas escaping from a heater filled the room. Almost unconscious
herself from the fumes, she was saved by Patrolman Louis De RESPINO,
of Greenpoint station, who administered first aid to her and her
husband. An emergency squad from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company
arrived and completed the policeman's work.
EARLY MORNING FIRE RAZES OLD CONGRESS HALL
Several Firemen Hurt in Three-Alarm Blaze Fanned by High Wind
Their work made more difficult to high winds, which carried
sparks to neighboring dwellings, firemen early to-day fought a
spectacular blaze which gutted the old frame structure at Atlantic
avenue and Vermont street, formerly known as Congress Hall.
Police Sergeant Thomas KENNY, of the Miller avenue station,
first discovered smoke and flames shooting from the building which
is now known at Ardley Hall, at 4 A.M. He raced to Atlantic avenue
and Wyona street to a fire alarm box to find that Samuel GROSSMAN,
proprietor of the bakery at 1700 Atlantic avenue, had gotten there
ahead of him and had already turned in an alarm.
GROSSMAN told KENNY that he thought there was an elderly couple,
caretakers of the building, who lived there. Hurrying back to the
hall, GROSSMAN and the officer started to break in the door, when
Engine Company 225 from just around the corner on Liberty avenue
rolled up to the firemen and the front door was soon forced open.
COUPLE ESCAPES
In small living quarters on the second floor, the firemen found
David DAIS, 30, and his wife Rachel, 27, both colored, who were in
charge of the building, preparing to leave. They were led to the
street without difficulty.
The Hall consists of two frame buildings, one a three-story
structure and the other but two stories high. The fire took an
upward course and was soon shooting high into the air through the
blazing roof. The flames could be seen from all over East New York
and Brownsville, Bushwick and even in many parts of Queens, and,
despite the early hour, thousands of residents wrapped themselves in
blankets and went to the street or to their roofs to watch the
blaze.
So dense did the crowds in the vicinity of the fire become that
it was necessary to call out the reserves from nearby police
stations to establish fire lines.
The high winds carried blazing embers a long distance, and at
least fifteen small fires were started on nearby roofs, which
however, were quickly extinguished by policemen, firemen and
volunteer citizens.
THREE ALARMS SOUNDED
Three alarms were turned in bringing fire apparatus from all
over that section of Brooklyn as well as from parts of Queens, and
two hours of hard fighting were necessary before the flames were
under control. Engine companies were still pouring streams of water
into the building four hors after the first alarm was turned in.
Fireman Frank SMITH, of Engine Company 225, received deep
lacerations about the scalp, face and hands from broken glass and
other debris which fell on him. He was treated by Dr. BANCROFT, of
Trinity Hospital, who remained on the scene throughout the fire and
who was also called upon to treat half a dozen other fire fighters
who were slightly injured.
For years the hall has been a landmark in East New York. Year
after year it has been the scene of political rallies for
Republicans, Democrats and Socialists and the East New York Athletic
Club formerly held its fights there.
Also the scene of many social (article cut off)
OLD GUN FIRES, BROTHER HURT
Salvatore CURICO, 13, found an ancient .22-calibre revolver in
an abandoned automobile at Thirtieth avenue and Thirty-third street
yesterday. Last night he put it through itss paces before his
brother, Frank, 19, in their home at 167 Thirty-fourth street.
To-day Frank is in Norwegian Hospital with a bullet wound in the
right side of his back and Salvatore is to be taken to Children's
Court. While Salvatore was playing with it, both boys told police,
the gun accidentally went off.
DESPONDENT MAN IS CRITICALLY ILL
Patrick CONSTANCE, 69, was found unconscious from gas fumes on
the floor in the kitchen of his home at 65 Taylor street, yesterday
by his wife, Mary, when she returned from church services.
Dr. GOLDBERG, of Beth Moses Hospital, who was summoned, revived
the elderly man and had him taken to Kings County Hospital, where it
was said his condition is critical.
Mrs. CONSTANCE said her husband had been ill more than six
months and was despondent. Two jets on the kitchen gas range were
wide open and all the windows in the room were closed when she found
her husband on the floor, Mrs. CONSTANCE said.
MAN CAPTURES HOME INVADER IN BATH BEACH
Clerk, Just Freed From Elmira, Claims House Party Mistake
Freed from Elmira only four weeks ago, Irving LAMPERT, a clerk
of 141 Bay Fortieth street, will be given a hearing in Coney Island
court before Magistrate STEERS to-day, charged with having attempted
to rob the home of Louis GREENBERG, at 2061 Seventy-sixth street,
early Sunday morning.
GREENBERG entered the bedroom of his home, he told police, while
the other members of the family were listening to the radio in the
front part of the house, and saw LAMPERT standing near the dresser.
The two grappled and GREENBERG subdued the intruder while other
members of the family called the Bath Beach police station.
Detectives Harry BUCKLEY and Charles FARRELL responded and arrested
LAMPERT, who, police reported, said he had been invited to a party
and thought he was in the house where the party was being held.
Police said his record shows that in addition to the term in
Elmira Reformatory for burglary, LAMPERT has been convicted twice
for unlawful entry.
DEJECTED BATH VICTIM SAVED IN BATH BEACH
Fumes Attract Brother-in-Law--Buffalo Realtor Revived
Made despondent by the loss of his wealth and the death of his
wife, Nathan KUSCHLOVITZ, 43, of Buffalo, attempted suicide,
according to police, in the home of his brother-in-law, Nathan
APPELBAUM, at 1482 Eighty-sixth street.
He is in Kings County Hospital to-day where, it was said, his
condition is favorable.
KUSCHLOVITZ is a former Buffalo real estate operator. His
address here, he said, is the Hotel Manger, Manhattan, and he is
visiting his sister, Mrs. APPELBAUM.
Yesterday afternoon while APPELBAUM was attending to business in
the confectionery store in front of his home, KUSCHLOVITZ turned on
five jets in the gas range and placed his head over the fumes.
APPELBAUM smelled the gas and investigated. He bound his
brother-in-law unconscious.
Summoning William ENRIGHT, a city fireman who was passing, and
Patrolman Dennis CLARE of the Bath Beach station, who was on post
nearby, the men gave first aid to KUSCHLOVITZ until the arrival of a
Police Emergency Squad under Sergeant John O'NEIL, and Dr. NEVERS in
an ambulance from Harbor Hospital.
After the police had used an inhalator for half an hour on the
unconscious man he was placed in the ambulance and taken to Kings
County Hospital where the inhalator was used for two hours more
until KUSCHLOVITZ regained consciousness.
KUSCHLOVITZ, police said, was reputed to be a millionaire in
Buffalo until recently when he lost his wealth in real estate. His
wife died a short time ago.
HEAD IN OVEN, TRIES TO DIE
Nathan KUSCHLOVITZ, 46, who lives at the Hotel Taft, Manhattan, went
to the rear room of his brother-in-law's stationery store, at 1482
Eighty-sixth street, yesterday, turned on all jets on a gas range
and held his head in the oven in an attempt at suicide, according to
the police.
KUSCHLOVITZ recently lost more than $35,000 in real estate
speculation in Buffalo, according to his sister, Mrs. Annie
APPLEBAUM. Her husband, Nathan, discovered KUSCHLOVITZ and members
of the police emergency squad revived him and took him to Kings
County Hospital, where it was said he would live.
(transcriber's comment: 2 articles on the same event.?? Note the
"differences" in facts!)
INJURED IN JUMP FROM CAR WINDOW
Because a Bushwick avenue trolley car could not be brought to a
stop by the motorman at Bushwick avenue and Siegel street,
yesterday, Charles FOX, of 1224 St. Anns avenue, the Bronx, and
Thomas DALEY, of 194 Evergreen avenue, jumped out of a window to the
street. Both suffered severe lacerations and were treated by an
ambulance surgeon from St. Catherine's Hospital. The motorman,
Harry GORDON, of 344 Grand street, attempted to stop the car, but it
skidded on wet rails.
BROOKLYN MARINE WINS NAVY CROSS
The heroism of Private Irving Wolfe ARON, a U.S. Marine from
Brooklyn, N.Y., who lost his life while in action against bandits in
Nicaragua, has been recognized by the posthumous award of the Navy
Cross by President HOOVER.
The decoration has been forwarded by the Navy Department to his
mother, Mrs. Cecelia ARON, 141 East Twenty-first street.
The action took place near Achuapa, Nicaragua, Dec. 30, 1930.
ARON's official citation states in part:
"The patrol, of which he was a member, while on telephone line
repair work, was attacked by a vastly superior force of bandits, and
upon the opening of the bandit fire, Private First Class ARON took
up a position along side the trail and returned the fire."
"After maintaining his position for about an hour he was
seriously wounded in the arm. Without regard for his personal
safety and disregarding his wound, he took up the fire with his
pistol in his left hand and continued to assist in the defense until
he was killed."
FATHER COUGHLIN AT POLICE LINEUP
The Rev. Charles E. COUGHLIN, Detroit preacher and radio
broadcaster, was the quest of Police Commissioner MULROONEY at the
line-up at Manhattan Police Headquarters to-day.
After the line-up was ended, the priest was escorted on a tour
of inspection of headquarters and from there he went across the
street to the Police Academy.
Forty prohibition agents also were in the big gymnasium, where
the line-up is held each morning and afterwards they, too, were
taken for a tour of inspection of the big plant by police officials.
FIGHT FOR LIFE AFTER AXE WOUND
Mrs. Lucille BURGER was fighting for life to-day in Flushing
Hospital in a serious condition from the wounds in head and throat
inflicted by her brother, John GOOCH, with axe and razor during a
quarrel in the cellar of the BURGER home at 45-48 Browvale drive,
Little Neck, Saturday night.
Mrs. BURGER's husband found his wife, bare conscious, beside the
body of GOOCH, who had killed himself by cutting his throat with a
razor. The woman had a razor wound in the throat and had been
struck on the head with an axe.
GOOCH had been on sick leave from his job as postal employee for
several weeks due to a recurrence of the affects of shell shock. He
had been living at the Burger home and he and his sister had
quarreled over his being unemployed.
POLICE TRAP TWO SUSPECTS IN HOLDUP OF BLISS PLANT
House Watched in Manhattan - Ex-Convicts Seized
Frank WOOD and Alfred MEALY, both with records, were arrested
after a long police vigil at WOOD's home, 18 West 165th street,
Manhattan, to-day, charged with assault and robbery. Police say
they were two of the three bandits who Thursday held up the Bay
Ridge Plant of E.W. BLISS & Co., Fifty-third street and First
avenue, and shot Charles WELLSNACK, paymaster.
They were singled out by their Rogues' Gallery photographs,
which were picked out shortly after the holdup by employees of the
plant. After appearance in the lineup at Manhattan headquarters,
the two were brought to Brooklyn for arraignment in Fifth avenue
court where the employees were to be taken to view them.
WELLSNACK was handing out pay envelopes on the second floor of
Bliss Building No. 2 and a score of employees waited in line, when
three men entered Thursday, aimed guns, and ordered hands up. All
obeyed but WELLSNACK. He reached back for his gun, but was promptly
shot in the arm.
One of the bandits grabbed a fistful of pay envelopes and the
three ran from the building, scattering envelopes along the way.
They escaped in an automobile. The loss, at first reported as
$1,100, was a great deal less, police announced after a checkup.
The same afternoon Detective Thomas KENNY, John GORMAN, Edward
FITZGERALD and Francis McCARTHY took the employees and WELLSNACK to
the Rogues' Gallery, then proceeded to WOOD's home and watched it
until MEALY appeared there. The two were arrested when they came
out together, forty-eight hours later. MEALY gave his address at
512 West 156th street, Manhattan.
SHOTS HALT CAR AFTER COLLISION
Harry B. SMITH, 45, who was arrested for leaving the scene of an
accident, driving while intoxicated and felonious assault only after
a policeman fired five shots at him, will be given a hearing on May
4 in Ridgewood Magistrate's Court.
Morris JOHNSON, of 55 Main street, Port Washington, L.I., early
yesterday was waiting for a red traffic light to change at Fresh
Pond road and Grove street, Glendale, when the rear of his machine
was hit by SMITH's automobile. JOHNSON maintained SMITH didn't stop
to see what damage had been done and continued past the signal.
Patrolman Ferdinand FETZER, 30, of Glendale station, who saw the
accident, jumped on the running board of SMITH's machine. SMITH
disregarded the officer's command to halt, zig-zagged his machine
and when the patrolman was off balance pushed him from the running
board, police later said.
FETZER commandeered another machine and gave chase. He finally
caught SMITH at Flushing and Grand avenues, Glendale, more than a
mile away, after emptying his service revolver by firing five shots
into the air. At the Glendale station, the patrolman, who lives at
133-20 119th street, Richmond Hill, was given medical aid for
lacerations.
SMITH brought before Magistrate Frank GIORGIO in Jamaica court,
was held in $2,000 bail to await the hearing. A bondsman provided
the necessary bail bond. SMITH gave his occupation as manager and
said he lives at 35-32 Ninetieth street, Jackson Heights.
28 April 1931
COP STABBED; SAVES WOMAN
Patrolman Henry HESSLER, attached to the Ralph avenue station,
had two wounds inflicted by a knife in his right leg to-day to show
for his part in a fight with tenants in a boarding house who
threatened to throw a woman out of the window.
While walking along Broadway, HASSLER (typed as written) was
attracted to the second floor of 1895 Broadway by the screams of
Mrs. Anna CONLON. Rushing upstairs, he found Fred SETER, 22, and
Richard FEENEY, 24, of 512 Sterling place, causing considerable
disturbance in SETER's room, despite Mrs. CONLON's attempt to quiet
them. They had threatened to throw her out of the window, she said,
if she interfered with them.
HASSLER pitched into the two youths, and was finally forced to
use his nightstick to knock them out. When the fight was over, he
discovered he had been stabbed twice in the right leg, and not
knowing which one had done it, arrested both on a charge of
felonious assault. They were to be arraigned in Gates avenue court
to-day. HASSLER was treated by Dr. ZIMMERMAN of Bushwick Hospital.
MOTHER MOURNS FOR MISSING GIRL
Three months ago, Gertrude MARION, 14, of 225 South Third
street, left her home to pay an electric bill at the Williamsburg
Branch of the Brooklyn Edison Company. She never reached her
destination and hasn't been seen or heard from since it was reported
to-day.
Her mother, Anna, has been confined to bed since the girl
disappeared.
It is feared by attending physicians that the mother will die
unless the girl returns home.
"I fear that my child has been kidnapped and is being held
against her will, said the heart-broken father. "If she is afraid
to come home because she lost the money tell her to come back and
she will be forgiven.
"She was always a good girl. I fear she has fallen into evil
hands."
CALLS BANDIT SCHOOL CHUM
A friendship formed when he was a student at New Utrecht High
School led to the arrest to-day of Robert DeSCHAMPS, 17, at his
home, 183 Avenue O, charged with robbery.
He and a companion, police charge, stepped into Charles KAPLAN's
drug store at 394 Avenue P Saturday night and covered KAPLAN and
Irving FRIEDMAN, clerk, of 2053 Sixty-second street, with
automatics.
FRIEDMAN, a New Utrecht boy himself, looked at the bearskin
coat, the horned rimmed spectacles, and almost called out DeSCHAMPS
name, he said, but decided not to because of the guns. DeSCHAMPS
was taken before Magistrate STEERS in Coney Island Court for
pleading. Police say he is implicated in three others holdups in
the neighborhood.
ONLY A MOTHER TO DE PEW, SAYS CONLIN WOMAN
Wife Pictures Self as Victim of Beatings by Husband
While the Queens County au-Jury action on the charges against
Mrs. Amy CONLIN, middle-aged housewife, and her 22-year-old lover,
James De PEW, pending her husband's fight for life, she attempted to
revise the theory which the police appear to have formed with a word
picture of herself as the victim of a drunken husband's beatings and
in the maternal role toward young De PEW.
It is impossible that the evidence in possession of District
Attorney James T. HALLINAN regarding the shooting on April 20 of
John T. CONLIN, the husband, who lies in St. John's Hospital
paralyzed from the waist down, will be presented to the Grand Jury
this week.
Hearings in the magistrate's court are scheduled for Friday, on
the assault and robbery charges, but in the event that CONLIN, who
is not expected to live, survives until then, an adjournment will
probably be taken. To go ahead with the present charges and then to
have the sorely wounded man die would complicate matters from a
legal standpoint, when it became desirable to change the charges to
homicide.
The smiling young ex-convict Queens housewife, was more like a
son to her, she protested to interviewers. She also charged her
husband, steward of an Astoria lodge hall, with cruelty.
"My husband beat and kicked me every night when he came home in
a drunken rage," she said. His own brother said that, if I lived
with him, I must be crazy."
"I met Jim in January of this year shortly after he was released
from prison," she continued.
"I only met him after I left my husband. I liked him because he
was a gentleman and he took me to the movies once in a while. I
made him promise to go straight."
"I was always like a mother to him and I never sent him the $5?
money order as they say. I did occasionally give him a few cents
when he had nothing to eat."
"On the night of the shooting I was in bed. My husband called
to me, and when I heard him scream, I went down to see what was
wrong. If I knew who did it I would have told the police. He had
plenty of enemies."
HIT-RUN VICTIM BADLY INJURED
John PASK, 27, of 1394 East Fifty-fifth street, is confined to
his home to-day, with injuries to the back, a victim of a
hit-and-run driver. At 12:35 A.M. to-day PASK was crossing the
roadway at Meserole and Graham avenue, when he was struck by an
automobile, the operator of which put on speed and disappeared.
Patrolman Leo NADOLSKI of Stagg street station found PASK in a
semi-conscious condition and took him to St. Catherine's Hospital,
where he was treated and permitted to go home.
COP IS OVERCOME IN MYSTERY FIRE
Fire Marshall Thomas BROPHY to-day was investigating the origin
of a mysterious fire which started in the cellar of a house at 197
Kane street early to-day, in which one policeman lost consciousness
from smoke during rescue work and ten families were ousted to the
street.
The fire was discovered by Patrolman Walter JOHNSON, 30,
attached to Traffic A, Manhattan, while on his way with his mother,
Mrs. Hilda JOHNSON, to his home at 22 Warren place. After
instructing his mother to sound an alarm, Johnson entered the house,
and soon had more than fifty persons safely out of the building.
Anxiety as to whether a tenant was trapped on the fourth floor
sent him in a third time, and he was overcome by smoke. He was
rescued by Fireman John HART of Truck Company 110 and Robert KANE of
Engine Company 204, who hoisted a ladder to bring him out. JOHNSON
was treated by Dr. STEWART of Long Island College Hospital, after
which he and his mother were able to proceed home.
POLICEMAN FELLS HOSPITAL SUSPECT
Patrolman Harry WALSH, of 101 McKinley avenue, Glendale, Queens,
attached to Empire boulevard station, had a fight on his hands early
to-day as he was carrying out his duties in the prison ward of Kings
County Hospital. Felix DeMUNDO, a prisoner charged with grand
larceny and confined to the hospital with pneumonia, decided he had
had enough of prisons and hospitals, but Patrolman WALSH disagreed
with him.
While eight prisoners looked on, WALSH and DeMUNDO grappled with
each other. Finally the policeman subdued DeMUNDO with a blackjack
and the prisoner's residence was changed to the Raymond street jail,
where he awaited arraignment. WALSH and DeMUNDO were treated for
lacerations of the face in the hospital.
3 AWARDED TRIPS ABROAD
Awards of three Pulitzer traveling scholarships to students of
the School of Journalism are announced by the trustees of Columbia
University.
The scholars, appointed on the nomination of the teaching staff
of the school, are Frederick Daniel SINK, 31, Zanesville, Ohio;
David A. DAVIDSON, 30, 518 West 148th street, Manhattan; Winston
PHELPS, 31, 384 West 253d street, the Bronx.
These alternates, all of the class of 1931, are named: Valerie
A. FITE, Bridgeburg Ontario; Milton BRACKER, 611 West 158th street,
Manhattan; Lincoln Kinuear BARNETT, 325 East Seventy-fourth street,
Manhattan.
The scholarships, each valued at 1,800, are awarded each year to
graduates of the School of Journalism "who shall have passed their
examination with the highest honor and are otherwise most deserving,
to enable each of them to spend a year in Europe to study the
social, political and moral conditions of the people and the
character and principles of the European press."
COPS DO GOOD HIGHWAY WORK
Police Captain Jacob ROS, of the 110th Precinct, Elmhurst, was
given the thanks of Public Works Commissioner Halleran for
assistance extended during the repair of cuts in the Queens
highways.
Commissioner HALLERAN had ordered that all highway cuts made by
utility corporations should be repaired and none made on Saturday
afternoons so as to impede the heavy traffic over the week-ends.
Sixteen open highway cuts were reported to Commissioner HALLERAN
Saturday noon hour by William P. DUNN, trouble shooter of the
Highway Department. In the emergency, Capt. ROSS diverted traffic
on the affected streets so that the excavations could be filled in
and the roadway surface properly restored.
Patrolman DIDEO also was thanked for his assistance.
CAPTAIN HICKEY ON RETIRED LIST
Captain Joseph V. HICKEY, attached to Engine Company 274 of the
city Fire Department since the company was established in Murray
street, Flushing, in 1911, has retired from the department after
thirty-one years of service.
Captain HICKEY during his career served as personal aide to Fire
Commissioners Nicholas HAYS and John H. O'BRIEN. His first years in
the department were spent in companies in lower Manhattan. In
February, 1904, he was one of the firemen sent from New York to
fight the Baltimore, Md., fire, which destroyed 164 acres of
buildings.
Captain HICKET is a member of the Eastern Association of Fire
Chiefs and the Captains' Association of the Officers' Association of
the New York Fire Department. He lives at 36-04 215th place,
Bayside.
QUICK ACTION SAVES HIS LIFE
Presence of mind saved the life of John LACH, 36 years old, of
582 Manhattan avenue, shortly before 6 A.M. to-day when his clothing
took fire.
Employed by the Ray Dyeing and Cleaning Company at 315 Meeker
avenue, LACH was in the rear of the two-story brick building, where
the gasoline tanks are located, preparing for the day's work, when
one of the tanks exploded and his clothing was set afire.
Running to an adjoining room LACH jumped into a barrel of water,
extinguished the flames which enveloped him and then staggering to
the street, called weakly for help.
Patrolman George STELWORTH of Greenpoint station sounded an
alarm and then carried LACH half block to a store where he was
attended by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital and taken
to his home.
Two fire alarms were sounded and the flames did $5,000 damage
before they were extinguished.
WIDENER GROOM HELD IN FRAUD
Harry V. FOLEY, a groom employed about Belmont Park race track,
was arrested yesterday by Inspector Richard E. BUSH, charged with
attempting to defraud Joseph E. WIDENER, millionaire Philadelphia
sportsman, of $1,095 through a bogus feed bill.
FOLEY admitted having sent the bill to WIDENER when he was
arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Nicholas M. PETTE later, and
PETTE fixed bail at $1,000 and set May 8 for a hearing, at the same
time telling FOLEY to get himself a lawyer.
The bill for $1,095, covering hay, feed, grain, etc., was sent
to Widener March 10. It bore what appeared to be an approval signed
by Henry McDANIEL, WIDENER's trainer.
A check for that sum was mailed, as the bill itself directed, to
H.V. FARLEY, general delivery, Queens Village post office. It
remained there ten days and was sent to the dead letter office. In
the meantime WIDENER started an investigation, BUSH said that
McDANIEL's signature was forged by FOLEY/
ONE-MAN TROLLEY DAMAGED BY FIRE
A Broadway line one-man trolley car, southbound through Crescent
street, caught fire last night as it was about to turn into Fulton
street and was considerable damaged by the flames.
There were only about half a dozen passengers in the car, and
all got out safely and without excitement.
The fire started from a short circuit which occurred when the
trolley pole slipped off the trolley and came in contact with the
overhead structure of the Jamaica B.M.T. elevated line, under which
the trolley cars operate at this point. Most of the damage was to
the roof of the car, which was operated by Motorman Morris FITZER.
After firemen had extinguished the blaze the car was towed to
the East New York barn of the B.M.T.
MAIL DRIVER'S GUN, TAKEN BY BANDITS, FOUND
Detectives See Bulge in Pocket of Youth Delivering Ice
A .45-caliber revolver which was taken from Edward GRANT, mail
truck driver, along with $400 in registered mail, when he was held
up by two bandits on First street between Sixth and Seventh avenues,
on the night of Jan. 6 last, was found in the possession of James
SANSIVERO, 17, of 719 Union street, last night, according to the
police.
The youth, employed on an ice wagon, was making a delivery at an
apartment house at 120 Garfield place, when Detectives Joseph WALKER
and William GARVEY, of Bergen street station, who happened to be
passing the building, noticed a bulge in his coat pocket and, upon
searching him, found the revolver, and also six cartridges, which he
carried in another pocket.
SANSIVERO told detectives that he found the revolver in the
areaway of the same apartment house when making a delivery last
January, a few days after the holdup. He said he intended to turn
it over to the police, but kept putting it off. The police think
the boy told the truth, they said, and he is not suspected of having
had a part in the holding up of GRANT, whose home is at 106 Linwood
street.
SANSIVERO was arrested on a charge of violation of the SULLIVAN
law and was to be arraigned in Flatbush court to-day. The revolver
is owned by the Post Office Department, and postal inspectors have
joined with the police in their investigation of the case.
29 April 1931
COP FIGHTS DOG; LOSES UNIFORM
Patrolman Bert FUNDA of the Greenpoint station has only a
tattered half of his uniform to-day, but he holds the gratitude of a
dozen parents, whose youngsters he saved from an attacking police
dog.
The dog leaped over a fence into a small playground at Miller
and Franklin street last evening, among a score of children, lost
its temper, and began snapping at all those within reach. FUNDA
heard the screams of the children and went to the rescue.
Unable to use his gun for fear of hitting one of the children,
he fought a half hour to subdue the dog with his club, and that is
how he lost half of his uniform. Louis TRIMMER, 3, of 103 DuPont
street, was the only victim, the dog bit him on the lip.
To-day the boy will be examined for rabies at the Health Department
laboratories.
SAYS WIFE BEATERS SHOULD BE PAID
"Your wife tells me that you have been using her for a punching
bag. Nothing would please me more than to commit you to jail six
months twice a year. But then your wife and children would be the
real sufferers, as they would be denied financial support from you.
The State of New York would do well to pass a law to pay men like
you for your labor while confined to jail and send your wages to
your wives."
Thus did Magistrate Alfred E. STEERS in the Coney Island court
yesterday express himself when Frank MORIZIA, 32, an ice dealer,
living at 1562 Sixty-second street, pleaded guilty to a charge of
disorderly conduct and wife-beating, preferred by his spouse, Mary,
mother of their six small children.
MORIZIA was remanded to Raymond Street Jail, pending
investigation and sentence on Friday.
30 April 1931
DRIVER TRAILS HOLDUP PAIR
Ka? WULLFELD, 21, of 142 West Ninety-fifth street, and Vicco
ANDERSON, 26, of 115 West Ninety-fifth street, both of Manhattan,
were arrested at Eighty-eighth street and Thirty-second avenue,
Jackson Heights, Queens, early to-day by Patrolman Patrick SHEA, of
Central Park station, who was returning home from duty, on a charge
of assault and robbery. Police said the two men were seamen who
left their ship here two years ago and remained in the country.
Harry KIRSCHNER, taxi driver, of 1145 Forty-third street, said
the two chartered his cab at Seventh avenue and Fifty-seventh
street, Manhattan, to drive them to Jackson Heights. They alighted
and flashing a pistol, robbed him of $7 and threatened him with
death if he followed them.
He did trail them two and a half blocks, until he met SHEA, and
then caused their arrest. They were taken to Newtown station and
then to the lineup. Police placed a charge of possession of a
pistol against WULLFELD.
THROWS LYE WATER, WIELDS HAMMER; EYE OF BOY GOUGED OUT
Jumps Out Window in Bath Beach, Breaks Ankle
A mother scalded her husband and two step-children early to-day,
seized a hammer and beat the two boys about the head, gouged out the
right eye of one and jumped out of a window.
The boy who lost his eye is dying in Harbor Hospital, while the
two others are in a critical condition in the same institution.
The mother is in the prison ward of Kings County Hospital
charged with felonious assault, and may be transferred to the
psychopathic ward.
She is Minnie AISENSON, 36, who lives at 1864 West Fourth
street, with her husband, Samuel, 42, her eight-year-old son whom
she sent yesterday to visit her sister, and her two step-sons,
Milton, 14, and Harold, 11.
Blood-chilling screams coming from the AISENSON home shortly
after 2 o'clock this morning roused neighbors who notified the Bath
Beach police station.
FOUND GRASPING HAMMER
When Patrolman James COLLINS reached the house he found Mrs.
AISENSON, her right ankle broken, hobbling about the driveway beside
the house. She had leaped from a first floor window. In her hand,
he said, was a claw-hammer with one claw broken and blood stains on
it.
He took her with him when he entered the building from which
groans and screams could still be heard. There he found AISENSON, a
pressman for the New York American, lying on the bedroom floor,
terrible scalded on the lower part of his body and unable to move,
while the two boys were moving about the place, blood pouring from
their heads, and the skin burned from their bodies by a mixture of
boiling water and lye.
AISENSON said he awakened about 2 A.M. and found his wife
(missing......) water. He asked her why ......gave an evasive
answer. .....entered the bathroom, he said .......she followed him,
deluging .......a kettle of scalding water .......lye had been
mixed.
SIDENSON said the burns ......tated him, but he lurched ......
bedroom where he found .....beating the two sleeping ...... over the
head with a hammer.
An examination of Milto......he had been struck about .....
times, while Harold had been .......about five times and his
......gouged out by the claws of the hammer.
AISENSON said he was ......... help the children as after ......
to the floor he could not ....... again.
When COLLINS reached ..... neighbors, roused by the ....... the
place, followed him ...... building. They brought ....... he poured
about two gallons ....... oil over the blistered bodies ....... the
arrival of an ambulance........ from Coney Island Hospital.
Mrs. AISENSON'S mind was ........ when the police arrived.
...... told Detectives James Mc...... Thomas FANNON that her
........told her to take a bath as ...... to put her in a trunk and
....... back to Russia.
Acting Lieut. Ray HONA.... Homicide Squad and Act... Frank BALS
of the Bath ....... detectives questioned AISENSON.
The husband was ...... against his wife. He said ...... she had
become unbalanced ...... through jealously of ...., although their
home ...... a happy one.
AISENSON said neighbors....him his wife had been acting
suspiciously lately, but that ...... been unable to see anything.
Police were inclined to .... AISENSON had planned the ..... she
had sent her own son ....8, to visit her sister..... They believed
that she ..... unbalanced and in that ..... had become jealous of
..... his children.
HIT-RUN SMASH INJURES THREE
Three Brooklyn youths were pinned inside their overturned
automobile early to-day, two of them seriously injured when it was
struck at Twelfth avenue and Thirty-sixth street by the hit-and-run
driver of another.
Morris DIETCH, 22, of 542 Forty-ninth street, driver, and Joseph
CRONIN, 17, of 523 Fifty-fifth street, one of the passengers, were
taken to United Israel Zion Hospital. DIETCH with fractured ribs,
CRONIN suffering from internal injuries. David McDONALD, 19, of 350
Fifty-sixth street, was cut about the face, but was able to go home
after receiving treatment from Ambulance Surgeon BROOME.
Detectives of Parkville station are searching for the driver of
the other machine.
BROWNSVILLE POLICE SEEK WOMAN'S FAMILY
A woman who could remember only that she is Mrs. Martha ORLANDO,
85 years old, was taken to Kings County Hospital last night, while
police of the Brownsville station set out to locate relatives. She
was walking along Howard avenue, at Pitkin, when a patrolman went to
her aid. At the hospital it was said she was suffering from
amnesia.
GUEST AT WEDDING SEVERS HIS ARTERY
James Wood, 46, of 22-28 Twenty-first street, Astoria, was
painfully injured at 2 A.M. to-day while attending a wedding at the
home of a friend, Thomas MANGIN, at 128 Javis street.
WOOD was carrying a cup of coffee across the room when he
slipped and fell, severing the artery in his right wrist. Guests
formed a tourniquet and stopped the flow of blood. He was treated
by Dr. ZABINSKY, from Greenpoint Hospital, and taken home.
BOARD OF TRADE GIVES MEDALS TO TWO HEROES
Fireman MULVANEY and Detective GRIFFO Honored in South Brooklyn
Two "gentlemen of the public service," one a detective and the
other a fireman, were honored last night for valor in the line of
duty. The occasion was the thirty-fifth annual dinner-dance of the
South Brooklyn Board of Trade at the Hotel Bossert.
Fireman Thomas P. MULVANEY, of Hook and Ladder Company 109, and
Detective Dominick GRIFFO, formerly attached to the Fifth avenue
station in South Brooklyn, but now attached to the Bath Beach
station, were awarded the board's annual medals for conspicuous
service. Both are residents of Bay Ridge.
SAVED AGED WOMAN
MULVANEY, who a year ago won the Thomas A. KENNY Memorial Medal
and the Department Medal for heroism, on Nov. 17, 1929, entered the
third floor apartment of a burning building at 226 Fifteenth street.
Using an extension ladder and "at extreme personal risk" he
saved the life of an 82-year-old woman.
MULVANEY is married and has two children.
FOUGHT BANDITS
Detective GRIFFO on Nov. 22, last year, while off duty at a
private club, alone and unaided and despite the loss of his gun,
captured four invaders.
Ex-Supreme Court Justice Stephen CALLAGHAN presented the two men
with gold inscribed medals, declaring they represented the finest
body of public servants to be found anywhere.
County Judge Algeron I. NOVA in a speech of felicitation said:
"I wish we could take them both to the public square, where we
could honor and praise them so that the world might see and hear of
their accomplishments."
Judge NOVA commenting on the increase in juvenile delinquency,
blamed the "present economic depression aggravated by lay-offs." He
said.
"Employers," he added, "should consider the human angle first
before cutting down expenses. Cut down on the margin of profit, or
cut down the boss' salary if need be, but the poor, who represent
the great purchasing body in this country, should not be made to
suffer."
NEW SCHOOL CONSIDERED
Dr. Francis WARD, former president of the board, said that he
had been informed that the Board of Education is considering a
proposal to build a high school in South Brooklyn. Public School
39, at Eighth street and Sixth avenue, is 75 years old and is ready
to be condemned and razed, he said.
Among those present were:
Congressman Loring M. BLACK, Jr.;
State Senator Marcellus H. EVANS,
Assemblyman Edward S. MORAN,
Alderman Gustave HARTUNG,
Capt. Walter ROUSE and
Deputy Chief George P. McALEER.
PIGEON RETURNS WITH A MESSAGE
John H. SCHULZE of Covert avenue, Hempstead, member of the
Hempstead Pigeon Flyers Association, announced yesterday that
"LINDBERGH," one of the three homing pigeons loaned by the
association to Hugh HERNDON, Jr., and Clyde PANGBORN, on their
flight to Porto Rico, had returned to Roosevelt Field with a message
from the fliers.
The pigeon carried a message signed "Herndon," which read:
"Released bird at 10:25 A.M., April 29, near Baltimore. Bucking
headwinds. Speed reduced to ninety-five miles an hour. YANCEY
(Lewis YANCEY, the navigator) still pounding the pillow."
The pigeon had made the return flight in six hours, twenty-five
minutes. The fliers have two other pigeons named "Chamberlin" and
"Acosta."
BABY SEVERELY BURNED BY SOUP
Sophie AITROVITCH, 1 year old, was severely burned on the face,
neck and scalp last night when her mother, Mrs. Blanche AITROVITCH
stumbled and spilled a pot of hot soup on the child in their home at
1838 Bath avenue.
Mrs. AITROVITCH was carrying the soup from the kitchen range to
the table, where her four other small children waited to be fed.
The baby was playing on the floor.
Dr. NEVERS of Harbor Hospital treated the baby and then took her
to the hospital, but said she would recover.
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