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NEWS..June..1931
Brooklyn Standard Union
1 JUNE 1931
IN IRISH SWEEP
BROOKLYN and Long Island Ticket Holders Draw Ten Prizes
Dublin, Ireland,June 1 (U P)- Distribution of the Irish hospitals
sweepstakes on the Derby Wednesday continued at Mansion House to-day.
A total of 5,700 consolation prizes will be drawn from the revolving drums
today, to-morrow and Wednesday,continuing the drawing which began last
Saturday for prizes in the richest racing lottery in the world.
A fortune of $13,530,025 was subscribed to the sweepstake from all parts of
the world, but mainly from Great Britain and Ireland, the United States and
Canada.
The names of 33 horses. 31 of whom are still eligible to start on
Wednesday, were drawn Saturday. Each name was drawn 19 times and the name of
a lucky ticket holder each time, a total of 627 prizes. In the Saturday draw,
55 persons in the United States and 16 in Canada drew prizes.
And the winners are:
Antonio NICOLOSI
Joseph A. HAUBRICH
Henry STELLING
Harold W. DAVISON
Mrs Katherine KRIEL
MichaelAHERN
Vincent CAHILL
Miss Sue BRESLIN
Harry WEITSEN
Joe KALDOR
George MASINI
COLUMBIA HONORS FLATBUSH STUDENT
August Baer GOLD, 585 East Twenty-second street, is the winner of the
Albert Asher GREEN Memorial prize,it is announced at Columbia University.
This award is made annually at commencement to that member of the senior
class who,having been for at least three years a student in good standing in
Columbia College, has, in the judgement of the faculty, made the best record
in scholarship during his undergraduate course.
Mr.GOLD will receive the award at class day exercises to-day when Dean
Herbert E. HAWKES makes the annual presentations. President Nicholas Murray
BUTLER will speak and greet each senior individually at the close of the
exercises, which will be held at 4:10 P.M. in the Van Amringe Quadrangle.
2 June 1931
FOUR POISONED BY DUCK BETTER
Jacob LIPSCHITZ,45 years old, and his children, of 286 Barrett street,
Brooklyn, who said they became ill Saturday night after eating roast duck for
dinner, were recovering to-day after treatment by Dr.KANTOR of the
Brownsville and East New York Hospital, who found they were suffering from
ptomaine poisoning.
The children are Sophia 22 years old, Xenia 11, and Henry 18.
They remained at home after treatment last night, and Dr.KANTOR said all
would recover.
Police of Liberty avenue station investigated and were told by Lipschitz
that he had purchased the duck at a store in the neighborhood. They reported
the case to the Health Department for further investigation.
SOLDIER INJURED IN ALTERCATION
Private Samuel KENNEDY,23 of Company B. Eighteenth Infantry, Fort
Hamilton,is in Coney Island Hospital suffering from concussion of the brain
and possible fracture of the skull following an altercation in front of a
shooting range at 1115 Surf avenue early to-day.
Police arrested Philip BYCEL,18, of 639 Banner avenue, night man of the
range after the incident and charged him with felonious assault. It is
alleged he hit KENNEDY on the head with a hammer in a dispute with the
soldier and a companion.
BYCEL will be arraigned to-day before Magistrate SABBATINO in Coney Island
court.
GUARD CROWLEY AT SING SING
Precautions were taken at Sing Sing to-day to see that Francis CROWLEY,
sentenced to be executed for the murder of Patrolman Frederick HIRSCH, had no
opportunity to commit suicide or to obtain a weapon with which he might fight
guards.
Yesterday when the youth, who battled 100 New York City policemen for two
hours before he was captured, arrived at Sing Sing prison he had part of a
spoon sharpened to a needle-like point concealed in his sock.
''What's the idea?'' Keeper John O'CONNOR asked, pointing to the improvised
knife.
'' Try and guess,'' CROWLEY said.
He is scheduled to be executed in the week of July 5.
WALSH NAMED GRAND KNIGHT
Following a dinner to Mgr.David J.HICKEY to mark his recent appointment by
Pope Pius XI as Prothonotary Apostolic for this diocese, Columbus Council,
Knights of Columbus, last night, at 1 Prospect Park West, elected Joseph
P.WALSH,grand knight. Charles A.FITZGERALD was elected deputy grand knight
:James F.LANGAN, chancellor: Joseph L.WALSH,recorder: Joseph
F.QUINN,treasurer: James E.O'REILLY,advocate: Joseph DUHY and Thomas WOODS,
wardens: John NOLAN,inside guard: John McTAMNEY and Joseph ROCHE,outside
guards, and Joseph F.AUER, trustee.
Francis A.MADDEN,retiring grand knight of the council, was toastaster at
the dinner to Mgr.HICKEY. Speakers included the Right Rev.Mgr. T. J. O'BRIEN,
chaplain of the council, and John P.McARDLE, former grand knight.
LABOR TROUBLES CAUSE STABBING
Isidore MALOMUT, 38, of 4519 Bedford avenue,was waylaid and attacked early
to-day at Avenue U and East Twenty-second street by three men who stabbed him
and escaped before help came, according to police.
He was treated by a Coney Island Hospital ambulance surgeon and told
Detective Frank LEIBMANN, of Sheepshead Bay station, he believed labor
trouble in his leather goods business at 354 Myrtle avenue to be the cause of
the attack,although he said he did not recognize any of his assailants.
3 June 1931
Henry ALBERT, attorney, of 386 Steinway avenue, Long Island City, and
Mrs.Albert. Will leave on June 19 aboard the S.S.Europa for a two
month's tour of Europe. Visits will be made to Germany, Austtia,
Italy and France.
Mr.and Mrs.Charles Edward PORTER of 888 Park place will take a motor trip
through the Great Lakes country and into Canada during the month of July.
Mr.and Mrs.Walter HAMMITT of 350 Washington avenue have taken a house at
Shippan Point,Conn for the summer.
Mr and Mrs Henry TURNER of 28 Monroe place are at Skyland Farm at Buck Hill
Falls,Pa, where they will remain until Sept.24.
Dr.and Mrs.William PRICE of 11 Montgomery place spent a few days recently at
their country home at Shelter Island Heights, Shelter Island,L. I.
Mr.and Mrs.William STEARNS of 220 St.James place will spend the month of
July at Black Point and Clinton,Conn. Miss Margaret STEARNS will sail on June 20
for a trip to the West Indies.
Mrs.William SIEGRIST, Miss Florence SIEGRIST, William SIEGRIST Jr and
William SIEGRIST 3d, of 1033 Prospect place have opened their summer home at
Shorelands.Old Greenwich,Conn, where they will remain until the 1st of October.
Mrs.Gertrude CLYDE of 176 Sterling place and Mr and Mrs.K.G.JUTHILL of New
Suffolk,N.Y., were recent visitors at Baden-Baden, the health and pleasure
resort in the Black Forest of Southwestern Germany.
Friends Honor Engaged Couple
More than 100 persons attended a reception and masked ball held in honor of
Dr.Herman SPARBER, of 974 Forty-fifth street and his fiancee, Miss Sylvia
POMERANTZ,on Decoration Day.
Miss POMERANTZ is the daughter of Dr.Frederick POMERANTZ, who is one of the
leading surgeons in the borough.
Following the wedding, which will take place this month, the couple will go
to Vienna, where Dr.SPARBER will take a post-graduate course in the treatment
of eye disorders. He has been connected with the staff of Post Graduate
Hospital for the past year.
C.G.PAULDINGS Have Golden Wedding
Many friends joined in the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of
Mr.and Mrs.C.G.PAULDING of 12102 Hillside avenue, Richmond Hill, when a
dinner was given recently in their honor.
The original ceremony was again carried out when they repeated their vows
at a pretty service by the Rev. Dr. Edward WEEKS, Cross of the Union
Congregational Church.
The bride wore a gold lace dress and carried a bouquet of orchid color
sweet peas. The supper was served at 10 o'clock,and the rest of the evening was
spent dancing.The couple received many gifts mostly in gold.
MOTHER SAVES LIFE OF SON
William MENNA,14, of 123 Berry street, is alive to-day, due to the coolness
and quick-thinking of his mother, Nettie. He is in Greenpoint Hospital with
severe burns about the face and body.
Last night, William went to the bathroom of his home to play, police
reported, with matches and reading the comic section of a newspaper,
the paper caught fire and William's clothes were ignited. He ran
screaming into the kitchen where his blazing clothes ignited the window
curtains. His mother, instead of becoming panic-stricken, went to the
hallway picked up the rug from the floor and wrapped it about her son,
smothering the flames. The blaze in the kitchen was extinguished by firemen.
Damage was estimated at $500. Mrs.MENNA was treated for slight burns,
William condition is reported as doubtful.
HUSBAND IN JAIL, NURSE TRIES TO DIE
Despondent over the long term her husband has been serving in jail.
Mrs.Bianca BATTAGLIA,18, attached to the Nurses Home at Kings County Hospital,
jumped from a third floor-window to the hospital yard early to-day, and
sustained a fractured skull and internal injuries. She was brought back
to the hospital as a patient.
BOY ON BICYCLE STRUCK BY AUTO
Struck by an automobile while riding a bicycle, Murray SOBEL, 12, of 1689
Forty-ninth street, is in Israel Zion Hospital to-day with a fractured skull.
The accident occurred at Forty-seventh street and Seventeenth avenue.
Witnesses said that the boy was riding in the middle of the block when the
car struck him. He was unconscious when picked up and did not revive until
reaching the hospital where it was said his injuries may be fatal.
ARMY DIPLOMAS FOR BORO LADS
(Special to the Standard Union) Washington,D.C. June 3.-
Six Brooklyn youths have passed the final examinations and will be
graduated this week from the West Point military academy, a list made public
by the War Department they are :
W.H.ISBELL, Jr; 1801 Dorchester road.
Irving LEHRBELD. 2019 Seventy-fourth street.
Clyde R. McBRIDE 36 Eighty-second street
Clifton L. McLACHLAN 854 Fresh pond road
Elmo Clark MITCHELL 1172 Fiftieth street
Roger W.MOORE 345 Ninety-third street
P.F.PSSARELLA 3814 Thirty-fourth street, Astoria, is also among this year's
academy graduates.
ATTORNEY'S ODD JOB
L.I. City Man Assigned by Court to Take Client's Children to Sunday School.
Lawyers have any number of duties they have to perform for their clients,
but August KLAGES, of Long Island City, probably has the oddest.Supreme Court
Justice DUNNE, sitting in the Special Term, Jamaica, assigned to KLAGES the
duty of taking two children to Sunday school.
Alexander K. CREE,a salesman, told Justice DUNNE that his two children,
Helen,11, and Doris,6, were not being sent regularly to Sunday school by their
mother, Mrs.Helen CREE, of 70-35 Broadway, Jackson Heights. KLAGES, counsel for
Mrs.CREE, volunteered to take the youngsters to church and thus fulfil the
wishes of the salesman.
Mrs.CREE has started suit for separation from her husband on the grounds of
abandonment and non-support. CREE admitted to Justice DUNNE that he is $130
in arrears inalimony payments, but said he will make restitution as soon as
possible. He had been in a hospital, he said, during the period the money was not
paid.
PRINCIPAL LET 7 BEAT HIM FOR HOURS, BOY SAYS
Oceanside School Head Took Part in Attack, Charge
The cellar of the Oceanside High School was turned into a torture chamber
for nearly an hour while James SPARLING, Jr., 15, a student at the school, was
beaten by ''honor students'', according to SPARLING'S statement at his home in
Island Park to-day.
SPARLING was confined to his home to-day suffering from the effects of the
beating he received, which was followed by punishment at the hands of the
husky principal of the school, Walter S.BOARDMAN.
''He deserved everything he got'', BOARDMAN said in admitting that SPARLING
had been beaten by himself and the students. ''I caught him in a lie''.
BOARDMAN denied SPARLINGS statement that his hands had been trussed to a steampipe
while the beating was administered.
SPARLING lives with his father at 70 Suffolk road, Island Park. He told
his story last night to Trustee Charles HEWLETT and HEWLETT interviewed
BOARDMAN. He said he would announce his line of action later.
SPARLING was suspected in a number of petty thefts in the school, it was
stated,and was questioned by the student committee of seven. When he denied the
accusations, according to his statement, he was trussed up and beaten for an
hour, with the principal taking a hand in the attack toward the last.
The boy's father said he is waiting to see what the school board does
about the charges before placing them before District Attorney Elvin N.EDWARDS.
(4 June 1931 follow-up story)
Movie Thriller Law Invoked At Oceanside High School
Principal Joins ''Secret Seven'' in Chamber Beatings
The forces of law and order were no longer able to cope with the ''crime''
situation at the Oceanside High School, seven boys in deep council decided,
but they were preplexed as to what schould be done.
Then along came the moving picture,''The Secret Six''. That, in a
nutshell,solved their problem.They took their title from the masked vigilantes of the
film with a slight change in title to conform to their numerical strength and
at once wild rumors began to be heard around the school of ''The Secret
Seven.''
The new order of vigilantes functioned fast and apparently, with
results.Two boys were summoned to the secret chambers in basement, arraigned,treid,
convicted and punished all in short order, which also brought to light the
''Secret Seven''.
James SPARLING,Jr. and Raymond PRUSCHA, each 15 and residents of Island
Park,the reported victims, accused the secret order of hanging and beating them.
SPARLING said the youths tied his hands in front of him, passed an iron bar
through his arms at the elbow and hoisted him in the air by means of rope
thrown over a steampipe until his feet were barely touching the ground.
Then beat him with a tennis shoe,he charged, assisted in the operation
Walter S.BOARDMAN,school principal. PRUSCHA,catcher of the school's baseball
team, who aspires to play in the big leagues, claims he met with a similar
punishment. BOARDMAN admitted the existence of the committee and said he saw nothing
wrong with corporal punishment.
S.Taylor JOHNSON,superintendent of school district 11,said he was
convinced the boys had not been tortured.Both boys had been reinstated in school after
a day's suspension on their promise they would reform and would not tell of
the drastic action.He said no action would be taken against BOARDMAN. Both he
and BOARDMAN claimed the reports were ''greatly exaggerated,''
Over a period of a year, BOARDMAN said,books,cameras,lunches,a baseball
glove, and many similar articles had been disappearing,and he was unable to find
the culprit.
Seven of the older boys recently asked and received permission to search
out the guilty ones, he said. They functioned rapidly and summoned PRUSCHA and
SPARLING to the school cellar last Thursday, where the punishment was meted
out. JOHNSON admitted a rope had been tied around SPARLING and thrown over the
steampipe ''just to scare him'', but denied he had been hoisted aloft.
The board of trustees of Island Park,who arranged to have Island Park
pupils educated here, were said to be incensed by the incident and are to meet
immediately to investigate reports of the beatings. Sentiment here and in Island
Park was said to be on the side of the boys,many residents clamoring for
disbandment of ''The Secret Seven.''
MOTHER BEATEN, YOUTH OBSERVED
Displaying two black eyes, Mrs.Donna CINQUEMANI, of 1925 Sixty-ninth
street, appered to-dy in Coney Island Court to testify against her
son,Joseph,18,who, she said beat her last night when she suggested that
he try to get a job.
She told Magistrate Sbbatino that the boy had been acting queerly for several
days and asked that he be placed under observation.
The magistrate acquiesced and the boy, who had been locked up overnight in
the Borough Park Station, was sent to The Kings County Hospital.
FOUR INJURED IN 2 CRASHES
Three persons are in Coney Island Hospital and another is home nursing
minor injuries as a result of two automobile accidents early today,in the
Sheepshed Bay District.
-Anthony PEROINO, 28, of 1271 Seventy-second street, and
-Ruth WESTROTH,30, of 194 Eldert street,are in the hospital
with concussions of the brains and fractured skulls sustained when the
auto in which they were driving struck a traffic tower light at
Ocean Parkway and Avenue S.
-Margaret O'CONNOR, 33, of 6916 Sixth avenue, another passenger in the
auto, was treated by an ambulance surgeon for confusions of the face, head
and scalp, and later went home. The auto overturned when it hit the tower
light,pinning all occupants underneath it. Police of Sheepshead
Bay station extricted them.
-Karl GUNTHER, Jr., 16, of 1117 Voorhies avenue, sustained concussion of
the brain when the auto in which he was riding crashed into a police department
car parked in front of 2165 Coney Island avenue. The car was being driven by
his father, while Sergeant Charles HEIRSCHOFT of Sheepshead Bay station was in
the parked car, but neither was hurt. GUNTHER was removed to Kings County
Hospital.
Brooklyn Heights Seminary Diplomas
To-morrow at commencement exercises to be held at the Hotel Bossert at 3:30
o'clock Miss CRANE will receive honorable mention for high standing in music
as she is given diplomas with eight other young women. The diplomas will be
warded by Miss Florence GREER, principal of the seminary. The graduates are:
Harryette BERRY
Nathalia CRANE
Cynthia CROWELL
Virginia GREER
Ina Alexander STEVENSON
Lily KHOURI
Gretchen KLUMP
Ruth McCANDLESS
Catharine Justine SINCLAIRE.
TENDED LIGHT AT HELL GATE FOR 23 YEARS
Now Old Jake Young Watches Building of Modern Tower
Jake YOUNG sat in the sun near the Hell Gate Lighthouse and watched the
men laying the foundation for a new steel-tower that is to replace the frame
structure which has been Jake's charge for nearly a quarter of a century.
Temporarily the old light is in charge of a younger man, for Jake has a
''touch of rheumatics''. But Jake stays around the lighthouse anyway. There's
plenty of sun at Hallet's Point, when there is sun, and sun is good for
rheumatism. Besides, Jake would hardly know what to do away fromthe lighthouse.
''Twenty-three years, come the fifteenth of this month,'' said Jake.
''Twenty-three years I've been tending that light.The new one won't be such a
job.Electric, it will be.Just push buttons and pull switches I guess.Now that light
needs attention.''
''The house and light were built in 1889,'' he continued.''I come here
twenty-three years ago and I've been tending it ever since.It's an oil lamp and
it needs attention, and so does the machinery that turns the light.I guess the
electric one will be easier.''
Inside the lighthouse the younger man exhibited the lamp which was
downstairs for trimming and filling. A small lamp, it is no larger than some that were
used in homes twenty years ago, it holds abbout two quarts of kerosene,and as
a rule about three pints are burned each night.
The younger man also showed how the simple machinery that operates the
revolving table above upon which the light sits is operated.There are weights,like
a grandfathers clock. Each night the weights are wound to the top by a crank.
It will run about six or seven hours.There must be another winding some time
around midnight to assure operation until after sunrise.
Outside, Jake explained how such a small lamp could be of use to sailors
out in the East River,about to bring their ships through the treacherous Hell
Gate channel.
''The light sits on a little revolving table, but it's closed inside
thick, heavy magnifying lenses.The lenses magnify the light. You can see it three
miles up or down the river.There's another set of glass between the lenses and
the lamp that make the alternate red and white flashes.''
Between the ground floor apartment and the light compartment just under
the pagoda roof, is an open space. In there is a big bell.
''Made in 1889,'' says Jake. ''Says so right on the bell. Whenever it's
foggy,we set that going. Clockwork arrangement for that too.I suppose they'll
have a bell on the new tower.Maybe they'll use this one. It's still mighty
good.''
Jake thinks they will probably keep the old lighthouse intact. The new
tower will be over 100 feet high and have two sets of lights, one for mariners
and one for aviators.
''Electricity is fine and more powerful and most of the time it will be
all right,'' says Jake. '' But wires do come down and power is shut off
sometimes.Now you can't let a lighthouse light go out.
''If something happens to shut off the power,then what? I figure they'll
move this old place where it can still be seen,and then if the electricity
stops we can light up the oil lamp. One thing about oil lamps, you can work right
on them and they're dependable.I don't think they'll tear the old place down
even when the new one is finished.''
Maybe Jake is right.
BERG- GUSTAFSON
The wedding of Miss Ebba V.GUSTAFSON, daughter of Alfred GUSTAFSON, of 36
Grant street,Jamestown,N.Y. and Herbert F.J.BERG, son of Mr.and Mrs.Frank
BERG, of 1470 East Twenty-seventh street, will take place on Saturda, the
Rev.Fred CROSSLAND, of 1209 Avenue P, officiating at the ceremony, which will
be at the Hotel St.George.
Miss Anna E.GUSTAFSON, sister of the bride, will be maid of honor, and the
Misses Edna BERG, and Louise LINDGREEN, of 8 Orchard Square, Caldwell,N.J.,
will be bridesmaids. Raoul EHRLICH, of 8553 Seventy-sixth street, Woodhaven,
L.I. will act as best man, and Rudolph SCHNEIDER,Jr, 1751 East Thirteenth
street, and Theodore Norman, of Astoria,L.I. will be ushers.
DE CASTRO-- CONNELLY
Miss Esther Frances CONNELLY, daughter of Mr.Francis Joseph CONNELLY of
Woodhaven, L.I., has announced the plans for her marriage to Edward Maurice
de CASTRO Jr., son of Dr.and Mrs.Edward Maurice de CASTRO.
The ceremony will take place June 20, at the Queen of All Saints Church with
Rev.Thomas PHILBIN officiating. Mrs. John Joseph CONKLIN will be matron of
honor,
and the other bridal attendants willbe Misses Margaret BLAKE, Mary CAMPBELL,
Frances KELLEY, Elvira TODD, Adele Van BUREN and Mrs.George J.GILLESPIE, Jr.
John FARRELL de CASTRO will act as best man for his brother, and the ushers
will include
Henry Read de CASTRO,
Joseph N.de RAIMES, Jr.,
James H.BURNS,
Amedio GIORDANO,
John Joseph CONKLIN,
Charles Leo CRAWLEY,
Joseph BRENNAN and Francis D.KINNALY.
4 June 1931
CAMP OUTING FOR 31 GIRLS
Thirty-one Brooklyn Camp Fire Girls have been selected to go to Camp Akiwa,
the Camp Fire Girls Camp in Harriman State Park for a pioneer week-end
to-morrow afternoon,Miss Iris D.HIGGINS executive,said today.
The Camp Fire Girls who will leave the headquarters of the Brooklyn Council
at 111 Montague street by bus for the camp include:
Edna GODDARD
Evelyn KEENAN,
Jean GEDDES,
Dorothy HANNIGAN,
Rosalind HARRISON,
Irene LEVY,
Mary BILLINGTON,
Margaret BROWN,
Winifred VICKERY,
Virginia RAYNOR,
Georgene STANSBERRY,
Virginia LEETE,
Margaret COZIER,
June SODERQUIST
Helen ROXBURY,
Eleanor KNOPPOW,
Blanche DANIA,
Gertrude REMMERS,
Ruth KNOPPOW,
Irene FEIGOLD,
Ethel AMMERMAN,
Cherry AMMERMAN,
Ethel WATROUS,
Dorothy SUPON,
Pauline BAUER,
Meryl MALLINSON,
Betty SPARROW,
Alice EBERIE,
Doris LEVETTE,
June LAUER and Barbara BOLT.
Accompanying the girls will be Miss HIGGINS and the following
councillors and junior councillors:
Marion BORNER,
Elizabeth FERGUSON,
Eleanor HOFSTED,
Peggy BROWN,
Mildred PEARCE,
Grace TUTTLE,
Doris REMMERS and Estelle BATEMAN.
INJURED BY AUTO
Rabbi Paisack SPIVACK,67,of 354SouthFifth street,was injured by an
automobile yesterday at Broadway and Driggs avenue.The machine
was operated by Matthew MARONEY,of 1911 Ralph street,Ridgewood.
Rabbi SPIVACK was treated for injuries to the right hand.
SCALP LACERATED
When a part of the ceiling fell in her home,Mrs.Dora SOMET,53,of 33 South
Third street,sustained laceration of the scalp.She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon COSTIGAN of St.Catharine's Hospital and remained at home.
QUEENS YOUTH WINS NAVAL TEST HONORS
Donald Syvarth LENK of 92-42 212th place,Queens Villiage,who recently
enlisted in the Navy,after completion of his recruit training at
Newport,R.I.,passed a competitive examination and won assignment
to the Aviation Mecanics School at Great Lakes. He completed
the course with a final mark of 86 percent.
GIRL,17, SAVED FROM DROWNING
Miss Rita O'CONNOR,17, of 3 Woodrow cottage,Beach Fifty-sixth street,
Edgemere,was rescued from drowning in the ocean at the foot of Beach
Sixty-sixth street yesterday by Norman IMBER,of 57-17 Rockaway Beach.
She was resuscitated by an ambulance surgeon from St.Joseph Hospital
and members of the police emergency squad from Richmond Hill precinct.
PAINTER WAITS FOR AMBULANCE
The Far Rockaway Board of Trade has asked the superintendent of hospitals
to station an emergency ambulance at St.Joseph's Hospital,Far Rockaway, during
the summer. This action was taken after the police had to wait nearly 45
minutes for an ambulance yesterday when Hugh ERICKSON, 37,a painter,of 354 East
Fifty-third street, fell from the roof of a three-story building at 1241 Oak
street,Far Rockaway.
ERICKSON is in the hospital critically injured. The board of trade
exonerated the hospital of blame in the delay in sending an ambulance.
BARBER TOSSED INTO VACANT LOT
Joseph GULLO,21, of 270 East Thirty-first street, a barber, was sitting in
a parked autombile in front of 600 East Twenty-first street last night
when three armed men blackjacket him, tossed him into the rear seat and
drove the car away.
After driving around the borough for an hour or more.GULLO's assailants
dumped him in a vacant lot at Avenue U and East Sixty-fourth street,Brooklyn.
GULLO later was treated by Dr.ROSENTHAL,of Unity Hospital for head injuries and
was taken home. Police of Brooklyn avenue station are looking for the barber's
assailants, who are believed to be still in possession of the automobile,
which is owned by GULLO's brother-in-law.
HIT-RUN VICTIM DYING IN HOSPITAL
John MULLEN,52,of 2154 Atlantic avenue, was struck byan automobile driven
by a hit-and-run driver early to-day as he was crossing Fulton street at
Brooklyn avenue.
Ambulance Surgeon LITTENBERG of Swedish Hospital was summoned and ordered
MULLEN removed to Kings County Hospital. He has a fractured right leg and
possible internal injuries and was reported in serious condition.
ATTEMPTS TO DIE AFTER QUARREL
Mrs.Ruth GEMMELL, 24,of 223 Vermont street, locked herself in her bedroom
and turned on the gas following a quarrel with her husband,Albert, last
night,according to the police.
Mr.GEMMELL ran two blocks to Miller avenue police station, where he
reported that his wife was attempting to commit suicide. Patrolmen Albert MASSOIES
and Thomas GERAGHTY hurried to the house,broke down the door of the bedroom and
dragged Mrs.GEMMELL,who was nearly overcome, out into the open air.
She was revived by an emergency crew from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company
and then was taken to the Kings County Hospital by Dr.ROTHBERG, of Trinity
Hospital.
Her condition is not serious.
5 June 1931
SUSTAIN BURNS SAVING SISTER
Because Josephine POLOSKI, 9, and Stanley, her brother,17, knew
what to do and did it, both were badly burned on the hands to-day but
Catherine POLOSKI, 16, is, as Stanley says, O.K.
Catherine was cleaning a dress with gasoline in their home at 285
Bedford avenue last night, when the fuel exploded. In an instant the girl
was wreathed in flames. Stanley and Josephine rushed in together, and
tore off Catherine's burning clothes.
The apartment floor was blazing by this time, but prompt work by
firemen kept damage down to $500, and Catherine escaped with burns
which are painful but not serious.
CONEY COP HALTS WOULD-BE SUICIDE
Joe MILLER, 55,homeless, out of work for nine months and tired of
struggling along, decided to end it all to-day, and began walking out
into the ocean at West Fifth street,Coney Island.
The water was up over his chin when Patrolman David GREENBURG,
observing this performance with surprise and indignation,yelled; ''Hey,
come out of that.'' MILLER turned obediently and plodded back to the
shore. An ambulance took him to Coney Island Hospital to be
attended for submersion.
DEATH IN CHAIR IS FATE OF TWO BORO SLAYERS
The father of four children turned bandit in Brooklyn, and now he
will be sentenced to death.
The prisoner is Peter SARDINA, 29,of 2705 Harway avenue. With
him will also be sentenced to death Peter MATERA, 30, of 60 Twenty-
eighth avenue.
SARDINA and MATERA, who were prosecuted by Assistant District
Attorney John J.KEAN, were found guilty early to-day by a jury before
County Judge Conway on a charge of murder in the first degree. Judge
Conway fixed next Monday, June 8, for sentence. The jury deliberated
almost six hours before they agree on a verdict.
From the time the trail got under way a week ago last Monday, there
was no half-way mark possible for SARDINA and MATERA. On the
evidence that had been marshaled against them by District Attorney
GEOGHAN and Assistant District Attorney KEAN, it was either death
or liberty for the two. In his charge to the jurors, Judge CONWAY in-
structed them that their verdict must be either guility of murder in the
first degree or not guilty.
Assistant District Attorney KEAN proved the murder was committed
during the robbery. Judge CONWAY pointed out to the jurors that, if
they were convinced the defendants had committed murder during a
robbery staged by them, in their verdict of guilty they were limited under
the law toone of guilt of murder in the first degree. Their only other
verdict,
Judge CONWAY told the jurors, could be one of not guilty.
Early on the morning of April 12, last, three men, two with drawn revolvers
entered the boathouse ''speakeasy'' at 230 Bay Forty-ninth street, and
ordered all in there to ''stick'em up''. The three bandits were alleged to
be SARDINA, MATERA and Salvatore FILI. While the robbers were at work
Frank ZAPPO, a patron inthe place, leaped at one of them.His life was
quickly snuffed out by a bullet from a weapon of one of the bandits. It
was testified that ZAPPO leaped on SARDINA,but a bullet from the weapon
of MATERA killed him.
Salvatore MRGIONE,another patron,gave fight to the bandits, using
Salvatore FILI, one of the bandits as a shield.He got a bullet in the
hand, and another bullet meant for him went through the heart of FILI.
MATERA made his getaway, but SARDINA was held until the arrival
of the police. MATERA claimed he never was in the speakeasy. SARDINA
claimed he was the victim of circumstances. He testified he was only a
patron in the place when the bandits arrived, and that he became involved
in a general scuffle and was mistaken for one of the bandits.
The trail proved a hard and skillfully fought one with Assistant District
Attorney KEAN in charge of the prosecution and Ex-Judge Francis X.
MANCUSO and Frank S.SERRI as attorneys for the defense. Every
inch of the way was hard fought.
BUS CRASH, FIRE KILL MAN, SEND 20 TO HOSPITAL
Queens Autoist Dies, Brooklyn Man and Woman Hurt
Poughkeepsie, June 5(U P)- One person was killed and more than
twenty injured seriously when a New York-Albany-Montreal bus
crashed into a roadster to-day.
John WIGHT, 43, of 4103 Sixt-ninth street, Woodside, Queens, owner
of the roadster, was killed. Bus passengers, several of whom were burned
by fire which followed the crash, were taken to Vassar and St. Francis
hospital.
The roadster was carried on the front of the bus for nearly 100 yards.
The bus was going south toward New York when the crash occurred
about five miles south of here on the Albany-New York Post road.
Twelve were treated at Vassar Hospital, but six were able to leave
after minor injuries had been dressed,Those in the hospital are;
Mrs.Sarah CROESDALL, Pleasantville,N.J.
George MEISEL, 5003 Fourteenth ave, Brooklyn
James PAUL, Saratoga Springs
Maurice SHAPIRO, 259 Veater street, Montreal
Louis JACOBSON, Montreal
Rose JACOBSON, his wife.
Those at St.Francis Hospital are;
Joseph WIWE, Montclair,N.J.
Ephraim BROCHER, 341 West Twenty fourth st, Manhattan
Leo FILGER, Portland,Ore
Lily ANTON, 1631 Prospect ave,Brooklyn.
6 June 1906
Mill Owner Saved From Gas Death
John KIMMELMAN, 48, of 159-14 Eighty-fourth road,Jamaica, is
recovering from gas poisoning. He was accidentally overcome in his
glass and mill works at 150-17 Rockaway road,Jamaica, from fumes
escaping froma defective gas pipe. After being revived by a crew from
the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and Dr.SOMMEWITZ of Jamaica
Hospital, KIMMELMAN left for his home.
PRACTICAL JOKE WORRIES OFFICER
Patrolman Henry SCHWAB, of Bedford avenue station, was the
victim of a practical joker, it was learned to-day and until yesterday
the incident worried him.
Last Sunday was his day off and with Patrolman Edward DREXLER
he went to Long Beach to fish, parking his car in a lot. Two friends
who followed him waited until he was out of sight and then made out
a ticket telling him he violated the parking law and to deposit $5 in
a tin cup at the end of the road.
When the end of the road was reached Patrolman SCHWAB went
looking for the cup.He was unable to find one and so he drove home.
He wanted to go fishing in the same place to-morrow, but feared
the police of Long Beach would be watching for him and arrest
him for failing to obey the instructions.
Then he was ''let in'' on the joke.
BENEFIT AIDS HIRSCH WIDOW
A benefit performance for Mrs.Freda HIRSCH, widow of Nassau
County Patrolman Frederick HIRSCH, who was slain by Francis
''Two Gun'' CROWLEY, near North Merrick, on May 12, was held
at the Freeport Theatre last night.
A minstrel show, fifteen vaudeville acts and music by the New
York Police Glee Club featured the programme,Miss Elinor SMITH,
the Freeport aviatrix, was among those taking part in the benrfit.
Victor MOORE, veteran actor,was master of ceremonies, and
Dr.Peter FARGONE, of Merrick, was chairman.
The net proceeds of the performance, estimated at about $1,000,
will be turned over tothe widow of the Patrolman for whose murder
CROWLEY was this week sentenced to death in the electric chair.
GROCERY STORE ROBBED BY PAIR
Two armed young bandits yesterday held up and robbed the chain
grocery store at 461 Lincoln place, taking $85 from the cash
register and making their getaway in an automobile.
Patrick McLAUGHLIN, of 410 St.Marks avenue, manager of the
store told the police of Grand avenue station that he was alone in
the place when the two men entered. Both had guns, he said. They
told him to keep quiet and while one of them ''covered'' him with a
revolver the other ransacked the cash register, took the money and
then both hurried from the store.
McLAUGHLIN said he went into the street after the bandits had
left and hesaw an automobile hurrying down the street, but he was
not able to see the numbers on the license plates.
Mr. and Mrs.Frank SINCLAIR, of 248 Henry street are spending
the summer at Rosslyn House, Sinclair Point, Northville,N.Y.
They will return to town in November.
Mrs.Henry R.LATHROOP of Clinton avenue has been spending
a few days at her country home at Glenburn, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs.Harry M.EDWARDS, of 769 St.Marks avenue, are at
their home at 32 Irving place, Rockville Centre,L.I.,for the summer.
Engagement/Wedding
SHAY- SCHOENFELD
Miss Sylvia SCHOENFELD of 219 Dean street, and Raymond SHAY,
of 139 East Fifty-third street, will be married to-morrow at 1 o'clock
in the afternoon at the Franklin Manor.Following a honeymoon in
Canada the couple will reside in Brooklyn.
MEYERSON- KAYE
Mr.and Mrs.Phillip KAYE,of 132 Irwin street,Manhattan Beach,
announced the engagement of their daughter, Renee, to Benjamin
MEYERSON, son of Mr and Mrs.Max MEYERSON,of 78 East
Forty-third street.
Miss KAYE is a graduate of Colby College,1928,and a member of
Phi Sigma Delta Fraterninty. Mr.MEYERSON is connected with
Wall Street firm. The date for the wedding has not been set yet.
SENGER- WIRFEL
The wedding of Miss Florence C.WIRFEL, daughter of Mr.and Mrs
James WIRFEL,of 6154 Palmeto street, to Albert G.SENGER,son
of Henry SENGER,of 347 McDonnougher street,and the late Mrs.
SENGER,took place this morning at 10 o'clock nupital mass in
St.Messiah's Church.The Rev J.DORMAN performed the ceremony
which was followed by a reception.
Miss Gertrude BARANOWSKI was maid of honor, and bridesmaids
were, Miss Julia SENGER; Miss Alice BARTNICK; Miss Kathryn TIMMONS
and Miss Eleanor WIRFEL. Bernrd SENGER,brother of the bridegroom,
was the best man,the ushers were Robert WIRFEL, Charles SENGER,
John SMITH, and Joseph STELL. After an extended motor trip through
New England Mr.and Mrs.SENGER will live in Woodcliff,N.J.
O'DONNELL- BROVARSKI
Miss Lottie BROVARSKI,daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Stanley BROVARSKI,
of 666 Fifty-first street, will become the bride of Cornelius O'DONNELL,
Jr., of 430 Fifty-third street,at the R.C.Church of Our Lady of
Czenstochowa, tomorrow afternoon. Miss BROVARSKI will be
attended by her sister, Miss Mary BROVARSKI. Mr O'DONNELL's
best man will be his brother,James ODONNELL.
Mr.O'DONNELL and his bride-to-be willmake their future home
at 666 Fifty-first street. Mr.O'DONNELL is the son of Cornelius
O'DONNELL,of the Borough President's staff.
CONNORS- DUFFY
The Right Rev.Mgr.McGOLDRICK officiated at the marriage of
Miss Helen DUFFY of 125 Eastern parkway, and Thomas CONNORS,
son of Mr.and Mrs.P.L.CONNORS,of Rockaway Park,N.Y. at the
St.Cecilia R.C.Church this morning. Walter WILLIAMS,brother-in-law
gave the bride in marriage. Margaret DOUGLAS was maid of honor,
and Loretta McGRATH ws bridesmaid. The best an was William CONNORS
and Eugene CONNORS and Joseph BOSCO were ushers.
The couple will honeymoon in Maine and on their return reside at
446 St.John's place.
WHITE- O'BRIEN
At an evening wedding in the chapel of the Packer Collegiate
Institute, Miss Ruth O'BRIEN,daughter of Mrs.Caroline(YOUNG)
O'BRIEN,of 651 Marlborough court, and Wallace WHITE, son of
Mr.and Mrs.John R.S.WHITE,of 126 Rose street, Freeport,L.I.,
were married yesterday.The officiating minister was the Rev.Dr.
William E.DUDLEY,pastor ofthe Fltbush Congregational Church.
Mrs.O'BRIEN gave her daughter in marriage.Mrs.Burr EELLS,Jr,
was matron of honor and Miss Mignon PAULI was maid of honor.
Bridesmaid were Miriam FRAZER, Constance PEDEN.
W.Barrington MILLER was bestan.The ushers were, Burr EELLS,Jr.,
Charles BRAISLEY, Kenneth OUTWATER, Harry C.YOUNG and
Charles MacLEOD.
EDWIN HALL MARRIED 50 YEARS
Mr and Mrs.Edwin HALL, of 1228 Pacific street, celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary with a dinner yesterday at the Hotel St.George.
Mr.HALL is a well-known Brooklyn merchant, having been in the
furniture business at 1167 Fulton street for over 36 years.
The couple were married in London and they have lived in the
Bedford section of Brooklyn for over 40 years. Mr.HALL is a
member of Delta Lodge,F & A.M.;Orient Chapter,R.A.M.;
Clinton Commandery and Shriners. Mrs HALL is a member
with her six daughters of Crescent Chapter,No.55,O. E. S.
Their six daughters and two sons were among the thirty
guests at the dinner.The guests were; Mrs.Ruth A.FISHER;
Miss Mildred FISHER; Mr & Mrs.John H.TICE,Jr.; Mr.& Mrs.
George MOORE; Miss Lillian HALL; Miss Beatrice HALL;
Mr & Mrs.George KOLYER; Mr & Mrs.Edwin P.HALL;
Mr.&Mrs.John FINCK; Mr & Mrs.William PRESTON;
Miss Lorraine PRESTON; Mr & Mrs.George W.SMITH;
Dr.George C.MOOR and Mr. & Mrs.Ernest JAMES.
8 June 1931
CONEY ISLAND POLICE RESCUE 8 FROM DISABLED FISHING DORY
Gun Carries Line to Boat, Which Is Then Hauled From Heavy Sea
Returning from the fishing banks off Sandy Hook last night the
twenty-five foot open dory Fega, owned and piloted by Capt.
Jacob IVERSON of Ulmer Park and carrying seven men passengers,
was caught in the storm and disabled.
The winds whipped the sea into a fury and the waves buffeted the
boat about for an hour. Water flooded the fuel tank and the motor
became disabled.
The little vessel drifted toward Coney Island, off the foot of West
Thirty-second street, faint cries for help could be heard by promenaders
on the Coney Island boardwalk. Police were notified and Police
Emergenency Squad No.11, in charge of Sergt.Frank KINSCHER,
was sent to aid the distressed ones.
When Sergt KINSCHER and men arrived they could discern in the
darkness the outline of the boat.Searchlights were played on the
vessel.The sergeant shot a projectile from a life gun and it was
caught by Capt.IVERSON. At the end of it was attached a heavy
hawser, which was pulled in by the skipper.The rescue squad was
then able to pull the dory to the beach while a crowd looked on.
Capt.IVERSON and his passengers clambered out to safety.They
did not require medical attention. After tying up the boat they left
for their homes.They identified themselves as:
Charles PHILLIPS,of 156 Leroy street, Manhattan
Carl SCHMIDT,of 77 Clarkson street,Manhattan
Peter CLARKSON,of 77 Clarkson street, Manhattan
Austin HUDSON, of Hollis,L.I.
Edson FRIZZELL,of 59 West 105th street, Manhattan
Robert WASSERSON, of 376 East Third street.
Leonard HUMRATH, of 695 Grand street.
AUTO HITS STOOP, TWO WOMEN HURT
Two young women were treated for shock early to-day by
Dr.JACOBSON, of Long Island College Hospital, after the driver
of the car in which they were riding lost control and crashed into
a wooden stoop at 143-145 Summit street.
The young women, Blanche GORDON, 25, of 597 Osborn street,
and Frances BRODIE, 26, of 799 Putnam avenue, went home
after treatment. Arthur KAUFMAN, of 3 Meseroie street, the driver
was only slightly injured and did not require treatment.
AUTOIST CRASHES WALL, HITS WOMAN
Mrs.Katie BUCCELATH, 32 was injured last night when an
autombile crashed through the wall of her home on the ground
floor at 1245 Belmont avenue. Mrs.BUCCELATH was with her
baby in the kitchen when the crash occured.
Police of the Miller avenue station arrested William KAPPENBERGER,
23, of 294 Forbell avenue, who, they say, was driving the car.
KAPPENBERGER told the police that he had never driven
that tpe of automobile before and became confused. Mrs.BUCCELATH
was treated by an ambulance surgeon from the Trinity Hospital.
SHEPHERD TO GET $35 WAR PENSION
Fred SHEPHERD, former Queens assistant engineer in charge
of maintenance, who was indicted with Irving KLEIN, former
superintendent of highways for that borough, on charges of bribery,
announced today that he was to get $35 a month from the Government
for injuries sustained in the Spanish-American War.
And this is how, he said, he was injured. SHEPHERD was signal
boy on the U.S.S.Iowa when the Iowa sighted the Spanish fleet before
the battle of Santiago Bay. He signaled so lustily in semaphoring the
other ships of the fleet that he injured his arm.The claim was presented
to the government several months ago.
MOTHER GETS MEDAL WON BY BOY SCOUT HERO
Kenneth Hall Gave Life to Save Others in Yacht Blast
A mother, whose son gave his life that others might live,
walked alone to the dais during the course of the second
annual dinner of the Brooklyn Council,Boy Scouts of
America, last night to receive a gold metal posthumously
awarded to him by the Scouts for ''extrordinary heroism
in the saving of human life.''
Mrs.Jessica HALL, of 2525 Church avenue, mother of
Kenneth HALL, of Troop 43, Flatbush, who died last fall as
the result of burns received in a yacht explosion, during
which he ran to shut off the fuel supply in order to prevent
a second blast, received from Supreme Court Justice,
James C.CROPSEY, president of the council, the award,
accepting it for her son.
Tony ALONGE, 13, of Troop 10.Bath Beach, is small in
stature, but he also received the medal awarded him in
recognition of his quick work in rescuing a full grown man
from drowning off Coney Island last summer.
More than 1,500 Scouts and their friends participated in
the colorful ceremonies held in the Elk's Club, Boerum place
and Livingston street.
HOOKEY TRIP TO CONEY ENDS AS BOY TOUCHES THIRD RAIL
Willie Lands in Hospital, Police Take Care of Pals.
Third-rail ''juice'', William FELDMAN, 9, told his friends,
*Casper,8 and Artie,5, will never hurt anybody, but Willie
FELDMAN knows to-day it kicks like a mule.
Willie FELDMAN is in Coney Island Hospital, shaken and
burned, but slowly recovering from the effects of a ''demonstration''
he said he staged to climax a day of adventurous hookey-
playing yesterday,on the Brighton Beach line at Banner avenue,
Coney Island.
Willie put his hand on the rail, he said, or maybe he stumbled,
and the shot of third-rail juice pitched him ten feet, while *Gasper
LIBERTELLA and Artie BROWN shricked their astonishment.
Leon GAFERAN, of 2740 East Twelfth street happened by.
He picked Willie up, summoned an ambulance and sent him to
Coney Island Hospital.Gasper,who lives at 235 Johnson avenue,
and Artie, who forgot his address in the excitement, were taken
to Coney Island police station where their parents claimed them
last night.
The three departed from P.S.43, Boreum and Manhattan avenues,
Greenpoint, just before classes started, when Willie exhibited a
dime.Gasper added a nickel,and Artie betrayed such eagerness
they couldn't resist taking him along.They squirmed through an
elevated turnstile for a free trip south to the Boardwalk and spent
the day watching other people lose money ringing canes.
The treasury was cracked at 2 P.M. for three hot dogs.That
is how Willie came to be crossing the mule-kicking third rail.
They were going home ''on the cuff''. Willie lives at 103 Humboldt street.
PATROLMAN INJURED IN TAXI-TRUCK CRASH
Patrolman Francis TYNION, 30, of 619 Forty-ninth street, is in
Holy Family hospital, suffering from lacerations of the face received
in an auto collision last night. A taxi in which he was a passenger
crashed into a truck owned by the Eastern Farm Products Company
of 211 North Eighth street, at Union street and Third Avenue, due
to a misunderstanding of signals. No arrests were made, and
Joseph TRIMBLE, driver of the taxi living at 200-11 119th avenue,
Queens, was released.
DRIVER FINDS WOMAN POISONED IN TAXICAB
When James FRANK of 362 Cornelius street was driving his
taxi past Myrtle and Washington avenues last night, he heard
his passenger,Mrs.Victoria MILLER, 31,of 1081 Flushing avenue,
scream. He stopped and called Patrolman Henry MELDRUM, of
Classon avenue station, who found the woman was suffering
from having swallowed iodine. She was treated by Dr.AJOWDIN,
of Brooklyn Hospital, and taken to that hospital. Police believe
her act was due to continued poor health.
10 June 1931
DEVOUT & CURIOUS THRONG SURGES TO ''MIRACLE HOME''
Devout and curious continued their descent to-day upon the
home of Dominick PALUMBO, of 1203 Thirty-eighth street, to
see and worship the statue of St.Joseph, which was said to be
weeping. All morning there were visitors and finally Mrs.PALUMBO
closed the door and said, ''No more.'' She said she had been unable
to sleep because of the crowds, and that her sister-in-law had
become ill from the strain of the attention.
Those who were admitted before her ultimatum saw one small
tear slipping slowly down the left check of the image and falling
on the form of the Infant Jesus it held in its arms. Many who had
been constant visitors since the tears were first reported said that
''it had been known to weep continuously for five minutes at a time.''
The image is about four feet high and is made of plaster of paris
and is kept in a glass case about six feet high. It is colored, the
robes being brown and gold.
Mrs. PALUMBO said she first noticed the phenomenon June 1
when she was praying before it.She said she started to weep as she
prayed and suddenly looked up into the face of the image and saw
tears coming from its eyes. She was frightened at first, she said, but
later thought that the image was weeping for her.
The Rev.John J.ONEILL, of the Church of St.Catherine of Alexandria,
viewed the image three times, he said, and the first two times nothing
was to be seen.The third time, however, he said he saw two small
drops-one from each eye-fall from its face.
He refused to commit himself on the authenticity of the
phenomenon, saying it was entirely possible that it was the result
of natural physical causes.
There were others in the community, however, who were ready to
believe it was a manifestation, and many prayed before the image,
some brought handkerchiefs to get a tear from the eyes to keep
as a sacred relic.
AUTO HITS GIRDER PATROLMAN HURT
Patrolman Chester BOYLE, 34,of 337 Beach Seventy-third street,
Rockaway Beach, attached to Traffic L, was taken to Gouverneur
Hospital,Manhattan, last night suffering from internal injuries
following a fall from the running board of an automobile on the
Manhattan Bridge.
BOYLE, stationed on the bridge, boarded the automobile,
driven by Joseph McCORMICK,of 61 Cleveland avenue,
Harrison, N.J., and was riding towards Manhattan when the
car hit an iron girder at the New York tower, causing it to stop
short and throwing BOYLE to the pavement.
STORE AND HOME FOUND ARSENAL
Seven guns of various types and 365 rounds of ammunition which
police said they found secreted in the store and apartment of
Frank MAISIANA, 61, of 63 Degraw street, led to his arrest last
night on a charge of violating the Sullivan law.
Members of the Brooklyn gangster squad went to MAISIANA's
grocery store on the strength of all anonymous tip that he was
well armed. MARISIANA, police said, told them he kept the
arsenal for protection from ''Blackhands'' who demanded $5,000
on threats of boming the family or kidnaping Rosina MARISIANA,16.
BOY HURT IN FALL RECOVERING BALL
Edward KEHOE,12, of 194 Court street, was badly hurt yesterday
when he fell to the pavement from the roof of a three-story house
at 55 Wyckoff street. The boy was playing ball with companions on
the street, when the ball was knocked or thrown to the roof. He
went after it, lost his balance and toppled over.
He was taken to Holy Family Hospital, suffering from a compound
fracture of the thigh and other injuries which made his recovery
a matter of doubt.
LITTLE GIRL'S SKULL FRACTURED BY AUTO
Lillian PONCE, 7, of 190 Powers street, is in Greenpoint
Hospital to-day, suffering from a fractured skull and internal
injuries received when she was struck by an auto last night.
While crossing the street in front of her home, she was struck
by an auto driven by Charles SPINOLI, of 139 Norfolk street,
Manhattan.SPINOLI stopped his car, and summoned an
ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital, who treated
her and then took her to the hospital in an ambulance.
YOUTH IS HELD ON CHECK CHARGE
Meyer MICHAELSON, 21, of 1755 Seventy-seventh street, was
in need of a dollar on April 30.He failed to borrow the money and
made out a check,signed his name to it and had Clifford MILLER,
of 25 Rush street, cash it. The check was returned marked ''No
Funds''. Yesterday MICHAELSON waived examination before
Magistrate RUDICH in Bridge Plaza Court and was held in
$500 bail for the Court of Special Sessions.
TWO IN AUTO HURT IN TROLLEY CAR
Two men were slightly injured last night when the automobile
they were driving struck a safety signal light station at Avenue I
and Flatbush avenue and then careened into a Flatbush avenue
trolley car.
The men were Patrick McDONALD, 25,of 869 Jefferson avenue,
and Charles REARDON,of 105 Lincoln place. They were taken
to Kings County Hospital with injured scalps. The motorman
of the trolley car was Thomas BURKE, who gave his address
as the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp.offices.
12 June 1931
TRUCK HITS CHILD, DRIVER COLLAPSES
When a truck driven by George RENZ, 45, of 2023 E. Fifty-
fifth street, struck four-year-old Simone MONTELO, of
219 First street, at First street and Third avenue, late this
afternoon.RENZ collapsed from the shock and the ambulance
surgeon who attended him feared that he would die.
The boy was rushed to Methodist Episcopal Hospital in a
private automobile. The police emergency squad joined the
ambulance surgeon in an effort to revive RENZ. He is employed
by Jacob MORGENTHALER & Sons, a borough lumber concern.
CONVICT USES RAZOR ON BRIDE
Seeing his bride of two months in the corridor of the New York
County Court House, David KLEIN, a prisoner in the penitentiary,
broke away from his keeper and slashed her throat with a razor
blade yesterday.
KLEIN, whose wife, Sylvia, is suing him for annulment of
their marriage, was disarmed by the keeper,Frederick KAHN.
After the young woman's wound had been dressed by an
ambulance surgeon she testified before Referee Joseph
NEWBERGER, that she had married KLEIN on April 8,
but learned later he had previously married Ida RABINOWITZ
and that they had a two-months-old child.
KLEIN, who was convicted six weeks ago of third degree
burglary, will be booked later on a charge of felonious assault.
BROOKLYN GIRLS WIN AT ST. ELIZABETH'S
Angelina AVITABLE,of 3014 East Second street, was one of
four girls to be graduated with honors yesterday from the
College of St.Elizabeth, Convent Station,N.J. She received
a Bachelor of Arts degree. She also won honors in Spanish.
Her sister,Henrietta, who also received her degree yesterday,
won honors in Spanish. Muriel Du PONT,of Richmond Hill,
won honors in history.She received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Fifty-one students were graduated.
Majorie CAPLIS,of Flushing, won honors for general excellence
this year.She will be a senior next year.
50 YEARS MARRIED TODAY
Mr and Mrs.Martin McGRATH, of 136 Coffey street, are receiving
congratulations to-day on the occassion of their golden wedding
anniversary. Surrounded by seven of their thirteen children and
seven grandchildren, they planned to celebrate fifty years of
married life in their home to-night, and to-morrow will leave for
Atlantic City on their second honeymoon.
Mr.McGRATH, a retired shipping man, met his wife at a
houseparty in Brooklyn fifty years ago and they were married
in St.Stephen's R.C.Church, Hicks street and Summit avenue.
They have lived in their present home for twenty-five years.
With them will be their numerous relatives, including
Mr. and Mrs.George McMAHON
Mr. and Mrs.William McGRATH
Mr. and Mrs.Francis McGRATH
Mr. and Mrs.John FEHER
Mr.and Mrs.James HEAVEY,their daughter,Cecilla.
SISTERS BEAT COP
Intruding On Sale of Sex Pamphlet
Patrolman Frank SCHETTINO, his left eye luxuriantly purple,
his face scratched in a score of places from brow to chin,
confronted Mary and Madeline RAGAN, blue-eyed Irish step-
sisters, in Gates avenue court to-day and described how they
had decorated him last night when he objected to their further
selling of sex pamphlet outside the Haganbeck-Wallace
circus camp in Ridgewood.
Patrolman SCHETTINO was on duty at the circus grounds
at Hart street and Cypress avenue for the evening. Madeline
and Mary, both very pretty and twenty-two, were there on
business too. Mary, on a soapbox, was discussing in a
sweet treble the virtues of ''sex science'' before a large and
enthusiastic crowd of men and women.
Madeline was circulating about selling copies of a pamphlet
as fast as she copuld make change.This, said SCHETTINO,
was all right with him. But the crowd became so big, traffic
on Hart street was blocked and SCHETTINO felt it incumbent
to stop the lecture.Mary, however, refused to do so,he said, and
he helped her down from the pulpit.Then the battle began.
Madeline,pulled off his cap and pitched it twenty feet. One of
the girls yanked his tunic and a button popped off.A feminine
fist banged into his left eye.Feminine fingers pulled his hair,
tweaked his nose,twisted his ears.And feminine finernails
drew red lacework across SCHETTINO'S face, while he grappled
futilely, a man divided between need for the ganster technique,
and the realization he was dealing with young women.
Three other patrolmen came to his rescue and found it was
no comedy.It took them, twelve minutes to persuade the
girls the girls the cause was lost.Followed a patrol wagon
trip to the Wilson avenue station, transfer to the Gates avenue
station, a night under care of the matron there, for Mary and
Madeline, and their appearance today before Magistrate HIRSHFIELD.
Magistrate HIRSHFIELD, whose views on police are no secret,
looked with poker expression at Patrolman SCHETTINO, at Mary
and Madeline.They looked back demurely.Magistrate HIRSHFIELD
paroled them for trail Monday.They live at 1523 East Fifteenth
street, Flatbush.
''We wouldn't have done it. We would have stopped. We
would have been nice,'' they told a Standard Union reporter
in the corridor afterward. ''If that patrolman had treated us
decently. You would think we were dogs,what he said.''
17 June 1931
WOMEN DEMAND SEPARATE COURT
A woman's court and house of detention separate from the new
Raymond street jail is a vital necessity to Brooklyn, according
to a resolution passed by the New York State Federation of
Women's Clubs, for the Second District, to-day after a long
discussion at the Hotel St.George.
Mrs.Robert Starr ALLYN, director for the Second District,
presided and Mrs.William Dick STORBORG, president of the
federation, was present. Copies of the resolution will be sent
to the Mayor, the Chief Magistrate and the Commissioner
of Corrections.
GIRL ARRESTED AS MURDERER
Alleged to have confessed shooting Harold PIERCE, 30, a
counterman,of 708 Caton avenue, June 1. Mrs.Dorothy ARAGINO,
23, a waitress, who gave her address as West Fifth street and
Surf avenue, Coney Island, was arrested in Jersey City to-day
by Detectives TREZZA, BOWE and SWIFT, of the Brooklyn
Homicide Squad, following a hunt through Hoboken, Summit
and Newark.
Mrs.ARAGINO, police say, is known under several aliases,
among them Dot McMANUS, Dot SMITH and Helen SULLIVAN.
She is said to have escaped from Clinton Farms, N.J. Jan.27,1930,
where she had been committed Dec 12,1929, for perjury.
She told arresting detectives she had been living with PIERCE,
had an argument with him June 1 because he had been spending
too much money and because she was jealous of him, and that
the argument culminated in the shooting, from which he died
June 7 in Kings County Hospital, where he had been transferred
from Caledonian Hospital.
POLICE CHASE HALTS BANDITS; TWO WOUNDED
Police efficiency descended on three young Brooklyn drug store
bandits who thought they had escaped last midnight with $40 loot
and one is dying in Unity Hospital of a bullet wound to-day, the
second has a bullet slash in his side and is a prisoner with the
third. All face jail terms for assault and robbery.
The three committed their alleged hold-up in East Flatbush,
and found themselves wounded and prisoners all within twenty-
five minutes, but in that brief period fifty patrolmen played parts,
and in the speed of the chase three detectives were injured when
their night patrol, a powerful limousine, crashed into a sedan
and turned over.
The injured;
Jack COHEN, 17, 1655 82nd street, prisoner in Unity Hospital
and dying of bullet wound through body.
Frank ROBINSON, 18, 3715 15th ave, shot in the side and a
prisoner in Canarise stationhouse.
Detective Thomas DUFFY, 42, 8500 4th ave, hurt in crash and
in Brownsville and East New York Hospital with fractured left
thigh and internal injuries.
Detective Frank LYONS, 35, 361 Maple street, cut and bruised.
Detective John T.MURRAY, 32, 68 Rutland road, cut and bruised.
COHEN and ROBINSON, with Paul DiPOLA, 18,of 1436 38th street,
it is alleged, trooped into Benjamin COOPER'S drug store at 1087
Linden boulevard, shortly before midnight, forced COOPER and
his wife,Rae, into a rear room, and looted the cash registered of $40.
GIRLS AIDS MOTHER, BUT WON'T SWEAR
Although her parents swore to their statements in a disorderly
conduct case against her mother,Mrs.Jadwiga KINKEL, 49, of
924 Sixty-third street, pretty Joan KINKEL, 20, yesterday refuse
to do so on the ground that it was against her religion. She told
Magistrate WALSH in Fifth avenue court she was a Fundamental
Christian. She agreed, however, to affirm her statements.
Mrs.KINKEL was discharged after a hearing on the complaint
of Matilda COSTANTO, 12, of 921 Sixty-third street, who said the
older woman pulled her hair and struck her while the daughter
turned a hose on her.
COPS RESCUES MAN IN RIVER
William PUSNICK, 34, of 163 Franklin street, is alive to-day
because of the quick action of Patrolman Edward BISCHEN, of
the Greenpoint station, who prevented him from drowning when
he fell into East River late last night when attacked with vertigo
at the foot of Dupont street.
PUSNICK called for help when he fell from the stringpiece and
BISCHEN, hooking his feet on the running board of a car standing
near the edge, hung head down and seized PUSNICK by the collar.
BISCHEN was unable, however, to pull PUSNICK back on the
stringpiece, and he shouted for help. Edward ENNING, of 249 East
128th street,Manhattan, who was passing in his automobile,
helped them both up.
WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER OPERATION
A rare charge was brought against Mrs.Helen ILARDI, 27, of
369 First avenue,Manhattan, in Fifth avenue court, when she
was held by Magistrate WALSH in $1,000 bail on a charge of
submitting to an illegal operation on herself. Mrs ILARDI, a
pretty brunette, was released from the Brooklyn Hospital
Monday where she was under arrest since she arrived there
for treatment on March 8.
Hearing was set for Tuesday when the case of Mrs.Pia FUCELLI,
35 of 405 Sixtieth street, charged with performing the operation,
will come up Mrs.FUCELLI is at liberty in $5,000 bail. According
to police the operation was made at the Bay Ridge address. If
convicted, Mrs.ILARDI is liable to a sentence of from one to
four years.
SISTER DISAPPEARING ACT HITS TWO BOROUGH HOMES
Police of the Clymer street and Greenpoint stations have each
been called upon to aid in searches for two pairs of sisters, missing
from their homes.In each case the sisters have disappeared separately
and at different times.
Lillian BAIRD, 17, of 11 Floyd street, left her home on the morning
of May 1. telling her father, Jeremiah, that she was going for a walk,
and has not been seen or heard from since.
On June 15, her sister, Elizabeth, 15, told her father she was
going to the corner to meet a girl friend, and she too, has not been
seen or heard from since.
Both girls have been reported missing to the police of the Clymer
street station and Detective WOLTER is working on the case.
Detective BARRON, of the Greenpoint station, to-day sent out
a general alarm for Violet KARWICKI, 15, of 89 Clay street,
and her sister, Stella, 13.
Following a quarrel with her mother, Josephine, on May 23,
Violet announced that she was going out to get some fresh
air and disappeared.Two days later Stella told her mother that
she had learned that Violet was seen in a house on Riverside
Drive. She was given fifteen cents to go after her sister and
bring her home and since that time no word has been re-
ceived from either one.
18 June 1931
FRACTURES LEG
Samuel SCHNEIDER, 38, of 85 Grand street, is in St.Catharine's
Hospital suffering from a fracture of the right leg. He was loading bales
of paper on a truck at the plant of the U. S. Printing Company at
85 N Third street. One of the bales slipped and fell on his leg.
GASOLINE SPRAYS CHILDREN AT PLAY
While Margaret MacDONALD, 4, of 60 Huron street, and Michael
WICOLO, 3, of the same address, were playing in the yard of their
home late yesterday, they were suddenly doused in a spray of
gasoline from a source which police have been unable to establish.
Their screams attracted the attention of a patrolman from Greenpoint
station, who called an ambulance surgeon to treat them for hysteria.
They were not burned. Police are investigating the source of the
gasoline in an attempt to determine weather some one was annoyed
at the loud shouts of the children or wheather it was an accident.
CHAUFFEUR HELD TO EXPLAIN GUNS
Acting on a tip two policemen from the Jamaica precinct visited
the furnished room of Robert RICHTER, 21, a bus chauffeur, rents
at 102-37 189th street, Hollis,Queens and there they found, they
said, two automatic pistols, one revolver, two boxes of cartridges,
one pair of brass knuckles and a private detective's badge.
They arrested RICHTER on a charge of violating the Sullivan law.
BOY SHOT BY FRIEND AT TARGET PRACTICE
Accidentally shot in the chest last night while practicing in the
Crescent Athletic Club rifle range,Thomas WATTS, 14, of 136
Hicks street, is in Long Island College Hospital with his condition
reported not serious. A friend William IRVING, 14, of 273 Henry
street, was holding the rifle.
HUSBAND IS HELD AS WIFE BEATER
Mrs.Michael ADLES, 42, of 145 Engert avenue, was ready to-day
to tell Magistrate FOLWELL in Bridge Plaza Court how her husband
beat her because he found a can of garbage had not been dumped,
as he had told her to do before leaving for work yesterday.
According to the story Mrs.ADLES told patrolman Harry FOSTER,
of Herbert street station ADLES beat her up despite her instistance
that the garbage man had evidently passed it up. Then early to-day,
while in bed, she said,ADLES arose, pulled her out on the floor by
her feet and threw her downstairs.The noise attracted Patrolman
FOSTER, who disregarded ADLES command to get out of the house.
FIND MAN AT CONEY WITH THROAT CUT
A pocket knife beside him and his throat cut, a man tentatively
identified as A.SIMMS was found unconscious under Steeplechase
Pier, Coney Island, early to-day by patrolman George LESIER.
The man was taken to Coney Island Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon
GLUCK and was listed there as an attempted suicide.A machinists
union card with SIMMS name was found, but police are waiting for
him to regain consciousness to establish his identify more definitely.
He was described as five feet eight inches tall, weighing about
150 pounds, and with gray hair and eyes.He wore a gray suit and cap,
white, white shirt and brown oxfords and appeared to be about
sixty years old.
MISSING SISTERS ELUDE SEARCHERS
Police of the Clymer street and Greenpoint stations reported to-day
they had been unable to find any trace of two pairs of sisters, missing
from their homes for two weeks.
The girls are Lillian BAIRD, 17, of 11 Floyd street, who had been gone
since May 1; her sister,Elizabeth,15, missing since June 3; Violet
KARWICKI, 15, of 89 Clay street, gone since May 23, and her sister
Stella, who disappeared two days later.
Violet KARWICKI is said to have left her home following an argument
with her mother,Stella told her mother two days later she had seen
Violet on Riverside Drive and was given fifteen cents to go and find
her.She did not return.
TWO YOUTHS HELD IN BURGLAR CHARGE
Charged with attempted burglary, Homer MILLER, 18, of 6 Humboldt
street, Joseph ROSS, 16, of 415 Flushing avenue and Harry AMELONG,
17, of 65 Moore street, were held in $1,000 bail each to-day, by
Magistrate FOLWELL in Bridge Plaza Court for the grand jury.
Patrolman Frank KANS, of Stagg street station testified he found
the three youths at 2 A.M. June 12, trying to force their way into
the Moore street Synagogue, 45 Moore street.
WOMAN LAWYER WINS FIRST CASE
Mrs.Anna PATRICK, of 58 Stagg street was acquitted to-day before
County Judge NOVA of a charge of assaulting her daughter,
Aldona PATRICK, 9.
The acquittal recorded a victory for Miss Minnie MARTZ, a young
lawyer, of 26 Court street, in the first case in which she was trail
counsel in the County Court. It was through the cross-examination
of the child by Miss MARTZ that the innocence of the mother
was established. The child had told police Mrs.PATRICK had thrown
a knife at her on April 9, cutting her on both wrists. Under cross-
examination by Miss MARTZ, however, the child admitted it was
an accident.
WOMAN ATTORNEY WINS SALARY SUIT
Miss Honour B.GELSON, Brooklyn attorney, to-day obtained from
the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court an order requiring City
Controller Charles W.BERRY to pay her $3,000 salary for services
as an Assistant Corporation Counsel from April,1930 to January,1931.
Supreme Court Justice DIKE had previously refused to grant such an order.
Miss GELSON formerly was a teacher in the borough public schools
but retired in January 1924, and began the practice of law. In April 1930,
she was reinstated on the waiting list of school teachers without pay.
She resigned as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in January 1931.
Controller BERRY refused to pay her the $3,000 on the ground that
it was against the provisions of the city charter to hold two positions
at the same time.
MOTHER SHOT AS YOUTH AIMS GUN AT FRIEND
Perry DAWSON, 20, a law student at Georgetown University, will
face the Flushing Magistrate's court to-day on charges of felonious
assault and the possession of a gun.
He was arrested last night at his home, 42-40 Corporal Kennedy st,
Bayside, after he is alleged to have shot his mother, while chasing
Harry CONOVER, a friend with whom he had been celebrating his
vacation from college. DAWSON and CONOVER had been in each
other's company all day.They returned to DAWSON'S home for
dinner.An argument began while they were talking in the kitchen.
Mrs.Josephine DAWSON, the mother was in another room at the time.
DAWSON, according to the police, became enraged and fired a shot
at his friend, who ran through the house to the front door. The mother
ran between them in an effort to stop the quarrel. As DAWSON reached
the door he fired a shot,the police say, at CONOVER. The mother,
who was on the sun porch, was struck by the bullet on the right
forehead.She ran back into the house while DAWSON sought his
friend.
DAWSON walked next door still looking for CONOVER, to the
home occupied by Mrs.Frances HOUGHTON and her mother,
Mrs.Eva GLENN, seeing DAWSON enter the house,fled into the
home of Edward J. PRANKE, a chemical engineer, who lives at
42-36 Corporal Kennedy, next door to the DAWSON'S, and hid
himself in the attic.
DAWSON then approached PRANKE'S home and attempted
to gain admission.
PRANKE, from within, urged DAWSON to depart.Instead DAWSON
punched six panes of glass out of the rear door and reached for the
bolt lock inside. PRANKE ran to the phone and called the Bayside police.
He told Mrs.Eva GLENN and her sister, Mrs.Frances HOUGHTON, who
were visiting from nearby, his wife and his six year-old son Robert to
follow him out of the house.They fled down the street as DAWSON
entered the building.
DAWSON roamed through the rooms of PRANKE'S home but
could not find CONOVER hidden in a closet in the attic. DAWSON
returned to his own home.A few minutes later two automobile loads
of police headed by Lieut.Hugh MacGOVERN arrived and placed
DAWSON under arrest.
Mrs.DAWSON was treated for a slight wound on her head and
remained at her home.
24 June 1931
ANTIOCH COLLEGE HAS BORO GRADUATE
Yellow Springs, Ohio,June 25-
Among the seniors to be graduated from Antioch College here next
Saturday is Francis Robbins ALLEN, brother of W.B.Clark ALLEN,
of 55 Hanson place, Brooklyn. ALLEN will receive the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, in the field of business management.
BROOKLYN GIRL WIN NOTRE DAME HONORS
At Notre Dame Convent, Grymes Hill, Staten Island, twenty
graduates received diplomas and graduation medals from the
Rev.George E. EGAN, O.S.A.,who presided at the commencement
exercises.The Rev.Fobert J.GANNON,S.J.,dean of St.Peter's College,
Jersey City, addressed the graduates. Miss Madeline DUNN was
valedictorian and Miss Marietta Burrows GANNON was salutatorian.
The Brooklyn members of the class were Suzette CONNELLY,
Elizabeth KERWEN, Marie MORAN, Miriam PFORZHEIMER and
Alice SULLIVAN.
25 June 1931
BORO STUDENTS WIN SCHOLARSHIPS
Harry KAUFMAN, of 331 Saratoga avenue, and Rebecca BLUTMAN
of 520 Riverdale avenue, have been awarded scholarships by Pace
Insitute, good for one years tuition in the day school of accountancy
and business administration.
KAUFMAN, of Bushwick High School, is 17 years-old and the son
of David KAUFMAN. Miss BLUTMAN attended Thomas Jefferson
High School. She is 16 and is the daughter of Samuel BLUTMAN.
During her high school course she was secretary to several teachers
and was president of her official class.
26 June 1931
ST.NICHOLAS BOY WINS SCHOLARSHIP
A graduate of St.Nicholas Parochial school, Olive and Devoe streets,
and competing with two hundred other boys from schools of the
borough, Lawrence J. KUNTZ, 13 years old, son of Mr and Mrs.
Joseph KUNZ, of 967 Grand street, has won a four-year scolarship
at Brooklyn Prep.
Last night the success of the boy was celebrated with a party and
reception at the Grand street home. He received congratulations from
Congressman George W. LINDSAY, Alderman John J. McCUSKER,
Assemblyman William BREITENBACH, Senator Jeremiah TWOMEY,
ex-Assemblyman John WACKERMAN, Deputy Public Works
Commissioner Peter J.McGUINNESS and Democratic County
Leader John H.McCOOEY.
ONE MAN DYING, FOUR ARE HURT BY ''WILD'' TRUCK
Driver Loses Control and Vehicle Ploughs Into Brownsville Crowd
One man is dying, two school-girls are lying seriously injured in
Brownsville and East New York Hospital and a man and a woman
are recovering in their homes to-day from injuries sustained when
they were run down by a motor truck which became unmanageable
at Saratoga and Dumont avenue,Brownsville, at 7 o'clock last night.
The injured are;
Rubin STRAUSS, 39, of 314 Barrett street. Taken to Brownsville and
East New York Hospital. Both ears severed from head and skull
possibly fractured.
Ruth LAVENDER, 10, pupil in P.S. No.156, living at 99 Dumont avenue.
In the same hospital suffering fractured left collarbone.
Florence KAPLAN, 9, pupli in P.S.No.183, living at 738 Saratoga avenue.
In same hospital with fractured right arm and severed scalp laceration.
Louis KEIL, 57, of 712 Saratoga avenue. Injuries to both arms. Taken
home.
Mrs.Ida SARETSKY, 35, of 99 Dumont avenue. Sprained right knee and
lacerations of both arms.Taken home.
Jacob ROSENBLATT, 52, of 489 Howard avenue, who told police he
had been driving motor vehicles for twelve years, was operating the half-
ton Dodge truck, loaded with fish. He was making a turn from Saratoga
into Dumont avenue. He lost control of the truck.It is believed the
steering knuckle snapped. The truck jumped the curb and crashed against
the stone stoop of a four story tenement at 99 Dumont avenue.
Scores of women and children crowed the sidewalks and stoops anxiously
awaiting the return of their husbands and fathers.They ran in all directions
for shelter. STRAUSS, the most seriously injured, was pinned between
the wrecked auto and the stoop.The other victims were knocked down
and left in the wake of the ''wild'' machine.The front wheels and axle
of the auto was smashed.
Mrs Helen LEIBOWITZ, 28, had just taken her fourteen-month-old
daughter,Pearl, out of a baby carriage.Mrs.LEIBOWITZ scurried
to safety with her child but the perambulator was wrecked. Several
women fainted as they reached places of safety in doorways and
stores.They were revived and treated by neighborhood physicians
who were attracted by the crash.
The entire neighborhood was thrown into a turmoil of excitement
and panic following the accident and it was with difficulty that
policemen of Emergency Squard 14 summoned from the Miller
avenue station, drove them back so that Dr.SCHWARTZ of
Brownsville and East New York Hospital and other physicians
could treat the injured.
HODNETT- On June 24,1931. Thomas F., dearly beloved husband
of Mary BOSCH. Funeral Saturday at 8:15A.M. from his lare
residence, 503 17th st, thence to the Church of Holy Name, of
which he was a member, where a mass will be offered. Interment
at Holy Cross Cemetery.
KILEY- On Thursday, June 25,1931, Richard, beloved son of
the late Mary and Nicholas KILEY, dear brother of Mrs.Mary JONES
and Mrs.Warren JONES. Funeral from his home, 987 Nostrand ave,
Monday at 9:30 A.M. Solemn requiem mass Church of St.Ignatius.
IN MEMORIAM
BYERS- Dora, died June 28,1930. Anniversary mass, Saturday,
June 27 at 8A.M.,Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Her smiling way and pleasant face
Are a pleasure to recall:
She had a kindly word for each
And died beloved by all.
Husband and Daughter.
KUCKS- In loving memory of our dear father, Peter KUCKS, who
passed away June 26,1923. Sadly missed.
Loving Daughters.
TRACY- In memory of our dear mother, Margaret (McCARTHY)TRACY,
who died June 26,1926.
John C.TRACY, Jerome TRACY and
Dorothy TRACY NOLAN.
27 June 1931
Trail Monday For Woman in ''Sleep'' Killing
Mrs.Anna De HALL, 54,of 20 Carlton avenue, will be placed on trail
Monday before County Judge McLAUGHLIN and a jury by District
Attorney GEOGHAN on a chatge of murder in the second degree for
the alleged killing of her sixteen year old son, Salvatore De HALL.
Assistant District Attorney John J.KEAN will be in charge of the
prosecution, and Frank R.SERRI will be counsel for the defense.
The indictment and trail of Mrs.De HALL is an outgrowth of the
''sleep-walking'' defense offered by Michael FILOSA, son of Mrs.
De HALL by a prior marriage, againnst the charge that he was the
one who had murdered his step-brother, Salvatore De HALL.
SON'S THROAT CUT
On the night of Nov.24, last, in the house at 20 Carlton avenue,
the throat of Salvatore De HALL was cut so severely that he bled
to death.The face of his fifteen-year-old sister,Catherine De HALL,
was also slashed. Gashes also were inflicted on the neck of the
mother,Anna De HALL,the defendant to go on trail Monday.
Michael FILOSA was arrested and indicted for the murder in
the first degree, after he had said that he awoke while walking
in his sleep to find his step-brother lying dead on the kitchen floor
in a pool of blood, and his mother and step-sister also slashed. He
said that he was awakened by the call of his mother, '' Mikey,it is me.''
FILOSA offered this defense at his trail before Judge TAYLOR, and
the jury found him guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE
Not satisfied that FILOSA had committed the crime, District Attorney
GEOGHAN and Judge TAYLOR started an investigation. This finally
brought from FILOSA the admission that at no time was he asleep.
The investigation also brought other admissions from Michael FILOSA
and Catherine De HALL, that led to the indictment of their mother,
Mrs.De HALL as the murderer of her son, Salvatore De HALL.
STOREKEEPER FOUND BEATEN
Detectives of the Atlantic avenue station were attempting to-day
to solve a mystery resulting from finding Phillip FUCHS, 55 proprietor
of a small dry goods store at 20 Utica avenue, lying unconscious on
the floor of a rear room of his store with a possible fracture of the skull.
FUCHS, who lives at 1746 Union street, was discovered by a friend,
Irving BANZMAN, of 125 Schenectady avenue, at 10 o'clock last
night.BANZMAN promptly notified the police and sent for an
ambulance surgeon. Taken to the hospital,FUCHS was still unconscious
to-day, although detectives were waiting to question him.
In a safe in the store was found $250 in cash and $73 in cash and
checks in the cash register. Police believe FUCHS was attacked
by a lone bandit,resisted him, and was then hit on the head by
the intruder, who lost his nerve and fled.
PLANES IN REVIEW AT MITCHEL FIELD
Aviators and mecanics lined up for inspection and then flew
in review at Mitchel Field to-day in honor of Capt.Clarence H.
GREENE, constructing quartermaster, who retires July 1.
Capt.GREEN, who has been nearly twenty years in the service,
is 64 years old.
Following the inspection, Capt.GREENE, Col.John H.HOWARD,
commander of the post, and Major William Ord RYAN were members
of a reviewing party that stood on the roof of the operation offices
as thirty-six planes passed in review overhead.
29 June 1931
ATE SPAGHETTI, THREE POISONED
A huge plate of spaghetti gave three persons ptomaine poisoning
last night, according to Dr.*SCHWINNER, of Kings County Hospital,
who treated them.
They were Ernest ADDONISO,24, Beneditto BRUNO,8, and Anna
NICOLETT,24, all of 16 Lott place.Dr.*SCHWIMMER was called early
today,used a stomach pump and allowed them to remain at home.
*notice 2 different spelling , as printed.
HOME BREW SEIZED IN VACANT STORE
Two hundred and fifty quart bottles of home brew beer were seized
in a supposedly vacant store at 189 White street early today. The
arrest of Leonard CUMMINGS, of 135 North Fourth street, found in
the store, was made by Detective William BECK, of the Fourteenth
Inspection District.
CUMMINGS will be taken to the Federal Court for arraignment on
the charge of violating the Volstead act.
FATHER & UNCLE ARRESTED
For Torturing Boy Truant
Joseph CANELLA and his brother,Salvatore, faced charges today
of felonious assault for allegedly binding the hands and feet of the
former's 14-year-old son, tying a rope around his neck so that he
could not sit down and leaving him exposed to the blistering
rays of the sun for eleven hours.
Mrs.Kate VANELLA said that her son, Joseph, had become
unmanageable and would not attend school.In desperation, she said,
she appealed to his father to correct the youth. CANELLA and his
brother, police said, then bound the boy, placed him in a hole in
the rear of their tenement home, placed a rope around his neck and
fastened it to a grating so that he would choke if he attempted to
sit down.They left him for eleven hours without food or water,
according to the police.
The youth, not seriously affected by his punishment, was sent
to the Children's Society and his father and uncle were arrested.
Neighbors who discovered the boy's plight and summoned police
are now worried over the fate of CANELLA'S four other children
if the father is not released from jail soon, since he is the only
one in the family who is working.
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