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2 July 1931
HUSBANDS WILD IN WILLIAMSBURG
Whether it is the heat or the poor quality of liquor that is making
husbands in Williamsburg beat their wives, Magistrate DALE is unable to
understand. He insists that there are more wife-beating cases brought into
court than ever before.
Peter BELOWSKI, 37, of 121 Driggs avenue, was charged with punching his
wife, Fanny, and dragging her about by the hair. He was held in $500 for
examination today in Bridge Plaza court.
Mrs. Nellie MITCHELL, of 23 Scholes street, told the magistrate that her
husband not only refuses to work, but that he beats her, takes the money from
her that she earns by working and then puts her out of the house. He was held
in $500 bail for examination tomorrow. [Mr. MITCHELL’s first name is not given.]
CONEY CRASH INJURES FOUR
Two women and two girls were slightly injured when the concrete ceiling of
the New Stauch Bath’s steam room collapsed upon them just before closing
yesterday. Another girl was in the room, but she escaped injury.
The injured were Mrs. Anna OLIVER, 25, of 1374 Sixty-eighth street, who is
in Coney Island Hospital with lacerations of the left leg; Albina MALAKAWSKY,
14, of 49 Ten Eyck street, lacerations of the left leg; Mrs. Jenny SEMIMARA,
31, of 474 Ovington avenue, abrasions of the right arm and leg; and her
daughter, Vivan, 14, abrasions of the face and left arm. All but Mrs. OLIVER
were allowed to go home after treatment by Coney Island Ambulance surgeons.
There were numerous patrons in other parts of the bathhouse when the
accident occurred and the report was spread that several had been killed.
Police Rescue Squad was called to control the excited crowds.
6 July 1931
IRON STEAMBOAT CREW RESCUES BROOKLYN MAN FROM DEATH IN OCEAN
A Casual paragraph in the weekly report made by Captain N. B. ALLAN of the
Iron Steamboat Company’s excursion boat, Cygnus, today revealed the rescue of
a drowning man near the Coney Island bell buoy, a considerable distance
off-shore, Saturday afternoon. More than 800 passengers on the excursion boat
witnessed the rescue. Some of them saw the man, obviously in difficulties and
notified Captain ALLAN, who steamed toward him. Fifty feet from the man, a
lifeboat was launched and members of the crew of the Cygnus managed to get
hold of the man.
Today, Frederick BISHOP, President of the Iron Steamboat Company , made
public that portion of Captain ALLAN’s weekly report that referred to the
rescue. Here it is:
July 4, 3:45 P.M., delayed in docking at Coney Island ten minutes. Reason:
We stopped to pick up a man swimming off Coney Island bell buoy, taken with
cramps. Man: John ENNIS, of 403 Thirteenth street, Brooklyn. Landed him at
Coney Island Pier.
ENNIS was attended by a physician who was among the passengers on the
excursion boat and went home after he was landed on the pier.
NINE DROWN, SCORES RESCUED, IN WEEKEND ACCIDENTS HERE
Fishing Boat Capsized, Canoes Upset, Swimmers Seized by Cramps
Nine persons were drowned yesterday in New York waters and a score more
were rescued. Cramps, exhaustion and boat collisions and capsizings caused the
fatalities.
Early yesterday Henry MICCOLIS, 23, 535 East Eleventh street, Manhattan,
was drowned when a fishing boat piloted by Alphonse MARULLO, hit and capsized
their row boat off Oriental Point, Manhattan Beach. A friend, Philip PUCO, of
the same address, clung to the boat and was saved.
Later an unidentified man was seen to fall from a canoe at the same spot.
Persons on shore described him as about sixty years old, five feet eight
inches tall and wearing a grey suit.
A boy’s body was found floating in Harlem River near 207th street, the
Bronx, was identified as that of Lawrence GAFELL, 14, of 2612 Jerome avenue,
the Bronx.
Others drowned were:
John BRUNO, 24, 25 115th drive, Jamaica; while swimming with his brother
Frank off Beach Thirty-fifth street, Edgemere, taken with cramps and sank.
Walter McCARTHY, 30, 137 Fulton street, Jersey City; while swimming off the
foot of Linden avenue, Jersey City, in New York Bay.
An unidentified man, while swimming off the dock at the foot of East
Twenty-sixth street; body taken to morgue.
Domingo VALARINO, 38, 430 East Twenty-fifth street, Manhattan; disappeared
while in water off Canarsie City pier in Jamaica Bay.
Edwin STEFANOWITZ, 20, 409 East Fifty-second street, Manhattan; while
bathing in the north channel of Broad Channel, Jamaica Bay
THE RESCUES
Those rescued from drowning were:
Mrs. Florence CAPERA, 26, 430 East Twenty-fifth street; while swimming in
Jamaica Bay off the Canarsie City Pier, knocked over by the wake of small
boat; treated at Unity Hospital.
Emanuel BARNBAUM, 17, 343 Beach Thirty-first street, Edgemere , struck his
head on the bottom and received possible fracture of spine; rescued by life
guards.
Charles LANGER, 19, 107 Attorney street, Manhattan; while swimming in ocean
at foot of West Twenty-fourth, Coney Island; rescued and treated by life
guards.
Thomas De ROSA, 20, 22 Fourth place, Brooklyn; while swimming in ocean at
foot of West Nineteenth street, Coney Island; rescued by life guards.
Martha ROBERG, 11, of South Jamesport, L. I.; while swimming with her
mother, Mrs. Hugo ROBERG, in Peconic Bay off Riverhead; rescued by other
bathers and treated on shore.
Irving LAURESS, 25, 514 West 114th street, Manhattan; while bathing in the
ocean at Beach 117th street Rockaway Park; treated at Rockaway Beach Hospital.
Frank MEYERS, 22, 202 West Seventy-ninth street, Manhattan; while swimming
off Beach Ninetieth street, Rockaway Beach, thrown against a jetty by the
waves and received injury to spine; rescued by guards and removed to Rockaway
Beach Hospital.
Lena FRIELMAN, 28, 152 Pobscoit street, Brooklyn; while bathing off Beach
Ninety-first street, Rockaway Beach, was knocked down by waves, rescued by
guards and treated for submersion and shock at the Rockaway Beach Hospital.
8 July 1931
THREE MEN HELD ACCUSED OF ABDUCTING TWO SISTERS
Girls Tell Story of Being Kept Prisoners in Apartment
Three men were in Adams street court today charged with abducting two
sisters, thirteen and fourteen years old. The three are Ralph SANTIEGO, 32, of
1765 Madison avenue, Manhattan, Spanish pugilist; Caesar TYRO, 25, of 157
Columbia street, South American laborer, and Edward RUIZ, 23, of Van Brunt
street, Porto Rican laborer.
The men were arrested by Detective William T. COX of the Missing Persons
Bureau, on complaint of the two sisters, Josephine and Anna GUERINE, 13 and
14, respectively, of 38 Sackett street. Their alleged abductors had frequented
the restaurant of their father, John, at 109 Sackett street and had there made
the acquaintance of the two young girls.
On June 30, the girls were at their home when three men forced them into a
taxi, the girls claim, and took them to an apartment they had previously
rented at 86 West 109th street apartment and the sisters were found. They were
taken to the Children’s Society where they remained today.
They were taken to Adams street court before Magistrate WALSH, who fixed
their bail at $5,000 each and adjourned the case until Friday morning.
Nicholas MORATA, agent for the Children’s Society, asked that bail be fixed as
high as possible.
The three alleged kidnappers had continued to frequent the restaurant of
John GUERINE even after the abduction of his daughters.
TROLLEY CRASH AT OPEN SWITCH INJURES FOUR
Flatbush Avenue Mishap Third in Twenty-four Hours
Four persons were injured and sixteen were shaken up in the third trolley
crash in twenty-four hours when an eastbound Flatbush avenue car ran into an
open switch at Avenue N and East Fiftieth street and collided with a westbound
car at noon today.
The injured persons were Gertrude ALWILL, 20, of 5315 Avenue N, who
suffered cut lips from flying glass; Luke COSTELLO, 26, 5413 Avenue N, who
suffered injuries to both shoulders when thrown against the seat by the
impact; Joseph HASSETT, 37, of 2017 East Seventy-second street, who suffered a
slight spinal dislocation and George W. GALLAKSE, 35, of 1354 East
Sixty-fourth street, who suffered cuts and bruises.
They were treated by Dr. ARRISON of Kings County Hospital and allowed to go
home.
Although both cars’ vestibules were considerably smashed, neither Joseph
TREMBLEY of 2121 Utica avenue, the eastbound car’s motorman, nor John GILBA,
of 280 Cooper street, the westbound car’s motorman, was injured.
Investigations are under way today of two serious trolley crashes that
occurred in the borough yesterday. The accidents involved three trolleys and a
total of nineteen injured in the two mishaps, seven of whom were taken to
hospitals.
Two Flatbush avenue cars, southbound and northbound, crashed head-on at
Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, when one split a switch. The poorly functioning
switch turned the car east into Atlantic avenue, where it met the northbound
car head-on, demolishing the front of both cars.
BOTH MOTORMEN HURT
Thirteen were injured, including the motormen of both trolleys and eleven
passengers. Samuel SCHUMSKY, of the northbound car, suffered a severed artery
of the right wrist. He was found immediately after the accident by Patrolman
James J. McGARRY, wandering around looking for a surgeon to stop the flow of
blood. McGARRY made a tourniquet of the cord from his night stick and stopped
any further loss, which might have been serious.
He then assisted the passengers from the smashed trolleys with the help of
other police who had hurried to the scene on hearing the crash. Patrolmen were
sent from Bergen street station, an emergency crew arrived and ambulances from
Holy Family and Jewish Hospitals were summoned.
THREE IN HOSPITALS
Most of the injured were treated on the scene, but three who suffered
severe injuries were taken to Jewish Hospital. They were:
SAMUEL SCHUMSKY, of 112 East Ninety-fifty street, motorman of the northbound
Flatbush avenue car; mangled right wrist.
MARY HAND, 28 years old, of 234 Foster avenue, possible fracture of the spine.
JOHN MOLINARI, 43, of 359 East Twenty-second street, possible fracture of the skull.
While a wrecking crew was working to get the two cars back on the tracks,
the following less seriously injured were treated on the scene for cuts and
bruises:
Beulah SIMMONS, 33, of 14 Monroe place.
Mrs. Bridget LUNDY, 47, of 461 State street.
James LUNDY, 48, her husband.
P.H. SOMERS, 35, of 107 Willow place.
Anthony SMITH, 52, of 2714 Bedford avenue.
Thomas DIAB, 28, of 546 Dean street.
Ida ANDERSON, 46, of 229 Sixty-ninth street.
Lillian WOLSTER, 35, of 829 Fifty-fourth street.
Frank LENKO, 58, of 5 Lincoln place.
The other smash which is being investigated today occurred when a B.M.T.
Putnam avenue trolley jumped the track at the curve at Putnam and Nostrand
avenues yesterday afternoon, rolled across the street and sidewalk and buried
itself in the Weiner Drug Store at 401 Nostrand avenue.
GIRL ABDUCTION SUSPECT SEIZED
Magistrate ELLPERIN in Coney Island Court today held Carmello De PAOLO, 19,
of 194 Avenue U, a chauffeur, in $5,000 bail for a hearing next Tuesday on a
charge of abducting Bessie De LELLO, 15, of 2054 West Fourth street on July 1.
It is said he took her to Connecticut and other places.
He was arrested last night after having collided with another car in Bath
Beach. Detectives BUCKLEY and FARRELL of the Bath Beach station questioned him
about the accident, noticed the De LILLO girl with him, recognized her from a
description and arrested the youth.
THROWN OFF PORCH, WIFE’S ACCUSATION
John J. BARRY, 33, was in Fifth avenue court today on a felonious assault
charge preferred by his wife, Bridget, who charges him with throwing her off
the front porch of their home at 135 Twenty-third street, early today. She is
in Holy Family Hospital in serious condition with severe head injuries.
BARRY was held without bail for a hearing July 16.
BOY, 9, IS STRUCK BY SUBWAY FAN
Henry McGRATH, 9, of 1156 Jefferson avenue, suffered deep scalp lacerations
today when a fan blade struck his head as he climbed a stanchion to the
ceiling of a Manhattan-bound Fourteenth street subway car.
The train was at Bushwick avenue and Grand street when the accident
occurred, and he was taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital where his condition was
said to be not serious.
FATHER AND SON ACCUSED BY COP
Harry VEROBA, 40, of 216 Floyd street, and his son Isadore, 19, were
paroled by Magistrate RUDICH in Bridge Plaza Court for a hearing today.
It is alleged the father hit Patrolman William UHL of Clymer street station
on the left thumb when he placed him under arrest. The son is charged with
interfering with the arrest.
EVELYN WILSON MYSTERIOUSLY RETURNS HOME
Missing Show Girl Hails Taxi at Midnight on Upper Broadway
A three day search for Evelyn WILSON, show girl, believed by her mother to
have been kidnapped or killed, ended today when it was learned the girl had
returned to her home at 316 West Seventy-second street Manhattan, a few
minutes before midnight as mysteriously as she had vanished.
Detectives who have sought her ever since her disappearance after a party
Sunday went to her apartment to question her, but were prevented from doing so
by Dr. Samuel MARTON, who said the girl was in a highly nervous condition and
could not be interviewed until she had slept.
Elwood BROWN, taxi driver, said the girl hailed his cab at 175th street and
Broadway and he drove to her home. He said he did not know who she until
afterward.
The showgirl was attending a birthday party at the home her sister, Mrs.
Beatrice CARDINELLA, Saturday night. Shortly after midnight her mother
complained of a headache and the girl said she would go to a drugstore for
some tablets. The last person who reported seeing her was the elevator
operator.
Her black silk purse was found in the gutter in front of the building. It
contained $5, cosmetics and an address book. Her mother reported Miss WILSON
thought she was being followed by two men after she withdrew $2,000 from a bank.
10 July 1931
BROOKLYN GIRL HONOR WINNER
Three first prizes each of $20 in gold and three second prizes each of $10
in gold, with ten honorable mentions, were awarded to students who made the
best records for the 1931 graduating class of the School of Secretarial
Practice of Pace Institute, 225 Broadway, Manhattan at the graduation
exercises at the Machinery Club, 50 Church street.
The winners of the $20 prizes were:
Miss Dorothea HOFSTAD of 1715 Seventy-fifty street, Brooklyn, who made the
highest record on her final examinations for the four semesters, 95.5%
a Pace Institute prize, awarded by Frederick M. SCHAEBERLE, head of the
administrative staff.
C. Moore CUBBAGE, of 308 West 109th street, Manhattan, who made the best
general performance as a student, based on attendance, punctuality, final
examinations, class average and student activities, a Pace Secretarial Society
prize, presented by the president, Ronald Stevens BREESE.
Miss Beatrice Rosalie KEELY, of 98 St. Marks place, Staten Island, who had
the best attendance and punctuality record for the four semesters, having been
present at every session and with but one tardiness charged against her. This
was a Pace Institute prize and was presented by Miss Alice OTTUN, director of
the School of Secretarial Practice.
The winners of the second prizes of $10 each were:
C. Moore CUBBAGE, second highest in the final examination averages, 94%
Miss Lillian M. BREGARTNER of 8609 Eighty-eighth avenue, Woodhaven, for the
second highest student record.
Miss GREGARTNER [as written in the article] also won the second prize of
$10 in gold for the second best punctuality and attendance record for the four semesters.
11 July 1931
BEATEN IN QUARREL AT SANDS AND PEARL
An altercation at Sands and Pearl streets at 4 A.M. today led to an attack
on John McGUIRE, 24, of 873 Bergen street, by several men. He was struck on
the head with a blunt instrument and suffered scalp bruises and a compound
fracture of the right arm. Dr. TALMADGE took him to Cumberland Hospital.
SCALDING FATAL TO 7 YEAR OLD
From burns received when his uncle’s pushcart turned over and drench him in
boiling water, seven year old Lawrence LIGGIE, of 116 Stryker street, died in
Coney Island Hospital late last night.
The accident occurred Thursday when the little boy’s uncle Nicholas PIAZZA,
of 118 Stryker street, told him he might have a hot dog. The boy tried to take
one by himself from the pushcart, which was parked in front of the older man’s
home, and in reaching for it he overturned the cart and the boiling water
spilled and burned him about the body.
12 July 1931
VETERAN FREED ON ALMS CHARGE
When John KOUTHER, 41, of 408 East Sixth street, Manhattan, a cripple, was
taken into the Bridge Plaza Court yesterday charged with soliciting alms on
the Bedford avenue station of the Fourteenth street subway, he admitted the charge.
'But what am I to do?" he asked Magistrate RUDICH. 'I fought in the war. I
am out of a job. I have a family. People get tired helping you. I must get
money some way to save myself and my family from starving."
The magistrate said he was sorry for him and, advising KOUTHER, to get in
touch with a welfare society, suspended the sentence.
LIGHTED CIGARETTE SETS YOUTH ABLAZE
While visiting the home of Joseph COYLE at 255 Eckford street early today,
Thomas BUCHANAN, 13, of 728 Lenox street, fell asleep on a couch with a
lighted cigarette hanging from his lips. The cigarette dropped to the couch
and ignited his clothes and BUCHANAN awoke to find COYLE and several friends
beating his clothes to extinguish the flames. He was treated for burns on the
right side of his body and arm by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint
hospital, and then was able to go home.
COP SHOT IN UNDERTAKER SHOP; COMPANIONS TELL OF HOLDUP
Empty Beer Containers and Shells Found by Investigators
Patrolman John HOWELLS, attached to Traffic Squad O, was shot through the
abdomen early today while he was in the company of a group of men in a room at
the rear of the undertaking shop of Dennis KENNEDY at 5723 Roosevelt avenue,
Woodside. He was taken to St. John’s Hospital, Long Island City where it was
said his condition was critical.
Detectives who questioned the men that were with HOWELLS said these men
told them two holdup men had entered the shop early this morning, pointed guns
at the group and demanded money. HOWELS had placed his service pistol in its
holster on a table, they said. As he reached for the weapon, one of the holdup
men shot him, according to his companions.
Police officials began an inquiry and inspected the rear room where they
said they found a number of pasteboard beer containers. Two empty .38 calibre
shells were found in the basement where detectives said they had apparently
been thrown through a trap door in the floor of the rear room of the shop upstairs.
While the investigation was underway, however, a general alarm was sent out
for two men described by HOWELLS’ companions as the holdup men. These were
young men, dark complexioned, who wore caps and dark suits.
13 July 1931
BABY BORN IN CONEY STORE
Stork Surprises Mrs. Marie ARMSTRONG With Lusty Seven-Pound Boy
The stork payed a visit to Mrs. Marie ARMSTRONG, 24, of 316 Sea Breeze
avenue, as she was in the street, at Sea Breeze avenue and West Third street,
Coney Island yesterday afternoon.
She was observed leaning against a tree by a group of men and women. One of
the women inquired if there was anything wrong and Mrs. Armstrong whispered to
her. She was carried into a room in the rear of a confectionery store at 3015
West Third street. Ambulance Surgeon William WOLINSKY responded to the call.
While he was treating the woman, the ambulance driver, James LAMPMAN,
scoured the neighborhood for a blanket and apparel for the new-born youngster,
a lusty-lunged seven-pound boy. LAMPMAN succeeded in getting the desired
articles, and the mother and infant were taken to Coney Island Hospital.
15 July 1931
TWELVE BITTEN BY DOGS AS AFTERMATH OF HEAT
Twelve persons were bitten last night and today by dogs affected by the hot
weather, according to police, who say this is the largest number of any one
day this year. Most of those bitten were children, and none of the bites was
serious. All of the dogs, but the strays, which escaped were turned over to
the Health Department for examination.
Those bitten were:
Francis ROBINSON, 13, of 1428 East Second street; bitten on the stomach in her
home by a relative’s dog.
Louis SEINSTEIN, 37, 1859 East Ninth street, bitten on the left thigh by a dog
owned by Lena JACOBSON of 1857 East Ninth street.
Ida POLICARG, 9, of 2718 East Twelfth street, bitten on both arms by a stray dog.
Genevieve BALREZO, 6, of 232 Twenty-second street, bitten by a dog owned by
Teresa GORSE of 226 Twenty-second street.
Emily CASSELLA, 6, of 18 Judge street, bitten on the legs by a dog owned by M.
FESLER, of 22 Judge street.
Sylvia MANDELL, 7, of 566 Osborn street, bitten on the legs by a stray dog.
Milton BLEUMSTEIN, 13 of 58 Bush court; bitten on the legs by a dog owned by
Jacob SCHWARTZ, of 54 Breyer court.
Beatrice ARONSON, 17, of 60 Clarkson street, bitten on the legs by a dog owned
by Harry DAVIS of 971 Lincoln place.
Frederick KANARD, 14, 332 Nassau avenue, bitten on the legs by a stray dog.
Mike CAMTAGNA, 7, of 448 Henry street, bitten on the left chest by his own dog.
Harry CHAREST, 10, of 480 Myrtle avenue, bitten on both arms by a stray dog.
Annette BELL, 9, of 660 Howard avenue, bitten on the nose by her mother’s dog.
17 July 1931
MAN, WIFE AND SON DRUNK TOGETHER
Mrs. Catherine REID, 55, of 249 Kent street; her husband, Alexander, 56,
and their son, Alexander, Jr., 36, were to have a hearing in Bridge Plaza
court before Magistrate FOLWELL today on charges of intoxication.
Patrolman Robert PATTERSON, of Greenpoint station, said he found them gaily
singing in front of their home and dancing late last night, and when he told
them to go inside and behave themselves, they pushed him into the gutter and
told him to 'mind his own business.'
OLD NEWSPAPER FOUND
Herkimer, N.Y., July 17 (UP)
A newspaper published ninety-nine years ago was found between the brick
partitions of a house owned by William H. DAVIES.
The paper, the 'Republican Farmers’ Free Press,' was published
July 11, 1832 in Herkimer.
18 July 1931
Vacation Personals
Miss Isobel RICE, Mrs. W. LIEDEL are among the Brooklynites at Jasper Park
Lodge in Jasper, Alberta, and at Minaki, Ontario, are Mr. and Mrs. A. DAWDELL.
Howard KRAMER of Glenwood road, Brooklyn, was the guest last weekend of
John N. HARMON, Jr., at Bayport.
Mr. and Mrs. William LeRoy KNOLLE, of 90 Eighth avenue, announce the birth
of a daughter, June Milicent KNOLLE, yesterday at the Brooklyn Hospital. Mrs.
KNOLLE is the former Betty RITTER, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur RITTER, of
Scarsdale, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold ROSS and their daughter of Chicago are visiting Mr.
ROSS’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ROSS, of 469 Eighth street.
Mrs. Montgomery BLAIR, Charles Woodbury BLAIR and Mrs. Robert C. BROOKE, of
East Hampton, L. I., are at the Weylin, Manhattan.
Mrs. Raymond J. SCHWEITZER, of Southampton, L. I., is at the Westbury, Manhattan.
Miss Zella De MILHAU, of Southampton, L. I., has gone with her guest, Miss
Mollie LAWTON, to Pirate Cove, her camp in Montauk, L.I.
Mrs. G. Waring STEBBINS and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth W. STEBBINS, of
1171 Dean street, and Miss STEBBINS’ fiance, Michael PUYANS, have returned
from a week spent with Mr. and Mrs. Gould STEBBINS at Stamford, Conn.
Miss Anne V. B. SEAMAN and Miss Mary L. SEAMAN, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles F. SEAMAN of 12 Fiske place, will sail the latter part of the month on
the liner Britannic for a short stay in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin deT.
BECHTEL are aboard the liner Berengaria for an extended trip abroad. Mrs.
BECHTEL is the former Miss Louise H. SEAMAN.
Mrs. Charles KELLOGG BRUMLEY, Jr., of Rockville Centre, L. I., and formerly
of Brooklyn, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter GLADDING, at their
summer home at Douglas, Maine.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. HADDEN, formerly of Brooklyn, have sailed on the
Berengaria. They will return to their apartment at the Plaza in October.
Wilbur M. ALLING, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Merwin ALLING of
Plainfield, N.J., and Westhampton Beach, gave a supper party aboard the ALLING
yacht, Estelle II.
Miss Evelyn WHIPPLE of 3421 Clarendon road is registered at the Edgewater
Beach Hotel on the North Shore at Chicago, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford HIBBARD of Manhattan, formerly of Brooklyn, have been the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Byron BRITTON MAY at their country home at Westport,Conn.
Miss Roselle MERDER MONTGOMERY, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Seymour
MONTGOMERY of Riverside, Conn., formerly of Brooklyn Heights, has been the
guest of Miss Adele NEWHOUSE at Central Valley, N.Y.
The Misses Jessie and Mary BALDWIN of 12 St. James place are at the Sunset
Hill House, Sugar Hill, N. H.
Mrs. W.W. OWENS of 289 Clinton avenue and her granddaughter, Miss Marion
OWENS, have arrived in Los Angeles, Cal., where they will spend the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Oakley LOHRKE of 18 Kensington road, Garden City, L.I. and
their small daughter Martha, left Friday for Nantucket, Mass., to be guests of
Mr. LOHRKE’S mother until Wednesday when they will motor to Canada. They will
return to Garden City on Aug. 2.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. George P. ATWATER and their daughter, Miss Mary
ATWATER, of the Hotel Margaret, have departed for North Conway, N. H. where
they will spend the remainder of the summer. They will return Oct. 1.
Mrs. Alvin BOODY of 187 Berkeley place and Shelter Island Heights, L. I.,
is spending this week at Westhampton Beach, the guest of Mrs. Charles A. BOODY
at her Oneck Point home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. HARRISON of 2 Grace court are at Amenia, Duchess
County, N.Y., for the weekend, where they will be the guests of Mr. HARRISON’S
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John SACKETT.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Fleetwood DUNSTON and their son, E. Fleetwood DUNSTON, Jr.,
of 2 Grace court, will leave Aug. 1 for Franconia, N. H., where they will
spend a month.
Frank T. WEST, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Thornton WEST of Norfolk, Va.,
has taken an apartment at 122 Willow street. Mr. WEST, who is a nephew of Mrs.
Robert O. DEYER of 200 Hicks street, will be the weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs.
C. S. THOMSON at Three Chimneys Harbor Acres, Port Washington, L. I.
Miss Edith BURTIS is visiting Miss Alice MORSE at her country estate [No
more of the article available.]
SLOT MACHINE DECISION TEST IN CONEY RAID
Court Holds Store Owner After Detective Has Checks Redeemed
Despite the fact that possession and operation of slot machines of the
Triangle Mint Corporation have been upheld by a decision of the Court of
Appeals, Jacob HOCHBERG, 48, owner of a candy and stationary store at 7622
Seventeenth avenue, was arrested yesterday on a charge of alleged illegal
possession of such a machine.
Taken into custody by Detective Thomas O’BRIEN, of the inspector’s staff,
HOCHBERG pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Curtis in Coney Island court and
was held in $300 bail for a hearing Aug. 4.
O’BRIEN alleged that he played the slot machine in HOCHBERG’s store and
received three 'checks' for the nickel he inserted in it. He maintained that
the 'checks' had a cash value, inasmuch as he exchanged them for fifteen cents
worth of merchandise.
The machine in question was supplied by the Triangle Mint Corporation of 16
Court street, late last week, following a decision of the Court of Appeals
holding them legal unless evidence was presented that they had been played for
money, things of money value or in exchange for merchandise. The decision was
followed by an announcement by Leo P. BYK, president of the company
distributing the machines to the effect that he planned to distribute 500
machines throughout the borough over the weekend.
20 July 1931
PAPA JOE
Detective Joseph MEENAHAN, of Clymer street station, has been presented with
a ten-pound baby girl by his wife. He reports both are doing well. His
associates are no calling him "Papa Joe", for the new arrival makes the
sleuth's third child. Just before Christmas MEENAHAN was shot in the right
leg by one of five bandits he was questioning. Four escaped, but he caught
the man who shot him.
REJECTED YOUTH CAN’T DROWN HIS SORROWS OR HIMSELF
Liquor and Water Both Fail-Court Shows Leniency
John WILSON, 18, had a sad tale to tell when arraigned before Magistrate
HAUBERT in Bridge Plaza Court today on a charge of public intoxication.
WILSON is an orphan and lives alone at 345 Berry street. Recently, he told
the magistrate, his girl gave him what in certain circles is known as "the
air." This caused him to become despondent and he decided, he said, to drown
his sorrows in liquor.
He had never before taken a drink, but he had heard that alcoholic
beverabes were hihlyg efficatious as forgetters. So he visited a couple of
speakeasies and imbibed-and then waited patiently for his memories to drop
away from him.
Instead the memories intensified, and WILSON decided that life wasn’t worth
living at all. So he went down to the dock at the foot of South Fifth street
and threw himself into the East River, he told the magistrate.
But this also had its disadvantages. The was was cold. Wilson’s clothes
were heavy on him and he found he couldn’t swim. He let out a yell for help.
Patrolman Lester FINK of the Bedford avenue station heard the yell, dived in
and brought out WILSON. This was last night. WILSON spent the night at the
stationhouse and this morning found himself accused of public drunkenness by
Patrolman FINK. But the magistrate, when heard the story, suspended sentence.
WOMAN HELD AS PISTOL OWNER
Magistrate HUGHES in Fifth avenue court today ruled a pistol is a pistol,
whether it has an extension barrel making it a rifle, or not, and held
Katherine MANZI, 25, of 150 President street in $500 bail for Special Sessions
on a Sullivan law violation charge.
Police had gone to Miss MANBI’s home last night on information that a
brother, just out of Sing Sing, had a gun there and they found a .22 calibre
automatic pistol. Miss MANZI said it was hers and was arrested.
When arraigned today she showed Magistrate Hughes an extension barrel and
argued that with that attached , the pistol was really a rifle. The magistrate
said it was still a pistol, however, and useable as a concealed weapon without
the extension.
BOY SHOOTS SELF, FATHER ARRESTED
Being the owner of a blank cartridge pistol has caused Frank WERNER, 39, of
143 Scholes street, much worry. He was held in $500 bail for the Court of
Special Sessions Saturday by Magistrate LIOTA in Bridge Plaza Court for
violation of the Sullivan law.
WERNER’S son Frank, Jr., 9, got possession of the weapon and accidentally
discharged it. The boy was injured in the left hip. The father’s arrest followed.
LEAPS INTO RIVER, THEN CALLS HELP
Announcing that everybody was against him, John WILSON, 18 of 345 Berry
street, attempted suicide early today by jumping into the East River at the
foot of South Fifth street, according to police.
He was rescued by Patrolman Lester FINK of the Bedford avenue station, who
promptly arrested him for being intoxicated. He was arraigned before
Magistrate HAUBERT in Bridge Plaza Court today and he said he had had an
argument with a girl last night and had been drinking from the time he left
her house until he jumped in the river.
The water sobered him, he said, and he regretted his despondency, but found
he was unable to swim and shouted for help. Magistrate HAUBERT suspended sentence.
FLUNG FROM AUTO, GIRL NEAR DEATH
Lillian CASSIDY, 22, of 47 Taylor street, is in Jamaica Hospital suffering
from a possible fractured skull she sustained early today when she either fell
or was pushed from an automobile on the Cross Bay boulevard near 157th avenue,
Howard Beach.
Late reports from the hospital stated that the girl had not regained
consciousness since the accident and that her condition is serious.
Robert KAHL of 2517 Putnam avenue, Ridgewood, was closing his miniature
golf course on the Cross Bay boulevard near 160th street when he heard her
scream and said he saw an automobile speed away. He called police and Dr.
DUNNE of Jamaica Hospital. Police are at her bedside waiting for her to regain
consciousness.
COP CLINGS TO ELEVATOR CABLE AFTER DROP THROUGH SKYLIGHT
Hangs Half Hour Waiting for Aid-Burglars Scared Away
Hanging for half an hour to a cable at the top of a 70-foot elevator shaft
after crashing through a skylight while investigating a burglar alarm at 63
Flatbush avenue early today, Patrolman John HEANEY was rescued by a police
emergency squad which passed a rope down around his waist and drew him up to safety.
HEANEY was among the patrolmen who under Detective Caesar BONNANO answered
an alarm at the above address when a neighbor telephone the Bergen street
station that the gong in Gunther’s clothing store was ringing. The burglars,
who evidently fled upon the ringing of the alarm without obtaining any loot
from the $25,000 stock of men’s clothing on the premises at the time, must
have spent from three to four hours in gaining entrance to the building.
Chop Through the Roof
They first forced an entrance to the four-story brick structure next door
at 61 Flatbush avenue, and going to the top floor, went through a trap door to
the roof. Then they dropped onto number 63 which is a three story brick
building and began to chop a way through the roof. As the neighborhood was
well patrolled last night and there were numerous passersby, police believe
that the men worked only when the clatter of the passing Fifth avenue and
Culver avenue elevated lines drowned out the strokes of their axes.
Although they gained an entrance after this laborious work, they had no
chance to take anything of value as the contents of the building were still intact.
When the police had arrived, HEANEY was sent up through 61 and then dropped
down onto the roof of 63, following the route evidently used by the robbers.
But in dropping he struck a glass skylight, crashed through it and as he
continued to fall, caught at a wheel and hung there for a moment. He then
slipped down until he grasped the cable of the 70-foot elevator shaft and
there he clung. Companions who were with him summoned Police Emergency Squad
15 and called for HEANEY to hold on.
HANGS FOR HALF HOUR
When the squad arrived, it first spread a net at the foot of the shaft so
that if HEANEY should lose his grasp, his fall would be broken. He managed to
hold on, however, for half an hour while the squad was at work.
At the end of that time a rope was successfully passed down and about the
patrolman’s waist and he was pulled up through the skylight. Although his
hands were badly torn by the tight hold he had to keep on the cable to save
himself from dropping to his death, he received no severe injuries from the
fall, which he had broken after dropping from the roof of the building at 61.
21 July 1931
James MABY, of 58 Amity street, was yesterday afternoon sunstruck at the
South Ferry and moved to the Long Island College Hospital.
Thomas MCLEAN, a laborer of Warren street, near Rogers avenue, was
overcome by the heat at five P.M., yesterday while at work on a new
building, corner of Eighth avenue and President street. He was taken home.
Patrick HOAR, aged forty-six, of Fortieth street, near Fourth avenue,
was sunstruck yesterday while at work in Greenwood Cemetery. He was taken home.
Thomas O'CONNELL, laborer, of 191 Hoyt street, was found yesterday
prostrated with the heat in Smith street, and taken home.
Francis JOHNSON, laborer, of 439 Henry street, was yesterday prostrated
by the heat in Henry street; taken to St. Peter's Hospital.
William DICKERSON, aged fifteen years, was prostrated by the heat
yesterday afternoon at South Fifth and Fourth streets, E.D. He was
removed to his residence, corner of Adams and Bremen streets, E.D.
Francis SHAW, aged twenty-eight years, of No. 92 Scholes street, was
found by Officer QUINN, of the Fifth Precinct, overcome with the heat at
South First street, near Eleventh, and sent home.
RESERVE ARMY TO MOBILIZE
Col. Edward C.O. THOMAS of 122 East Forty-second street, Manhattan and
twenty-seven other Metropolitan business and professional men, many of whom
led troops in France, will report as regimental officers of the 442nd Field
Artillery, U.S. Army Reserve, when that organization mobilizes July 26 at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina for its annual two weeks of field training.
Others in the group are:
Lieut. Harry C. CHUCK, 351 Carlton avenue.
Lieut. Patrick J. LENIHAN, 51-64 Laurel Hill, Queens.
Lieut. Charles E. F. LEWIS, 292 Clinton avenue.
Lieut. David MARCUS, 2055 Ocean avenue.
Lieut. John L. RYAN, 68 Montague street.
Richard E. WHITE, 103-36 Lefferts boulevard, Richmond Hill.
Second Lieut. Walter H. BECKER, 105-18 Twenty-ninth avenue, Elmhurst.
Second Lieut. Germain R. BONNEAU, Fairview avenue, Bayside, Queens
Second Lieut. Charles E. CASALE, 36 Bay Seventh street
Second Lieut. John E. DONMEYER, 2069 Nostrand avenue.
Second Lieut. Robert RAYMOND, 290 Ocean parkway.
PATROLMAN SHOT IN FLIGHT FROM CAFÉ BRAWL SUSPENDED
Held in Hospital With Man He Is Accused of Wounding
Deputy Police Commissioner LEACH announced today the suspension from the
department of Patrolman Phillip FOX, 27, of the Rockaway Beach Station,
Queens, now under arrest in the Norwegian Hospital on a charge of felonious
assault.
FOX was arrested following the shooting late last night of James GODFREY,
20, of 426 Forty-ninth street, who was critically wounded during an
altercation in front of a café at 6120 Third avenue. GODFREY was shot in the
stomach.
FOX was shot in the right leg while being chased from the scene by
Patrolman Thomas CARROLL of the Fourth Avenue Station. FOX was off duty at the
time.
After the felonious assault charge against FOX has been disposed of in
magistrate’s court, he will appear before Deputy Commissioner LEACH on
departmental charges.
There are two versions given by witness of the shooting, police say.
According to one, FOX had been drinking and had tried to force his way into
the speakeasy despite GODFREY’s efforts to prevent his entrance, finally
becoming enraged and shooting GODFREY at close range.
According to the other FOX had been admitted to the speakeasy and had
started an argument with GODFREY, during which he took out his gun and fired.
After the shooting, FOX ran along Third avenue, with Patrolman CARROLL of
the Fourth avenue station, pursuing. CARROLL was unable to catch him and
finally fired at him after shouting several times. FOX fell with a bullet in
his left leg and was taken to the station house where he was recognized as a
policeman and arrested before going to the hospital.
23 July 1931
SQUIRREL BITES COP-DIES
Patrolman Has Exciting Evening on Beat in Prospect Park
Patrolman William DUNBAR, 30, of 1193 St. Marks avenue, had a
'hot time' in Prospect Park last night. He was not on his day off.
He was on duty and preserving law and order among the thousands who
went to seek relief from the heat.
He was musing to himself how lucky he was to be stationed at the
recreating centre and was 'pounding the pavement' near the bandstand
in the music grove when an excited citizen rushed up and reported that
a squirrel had been injured and was causing quite a commotion.
Patrolman DUNBAR rushed to the scene of the excitement and took the
squirrel in his arms to render first aid. The squirrel did not take kindly to
the samaritan act of one of the city’s finest and promptly bit Patrolman
DUNBAR on the left hand. In the excitement which followed, the animal was killed.
Patrolman DUNBAR called an ambulance 'not for the squirrel which was now
beyond aid' but for himself. Dr. ROSENBLUTH of Methodist Episcopal Hospital
responded.
25 July 1931
THREE CAUGHT AS ICE CREAM STORE BANDITS
Youths Said to Have Been Overheard Talking of Thirty Exploits
A series of thirty holdups in Brooklyn and Queens Ice cream stores since
June 1 has probably been cleared up, police announced today with the arrest of
three young men allegedly overheard talking over their exploits.
They were picked up on Hart street by Acting Capt. Thomas McGOWAN of the
Brooklyn Homicide Bureau and taken to Brooklyn headquarters, where police said
they were identified by fifteen proprietor-victims. The trio will be taken on
Monday to the scenes of other holdups to which they are said to have
confessed.
They gave their names as Louis HAYMAN, 20, married, of 840 Hart street;
Frederick LaROSA, 21, of 341 Van Brunt street, and James MULLER, 18, of 742
Bushwick avenue.
Their loot, Capt. McGOWAN said, totaled about $2,500, HAYMAN’s share going
to take care of his wife, since he is jobless, the takings of the other two
going for 'good times' at Coney Island.
Specifically they are accused of taking $40, a watch and a ring from Hyman
FALLMER in his shop at 545 Rogers avenue on the night of July 3.
They are to have a hearing on Monday in Flatbush court on charges of
robbery, felonious assault and violation of the Sullivan law.
CHILD, 10, INJURED IN TWO-STORY FALL
Suffering from internal injuries and lacerations of the scalp, 10 year old
Ralph DICKSON, of 3111 Surf avenue, is in the Harbor Hospital today. The
injuries were received when he was playing on the fire escape of his home and
fell through the opening in the grating, dropping twenty feet from the second
story level to the back yard, late yesterday afternoon.
He was picked up by his mother, Mrs. Tillie DICKSON, and after Dr.
FINKELSTEIN, of the Harbor Hospital, was summoned and treated the boy, he was
taken to that institution.
POLICE BATTLER UP FOR HEARING
Joseph KERENEK, 38, of 120 South Eleventh street, will appear today in
Bridge Plaza court before Magistrate BLANCHFIELD on a disorderly conduct
charge as a result of his arrest last night when he resisted with an empty
bottle police interference with his punishment of his daughter Sophie, 13.
Patrolman Edward DUNNE of Bedford avenue station was attracted to his
apartment late last night by her screams; and he found KERENEK beating her
with a strap, he said. KERENEK threw the strap at him, he said, and then
picked up a bottle and started to attack him.
27 July 1931
CHILD IS KILLED, 12 INJURED IN CRASH at SHEEPSHEAD BAY
Drivers Held for Homicide-One Also for Having Stolen Car
Two drivers are today being held on charges of homicide, and one of them is
also charged with the theft of the auto he was driving at the time the two
men’s machines collided at Nostrand avenue between Avenues X and Y, throwing
an eight year old passenger onto her head and causing almost instantaneous death.
The accident occurred when a car bound south on Nostrand avenue owned by
Isador EISENSTOCK, 50, of 1454 Fiftieth street and driven by his son, Julius,
22, a medical student at the University of Maryland, struck a car owned by
Charles KAYLOR of the Grenada Hotel. The car had been evidently stolen from
him at the Motor Mart Garage at DeKalb avenue and Ashland place and was
operated by John CONSON, 24, of 842a Sixty-eighth street, who is being held on
charges of homicide and auto theft.
ONE CAR OVERTURNS
In the EISENSTOCK car were the owner, Isadore and his wife, Mary, 48, as
well as his son, Julius, who was driving. They were on their way from
Sheepshead Bay about 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon when they collided with the
car driven by CONSON, which was northbound on Nostrand avenue on its way to
Sheepshead Bay. The CONSON car was loaded heavily with Sunday holiday makers,
all of whom suffered injuries in the mishap when their car was overturned by
the impact.
Eight year old Alice WHALEN, of 492 Fifth avenue, was thrown out on her
head and died almost instantly of a fractured skull. An ambulance from Coney
Island Hospital was called to care for the victims of the crash and most of
them were taken to the hospital where they remain today.
Those hurt were:
Alice WHALEN, 8, 492 Fifth avenue, fractured skull, dead.
Her mother, Mrs. Alice WHALEN, 31, same address, in the Coney Island
Hospital with a possible fractured skull.
Her brother Frank WHALEN, 10, possible fractured skull.
John McGOWAN, 21, of 702 Caton avenue, Coney Island Hospital, possible
internal injuries, lacerated forehead.
His wife, Evelyn, 21, same address, Coney Island Hospital, possible
internal injuries, lacerated chin.
OTHERS INJURED
Arthur ROTSKY, 7506 Fourth avenue; Coney Island Hospital; possible
fractured skull and concussion of the brain.
Miss Sally McKINNON, 20, 408 Seventeenth street; Coney Island Hospital;
possible fractured skull.
William McKANE, 25, 388 Butler street; Coney Island Hospital; abrasions of
the left arm, went home after treatment.
Miss Genevieve ORR, 18, 471 Seventh avenue; abrasions of the right leg,
home after treatment.
Miss Mae BARRY, 21, 314 Sixteenth street; abrasions of the scalp, home
after treatment.
All these were passengers in the car driven by CONSON. In the other car
were the three members of the EISENSTOCK family.
One man was killed and five other persons were injured in a collision
between two automobiles early today at Ridgewood and Hale avenues.
ONE MAN KILLED
The man killed was Arthur CHARLTON, 56, of 160 West 168th street,
Manhattan. He was in the automobile of his brother, Eugene. Also in that car
was Miss Julia CUNNIFF, 21, of 107 Vermilyea avenue, and Richard GLENN, 34, of
300 East 159th street Manhattan.
CHARLTON’s car collided with an automobile driven by Henry REIMPEL of 9148
Eighty-sixth street Queens, in which his wife, Florence, was riding with him.
All concerned in the accident were hurt. Arthur CHARLTON was thrown to the
pavement and died from a skull fracture.
Detective Joseph CONNORS of the Miller avenue police station took both
drivers into custody for questioning.
29 July 1931
QUEENS SHOE SHINE VETERAN MEETS YOUNG COMPETITION
Paul Gets Job as Beach Comber-School Boys 'Horn In'
Paul the Shoe Shine Man, so known to hundreds of men in the vicinity
of the Queens County Courthouse, got a bright idea this summer which
may not turn out to be so bright.
Paul has shined the shoes of every judge that has sat in the
Queens courts for years. Besides the judicial foot coverings, Paul
shines the shoes of lawyers, litigants, officials in other offices
in the courthouse and in the municipal building across the square
and business men and clerks in the various office buildings near
the courthouse.
His is a fairly lucrative business. Although past sixty, he still
carries a small box and his only overhead is underfoot. He does wear
out a lot of shoe leather.
During July and August, however, business slumps. The courthouse is
practically closed down. None of the courts is in session and the District
Attorney, Sheriff and Commissioner of Jurors offices are manned by skeleton
staffs. Even the office buildings are depleted.
This season Paul arranged to beat the depression. He secured an assignment
as a beachcomber at Rockaway. He was certain of a better income than his
shoe-shine box could bring him.
Paul did not figure on one contingency, however. He has so long had
practically a monopoly, he never thought of possible opposition. Somehow word
got around that the territory was free. The first week two schoolboys began
opping into the offices where before Paul had shined alone. Now there are a
dozen such, each with his box of rags and polish. Office workers who might
have passed them when secure in the knowledge that some time during the day
Paul would arrive, have given the boys their chance.
When Paul returns from his beachcombing in the fall, he may face not an
annual two months depression, but an all-year-round depression.
15 HURT WHEN CAR HITS TRUCK
Fifteen persons, seven of whom required medical aid, were injured this
afternoon when a Reid avenue trolley car crashed into a five-ton ash truck
owned by the Department of Sanitation as it was turning right.
Two ambulances carrying three doctors from Beth Moses Hospital and
emergency crews from police headquarters and the B. M. T. administered first
aid, while traffic on Broadway, Reid and Ralph avenues was tied up for
thirty-five minutes. After treatment seven people were able to go home.
The truck driven by Peter MUSHERBETZ of 175 Highland boulevard, crashed
into the right side of the car, smashing most of the windows, throwing the
passengers from their seats and derailing it.
Neither the truck driver nor the Frank WILSON, of 1550 East Forty-eighth
street, motorman, were held. The scene of the accident is in the heart of the
Broadway shopping district.
Those requiring medical aid for cuts, bruises and lacerations are:
Isidore COHEN, 64, of 362 Quincy street
Bertha LERNER, 17, of 505 Kosciusko street
Isidore GREENBERG, 55, of 265 Rochester avenue
Max KIARIRTETA, 32, of 121 Bainbridge street.
Irene ZAIONZ, 33, of 4701 Snyder avenue
Maria SCHINSKLER, 23, of 159 East Ninety-second street
Meyer STEIN, 23, of 1566 Sterling place
30 July 1931
CONEY MAN HELD ON ‘SLOT’ CHARGE
Charged with maintaining a slot machine, James MILLETT, 31, of 151 East
Eighth street, was held in $300 bail for hearing Aug. 7, today by Magistrate
McGUIRE in Coney Island Court.
MILLET was arrested last night by Patrolman Robert J. QUINN, who said he
operated a slot machine in MILLET’s lunch wagon at 2575 Coney Island avenue
and received fifty cents for the checks from the machine.
ASSAULT VICTIM BLAMES SPEAKEASY
Rumbles of a speakeasy war were heard in Jamaica today when a man was
assaulted by two strangers in front of his place of business at 158-07 South
street, Jamaica. Philip NUDEL, a plumbing contractor, the victim, was treated
for lacerations of the scalp by an ambulance surgeon and was able to go home.
NUDEL refused to tell the police details of the assault, be he told a
reporter that a speakeasy next to his store was making so much noise that he
complained, whereupon two men assaulted him.
“If I have to go to Washington to get action” he said, “I’m going to clean
out that place and every speakeasy in Jamaica. They’re a damn nuisance.”
FLATBUSH MAN FOUND BEATEN
Found on the back porch of 2807 Cortelyou road at 6 A.M. today with a
fractured skull, John ANSAK, 35, of that address, is in Kings County Hospital,
while police of the Snyder avenue station are investigating the cause of his
injury. He was evidently struck on the head with some heavy instrument.
ANSAK was found by a milkman, who at once reported to police, and ANSAK was
rushed to the hospital. Police are of the opinion that ANSAK went down to
sleep on the porch because of the extreme heat last night. They believe that
possibly burglars sought to enter the building while he was there and in
fighting them off, ANSAK was struck with a blackjack.
Another possibility the police are considering is that ANSAK got into a
fight with other boarders at 2807 Cortelyou road and after being struck was
left lying on the porch.
FIREMAN OVERCOME BY SMOKE AND HEAT
Fireman John McCORMICK, 30, of 344 Seventy-seventh street, attached to
Engine Co. 204, was overcome by heat and smoke shortly before noon today while
fighting a fire in an unoccupied three story dwelling at 76 Sedgwick street.
He was carried out by his comrades and after treatment by Dr. FOLGER was taken
to Long Island College Hospital where his condition is said to be critical.
31 July 1931
COP HURT IN DASH TO TRAP BURGLAR
Patrolman Rubin UNTERWEISER, 28, of 1386 West Seventh street, of the Coney
Island station, is recovering from injuries received last night when he rushed
to answer a burglar alarm in the offices of the Velodrome at West Twelfth
street, near Neptune avenue. Hearing the alarm while he was outside the
stadium during wrestling bouts that drew a crowd of 12,000, UNTERWEISER rushed
for the offices, thinking they were being rifled and tripped on a loose plank,
falling heavily.
There were no burglars in the offices, however, and it could not be
determined how the alarm was set off.
YOUNG GUNMAN IS KNOCKED OUT
While Angelo de SAUTIS, 18, of 22 North Oxford street, was reaching for his
gun yesterday, Mounted Patrolman Raymond HOPKINS reached for de SAUTIS’ jaw.
Hopkins chalked up a knockout, but broke four fingers on his right hand for
which he was treated by an ambulance surgeon from the Jewish Hospital.
Patrolman HOPKINS was afoot at Flushing avenue and North Oxford street when
he saw an automobile coming toward him disregarding traffic signals. He gave
chase.
The other car was forced to the curb and the driver, who turned out to be
de SAUTIS, reached for his gun when the right crashed to his jaw and he went
out.
MAN HELD on WIFE’S STORY OF KIDNAP RIDE and BEATING
Young Woman Also Charges She Was Silenced With Chloroform
Charged with assaulting his 22 year old wife, Sidney GOLDSTEIN, 24, of 133
Hooper street, appeared today before Magistrate MAGUIRE in Coney Island court,
pleaded not guilty and was released on $3,000 bail for hearing on Aug. 7.
GOLDSTEIN’s wife, Lillian, from whom he has been estranged for about a year
and to whom he has been married for seven years, charged that on Wednesday
evening at 9:30 she was taking her dog out for an airing on Avenue T between
East Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, a block from her home at 4093
Bedford avenue, when she was confronted by her husband who attempted to
persuade her to go for a ride in a car parked at the curb.
Although she declined, she says her dog jumped into the auto and when she
got into it to lift him out, her husband pushed her, slammed the door of the
car and told a friend, Joe FREEDMAN, who was at the wheel, to 'step on the gas.'
When she screamed and struggled, GOLDSTEIN, she alleges, put a handkerchief
with chloroform to her nose and she became unconscious. When she revived, she
was in a room with her husband and several other men, and GOLDSTEIN struck her
and tore her clothes, she asserts.
She again lost consciousness and did not come to her senses until she found
herself in the street the next morning, and even then she was too befuddled to
remember how she got home, she claims. She told her story to Detective John
HARRINGTON, who arrested her husband on the charge of felonious assault.
K. OF C. WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED
As a result of the competitive examinations conducted under the auspices of
the Long Island Chapter, K. of C., the following are awarded the three college
scholarships:
-Miss Anne TIERNEY, 5 Schoen place, Baldwin, L.I.
Miss TIERNEY, who received the highest rating of all candidates, the
excellent average of 90.3 per cent, graduated with the June class of St. Agnes
Academic High School of Rockville Centre, L. I.
-Thomas RODGERS, 1479 East Eighth street.
-James FREIN, 1774 Flatbush avenue.
Mr. RODGERS and Mr. FREIN are
both graduates of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, 56 Park place.
-Honorable mention is awarded to Miss Virginia CANAVAN of St. Angela’s Hall
High School for the excellent papers she presented.
Three scholarships are awarded each year by the Long Island Chapter and
entitle the winners to $150 a year for books, maintenance or tuition for each
of the four years they are in college and they do not preclude the holders
from accepting the benefits of any other scholarships they may win. The chief
source of revenue for this worthy cause is the Long Island Chapter Charity
Ball conducted in the latter part of January each year.
1 August 1931
QUEENS VAGRANT TELLS SAD TALE
Claiming that he lost his home and wife and three children while ill in a
hospital, Louis DELAHAYE, 38, pleaded with Magistrate Downs in Jamaica Court
yesterday for his release on a charge of vagrancy.
DELAHAYE said that on March 13 he was taken to Bellevue Hospital for medical
treatment for diabetes, where his wife and children visited him. Transferred
to Kings County Hospital, DELAHAYE told Magistrate DOWNS, his family failed
to call and when he was released he went to his home in Ozone Park only to
learn that his family had moved away.
DELAHAYE said that he has searched for them in vain and, unable to get
employment, has been homeless since the time of his release from the
hospital. Magistrate DOWNS remanded him to Queens County Jail until Monday
for sentence. In the meantime, Assistant District Attorney DUGAN and
probation officers of the court will seek to verify his statements.
TWO SISTERS, 15 AND 13, HELD FOR LOOTING TEACHER'S HOME.
VICTIM AWAY, NEIGHBOR PHONES POLICE ON HEARING STRANGE NOISES
Former Mayor John F. HYLAN, sitting as Justice of the Children's Court here
today, could scarcely believe his ears when he was informed by police that
the two quiet girls arraigned before him -- sisters 15 and 13 years old
respectively had been arrested in the act of burglarizing a house.
The girls, Stella RIPA, 15, and Anita RIPA, 13, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Pasquale RIPA, of 1474 East Forty sixth street. They were remanded in care of
the Children's Society for examination next Friday. Stella is a pupil in the
8A grade, and Ann is in 5B grade at Public School 203 Avenue M and East Fifty
first street.
According to police, these girls entered the house of Anna HOGAN, a school
teacher, at 1467 East Forty fifth street, last night while she was away on
vacation. They got in by means of a skeleton key, police said.
While they were on the job, according to the police, one of them knocked over
a chair, and a neighbor, hearing this noise and knowing that the occupant of
the home was on vacation, telephoned to the Vanderveer Park police station.
Detective George SEELANDT arrived at the HOGAN home he said, just in time to
catch the girls leaving that place. He said he found on them the following
loot:
One overnight bag
Two bottles of perfume
Six strings of beads
One wrist watch
One pair of opera glasses
Three sets of silk underwear
Two pens
Two pencils
The girls are being questioned about two other burglaries in the neighborhood.
2 August 1931
USPECT CAUGHT AS HE MEETS WIFE
Luigi RAFFI, 36, of 1212 Adee ave, the Bronx, sought in connection with the
death of Earl Spencer FOX of Syracuse since July 19, was arrested today when
he met his wife at Fordham road and Southern boulevard, the Bronx.
According to Fox's story, he had gone to Raffi's home for employment. There
were drinks before the men went to bed. Fox awakened to find the house afire
and, severely burned, jumped through a window.
The building was insured for $4500 and Raffi's life for $2500. Police said
the "hiring" of Fox was a plot to collect on both policies.
ONE MAN CAR CRASHES TRUCK
Nine persons were cut, bruised and shaken up this afternoon in the collision
of an Eighty sixth street one-man trolley car and a heavy truck owned by the
Rubel Ice Company.
The car was in charge of Michael SHERIDAN, 46, of 342 Ninety Second street.
The truck which was turning from Mermaid into Stillwell avenue, was driven by
Lawrence Lionetti, of 1425 Forty fourth street. Dr NOVIKOFF, of Coney Island
Hospital, treated the injured, all of whom were able to go home.
They were:
Michael SHERIDAN, the motorman, wrenched right ankle
Wolf SMITH, 61, of 1555 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, gashes of the right leg
Isabelle DUCEY, 29, of 943 Seventy seventh st, abrasions of the left thigh
Rose TRONOLONE, 29, and her sister, Filomena, 33, both of 8621 Fifteenth ave,
abrasions of the knees
Rose MILLER, 26, of 48 Bay Thirty fourth street, hysteria
Lindo PENNY, 29, of 478 Fifty eighth st, abrasions & contusions of the left thigh
Dominick ALVARUSI, 4, of 7215 Thirteenth avenue, contusions of the chin
Nicholas PISONE, 60, of 675 Lake street, contusions of the right arm
4 August 1931
DRIVEN TO DRINK BY HUBBY, SHE SAYS
'But it's only near-beer, your Honor, and you can't get drunk on that,"
protested Mrs. Mary JACOBS, 30, of 223 Thirty fourth street today when
brought before Magistrate SABBATINO in Fifth avenue court on a charge of
disorderly conduct, her husband, Julius being the complainant.
"She throws things around and creates a commotion," Julius said.
:He nags too much and drives me to drink," retorted Mrs. JACOBS. "Besides
it's only near-beer."
The Magistrate paroled the woman for a hearing September 23.
GLEN COVE COUPLE CELEBRATE 69th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
DICKINSONS, BOTH 88, RECEIVE GUESTS AT HOME ON PRATT ESTATE
In their home on the PRATT estate at Glen Cove, where nineteen years ago they
celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. George W. DICKINSON
are observing today the sixty ninth anniversary of that event.
Relatives and friends of the aged couple are expected to call throughout the
day, including Mrs. DICKINSON's brother, Andrew CARPENTER, of Sea Cliff, who
was best man at the wedding on August 4th, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. DICKINSON are
each eighty eight years old.
A few days after the wedding, Mr. DICKINSON enlisted in the Second New York
Cavalry, returning home three years later with a bullet hole in his lung. The
bullet wound was received at the battle of Hanover Court House.
George W. and Sarah CARPENTER DICKINSON were married in Brooklyn by the Rev.
Mr. ROCHE, then pastor of the Fleet Street M.E. Church. After Mr. DICKINSON
had served in the Civil War, the couple moved to Glen Cove.
For nearly thirty years, Mr. DICKINSON has been custodian and caretaker of
the PRATT mausoleum on the PRATT estate, where the DICKINSON home stands. The
couple have four children, several grand and great grand children.
WOMAN LOSES CASH LEGACY; SEEKS JOB TO PROVIDE HOME
JAMAICA WIDOW HOPES $400 IN POCKETBOOK WILL BE RETURNED
Confronted with the problem of keeping her rooms and securing necessities to
live, Mrs. Marie GOSS, who lost all her money $400, Saturday night in a
Jamaica store, early today left her home at 149-09 Jamaica avenue, Jamaica,
to look for a position as an office worker.
Mrs. GOSS returned to Jamaica a short time ago, after she brought her two
young children to the home of her parents in Newfoundland, following the
death of her husband. She had intended to use the money from her husband's
estate in establishing the home in Jamaica for herself and her children.
"I haven't lost entire hope of getting back all or part of the money," Mrs.
GOSS said. "If my pocketbook was picked up by anyone but a pickpocket, the
finder surely will return some of the money for the sake of my youngsters."
Mrs. GOSS says that besides the money, there were a number of trinkets which
she valued.
5 August 1931
HOLLIS GIRL AGAIN CHOSEN STEEPLECHASE PARK VENUS
DOROTHY DE MAR, MODEL, FIRST AMONG 124 YOUNG BATHING BEAUTIES
For more than three hours yesterday afternoon the entrants in the "Modern
Venus of 1931" contest held under the auspices of Steeplechase Park, Coney
Island, in the outdoor pool of the amusement place paraded before the group
of judges, before the winner, the runner up and the third choice could be
selected. There were so many near Venus's among those seeking honors that it
was a difficult task for the judges to make their selections.
Their decisions, however, seemed to meet with the approval of the
thousands of onlookers who swarmed the pool and the platforms skirting the
natatorium. There were 124 young women in the contest, the choice being made
by process of elimination.
The title of "Modern Venus of 1931" fell to Miss Dorothy DeMAR, a model,
20, of Hollis, L.I. Last year and the year before she carried off second
honors in similar contests. She is a brunette, wearing her hair in bobbed
style. Her chic white bathing suit with black trimmings accentuated her
sylph-like form.
Miss Justine ROGERS, 18, of 1971 Bogart street, Bogota, N.J. was second
place choice. She is a stunning bob-haired blonde and was attired in a neat
blue bathing suit which was in harmony with her baby-blue eyes. She is a
student of Bogota High School.
Third honors were awarded to Miss Audrey JOHNSON, 18, of 51 Bay Seventh
street. Like the winner, she is a professional model. Her bobbed hair is of
brownish tint. She wore a black bathing suit.
George C. TILYOU, of the Steeplechase Park management, draped Miss DeMAR
with the "Modern Venus of 1931" sash and presented her and the other two
young women with silver loving cups.
Following the contest, a dinner was tendered to the contestants and judges
who included Deputy Commissioner of Public Work Peter MC GUINNESS, Leslie C.
STRATTON, Susan SHATTUCK, Tim MARKS, Dr. W. REIS and Diana CORDAY.
GIRL FINGERPRINTED, JAILED FOR UNRULY BATHING SUIT
99 OTHERS FIND ORDINANCES SEVERE IN CONEY ISLAND COURT
What price shoulder strap!
Sylvia MEYER, a 17 year old home girl of 3215 Surf avenue, found to her
dismay that a charge of wearing an improper bathing suit heard before
Magistrate STEERS in Coney Island Court today carried with it, on a plea of
guilty, a ride in a police van, fingerprinting and a stay in Raymond street
jail until 4 o'clock.
Sylvia's bathing suit, intentionally or otherwise, had become disarranged,
as the poets sing, but Patrolman Joseph F. BYINGTON, of Coney Island station,
decided too much anatomy was being displayed and gave the girl a summons.
Magistrate STEERS fined her $5 but she did not have the money and chose jail
sentence instead.
But she wasn't alone. Among the 100 men and women who appeared in answer
to summonses for various beach offenses, about twenty were unable to pay the
$5 fines and were taken for a jail ride.
Things have gone harshly with offenders since Magistrate STEERS defined
the city ordinances against peddling, ball playing, dressing on the beach,
promenading the boardwalk in bathing suits, or casting litter about as
providing a minimum fine of $5 and a maximum fine of $50, with the matter of
suspended sentences left to the discretion of the court.
Heretofore, other magistrates seeking a way out of the situation, have
leveled $1 fines, but Magistrate STEERS, despite his sympathy for the
offenders, insists the law allows no alternative.
So it was that the other 99 given a hearing today decided definitely about
paying a fine or going to jail for one or two days.
6 August 1931
DRUGGIST ROBBED FOR SIXTH TIME
Four boys entered the drug store at 125-01 101st avenue, Richmond Hill,
shortly before midnight last night, held up the clerk, Stephen S. STRICKSON,
of 86-04 107th avenue, Ozone Park, took a 32 calibre pistol from him and $148
from the cash register and disappeared.
Michael GUARINO, the proprietor, was not there at the time of the holdup.
He said later it is the sixth time in nine years his place has been held up.
In addition, he said, burglars have broken in twice in that time. The total
losses to robbers, he said, is in excess of $1000. Richmond Hill police are
working on the case.
FLAG ETIQUETTE FOSTERED BY PATRIOTIC BORO WOMEN
MORE THAN 100 IN ORGANIZATION FOUNDED BY MRS. HYNDS, 79
A movement to further flag etiquette will be inaugurated in the fall
by a number of patriotic organizations, including the Society of
Patriotic Women of Brooklyn.
Although during the World War and for a short time after, business people
were flag-conscious, the past few years has seen a change in the attitude
toward flag etiquette. Many merchants use them now upon the slightest
provocation, such as the opening of a new store or to emphasize a sale, it is stated.
MORE RESPECT NEEDED
Mrs. Catherine HYNDS, of 665 East Twenty-third street, founder of the
Society of Patriotic Women of Brooklyn, declared yesterday at her home, that
too few people have an adequate knowledge of how to display the flag and how
to respect it to the fullest extent.
Recently, at a meeting of the Twenty-third Assembly District Democratic
Club, 1553 Eastern Parkway, it was noticed that an American flag was being
used in an improper manner. As a result of the story which appeared in the
Standard Union, Mrs. HYNDS, as founder of the patriotic association, received
a letter from Mrs. C.H. HART, of 74 Howard avenue, who wrote that action
should be taken against all offenders. She mentioned that one man of foreign
birth to whom she spoke was willing to use Old Glory to further his business,
but had "too much respect for the flag of his homeland to use it for the same purpose."
STARTED in 1916
It was at a meeting of the Army and Navy Club in Washington in 1916, that
Mrs. HYNDS got the idea that a patriotic society was needed.
Upon returning to Brooklyn, Mrs. HYNDS started the organization with a few
friends, and it soon had more than 100 members.
The organization has distributed thousands of pamphlets entitled, "The
Flag of the United States," issued by the United States Flag Association.
"The National Flag represents the living country and is itself considered as
a living thing," Mrs. HYNDS said.
Mrs. HYNDS is seventy-nine years old. Her husband served in the Civil War
and one son in the Spanish American and World wars. Another son served in the
World War.
7 August 1931
TUGBOAT CAPTAIN WOUNDED IN BATTLE OVER WOMAN
SECOND SKIPPER ARRESTED AFTER MIDNIGHT GUNPLAY AT COLUMBIA
STREET DOCK
Two tugboat captains engaged in a battle over a woman early this morning,
police reported, which ended when one of them was shot and the other arrested
for felonious assault.
The wounded captain is Edward CANN, 26, of the tugboat A.D. Ruddy. The
prisoner is Charles MINER, of the tugboat R.S. Denison.
Both boats belong to the same company, it was said, and were berthed at the
foot of Columbia street shortly after midnight when the fight started.
CANN was shot in the left side and taken to Long Island College Hospital.
MINER was arrested by Detective Cal MC CARTHY, of the Hamilton avenue station.
8 August 1931
POLICE RESPOND TO ARMY CALL
Police Captain James J. GEGAN, in command of the Thirteenth Detective
Division, has accepted a call to active duty in his army reserve rank of
Major and will command the 314th Military Police Battalion during its two
weeks of field training at Plattsburg barracks beginning tomorrow.
Seven other New York and Long Island men will serve under Major GEGAN.
They are:
Captains Daniel W. LAKE, of 110-45 168th street, Jamaica;
Francis A. TRAVIS of 179 Meserole avenue,
Lambert L. HANSON, of 107-16 121st street, Richmond Hill, L.I.
Bernard F. BYRNE of 9418 Park Lane South, Woodhaven;
First Lieutenants Joseph MOSES, of 116-39 197th street, St. Albans;
Harold A. DEVINE, of 280 Carroll street,
Arthur L. SHEVLIN, of 88-52 205th street, Hollis.
10 August 1931
GOLDEN WEDDING DATE CELEBRATED
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham A. BARTELS, of 365
Lincoln place, was observed last night at the Hotel St. George with a dinner
for the immediate family and a reception later at the home of a daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander VANDERWOOD, 375 Lincoln place.
Mr. BARTELS and his wife, the former Jeanette BRILL, were married in
Amsterdam, Holland, Aug. 7, 1881. They have three children, Miss Adele
BARTELS, Mrs. A. VANDERWOOD and Mrs. Jaques S. COHEN, and five grandchildren.
WOMAN SETS MAN ABLAZE AFTER POURING OIL ON HIM; TIRED OF COMMON LAW TIE
HUMAN TORCH RESCUED BY NEIGHBORS AS HE RUSHES INTO STREET
Charles GODUTIS, 35, who early yesterday was turned into a living torch by
his common law wife because she was "tired of him" was reported today in fair
condition in Kings County Hospital and may recover.
The woman, Julia GRAZIS, 30, of 123 Kent avenue has admitted pouring
kerosene over GODUTIS as he slept in her apartment and then lighting it,
according to police.
"I couldn't live with that man any longer," she is said to have exclaimed.
"A long time ago I made up my mind to kill him He hissed at me all the time
and made faces. I poured oil on him and set fire to him. I guess I was kind
of crazy."
Neighbors who rolled GODUTIS in a rug when he rushed blazing from her
apartment said he gasped before he became unconscious: "She tried to kill me
once before. This time I guess she succeeded."
Later in the hospital he said she had used a bottle to attack him before.
Meanwhile, Mrs. GRAZIS awaits hearing on a felonious assault charge in
Bridge Plaza court. She was held without bail yesterday by Magistrate HUGHES.
She was arrested immediately after the burning by Detectives Jeremiah LEAKE
and William MURPHY of the Bedford avenue station.
Mrs. GRAZIS is the mother of two children, a girl six and a boy eight
years old. She served a five-year term in prison for grand larceny, according
to the police, and was released in 1927.
CASHIER ASKS $800,000 BALM FROM DOCTOR FRIEND OF WIFE
WANTS DIVORCE FOLLOWING RAID - SHE SEEKS ALIMONY IN COUNTER SUIT
Discovery of his wife, Mrs. Winifred Eleanor BESWICK in her bedroom with
Dr. Benjamin E. WOLFORT, a Brooklyn physician caused Arthur BESWICK, a
cashier employed by the Horton Ice Cream Company to file suit for divorce, he
charged in an affidavit on file in Supreme Court today.
Supreme Court Justice DODD reserved decision on the application of Mrs.
BESWICK, who now lives at the St. George Hotel, for $30 weekly alimony and
$1000 counsel fees. She denied all her husband's charges, and in a counter
suit for separation accused him of using a spyglass to watch the activities
of neighbors from a window of their apartment at 270 Parkside avenue, when
they lived together.
She said he also frequently put his ear to the floor and remained in that
position for long periods "listening to what the people downstairs were
saying." BESWICK denied all that, too.
"DON'T TELL MY WIFE"
Mrs BESWICK is a nurse. Her husband stated in his affidavit that he had
become suspicious of the friendship between Dr. WOLFORT and his wife. One
morning, he stated, he left the house to go to his office in New York, but
instead, went to the apartment of the superintendent of the house in which he
lived where he was joined by Julius V. BRAUN, a private detective, and Harry
E. WOOD of 164-19 120th avenue, Jamaica, a friend.
BESWICK said that he waited in the apartment for a while and that Dr.
WOLFORT arrived and went to the BESWICK apartment. A short time after that
BESWICK, BRAUN and WOOD went quietly to the door of his apartment and
entered, finding the physician and Mrs. WOLFORT in the bedroom. BESWICK said
Dr. WOLFORT put his hands before his face and pleaded: "My God, don't tell my
wife about this."
BESWICK has brought suit for $200,000 against Dr. WOLFORT, charging
alienation of Mrs. BESWICK's affections.
SAYS BROTHERS SET SHOP AFIRE
Paul RENKOFF, 35, and his brother, Simon, 38, both of 100 Beach
Sixty-sixth street, Arverne, on a plea of not guilty were held in $7500 bail
each for further hearing Aug. 24 on a charge of arson by Magistrate Jeannette
BRILL in Gates avenue court today.
William COLES, fire captain, accused the RENKOFF brothers of having set
fire to their radio shop in the three story building at 1312 Broadway,
Brooklyn, yesterday. The building was badly damaged.
COLES said he found evidences of arson, including newspapers soaked with
gasoline in the radio shop.
CHARGE AGAINST COP DISMISSED
The indictment for assault -in- the second degree returned last April
against Patrolman Victor G. LE FRANCOIS, attached to Traffic J. was dismissed
today by County Judge Franklin TAYLOR.
Edward D. KELLY, assistant district attorney, told Judge TAYLOR that every
effort had been made to locate the witnesses, but they could not be
found.Lawrence McGOLDRICK, counsel for LE FRANCOIS, moved for dismissal of
the indictment for failure of prosecution. The case had been called to trial
four times.
The complainant was Max BERNSTEIN, of 1550 St. John's place, who alleged
LE FRANCOIS had beaten him up, dislocating his shoulder in an apartment at 1
East Nineteenth street. A woman named Ollie RIVERS is said to have occupied
the apartment.
ACCUSE COPS OF BRUTALITY
Two women who accuse police officers of brutality must tell their stories
in Coney Island Court Wednesday. The women, Mrs. Hanna TENCE, 60, of 10 Frank
court, Sheepshead Bay, and her daughter, Victorine, 23, were arrested by
Sergt. Daniel DORIS of St. George, S.I., police station and Patrolman John
HADFIELD of Sheepshead Bay station.
The older woman is charged with disorderly conduct and the daughter with
assault. They sent notes to Magistrate STEERS yesterday that injuries
prevented their appearance in court.
Mrs. TENCE said the trouble started with a neighbor, a Mrs. COSTELLO
concerning the cleaning of a cesspool and the removal of rubbish.
DORIS, Mrs. COSTELLO's brother, she said, threatened to arrest her and
that Patrolman HADFIELD took her side until he learned that DORIS was a
police sergeant.
Then, she said, the two men forced their way into her home and broke
furniture and beat her and her daughter.
KIDNAPED' MAN FREED BY COURT
The reported "kidnaping" of Samuel SILVERMAN, 26, of 516 Livonia avenue
from a restaurant at Pennsylvania and Livonia avenues, yesterday was
explained at Smithtown, L.I. when SILVERMAN was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Henry WISEMAN and ordered set free by the Justice.
Instead of being kidnaped, as reported, SILVERMAN, who was a prize fighter
under the name of "Marty Williams" was arrested at the restaurant by
Constable Raymond L' HOMMEDIEU, in connection with an alleged burglary at
Port Jefferson and another in Smithtown.
Three officers a few days ago arrested Alex STAGLIANA, 42, of Jamaica;
Charles JAMPOLSKY, Cleveland street, and Tony OTALIAMA, Mott street, after an
alleged attempt to burglarize a drug store. After questioning the three
prisoners, Smithtown police came to Brooklyn and took SILVERMAN into custody.
MAN, 95, ILL, FOUND IN DAZE
A 95 year old man who could not give his home address is in the
Metropolitan Hospital on Welfare Island today being treated for
arterio-sclerosis after he was found wandering in the vicinity of Ditmars and
Junction avenues, Astoria, early yesterday morning by Patrolman SPRAUER.
So feeble was the aged man that it was necessary for the policeman to
carry him to a nearby taxi. At the station house he was able only to give his
name as Nicolo GRENALDI or GROLIANDO. His speech, principally in Italian, was
incoherent even to interpreters.
He is five feet six inches tall, weighs 135 pounds and was attired in a
dark suit which showed wear, cap of the same color, and wore black lace shoes
worn to the inner sole.
No papers were found on his person nor any identification mark. The Board
of Welfare and the Astoria detectives continued their efforts today to find
relatives or friends.
FOUR ARE INJURED IN CRASH OF AUTOS
Four men were injured as the result of a collision between two automobiles at
Merrick and Hicksville roads, Massapequa, yesterday. Those hurt are:
Howard WRIGHT, 708 West Ninety-second street, Manhattan
Anthony WRIGHT, his brother, of 4320 Forty-eighth street, Long Island City.
Daniel O'REILLY, 24, of 516 West 184th st, Manhattan
Ira BALSON, 24, of 49 McKinley street, Baldwin, L.I.
All four men were taken to Dr. REED's private hospital at Amityville to be
treated for cuts and bruises. Howard WRIGHT was said to have been driving the
car in which the four men were riding.
Wilfred HINKLE, of 127 Newmarket road, Garden City, was said by police to
have been driving the other car. No arrest was made.
11 August 1931
SIX RESCUED BY COP AT FIRE IN THIRD AVENUE TENEMENT
PATROLMAN O'CONNOR FINDS OWN ESCAPE DIFFICULT- BLAZE REPORTED SUSPICIOUS
A Negro woman, her four children and a Negro man, trapped in a blazing
tenement at 159A Third avenue at 4 a.m. today were rescued by a policeman who
was himself trapped in the building when he made another trip to see if the
place was empty.
The blaze, of suspicious origin, started in a vacant second floor
apartment of the four story brick building and spread rapidly to upper and
lower floors.
Patrolman William J. O"CONNOR of Bergen street station after sending in an
alarm entered the building and roused the tenants. It was necessary for him
to carry down Mrs. Hattie JOHNSON while her children clung to her. On the
street it was learned the woman sustained a severe cut on the wrist and
suffered from smoke poisoning.
MAKES ANOTHER TRIP
O'CONNOR then learned that a Negro man was caught on the third floor of
the building. He returned inside and carried out Harry PARKS, 26, who had
sustained injuries to his scalp.
The man and woman were both taken to Kings County Hospital while O"CONNOR
made a third trip into the building. This time he was trapped on the third
floor. He broke into an empty apartment, smashed a window leading to a ledge
outside the building and worked his way along this ledge to the building at
161 Third avenue.
When he reached the street he was treated by an ambulance surgeon for
burns and bruises and remained on duty.
BUILDING GUTTED
Approximately forty families in the building in adjoining structures were
forced to the street by the flames. The fire was confined to the one building
after a second alarm was sent in, but the structure was destroyed. An
investigation is being conducted to learn the causes of the fire.
Fire also caused considerable damage at 1 a.m. today to the two-story
stucco dwelling at 1686 Forty-seventh street owned by Louis WASSERMAN. Police
said this fire also was of suspicious origin.
BUTTS HIS HEAD TO LITTLE AVAIL
Because he wanted to get into the P.S. 145 Vacation Playground at Bushwick
avenue and Siegel street yesterday so badly that he was willing to butt the
wall down with his head, John VOKA, 45, of 65 Johnson avenue, submitted to
six stitches in his scalp and then to being arrested for intoxication.
VOKA, according to police, tried to enter the playground through the gate
and was put off several times by the teachers. This enraged him and he began
to pound his head against the wall while several children gathered around him
and encouraged him.
Patrolman Henry FRITCH of Stagg street station, was called and he called
Ambulance Surgeon McCAHILL, of St. Catherine's Hospital, and then arrested VOKA.
FEAR KEROSENE VICTIM MAY DIE
Julia GRAZIAS, the blonde young wife, who poured kerosene on her
common-law husband, Charles GODUPIS, while he slept in their home at 123 Kent
avenue, and set him afire, because he refused to leave her, was held without
bail to-day By Magistrate David MALBIN in Bridge Plaza court for a hearing
Aug. 25.
Miss GRAZIAS stood quietly during the proceedings and said nothing. When
told she must return to her cell she nodded indifferently and walked out of
the courtroom with a bailiff.
GODUPIS, meanwhile is in critical condition in Kings County Hospital, with
burns on his back, side, right arm and hands. Hospital authorities said he
was also suffering from acute alcoholism.
FIVE YEAR OLD, DRESSED TO FACE BLIZZARDS, HERE ON CALEDONIA
John W. WILLIAMSON, wrapped up in a two years supply of clothes, was met
here by his mother as he stepped off the Caledonia. The five year old boy was
the last to appear before the sweltering immigration and health officials for
inspection. He had crossed the Atlantic alone with his Scotch grandmother's
advice ringing in his ears, "Don't catch cold."
John wore a fur lined cap under a heavy fedora, besides an overcoat,
topcoat, sweater, leather hunting jacket, kilts, heavy shoes and shaggy tweed
breeches.
At the insistence of the officials, he peeled off most of these articles,
but ten minutes later, when he ran down the gangplank, he was again attired
to face blizzards.
12 August 1931
GIRLS, ONE BLIND INJURED BY AUTO
Hedwig RADDICK, 10, who is totally blind, and lives at 59-18 150th st.,
Flushing, is in Flushing Hospital in a serious condition from injuries she
received when she was struck by an automobile as she was being led across the
street yesterday by her sister , Frieda, 12, who suffered minor injuries.
Jattlus LEMANESEK of 153-35 Sixtieth ave., Flushing Heights, was arrested
following the accident on charges of reckless driving.
According to witnesses who made the charges to Patrolman Charles FISCHER,
the lights had turned red on 162nd street at which the children were crossing
Nassau boulevard, stopping east and west traffic. LEMANESEK, traveling west,
is accused of driving against the red light.
BREWER SCALDED BY BOILING BEER
Henry HEINLE, 52, of 6061 Seventy-first street, Glendale, an employe of
Liebmann's Brewery at 36 Forest street, attempted to light his pipe early
today from the jet under a beer vat.
As he did so he inadvertently turned the spigot, which released the
boiling beer and was burned on the chest, arms and face. He was taken to St.
Catherine's Hospital by Dr. FOX, but insisted on being released after having
his injuries treated.
SLEEPING MAN UNINJURED AS TRAIN PASSES OVER HIM
JAMAICAN ASTOUNDED WHEN RESCUED FROM CULVER LINE "L"
Motorman Alfred BESSER, driving a Culver Line elevated train toward the
Eighteenth avenue station at 4 a.m. today saw the body of a man on the tracks
and brought his train to a screaming stop after the first two cars had passed
over his body.
A police emergency squad was called. As the members were trying to drag
the man out, he asked what all the excitement was about. He said he was John
HUSSEY, 39, and had gone to be last night in his home at 9028 179th place,
Jamaica, a number of miles away.
HUSSEY was as astonished as the police and railroad men. He had no
explanation for being where he was found, about 200 feet from the Eighteenth
avenue station. Dr. FELECCI, of Norwegian Hospital, examined him and said the
train had not injured him.
13 August 1931
CENTURY-OLD CLOCK KEEPS PERFECT TIME
Belfast, N.Y. Aug. 13 (UP)
The wooden cogs in a century old clock were spinning at full tilt here
today. Jerome F. GLEASON reclaimed from the attic the timepiece, which was
built in 1822. He found the wheels jammed with dust and soot and the face
broken. A few hours of tinkering put it in shape, and now, GLEASON says, it
"keeps railroad time."
TRUCK HITS CAR; TWO ARE INJURED
A truck ran into the rear of a Church avenue surface car at Church and
Utica avenues, yesterday, and the truck driver and his passenger were
slightly injured.
Driving the truck was Eugene REYNOLDS, 23, of 437 Rogers avenue. His chin
and chest and right hand were cut. The passenger, who suffered cuts of the
forehead and hands, was Michael COSTELLO, 20, of 242 Hawthorne street. Both
were treated by Dr. NEWELL, ambulance surgeon from the Kings County Hospital,
and sent home.
There was no arrest. The motorman of the car was George BERGRAND, of 1352
Bergen street.
14 August 1931
BOY BADLY HURT BY THROWN STONE
John POWELL, 6, of 575 Warren street, was taken to Kings County Hospital
yesterday in critical condition with a severe head injury, and his playmate,
Anthony CETRANGILO, 13, of 577 Warren street was questioned by police of the
Bergen street station.
The two boys, with several others, according to the police, were throwing
stones into the air in front of POWELL's home, and one of these stones,
believed to have been thrown by the CETRANGILO boy, fell on the POWELL boy's head.
Young CETRANGILO, the police said, was to be arraigned in Children's
Court, today on a juvenile delinquency charge.
WIFE SAYS HUSBAND THREATENED TO KILL
Declaring he threatened to kill her and her family, Mrs. Rose ANZALONE, of
555 Forty-ninth street charged her husband, Alfred ANZALONE, of 607 Sixth
avenue, with disorderly conduct in Fifth avenue court yesterday. The man
pleading not guilty, told Magistrate MAGUIRE his dress business was hurt by
the presence of the woman in his store. ANZALONE was held in $300 bail for a
hearing Tuesday.
TRIED TO CURE WIFE WITH GUN
To cure his wife of drinking he brandished his unloaded .45 calibre
automatic pistol at her John LAPSLEY, 36, a lumber salesman, living at 328
Seventy-second street, is alleged to have told police after he was arrested
on a charge of violating the Sullivan law. LAPSLEY was held by Magistrate
MAGUIRE in Fifth avenue court, yesterday, in $1,000 bail for hearing Thursday
on the complaint of Patrolman John INCAO, of Fort Hamilton station.
INCAO was called to the LAPSLEY home late Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Ruth
LAPSLEY, a pretty brunette, who said her husband had been threatening her
life. A search revealed the gun, empty, in a trunk in the cellar.
LAPSLEY, who is a World War veteran, is said to have told the police man
that his wife frequently comes home intoxicated and he thought he could scare
her into sobriety by pointing the gun at her.
REVOLVER MAKER HELD IN ASSAULT
George ZAREFSKY, 26, of 432 East Ninety-eighth street, a manufacturer of
revolver butts, was arrested last night after, it is charged, he used one of
them on the head of Benjamin GOTTLIEB, of 75 Tapscott street. The two men
disputed after their automobiles collided at Barrett street and East New York
avenue.
ZAREFSKY was held in $2,500 bail by Magistrate David HIRSHFIELD in
Pennsylvania avenue court today for a hearing August 27 on a charge of
felonious assault.
GIRL, TWO MEN HELD BURGLARS
A girl and two men were arraigned in Gates avenue court today on a charge
of burglary. They said they were May WEBBER, 24, and Richard HIRSCH, 26, and
Herman PEITELBAUM, 21, of 975 Gates avenue.
According to Louis SHEFFLIN of 540 Quincy street, they forced the door of
his home and stole a$1,000 in money and jewels. Detectives searched the
neighborhood and were told the intruders were on a trolley car. They jumped
on the car and arrested the trio.
According to police, the loot was found in a suitcase the three were
carrying with them.
Police also found about $4,000 in cheap loot at the addresses of the
accused. They are wanted in about twenty similar cases, according to police.
The three denied the charges.
CORONA WORKMAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Louis PRICILLI, 34, of 102-24 Eighty-fourth avenue, Corona, is recovering
today from injuries received when he was swept from a work train in the
subway at Hunters Point avenue, Long Island City. PORICILLI (sic) failed to
lower his head as the train entered the tunnel yesterday morning. He was
knocked from the train, barely escaping death. Ambulance Surgeon BLASSO of
St. John's Hospital gave first aid.
Note: See also 13 August 1931 Death
DOCTOR, DYING, SAYS HE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF WHEN SHOT
BROKE OPEN GUN USED BY MISS BIRDSEYE, HE TELLS GEOGHAN
Dr. Milton THOMASHEFSKY hovered between life and death in Jewish Hospital
today, the pain from a bullet in his spine eased by morphine, while District
Attorney Francis F.X. GEOGHAN disclosed the remainder of the doctor's story
of the double love tragedy which was climaxed when his secretary, Agnes
BIRDSEYE, shot him and killed herself in his office at 135 Eastern Parkway.
"Dr. THOMASHEFSKY told me," the prosecutor said, "that it was he who broke
open the pistol found in Miss BIRDSEYE's hand."
Mr. GEOGHAN quoted the doctor as whispering:
"I knew I had been shot in the spine. I opened the gun to see how many
bullets were left. I wanted to finish the job."
Meanwhile the other woman in the triangle, Norma Jean BERNSTEIN, whose
interest in the doctor inspired Miss BIRDSEYE to prevent a marriage by
violence, was in Manhattan, ready for questioning.
She hurried back last night from the Adirondack camp where she was
spending the summer. She was to be questioned in Brooklyn Police Headquarters
this afternoon.
Dr. THOMASHEFSKY himself, propped up on a cot in Jewish Hospital, where
Miss BIRDSEYE"S father is Assistant Superintendent, told his story of the
tragedy.
Miss BIRDSEYE had been employed by Dr. THOMASHEFSKY for seven years. To
him she was "Boo Boo," friends said, and he was "Mickey" to her. Dr.
THOMASHEFSKY was introduced to Miss BERNSTEIN two months ago, and from that
moment, he said, Miss BIRDSEYE had shown increasing jealousy.
She sent him, first, an anonymous letter, attacking Miss BERNSTEIN at
Point 'O Woods Camp in the Adirondacks where she was spending the summer as
hostess and counselor.
She wrote him a reply defending herself and denouncing the writer of the
letter, whose identity, she wrote, she could easily guess.
Miss BIRDSEYE, seeing this measure was futile, then took another step to
express her anger. Monday night in Dr. THOMASHEFSKY's office, he said, she
chloroformed him while he slept, and began a crude operation which she left
unfinished.
SAYS GIRL CONFESSED
When Dr. THOMASHEFSKY awoke Tuesday morning to find himself superficially
mutilated, he found also a note, pencilled on a piece of newspaper pinned to
his door. It was addressed to "Harry," and read, "This will even an old
score." Harry was the name of Dr. THOMASHEFSKY"s brother.
The doctor suspected it was put there to mislead him, and on Wednesday, he
said, he accused Miss BIRDSEYE of the mutilation and the letter, and she
confessed.
That was but a short time before the shooting. Angrily the doctor told the
girl she was dismissed, that there could never be anything between them.
But Miss BIRDSEYE, torn by anguish, refused tomlisten, the doctor said,
and spoke again of marriage.
At this moment the office bell rang, and as the doctor walked toward the
door the girl ran to a desk, he said, drew out a pistol and fired at his
back.
As he whirled about and fell, he said, she placed the gun against her
abdomen, fired a second shot, then raised it to her head and fired again.
Miss BIRDSEYE died instantly. The doctor was writhing on the floor near
her body when the caller, PINES, entered with the building superintendent.
Despite Dr. THOMASHEFSKY's story, Miss BIRDSEYE's father, Lewis BIRDSEYE,
prominent in Republican politics and a former secretary of the Police
Department, insisted last night his daughter had not shot the doctor or
herself.
"Agnes," he said, "did not do this. I know it and I will get to the bottom
of it."
Part of the physician's statement was withheld by police, and there was at
least one indication that the argument which preceded the shooting was longer
than he had said. There was the fact that Miss BIRDSEYE had a black eye when
she was found and the office was in general disorder.
A half hour before she had telephoned her sister Florence at their home,
249 A Brooklyn avenue. She said "something terrible has happened," and
promised to tell more about it when she returned for dinner.
Miss BERNSTEIN, daughter of Sidney J. BERNSTEIN, an attorney of 334 West
Eighty-sixth street hurried back from the camp to New York last night, and
was questioned briefly by the investigators at Brooklyn Police Headquarters.
She left, promising to return today.
LOVE HOPELESS
The letter she wrote Dr. THOMASHEFSKY referring to the anonymous attack
was found in his coat pocket. It began: "Dear, darling Mickey," and closed::
"Oh, did I remember to tell you dear, darling Mickey, that I miss you so much?"
But Dr. THOMASHEFSKY, hovering between life and death, told questioners at
the hospital there had never been anything more between them than friendship.
As to Miss BIRDSEYE, he said he had taken her to the theatre and to dinner
occasionally, and conceded her infatuation for him, but added he had always
told her it was hopeless.
Miss BERNSTEIN studied art in Paris two years. She is twenty-four. Dr.
THOMASHEFSKY is the son of Boris and Bessie THOMASHEFSKY, famous on the
Yiddish stage. He was thirty-four and had never been married.
17 August 1931
MOTORBOAT BLAST BADLY BURNS TWO
Bert HIRSCH, 63, of 438 East Eightieth street, Manhattan, and Fred DIETZ,
56, of 822 Wilcox avenue, Throggs Neck, are unconscious in Flushing Hospital
today from first and second degree burns sustained when their motorboat, the
Edith K, was damaged by fire following a gasoline tank explosion.
The two men were returning late last night from a fishing trip when they
noticed a shortage of gasoline off College Point. HIRSCH piloted the boat to
a gasoline station at the foot of Van Wyck avenue, College Point, and the
explosion occurred during the refueling.
Detective John SHAUGHNESSY, of the Flushing squad, is awaiting the time
when both men will regain consciousness to question them about the cause of
the explosion.
BOY SCORNED, DISAPPEARS
Kay SASAKI, 10, whose father is a Japanese and his mother an American, has
run away because the children near the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lulu COUGHLIN,
of 2830 Ford street, Sheepshead Bay, won't play with him.
Mrs. COUGHLIN said today she has taken care of the boy since his parents
separated three years ago. The father, Kay SASAKI, is an artist of 23 West
Thirty-first street, Manhattan. The mother has since remarried.
The boy has been gone eleven days. He was last seen on Aug. 5, clad in
gray trousers, a white blouse and black shoes. He is four feet, five inches
tall, with chestnut hair and brown eyes. He had wandered off twice before.
WOMAN BY MISTAKE SWALLOWS POISON
Mistaking a poisonous disinfectant for a medicine for colds,
Pauline KANIK, 35, of 101 North Seventh street, drank the disinfectant,
but is today recovering from poisoning. When the accident happened
last night, Patrolman MENGEL, of Bedford avenue station, administered
first aid and afterward a surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital treated the
woman, who was able to remain at home.
COMMENDED FOR BRAVERY, POLICEMAN IS ACCUSED OF ASSAULT AND ROBBERY
Joseph KAVANAUGH, policeman commended for bravery recently, has been
suspended following arrest on a charge of assault and battery.
KAVANAUGH was arrested with William BUELL, of West 109th street,
Manhattan, on complaint of William SULLIVAN 1144 Taylor street, the Bronx,
who charged they robbed him of $75 cash and $89 in checks.
Last Friday KAVANAUGH was commended for bravery in arresting three
robbers. Because of this and his otherwise good record he was released on
$1000 bail.
WOMAN STABBED, HUSBAND SOUGHT
Mrs. Anpora GIODIO, 19, of 142 Columbia street, was stabbed several times
in the neck yesterday during a quarrel with her husband, Carmelo, at their
home, according to police.
Detectives of Butler street station who questioned the young matron said
she told them that her husband had accused her of being friendly with other
men and that this led to a violent quarrel that culminated in the stabbing. A
general alarm was sent out for her husband who disappeared, on a charge of
felonious assault.
GIRL, 10, VICTIM OF FALL IN YARD
Anna BELKIN, 10, of 306 Sea Breeze avenue, died in Coney Island Hospital
early yesterday morning of a fractured skull sustained when she fell in the
yard in the rear of her home last Saturday evening.
Detectives Herbert KENNEDY and William DUNN, of Coney Island station, who
investigated, learned that the girl was subject to fainting spells. She was
found in an unconscious state by her aunt, Mrs. Sarah CANNOLD, of the same
address.
18 August 1931
TAILORS CLEARED OF ARSON CHARGE
Because of insufficient evidence the charge of arson against Harry KAPLAN,
25, of 3120 Coney Island avenue, and Benjamin SINOWITZ, 38, of 2118 Dean
street, both tailors, was dismissed today by Magistrate SABATINO in Coney
Island Court.
It was alleged by Samuel DAVIS, 42, a rival tailor, of 153 West End
avenue, Manhattan Beach, that on the morning of July 31 he saw KAPLAN and
SINOWITZ tampering with his auto, and that late the same afternoon his auto
caught fire while he was driving it at Oriental boulevard and Falmouth street.
FIND MISSING GIRL IN FURNISHED ROOM
Mary MALASUIK, 18, of 250 Eldridge st., Manhattan, who two weeks ago left
home to visit an aunt in Newark, N.J. and disappeared, was taken in custody
yesterday with Michael TARTAGLIA, 21, of 150 Meserole street, in a furnished
room at 1091 Grand street. She said she met TARTAGLIA in New York and that he
took her there, threatening to kill her if she left. This he denied.
TARTAGLIA was arraigned in Bridge Plaza Court on a charge of vagrancy and
held in $500 bail by Magistrate HUGHES until Friday. The MALASUIK girl will
be taken to the night court tonight and charged with being wayward.
19 August 1931
TRAIN HITS WAGON, DRIVER IN HOSPITAL
Frank DORIO, 379 (sic), of 128 Bay Fourteenth street was injured late
yesterday when his wagon was struck by a freight train on Second avenue
between Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth streets.
Michael KANE, of 120 Verona street was backing a Bush Terminal Line train
into Terminal Building No. 1 when the train struck DORIO's wagon. The injured
man was taken to King's County Hospital.
BORO MAN CLEARED OF ROBBERY CHARGE
Anthony GEORGE, 27 years old, of 94 North First street, is at liberty
today. He was discharged when arraigned in Bridge Plaza court yesterday on a
charge of assault and robbery. Victory TULLO, of 181 North Seventh street,
held up and robbed of $1400 at 91 Union avenue, two weeks ago, was unable to
identify George as one of the hold-up men.
SEVEN ARE HURT WHEN BUS AND AUTO COLLIDE
INJURED IN JAMAICA, TREATED AFTER ACCIDENT AND SENT HOME
Seven persons were injured at Eighty-ninth avenue and Sutphin boulevard,
Jamaica, last night, when a bus driven by Earl J. KELLY of 3147 Ninety-third
street, Jackson Heights and owned by the Nevins Bus Company, collided with an
automobile owned and operated by Julius BERMAN, 601 West Eleventh street,
Manhattan.
Five passengers in the bus and two girls riding in BERMAN's car were hurt.
The injured are:
William BERTRAM, 10, 244-46 Eighty-ninth avenue, Queens , lacerations of the
head
Lillian BERTRAM, 12, same address, contusions of the head
Lawrence MULY, 5, 91-08 247th street, Queens, lacerations of the left leg.
Elsie LOPENSKI, 32, 89-22 250th street, Queens, abrasions of the left arm.
Frank NICKOF, 55, 89-64 219th place, Queens, contusions of the left hip
Theresa BILLONITS, 18, Woodmere, contusions of the back and lacerations of
the right arm
Adele BERMAN, 11, Woodmere, contusions of the forehead.
All were treated by an ambulance surgeon of Jamaica Hospital and allowed to
go home. No arrests was made.
20 August 1931
TIN WHISTLE IN GIRL'S LUNG SAFELY REMOVED BY DOCTOR
BLOODLESS OPERATION FOLLOWS X-RAY PICTURES WHICH LOCATE DISC
The tin whistle which had been lodged in a small tube in the left lung of
eight year old Patricia DOUGHERTY since a week ago Monday, was removed
yesterday with a bronchoscope. The bloodless operation was performed at Coney
Island Hospital by Dr. M. C. MYERSON, of 198 Lincoln place, who said that
the girl will recover. The child was never in danger, the physician said.
Dr. Crisman SCHERF, superintendent of the hospital, had previously denied
reports which had it that the whistle blew every time the girl talked. The
whistle, he said, could only be heard under those circumstances by means of a
stethoscope, and then but faintly.
The operation followed the taking of x-ray pictures which exactly located
the whistle.
The DOUGHERTY girl lives at 2102 Eighty fifth street. The whistle was a
tin disc affair which had originally belonged in the lung or the mouth of a
rubber doll.
BRONZE CASKET FOUND IN LOT
Ghouls or thieves or practical jokers who left a large bronze-lequered
(sic) metal burial casket in a vacant lot at East Eighty ninth street and
Ditmas avenue in the Canarsie section today had detectives of Canarsie
precinct considerably puzzled.
The casket was covered with green mold, possibly indicating it had been in
the ground for some time, and in a corner of the metallic inner cradle was
found a small white pasteboard card on which was written in ink:
"Spindel ZEUE. No. 202, expired 5:40 p.m. 10-2-428 (sic)." It was an
expensive casket, but there was no maker's name on it through which it might
be traced. Detectives considered the possibility it had been exhumed and
discarded by ghouls, and it was also thought thieves might have taken it from
a dealer, and, unable to dispose of it, left it in the vacant lot.
It required the combined strength of six strong policemen to get the
casket into the patrol wagon in which it was taken to the police station.
21 August 1931
WED 52 YEARS; PAIR IN COURT
"You are too old to be in court", Magistrate Hughes, in Bridge Plaza
court, yesterday told William GOOLEY, 74, of 587 Park avenue, and his wife,
Sarah, 72. They have been married 52 years.
In her complaint Mrs. COOLEY (sic) charged that her husband called her
names and then struck her on the arm with a coffee pot. She admitted she
chased her husband from the house. The charge was dismissed.
MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BY GAS
William MOORE, 35, was found unconscious yesterday in the kitchen of his
home, 1061 New York avenue. A gas stove jet was turned on and a tube ran from
it into MOORE's mouth, according to police.
MOORE's wife and children were not home at the time, and neighbors smelled
the gas. They notified Patrolman Herbert HUDSON who lives next door. The
Patrolman broke in the door and gave MOORE first aid treatment.
Ambulance Surgeon GRUBE was summoned from Kings County Hospital and
removed MOORE to that institution. It was reported there later that he will
probably recover.
22 August 1931
BELIEVE DYING MAN SHOT IN OPIUM DEN
A man believed to be Barney SCHNEID, 30, of 206 Delancey street, Manhattan
lay near death in Kings County Hospital today with a bullet wound in his
abdomen while police tried to piece out a strange coincidence.
SCHNEID staggered into the hospital dispensary early this morning, an hour
after detectives of the Snyder avenue station were called to an apartment on
the third floor at 5122 Snyder avenue half a mile away and found there, they
said, an opium smoking layout and evidence of a gunfight.
The wounded man said before he collapsed, "I saw the Italian before he
shot me," according to detectives. Police believe he may have been wounded in
the apartment and are investigating.
JOBLESS, SHOT SELF WITH GUN, POLICE SAY
William KANE, 21, of 204 Livingston street, is in Holy Family Hospital
today with a bullet wound over his heart. Police say he was despondent
because of unemployment and shot himself with a rifle. He is married.
DOUBLE WEDDING IN RIDGEWOOD
Marshall D.J. SMITH, son of Municipal Court Justice Edward J. SMITH of
Ridgewood, will be one of the bridegrooms in a double wedding in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles GROSCH of 69-26 Sixty-fourth street, Ridgewood, Sept. 3.
The ceremonies will unite SMITH and Miss Helen M. GROSCH as well as
Frederick A. LEHNER and Mildred C. GROSCH.
The Rev. Carl HIRZEL, pastor of the Church of the Covenant will officiate.
The GROSCH sisters are school teachers. SMITH is a teller in a Brooklyn bank.
LEHNER is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick LEHNER of 108-09 103rd st.
Richmond Hill.
The SMITHS will reside at 101 Eightieth road, Kew Gardens. The LEHNERS
will live at 60-26 Sixty-fourth street, Ridgewood.
25 August 1931
GUARDSMAN HURT WHEN SHELL FALLS
Three National Guardsmen attached to Battery F of the 104th Field
Artillery are in the Mary Immaculate Hospital today recovering from wounds
received last night when a one pound shell fell from a shelf in the armory on
171st street and Jamaica ave., Jamaica.
The injured are:
-Private Nicholas KISTNER, 19, of 60-01 Van Cortlandt avenue, Elmhurst,
Queens, wounds of the left leg.
-Private Wilbur LE CLAIR, 25, of 320 Eldert street, wounds of the right leg
-Private Howard EVERSMAN, 21, of 619 Knickerbocker avenue, wounds of the left leg.
FIREMAN INJURED BY GLASS AT BLAZE
Fireman Walker BIDDEE, of Engine Company 284, is today in the Norwegian
Hospital recovering from injuries received last night at a fire in the
hallway of the five story brick building at 7320 Fifth avenue. He was hit by
flying glass. The fire did only slight damage.
CHARGES FOLLOW RAID ON BREWERY
Milford L. MANDEL, 29, of 209 Lincoln place, was held in $3000 bail for a
hearing Sept. 25 when arraigned yesterday before U.S. Commissioner PETTE on a
charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
MANDEL was arraigned as a result of an investigation that followed a visit
by Federal agents last Friday to the Excelsior Brewery, Pulaski street,
between Throop and Sumner avenues. Prohibition authorities claim that beer
was being manufactured in the plant.
PLAY WITH MATCHES WITH USUAL RESULT
Alphonse CAPOZZI, 12, of 590 Skillman street, and Vito FORTORIELLO, 9, of
162 Union avenue, were burned seriously when matches they lighted exploded
gasoline fumes in the cellar of the two-story brick garage at 160 Union
avenue. The children were taken to Greenpoint Hospital by police of Herbert
street station.
FINDS SISTER HE LAST SAW AS LITTLE GIRL IN LATVIA GREAT GRANDMOTHER HERE
The quest of David LYNN to find members of a family he left behind in a
little border town between Latvia and Lithuania in his youth to pursue
adventure was at an end today.
After traveling over three continents he came to New York and found a
sister, whom he last knew as a small child. She was with her ten sons and
daughters, thirty-one grandchildren and four great-grandchildren when he
found her.
Four years ago, LYNN, who went to Africa at the age of 18, received a
letter from Mrs. Kate ROGG, of 821 East 161st street, Manhattan. It informed
him that she had two brothers in South Africa, one with his name, and
wondered if he was her brother.
26 August 1931
COP OVERCOME AT FIRE RESCUE IN GREENPOINT
COLLAPSES AFTER LEADING TENANTS FROM SKILLMAN AVENUE BLAZE
Patrolman Edward DOUGHERTY, of the Herbert street station, is suffering
from smoke inhalation today, as a result of routing out more than 100 persons
in a frame tenement building in Old Woodpoint road, Skillman avenue and
Conselyea street during a fire early today.
DOUGHERTY was going along Old Woodpoint road shortly after 4 a.m. and as
he crossed Skillman avenue, heard a slight explosion and then saw flames
shooting out of the windows of a one-story frame building at 234 Skillman
avenue, occupied by the William Crossbach Plating Company.
When he reached the building, DOUGHERTY found the inetrior in flames. By
the time he sent in an alarm the fire had spread to an adjoining one-story
frame structure at 236 Skillman avenue, occupied as an office by the Pasquale
Churchello Scrap Iron Company and was spreading towards a six-story frame
tenement at 222 Skillman avenue.
After rapping on the pavement with his nightstick, DOUGHERTY ran through
the tenement building arousing the occupants. DOUGHERTY saw to it that they
all reached the street in safety.
By that time the tenement buildings along Old Woodpoint road and Conselyea
street were filling rapidly with smoke.
The policeman was at the point of collapse and staggered to a stoop on
Conselyea street near Kingsland avenue, when the fire apparatus came along.
He refused medical attention and remained on duty.
The flames which scorched the rear of the buildings on Old Woodpoint road
and Conselyea street could be seen by some of the patients in Greenpoint
Hospital a block away, but at no time was there any excitement at the
institution. The cause of the fire is undetermined and damage is placed at $80,000.
28 August 1931
COP'S FAST TACKLE SAVES GIRL FROM DEATH IN RIVER
SHE PLANNED SUICIDE, BUT THAT'S ALL OVER WITH NOW
Helen TOPOLSKI, 20, and pretty was taking off her shoes, as she sat on the
pier at the foot of South Eleventh street, in Greenpoint when Patrolman
Michael CALLICHIO saw her early today.
But CALLICHIO was very quick and so Helen is in friendly custody for the
time being and rather glad her certain plan was a failure.
CALLICHIO didn't stop to argue. He simply ran down the pier, tackled her
firmly about the waist and without words, dragged her a dozen yards away from
the edge and the water below.
It wasn't until the two reached the Clymer street station that the girl
told, haltingly what had brought her to the spot.
She had broken with her family in Chicago. She had come to New York.
Wonderful, even in hard times, New York. She worked as a dress operator. Then
she lost her job. Her money ran out. There was her family. But there was her
pride. She slept in hallways. It was then, she said, she thought about the
river.
The cops at the station house didn't have much to say. But Helen's charge
of disorderly conduct was changed to vagrancy, which means a session in
Women's Court, and perhaps the interest of someone with a job. The girl also
had money when she left the station house for court.
DRIVER BURNED IN TRUCK BLAZE
A gasoline tank truck owned by the Warner-Quinlan Company, caught fire at
Rockaway boulevard and North Third street, Meadowmere, Queens, last night,
and the driver, James TOBINSON, of 3 Burnside avenue, Lawrence, suffered
burns of the hands and face. The fire occurred when sparks from the motor
came in contact with a leaking gasoline feed pipe. Firemen from Queens
Village extinguished the flames before they reached the tank.
COP SUSPICIOUS, ARRESTS YOUTH
Suspicious action of Murray POWELL, 18 years old, of 106 Delancey street,
attracted the attention of Detective Jeremiah LENKE, of the Bedford avenue
station, early yesterday.
When he searched POWELL he alleges he found a .25 calibre revolver.
POWELL appeared later before Magistrate STEERS in Bridge Plaza court, pleaded
not guilty, and was held in $500 bail for examination Sept.8.
POWELL was arrested at North First and Berry streets.
31 August 1931
CAT CAUSES WOMAN TO BREAK TWO RIBS
Mrs. Stella MICHAELASKA, 50, of 141 North Sixth Street, was confined to
her home today after an accident in her house in which she suffered a
fracture of two ribs and received several lacerations. While waking upstairs
to her room she stumbled over a cat lying on one of the steps and fell back
to the floor. She was treated by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint
Hospital.
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