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2 JANUARY 1931
Treated For Injuries
Charles ATKINSON,25 of 1220 Greene avenue,was found sitting on the curbstone
at Myrtle avenue and Harmon street,Ridgewood, at 3AM yesterday by Patrolman
WILLIAM MOORE,of Wilson avenue station.The man was treated by
Dr.SCALZA,of Wyckoff Heights Hospital,and taken to Kings County Hospital. He
told police he had been knocked down by an automobile and that the driver of
the machine did not stop.He has a servere scalp laceration.
FIREMEN RISK LIVES TO SAVE BABY
Parents Save Two Other Children From Flames.
Climbing two floors through dense clouds of smoke and sheets of flames,
firemen reached the crib of a 19 month-old baby last night a few minutes too
late to save her life.The baby Shirley CONARECK, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert M.
CONARECK,of 536 Vermont street,was pronounced dead from suffocation at
Trinity Hospital where she was taken by firemen.
Mr and Mrs.CONARECK with two children,lived in an apartment on
the second floor of the Vermont street address.Last night shortly after
11o'clock, they were visiting friends on the third floor,when Mrs.CONARECK
smelled smoke in the hall.Both she and her husband hurried downstairs and
found their apartment filled with smoke. Mrs CONARECK reached the bed of her
son and carried him to safety,but by the time she went back for her
daughter,the smoke was so dense that neither she nor her husband could locate
the babie's crib.
Engine Company No.290 was the first to reach the scene and Fireman
Richard BALL found Mrs.CONARECK on the pavement in front of the building
crying that her baby was still in the apartment. Followed by some of his
comrades,BALL scaled the wall and broke a window to get into the smoked
filled apartment. Clouds of smoke and sheets of flames burst through the open
window but the firemen entered the apartment and groped around until they
found the crib.
The baby was carried down the ladder to her mother and then taken to the
hospital in a cab, where Dr.SELDEN pronounced her dead.
Investingation by both police and fire officials failed to
reveal the origin of the blaze.Damage is estimated at $3,500.
3 January 1931
CONEY DRUGGIST BANDIT VICTIM
Four bandits, who entered the drug store of Isidore GOLDBERG, 316 Sea
Breeze avenue, on a bluff of buying headache powder yesterday, robbed the
cash register of $100 and took twenty-five fountain pens valued at $100.
Dective Thomas BLAKE of Coney Island police was assigned to the case.
Goldberg used one of his headache powders today.
BOYS CONFESS, SCORE THEFTS
Admitting to a score of petty burglaries,four boys known among their
playmates as the "Forty Thieves",were arrested at their homes last night by
dectectives Daniel HARTT and John CAMMEYER of the Herbert Street Station and
Detective John DEMPSEY of the Greenpoint Station. The burglaries were
committed in the lower Bushwick and Greenpoint sections.
During one of the burglaries, at the furniture store of J.Anderson
&Sons, 719 Manhattan avenue, the boys wrote on the safe door with chalk ''Bum
job,old pal,
we'll be back again'' and then signed ''Forty Thieves''.
The boys gave their names as William BLUE,14 years old,of 619 Leonard
street, Thomas HERTFORD,15 years old, of 977 Lorimer street, Joseph WILLIAMS
14 years old,of 39 Dobbins street and Frank WADE,14 years old, of 650
Manhattan avenue. They will be taken to the Children's Court to-day for arraignment.
5 January 1931
TAILOR BEATS DEATH IN RACE
A race with death that began in Williamsburg and ended five miles
away,at Kings County Hospital,was won to-day when after an examination by
physicians,Moses GOLDSTEIN,78, of 168 South Eighth street,was decleared out
of immediate danger.
GOLDSTEIN,who is a tailor unemployed, was found by Mrs.Celia
GOLDRING,in a gas-filled room with two open jets from a stove. Mrs GOLDRING
called Patrolman Michael GALICCHIO of Clymer street station,who, with
Ambulance Surgeon GOLDBERG,of Beth Moses Hospital, quickly placed the man in
the ambulance. During the ride to the hospital Patrolman James DUGAN and
Joseph GAULIER continued to administer the inhalator to GOLDSTEIN,while the
ambulance with siren sounding,raced through the streets.
Although in a serious condition,he will probably live, hospital
authorities said.
SAYS FRIEND TOOK $147 IN WALLET
Joseph MIGDALSKI, 38 of 179 Green street and August PETERAK, of 93
Clay street,have been friends for a long time.But they are so no
longer,especially since MIGDALSKI faces a grand larceny charge in Bridge
Plaza Court to-day.
The friends went out on New Years Day to celebrate.Both under the
influence of liquor,the police say, they made their way to PATERAK's room for
a rest.
It is charged that when PATERAK awakened his friend was gone,so was
his wallet containing $147 and a fountain pen.
Detective Robert BARRON of Greenpoint Station, said when he arrested
MIGDALSKI he found the wallet,empty, and the fountain pen.MIGDALSKI in reply
declared the wallet and fountain pen were given him by PATERAK as a New Years
present. This PATERAK denies.
6 January 1931
TROLLEY ACCIDENT
The trolley,in charge of Motorman, Joseph WRIGHT,of 185 Hegeman avenue,
was traveling east on New Lots avenue when it approached the truck loaded
with ashes,in charge of Frank PATILO,of 1442 Herkimer street, which was
parked at the curb on New Lots near Alabama avenue.
WRIGHT saw that there was not enough space for his car to clear the
truck and
applied the brakes, but the rails were wet and slippery and the trolley slid
ahead, according to police. Ther was a deafening crash that sent passengers
in a heap against the seats and in the aisle. All windows on the right side
of the car and many on the left were shattered. Part of the right side wall
of the trolley also was ripped away.
Two ambulances, one from Trinity Hospital and another from Brownsville
and East New York Hospital, responded together with Police Emergency Squard No.14.
The trolley in the crash and several others which arrived were turned into
temporary hospitals for the treatment of the victims of the accident for the
next hour and a half.
LIST OF INJURED
Besides, SILVERS,those hurt were;
Ida SKOLNICK,40,of 699 New Lots avenue, lacerations of the scalp.
Bessie JACOBS,26, of 589 Crescent street, possible fracture of the left hand.
Louise RAPPAPORT, 17, 820 New Lots avenue, lacerations of the forehead and
left hand.
Rebecca WINOGRAD,40,of 709 Van Sicklen avenue, laceration of both hips and
right hand.
Eva TROY, 50,455 New Lots avenue, laceration of the scalp.
Esther STEIN, 40,same address, injury to the left leg.
Ida KRINICK, 35, of 820 New Lots avenue,possible fracture of the left leg.
Samuel DITTMAN,50, 608 New Lots avenue, shock.
Samuel NEDEL, 50,671 Georgia avenue, two ribs fractured.
Louis GOLDSTEIN, 40, of 554 Schenck avenue, injury to right shoulder.
Canarsie police at once began an investigation, but decided ther was
no justification for the police action and ascribed the accident to the thick
weather and slippery rails.
7 January 1931
OWNS OLD DUTCH BIBLE
Bath,NY, Jan 7 (UP) A 350-year old Bible printed in Dutch, is ownedd by
Mrs.Andrew TEACHMAN, who acquired it from her father,John DeVOIST.
The latter brought it to America from Holland, where it had been in the
possession of his family.
COAL AND ICE MAN GETS ''SPOT'' THREAT
The ''shoulder'' coal and ice business in Greenpint is not conducted
without a certain amount of danger to life and limb, according to Anthony DiGIORA,
who operates a business of that kind at 136 Meserole street.
DiGIORA causedd the arrest of a competitor and two other men on the
grounds they had told him that, unless he quit his business and hereafter
kept out of the coal and ice trade they'd ''put him on the spot''. As a
result of the alleged threat,DiGIORA went into a huddle with Detective
Charles KERRIGAN,of Greenpoint station,and KERRIGAN made the arrest.
The three men,who were to be taken to the line-up in Manhattan this
morning and then appear in Bridge Plaza Court to face charges of
intimidation, are
Louis SANTANIELLO,44,coal and ice dealer of 16 Conselyea street; Vido Di
VIDO,40,of 290 South First street, and Ralph VALENTINO,32, a counterman, of
35 Havemeyer street.
FIND FAMILY OF SIX SICK AND STARVING
Six persons in one family were found suffering from malnutrition and
tonsolitis at their home in Corna last night when Patrolman Jacob BIEHN, of
Newton Station was called by neighbors to the FORTUNACO apartment at, 108-57
Fiftieth avenue,Corona.
When the policeman entered the four-room flat,he found that Anthony
FORTUNACO,44, his wife,Uliana,38 and their four children, Michael,10; Mary,7;
Albert,4 and Julia 2, lying in bed suffering from a throat illness which
caused them unusual pain, Patrolman BIEHN immediately sent for an ambulance
and Dr.GANNER, of Flushing Hospital, responded.
The physician found the family suffering from tonsolitis and ordered
medicine for which Patrolman BIEHN paid for it out of his own pocket.While a
neighborhood drugist was filling the prescription,BIEHN visted several other
merchants and bought enough food for the evening meal. The policeman returned
to the home and administered the medicine.
Patrolman BIEHN remainedd at the house long after his tour of duty
expired to make certain that everything was in order.
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP IN LONG ISLAND CITY GETS REAL DUSTING AND OLD CRONIES MUST GO.
Buried Treasure Was Placed Anywhere, But It Was Sometimes Found.
For the first time in twenty-seven years,Long Island City's Old
Curiosity Shop, at 303 Jackson avenue, is being straightened up.
In all that time Dick SCHWARTZ has had things hauled into his shop,piled
here and there and left until someone bought them or they were moved somewhere
else in order that something hidden in a corner or under a pile might be
gotten at. Through the four rooms of the store and the large rooms on the
second floor which cover the area occupied below by four stores, all matter
of things from brass screws to old mahogany highboys were stored hazardly.
Everything was dust covered.It was only when someone wanted to purchase
something that a particular object received the attention of a dust cloth.
But all that is changed now, Dick SCHWARTZ for forty years a collector
and auctioneer and for twenty-seven years the guardian, moving spirt and
propietor of the shop, has turned the direct management of the shop over to
younger members of the family.
Dick will continue to go about and do the buying.There is no shreweder
buyer of second hand oddities in Long Island City. He will still conduct the
regular weekly auctions.He is still the head of the firm.But the direct
management of the shop is in new and younger hands. AND WHAT A CHANGE!
Even through the process of cleaning up is still under way, you can now
actually see the rear wall of the place.Instead of wandering through an
aimless sort of aisle that shifted its course everytime a customer bought
something or a new stock was brought in, one now can walk straight throough
the length of the store without bumping a shin or an elbow.
Boxes and barrels are being broken open,their contents ascertained.
When it is all over, there will be several loads of stuff carted away to
nowhere in particular.
One loss will be felt by a number of men.The Oasis of Oratory will be
no more.
Until the cyclone of cleaning hit the valuable debris that fills the
shop, there was always one clear space in the center of the main store.There
stood a round table, lighted by an overhanging oil lamp of ancient vintage. A
feet away was an old pot-bellied iron stove that threw out a genial heat on
chilly days.Around this table a group of local leisured men gather regularly
to play pinochle and philosophize.
Here matters of local, county,city State,national and international
politics were settled, or unsettled.Life in its fuller sense, religion, the
latest ''ism'' and the old doctrines were discussed and rediscussed.
There will be no place for such a group in the refurnished shop. And
anyway, as one of the members gloomily put it after a brief and devastating
visit to his former haunt, the atmosphere will not be right for the ancient
and honrable art of philosophizing.
8 January 1931
LITTLE MOTHER BEGS MERCY FOR BROOTHER WHO SHOT HER
Boy,12,Plays Bandit and Bullet Hits Sister
Even though she had a bullet in her right shoulder,Esther SHYMAN,22,of
222 Pulaski street,who slaved to provide food and shelter for her three
brothers after the death of her mother and disappearance of her
father,pleaded with police today from her cot in Beth Moses Hospital not to
''hurt Seymour''.
Seymour,detectives said is her 12-year-old brother,who accidentally shot
his sister last night with a .22-calibre rifle while playing bandit at his
home.The bullet struck her in the chin and lodged in her left
shoulder.Surgeons expected to operate to remove the bullet to-day before
blood poisoning develops.They revealed her condition is not serious.
HELD FOR COURT
Despite the girl's pleas,however,Seymour was to appear in Children's
Court on a juvenile delinquency charge.He was taken into custody by Gates
avenue police after the shooting.
''I'm a bad bandit,stick up your hands,'' Seymour shouted gleefully
last night as his sister returned home from work.
She is employed as a stenographer by Harry WOLOF,chief clerk of the
Gates Avenue Municipal Court.
''Bam''screamed the youth as he pulled the trigger.''I'm a gunmam''.
For an instant,the bot gazed in amazement as he saw his sister fall
to the floor.Then he called his brother,Louis,15, and David,19. Police were
summoned after the wounded girl was taken to the hospital.
CARED FOR YOUNGSTERS
The story of Miss SHYMAN's heroic efforts to maintain a home for her
brothers were unfolded by mother died,and a few weeks later her father
vanished.So she went to work to earn funds with which to maintain their bleak
Pulaski street abode.
In the morning she arose early to cook breakfast for her
brothers.Before going to work she started she started the two youngest off to
school.David,the eldest, works in Manhattan.Each evening she returns home to
prepare dinner for her little family.She has no boyfriends and only
occasionally sought amusement at the movies.
''Please do not arrest Seymour'', the girl wailed from her cot
to-day.''Don't hurt him. He's a good boy,and as soon as I am well again I'll
go home and take care of him and my other brothers''.
FOUR WOMEN CLEARED OF DRUGGIST HOLDUP
Chargers of robbery against four women and a man who were arrested
earlier in the week in a house on State street,were dimissed by Magistrate
DALE in Adams street court today when Pincus COHEN,druggist,of 348 Atlantic
avenue,was unable to identify them as having robbed him on Jan 2.
However,Mrs.Mary JONES,of 333 State street,one of the women,was
rearrested by Detective Frank RUDDY on a charge of impairing the morals of a
minor and held in $1,000 bail for a hearing Jan.12, because when police
entered the place they found a small boy there.He was turned over to the
Children's Society.
Edward HOFFMAN,20, of 135-22 Kew Gardens road,Kew Gardens, another of
the group,was taken into custody by Detective FALVEY as soon as he was
discharged to be taken before the Patrol Board in Manhattan.He is on parole
from Elmira,where he had served about a year for burglary,according to the
police.
The others set free were,Mrs.Ruth HOFFMAN,; HOFFMAN's wife, and Doris
and Vivian WATTS,of 26 Grand avenue,Arlington ,NJ.
WOMAN'S GUILD ARRANGES PARTY
Details for the card party of St.Cecillia's Women Guild were discussed
last night at a meeting held at the day nursery,Richardson and North Henry
streets. The
affair will be held on Feb 9 at Loughlin Lyceum.
Mrs.Anna DOYLE is in charge of the arrangement committee.Aiding her are:
Mrs.Margaret MURPHY,
Mrs.Sarah MURPHY,
Mrs M.O'BRIEN,
Mrs. M. McGEE,
Mrs.Sarah BOYLE,
Mrs.James CANAVAN,
Mrs.M.BUTLER,
Mrs.M.REPSHER,
Mrs.Catherine DUMAS,
Mrs.Joseph MAHONEY,
Mrs.Mae GOLDEN,
Mrs.John DONOHUE,
Mrs.Pauline RITTER,
Mrs.Theresa GILL,
Mrs.Florence McGUINNESS,
Mrs.M.SWING,
Mrs.M. McGOLDRICK,
Mrs.James O'SHEA,
Mrs.E.MAHONEY,
Mrs.James SEXTON,
Mrs.Frank RYAN,
Miss Rose CROWLEY,
Miss Anna ESCHMANN,
Miss Mary GILL and Miss Estelle CORCORAN.
TAKING OF PIPE ENDANGER'S HOUSE
Patrolman Frank JALLON of Bedford avenue station moved quickly too
prevent a vacant building at 64 North Third street from floating away into
East River yesterday.
JALLON discovered that much of the lead pipe in the cellar of the
building had been cut away and that water was fast undermining the edifice.
He stuffed up the leak and then notified the Water Department.
Half an hour later JALLON was at Grand and Berry streets.He saw two youths
and one of them had a burlap bag on his shoulder. When the officer saw the
bag contained lead pipe he arrested them on a charge of burglary.
At the stationhouse they gave the names of Theodore DOMRASCH,18,of
87 Grand street, and Thomas LEMONDAWSKI,17,oof 2136 Himrod street.In Bridge
Plaza court they were held without bail for examination to-day.
SEARCH PRESSED FOR WOMAN WHO STLE NEIGHBROR'S CHILD
*note,there is a huge ink line at the begining of the story.
Navy Street Mother Collapses- Searchers Lack Clues
The hunt for Mrs.Angeline SHIRON, 24,suspect of kidnaping ??
six-weeks-old baby girl,continued to-day with police extending their efforts
to all parts of the city.
Meanwhile,the mother of the missing infant,Mrs.Anthony ROTUNDO ?? Navy street
is reported in a ??? of collapse.
??? street police investigated ?01 Hudson avenue where Mrs.SHIRON formerly
occupied a furnished room, and learned that the ??? was regarded by trades-????
nearby as ''peculiar''.Her husband is said to be a butcher ????? Max
SHIRON, but detectives ????? he did not live at the ???? avenue address,and
so far ???? been unable to locate him.
????vation Army officials today denied that they had any worker
answering the description of the kidnaper.Mrs.SHIRON, according to the
story told by Mrs.ROTUNDO, visited her home last week and represented
herself as a member of the Salvation Army,who was listing children
under five months old for whom that organization was preparing to
provide clothing.
The ROTUNDO's are in modest circumstances which leaves detectives with
the belief that the theft of the baby,who had not yet been christened, was
inspired by frustrated mother love, a psychopathic condition sometimes found
in married women who have an ino??dinate desire to have children oon whom to
lavish affection.There seems to be little chance that the kidnaper expected
to obtain ransom,police say.
Mrs.ROTUNDO's story is that Mrs.SHIRON returned to the apartment Tuesday
the mother told the supposed Salvation Army worker that she had to take a
nephew to Cumberland Hospital to be treated for rickets and Mrs.SHIRON
accompanied her.They left Mrs.SHIRON's sister, mother of the boy,at home with
the baby.The sister was ill and unable to take the boy to the
hospital,Mrs.ROTUNDO explained.
At the hospital it was decided that an operation was necessary but the
mothers consent was needed.Mrs SHIRON volunteered to return to the ROTUNDO
home and sorrry,there is no end to this story
***See 14 Januaury 1931
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1931 COURT
9 January 1931
OFFICERS INSTALLED
Installation ceremonies for officers of the Bay Ridge Review,109, Women's
Benevolent Association, will be held to-night at the Steamships Clerks
Lyceum, 266 Fifty-first street. Mrs Louise A.WITSCHER will be inducted into
office as president.
PILOT'S LICENSE FOR COLLEGE GIRL
Miss Laura MORGAN,of 1111 Park avenue,Manhattan, was granted a private
pilot's license by George D.REAM,field inspector of the Aeronautical Bureau
of the U.S.Department of Commerce, at Curtiss Airport yesterday.
Miss MORGAN was graduated from Smith College. She is taking a course in
flying which eventually will enable her to obtain a transport license.
3 BORO HUNGER VICTIMS COLLAPSE
Exposure and starvation to-day was the cause of suffering to three
Brooklyn people. All were aided by police and hospital authorities.
Jeanette HATHAWAY, 12, of 763 Barbey street, collapsed while waiting in a
bread line at Miller avenue station.She was treated by a doctor and taken to
Trinity Hospital.
William GAYNOR,61,of 46 Cooke street,was taken to Kings County Hospital
from his home, suffering from staravation, while another man out of work,John
McCARTHY,35,of 35 Nineteenth street, was treated at his home for the effects
of exposure and later taken to M.E.Hospital.
10 January 1931
TONY SOUGHT BY POLICE AS GIRL IS DYING
Shoots Sweetheart While Cleaning Gun in Furnished Room
Brooklyn and Queens police are searching to-day for a man known only as
''Tony''- even to his sweetheart.Meanwhile the sweetheart,Veronica LIBASCI,
16,of 71 Antin street, Rockaway Beach,is lying in Cumberland Hospital,
near death from a bullet wound in the abdomen received last night,
she says,when Tony's gun was accidentally discharged.
According to her story to the police,Miss LIBASCI and Tony hired a
furnished room at 127 Lefferts place,on Monday. Last night,she said,Tony was
cleaning a revolver,when suddenly it discharged,and a bullet struck her in
the side.
Tony carried her to the street and there hailed a taxicab driven by
Randolph CHASE,of 676 DeKalb avenue. He directed the man to drive to the
Cumberland Hospital. Halfway there he ordered the driver to stop,handed him a
dollar bill and told him to take the young woman to the hospital alone.
CHASE called Patrolman Chris PESTHER of Grand avenue station and
patrolman continued to the hospital in the taxicab. At the hospital
physicians said the young woman had been so weakened by loss of blood it
might be necessary to give her a blood transfusion.
BANDITS GET BUILDERS' CASH BY POSING AS HOME SEEKERS
Six Unmolested in Model House at Rego Park
Having escaped with the $2,700 payroll of a Queens real estate firm,six
bandits to-day had more than sufficient funds to make the first payment on a
house which two of the outlaws contemplated buying.
Clad in immaculate attire, two of the gangsters strolled into the
officers of Rodman &English at Rego Park late yesterday and engaged the
sales manager,Harry RINGHOFF,in concersation about the price of houses and
the desirability of living in the neighborhood.
Suddenly the two bandits drew revolvers, threatened to shoot RINGHOFF
and seized the payroll. After obtaining the money the two outlaws called four
accomplices who were waiting outside the building and the six nonchalantly
divded the money in the sales manager's presence before escaping in a waiting sedan.
One hour before the holdup a policeman assigned to guard the payroll
had been dismissed by officials of the firm, according to police.
The robbery occurred inthe company's offices in one of the model
bungalows at Woodhaven boulevard and Sixty-third avenue,Rego Park.
''How much do you want for that house over there on the corner?'' one
of the bandits asked as he and his companion entered the office. ''That place
is priced at $10,500, but the down payment is considerably less'',RINGHOFF
replied. ''Well'', the stranger replied,''I guess I haven't got that much
money''. The two gangsters and RINGHOFF walked to a window to look at the
dwelling.When they stopped both of the strangers drew revolvers.
After forcing the sales manager and his two assistants,Vincent
O'DONNELL and George KINDER, into a rear room one of the bandits scooped up
the pay envelopes on a desk. The two outlaws then walked to the door and
hailed their four accomplices who were seated in the waiting sedan.
While the sales manager and his assistants looked on the six gangsters
divided the loot among themselves.
''Now I've got more than enough to make that down payment,mister'' one
of the bandits remarked as the six filed out of the office.
LEONARD TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL
George R.LEONARD,second vice president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent
Association, was taken on Monday in anambulance to Beekman Street Hospital
from the Parole Commission's office in the Municipal Building, Manhattan,
where he was stricken with a heart spasm. Vice-President LEONARD is one of
the best known members of the Police Department. He has beena member of the
P.B.A. for more than thirty-five years. His son,George R.LEONARD,Jr., is
chief clerk of the Kings County Court. In all the movements looking to higher
pay for the patrolmen, Vice-President LEONARD took a leading part.
12 January 1931
THREE BEATEN UP AT WEDDING WHEN THEY TRY TO KISS BRIDE
''Treated Her Too Rough'' Is Explanation of Guest
Hopeful of finding more merriment, three night rovers early today
strolled into National Hall,140 Pennsylvania avenue, where a Polish wedding
celebrtion was in progress,and made the error of attempting to kiss the bride.
The three- John SOLKOWITZ,18,of 341 Georgia avenue; John SCHNEIDER,20,of
2744 Atlantic avenue, and Samuel BACON,20, of 943 Christopher avenue- were
treated for cuts and bruises about the face and body at the Bradford street
Hospital,after escaping from the scene of the struggle in a taxicab.
Becoming suspicious over the youths' reluctance to reveal how they had
been injured a nurse summoned police from the Miller avenue station.
''We all tried to kiss the bride at the same time'',SCHNEIDER
confided,between puffed lips. ''All of a sudden we found ourselves lying on
the sidewalk infront of the hall surrounded by a milling crowd eager to do
more violence. Some way or another we all managed to get to our feet and
fled. We jumped intoa cab about a block from the hall and went to the hospital.''
Police were later informed the youths staggered into the hall about 2;30 AM,
as the celebration was breaking up and ''treated the bride too rough''. Two
hundred persons were bidding the bride and groom goodbye at the time.
''Yes,we did have a few drinks earlier in the night'',SCHNEIDER
conceded when confronted with this information.
RESCUES SEVEN GAS VICTIMS
Smelling coal gas fumes when he went to the home of Joseph CONFRESORE,33, at
2055 West Twelfth street early to-day, a milkman saved the entire family of
seven from possible asphyxiation while sleeping.
Although partly overcome by fumes escaping from a defective flue, CONFRESORE
was able to respond to the milkman's alarm and aroused his wife, Carmella,30
and their five children,Caroline,8; Fred,6; Louis,4; Jerry,2 and Juan,six months.
The family was revived by an ambulance surgeon from Coney Island Hospital.
All seven were made ill by the fumes.Police investigating the near-tragedy
were unable to obtain the name of the milkman.
FIREMAN INJURED
While carring a box of clothes down a flight of stairs in the Fort Hamilton
police station,Fireman Henry LANG,50, of 329 Weirfield street, and attached
to Deputy Chief John DAVIN's office, fell to the floor below. He was treated
by Dr.SCHMIDT,of the Norweigin Hospital for a fractured right hand and
lacerations of the knee.LANG was working for the Mayor's Committee on
unemployed relief at the time.
IT May Seem Strange But It Really Happened!
Whether Brooklyn can be listed as a man's "country home'' is a contention
now being argued by "Stitch" McCARTHY,the mayor of Grand street,and Jack
SPERO,the mayor of Washington Heights.
McCARTHY wants to know how a man can be mayor of Washington Heights and live
in Brooklyn. SPERO maintains that "thats my country home over there,my city
one's in Washington Heights.''
What started the argument is that both of them would like to be No.1
locality mayor,when all the local mayors convene next Sunday to elect a head man.
Flirtation Costs Freedom Of Four Bandit Suspects
Because they stopped to flirt with a girl after robbing a store
yesterday,four alleged "toy pistol bandits'' were to be arrained to-day in
New Jersey avenue court.
Police said the youths have been identified by the storekeepers recently
robbed in Brownsville and East New York, including Morris
KRANIS,confectioner,at 674 Belmont avenue. KRANIS was robbed of $40 in his
store a few hours before the alleged bandits were captured.
The youths identified themselves as Stephen SPELLINI,16, of 531 Van Sicklen
avenue; Anthony BORGESE,17,of 184 New Lots avenue, and Santo MICELLI 17, and
his brother,Peter,19, of 597 Warwick street.
While crusing around in an automobile after robbery, the youths attemped to
flirt with a girl at Sheffield and Glenmore avenues,Brownville. Their action
drew the attention of Dectective Arthur GIDDING and Patrolman Edmund CROWE,
who were patroling the district in a police car.
Two of the youths were captured when they left their machine and attempted
to persuade the girl to go joy ridding. The others were caught after a short chase.
13 January 1931
STEPS TO FREE 51 GIRLS BEGUN IN VICE INQUIRY
One Committed to Bedford Will Get Hearing at White Plains
Initial steps to free fifty-one girls,illegally committed to Bedford
Reformatory as wayward minors by magistrates, were taken today when Supreme
Court Justice CALLAHAN signed a writ of habeas corpus ordering one of the
victims produced in court at White Plains.
Basing his action on disclosures made in the Appellate Division's
inquiry into the vice graft ring that girls had been committed to the
reformatory without being given proper hearings, Justice CALLAHAN directed
officials of the institution to produce Philomena De ANGELO,now a patient at
Welfare Island Hospital, at a hearing to determine the legality of her
conviction.
COP SLUGGED BY EX-FIREMAN- At Williamsburg Call Box
Found hiding in an empty barrel early to-day as the climax to a
four-hour search by police, a stranger who identified himself as Alfred
E.SMITH,32, former fireman, was charged with slugging Patrolman John
O'BRIEN,53, of the Stagg street station, a few hours earlier.
Calling the station house from a telephone box at Johnson and Moran
avenues at 3A.M., Patrolman O'BRIEN reported a stranger on his beat lurched
into view from around the corner, staggered over to his side with difficulty
and hiccoughed; ''I've got no use for cops,so here's one for you.'' The
stranger,the policeman charged, struck him on the head with a blunt
instrument.O'BRIEN sank to the sidewalk unconscious.
In falling, the patrolman left the telphone receiver dangling from its
cord, resulting in the buzzer continuing to sound at the stationhouse
switchboard.Other police were sent to the scene and found O'BRIEN still
unconscious beneath the telephone box.He was revived by an ammbulance surgeon
from St.Catherine's Hospital.
After scouring the neighborhood four hours detectives found SMITH hiding
in a barrel in the yard at 91 Ingraham street.O'BRIEN identified him as his
assailant.
''Probably I did hit the policeman,'' SMITH admitted at the Stagg street
station.
''But I have no recollection of the incident as I was pretty drunk''.
Further questioning broubht out that SMITH was ousted from the Fire
Department four years ago for assaulting his commanding officer. He refused
to divulge his home address.
STABBING IS FATE OF PEACEMAKER
When he tired to stop a fight between two unidentified men in a vacant lot
at Old South road and Seventy-seventh street,Ozone Park, last night,James
BACKER, 39, of 109-67 Seventy-seventh street,Ozone Park, was stabbed twice in
the left side.
Despite his wounds he was able to walk home.His wife called an ambulance
and he was taken to Jamaica Hospital.
BOMB BLAST ROUTS FAMILES, WRECKS SOMERS STREET HOUSE
Seventy-five familes in the Ocean Hill section were thrown into a state
of terror early to-day when a dynamite bomb exploded in the vestibule of a
three-story brick tenement , housing three familes,at 29 Somer street.
The bomb blew out three doors.Two of the doors separated the stoop and
vestibule and the second door with a glass panel, was locked between the
vestibule and the inner hallway of the building. The doors were blown across
the street and shattered against a pile of steel girders being used in the
construction of the new Fulton street truck line subway. Windows in the row
of three-story brick and four-story frame tenement structures, adjoining the
one in which the explosion occurred,were broken.
Detective Lieut ABRAHAM,commanding the Thirteenth Detective
Division,with Detectives Elmer BARRY,William SECKINGER and John QUINN of
Ralph avenue station, conducted an investigation but were unable to learn
anything that would aid them in determining the motive for placing the
explosive in the hallway.
The building is owened by Stephen LICATA, who occupied the second floor
flat with his wife and three children.He is a cement block contractor and is
reputed to be wealthy.His son,Anthony,and the latter's bride of four
months,live on the top floor. Young LICATA is in business with his father.
Michael MARSILLO, a milk wagon driver,lives with his wife and two young
children on the ground floor.
The damage to the building amounts to at least $2,500. Despite the
reticence of the persons questioned the police believe that the explosion is
the result of a feud between members of various building trades with which
persons living in the immediate neighborhood might be affillated.
On last Thanksgiving Day a bomb was placed in the vestibule of a
tenement at 84 Somers street.
HALSEY STREET RAID DIRECTS POLICE TO HOUSE IN JERSEY
Four Men and Women,Arrested Here,Reveal Leader's Hiding Place in Arlington -
His Assistant Is Taken Also-Police Say Suspects Admit Making 22 Robberies.
A four hour vigil in Arlington,N.J.,by two Brooklyn detectives and a
patrolman ended early to-day with the capture of a former borough policeman,
now charged with being the leader of a bandit gang here,and his chief
lieutenant. Both were to be returned here to-day to answer charges of assault
and robbery and violation of the Sullivan law.
The Jersey arrest followed close on the heels of a raid at 1A.M. of a
bandit rendezvous on Halsey street here,which consummated a ten-day watch of
the place by detectives.Four men and one woman were taken into custody,two of
the men accused of being members of the gang led by the former policeman.
Questioning of them sent the detectives to Jersey.
While the robbers nest was being invaded,half a mile away the machine
gun bandits staged their seventeenth holdup of the last eleven days.This
squad of youthful gunmen has been terrorizing storekeepers in Brooklyn and
Queens,just as members of the captured gang are said to have plundered
drivers of delivery vehicles.
Two of the men taken in the Brooklyn raid have made complete
confessions,according tothe police of Gates avenue station and have cleared
up some twenty-two robberies of milk wagon,grocery, bakery and departent
store drivers since Dec 1,. Those taken to Gates station after the detectives
had swooped down on the place gave their names as;Herman LIEBSCHER,22,of the
Halsey street address: Frank MULLIN,25,a chauffeur up until four months ago
when he quit work,living at 2436 Nostrand avenue:Edward MULLIN,21,a brother
and formerly a baker of the same address;Mrs.Elsie FROST, alias RUSSO,said by
police to be LIEBSCHER's sweetheart and to have been living with him at his
apartment.Also
Warren BOSWICK,26,a carpenter,of 227 Howard avenue. The two men arrested at
Arlington,NJ,and held in jail as figitives from justice pending their return
to Brooklyn
to face charges of assault and robbery and violation of the Sullivan law,
are; Wesley GOLDING,said to be the gang's leader,and John McKEAN,22,of 157
Marlon street.
GOLDING,was once a bicycle policeman inthe Bath Beach District, but was
dismissed from the force in May,1926 after he had disappeared and remained
away from duty for five days.
LIEBSCHER and MULLIN have made complete confessions,according to the
detectives who questioned them and have involved GOLDING and McKEAN in the
twenty-two jobs they listed.
The raid resulted from the sharp eyed work of Detectives FOX and
DOWLING of the Gates avenue station.
14 January 1931
FIREMAN RESPONDING TO OWN HOME ALARM
Wife Forced to Flee - Child Trapped in Crib
A fireman answering an alarm to-day with his engine company was
instrumental in saving his own fifteen-months-old son from the flames
which destroyed his home at 27 Van Dam street.The fireman was
Charles O'MALLEY, who helped rescue his little son, Charles,Jr.
Four women, including Mrs.O'MALLEY,were treated by an ambulance surgeon
for smoke inhalation. One of them,Miss Eleanor DIKEMAN,22, who lived with the
O'MLLEY's also was treated for abrasions,cuts and lacerations.
Miss DIKEMAN, according to police,was cleaning a dress with gasoline in
the kitchen of the O'MALLEY home this morning.Not far away was a gas stove with
one burner lighted. There was a sudden explosion and flames filled the room.
Miss DIKEMAN was stunned, but recovered quickly,and with Mrs.O'MALLEY
started for the bedroom where little Charlie was asleep in his crib, but the
fire licking at their heels and dense smoke filling the apartment forced
them to stagger to the street to avoid being overcome.
Meanwhile, an alarm had been turned in.One of the first companies to
arrive was 229,of which O'MALLEY is a member.When he saw that the fire was in the
building where his home was situated, he leaped from the truck and ran toward
the entrance. On the way he encountered his wife,Agnes,30, who was wringing
her hands and pleading for someone to rescue her baby.
O'MALLEY dashed into the building and joined Patrolman James MALONEY,
who had already started for the apartment where the youngster was
trapped.Together the fireman and policeman managed to make their way to
little Charlie's crib and carry him safely from the blazing apartment.
Other policeman went upstairs and helped Mrs.Agnes SMITH,29, to reach
the street through the smoke filled halls.In like manner, Mrs.Mathilda
BROWER, on the first floor of 29 Van Dam street, next door was aided and
Mrs.Veronica SIEKOWSKI 27, who lived above her.Mrs.SIEKOWSKI, ill with
pneumonia was carried from her
bed to the street and then to a neighboring apartment.
The blaze attracted a large crowd,which was thrilled as the firemen and
patrolmen appeared conducting the imperiled tenants to safety. The damage was
reported as heavy, the interior of the O'MALLEY home being virtually
demolished before the flames were put out.
TEN INJURED WHEN TRUCK HITS TROLLEY
Ten persons, seven of them passengers in a West End Line B. M. T.
surface car,are recovering today from minor injuries sustained when the car
was incollision with a coal truck at Eighteenth avenue and Eighty-fourth
street.The front end of the car was demolished.
The truck, driven by Louis PAUL, of 1869 Bath avenue, was proceeding
south on Eighteenth avenue late yesterday when the accident occurred.
Michael GRAHAM was piloting the car west on Eighty-fourth street.
None of the injured was hurt severely enough to necessitate sending them
to a hospital. Ambulance Surgeon NEVERS,of the Harbor Hospital treated them
at the scene and sent them home. All live in Brooklyn, they are;
Louis PAUL, 28,of 1869 Bath ave,contusions of the head.
Elmer GRAY,24,of 1755 Cropsey ave, lacerations of the forehead.
Rubin COLBERT,24,of 150 Bay 19th street, lacerations.
Florence TIPALDO,16, of 1249 15th street, abrasions.
Sadie CALVOSA,16, of 1571 75th street, contusions.
Rida DALVOSA,12, of 1581 75th street, abrasions.
Antonio GABREIEL, 53, of 6717 12th ave, contusions.
Lillian COHEN,32, of 1543 48th street, contusions.
Mary DIDONA, 57,of 1433 64th street, contusions.
Anna KATZ,60, of 934 47th street, lacerations.
15 January 1931
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*PIGEON FANCIERS EXHIBIT
Owner's,Numbering 500,Finds Much Sport and Profit in Racing Birds
The forty-second annual Madison Square Garden Poultry, Pigeon and Rabbit
Show drew several thousand curious city people last evening to see and
hear,among other things,1,000 blue-blooded roosters gone punch-drunk from the
Broadway atmosphere and crowing at random,but to pigeon fancier it was no
rural affair.
In the lines of cages in the Gargen's now musical basement are 1,000
pigeons,bred in Brooklyn,with several first and special prizes testifying to
the rank of a home industry.
There are, according to George KASTNER,of 1884 DeKalb avenue, more than
500 pigeon fanciers in the borough, most of them members of the Ridgewood
Pigeon Fanciers Association,or the Brooklyn Show Flight Club, holding their
own shows,and racing the homers each spring and fall from Wilmington,Del.
The Brooklyn exhibitors this year are;
Jacob C.ALLGEIER, 1919 Bleecker street, Red Self Tumblers.
Andrew ANDRESEN, 1122 Blake court, Blondinetts, Satinetts, Bluetts.
Harry BERGER, 3924a Pulaski street, Domestic Flights, Hollanders.
Andrew BINDER,406 Menahan street, African Owls, Crested Helmets.
Fred FUCHS, 1871 Stanhope street, Crested Helmets.
Dave HERBST, 639 Osborn street, Exhibition Homers, Trumblers.
Harry J.HOFFMAN, 1923 Bleecker street, Silver, Yellow, A. O. C. Stock
George KASTNER, 1884 DeKalb avenue, Crested Helmets.
Joseph REINECKER, 1862 DeKalb venue, Crested Helmets
Albert W.TOMPKINS, Jr., 150 Washington avenue, Trumblers, Tripplers.
William UMANSKY, 593 Stone avenue, Budapests.
Christian URIG,Sr.,2593 Hughes avenue, African Owls.
Charles E.VISEL, 1159 Bedford avenue, Dun and Black Laced Satinettes,
Blondinettes, Bluettes and Silverettes.
BITTEN BY DOG
William GRANDE,3, of 1729 Eighty-sixth street, in front of 289 South First
street yesterday afternoon was bitten on the right side of his face by a
stray dog. The wound was cauterized by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint
Hospital and the boy was taken home.
BALLOON DANCE
The Ladies Auxilliary of the Fifteenth Assembly District Democratic Club
last night completed arrangements for a balloon dance at the clubhouse on Jan 24.
Mrs.Mary CURRY presided. The committee in charge of the dance includes;
Mrs.Sadie REILLY- chairman
Mrs.Mae SLATTERY
Mrs.Mae D'OZEVILLE
Mrs.Charlotte QUIGLEY
Miss Anna McINTOSH
Mrs.Mary HYNES
Mrs.HMILTON
Mrs.Mae BURKART
Mrs.Pauline RITTER
Mrs.Anna WAHLERS
Mrs.Elizabeth HAUFF
Mrs.KIMECK
SKULL FRACTURED IN SUBWAY FIGHT
James DONEGAN, 35, of 819 Sixty-ninth street, during an altercation with
Joseph ACCARDI of 1938 West Eighth street, suffered a possible fracture of
the skull. He was taken to Harbor Hospital in a serious condition. ACCARDI
was arrested and charged with felonious assault.The disput arose when the two
men tried to leave a Sea Beach train at the same time.
16 January 1931
E.D.WIDOW IN DESTITUTION THINKS ONLY OF HER PETS
Accepts Court Shelter With Proviso for Dog and Cat
Homeless and penniless,Mrs.Catherine KOONEY,a 60-year old widow, was
less concerned about her own unfortunate plight when she appeared in Bridge
Plaza Court on a charge of vagrancy than she was about the welfare of 'Dash',
her little black and tan dog, and her poker-tail cat,'Dot'-constant
companions and almost her only friends in the world.
Magistrate DALE told Mrs.KOONEY he would send her to jail until Saturday,
pending an investigation and arrangements to have her taken care of.
Whereupon she exclaimed;'I don't want to go anywhere,unless you give me your
personal assurance that my dog and cat will be well taken care of while
they're away from me!''
The magistrate promised that Dash and Dot would be well looked after and
that he would make sure that they wanted for nothing.
Unable topay her rent,Mrs.KOONEY said, she was dispossessed.Dash under
one arm and Dot under the other, she sought the counsel of the patrolman on
the beat.He advised her to apply at the Salvation Army in Greenpoint.
At the Army headquarters, however, according to Mrs.KOONEY,she was told
there were so many cases ahead of her that nothing could be done, and she was
sent to the Greenpoint police station.Kind hearted policemen provided food
for her and the pets, and then she was booked on a charge of vagrancy.
17 January 1931
OFFICERS INSTALLED
The newly elected officers of the U.F.A. were installed at a largely attended
meeting of the association held at Mecca Temple, West Fifty-sixth street,
Manhattan, on Wednesday morning as follows;
Vincent J.KANE, president
Fred J.BOETTJER, vice-president
Abraham ROSENBERG, financial and recording secretary.
Edwin HOYSRADT, treasurer.
William O'KEEFE, sergeant-at-arms.
William MOONEY, chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Edward J.LEONARD, trustee for Manhattan.
Edward J.LEONARD, trustee for Manhattan *printed twice
Francis J.L.McGOVERN, trustee for Brooklyn
Thomas F.BLANEY, trustee for Queens.
John F.McMANUS, trustee for Richmond.
MAN SLASHED IN CARD GAME
Pepino GARGANO, 56, a ragpicker, of 5511 Eleventh avenue, doesn't like to
have a winner in a card game refuse to divide his winnings, and as a result
he was held without bail before Magistrate Sabbatino, in Fifth avenue court
to-day, on a charge of stabbing Peter MANGIERA, a subway worker, who lives
with him. Hearing was postponed until Tuesday.
GARGANO, MANGIERI and a man named Frank AIELLO,57, a shoemaker, who lives
with the other two, were playing an Italian card game called ''Boss'' early
to-day. The winner is ''boss'' of the proceeds, and the proceeds in this case
happened to be a bottle of wine.MANGIERI won the wine, but refused to divide
it, so GARGANO it is alleged, slahed him on the throat and head.
GARGANO claimed to be sleeping at the time of the quarrel, and police are
hunting for AIELLO for questioning. MANGIERI was treated at a drug store and
later Dr.KANEN, of United Israel Zion Hospital, after which he was taken to
Kings County Hospital. He suffered a black eye and possible fracture of the
skull.GARGANO was arrested on a charge made by Detective Daniel SULLIVAN, of
Fort Hamilton station.
Miss Alma Inez SELKIRK TO Wed Saturday
Miss Alma Inez SELKIRK, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Thomas S.SELKIRK, of 1769
East Twenty-sixth street, has selected next Saturday,Jan 24, as the date of
her wedding to John Illingworth DALRYMPLE, son of Mr. and Mrs.Horace CORY, of
East Orange, N.J.
Miss SELKIRK was graduated from Adelphi College and Mr.DALRYMPLE was
graduated from Princeton University. He is attending the Harvard Graduate
School of Business Administration.
19 January 1931
E.D.MOTHER HELD FOR ABANDONMENT
''Kids area nuisance; they break the health of every woman, keep her
confined to her home, and take the joy and comforts out of her life.'' Such
was the statement of Mrs.Anna YEGEL, 35, of 9 Harrison place, in Bridge Plaza
Court, charged with abandonment. She was held in $1,000 bail for examination
to-day.
On Dec.27 she brought her two children,John,4 and Grace 8, to the home of
Mrs.Florence EVE at 46 Bushwick place.Mrs.EVE was her schoolgirl chum and is
the mother of seven children. Mrs.YAGEL never returned for the children and
they were turned over to the children Society by Mrs.EVE on Dec.31.
COP IS LAUDED FOR ARRESTS
Patrolman Martin SCHUCKMAN of Greenpoint station is in line for promotion
to the detective bureau.In twenty-four hours he captured two men in a stolen
automobile and two bandits after they had held up a taxi driver.
On Friday morning, John SWIERKOWSKI,17,of 81 Newell street,and Lawrence
BOYD,16, of 144 Oakland street, were found in an automobile belonging to
William BUTLER of 628 Jefferson avenue, which was stolen from in front of 549
Nostrand avenue. The car was found at Meserole avenue and Dobbins street.
Saturday morning he arrested Frank SELZING and Jacob PASTOR of 505 West
124th street,Manhattan,after they had held up a taxicab driver.
MRS.M'ADOO DIES; FUNDS TOO LATE
Mrs.Eva T.McADOO,widow of Chief Magistrate William McADOO, died
yesterday while friends were to raise funds for her support.
After the Chief Magistrate's death several months ago, it was found his
estate was worth only a little more than $5,000. A fund which reached $36,000
was raised among friends of the late jurist and a bill was introduced in the
Legislature last week authorizing anappropriation of $8,461,the amount which
would have been due McADOO as salary from the time of his death last June to
the end of the year
WOMAN DEAD, 5 MEN ILL in E.D. From EFFECTS of POISON LIQUOR
With the death of a woman and the illness of five men over the week-end
ascribed to alchol, police in Greenpoint are investingating the possibility
that poison liquor is being dispensed intheir territory.
When Tony SIGLO, of 150 Leonard street, got up at 5 A.M. this morning to
go to work, he discovered that his housekeeper, Mrs.Tillie BELCHINUS,45, had
not started his breakfast.He went to wake her and discovered her dead in bed.
An ambulance surgeon was summoned from St.Catherine's Hospital, but he
pronounced her beyond aid. Police say SIGLO told themMrs.BELCHINUS had been
drinking last night. Her husband is said to have died a year ago leaving her
with one son,who is living somewhere on Long Island.Police were seeking him
to-day to notify him of his mother's death.
THREE MEN TREATED
Ambulance Surgeon SCHWARTZ, of Greenpoint Hospital, was called to treat
three men believed to be sufferers from alcoholism within a space of two
hours last night. The first was Peter McCULLOUGH, 35, of 261 Kingsland
avenue, who was attended at his home. The second man was Thomas McENANEY,60,
of 42 Richardson street.He was discovered in a state of collapse on the stoop
in front of 72 Richardson street, and after treatment was taken home. About an hour
later, Dr.SCHWARTZ attended John HOGAN,34,home address unknown,who was found
at Kingsland avenue and Meeker street. HOGAN was removed to Greenpoint Hospital.
TWO OTHERS ILL
Two men said to be suffering from alcholism were treated by Ambulance
Surgeon WOLF, of Greenpoint Hospital. One was Lawrence DOWDELL,24 of 122
Norman avenue, who was brought into the Greenpoint station and later taken to
Kings County Hospital. The other was Phillip ROMANO,50 of 170 North Eighth
street, found in a coma in his home about 10P.M. and removed to Greenpoint Hospital.
20 January 1931
Youth Found Unconscious, Badly Beaten in Stolen Car
A mysterious attack on an 18-year-old youth, who was found lying
unconscious in a stolen Ford coupe in front of 743 Forty-third street
this morning, is being invest-igated by dectectives of the Fourth avenue
station and homicide squad.
The youth, identified as Eino ABRAMSON,18,of 712 Forty-second street, is
unconscious in Norweigian Hospital,where his recovery is in doubt. His
injuries,it is said at the hospital,include a fracture of the skull,a
fractured left foot,fractured ribs,deep scratches on his chest and internal
injuries.
The scratches on the chest have led the detectives toconsider the
possibility that one of the youth's assailants may have been a woman. The
identification was made by means of a paper found in his pocket.
Randolph JESPERSEN,a truck driver,living at 745 Forty-third street,
started fromhis home this morning and notice the coupe at the curb. He saw
what seemed to be a man's head sticking out of the partially opened door.
At about the same time,Patrolman SEIFRIED,of the Fourth avenue station
arrived at the spot.
Investigation disclosed the unconscious youth lying crosswise in the
car, half on the seat and half on the floor. Dr.SMITH of Norwegian Hospital was
summoned with the ambulance and removed the attack victim to that institution.
ABRAMSON'S parents later appeared at the hospital and identified their
son.They were questioned by police and said the youth left his home last
night about 6 o;clock to go to a dentist;s office at Ninth avenue and
Forty-fourth street.He left there after receiving treatment and that, they
said was the last they knew of his whereabouts until notified by the police
that he had been found unconscious.
Detectives LOURES and WATTERSON,of the Fourth avenue station,and
Detective CORBETT,of the homicide squad, were assigned to the case and at
once began a canvass of the vicinity.
The automobile in which the young man was found,is owned by Selman
SILVER,of 290 Empire boulevard, who had reported it stolen,according to the police.
LONE BANDIT ROBS INSURANCE MAN
Morris SIEGEL,an insurance agent,of 163-24 89th avenue,Jamaica,was held
upand robbed of $175 by a lone bandit last night in an alleyway at 94-34
116th street, Richmond Hill.
SIEGEL had been making his regular rounds collecting premiums in the
Richmond Hill district. When he reached the 116th street address the bandit
poked a gun into his ribs and ordered him to walk into the adjoining
driveway.The gunman reached into SIEGEL'S wallet and took the cash which was
in small denominations.
SERVED 30 YEARS AS POSTMASTER
The thirtieth anniversary of the appointment of John A.SIMON,postmaster of
Queen's Village,by President William McKINLEY,was celebrated last night by
the Queens Village Lion's Club, with Mr.Simon the guest of honor at a dinner
in the Queen's Restaurant,218-09 Jamaica avenue,Queens Villiage.
More than 100 guests joined in honoring Mr.SIMON,who has served Queens
Village since that section of Queens County had a population of 600. The
community since that time has grown to more than 30,000 and is still gaining.
Walter MacDONALDD (as printed) president of the club,acted as
toastmaster.The speakers included Commissioner of Buildings,
Edward P. BURWELL and Joseph MERK, State director of the State Lions Club.
22 January 1931
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
On counter charges of felonious assault Mossino RUSSO, 20, of 460 Metropolitan
avenue, and Albert SALKIN, 30, of 311 South Fifth street, were arragned
yesterday before Magistrate Liota in Bridge Plaza court and held without bail.
DENIES LARCENY CHARGE
When Mrs.Anna MAVEWITZ, 30, of 305 South Third street, entered a
plea of not guilty to a charge of grand larceny in Bridge Plaza court
yesterday she was held in $500 bail for examination on Monday by Magistrate Liota.
CHARGES DISMISSED
Because of insufficient evidence Magistrate Sabbatino in Coney Island Court
yesterday dismissed charges of bookmaking against John HARTIGAN, 29, of 2350
East Thirteenth street, and Edward STARKS, 38, of 2733 Ocean avenue. HARTIGAN
was taken into custody by Patrolman Joseph LAWLESS of Borough Headquarters staff,
and STARKS by Patrolman Arthur BENDIX, of Inspector Joseph THOMPSON'S
staff, for accepting wagers on horse races.They pleaded not guilty.
HELD FOR TRAIL
Joseph CALLUZZO, 31, of 1862 West Third street,waived examination in
Coney Island Court yesterday to charges of attempted burglary and possessing
a burglar's tool and was held by Magistrate Sabbatino for trail. On the attemped
burglary complaint he was held in $1,500 bail for the action of the Grand Jury
and on the other charge in $500 bonds for the Court of Special Sessions.
GALLUZZO was arrested on Jan 8 last, by Patrolman Dominick SPINELLI, of
Bath Beach station, who testified he saw the man trying to force open
a store at 212 Avenue S.
FOOD ORDINANCE
Accused of selling non-kosher products in butcher stores advertised as
selling kosher meats only, Max BERNKLAU, of 2830 West Second street, and
Samuel BELLER, of 7408 Eighteenth avenue, were each held by Magistrate
Sabbatino in the Coney Island court yesterday in $500 bail for the Court
of Special Session. BERNKLAU maintained that he was simply an employe and
not responsible for the actions of his employer.The complainant against
the men was Inspector John H.LENT,of the Department of Public Markets.
PAROLED FOR HEARING
Arthur DeLIA, 18, of 1172 Sixty fifth street was paroled for a hearing
Jan 30 after being arraigned on a slot machine charge in Fifth avenue
court yesterday before Magistrate Dale.
WANTS HIS LADDER
Charged with unlawfully with holding a ladder owned by Hezekiah THOMAS of
93 Fourth street, Zeno HOWE,33, of 49 Lafayette street, was arraigned in
Fifth avenue court yesterday and paroled by Magistrate Dale for a hearing
Tuesday. THOMAS said his ladder was worth $60.
PLEAD GUILTY
Charged with violation of the city ordinance in abandoning a wrecked
automobile in Sixty-seventh street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
avenues, Diago DeSTEFANO,52 and Louis FRANZBLAU, 31,both of 1825 Seventieth street,
were arraigned in the Coney Island court yesterday on complaint of
Patrolman Raymond LANGAN,of the Bath Beach station.They pleaded guilty
and after being reprimanded received suspended sentences.
24 January 1931
Little Peter Calls for Big Boy; Lad in Hospital, Dog in Pound
This is the story of a boy and his dog. Peter WICKZKOWSKI,Jr.,5,of 236
Fourteenth street, stretched on a hospital cot in Kings County Hospital
today, is calling for the dog,Big boy, a police dog, incarcerated in the
shelter of the A.S.P.C.A.
Big Boy,the pride of his little master, wandered out of the protection of
his home yesterday and was picked up by agents of the society and hustled
into a dog catcher's wagon, bound for the pound. Several of Peter's friends
witnessed the incident and ran to tell their little comrade.
Peter rushed to the street in time to see the ambulance, with Big Boy
behind the cage, starting away. Peter ran after it and, clutching the side of
the vehicle, called his pet, who sought to escape. The ambulance gathered
speed, and Peter was thrown to the pavement, while Big Boy sought to attract
the attention of the driver to his master's fate.
Passersby rushed Peter to the hospital, where he is to-day, calling for
his pet between periods of coma.Patrolman Peter WICKZKOWSKI,attached to the
Crime Prevention Bureau, father of the boy, is seeking to recover the dog-
for it is believed that its presence will aid the recovery of the boy, who is
suffering from severe head injuries.
DESPONDENT GIRL SWALLOWS POISON
Helen PUBALISKA,18, of 436 Wythe avenue, is in Kings County Hospital to-day
in a serious condition suffering from iodine poisoning. According to the
police of the Bedford avenue station she took the poison in a fit of
despondency while standing in front of 107 Broadway and collapsed on the
sidewalk just as Patrolan Michael GLASS, of the Bedford avenue station passed
by. After giving the girl first aid treatent GLASS rushed her to Kings County
Hospital. She refused to say why she took the iodine, although Patrolman
GLASS states that when he revived her she told him she was despondent and
tired of life.
CAR TURNS OVER, COP IN ASTORIA BADLY INJURED
Patrolman Fred SIEVERS, of Astoria station, was painfully injured
yesterday when the department car he was driving turned turtle at 36 th
avenue and 37th street, Astoria, as he swerved to avoid colliding with
another car.
SIEVERS was taken to St.John's Hospital, where his injuries were found to
include a sprained neck, a fractured hand, a lacerated head, and cuts and
bruises of the legs.He was treated and then sent to his home at 13909 91st
avenue,Jamaica.
ONCE RICH MAN, HELD AS VAGRANT
George KESSLER, 65,was before Magistrate Rudich , in Flatbush court,
today, charged with vagrancy. Patrolman August AWARD, of Bergen street
station, told Magistrate Rudich, KESSLER came to Bergen street station
early today, informed the police that he was hungry, cold, friendless
and penniless and that he wanted a place to sleep. He informed the
police that he once was a properous merchant, but that some years
ago his wife died and his business failed and that now life was not
worth living.
''You schould give the policeman orders to shoot me now.I don't want to
live any more,''he said.
Magistrate Rudich sent KESSLER to Raymond street jail until Wednesday.In
the meantime Probation Officer COOLEY will try to find a daughter he says
lives somewhere in Brooklyn.
29 January 1931
MAN ARRESTED AS KIDNAPER
Charged with kidnaping, a man who says he is John M.WEAVER, a painter,26, of
8 Newland street,Boston,will appear in Flatbush Magistrate's court to-day. He
was captured last night by Detectives GARVEY, KENNEY and McLAUGHLIN,of the
Bergen street station, after he had taken a child from a furnished room at
609 Carlton avenue and was waiting on a nearby elevated platform.
According to the story told the police by Mrs.Sarah O'BRIEN, land lady at
the Carlton avenue address, the mother of the nine-months-old baby was not in
the house at the time WEAVER entered. Mrs.O'BRIEN said WEAVER threatened her
with a gun and took the baby. The mother of the child is said by the police
to be twenty-year-old Helen QUINLAN, formerly of Somerville,Mass., who has
been living in Brooklyn under the name of KEHOE. Weaver is said, according to
police,to be a former suitor of hers.
BOY HURT IN SCHOOL
Vincent CARUSO,16,of 664 Belmont avenue, fell while descending down a
flight of stairs in Public School No.64, at Belmont avenue and Berriman
street. He sustained a severe scalp laceration and was taken home by
Dr.BIRNEY of Bradford Street Hospital.
TWO CHARGES MADE
Waiving examination in Coney Island court yesterday,Howard NUGENT,22,of 120
Frank court,Gerrittsen Beach, was held in $2000 bail for the Grand Jury on a
charge of felonious assault and $500 bail for the Court of Special Sessions
on a charge of possessing a revolver for which he had no permit.John J.
O'BRIEN, a milkman,living at 1521 East Fifty-first street,alleged NUGENT
theatened to shoot him.Detective HARRINGTON,of Sheepshead Bat station made
the arrest.
WOMEN ELECT
The Ladie's Auxillary of the Greenpoint People's Democratic Club,last
night,at the clubhouse,119 Norman avenue, named Mrs. Elizabeth CROAL as
president. The other officers are;
Mrs.Margaret GROGAN -assistant sergeant-at-arms
Mrs.Mary KEAVENY -sergeant-at-arms
Mrs.Bessie WASSERMAN -recording secretary
Mrs.Sadie McAVOY -financial secretary
Mrs.Kathryn McLAUGHLIN -treasurer
Mrs.Mathilda BROWER -vice-president
Girl Jailed Without Trail For Staying Out Late,Dreed After Serving 18 Months
400 Similar Cases, DIKE Told In Court
After she had served eighteen months in Bedford Reformatory- although she
was only sentenced for a year- Lena BURLATT,17, of 174 Keap street, was set
free and a charge of being a wayward minor was dismissed by Justice Norman
S.DIKE, who sat in Supreme Court, today as a committing magistrate.
Lena was one of forty-nine girls taken to the Jefferson Market Prison
from Bedford recently after it had been found that many of them had been sent
there illegally. When the others were taken back her counsel, Bernard AUSTIN,
obtained a writ of habeas corpus, keeping her in the city until a decision on
the propriety of her detention could be made by the court.
COURT MADE NO RECORD
After considering the matter during the night, Justice DIKE decided that he
had the power to sit as a committing magistrate. He expressed astonishment at
the fact that the girl was not only charged with nothing more serious than
being out late at night, but that she was sent to Bedford without a hearing
and that no stenographic record of the procedure conducted by Magistrare Leo
HEALY, who committed her from Adams street court, existed.
Lena was just 16 July 1, 1929, when her mother had her taken to Adams
street court. She pleaded guilty, the commitment showed,and on July
20,1929,was sentenced for a year. At the outset, Assistant District Attorney
Henry J. WALSH said to the court: ''The District Attorney of King County does
not want to do anything to impede justice in this or any similar case and I
state now for the record that if it can be shown, and I believe it can, that
this girl has a home to go to, we have no objection to sustaining the writ and
freeing the girl.''
''I congratulate the District Attorney and you, Mr.WALSH,'' Justice
DIKE said. ''You show a broad minded conception of fair play and justice.I
feel a grievous error has been made by the magistrate who sent this girl
away, so I shall tryt his case now and attempt, if possible,to right it.''
At that point Mrs.BURLATT, Lena's mother,was called to the stand and
questioned by Bernard AUSTIN, Lena's counsel.
''Are you the mother of Lena BURLATT?
''I am.''
''Do you wish to press a complaint against her''?
''Have you any grievance or any complaint against this girl or to make
against her''? Justice DIKE interrupted to ask:
'' You said she kept late hours, did you not, in the magistrate court?
Mrs BURLATT gave a deprecating shrug of the shoulders,and Justice DIKE
asked:''This girl was attending high school''?
'' She was, and she was graduated from Junior High School at fifteen.
Then she went to Textile High School.''
''You don't want to prosecute this girl now, do you''? AUSTIN asked.
''No.''
'' As a matter of fact you never did intend to prosecute her or have her
imprisoned, did you?''
''No''.
'' What transpired at the hearing? interrupted Justice DIKE.
'' There was no hearing, may it please the court,''Austin interjected.
Justice DIKE leaned over the bench, and looking over the top of his
glasses,said :
''Do I understand you properly? There was no hearing?
''There was none, your honor'' Austin said. '' I now move for a dismissal
of this case. Ther was no evidence before and your honor, of course, has heard
none now, against the girl.
'' It seems to me as though the situation might well be corrected'' the
court replied
'' It is the duty of the State to protect its minors and I can do nothing
better than to quote from a recent opinion of my esteemed contemporary and
associate on the bench, Justice HAGERTY, who said; ' The law is not only just
in the protection of civil rights, but has a special regard for the rights of
minors. I shall discharge the prisoner and I again congratulate the
District Attorney on his attitude. If this decision is right, and I hope it is.
I trust that it will have an important bearing on the cases of others who
doubtless are illegally detained and who have been illegally and improperly
imprisoned. Are there many such cases, do you think? Justice DIKE asked,
turning to AUSTIN. ''There are about four hundred'', AUSTIN replied.
'' Pitiful, Pitiful,'' the court said.
31 January 1931
Widow of Old Boro Pastor Found in Coma by Neighbors
Suffering From Exposure in Seacliff Home
Found unconscious and suffering from cold at the foot of a stairway at
her home,
Mrs.Jane BRIEN,75,of Glen avenue,Sea Cliff, widow of the Rev.Dr.John BRIEN, once
a noted Brooklyn clergyman, was in a serious condition today at the North
Country Community Hospital at Glen Cove.
Clad only in her night clothes,Mrs.BRIEN was found by police after
neighbors became alarmed after having last seen the clergyman's widow Tuesday
night. Police believe she fell downstairs and had been lying on the floor
unable to summon help for at least two days. She was found late yesterday
after a neighbor discovered the doors and windows in the house were locked.
Because the fire in the furance had gone out Mrs.BRIEN'S body had
started to become discolored by the cold when police broke into the dwelling.
Physicians fear she may have contracted pneumonia.
After police forced their way into the house they found an electric light
burning at the foot of the stairway leading to the second floor where the
unconscious woman's form was found. The officers were summoned by a neighbor
who had made a practice of getting Mrs.BRIEN's mail and taking it to her home.
Police believe Mrs.BRIEN got out of bed Wednesday night for some
unexplained reason, turned on the lights and then lost her balance while
walking downstairs.
Reputed to be a woman of considerable means, Mrs.BRIEN lived alone and
had repeatedly refused offers by her daughter to live with her in Brooklyn,
according to police.
FLAMES ENTRAP SEVEN ON FOOF; SCORES ESCAPE
Bark of Dog Arose Tenants in Early Morning Blaze-Firemen Stage Many
Daring Rescues.
One man leaped to his death, an other was probably fatally injured in a
five-story jump and more than a score of persons were rescued early to-day
when fire partly wrecked an apartment house at 337 State street.A pet dog
barked the alarm that helped save any lives.
The dead man was identified by police as William KINGSLEY, 33, who leaped
through a window when trapped by flames and clouds of smoke in his fifth
floor apartment after fire broke out across the hall in the home of Louise
LUNDY, who escaped uninjured.KINGSLEY was dead when found by firemen.
William FELTMAN,30, another occupant of the fifth floor, was found
unconscious near KINGSLEY's body.He ws taking to Holy Family Hospital with a
fractured left leg and possible internal injuries.
Eighty other persons living inthe five-story structure were driven to the
street by the flames.Occupants of an adjoining tenement at 335 State street
were ordered out of the building by firemen as a precautionary measure when
it appeared the flames might spread to other structures.
Two alarms were sounded before the blaze was brought under control two
hours after it was discovered by William CUNNINGHAM, another occupant of the
fifth floor,who was aroused by the clamor of his little terrier,Buddy.
Firemen rescued seven residents of the fifth floor with ladders after
they had escaped to the roof of an adjoining building.These included
CUNNINGHAM, Charles DeGOFF, Marjorie EMILY and Leo KEINER.
Realizing,the futility of attempting to escape down the stairs after
discovering the blaze, CUNNINGHAM climbed through a skylight to the roof.Six
more followed him through the broken skylight only to find the flames eating
through the top of the building.
Aided by KEINER and DeGOFF,CUNNINGHAM passed three women to the roof of
the adjoining building, eight feet below.The men leaped to the adjoining
building.All of the refugees were later rescued by firemen.
Tenants of the lower floors were aroused by Patrolmen Michael MEANY and
Sylvester McGUIRE and Sergt.Pasquale Di MANIO,of the Butler street
station,who were attracted by the cries of those trapped on the fifth floor.
The blaze broke out at 3:45A.M.,and spread swiftly through the
building.Owners of the structure estimated the loss at $15,000.
2 February 1931
GIRL AND FATHER CANDLE VICTIMS
Muriel HAMMON, 6, was painfully burned yesterday when the flame from a
candle with which she was playing in her home, 35-10 Thirty-fifth street,
Astoria,brushed against her dress and set fire to her clothing. Her father,
Clifford HAMMON, 29, was also burned about the hands in extinguishing the
fire in the girl's clothing.
Both were treated by Ambulance Surgeon KLEEFELD of St John's Hospital, and
the girl, taken to that institution, was reported as suffering from burns
about the hips and lower back. Her father was able to remain at home.
5 February 1931
WEDDED 12 YEARS, LONESOME
Following a stay in Raymond Street Jail and an investigation by Probation
officer John KEATING, Joseph HALVORSEN, 32, of the Central Branch Y.M.C.A.,
has been paroled for six months by Magistrate HIRSHFIELD, in Bridge Plaza
Court, for annoying Miss Ida GOLDBERG, of 272 Division Avenue.
"Now I'm only a lonesome lover," HALVORSEN, admitted to being married
twelve years, said when ordered by the court to stay away from girl.
It was stated he met Miss GOLDBERG seven months ago that she learned he was
married. When he refused to cease his attentions she had him arrested for
disorderly conduct.
"I love her and can't live without her," HALVORSEN said as he left the courtroom.
14 February 1931
FOUR ACCUSED BY WATCHMAN FOUND INJURED
Broke His Arm, Beat Him for Trying To Halt Coal Co. Robbery
Four men alleged to have assaulted and severely beaten Hayes BATES,
watchman at the Prospect Coal Company offices, 1071 Thirty-eighth street,
early to-day, were taken into custody shortly before noon by two detectives
following a chase down Eighteenth avenue, near fifty-eighth street,
in which four shots were fired.
The men gave their names as
Joseph VELCI, 24, of 205 Bay Twenty-ninth street;
Frank LONARDELLI, 29, of 1900 Cropsey avenue;
John IMBENBER, 29, of 2626 Cropsey avenue,
Walter J. ARENA,25, of 47 Bay Twenty-ninth street.
They were charged with assault and robbery on a short affidavit
of Detective Thomas KENNY, of Fourth avenue station. They pleaded
not guilty before Magistrate HAUBERT, in Fifth avenue court to-day,
and were held without bail for examination Feb. 17.
According to police, the four bandits entered the coal company's
offices through a rear window and found BATES, the watchman, resting
on a cot on the second floor of the office. They ordered him to lie
face down on the floor, but when BATES made a move to grab his
revolver they are alleged to have broken his arm and otherwise given
him a severe beating. BATES was conscious and called for help.
Dr. PETRUZZI, of Norwegian Hospital, gave him fifty-nine stitches and
brought him to Kings County Hospital.
The men escaped in a taxi and were crowded to the curb on Eighteenth
avenue by Detectives KENNY and MURTHA. Two of them have police records.
IMBEMBER was given a suspended sentence for petty larceny in 1918 and
LONARDELLI, said to be the personal bodyguard of Angelo YALE, brother
of the late Frankie, was sent to the House of Refuge on a petty
larceny charge in 1923.
CATS CAUSE STIR IN WILLIAMSBURG
People living in Williamsburg have been annoyed at night because of
the serenading of cats. Recently a cat was found hanging from the fence
of the yard at 110 South Second street, caught in a trap such as is set
for rabbits, by Patrolman Edward DREXLER, of Bedford ave station, after
the attention of the policeman had been called to the plight of the cat
by a tenant in the house.
The S.P.C.A. was notified. The cat's right leg, caught in the trap,
was broken and the animal was destroyed. Special Officer Ray MULLIGAN
was assigned by the society to make an investigation. Yesterday he
appeared as complainant against William SPETUCK, 50, of the South Second
street address, in Bridge plaza court. SEPTUCK pleaded not guilt to a
charge of cruelty to animals. Magistrate HUGHES paroled him for
examination Feb. 27.
RESISTS ATTACK, DYING FROM BLOW
Patrick McGEE, 40, of 104 Ellery street, is dying in Kings County
Hospital with a fractured skull today, as a result of a sudden attack
on him by an unknown person as he walked past 826 Myrtle avenue.
McGEE started to fight when he was set upon, but fell under the
crash of a milk bottle on his head. Detective James CAHILL of Gates
avenue station is investigating.
2 March 1931
TWO INJURED
Carl BROWN, 35, of 563 Rockaway avenue, and Elliott OUTTEN, 29, of 1884
Pacific street, were injured yesterday when they were struck by an
automobile operated by a "hit-run" motorist at Prospect place and Eastern
parkway. They were treated by Dr. BELLEW of Unity Hospital.
FIRE IN APARTMENT
Members of six families had to leave their homes when fire broke out in the
kitchen of Mrs. Nan DICKER'S apartment on the top floor of a three-story
apartment house at 655 Miller avenue yesterday. The cause of the blaze
which caused about $300 damage had not been determined.
ROSENBLATT TO SING
Cantor Josef ROSENBLATT, famous Jewish singer, will participate in a
concert at the Ninth Street Temple, Ninth street, between Sixth and Seventh
avenues, Sunday night. Several other singers will take part in addition to
the temple choir. The concert will be under the direction of the Rev.
Joseph SALZMANN, cantor of the temple.
GOSPEL SERVICES
Old-time gospel services will be held throughout this week at the Palace
Theatre, Sixth avenue and Fifty-sixth street, where Evangelist Louise
NANKIVELL, of Chicago, will preach. Services will be held every night at 7:45 o'clock.
16 NEW BABIES AT L.I. HOSPITAL
Sixteen children were born at he Long Island College Hospital, Henry
street, during the last week, it was reported to-day.
Boys were born to the following:
Dr. and Mrs. Nunzio RINI, of 436 Clinton street
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph MIRABITO, of 2386 Stillwell avenue
Mr. & Mrs. George WADE, of 176 Fourteenth street
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas MORAN, of 81 Ferris street
Mr. & Mrs. Charles SCHULZ, of 351 Autumn avenue
Mr. & Mrs. Francis FAY, of 94 Seventy-third street
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin SCHWARTZ, of 1501 Forty-third street
Mr. & Mrs. Robert DANIEL, of 134 Jefferson avenue
Mr. & Mrs. Nick DURKARM, of 381 Sumpter Street
Girls were born to the following:
Mr. & Mrs. Jacob STIMMEL, of 902 Forty-first street
Mr. & Mrs. Manuel CORDOVA, of 100 Atlantic avenue
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph RANGHELLI, of 12 Third place
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert BONAPARTE, of 48 New York avenue
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. GLASENER, of 9225 176th street, Hillside
Mr. & Mrs. Charles LAMM, of 5424 Eleventh avenue
Mr. & Mrs. Jessie WARF, of 70 Lafayette avenue.
EAST NEW YORK RUNAWAY BOY COLLAPSES IN DOORWAY
Police Rescue Lawrence AURGEMMA, 8, School Truant
Completely exhausted and suffering from exposure, an eight-year-old
boy who had determined to run away from home was found early to-day
in the doorway of a tenement house at 162 Thatford avenue by Patrolman LEGON,
of the Brownsville police station. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital,
where he was identified several hours later by his father as Lawrence AURGEMMA,
of 1601 East New York avenue.
LEON saw the boy's leg protruding from the vestibule of the building
and thinking he was asleep, shook him. When Lawrence failed to awaken,
the patrolman carried the lad three blocks to the Brownsville station
where Dr. ANNUNZIATA, of St. Mary's Hospital, was called and removed
LAWRENCE to that institution.
All patrolman on duty were asked to go to the hospital to see if they
could recognize the boy and Patrolman GAYNOR picked him out as a lad he
had seen playing on East New York avenue.
His father said that until a few weeks ago Lawrence had been an ideal
son and a good pupil at Public School 84. Then, he said, he fell in
with some other boys who were playing truant and Lawrence accompanied
them. He had been ordered to report to Children's Court yesterday
morning, but the boy admitted that he had decided to "run away" rather
than go to court.
HIT-RUN STABBER GIRL'S ASSAILANT
Detectives of Bedford Avenue station are to-day investigating the
mysterious stabbing of Miss Ellen SEDLOW, 22, of 916 Broadway, who is in
a serious condition with a wound in the left side of her back.
Miss SEDLOW told Detective William MURPHY that she was walking along
South First street, between Bedford and Driggs avenues, last night, when
a man jumped from an automobile and stabbed her in the back. He returned
to the machine and disappeared, she said.
Taken to Greenpoint Hospital where she was attended and then brought back
to her home, she could give no reason for the attack and believed she had
been mistaken for another person.
GIRL MISTAKEN, INSISTS DOCTOR
"It's no crime to ask a child if it wants a ride."
Magistrate George M. CURTIS, in Gates avenue court, so ruled yesterday when
Dr. William B. EBELING, 30 of 54 Greene avenue, was arraigned before him on
complaint of a 12-year-old girl who alleged while she was on her way to church
Sunday he accosted her at Myrtle avenue and Hall street and twice asked her
if she wanted a ride. magistrate CURTIS observed it was no crime to ask a
child to ride. At his suggestion the charge was withdrawn.
Dr. EBELING was exonerated and released from the $1,000 bail he had been
obliged to post.
Dr. EBELING however, insisted that whether it was a crime to invite a
child to ride or not, he was not the person who had asked the youngster to ride.
FIRE DESTROYS OLD LANDMARK
The old Grossman hotel, erected about thirty-six years ago, on Strong's
Causeway, near Harding boulevard, Slushing, was destroyed by fire
yesterday afternoon. There were no guests in the building at the time,
the GROSSMAN family occupying rooms on the second floor. Mrs. GROSSMAN,
her two sons and two daughters were in the building when the fire broke out.
All got out in safety.
The building, a two-story frame structure, had a large dining room on the
first floor and twelve living rooms on the second floor. The fire is believed
to have started in the kitchen.
Firemen from Flushing, Corona and Elmhurst responded to the one alarm turned
in. The nearest hydrant was fifteen hundred feet away and this handicapped
the firemen in fighting the flames, but they managed to keep the flames
from spreading to other nearby buildings. The loss was estimated at about $40,000.
ACCIDENT OCCURS AT EASTERN PARKWAY INTERSECTION
One man was fatally injured and two others seriously hurt early today when
a sedan in which they were riding on Eastern parkway struck a traffic control
tower at New York avenue.
Charles H. COOPER, 55, of 843 Park place, received a fracture of the skull
and internal injuries, and died a few minutes after being received at Kings
County Hospital.
George J. DAVIDGE, 27 of 250 West 103d street, Manhattan, received possible
internal inJuries and Francis MC GILL, 27, of 8915 107th street, Richmond Hill,
sustained concussion of the brain. They are in the same hospital, where
MC GILL, driver of the car, is being held on a technical charge of homicide.
The three were the only occupants of the car.
The car crashed into the base of the traffic tower which is in the center of
Eastern parkway, when MC GILL lost control. Patrolman MC LAUGHLIN hearing
the crash of glass, ran to the scene of the accident and summoned Dr. PERSHNEY,
of the Swedish Hospital, who took the three men to the Kings County Hospital.
TWO SERIOUSLY HURT IN FIGHT
Charles STROHM, 50, of 102 Ten Eyck street, is in a serious condition in
Kings County Hospital to-day, a prisoner, suffering with a fracture of the
skull and bruises about the face and body. In the same institution is
Matthew GLASSER, 37, of 100 Ten Eyck street, suffering from stab wounds
in the left side of the chest and in the left arm.
Peter HOFFMAN, 30, of 102 Ten Eyck street, a son-in-law of STROHN, is
under arrest on a charge of felonious assault and after appearing in
the line-up at Manhattan police headquarters, was to be taken before
Magistrate DALE in Bridge Plaza court for a hearing. A charge of felonious
assault has also been made against STROHM.
According to Detective John TUTTLE of Stagg street station,
STROHM and GLASSER went to the home of STROHM'S son-in-law last night,
while intoxicated, and during a dispute STROHM stabbed GLASSER with a
bread-knife but when he sought to attack his son-in-law, HOFFMAN hit
STROHM over the head with a baseball bat.
3 March 1931
POLICE SEEK MISSING GIRL
Fearing she may have fallen in the hands of unscrupulous men,
police to-day sent out a general alarm in their efforts to find
some trace of Rose CUSUMANO, 14, of 230 Schenectady avenue, who has
been missing from her home since Feb. 26. Rose's mother, Mrs. Nellie RICHIE,
reported the girl's disappearance early to-day after private search
for her failed.
Detectives of Atlantic avenue station immediately questioned Rose's
school mates at Public School 167, where they learned that, shortly
before her disappearance, Rose had said she was going to answer an
advertisement for a dancing instructress at a Broadway dance hall,
Manhattan. Rose is tall and well-developed and frequently has passed
for a girl four or five years her senior. She is described by her
mother as five feet, four inches tall and weighing 115 pounds, with
dark hair and blue eyes. When last seen, she was wearing a blue silk
dress, velvet pumps, flesh-colored stockings, brown coat and hat.
DROVE OVER HOSE
Patrolman William RIORDAN, of Coney Island station, was the complainant
in Coney Island court yesterday against Harry CHENITSKY, 49, of 2845 West
Twenty-eighth street, whom he accused of driving a taxicab over a Fire
Department hose that was stretched in Surf avenue, between West Twenty-eighth
and West Twenty-ninth streets. CHENITSKY told Magistrate WILPERIN that
it was dark at the time and he did not see the hose. He was fined $2.
4 March 1931
WILLIAMSBURG WIFE GONE AFTER LEAVING FOR MOVIES
Infant Frets at Home-Husband Fears Kidnapping
Dressed in an old house dress of green print, an old velvet coat with white
fur on the collar and sleeves, and old hat and brown sick stockings and
black pumps, Mrs. Anna DEMATO, 19, of 361 South Fourth street, left her
home at 8 o'clock Saturday night to attend a motion picture theatre on
Broadway, near Havemeyer street. She hasn't been seen or heard from since.
And in the meantime her seven months old baby, David, is pining for
her. Her husband, Dominick has searched everywhere but has been unable to
get any trace of his wife.
"I am satisfied that she has been kidnapped and is being held somewhere
against her will, " said the heart-broken husband to-day.
The baby is with the husband's parents at the South Fourth street address.
"My wife was a good woman," continued the husband, "we were married at the
Church of the Transfiguration in Hooper street, two years ago. She liked
her home and was very much devoted to her baby.
"Several times she told me of a man who flirted with her at South Fourth
street and Union avenue. He has tipped his hat to her and invited her for
an auto ride. She told me about it. I went in search of the man but
couldn't find him. i believe it is this man that has stolen my wife."
DEMATO said on Saturday night his wife went to the butcher store and got
meat for the Sunday dinner. She also bought some dresses for the baby, put
the child in the care of his mother-in-law and said she was going to the
pictures and would be home early. She left all her money at home, taking
with her only fifty cents for the pictures and some candy.
The case has been reported to the detectives of the Bedford avenue station
and a general alarm has been sent out.
FRIENDS HONOR HOME INMATE, 91
Mrs. Charlotte YOUNG, 91 years old to-day the oldest inmate of the Chapin
Home, Jamaica, is spending her birthday quietly after being felicitated
yesterday afternoon by visitors during the Fifty-seventh annual Founders'
Day held in the home. Although Mrs. YOUNG is lame she was able to receive
the greetings from a chair and as each well-wisher approached her she
greeted them with a smile.
The Twentieth anniversary celebration of the building of the Jamaica
building will take place next October. The home was founded fifty-seven
years ago by Mrs. Edwin CHAPIN.
TRUCK DRIVER HURT BY FALLING PLANK
John FLAHERTY, 35, of 29 Sheffield street, Seaside, L.I. is in St.
Catharine's Hospital to-day in a critical condition as a result of being
struck on the head by a wooden board which fell from the south roadway of
the Williamsburg Bridge yesterday afternoon.
FLAHERTY, who drives a truck for the Department of Plant and Structurs, was
having his car filled with gas at the Plant and Structures deport, South
Sixth street and Kent avenue, which is directly under the south roadway of
Williamburg Bridge, when a wooden plank about five feet in length came
tumbling down.
FERRYBOAT CRASHES INTO BROOKLYN PIER ON HIGH TIDE, 6 HURT
Many Mishaps on Boro Streets-Dummer Homes In Danger
Six persons were injured, one of them seriously, when the ferryboat West
Brighton, operating from St. George to the foot of Thirty-ninth street,
smashed into the gangplank at the shore end of its South Brooklyn slip.
The boat was under the command of Capt. Harry FORB. He was coming into the
slip in a siding manner due to a strong tide and rough water when the
accident occurred. The six who were injured are:
-Joseph LEONARD, 44, of 75 Florida street, Elizabeth, N.J. taken to Kings
County Hospital with a possible fracture of the left shoulder.
-Jessie WUCK, 21, of 27 Hampton road, Cranford, N.J., bruises on the left foot.
-Edith BYRON, 56, of 305 Marine Harbor road, Staten Island; bruises of the scalp & spine.
-Margaret HANNON, 45, of 51 Cleveland street, Port Richmond; injured left shoulder.
-Joseph GORCYCI, 30, of 60 Caster street, Elizabeth; bruised head.
-Veto CARNACHIO, of 394 East Thirty-fifth street; cuts and bruises.
There were about seventy-five passengers on the ferry at the time of the
accident, but there was little excitement. About twenty of the passengers
were shaken by the collision, but only the six were treated.
Dr. Schmidt, of Norwegian Hospital, treated the injured and took LEONARD to
Kings County Hospital.
CARNACHIO was seated in his car in the gangway of the boat and was at the
head of the line. The guide plates and gangplank struck the car and
smashed the windshield and right side.
STORM LASHES COAST
A heavy March storm smashed the Eastern seaboard to-day, bringing high
seas, lashing winds and snow.
A high tide whipped inward by a 60-mile gale which blew all last night;
impeded sea traffic seriously. Ferries were lashed by white caps and
commuters were delayed.
Snow started falling in the early morning and was continuing through the
day. A heavy wind was blowing. Motor traffic was impeded and a number of
lesser casualties were reported.
the wind-driven storm off the Long Island shore, accompanied by an
unusually high tide, was today threatening a number of summer homes along
the beach at East Hampton, including the summer places of Grantland RICE,
Ring W. LARDNER, Eltinge F. WARNER, John N. WHEELER, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll
WAINWRIGHT and Herbert COPPEL.
The Maidstone Beach Club also was in danger from the high water and several
beach cabins were washed away.
Amagansett Beach was badly torn up by the high tide and the pounding
breakers. Three fishing boats and two fishing shacks owned by LESTER
Brothers were washed away. Other damage was reported from many other
points along the shore.
In Brooklyn slushy streets caused many mishaps. Five persons were injured,
one seriously when an automobile driven by Jacob RABIN, 137-22 107th
street, Richmond Hill, collided to-day with a Vanderbilt avenue trolley car
at the northern end of Grand Plaza.
Samuel KLEIN, 41, 2031 Seventy-first street, was taken to Jewish Hospital
suffering from internal injuries. Harry EMPIS, 46, 2024 Seventy-second
street; Max LINDEN, 46, 2031 Seventy-first street and George GLUCK, 45,
1755 Fiftieth street were treated for bruises and went home. All were
passengers in the automobile. About twenty persons were in the trolley
car. None was injured.
Alice ARTOK, 17, 588 East Ninety-eighth street, was taken to Kings County
Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain when the taxi she was
riding in operated by Samuel SAPERSTEIN, 425 Lavonia avenue, collided at
Rogers and Tilden avenues with an auto driven by Jack GALEWSKY, 588 Rugby road.
Mary NOWELL, 21, 259 Fifty-fifth street, and Helen MOLNOR, 21, 412 East
Sixty-fifth street, Manhattan, were taken to Trinity Hospital with internal
injuries when the car in which they were riding driven by Viola ANETA, 7
Fargo street, Baldwin, L.I., collided at Pitkin avenue and Douglass street
with a car driven by William HAMILTON, 124 Sixty-ninth street.
While driving west on Avenue M, George STEINBERG, 882 East Fortieth street,
collided with an automobile driven by Dorothy KUNKEL, 2203 Avenue W, who
was going south on Bedford avenue. Neither car was injured.
EUCLID AVENUE HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed the home of Stephen ODEO at 912 Euclid
avenue early today driving fifteen members of three families to the streets
in their nightclothes. Breaking out in the ODEO home, a two-story frame
building, it spread to the two adjacent homes owned by John MAZZOLA and
Joseph COSLAIN and forced all occupants of the three houses to flee to the street.
5 March 1931
SHEEPSHEAD STORE TRAP HOLDS BOYS
Two sixteen-year old boys who are said to have admitted committing
twenty-five small burglaries, were held in $1,000 bail each to-day in Coney
Island court for further hearing March 13.
They gave the names of Richard PUCCI, of 17171 Sixty-third street and
Lorenzo MONTANO, of 1763 Fifty-eighth street. They were arrested last
night in the hallway of a building housing a Daniel REEVES store at 1605
Avenue U after supposedly trying to gain entrance to the store through a
basement door. Detective Edmund O'BRIEN surprised the boys, who pleaded
with him not to shoot. They were taken before Magistrate EILPERIN to-day.
VAGRANTS SENT TO CITY PRISON
Harry GOLDSHINE, 55, of 360 South Eighth street, and William FELDMAN, 39 of
370 South Second street were brought before Magistrate HUGHES in Adams
street court for sentence on conviction of charges of vagrancy. Teh men
were found guilty of violation of Section 887-1? of the Penal Code on Feb.
?? by Magistrate SABBATINO.
6 March 1931
SENT TO HOSPITAL
Charged with disorderly conduct by his wife, Sarah, Peter GRADY, 49, of
5520 Fourth avenue, was sent to the Kings County Hospital by Magistrate
FOLWELL in Fifth avenue court yesterday. The woman said she had been
threatened by GRADY, who acted queerly after a blow on the head suffered in
a fight with a man about a year ago.
HONEYMOONERS HELP
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham CERLIN, who were married on Feb. 22, have cut short
their wedding tour in order to attend the annual charity ball of the Coney
Island Hebrew Association which will be held at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney
Island, to-morrow evening. The bride is the former Dorothy KLEPPER,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max KLEPPER, of 2855 West Twentieth street. The
CERLINS are making their home for the present with the KLEPPERS.
NOSE BROKE
Alleging that her nose was broken when he punched her, Mrs. May BROWN, of
314 Carroll street, charged Jimmy DONZA, 25, of 309 Carroll street with
third degree assault in Fifth avenue court yesterday. DONZA was paroled by
Magistrate FOLWELL for a hearing Thursday.
BROOKLYN MERMAID STARRED FOR N.Y.U.
Olympic Champ-Lisa LINDSTROM, attractive Brooklyn girl and 1928 Olympic
swimmer, contributed heavily to the aquatic victory of the New York
University girls over Swarthmore college last night.
(note: there is a picture of Lisa with this article)
CARONA YOUTHS CALLED GANGSTERS
Youths, alleged by police to constitute the so-called "Black Mask Gang."
which is credited with having committed a number of small robberies and
hold0ups in Long Island City, Corona, Elmburst and other parts of Queens
recently, face charges of assault, robbery, grand larceny and violation of
the Sullivan law in Flushing Magistrate's Court to-day.
The youths were arrested last night in Corona by Patrolmen Patrick FAWCETT
and Thomas FITZGERALD of the Newtown station who said they found two loaded
revolvers in the coupe operated by one of them. That coupe had been
stolen, the police said.
The men said they are Frank GRATTADAURI, 18, of 54-29 Marlowe avenue, Ralph
SAUNBICI, 19, of 104-53 Alstyne avenue; Mike LURATO, 19, of 49-03 111th
street, and Anthony BACCHIANO, 21, of 103-06 Corona avenue, all of Corona.
SLEUTH WOUNDS FLEEING AUTOIST
Detective Charles SCHLEGEL, of Maspeth station, shot and wounded the driver
of an automobile on Fairmount avenue, Maspeth, Last night.
The driver of the car was August VAIRE, 21, of 50-81 Fifty-eighth road,
Maspeth. He was slightly wounded on the left arm by the bullet and was
attended by an ambulance surgeon.
Detective SCHLEGEL said he was on patrol on Fairmunt avenue when the car,
without lights, approached. he said he stepped into the roadway and held
up his hand, calling to the driver to stop; but the car passed him and kept
going.
Then he fired two shots in the air, SCHLEGEL said. As the car still did
not stop, he shot through the door, and it was that bullet which wounded
VAIRE and caused him to stop the car, the detective declared.
VAIRE received a summons charging him with driving an automobile at night
without lights and with reckless driving.
SIX COPS LIFT 450-LB. PATIENT
It took six big policemen to remove 450-pound Peter JOHNSON from his home
at 78 Congress avenue, Flushing, yesterday to an ambulance waiting to
transport him to the Metropolitan Hospital, Welfare Island. JOHNSON, who
is 40, was removed to the hospital for treatment for diabetic gangrene.
When Dr. HENRY, of the Flushing Hospital, went to JOHNSON'S home to arrange
for his removal to the hospital he found it necessary to send for police
help. The emergency crew of the Bayside station responded.
The policemen had to take down the door of JOHNSON'S bedroom on the second
floor at the Congress avenue address and use a double stretcher in carrying
him down the stairs. he was then placed on the Floor of the ambulance and
taken to the hospital.
COURT IS TOLD OF THREATS TO MISSING GIRL
Vanished After Filing Charles Against Man, Says Mother
Threats and intimidation, a serious charge brought by a 16-year-old girl
and a disorderly conduct charge brought by the girl's mother, are features
of the case of Frank DESIDERIO, 27, of 550 Fifty-first street. The girl in
the case has been missing since she first made the complaint.
She is Lillian RUGG, 16, of 459 Sixty-ninth street, a pretty blonde, who
charges she lived with DESIDERIO, at 524 Fifty-fourth street from Dec. 19
until Jan. 13. She signed the complaint on the thirteenth and on the
fifteenth, according to her mother, she vanished.
DAUGHTER VANISHES
The case was called Jan 16 and the mother announced her daughter's
disappearance. it was put over until to-day. On her way home, she said,
DESIDERIO approached her a Twenty-third street and Twenty-fourth avenue and said:
"If you press this case against me I'll fix you." she returned to court
and had him arrested for disorderly conduct.
The mother is Mrs. Anna Helen RUGG. To-day when the case was called she
sobbed to Magistrate FOLWELL in Fifth Avenue court:
"Please made that man tell me where my daughter is." She said she is
convinced DESIDERIO knows of Lillian's whereabouts.
Detective Frank RAUCHET testified he has been looking for the girl since
she disappeared. He said he had been close on her trail several times, but
she always had just left before he arrived. The last trace of her, he
said, was a week ago when he learned she had been rooming with another girl
in a Manhattan girl's hotel.
Mrs. RUGG also said to-day that her landlord, whose name she did not give,
is a relative of DESIDERIO and has threatened her with eviction if she
continues prosecution.
Magistrate FOLWELL, after explaining that he could not force DESIDERIO to
reveal the girl's whereabouts, continued the case until March 20 and held
the defendant in $1,000 bail.
HERO COP SAVES WOMAN AT FIRE IN GREENPOINT
His Brother Also Acts Qickly When Ammonia Tank Leaks
Patrolman Charles LIND, 26, of 7546 Juniper Valley, Glendale, is in
Greenpoint Hospital to-day in a critical condition with burns about the
face, hands and body, received yesterday afternoon when he rescued a woman
from the third floor of a burning building at 241 Greenpoint avenue.
LIND, attached to Greenpoint station, discovered a fire on the second floor
of a four story brick building at 241 Greenpoint avenue, in an apartment
occupied by Joseoph Jenowski. Lind dashed into the building and routed
about thirty persons.
When he returned to the street he was told Mrs. Jennie SAWYER was trapped
on the third floor. he rushed back into the building and found the woman
partly overcome by smoke. He carried her from her room but as he was going
down the stairs he fell to the landing.
Patrolman Martin SCHUCHMAN, Greenpoint station and Fireman George ADAMS,
Hook and Ladder Company, 106, went into the smoke-filled building and found
the patrolman and Mrs. SAWYER on the stairs with the flames threatening
them. Carried from the building, the woman was revived, but refused
medical attention and remained at home. LIND was quickly taken to
Greenpoint Hospital. Earlier in the morning, LIND'S brother, Robert, also
attached to Greenpoint station, routed out sixty persons when an ammonia
leak occurred in a four-story building at 1021 Manhattan avenue. He, too,
was overcome by the ammonia fumes but was soon revived.
'MISSING GIRL WORKING AS MAID'
Last Thursday, Rose CUSIMANO, 14, of 230 Schenectady avenue, disappeared
from her home after telling classmates at P.S. 167 that she was going to
get a job in a dance hall.
Naturally some of the best talent of the Police Department was sent out to
search for the girl. However, it was the astuteness of a four-year-old
boy, believe it or not, which resulted in Rose being found and restored to
her parents.
Marlcome SANDLER, of 39 East Seventeenth street, is the youthful Sherlock
Holmes. He was looking at the newspaper with his sister, Audrey, 7, when
he suddenly exclaimed:
"Look, mama, there is a picture of Theresa's maid."
Mrs. SANDLER looked and saw a picture of Rose and read the account of her
disappearance. Theresa COPPOLA, of 74 East Seventeenth street, is
four-and-one-half years old and frequently played with Malcolm.
Following the clue, furnished by Malcolm, two and two were put together and
the "maid" turned out to be the missing Rose. She answered an advertisement
and had been working for Mrs. COPPOLA since the day she left home.
BARBER ACCUSED OF HAVING GUN
Allegedly the owner of a loaded .32 -calibre revolver and a blackjack found
in a drawer of his barber shop at 755 Fourth avenue, Vioncent PARRILLO, 37,
of the same address, was held for the Grand Jury when he waived examination
before Magistrate FOLWELL in Fifth avenue court. The charge was a felony
because of a previous conviction against PARRILLO and he was therefore held
without bail.
According to police records, the barber was sentenced to a five-year term
in Sing Sing by Judge MC MAHON on a felonious assault charge in June,
1923. He was arrested in October, 1916, for burglary but no disposition of
this charge is shown on the record.
OWEN D. YOUNG AT BEDSIDE OF OLD TEACHER, SERIOUSLY ILL AT BALDWIN, L.I. HOME
Owen D. YOUNG, internationally known economic expert, found time last night
to come to the bedside of "Doc" HERVEY, his old teacher, who is seriously
ill at Baldwin, L.I.
The Rev. Alpheus B. HERVEY was preaching in the Universalist Church in Van
Hornesville, N.Y. one Sunday when he noticed YOUNG, a farmer's
boy. Meeting the youth afterward, he asked him if he would like to go to
St. Lawrence University of which he was president. YOUNG went.
Last night, after Mr. YOUNG had talked with the old man for a little more
than two hours, "Doc" said he felt much better.
PUBLIC ENEMIES AT ELLIS ISLAND
Three of Chicago's "public enemies" are being held at Ellis Isalnd to-day
for deportation as undesirable citizens after their arrival in New York
last night. They were brought here by immigration agents and Chicago
detectives.
The three men are Frank COVELLI, Giuseppe DE LANTIS and Nick
BERNADINI. All of them have prison records for crimes ranging from
counterfeiting to bootlegging.
It is expected they will be deported to-night on the liner Roma.
7 March 1931
BOROUGH COUPLE MARRIED IN JAIL
The first wedding in the chapel of Raymond Street jail in the last ten
years took place to-day when Joseph PIAZZO, 20, of 19 Ocean court, was
married to Frances MARCA, 20, of 155 Bay Twenty-eighth street.
PIAZZO is being held on an assault charge and will be sentenced in County
Court Wednesday. The marriage witnesses were Madeline DESINA and PIAZZO'S
brother, John. A matron, and two keepers attended the ceremony and the
nuptials were confirmed by Father CLOSSA, chaplain of Raymond Street jail.
THREE MISSING AS EXPLOSION WRECKS CRAFT
Three Others Seriously Hurt in Accident at Dry Dock
With a road that was heard for blocks, causing consternation on the
waterfront, a boiler on the tugboat Joyce Card at Robins Dry Dock, Erie
Basin, exploded shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, killing instantly two
of her crew of eight men.
The death list may be increased to five, it is believed, as three others of
the crew are missing. The remaining members are in Long Island College
Hospital suffering from serious injuries.
The three missing men wereWalter MADDOX, 32, of 22 1/2 South street,
Manhattan, a deckhand; John KASSON, 30, an oiler, and Joseph RAY, 34, a fireman.
The tugboat was owned by the Card Towing Company of Manhattan. Jut how the
accident occurred except that it was declared to be a boiler explosion, has
not been definitely ascertained. The district attorney will investigate.
EIGHT BELOW DECK
It is known that the eight men were below deck at the time and it is
believed some of them may have been at work near the boiler. Surrounding
shipping was suddenly shaken by a detonation that was deafening and
fragments of the Joyce Card were thrown high in the air.
Examination of the boat showed that it had been blown almost to
pieces. Two bodies were found in the water nearby and the captain, first
mate and chief engineer were picked up badly injured. They were rushed to
the hospital. In the meantime Emergency Squad No. 13, an ambulance from the
Holy Family Hospital and an ambulance and two doctors from the Long Island
College Hospital had responded to the call for help.
The dead are:
Albert JOHNSON, 38, 22 1/2 South street, Manhattan, cook
Augustus FLOOD, 35, Lived on the boat.
Those in the Long Island College Hospital are: Capt. Leslie HARRIE, Chief
Engineer Jack MC LAIN and First Mate Joseph MC QUADE. They are reported in
a precarious condition from their injuries.
MC QUADE lives at 149 Clinton avenue.
According to the facts as gathered by the police, the Joyce Card and her
sister boat, the Paul Card, had brought in a tanker owned by the Gulf
Refining Company and had taken it to Pier 5. The Paul Card had left while
the Joyce Card stayed at the pier for instructions. Capt. William
SJOVAL,of 785 East Thirty-eighth street in charge of the Paul Card, said
his boat had gone about 500 yards when he heard a terrific explosion and
saw members of the Joyce Card's crew struggling in the water.
He rescued the chief engineer and Mate William MORAN, of the Paul Card,
rescued MC QUADE, while Capt. John BENNETT,of the tugboat John DALZELLIDO
saved HARRIS. Sergeant Samuel BLYTHE, of the emergency crew, also aided in
the rescues.
FIND STOLEN SHOES IN WILLIAMSBURG
Charged with receiving stolen goods Charles SMALIKOFF, 20, of 156 Siegel
street, and Sam COOPER, 27, 449 Bushwick avenue were to be arranged in
Bridge Plaza court today before Magistrate DALE.
The men were arrested last night by Detectives HEMINDINGER and JENNER who
say that they were approached by the men and asked if they would like to
buy some shoes, "cheap."
According to the police they went to a nearby furnished room where the men
had 1,000 pairs of shoes which are alleged to be the property of the Coward
Shoe Company, 37 West Forty-seventh street, Manhattan. Police say they are
the proceeds of a recent truck holdup in Manhattan.
SWAMP SITE ACQUIRED FOR PLAYGROUND
"Phantom Village" of ROTHSTEIN Goes to City for $475,000
"Phantom Village," or rather the site upon which the late Arnold ROTHSTEIN,
slain gambler, built one of his racketeering bubbles, will soon ring with
the laughter of children and blossom in the greenness of a municipal park
and playground, according to Comptroller Charles W. BERRY, who announced
the purchase of the land yesterday for $475,000.
The land, eighty-eight and a quarter acres in size, located in the famous
Juniper Valley section between Middle Village and Maspeth, was acquired at
a private sale at the assessed valuation with the sanction of Borough
President HARVEY and Park Commissioner BENNINGER, OF Queens.
LAND IS A BARGAIN
In announcing the purchase, Mr. BERRY said: 'The land is a bargain. My own
appraisers have valued it at $7,500 an acre but we are getting it for
$5,700 an acre. Several realty experts of Queens say that it is well worth
$10,000 an acre.
At the meeting of the Board of Estimate next Friday, Mr. BERRY said that he
will submit a recommendation for the purchase of the land for the value
named by the executors of ROTHSTEIN'S estate.
One hundred and forty-three buildings erected on the land by the late
gambler were condemned as unsafe by Superintendent of Buildings BURWELL of
Queens, and a number of them were demolished.
SEVERAL DISPUTES
It was recalled that at one time former Borough President Maurice CONNOLLY
recommended the purchase of the land as a city airport but this was dropped
because of the swampy condition of the soil.
Later it was suggested as a site for the proposed civic site for Queens and
a controversy among the various civic organizations of the borough led to
the final vetoing of the suggestion by Borough President HARVEY.
MISS WILLARD TO CELEBRATE 25TH BIRTHDAY AT AGE OF 100
Glenwood, L. I., Resident Born Feb. 29, 1832, Leap Year
Miss Harriet WILLARD, who has lived in the little North Shore hamlet of
Glenwood, L. I. , for only two years, has just entered the 100th year of
her life, although she has had only 24 birthdays.
Miss WILLARD was a leap year baby, having been born February 29, 1832, in
Saybrook, Conn., and like all leap year babies, she has had to struggle
through life with only one birthday in every four years. Next year being a
leap year she is already looking forward to another birthday
celebration-twenty-fifth-when she will be 100 years old.
Miss WILLARD was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laura AYER WILLARD, members
of an old New England family. She lived in the place of her birth until
she was 50, then moved to West Haven, Conn., where she lived until she came
to Glenwood two years ago, to live with her great-nephew, George A. BAKER.
She is in good health and has a sunny disposition. she always keeps busy,
fashions her own clothes, keeps in touch with the world through reading,
and is fond of young people. Several members of her family have lied to be
over 90 years of age.
Miss WILLARD distinctly recalls the assassination of President
LINCOLN. During the Civil War she did her bit by knitting for the soldiers.
WOMAN'S ACTION PREVENTS DEATH
John DAWITZ, 62, of 50-25 Forty-second street, Corona, is alive today due
to the promptness of an unidentified woman. he is confined to Kings County
Hospital, suffering from a fracture of the right knee and lacerations of
both legs.
As DAWITZ alighted from an east bound train of the Fourteenth street subway
line at the Bedford avenue station, his coat got caught in the last door of
the train. He was dragged thirty feet along the platform.
George RIGLEY, of 87 Berry street, and Joseph SCHWAB, of 281 Nassau avenue,
tried to save DAWITZ, but without success. Their cries attracted the
attention of the woman, who pulled the emergency cord, bringing the train
to a stop.
DAWITZ was attended by Ambulance Surgeon ZABINSKY of Greenpoint Hospital.
9 March 1931
RESCUERS BARRED BY POLICE DOG
Miss Anna DIETRICH, 62, who lives alone on the second floor of a two-story
apartment house at 1142 Greene avenue, appeared suddenly on a small porch
adjoining her apartment early to-day and began to scream. Her cries
attracted the attention of neighbors, who came to see her suspend herself
from the porch and hang there precariously for a few minutes, while efforts
were made to bring police to her aid.
A police dog, her sole companion in the apartment, barred the door to
would-be rescuers, so the fire department, called in a momentary excitement
by a neighbor, raised a ladder to the porch and succeeded in subduing her
and typing the police dog. Four policemen placed her on a stretcher on the
orders of Dr. NADEL, of Bushwick Hospital, and she was taken for treatment
and observation to Kings County Hospital.
FAMILY INJURED AT SUPPER FIRE
Mrs. Tessie SWEETAPPLE, 26, of 455 Thirteenth street, having difficulty
with the coal stove in her kitchen last night while preparing dinner for
the family, decided to hurry along the fire by using kerosene oil.
according to the police of Fifth avenue station.
There was an explosion and the clothing of Mrs. SWEETAPPLE was enveloped in
flames. Her four-year-old son Edward, Jr., was in the kitchen at the time
and he ran to his mother when he saw the flames.
In the meantime someone telephoned for the fire apparatus. The firemen
made short work of the small blaze in the room and sent the three
SWEETAPPLES to Methodist Episcopal Hospital. Mother and son remained there
for treatment for burns about the body but the father returned home after
having his blistered hands treated and bandaged.
STABBED IN CHEEK, ASSAILANT UNKNOWN
Juilio Della VALLE, 35, of 266 Fortieth street, was treated by Dr.
PETRUGGI, of Norwegian Hospital yesterday for lacerations of the left cheek
and over the left eye received in an altercation in the hall of the house
in which he lives. Della VALLE, an Austrian, told police that he did not
know his assailant. He remained at home.
LOOKS FOR SLIPS, COP FINDS GUN
Searching for policy slips, Patrolman Albert F. WALKER, of the Tenth
Division, was successful in more ways than he expected. in addition to the
slips, he found, it is alleged, a loaded .38 calibre revolver in a coat
owned by Frank MONTANA, 30, of 4850 Tabor court, while in a barber shop at
4722 Third avenue. Magistrate FOLWELL in Fifth avenue court, Saturday,
held MONTANA in no bail on the gun charge, a felony, and in $500 bail on
the policy slip charge for hearings Friday.
According to police records, MONTANA was given a suspended sentence by
County Judge HASKELL on a burglary charge in May, 1920. He was sentenced to
from seven and a half years to fifteen years in Sing Sing on an assault and
robbery charge in March, 1924, by County Judge MC LAUGHLIN.
10 March 1931
FINDS 'WATER' REALLY BURNS
Just because he wanted to see if "water" would burn, Harry BARD, 22, of 166
Boerum street, was to be arraigned to-day in Bridge-Plaza court on a charge
of malicious mischief.
According to police, BARD was passing an automobile at South Fifty street
and Briggs avenue when he saw some "water" on the floor of the
machine. BARD stopped and wondered.
"Water, he said to himself, "won't burn-but again it might."
So, police say, BARD struck a match. He applied the match to the "water"
and the inevitable happened. The "water," of course, was gasoline, and in
no time at all, the busy corner was filled with fire apparatus. BARD, his
hands slightly singed, look on, still wondering.
Traffic was tied up. The machine, the property of Harry KIRSCHNER, of 375
Vernon avenue, was destroyed.
ONE GUN CAUSES ARREST OF SIX
Detectives of Miller avenue station raided the headquarters of the Old Mill
Republican Social Club of the Twenty-second Assembly District, at 862
Crescent street, last night, and arrested six youths charged with violating
the Sullivan law.
Detectives BERON, FRANK and STATES were visiting poolrooms, restaurants and
clubhouses in the East New York and Old Mill sections when they found the
youths loitering in the clubhouse. The officers say they found a loaded
revolver secreted under a couch cushion.
The prisoners identified themselves as Anthony MAZALLO, 19, of 900 Euclid
avenue; Anthony SLIACO, 19, 666 Bovine avenue; Florentino LABIENTO, 22,
1306 Lorraine avenue; Vincent LAITAINO, 25, 847 Pine street and Castrano
PEPPE, 25, of 895 Hemlock street.
CONEY ISLAND PICKETS HELD CONEY ISLAND PICKETS HELD
Four men, declared to be members of the Dressmakers' Union, were arrested
while picketing in front of the dress firm of NEEDLEMAN and BRENNER, 263
West Fortieth street, Manhattan, by Warrant Officer Nathaniel HEUTTE, of
Coney Island station, on charges of disorderly conduct.
The warrants were sworn out by Jonas KARDISH, foreman of the concern who
lives at 1925 Stillwell avenue. He stated the men, who have been
unsuccessful in getting others employed by the firm to go on strike, made
it a personal issue on him. He said they annoyed him at his home one
Sunday evening, March 1, and when he sought to ignore them they threw
bricks through the windows of the house.
The four were arraigned before Magistrate SABBATINO in the Coney Island
court and pleaded not guilty. They were paroled for further hearing on
March 12. They described themselves as:
Louis STARK, 27, of 2026 Eighty-third street; Irving WEINBERG, 31; Joseph
NEEDLEMAN, 34, and Joseph KUGLER, 36, all of 2968 West Thirty-first street.
MORE THAN 100 STORE HOLDUPS LAID TO BANK
Young Woman's Apartment Said to Have Been Headquarters
Arrest of a blonde girl and nine men in the girl's home at 934 Myrtle
avenue by police of Gates avenue station on charges of assault robbery and
violation of the Sullivan law to-day ended a two-months search for what was
known as the "Red Onion" gang, responsible for more than one hundred
robberies in Brooklyn since Jan 1, according to police.
Already, police say, they have admitted thirty-two robberies, and admit
that there were many more. They admitted having stolen $6,000 in cash, and
an equal amount in jewelry and gems from their victims.
Twenty-one victims identified them this afternoon as having held them up on
previous occasions. According to police they have piled their trade with
drug, candy and grocery stores, as well as laundry wagon drivers and coal
dealers.
Those under arrest are:
Catherine KERRIGAN, 24, of 934 Myrtle avenue, alleged headquarters of the gang.
Samuel LEMONS, 36, Negro, owner of a candy store at 794 Myrtle avenue,
another alleged hangout for the gang.
Thomas CIRO, 17, 890 Bedford avenue.
James ELMO, 23, 92 Bleeker street.
Michael FLORIO, 17, of 73 Hart street.
James CASSESE, 21, of 291 Gold street.
Salvatore MESSENA, 27, of 84 Spencer street.
Philip SOTILLA, 19, of 27 Stockton street.
John CROCKETT, 17, of 159 Hart street.
Anthony MASONE, 27, of 934 Myrtle avenue
They were all taken into custody at Gates avenue police station. Two
unloaded revolvers were found in their possession.
WOMAN JUMPS, GIRL OVERCOME WHEN TRAPPED
Father and Two Children Rescued, Taken to Hospital
A mother and her eleven year old daughter died in a Woodhaven fire early
today. The father and two other children are in Jamaica Hospital with
severe burns about the face, body and hands. The blaze burned out the
second floor of a frame two-family dwelling at 97-29 Seventy-seventh street.
The fire started in the kitchen and spread rapidly throughout the second
floor. Flames cut off the exit door at the far end of the dining
room. The entire neighborhood was enveloped in billows of dense smoke.
The mother, Mrs. Dora ABRAMS, 49, awoke and finding the dining room filled
with smoke and flames, jumped from the second-story bedroom window. She
was found dead a few minutes later with a fractured skull and internal injuries.
The father, David ABRAMS, 50, went into the next bedroom and aroused the
children, cautioning them to follow him. he led them through the blazing
dining room down the stairs to the street. When he reached the street, he
found that Ruth, 18, and Milton, 15, had followed but that Anna, 11, was
still in the burning home.
Battalion Chief John DONOVAN instructed the firemen on the second floor to
get to the trapped girl. They found her in bed, dead from suffocation by smoke.
The father, Ruth and Milton were treated for burns and taken to the
hospital. They will recover.
The second floor was completely demolished and the first floor was slightly
damaged by smoke and water. Mr. and Mrs. GANDO with their ten-months-old
son, Elias, had fled from the building at the first smell of smoke.
Detectives of Richmond Hill precinct and Fire Marshall SEIGEL conducted an
investigation. They attributed the cause to spontaneous combustion due to
paints and rags left in the kitchen the day before by house painters.
FAREWELL DINNER
Dr. Leon KAISER, principal of P.S. 188, announces that a meeting will be
held this evening at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, to arrange for a
farewell dinner to be rendered the Rev. Walter A. KERWIN, pastor of the
Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace, West Seventeenth street and Mermaid
avenue. Father KERWIN is to leave the Coney Island church on March 29 and
assume the pastorate of the Church of the Assumption on Cranberry street.
GIRL'S NOSE FRACTURED
When she tripped and fell while descending a flight of stairs at 613
Brighton Beach avenue, yesterday, Anna RICKMAN, 15, of 311A Brighton Beach
avenue suffered a fracture of the nose. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon SUSSMAN of Coney Island Hospital.
BABY GIRL FOUND ABANDONED IN RAIN
A two weeks old baby girl is in the St. John's Hospital to-day after being
found in a baby carriage in front of 42-12 104th street, Corona, last
night, by Mrs. Sarah SOXEN, who lives a few doors down at 42-18.
Mrs. SOXEN was returning home at 10 o'clock last night when she saw the
baby carriage unattended and standing in the rain. The child was crying
lustily when the woman pulled back the carriage cover.
The child, fairly well clothed, was covered with pink and white blankets
and wore a pink and white hat but was d??? of stockings.
11 March 1931
GIRL MOTHER OF HIS BABY ACCUSED BY 'MEANEST MAN'
Jury Rejects Testimony She Aided Him in Burglary
To the catalogue that lists "the meanest man in the world," a new entry, it
is declared, was found in Nudge CONWAY'Spart of the County Court. The one
to whom it is asserted this listing should be given described himself as
Caesar FERRANTI, 27, of 195 Boerum street. He took the stand against the
eighteen-year-old mother of his baby. The jury returned a speedy verdict
in favor of the girl.
The defendant, Rose JEANOTTE, of 2118 Fulton street, was represented by
Attorney A.JAFFER. She was placed on trial before a jury on a chare of
burglary. It was alleged she had acted as "lookout" for FERRANTI while he
entered the home of Clifford ST. JOHN at 2104 Caton avenue, and stole a
watch, which was pawned for $3.
ADMITS LURING GIRL
The story of the girl was that FERRANTI had invited her to go with him to a
show. On the way, he asked her to wait outside the house on Caton avenue
while he went in to see someone and get some money. She denied she knew
anything about his intent to commit burglary.
On his part, FERRANTI admitted he had asked the girl to accompany him to a
show. But he testified that, before he went into the house, he told her he
was "going to do a job."
The two defendants had been arrested by Detectives James F. COX, of Ralph
avenue station. Detective COX, on the stand for the prosecution, testified
the girl had told him she believed FERRANTI was taking her to a theatre and
that she knew nothing about the burglary until after FERRANTI had committed
it. The girl in answer to questions by Judge CONWAY, declared Detective
COX had told the truth in his testimony.
PROOF OF THEFTS FOUND
At the home of FERRANTI were found ninety-two pawn tickets, which,
according to Detective COX, represented property stolen in numerous burglaries.
It was also brought out that FERRANTI had cast aside the JEANOTTE girl for
another girl, whom he deceived into believing she was married to him. This
second girl can neither read nor write English and he persuaded her that
the marriage license they had obtained was a certificate. On the stand he
first testified that he was married to this second girl but under
cross-examination by Attorney JAFFER he admitted he had obtained only a license.
Through a letter he had written to a sister of Miss JEANOTTE, it was also
brought out that he intended to take the stand against the JEANOTTE girl
because he believed she had "squealed" on him. FERRANTI is now awaiting
sentence by Judge CONWAY on a charge of burglary.
AMNESIA VICTIM IN KINGS COUNTY
A man identified from the contents of his pockets as John HAMBERGER, 32,
was found wandering in a daze last night at Hicks and Poplar streets by
Patrolman John COLLINS, of the Poplar street station.
The man was unable to give his name or address, but knew his age. Dr.
CHEEROA, of Cumberland Hospital, took him to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
SHOT IN HIS BED, YOUTH IS DYING
George HEANEY, 22, of 41-31 Seventy-seventh, Jackson Heights, was shot in
the abdomen while lying in his home to-day.
Other members of the family were getting up and preparing breakfast when
they heard a single report. HEANEY was found in bed, a bullet in his
abdomen and a pistol with one empty shell on the floor nearby. The police
of the Newtown station were notified and Dr. DILEO responded with a St.
John's Hospital ambulance. HEANEY was taken to the hospital and rushed to
the operating room. His condition is so critical that police have been
unable to question him.
Detectives said that members of the family knew of no reason why HEANEY
should have inflicted the wound. Police are trying to learn who owns the
pistol. Their records do not state whether the shooting was accidental or not.
MEN ATTRACTED TO FOOD SHOW
Exhibitors at Brooklyn's fortieth annual Food Show now being held at the
13th Regiment Armory, Summer and Jefferson avenues, are reporting to James
T. MC KINNEY, president of the United Retail Grocers' Association, that
more genuine interest is being shown in the exhibit this year than ever before.
The interest is not alone in the setting of the show which admittedly is
more artistic or the many free samples to be had or the bargains that may
be made in the purchasing of food products of national reputation but in
the products themselves.
The people too are showing more interest in the home, the dainty and
appetizing dishes that may be prepared with the correct nutritious values.
Peter BECKER, chairman of the show committee, Henry HEINS, Louis AMMARELL,
Henry LOHMANN, Ellwood HANSON, John F. BEHRMAN and Henry W. STENECK,
members of the Grocers' ASsociation committee, discussing the exhibit at
the close of last night's session pointed out the interest the men are
taking in the show.
Men in nearly as great a number as women were present, sampling this or
that, suggesting one of another food product that should prove taste and
leaving the huge armory laden with shopping bags filled.
HOLIDAY SUPPLIES PLANNED FOR POOR
As in their custom every year, the David EDELSTEIN Association of
Williamsburg will again distribute matzohs to poor families for the
Pass-over holidays. The organization will also distribute eggs, onions and
other foodstuffs from a store at Tompkins avenue and Ellery street.
The officers are: Samuel MORSE, president; Miss Selma KAHN, vice-president;
Miss Rose LEVY, financial secretary; Dr. J. J. APPLEBAUM, treasurer; Mrs.
Dorothy SCHLOSSMAN, corresponding secretary; Miss Billie MORRIS, recording secretary.
AT 104, GIVES MEDAL TO GIRL
Miss Jean LEWIS, thirteen-year-old Erasmus HALL High School student of 225
Eastern parkway, is to-day proudly showing her school companions the medal
won from 6,742 contestants which was presented her yesterday by
104-year-old Reuben MIRSKY on behalf of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and
Hospital for aged for her essay on the Fifth Commandment, "Honor Thy Father
and Mother."
The presentation was the high-light of the bazaar held yesterday for the
benefit of the Hebrew Home of the Elks Club, 110 Livingston street. Due to
the large crowd at the bazaar the medal was presented to Miss Lewis at the
Hebrew Home building, Howard and Dumont avenues. About 200 inmates attended.
Reuben MIRSKY is the oldest inmate of the home. He has been in this
country for twenty-eight years. His wife, Mrs. Freige MIRSKY is 97 years
old. Neither speaks English.
Two other prize winners were Lenore SCHWARTZMAN, 15, 1570 Sixty-sixth
street, and Aaron BERNSTEIN, 12 ,127 Riverdale avenue, who won second and
third prizes respectively. Miss SCHWARTZMAN attends New Utrecht High
School and Aaron attends P.S. No. 156, Grafton and Sutter avenues.
The bazaar at the Elks Club was held in the grand ballroom from 9:30 A.M.
to midnight. Approximately 10,000 people attended. Over sixty Jewish
organizations throughout the city sent representatives with food and
merchandise. Mrs. Hattie R. POSNER was chairman of the executive committee.
12 March 1931
POLICE CAPTAIN SMELLS LIQUOR
Capt. Tyree BACON, head of the Rockville Centre police force, was using his
eyes to watch firemen fighting a blaze at 376 Sunrise highway yesterday,
but his nose was devoted to smelling liquor which, it was found later, was
being distilled in a "vacant" house at 380 Sunrise highway.
Capt. BACON, when he smelled the bootleg-bouquet wafted on the air,
summoned help from MINEOLA, and the "vacant" house was raided.
In it were found eleven 500-gallon vats, a 500-gallon still and a
800-gallon still, 350 gallons of alcohol and quantities of brown sugar,
yeast and other paraphernalia for making liquor. There was no one in the house.
It was found the distillers had tapped gas and electric mains and were not
paying for fuel or power.
An underground tunnel led to an adjoining house, also "vacant."
OLD GREENPOINTERS
The entertainment committee of The old Greenpointers met last night at the
Alpha Club, 138 Nassau avenue, and discussed the details for the annual
beefsteak party April 16. Richard WRIGHT, chairman of the committee, said
that nearly all of the tickets have been distributed. Good talent has been
engaged. Chairman WRIGHT reported that the recent ball held by the
organization was a social and financial success.
13 March 1931
ALTAR BOYS' SHOW
The twenty-eighth annual minstrel show and St. Patrick's Day revue under
the auspices of the St. Antony's Altar Boys Society will be held next
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at St. Antony's Auditorium, 712 Leonard
street. On Sunday afternoon a matinee will be given for the children.
In the cast are:
T. BLAKE
J. BROWN
R. BURKE
J. BYRNE
J. CLIFFORD
J. COLLEARY
L. CONBOY
V. CONNOLY
H. COX
R. CUFF
M. DEMPSEY
W. CEMPSEY
J. DORMAN
E. DUFFY
J. ELLIOTT
J. GALLAGHER
J. HANNEY
J. HAYES
E. HUGHES
R. KELLY
G. KERRIGAN
J. KETTLE
E. KLEIN
F. LANE
E. LYNCH
F. LYNCH
J. MC ALLISTER
T. MC CORMICK
J. MC DONALD
J. MC DONNELL
J. MC MULLEN
P. MC MULLIN
J. MOSS
James NOLAN
John NOLAN
M. NOLAN
W. O'MOORE
R. PAXTON
E. PERRY
P. REDMOND
C. RILEY
A. RYAN
O. SHEEHAN
R. SMITH
J. RYAN
G. STONE
LOUD AND ROUGH
When told to move on from Court and Lorraine streets, Michael HYNES, 52, of
605 Clinton street, used language which was lous and rough, Patrolman
Thomas RUFF, of the Hamilton avenue station, charged in Fifth avenue court
yesterday. HYNES was paroled for a hearing next Thursday on a disorderly
conduct complaint made against him before Magistrate LIOTA.
ACCUSES HUSBAND
He pulled her hair, punched her and forced her to flee from home, Mrs.
Cecilia SALIBA, of 7101 Colonial road, charged in bringing a disorderly
conduct complain against her husband, Ralph SALIBA, 38, in Fifth avenue
court yesterday. Magistrate LIOTA paroled the man for a hearing next Thursday.
14 March 1931
AUTOGIRO ARRIVES AT ROOSEVELT FIELD
A Pitcairn autogiro, piloted by Julian DEXTER, of Manhattan, landed at
Roosevelt Field L. I., yesterday, after a flight from Willow Grove,
Pa. The plane is the property of the Standard Oil Company and is to be
used for testing lubricants. DEXTER, a former resident of Oyster Bay,
whirred over the town giving many of the residents their first view of the
strange craft with the overhead propellers. Before this he flew over the
Standard Oil Company Building at 26 Broadway, Manhattan. DEXTER said the
autogiro is to be stationed at Roosevelt Field indefinitely.
BREMEN SAILS
It was the largest passenger list eastbound, that the giant liner has
carried this year and Capt. Leopold ZEIGENBEIN was on the bridge for the
first time in several trips.
Another passenger was Baron George VON ZEDLITZ-LEIPE, a grandson of the
late George EHRET.
The Bremen, which is bound for Cherbourg, Southhampton and Bremen, carried
4,000 bags of mail.
16 March 1931
17 BOYS AND MEN ACCUSED IN WIDE POLICE ROUNDUP
Many Robberies, Assaults and Gun Carrying Alleged
Fifteen boys and youth and two men were in the hands of police to-day
following a roundup in Brooklyn and Queens yesterday. Dozens of robberies
and the possession of guns were charged against some of them.
Police of Fourth avenue station arrested seven young men they claim are
members of a robber gang. Five of them were to be arraigned on charges of
having assaulted and robbed Sidney GOLDSTEIN, a Columbia College student,
and the others are held on grand larceny charges in connection with an
attempt to take money from a newsboy
Police first took into custody
Thomas QUINN, 22, of 115 Sixty-seventh street,
Vincent NERVIANI, 24, of 1152 Sixty-seventh street.
They found them in a poolroom at Eleventh avenue and Sixty-sixth street.
FIND STOLEN CAR
A short time later, they arrested Francis QUINN, 19, a brother of Thomas;
Larry ZINNO, 19, of 1028 Sixty-sixth street, Brooklyn and Joseph GARAFOLO,
19, of 1073 Sixty-sixth street. They were arrested in an automobile at
Eleventh avenue and Sixty-sixth street. The police said the car is a
stolen one and that it was used in the GOLDSTEIN holdup.
GOLDSTEIN came to Fourth avenue station house yesterday at the request of
the police, but he refused to even look at the alleged robbers. he lost
$400 in the holdup and in-as-much as it was the second time he had been
robbed in two months he left the employ of the Weinburg News Agency.
Next the police arrested Marco MORELLO, 18, of 687 Union street, and Jimmy
PICCOLO, 20, of 652 Carroll street. The police accuse them of being the
two men who attempted to take some money from Stanley BARLOW, of 17 East
Seventh street, a newsboy in the Fifty-ninth street subway
station. Although no money was taken the police charged them with grand larceny.
SON OF COP
Five boys, ranging in age from 16 to 19, one of them the son of a
policeman, accused of being robbers responsible for approximately thirty
holdups in Queens and Long Island.
Patrolman Charles BROWN, of Richmond Hill station, was recently given his
first plainclothes detail-that of apprehending his son, Christopher, 18,
who has been absent from his home, 25 South street, Manhattan, for some
time. Patrolman BROWN, however, failed to locate the boy and he was picked
up by Detectives James MC KEOUGH and Robert WOOD and Sergt. Michael
APP. he had been working as a steward on a boat.
The others taken into custody are :
John BURKE, known as "Jiggs," 17 years old, of 258 Cooper street,
Paul KOLNY, 19 years old, of 90-34 148th street, Jamaica;
Joseph HAGGERTY, 19 years old, of 133-36 119th street, Richmond Hill,
Gerald MC CARTHY, 16 years old, of 116-08 120th street, Richmond Hill.
According to the police, BROWN and BURKE have been identified by Mr. and
Mrs. MAX SCHNEIDER as the bandits who robbed them of $154 in their grocery
store at 96 Broadway, Freeport, L. I., last Wednesday.
Thomas SCANLON, manager of a chain grocery store at 91-28 Eighty-first
street, Woodhaven, according to police identified MC CARTHY and HAGGERTY as
the robbers who held him up in the store early in January of this year.
Still another identification was by Hyman KORMAN, of 128-10 111th avenue,
Richmond Hill. he said KOLNY and BURKE robbed him of $50 in his grocery
story at that address on Feb. 14.
MAKE BELIEVE
George SPRINGER, manager of a chain store, at 86-07 Sutter avenue, Ozone
Park, Queens, identified MC CARTHY and HAGGERTY saying they robbed him of
$30 in the store last month.
In none of these robberies was a gun used, the police say. They charge
that the boys merely kept their hands suggestively in their coat pockets
and succeeded in making their victims believe they were armed.
The police charge that five arrested yesterday are cohorts of the "Three
Musketeers" as Harry KAGEL, Jack ELLIS and Arthur AGUNZO, are known. These
three are under arrest on robbery charges. ELLIS and AGUNZO were arrested
Feb. 14 after ELLIS leaped from the elevated platform at Elderts lane,
Brooklyn, in an attempt to escape a policeman, KAGEL was arrested Feb. 26.
Five men and boys on charges of possessing revolvers were arraigned before
Magistrate Gaspar J. LIOTA in New Jersey avenue court yesterday.
Antonia LANDO, 60, of 2074 Atlantic avenue and John MARCIO, 61, of 210
Atlantic avenue, both grocers, were held in $1,000 bail each for
examination March 20. It is alleged that each had a pistol in his store
last night when it was searched by detectives under Lieut. James KINNEY, of
Brooklyn Headquarters.
Allan JONES, of 962 Halsey street, and Frank PITMAN, of 78 Truxton street,
were held for Special Sessions in $1,000 bail each. They were arrested by
Patrolmen COHEN and ROSNER, of Liberty avenue station as they were about to
enter a drug store, which was open, at Sutter and Rockaway avenues. it is
alleged that an unloaded gun was found on JONES. Both are 21 years old.
Elton JOHNSON, 18, of 148 Watkins street, was arrested by detectives of the
Twelfth Inspection District, at his home when in raiding an alleged still
on the premises the detectives, they claim, found an empty .22 calibre
pistol, he was held in $1,000 bail for the Court of Special Sessions.
GAVE UP $2,000 FOR EMPTY CASES
Declaring he saw an opportunity to get $5,000 worth of silk stockings for
$2,000, Ezra MEZRACHI, of 244 Canal street, Manhattan, an exporter, parted
with the money and all he received was three empty packing cases. These
were delivered to him, by arrangement, at Havemeyer street and Broadway, on
March 5.
On Saturday MEZRACHI appeared as complainant against Sol. ITZHOWITZ, 49, of
2422 Mermaid avenue; Henry KESSLER, 432, of 3021 Twenty-fourth street, and
Joseph KAPLAN, 44, of 126 Ludlow street, Manhattan. he charged them with
grand larceny.
Then the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge, Magistrate MAGUIRE in
Bridge Plaza court held KAPLAN without bail and ITZHOWITZ and KESSLER in
$5,000 bail each for examination on March 19.
CANARSIE MAN ROBBED OF $110
Julius SELUB, proprietor of a drug store at 9323 Church avenue, reported to
police of the Canarsie station, yesterday that he had been slugged and
robbed of $110 in his store by two men. he said one of the robbers asked
him to change a quarter and when he did so the other struck him over the
head, inflicting a deep gash. Detectives are investigating.
STARVING MAN AIDED BY COPS
Alfred HOBSON, 43, of 5890 Pacific street, walked in Bergen street police
station yesterday and after telling the desk lieutenant that he was
starving he collapsed. An ambulance from the Jewish Hospital was called and
after treatment in the station house HOBSON was taken to Kings County
Hospital. He told the police he had not eaten since Friday and had been
out of work for ten weeks.
Moved by his story police and reporters took up a collection so HOBSON,
when he gets out of the hospital, will be able to subsist for several days.
17 March 1931
Struck by Trolley
Filimenia NAKARL, 54, of 632 Lorimer street, was crossing Lorimer street at
Jackson street, yesterday afternoon, when she was struck by a Lorimer street
trolley car in charge of Alexander MCCAMBRIDGE, of 170 Monitor street. She
was taken in an automobile to Greenpoint Hospital where she was treated by
Ambulance Surgeon ZABRISKI for cuts, bruises and abrasions and then taken home.
Sabbath Violation
Accused of violation of the Sabbath law, Israel SALSBURG, of 220 West End
avenue, Manhattan, pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Magistrate HUGHES
in the Coney Island court yesterday and was paroled for hearing tomorrow. It
was alleged that he kept his photograph gallery at 1223 Kings Highway, open
for business last Sunday. The complaint was made by Theodore BLATT, a lawyer
of 50 Court street, who represents the Photographers' Association.
Old Fashioned Wedding
With costumes dating from 1860 to the present date, the Mother Club of the
Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church, will present an "Old-fashioned Wedding"
at the auditorium, Seventy-fifth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
18 March 1931
Detective Bernard JUDGE of Carnarsie station was injured yesterday when he
fell from a police automobile at Avenue N and East Ninety-eighth street while
taking two boys to the station house after an exciting chase and capture.
Detective JUDGE and Patrolman John USTIC responded to a telephone call for
help from Louis GOLD, who conducts a grocery store at 1845 Rockaway Parkway.
The policemen, took two boys into custody at Avenue N and East Ninety-fourth
street. They were taking them to the station house in the automobile with the
detective standing on the running board. As the car struck a bump he was
thrown to the street and one wheel passed over his left arm. He was treated
at the station house by an ambulance surgeon and went home.
The prisoners said they were John CLEMENTI, 16, and Peter SALADINO, 17, both
of 8817 Flatlands avenue. They were to be arraigned today in New Jersey
avenue court on a charge of assault and robbery on the complaint of the
storekeeper, who says they took $39 from his cash register.
19 March 1931
SHOTS FIRED IN GREENPOINT PURSUIT OF SUSPECTED TRIO
Police Capture Men and Bag with Burglar Tools
After an exciting chase of seven blocks, during which a score of shots were
fired, police captured three men early today who, it is claimed have been
involved in a number of safe robberies in Brooklyn recently. They were
charged with possessing burglar tools and violating the Sullivan act and were
to be arraigned this afternoon in Bridge Plaza Court.
The men were arrested by Sergeant Charles MAIZ and Patrolman George GEHR,
both of Herbert street station. The policemen, cursing about in a department
car, saw the trio carrying a bag at Porter avenue and Lombardy street. As
soon as they stopped their car the men dropped the bag and started to run,
the policemen say, and the chase was on.
After firing several shots in the air the policemen aimed their revolvers at
the fleeing men but none of the shots found their mark. After seven blocks
the policemen started to gain on the fugitives and they gave up.
At the Herbert street station they gave their names as Joseph SACINELLI, 25,
of 734 Cordell Avenue; William LANG, 29, of 236 East Thirty-ninth street, and
Alfred BENSON, 30, of 8011 Ninetieth avenue, Woodhaven. LANG and BENSON both
have long criminal records, police say.
It is believed the three men were the ones who were frightened away from
robbing a safe early Wednesday morning at 255 Stillman Avenue. The bag which
police allege BENSON dropped, contained tools for opening safes.
The men denied they had the bag and insisted they were on their way to meet a girl.
BOYS LOST ON JAMAICA BAY NARROWLY ESCAPE DROWNING
Four Rescued in Dark by "Bluefish Charlie"
The movies today have no further thrills for four Brownsville lads, pupils at
P. S. 125, Blake and Thatford avenues, rescued late last night after being
marooned on an island in Jamaica Bay, two and one-half miles from the
Canarsie shore, for more than five hours.
Charles MAYERS, a fisherman, known as "Bluefish Charlie" and living at 1788
East Ninety-second street, rescued the boys. He went out in a rowboat and
located them when he searched long over the dark waters of the bay.
The island on which they were stranded, would have been inundated with the
coming high tide and the boys probably would have been drowned, had it not
been for MAYERS.
The boys were Clarence LIPSKY, 9 and his brother Nathan 12, of 376 Watkins
street; Jacob BERGERSON, 10, of 361 New Lots avenue, and Norris STRAUS, 9 of
315 Osborne street.
About 5 o'clock yesterday the boys, with two companions Hyman BRODISH, 10 of
762 Rockaway avenue, and Louis ZONIS, 10, of 300 Osborne street, went to the
shore of the bay in Canarsie and the four got into a duck boat which had been
moored there and cut loose and started rowing about in the craft.
BRODISH and ZONIS, at the same time, got into a rowboat. A wind suddenly came
up, and the duck boat with the four boys in it was blown out in the bay,
despite the efforts of the boys to get it back to shore.
The boys in the rowboat, who were nearer the shore wen the wind became
strong, were able to get their craft back to the bank and jump out. They
watched the other boat until it disappeared, then went to the hotel operated
by Billy RAY, at the foot of Rockaway avenue, and told him what had happened
to their companions. RAY summoned the police who went out in a police launch
and scouted the water, but were unable to find any trace of the boys.
When the police returned, MAYERS, who is familiar with the water of Jamaica
Bay in that vicinity, started out in search of the boys. He finally found
them, frightened and shivering from cold, on an island between East Island
and Duck Island, about two and a half miles from the Canarsie shoe. Their
boat was capsized when the boys reached the island and had been carried away.
MAYERS brought the boys ashore and they were taken to the hotel, were their
clothing was dried and they later went home.
QUEENS COP TRAPS TRAFFIC VIOLATORS
Patrolman Henry W. HANSEN, motorcycle guardian of Greenpoint avenue, and
Queens boulevard, Long Island City, did good business yesterday in the Long
Island City magistrate's Court. Fifty-three of the one hundred and
twenty-five cases heard by Magistrate Thomas DOWN were brought in by HANSEN.
Every one of his defendants were found guilty and paid a total of $250 in fines.
Numerous complaints from civic organizations about speeding along Queens
boulevard and Greenpoint avenue brought about the station ?? of HANSEN at
that point to hand out summonses to violators. The offenders paid fines
ranging from $?? to $5 for making improper turns and failing to keep to the
right to $2 for speeding.
MORE DOCTORS ARE INDICTED IN LIQUOR RING
Six in Brooklyn and Long Island Among 396 in State
Informations against more doctors and druggists, many of them from Brooklyn,
were expected to be filed today in the alleged liquor-prescription racket
uncovered by dry agents. Twelve doctors of the 396 said to be connected in
the gigantic ring, were named in informations yesterday and thirteen drug
store proprietors were indicted by the Grand Jury.
"We are going to file more information's as soon as we can get the papers
prepared," George Z. MEDALIE, United State Attorney, said today. Horace J.
SIMMONS, special prohibition agent, directed the arrests of the men after
raiding various drug stores and a suite of offices in the Guardian Life
Building, 50 Union Square, Manhattan, where the alleged syndicate, headed by
the Nathan BERNSTEIN, had its headquarters.
All of the druggists indicted may be imprisoned for five years and fined
$10,000 on each county charging violation of the Jones law. The doctors face
a fine of $500 on each county, some of them having as many as nine counts
against them.
Mr. MEDALIE said the Grand Jury was by no means finished with its
investigation and promised more indictments shortly. He also said he was
going to demand an early trial for those already indicted.
Among those indicted yesterday, the following live in Brooklyn: Isaac M.
BRAND, 6930 Fourth avenue; Louis GREENFELD, 86 Ralph avenue; Richard DIAMOND,
86-28 144th street, Jamaica; Philip Livingston, 2552 West Twenty-ninth
street, coney Island; Murray EPSTEIN, 526 Stone avenue, and Louis KRON, 4790
Avenue K.SIMMONS, who claimed the syndicate did a $3,000,000 a year business also
directed a raid on the Hotel Alba and the BERNSTEIN apartment where, he says,
he found prescription blanks which indicated that at least 1,000 doctors had
taken part in the conspiracy.
ALCOHOL VICTIMS FALL IN STREET
Daniel DUFFY, 30, and Martin MAGUIRE, 590 both of 296 Fulton street, are in
the alcoholic ward of the Kings County Hospital today according to the
police, suffering from alcoholism.
The men who had been staggering along the street, arm in arm, last night
collapsed as they entered the house in which they live. Someone summoned
patrolmen Charles MURPHY, of Poplar street station, and when his efforts to
revived the men were futile he summoned Dr. THERO, of Cumberland Street
Hospital, who took them to Kings County Hospital.
BORO MEN QUALIFY FOR NAVAL RATING
Among the members of the latest graduating class of the Machinists' Mate
School at Hampton Roads, Va., a service school conducted by the Navy
Department, were
Hyman ABRAMOWITZ of 265 Floyd street
Henry Frederick KIRCHER of 269 Jamaica avenue.
Diplomas were awarded them by their commanding
officer, who congratulated them upon their successful completion of the
difficult thirty-five weeks' course.
SENT TO HOSPITAL
Louis SCHLEFSTEIN, 22, of 99 Varet street, who admitted telephoning in many
false alarms of murders and explosions to the police, was arraigned yesterday
in Bridge Plaza court before Magistrate Mark RUDRICH on a charge of
disorderly conduct. He was sent to the observation ward of the Kings County
Hospital. He was arrested at Flushing avenue and Broadway by Detective
Charles HEMINDINGER, of Clymer street station.
ALLEGED BURGLARS HELD
James RIORDAN, 21, of 38 Scholes street, and Thomas MAHONEY, 20 of 140 Maujer
street, arrested while running from a chain grocery store at 371 Broadway,
after, as alleged, they burglarized the place, will be given a hearing today
in Bridge Plaza court.
LADIES AUXILIARY
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the People's Regular Democratic Club, of Greenpoint,
met last night at the clubhouse, 119 Norman avenue, and discussed plans for
the next card party, April 10.
Mrs. Katherine MCSAVENY is chairman of the arrangements.
Serving with her are
Mrs. Anna T. MILLER,
Miss Hannah O'CONNOR,
Miss Anna MUIR,
Mrs. May O'BRIEN,
Mrs. Margaret GROGAN,
Mrs. Mary KEAVNEY,
Mrs. Elizabeth WADE,
Mrs. Rose SMITH,
Mrs. France SARGEANT and Mrs. Mary MCKENNA.
20 March 1931
SWIMMER HELD AS 'Y' THIEF
Believed by police to have entered and robbed six rooms of the Central Y. M.
C. A., 55 Hanson place, Frederick GERHARD, 18, of 534 State street, was to
appear in Flatbush court today on a charge of burglary. His capture is
attributed to the fact that he is constant swimmer in the Y. M. C. A. pool.
GERHARD was arrested last night by Detective James HANNON, of Bergen street
station, who said the youth would go to the man in charge of the desk on the
main floor and identify himself, using the name of a roomer. He would say he
had just left his room and had slammed the door and wanted a key to open the
door. then, it is said, he would go to the room, ransack it, and take the key
to a shop near Borough Hall and have a duplicate made.
Police say that GERHARD used this ruse to burglarize six rooms and made a
return trip in each case, making it twelve burglaries in all. It is estimated
that his hauls amounted to approximately $700.
According to police the youth, six feet three inches tall, has confessed to
doing several of the jobs. He says that he is a stenographer out of work.
BROOKLYN MAN HURT IN CRASH
Raymond C. BROWN, 54, a public accountant, living at 54 Argyle road, is in a
serious condition in Tarrytown Hospital today, suffering from injuries
sustained when a car in which he was riding crashed into a tree in Tarrytown
yesterday afternoon. Miss Joanne GRANDSON, 22, of 105 West 188th street,
driving the car, was instantly killed.
BROWN sustained fractures of the right leg and arm, severe lacerations of the
tongue and scalp, had several ribs broken, and is suffering from shock.
The accident occurred opposite the estate of David LUKE, president of the
West Virginia Pulp and Paper co., located in South Broadway, near Tarrytown.
BROWN, who is a certified public accountant, has offices at 342 Madison avenue.
WOMAN IS BURNED CLEANING CLOTHES
Mrs. Harry LUSTIG, 29 of 3026 Nathan street, Brighton Beach, is in a critical
condition in Coney Island Hospital today as the result of burns sustained
last night while cleaning clothes with gasoline. Mrs. LUSTIG was working near
the kitchen range and fire from the stove ignited the gasoline fumes, causing
an explosion.
The flames enveloped her, burning her clothes and before neighbors who heard
the screams could extinguish the flames, she was badly burned about the arms
and body.
Fireman checked the flames in the kitchen.
ONCE FRIENDS, NO ENEMIES
The best of friends several months ago, two newspaper editors, Bert HELLER,
of 248 Hewes street, and Rabbi Louis D. GROSS, 564 Atlantic avenue, also an
editor, are bitter enemies today.
Their grievances have brought them into court. HELLER, styled as editor of
the Williamsburg News, is charged with forgery by Rabbi GROSS, editor of the
Jewish Examiner.
The trouble started, so far as the testimony disclosed, over the assignment
of an automobile belonging to Gross to meet a financial obligation to the
Newspaper Trade Press, Inc., of 808 Driggs avenue, where the office of the
Williamsberg News is located.
The forgery charge is based on the allegation that the papers involved in the
transaction are made to appear that the assignment was made on Sept. 20
instead of Sept 21, and, it is charged, they are signed by HELLER.
In testimony that was offered much bitterness was displayed by both sides.
Because of the many witnesses to be heard, Magistrate RUDICH, after listening
to testimony for nearly two hours, put over further testimony until today.
23 March 1931
SINGING COSTLY
Vincent ERRAIN, 26, of 262 North Sixth street, felt vocally inclined early
yesterday morning at Grand street and Marcy avenue. He was told to cease his
singing and go home to bed by Patrolman William BECK of Bedford avenue
station. He refused. When arraigned before Magistrate BRILL on a charge of
disorderly conduct he was given the choice of paying a fine of $5 or spending
two days in the city jail. He paid the fine.
HELD FOR ASSAULT
Joseph LUKAS, 32 of 154 North Ninth street, was given a hearing today in
Bridge Plaza on charge of assault. On Saturday during a dispute with Adam
BLOSKI, a boarder in the house, he struck BLOSKI, it is alleged, on the head
with a hatchet inflicting a deep laceration.
WILLING TO PAY
John Paul JONES, 36, of 53 Walton street, was in Bridge Plaza court Saturday
on a charge of disorderly conduct. He failed to pay a taxi bill of $15 but
told the court he is willing to pay. He was paroled until today to make good
his promise.
CAVEMAN TACTICS
Stanly YACKUS, 38, of 12 Scholes street, will have to tell the magistrate in
Bridge Plaza court tomorrow why he pulled his wife, Antoinette about the
kitchen floor by the hair. YACKUS pleaded not guilty to a charge of
disorderly conduct Saturday and was held in $500 bail.
BOY BADLY HURT
Riding a bicycle, Philip STEIN, 14, of 514 New Jersey avenue, was seriously
hurt when he was struck by an automobile operated by Harry ADLER, of 678
Bradford street, at Hegeman avenue and Wyona street. The boy sustained a
fractured collar bone and was taken to Trinity Hospital by Dr. CUTLER.
PATROLMAN ILL
Patrolman Henry N. MULLINS, of Grand avenue station, was seized with a heart
attack and collapsed at Bergen street and Franklin avenue yesterday. He was
taken to Jewish Hospital by Dr. NADLER. MULLINS is 42 and lives at 33 Mackey place.
HEMLEY ADMITTED
Stanley M. HEMLEY, son of Deputy Inspector Joseph HEMLEY of the Twelfth
Inspection Division, has just been admitted to the bar. Young HEMLEY
graduated from Richmond Hill High School and attended St. John's Law School.
He lives at 103-04 Lefferts avenue, Richmond Hill.
COLLECT TIN FOIL
Israel and Joseph SONNENBLICK, residents of the Bedford section, have a hobby
for collecting tin foil. Twenty pounds shipped on Saturday made a total of
510 pounds of foil which they have sent to the Shriner's Hospital for
Crippled Children at Springfield, Mass, in ten months.
SPEAKEASY VISIT NETS STAB WOUNDS
Manhattan police, with detectives of the Hunters Point station, are today
searching for the man who stabbed William SCHEWIZER, 22, OF 39-55
Forty-seventh street, Sunnyside, in an alleged speakeasy at 975 First avenue,
Manhattan, late last night.
SCHEWIZER walked into the office of Dr. GRODIS at 60-15 Woodside avenue,
Woodside, and asked for treatment of three stab wounds, in his left leg, left
side and his chest. The physician gave him treatment and notified the police.
The injured man said he did not know who it was stabbed him. All he knew, he
told the police, was that he found himself on the sidewalk outside the
speakeasy and took a taxi home.
BUNGALOWS BURN ON OLD MILL ROAD
Fire fanned by a brisk breeze and aided by its distance from water hydrants,
destroyed four bungalows on old Mill road on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica
Bay today. By dint of vigorous efforts firemen were able to prevent the
flames from reaching forty other bungalows in the colony.
The bungalows, according to the police, are owned by Theodore BURLAND, George
HEISER, William ANGER and Harry HERBERT. Police said that the fire apparently
started in BURLAND's kitchen.
BOY HIT BE CAR MAY LOSE HIS FOOT
Frank DE GROOT, 6 years old, of 730 Manhattan avenue, was badly injured last
night when he was struck by a Union avenue surface car, northbound on
Manhattan avenue, near Norman avenue. The boy's left foot was crushed, and it
was reported at the Greenpoint Hospital, where he was removed, that it may be
necessary to amputate it. The boy was crossing the street when struck by the
trolley, operated by Herbert CONINELLA, of 326 Harmon street. Patrolman
INNES, of Greenpoint station, brought the boy to the hospital in a taxicab.
SLUETHS CHECK STORY OF THEFT
Police today are closely investigating the story told by Joseph DE CANIO,
collector for the Borden's Milk company, who reported yesterday afternoon
that he was held up and robbed by two men who accosted him on Freeman avenue
between Hancock street and Vernon boulevard, Long Island City. He claims that
$160 in collections was taken from him.
DE CANIO, who lives at 35-15 Vernon boulevard, Long Island City, said that he
was walking along the street when two men in a Chevrolet sedan jumped out of
the car, stuck guns in his ribs and relieved him of the $160 in cash. He gave
part of a license number which he obtained, 7N-12-5___. A checkup of all cars
near that number showed that none of the cars was stolen.
TWO ATTACKED CAN'T EXPLAIN
Two men, both found wandering in the neighborhood of South Fifth street and
Bedford avenue, are in Greenpoint Hospital suffering from wounds which, they
say, were inflicted by unidentified assailants. The men, found within a short
time, say they do not know each other and insist they were not together when
they were attacked.
Alfred ACHBEL, 48, of 229 South Ninth street, was found at South Fifth street
and Bedford avenue with blood streaming from his head. He said he was beaten
by a man he never saw before. Besides the wounds on his head, his body showed
signs of being kicked and beaten. His condition is serious.
A short time later, Murray LANDSMAN, 20, of 717 East Sixth street, Flatbush,
was found at 278 South Fifth street, which is near Bedford avenue, also
beaten about the head and body. AT Greenpoint Hospital, LANDSMAN said he had
no idea who beat him or why he was attacked. LANDSMAN had been knifed in the
back and his scalp was cut badly.
Neither ACHBEL nor LANDSMAN could give an accurate description of his attackers.
MISS GAHAGAN, BORO ACTRESS, TO WED APRIL 5.
Plans Announced for Quiet marriage to Melvyn DOUGLAS, Leading Man
Helen Mary GAHAGAN, star of "Tonight or Never," now playing at the Belasoc
Theatre, Manhattan, and Melvyn DOUGLAS, leading man in the same play, will be
married quietly on Easter Sunday, April 5, at the GAHAGAN home, 17 Prospect
Park west, according to present plans.
Miss GAHAGAN'S father, Walter H. GAHAGAN, a prominent contractor and builder,
died a few months ago.
The announcement for the forth coming marriage was made yesterday by Mrs.
Walter H. GAHAGAN, mother of the actress, to set a rest rumors regarding the
engagement and wedding.
HAILED AS STAR
Miss GAHAGAN, who is 30 years old, has sponsored many concerts for Berkeley
Institute of which she is a graduate. She attended Barnard College and made
her Broadway debut in 1922 in "Manhattan". She was hailed as "the coming
Barrymore" when she appeared in "Dreams for Sale" not long after. Other plays
in which she has been seen are "Fashions for Men," "Chains," "Leah Kleschna,"
The Sapphire Ring," "The Enchanted Cottage," "Young Woodley" and revivals of
"Trelawney of the Wells" and "Diplomacy."
CONCERT SINGER
Last year Miss GAHAGAN returned from Europe following several years of
intensive operatic study. Possessing a vibrant soprano voice, she appeared in
"Tosca," "Manon" and "Aida" in opera houses in Germany, Italy and
Czechoslovakia. She made her concert debut at the Academy of Music shortly
after her return from Europe.
Mrs. DOUGLAS was born in Macon, Ga., and is a graduate of the University of
Nebraska. He appeared with various stock companies, including the Jesse
Bonstelle organization, before he was seen here under the management of
William A. BRADY in "A Free Soul."
$3,000,000,000 TREASURE HEAVILY GUARDED BY GUNS MOVED THROUGH STREETS.
With armored trucks and squads of heavily armed guards lining the curbs of
lower Broadway, $3,000,000,000 in gold, securities and currency were safely
convoyed from the vaults of the Irving Trust Company in the Woolworth
building to the bank's new building at 1 Wall street.
For two hours every pedestrian and automobile passing through the eight
blocks separating the two buildings was in direct machine gun range as load
after load was carried by. The first truck, carrying $8,000,000 in cash
started at 6 A.M., and at 8 o'clock the last of the vast fortune had been
transferred to the new vaults.
As a precautionary measure, Sunday is usually chosen for such an undertaking.
The financial section is practically deserted at that time ad traffic is very light.
POLICEMAN FIGHTS FLAMES IN VAIN RESCUE ATTEMPT
Pushes in to Save Man From Death, Finds Room Empty
A police sergeant forced his way through flame and smoke three times today in
an attempt to rescue a man reported on the third floor of a burning building.
On third attempt he reached the floor only to find it empty.
The officer, Sergt. Charles MARZ, of Herbert street station, discovered fire
in the first floor of a four story brick tenement at 230 Manhattan avenue
shortly after 8:30 A. M. today.
He sent in an alarm and entered the building to arouse the tenants. After he
had brought out all of the occupants, two women told him a young man was on
the third floor. MARZ made two unsuccessful attempts to get through the smoke
before he finally gained the third floor to find it empty.
NEARLY FELLED BY SMOKE
He returned to the street almost overcome by smoke and heat, but refused
medical attention and was revived after a short time.
The fire started from an undetermined origin in the ground floor butcher shop
of Max OZELER. Damage to the building was estimated by police at $5,000.
MOTHER SAVES BABIES
A spectacular blaze last night swept from the cellar to the roof of a three
story frame tenement and store building at 295-297 Dumont avenue, destroying
completely its interior.
Hundreds of spectators ran to the scene of the fire as flames shot from the
burning structure, completely crowding the streets outside and stopping
traffic for a considerable interval.
Firemen were summoned from all stations in Brownsville and East New York
section of Brooklyn and combated the blaze under the command of Deputy Fire
commissioner Edward KENNY.
Mrs. Santina GRIEMALDI, cut off from all escape by smoke and flames that
filled the corridors and stairways of the building, stepped from a window of
her home on the second floor at 295-297 to a two foot ledge and led her five
young children across the ledge to safety.
When Mrs. GRIEMALDI and her children, Michael, seven; Leonora, five;
Josephine, four; Margaret, two, and Leah, one, appeared trapped on the narrow
ledge, Jack BERGER, a plumber, who was watching the fire, jumped on a fire
escape of No. 193, and beckoned to Mrs. GRIEMALDI to lead her children along
the ledge to a point where BERGER was able to reach them.
FIREMEN RESCUES BABE, 3 WEEKS OLD
A mother and her three weeks old son were overcome by smoke and three firemen
were injured last night in a fire that burned a two story brick and frame
building at 131-17 Liberty avenue, Richmond Hill.
The fire started, from unknown cause, in a roofing and tin shop on the ground
floor of the building. Mrs. Mary FARMER and her baby son, Daniel, were asleep
in the single apartment on the second floor. Awakened, finally, by the smoke,
Mrs. FARMER snatched up her baby and started for the street, but by this time
the stairway was afire and she was afraid to run through the flames.
CALLS FOR HELP
She went to a front room, placed the baby on a bed, then leaned from a window
and called for help. Neighbors turned in an alarm and started to rescue her,
but before they could get upstairs, Mrs. FARMER, frightened and nearly
overcome by smoke, returned alone to the head of the stairs. There she
collapsed and fell down the flight of steps to the street.
She was quickly revived by police of the emergency squad, who had arrived at
the scene by this time. Her first thought when consciousness was restored was
for her baby. "Save my baby, save my baby," she cried.
Fireman Edward DRESSLER, 40, of Engine Company No. 126, asked her where the
baby was, but she could not recall where she had left him.
CARRIED DOWN LADDER
DRESSLER, finally made his way through the smoke to the second floor, leaping
up the stairway that was fast being consumed by the flames. After a search of
the apartment he came across the baby lying on the bed in the frontroom. The
baby, overcome, by smoke, was carried to a window and handed to another
fireman, who carried him down the ladder to the street. DRESSLER, then went
down the ladder, the stairway by this time having been burned away.
The baby was revived by the emergency squad and was taken with his mother to
the Mary Immaculate Hospital, In Jamaica, where both remained. The baby was
said to be in serious condition, but will recover, physicians believe.
Fireman DRESSLER received minor burns in running up the blazing stairway and
also received lacerations of the hands in forcing open a door. Fireman Henry
STRAUSE, of Engine Company No. 308, also received minor injuries at the fire.
All were treated at the scene and resumed duty.
24 March 1931
Negress accused of stabbing man
Facing a charge of felonious assault, Mrs. Clara GREEN, 23, Negress, of 772
Myrtle avenue, is to appear in Bridge Plaza court today on the complaint of
William LEVINE, of 437 Flushing avenue.
Mrs. GREEN was arrested last night by detectives of Clymer street station,
who have been looking for her since Jan. 24. It is alleged that on that date
she was employed by LEVINE at a wet laundry at 44 Walworth street and that
she stabbed LEVINE in the left side.
STARVING FAMILY SENT TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. Catherine KRAKOWIAK, 36, and her three young daughters, are in Kings
County Hospital, the mother ill with an incurable disease and the children
suffering from malnutrition.
Mrs. KRAKOWIAK and the three children, Nellie, 7; Lottie, 6, and Josephine 3,
have been aided for some time by neighbors. Realizing the mother was in a
critical condition and the children undernourished to an alarming extent. The
neighbors yesterday called Patrolman Joseph SPEER of Fourth avenue police
station who summoned an ambulance. The father, whose name could not be
learned, is said by police to be confined to a sanitarium. The KRAKOWIASKS
live at 139 Thirty-fourth street.
NEW SOCIAL CLUB
A new club has been organized in the Bath Beach district. It is the Vulcan
Social Club and meets temporarily at the home of the vice-president, Edmund
MATTIOLI, of 1540 Cropsey avenue. Other officers are Michael TROINA,
president; Rudolph TULOTTA, secretary; William SCORCA, treasurer; Joseph
BARCIA, marshal; and Carl BARCIA, chaplain.
UNEMPLOYED RELIEF
Monthly entertainment's to aid the unemployed in Williamsburg are being
planned by the Eastern District boys' Club, Robert GREENVALDT, president,
announced at the headquarters, 106 Wilson street. Irving WEINZIMMER,
secretary, heads the committee.
HURT THREE TIMES WITHIN TWO YEARS
Although he has only been a member of the Police Department two years,
Patrolman John C. FELTZ, of Jamaica station, is for the third time a victim
of the automobile. His first two experiences were with intoxicated motorists
who ran him down, while the latest injuries suffered by him were sustained
when an automobile on the running board of which he was riding crashed into a tree.
Patrolman FELTZ was on a patrol at Jamaica avenue and 178th street, Jamaica,
yesterday afternoon, when he noticed two different license plates on a green
roadster. Commandeering another passing automobile, FELTZ gave chase to 184th
street and 109th avenue, HOLLIS. Here, FELTZ alleges, the driver of the green
roadster suddenly made a serve to the right, causing the machine on which
FELTZ was riding to crash into a tree. CONTINUES CHASE
Another patrolman continued the chase after the green roadster and caught up
with it two blocks away. The operator said he is William JACKSON, 25, of
166-14 Bergen place; Jamaica. He had papers which show he is the owner of the
roaster.
FELTZ and his prisoner went to the Jamaica station, where the later was
booked on charges of felonious assault and driving an automobile with
improper license plates. MEDICAL AID
FELTZ received medical attention from Dr. IMPERATO of Mary Immaculate
Hospital for a sprained neck and a possible fractured left arm. The officer
later went to his home at 148-44 Eighty-ninth avenue, Jamaica.
Jackson was to be arraigned today before magistrate Benjamin MARVIN in the
Jamaica court on the two complaints.
25 March 1931
MRS. FITZGIBBONS IS 95 YEARS OLD
Telegrams from every part of the city and from several parts of the country
continued to pour in at the home of Mrs. Margaret FITZGIBBONS, mother of
Lieut. Patrick FITZGIBBONS, director of the Police Glee Club, at 56 Cuthbert
place, Kew Gardens, where seven great grandchildren, nineteen grandchildren
and three children gathered last night to celebrate her ninety-fifth birthday.
Mrs. FITZGIBBONS came from Ireland sixty-two years ago and has been a
resident of Queens for the past twenty years. Her husband, an official of the
Dock Department, died in 1926 at the age of 92.
The children present last night besides Lieutenant FITZGIBBONS were, Mrs.
James HICKEY and Mrs. Margaret DEWEY.
DOCK LABORER HURT
While loading a truck owned by the Wexler Trucking Co., of 683 Water street,
Manhattan, yesterday at Pier 6, Bush Terminal, Joseph NEHEMIAH, 36, of 70
Cannon street, Manhattan, was struck on the back of the neck by a bag of
flour. Treated by Dr. SCHMIDT of Norwegian Hospital for a possible fracture
of the neck, he was taken to that institution.
MC QUADE NIGHT
The committee, Harry HENRY, chairman of the "MC QUADE Night", at the Brooklyn
elks club on April 10, met last night at the Fifteenth Assembly District
Democratic Club, Meserole street and Manhattan avenue. More than 2,000
tickets have been sold. The affair will be conducted by the Fifteenth
Assembly District Democratic Club in honor of Register James A. MCQUADE,
executive member.
UNLOADED GUNS FOUND
Angelo SPAGNULO, 45, of 1009A Thirty-ninth street, cashier of a bakery shop
at that address, was held in $500 bail for the Court of Special Sessions by
Magistrate DALE, in Fifth avenue court yesterday on a Sullivan law charge
brought against him after two .32 calibre revolvers had allegedly been found
in a desk drawer of the establishment. The weapons, police said, were unloaded.
FOUR LUCKY BROOKLYNITES PLAN SPENDING 'SWEEP' CASH
CARROLL, Court Clerk and Vet, Intends to Visit France
Four residents of Brooklyn today are happier, wealthier and perhaps, wiser
than they were twenty-four hours ago-just because they received one cablegram
apiece. The cablegrams informed them they had received consolation prizes in
the Irish Sweepstakes, on the Grand National Steeplechase, to be run at
Liverpool Friday. The "winnahs" are:
Mrs. Anna PETERSON, of 121 Seventh-fifth street, who won $7,000.
George FAMMILL, of 60 Van Sicklen avenue, who received word that he was
$5,750 richer than he was yesterday.
Sylvester M. CARROLL, 36, clerk in the Third District Municipal Court, who
will received 1,081 pounds on a $2.50 investment.
Mrs. Margaret CUSAK, of 414 East fiftieth street, won a similar amount.
Mrs. PETERSON said she was going to save her money to take care of her
husband, Victor and to help educate her son. FAMMILL today was busy
consulting with his son, Fred, a salesman for the William B. MCVICKERS Co.,
of 295 Douglas street, on how their money should be spent, and CARROLL, a
World War veteran, is planning a trip to France.
CARROLL'S office looked like a greenhouse when he arrived today. His desk was
piled high with flowers and he was being congratulated by fellow workers
until his hand hurt from shaking it. CARROLL is a brother of Municipal Court
Justice Charles J. CARROLL and was wounded twice while serving in France.
Thousands of other lottery players, whose homes range from County Mayo, to
Lisbon, Tienstin, Shanghai, New York, Alaska and South Africa, rejoiced today
over their good fortune in drawing lucky tickets in the sweepstakes.
Gregalach, More Kenn, Mt. Etna and Stash, all long shots were drawn in the
United States.
Mrs. Margaret ENGLISH, of East Orange, N. J., who is employed in the
cafeteria of the East Orange junior high School, drew Mt. Etna.
"This is marvelous," she exclaimed, when told of her luck. "Now I can educate
my son as I want to. The money won't change my life, however, as I intend to
keep on working."
Mrs. C. R. STEPHENS, of Larchmont, who won a consolation prize of more than
$5,0000, was astounded.
"I've never won anything in my life except a chocolate cake, and I had to
divide that with so many people that I didn't have a bite to bring home. And
will my husband have to sit up and take notice now? I'll tell you that he will."
Mrs. Rosa HASENAU of Manhattan was informed of her good luck at her home
where she is recuperating from an illness. She and her husband conduct a
bakery and live above their shop.
MOTHER SAVED FROM SUICIDE NOW FEARS LOSS OF CHILDREN
Sobs Because Attempt Failed-Used Last Dollar for Gas
Fearing her children might be taken away and placed in "some home", Mrs.
Lillian SCHAEFER, 20 of 85 Livonia avenue, who tried to kill herself by
inhaling gas fumes, sobbed hysterically this afternoon because she had not
succeeded in ending her life. She was found unconscious in front of the gas
stove in her kitchen after she had carefully removed her two children from danger.
"How can I struggle along with the children?" she moaned. "they are suffering
- they do not have enough to eat - they might starve - and it would have been
so much better for them if I would have died. I'm so sorry I didn't."
Sobbing, Mrs. SCHAEFER told how the gas company shut off the gas in her
apartment yesterday and how she took the last dollar she had to the gas
office so service would be restored and so she would have way of "making it
easy for the children."
MARRIED AT FIFTEEN
She said she was married when she was fifteen years old. She met her husband,
Samuel P. SCHAEFER, at coney Island, and in two months they were married.
There are two children, Leon, a little more than two years old, and Bernard,
one year old.
About two months ago, Mrs. SCHAEFER said, she had her husband brought to
Family Court, where he was ordered to pay her $15 a week after, she claims,
she found he was living with another woman. A week after their separation,
she says, he came back to her and they decided to try it again.
"He'd be away for days and nights at a time," she said. "I had no money. The
rent is two months overdue. The furniture company is threatening to take back
all of our furniture. The children were hungry. I tried to run the house on
eight or ten dollars a week, but it was impossible."
Last night, she said, she decided the only way out was to end her life. She
carried her two children from their room, which adjoins the kitchen, into the
parlor, three rooms away and then closed all of the doors between the rooms.
ASK HELP FOR CHILDREN
She wrote two notes. One she addressed to her husband, and sealed it in an
envelope. The other she put in a milk bottle, outside the door. The note in
the mil bottle asked the finder to break down the parlor door and save her
two children.
At 3:30 A. M. Fred MARSHER, a milkman, of 84-10 106th street, Woodhaven,
found the note and ran out to the street where he found Patrolmen DUFFY and
SEIFRIED, of Liberty avenue station. The three men broke down the parlor
door, carried the children out and then found Mrs. SCHAEFER slumped over the
kitchen stove, all five gas jets wide open.
They carried her downstairs and while the patrolman worked over her, MARSHER
called St. Mary's Hospital and Dr. REGAN was sent to their aid. In a short
time, Mrs. SCHAEFER regained consciousness.
Mrs. SCHAEFER and her two children are being cared for by neighbors until her
husband can be found.
FIENDS GIVE PARTY FOR MISS CRAFT
A surprise party was given to Dorothy CRAFT, of 107-33 Eighty-eighth street,
Ozone Park, at the clubrooms, 9108 Liberty avenue, recently. The hall was
artistically decorated in pink and green. Dancing and games were enjoyed
until after midnight, followed by refreshments.
The balloon dance prize was won by Mr. and Mrs. J. QUINN,
the clothes-pin game ladies prize won by
Misses M. UTRECHT and M. SPAMMER and
the men's prize,
W. TEAS and H. WINKLE.
Dorothy received a number of presents.
Among those present were
Mr. and Mrs. G. CRAFT,
Dorothy CRAFT,
Mr. and Mrs. W. TEAS,
Mr. and Mrs. D. SMITH,
Mr. and Mrs. H. WINKLE,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed VAN PELT,
Mr. and Mrs. J. QUINN,
Mrs. H. BURNS,
Mrs. F. SALEMBIER,
Misses G. QUINN,
M. SPAMMER,
M. UTRECHT,
M. HERN,
M. FREY,
E. ACTENBURG,
B. NEWCOMB,
A. LEWIS,
B. KELLER,
M. BRAMBOLD,
E. CANZER,
T. GALLAGHER,
E. ATHERTON,
R. HANDELMAN,
V. PRESSLER,
MAE MICHELL,
Mrs. L. GHARADI,
N. MILDENBERGER, Jr.,
J. GUNDERMAN,
R. SEELEY,
F. SCHWEITZER,
M. DOKKE,
W. ROSSBACK,
F. MAIER,
A. GHARDDI,
E. HALL,
W. MEADE and S. MEADE.
26 March 1931
HANDY LIFESAVER REVIVES GIRL, 21
Edith GALLAGHER, 21, of 7709 Fourth avenue, owes her life to the fact that a
resuscitation instructor for the New York Edison Company lives in the
apartment below her.
Early today, Miss GALLAGHER was overcome by gas fumes when a jet on the
kitchen gas range became accidentally opened. A neighbor detected the odor of
gas and shouted for help.
Richard BROWN, 32, who lives on the floor below, was awakened. He broke into
Miss GALLAGHER's apartment ad applying artificial respiration, revived her
before the arrival of an ambulance surgeon from Norwegian Hospital. BROWN
teaches life-saving in the transportation office of the Edison Company at
Forty-first street and First avenue, Manhattan.
27 March 1931
POOR TO RECEIVE CARTONS OF FOOD
The Mayor's Official Committee for the relief of the needy and unemployed
will make another distribution today of 40,000 cartons of food. Of this
number 6,000 will be specially prepared Passover allotments to be distributed
to Jewish families.
Three weeks ago the police canvassed the poorer families in all precincts of
the city and made up lists of those families who observe the strict dietary
laws of the Jewish religion.
With the assistance of Rabbi Isidore FRANK, chaplain of the New York Police
Department, the special cartons were made up of the following commodities;
Matzoths, matzoth meal, beets, vegetable fat, eggs, potatoes, onions, prunes,
coffee and cornstarch.
The Mayor's committee yesterday forwarded to the police for delivery 231
checks for family relief amounting to $4,702. The total amount of family
relief granted to date by the Mayor's Committee is $125,446. This figure does
not include fuel, clothing or food.
FAVORS PHYSICAL TESTS TO MARRY
Dr. Thomas NEAFSEY, president of the Gridiron Club of Flushing, speaking to
the Jamaica Kiwanis Club in the Central Queens Branch, Y. M. C. A., Jamaica,
advocated the plan to force men and women to take physical examinations prior
to marriage. He declared that the tests would bring about a healthier nation
as well as lower the number of divorces and separations.
Nicholas M. PETTE and Robert S. GIRLING were named to arrange the fourth
annual dinner and dance of the Kiwanians, to be held April 16 at the Queens
Valley Golf Club in Flushing. Jack MURRAY presided.
"SPLINTER ACCIDENTS TAKE HEAVIEST TOLL
Washington, March 27 - Over $350,000 was paid in New York State alone for injury
compensation due to splinters for the year ending June 30, 1929, according to the
Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor.
These splinter accidents, the bureau says, run from the most trivial cases to the
most serious, ending in death. Most splinters, the bureau continues, make a wound
which the ordinary layman cannot treat properly with antiseptics, and as a result
82 per cent become infected, in contrast to 13 per cent of all other injuries
demanding compensation."
AMNESIA VICTIM
Patrolman James O'NEIL, of Coney Island station, saw a woman standing at
Coney Island Creek near Stillwell avenue early today. When she couldn't give
a satisfactory account of herself she was taken to the police station and
later to Kings County Hospital where it was said that she was apparently an
amnesia victim. She is about fifty years old, five feet eight inches tall and
weighs 155 pounds.
INJURED BY AUTO
Harry RINZLER, 17, of 190 East Second street, Manhattan, was crossing
Broadway at Rodney street, when he was struck by an automobile operated by
Peter MIGNANGNA, of 1757 Sedlon street, Queens. He was taken to St.
Catherine's Hospital suffering from contusions, abrasions and possible
internal injuries.
OLD GREENPOINTERS
The annual beefsteak party of the Old Greenpointers will be held on April 18
at the headquarters, 138 Nassau avenue. Richard WRIGHT heads the
entertainment committee.
AMBULANCE DRIVER INJURED IN CRASH
Edgar LEACH, 31, of 109-59 119th street, Richmond Hill, driver of Jamaica
Hospital ambulance, sustained several fractured ribs last night when the
ambulance collided with an automobile driven by Richard WATTS, 179-23 142nd
street, Springfield, at Sunrise highway and Farmers avenue, Springfield.
LEACH was treated by Dr. WELB, the ambulance surgeon, and taken home.
28 March 1931
BURNING CARS TRAP 4 AFTER BEDFORD CRASH
Driver of Hired Auto in Hospital with Fractured Skull
John MARINE, 25, OF 84-30 102nd road, is in critical condition today in Kings
County Hospital as the result of an automobile crash in which two machines
were interlocked and then caught fire, trapping the four occupants. All but
MARINE escaped with minor injuries. Besides serious burns MARINE received a
fractured skull and severe cuts about the face and body.
According to police reports MARINE was driving a rented car with his friend,
Morris RUSKIN, 20 of 220 East Broadway, Manhattan, as a passenger, going
north on Tompkins avenue. At Hancock street they collided with a taxicab
driven by Fred BLOSSFIELD, 49, of 608 Sixth avenue, who had as a passenger,
Miss Rose FAGAN, 27, of 389 Madison street.
In the collision, the cars interlocked and dragged each other over the
pavement and into the front of a grocery store owned by William PUNTZ at 408
Tompkins avenue. The front of the store was demolished.
After the crash, the rented car caught fire and the occupants of both cars
were trapped in the flames, the doors of the cars jamming when they hit the
building. Sergeant Patrick O'SHEA and Patrolman William HANNEMAN, of the Gate
avenue station directed other passerby's in freeing the occupants.
Dr. HENDRICK of St. John's Hospital treated the injured and sent MARINE to
the hospital.
COP BAITER, FLASHING GUN, SELECTS the WRONG VICTIM
Bad Man thrown for Loss - Lands in Jail.
James RICHARDSON, 67, of 288 Linden boulevard walked up to Patrolman James
LEEN, of Classon avenue station at Myrtle avenue and Navy street early today,
and said, "I don't like cops."
"Why, what's the matter?", asked LEEN.
"Aw, I'm going to kill you." RICHARDSON is said to have replied.
LEEN retorted with an "Oh, yeah?" or its equivalent, and the two broke into a
wrestling match, with the policeman finally the winner, RICHARDSON was taken
to Classon avenue station and booked on charges of felonious assault and
possession of a .25 calibre revolver, which will be answered before
magistrate MAGUIRE in Gates avenue court today.
Lieut, KEEFE, of Classon avenue station, asked RICHARDSON why he singled out
cops as the special object of his wrath.
"Aw, I don't know, " replied RICHARDSON, "but copes always made my life
miserable to me years ago, and now I'm trying to get even with them."
Whether the score is even or not, however, depends on the point of view.
FEMALE THIGH FOUND ON SPAN BY AUTO DRIVER
Newspaper Wrappings Give Only Clue to Gruesome Crime
Finding of the thigh of a woman on the south roadway of Willimsburg Bridge at
midnight gave the police of the borough and the city of a new mystery, sordid
and brutal, and sent every available detective and patrolman searching the
vicinity of the bridge for the body.
In seeking a solution of the murder, a theory decided upon after the County
Medical Examiner decided that it was no hoax of a medical student, the Marine
Division of the Police Department grappled the waters of the East River near
the bridge.
While there was speculation that the murdered woman, whoever she might be,
had been done away with because of possible connection with the vice
investigation, none of the higher officials would make any comment. They were
concerned with checking up on the few clues that would lead further to
ascertaining the woman's identity.
WRAPPED IN NEWSPAPER
Dr. Manuel E. MARTEN, deputy chief county medical examiner, gave it as his
opinion that the thigh had had life within forty-eight hours. And with this
statement the detectives went to work, since medical students do not receive
bodies for dissection until they have been dead for a considerably longer
period.
The most tangible clues were two bloodstained portions of a newspaper - the
New York Evening Journal, dated March 21 and Feb. 4. These were found by
Detective Raymond STUDEWELL, of Bedford avenue station, on the centre roadway
between the trolley tracks. The paper was blood soaked and immediately was
probed for finger prints.
On the basis of his investigations, Dr. MUSSETTE, of Greenpoint Hospital,
first called by Motorcycle Patrolman of Squad 2 after John DAIZ, a
demonstrator, of 6408 Prospect avenue, had found the gruesome object, decided
the woman must have been five feet five inches tall; weighing 135 pounds and
about thirty-five years of age.
There were no distinguishing marks on the thigh, about two feet long,
constituting that part of the left leg between the knee and the stomach, but
it was quickly ascertained that whoever had done the job became impatient
after making clearly defined cleavage. Then the thigh had been ripped from
the remainder of the body.
The object was found by DAIZ while he was driving his car on his way home to
Ridgewood. He was about 100 feet from New street, on the bridge when he
looked at what he thought was a fresh ham. On closer examination he saw that
the object was of human flesh torn and cut and bleeding. In a few moments
after he had notified the police, Assistant Chief Inspector John SULLIVAN had
driven from Manhattan, Captain George BISHOP, in charge of Brooklyn, was on
the job, so were Captain Daniel CAREY of Bedford avenue station detectives
and Captain Ray HONAN, of the Homicide squad.
Powerful searchlights of police emergency trucks lighted up the bridge for a
hundred yards on either side of where the object was first discovered. There
were no results until Detective STUDEWELL found the newspapers, but in the
meantime Capt. HONAN had put a squad of men to work coming streets, alleys,
backyards and roofs under the bridge.
As the draw broke the police tried to learn if any automobilists had been
seen attempting to throw a package over the side of the bridge. It was
thought that whoever threw out the thigh from a car meant it to go over the
rail into the river, but was frustrated when it struck the rail or some other
part of the bridge.
The blood-stained object was first taken to Bedford avenue station and then
to the county morgue where all possible tests were made. Working on the
outside, the detectives called in every B. M. T. motorman working on the main
division over the bridge who had operated a train or car between the hours of
10 and 12 midnight to learn if they had seen anything unusual.
30 March 1931
POLICE SEEK BREAK OF BANDIT GANG
With the arrest today of Calvin AUSTIN, 32, of 2075 Morris avenue, the Bronx,
Queens police hope soon to have in custody the bandit gang that entered the
home of Dr. Edmund J. BIGALL, Hollis dentist, and escaped with cash jewelry.
AUSTIN was arrested after Mrs. Julia BIGALL, the dentist's bride, identified
a picture of him as the man who slugged her husband over the head with a
revolver after he dived through a window.
At the time of the robbery, last Thursday, it was reported that the bandits,
led by two women, burned the dentist's feet in an effort to make him tell
where other cash and valuables were hidden in the house. Since then Dr.
BIGALL has denied this, saying that only the three men entered the house and
that the two women stayed out in the automobile. The BIGALL home is at 88-20
195th place, Hollis.
YOUTH STABBED IN STREET FIGHT
Frank SMITH, 20, of 251 Wyckoff street, was severely cut on the face and neck
early today in a dispute with an unidentified man on the street in front of
664 Baltic street.
As his assailant ran, SMITH shouted for help, but the man had disappeared
when policemen arrived. Dr. HOCHBERG of Holy Family Hospital treated SMITH
and then took him to the hospital. Detective Joseph WALKER of Bergen street
station was given a description of the assailant and began a search for him.
31 March 1931
LOST IN SUBWAY
Albert MITCHEL, 9, of 273 West 138th street, Manhattan, reported missing by
his mother, was found yesterday afternoon doing a song and dance act for the
entertainment of half dozen persons on the Lorimer street station of the
Fourteenth street-Eastern District subway line of the B. M. T. He was taken
to Bergen street station by Patrolman Patrick MC LAUGHLIN.
RESIDENT HURT
While repairing a dumbwaiter in his home last night, Henry DENESS, 28, of 311
Sixty-second street, was struck in the face when the rope broke. He was
treated for lacerations of the upper lip by Dr. SABATER, of the Norwegian Hospital.
FOUND IN BORO
Five Pieces Buried on Old Broadway Ferry Site
Five hatchet-hacked pieces of a human body were found this afternoon hidden
under several pieces of wood beside the East river at the foot of Grand
street on the site of the old Grand street ferry.
They consist of a right calf, right, thigh, two arms, from shoulder to elbow,
and a section of abdomen. They all bore marks of crude workmanship having
been considerably hacked.
The arms appear to be those of a woman tending to the belief that a double
murder has been committed somewhere in the borough. This combined with the
finding of a man's torso in the Newtown Lumber Company yard yesterday morning
and the finding of a woman's thigh on the south roadway of the Williamsburg
Bridge last Friday night leads the police to believe that a man and a woman
have been murdered by some maniac who takes delight in cutting up his victims
before disposing of them.
The gruesome objects were found at 2:30 today by Frank NAPIER, 35, of 56
Metropolitan avenue fishing in the East River off the shore near Grand street
for driftwood.
NAPIER picked up two or three sticks and saw the blood soaked pieces of human
body. He notified Patrolman Jeremiah COUGHLIN, of Bedford avenue station, who
in turn called the station house for an emergency crew.
Inspector Edward QUINN took charge of the investigation and an emergency crew
from Herbert street station started grappling and digging about the site.
PATROLMAN RESCUES HEMORRHAGE VICTIM
Bleeding from his nose and in semi-unconscious state, Charles BAIRD, 23, of
151 Guernsey street, was found sitting on a stoop in front of 155 Guernsey
street by Patrolman Walters MAIRS, of Greenpoint station. After treatment by
an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital for a hemorrhage he was taken
home. There was no
evidence of violence.
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