Brooklyn Standard Union

1 May 1931
Mrs. DRIGGS, 56, Left Home on Shopping Tour
Member of Old Southern Family and Widow of Broker
    There was not the slenderest clew [sic] this afternoon which might lead
to the explanation of what happened to Mrs. Josephine GLOVER DRIGGS, wealthy
Brooklyn widow, who vanished after leaving her home last Wednesday
afternoon.
    Detectives, delving into every official source of information, found
that no woman who might possibly be the missing widow had been taken into
any instititution since she left home,  Their checkup having obviated the
possibility she met with mishap on the street, they cast about for a new
trail to follow.
    Edmund F. DRIGGS, of 44 Court street, attorney for the DRIGGS family,
visited a Brooklyn bank this afternoon with the woman's daughter and learned
from the records that Mrs. DRIGGS had not visited her safety deposit box
there, where she kept valuable securities, for the past five weeks.  So far
as anyone knows she had only $20 or $30 with her when she disappeared.
    Her health and mental condition reported excellent and devoted to the
memory of her husband, who died eighteen months ago, police were forced to
work blindly and without clues in their hunt for the attractive 56-year old
widow, who had no apparent reason for disappearing.
    Mrs. DRIGGS is the widow of Elliott Foote DRIGGS, who until the time of
his death a year and a half ago was a highly successful Manhattan insurance
broker.  She herself was a member of the GLOVER family, one of New Orleans'
oldest and most prominent families.
    Since her husband's death, Mrs. DRIGGS has lived at the fashionable
Albion Court apartment, 780 St. Marks avenue, with her daughter, Mary
Fayette DRIGGS, and her niece, Anna KARRICK.
    She left the house at 12:30 Wednesday afternoon after a light luncheon,
saying that she would stop at the grocer's and send in an order.  It was
learned that she stopped at the grocery store at Nostrand and St. Marks
avenues and left an order which was later delivered.
    When Mrs. DRIGGS did not return for dinner her daughter began to worry
until 8 o'clock, when she mad a hasty but thorough telephone canvass of all
her mother's friends and other members of the family.  Finding no trace of
the missing woman, she communicated with DRIGGS.  Wishing to avoid
publicity, the family conducted a private search also without result.
            POLICE BEGIN SEARCH
    Yesterday in a panic over the continued absence, the family appealed to
Lieut. GOLDMAN, of the Atlantic avenue station and he assigned detectives to
follow the case.  The Missing Persons Bureau was notified and every effort
is being made to uncover traces of the missing woman.
    According to her daughter, Mrs. DRIGGS had no more than $20 or $30 with
her at the time of her disappearance and little or no jewelry.  She is
described as being five feet two inches tall, an ash blonde, weighing about
160 pounds.
    Still in mourning for her husband, Mrs. DRIGGS wore a black straw hat
with small feather in the side.  Her coat was edged with a black fur collar.
She wore gunmetal stockings and pumps and gloves and carried a black
handbag.

2 May 1931
REAL FOOD KNOCKS OUT HERMIT 18 MONTHS A VAGRANT IN WOODS
Stomach Trouble Sends Queen Prisoner to Hospital
    Albert BRUNING, the Robinson Crusoe of Queens, who spent eighteen months
living as a hermit in woods, discovered to-day that it's fairly difficult to
get used to the ways of civilization after being away so long.  Faving
arraignment in Jamaica Magistrate's Court on a charge of vagrancy, BRUNING
was taken to Jamaica police headquarters for the night.
    The police, as they do with most prisoners, fed him string beans and
potatoes.  But most prisoners have not been subsisting eighteen months on
stale bread and milk, so BRUNING became violently ill.  He was taken to
Kings County Hospital and will be arraigned when he gets better.
    Blond-bearded and with long, sun-bleached hair that covers his head like
a disordered haystack, Albert BRUNING, involuntary nature lover, makes a
picturesque, primitive figure.  He was arrested last night by Patrolman
Charles KUMMEL, who found him wandering amid the woods at Little Neck place
and Union turnpike, Creedmoor, near the section in which 3X killed Noel
SOWLEY.
    His appearance amazed the patrolman.  A blanket covered BRUNING's
shoulders.  His pants ended in a ragged fringe below his knees and burlap
bags served as shoes.
            STORY AMAZES POLICE
    Brought to Jamaica headquarters, he told an amazing story to an audience
of detectives as Captain GRAHAM questioned him.
    By 1922, at eighteen, he came from a small farm outside of Bremen,
Germany.  He lived in New York when he arrived with his sister, Mrs.
Christine DETTLIFF, in New Hyde Park, in Nassau County.  He worked at
various jobs and then went to work for an A. & P. store in Hempstead, L.I.
    A year and a half ago, just before Christmas, he said, he was laid off.
Shortly after that he was told that he was a bit unwelcome around his
relative's home.
    Without money, he moved with a few belongings into a wooded section of
New Hyde Park, not far from a populated section.
    For over a year he lived.  At night and in the early morning, he went to
A. and P. stores and took stale bread from the boxes outside the door.  From
doorsteps he obtained milk.  As the nights grew cold, he added blankets to
his store.  These he obtained from parked automobiles.
        LIVED ON BREAD, MILK
    He built no shelter, but temporarily spread blankets and automobile
robes over branches and wrapped himself in blankets.
    During the summer, when the little patches of woods were warm, he ate
berries beside the bread and milk.  When winter came around again, he built
small fires and set up his blanket windbreak.
    Two months ago progress drove him from New Hyde Park, he said.  The
woods were stripped for residential homes and the land was subdivided into
lots.  Hiking through Nassau and Queens, he came upon the Creedmoor Woods.
The foliage was thick and offered him protection so he decided to found his
camp in Queens.
    Once more he took up his outdoor abode and lived as before.  He
continued in the Creedmoor Woods until last night when the patrolman
observed him.
    Questioned as to his reason for living in such a primitive fashion, he
said that he knew he "could not get any where in America without money."
Unable to obtain work and being without money, he sought the woods.
        WON'T TOUCH STEAK
    The life agreed with him, he said, once he adapted himself.  His body
grew hard, his teeth ivory white and his face nut brown.
    He spent his days walking through the woods or sleeping.  He never read
a paper.  The vice investigation, the abdication of King Alfonso or any of
the recent phases that made up the headlines mean nothing to him.
    During the year and a half of self-imposed exile, he said, he never
spoke to anyone; never had a penny in his pockets and never stepped within a
house.

HOTEL HIDEOUT OF MRS. DRIGGS TRACED BY CALL
Daughter Declares Mother Had Breakdown; Needs Doctor's Care
    Mrs. Josephine Glover DRIGGS, wealthy 56-year-old widow, who had been
missing since Wednesday afternoon was back home under a doctor's care
to-day, following her discovery at Leverich Towers shortly before midnight
last night.
    Mrs. DRIGGS, the widow of Elliot Foote DRIGGS, who until his death
eighteen months ago was a successful insurance broker in Manhattan, lives
with her daughter and a niece in the Albion Court Apartments, 780 St. Marks
avenue. Wednesday afternoon she left home ostensibly to go shopping.  When
she hadn't returned that evening the family instituted an unsuccessful
search and on Thursday were forced to call in the police.
    Last evening Miss Mary Fayette DRIGGS, the missing woman's daughter,
received an anonymous telephone call from a man, who said he had read the
story in The Standard Union and told her that a woman answering the
description of her mother was living at the Leverich Towers Hotel.
    Miss DRIGGS promptly hurried downtown and held a lengthy conference with
the manager and the room clerk at the hotel.  After a careful check-up the
daughter went to the eighth floor where, in a large room overlooking the
river, she found her mother preparing to retire.
    Mrs. DRIGGS was brought home and a physician was called in.  Her family
was reluctant to discuss her condition to-day.
    "Mother is very ill," Miss DRIGGS reported, "but I would rather not go
into that at all."
    She said, however, that the older woman's troubles were more physical
than mental.
    Mrs. DRIGGS is a member of the GLOVER family, one of the oldest and most
prominent families in New Orleans.

BOY, PAGE Mr. DIOGENES!  
Seaman, Jobless, Broke, Returns $11 He Found
    The lobby of the Seamen's Church Institute, at 25 South street,
Manhattan, is filled these days with hundreds of merchant seamen looking for
jobs.  They were willing to go on tankers, oilers, coastwise vessels, even
to take land jobs in order to keep body and soul together.  Such a seaman is
Anton KONDORE, Italian, who, in more prosperous times, worked on
transatlantic ships as a fireman, but who has been out of work for the past
five months.  KONDORE was waiting in the lobby, just outside the free
shipping office, his eyes alert for notices of jobs to be posted.  Chancing
a glance on the floor he was a ten dollar and a one dollar bill.
    Stooping to pick up the money, he hurried to the officer on duty at the
main entrance and turned in the eleven dollars.

THREE INJURED BY EXPLOSION IN LAUNDRY
Walls Buckle in South Brooklyn Machine Blast
    Causing a terrific blast heard a half-mile away, blowing out windows and
ruining scores of bundles of wash, a mangle exploded in a second floor room
of the Whiterock Laundry Company, 34 Sixteenth street, early to-day, injured
three employes and drove eight women to the street in a state of hysteria.
    Two of the six employes required to operate the mangle were injured,
along with another man.  They are:  Margaret FITZGERALD, 42, of 557 Third
avenue; Steve MESSANA, 43, of 245 Forty-sixth street, and May SUSS, 19, of
171 Huntington street.  They were all treated for cuts and bruises by
Doctors MEAD and DAVIS of M.E. Hospital, assisted by Police Emergency Squad
11, under Sergeant O'NEILL.
    Patrolman Thomas ALLOGIO, of the Fifth avenue station, was at Third
avenue and Sixteenth street when the explosion occurred.  After sounding an
alarm, he assisted the women to the street.
    Inspector Cornelius CARMODY and Capts. John FALCONER and Daniel
O'CONNOR, of the Hamilton avenue station, took charge of the investigation.
    The cause of the explosion has not been determined, although some said
it was due to lack of heat in the mangle.  The majority of the employes of
the company were on the second floor, and only a few in the garage on the
first floor.
    Later it was said that the mangle had been cold for a long while and the
explosion resulted from the application of too much steam early to-day when
the employes resumed their work.
    Building inspectors immediately began inspecting the walls of the
building, which sagged considerably following the explosion.  The floor also
buckled up considerably.
    The explosion which occurred in the heart of a tenement house district
sent scores of people hurrying to the street, following the noise, and
crowds gathered around the building while Patrolman ALLOGIO carried Miss
SUSS, one of the operators of the mangle, to the street.

7 OVERCOME BY GAS FUMES
    Seven persons were made ill by carbon dioxide poisoning last night in
the home of Alonzo H. CROMWELL, at 146-12 Liberty avenue, South Jamaica.
    They were Mr. CROMWELL, 43, a used car dealer; his wife, Margaret, 36;
their three children, Eugene, 13; John, 11, and Alonzo, Jr., 3, and Mrs.
CROMWELL's sister, Mrs. Emily BROKAW, 33, who lives with the family.
    The family was eating supper in the kitchen when Eugene suddenly toppled
from his chair.  His mother carried him to his bed, and upon reaching it she
also collapsed.  By this time Mr. CROMWELL and the others began to feel ill
and Mrs. CROMWELL discovered that the gas flame under the water heater in
the kitchen was consuming the oxygen in the room.
    He turned off the gas then threw open the door and carried his three
children and his sister out of the house, then went to the bedroom and
rescued his wife and eldest son.
    Two ambulances from the Jamaica Hospital and Police Emergency Squad 17,
from Richmond Hill station, were summoned to the house.  Mrs. CROMWELL and
Eugene were soon revived by Drs. DUNN and RUBIN, and the others of the
household were given treatment to counteract the effects of the carbon
dioxide.  All remained at home, and none was regarded as in serious
condition.

BOY SHOOTS SELF CLEANING RIFLE
    George HELLMAN, 20, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen last night
as he was cleaning a .22 caliber rifle in the cellar of his home, 1167 East
Eighty-ninth street.  He was taken to the Unity Hospital by police of
Carnarsie precinct and his condition is believed to be serious.

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING DWARFS OLDER SKYSCRAPERS
City Like Some Relief Map From Dizzy 102nd Story
Crowds at Opening Awed-Once Blind Youth Thrilled
By Dixie TIGHE
    The Empire State Building is still in a high state of celebration
to-day.  The elevators are just about run ragged and people peer from its
unbelievable altitudes until the poor little one-time skyscrapers shrivel
into miserable stone dwarfs.
    The Empire State Building had a housewarming yesterday, with President
HOOVER turning on the lights from Washington, and ex-Gov. Alfred E. SMITH,
who merely conceived and fostered the construction of New York's magnificent
giant, seeing that his grandchildren severed the tape that symbolized the
grand entrance to his favorite edifice.
    The trouble with the Empire State Building is that there are more floors
than adjectives.  It becomes a bit trying to try and make comments on 102
floors and taking it by feet, even the better dictionaries are a little shy
on words that aptly describe the grandeur of a 1,252 rise from the street.
    If the simple elegance of the extensive lobby doesn't overwhelm you,
it's a matter of better mechanics to be whisked to the eighty-sixth floor.
These low-grade elevators are maddening.  It's necessary to change at 86 for
the 102d floor.
    BIRDSEYE VIEW OF CITY
    The eighty-sixth floor yesterday was in a receptive mood.  It was the
floor where visitors looked out of windows and said, "Isn't it cute?" when
they looked at the Chrysler Building and said, "Who left that pile of stones
down there?" as they gazed below at the blushing buildings eclipsed by Mr.
SMITH's own building.
    On the eighty-sixth floor is the elevator that leads to the 102nd floor
where the buildings seem to have grown taller rather than shorter.  If you
know your optical illusions, that one may be simple, but to a building
novice it was quite disconcerting to find that the Chrysler Building had
grown up into a great, big, beautiful spire.
    By sighting the tip of the Chrysler spire from the ledge of the railing
on the 102nd floor there isn't any.  But unless you went rifle-range on the
Chrysler Building it seemed to be piercing the sky with its tip.
    Brooklyn was lost in the fog.  There was a thick haze and all that could
be seen across the river was an occasional smokestack protruding a gray
height through an enlightening stretch of drifting white smoke.
    Central Park, off in the distance, looked only like a rough landing
field and most of New York's buildings that go to make up a world famous
skyline were dreary sprouts with a sporadic, massive, white building looking
as if they had their faces washed for the occasion.
        UP TO THE MOORING MAST
    There are observatory decks on the 101st and 102d floors - but who wants
to stay downstairs on them when you can see the tower of Mr. SMITH's
building looming far above you.
    A little cajoling of a nice construction man resulted in being escorted
to the top of the Empire State Building.  And when we say top - we mean top.
Up a wooden ladder into the darkness of an enclosure still in the process of
construction.  And, ladies, if anyone asks you up, fish out the riding
breeches.
    Then up a steel stairway into the light and on to an inverted dishpan, a
mere fifteen feet wide.  And, my goodness, if everything hadn't grown more!
You could almost tell time by Mr. PARAMOUNT's clocks.  The haze had lifted
and a bright sun had apparently come out for the underdog, and was sparkling
on the poor little buildings that were begging for notice.
    There was still another shore ladder that led up to a cocky weather vane
that was twisting above like a whirling dervish.  Up this and touch the
weather vane, look down, and come down.
    It's easier going up than coming down - back to the eighty-sixth floor,
and there was Earl MUSSELMAN, the boy who once blind and who yesterday stood
on the balcony of the 102d floor, and pointed out the Chrysler Building and
traced the outline of the city's jagged water line on the window pane.
        ONCE BLIND, HE'S AWED
    He peered from that window enclosure as if the power and the blessedness
of sight was too much a joy to ever turn from its revelations.
    "I see water and great white buildings.  I never knew New York was so
little.  Its looks to me like such a lot of everything and so little of
anything - this is the treat of my life."
    Sight has come slowly to this boy who has found a new life through his
eyes.  His eagerness is a thing apart from average enthusiasm.  He has seen
his dream and found fulfillment far in excess of imagination.
    "What is that white space?" he asked.  And, then his eyes grew used to
the "white space" that he thought was moving.  "Now, I see, I see - it's
smoke."
    His confusion is lessening and as he looks to find new things he cries
out in amazement.  "Now I get that.  It's beautiful, so beautiful."
    His viewing New York, lying like a rugged valley in the foothills of a
man-made mountain of stone, was practically his first conception of depth.
He has looked into the distance and stared up to the sky, and yesterday he
searched the depths for response to his sight - and found it.
    Last night, the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building was
converted into a dance floor.  The city was twinkling bright-eyed at New
York's tallest monitor.

TRAFFIC BURDENS FRANKLIN STREET
    Since the traffic lights were put in operation along Manhattan avenue,
vehicular traffic along Franklin street has increased to the annoyance of
the people living in the street.
    Heavy trucks thunder along the street at all hours of the night and day
cracking the plaster in the houses and shaking the dishes from the closet
shelves.
    Residents say there is only one remedy and that is to have traffic
lights put along the thoroughfare.  They say that the vehicles come to
Franklin street to get away from the lights on Manhattan avenue.
    An appeal for traffic policemen at all crossings so children may cross
in safety on their way to and from school will be made, it was said today.

CLEANUP THEFT LEADS TO COURT
    Described by police as the "sanitary burglar," Irving HELLMER, 25, of
235 Grand avenue, was to appear in Bridge Plaza court to-day before
Magistrate DALE on a charge of burglarizing a grocery store at 197 Grand
avenue early to-day.
    According to Patrolman George O'KEEFE, of Stagg street station, HELLMER
forced his way into the grocery store of Benjamin WILHELM at the Grand
avenue address, and was caught departing with the following articles:  two
cartons of matches, one carton of Sani-Flush, one carton of glue and one
carton of Flit.

THOUSANDS SEE TELEVISION RITES
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Borie DU VALL were honeymooning somewhere in New York
to-day - the first television bridal couple ever to have their wedding both
heard and seen over the air.
    Miss Grayce Lillian JONES, a 21-year-old secretary, and DU VALL, 25, a
television engineer, stood before the flickering lights of the television
while thousands of persons listened and as many as are equipped with the
sight device watched the Rev. Dr. A. Edwin KELGWIN pronounce them man and wife.

3 May 1931
Rides the Rods, Asleep While Montauk Express Goes 60 Miles an Hour
    The mile-a-minute ride that the Montauk Express of the Long Island
Railroad makes from Montauk Point to Jamaica, a distance of some 90 miles
was just a sleep potion to John LEWIS, 18, colored, of Bayshore.
    In some manner (he couldn't explain it himself), LEWIS climbed onto one
of the trucks of the Long Island's crack passenger train for a ride to
California, he told railroad officials.  The truck was so comfortable - four
pieces of space steel rods - that LEWIS fell asleep soon after the train
reached Southampton.
    When he was awakened in Jamaica by Special Officer William F. DAMM,
LEWIS jumped up in surprise.  It took the efforts of four other policemen to
get LEWIS from his comfortable "pullman berth."
    Arraigned in Jamaica Court before Magistrate DOWNS, for trespassing,
LEWIS couldn't believe he was in Jamaica rather than California.  The judge
held him in $500 bail until today for a hearing.

4 May 1931
UNION PICKETS ATTACK BAKER: FOUR ARRESTED
Turn Tables on Accuser, Who is Also Taken in Custody
    Four men supposed to be pickets for the Bakers and Confectioners' Union,
Local 79, were arrested to-day charged with disorderly conduct, and the
owner of the bakery where they were demonstrating also was arrested, charged
with assault.
    The four union representatives are Louis LEVINE, 50, of 287 Rutledge
street; David Farber, 49, of 2345 East Thirteenth street; Samuel BRENDES,
33, of 414 Neptune avenue, and Harry ARNOFF, 31, of 2926 West Twenty-fourth
street.
    They were arrested about 10 A.M. to-day in front of the Boardwalk Baking
Company at 319 Brighton Beach avenue on complaint of Isaac WAGNER, 48, owner
of the bakery, who said they were grouped about the entrance of his place
this morning wearing signs which said "This place is on strike."
    There is no strike at the bakery, WAGNER said.  He attempted to drive
them away, he said, and they set upon him.  LEVINE, however, asserted that
WAGNER had been the aggressor and had struck him with his fist.  WAGNER,
too, was arrested.
    WAGNER told Magistrate EILPERIN in Coney Island court he had a contract
with the union signed last September and good until 1934.
    In violation of this contract, he said, union officials ordered the men
out of the bakery last Friday because WAGNER would not sign a new contract.
He said he had not employed other men since then, but wants to come to an
amicable understanding with the union.
    Magistrate EILPERIN adjourned the case until Friday.

FIRE DESTROYS PIER IN QUEENS
    Fire destroyed a section of the New England Steamship Company's pier at
the foot of 154th street and East River, Whitestone Landing, yesterday.
    The blaze was believed by police to have been started by a lighted
cigarette butt discarded by a careless fisherman on the pier.  The fire was
fanned by a stiff breeze, and when Battalion Chief Walter TWYNAN arrived
with the first firemen and apparatus, he turned in a second alarm, meantime,
a frame shed at the end of the pier was consumed by the flames.

5 May 1931
COP'S RIGHT TO BORO MEDAL HINGES ON ROBBERY TRIAL
Four Men Accused Say Alleged Holdup Was Brawl
    Whether or nor a patrolman won promotion and the Brooklyn Citizens medal
through bravery in a "speakeasy" brawl or in capturing single-handed four
youths attempting a robbery, will be decided by a jury before County judge
McLAUGHLIN.
    The ones charged with attempted robbery and now on trial are Raffaele De
STEIO, 24, of 2349 Pacific street; Frank MARANO, 23, of 97 Williams avenue;
Louis ROMANELLI, 22, of 271 Third avenue, and Frank GRANESE, 24, of 272
Third avenue.  They are being defended by an array of counsel that includes
former County Judge Reuben L. HASKELL, Alderman Walter R. HART, Samuel S.
LEIBOWITZ and Ben ARON.  Assistant District Attorney Samuel S. GOLDSTEIN is
in charge of the prosecution.
    The alleged attempted robbery was staged on Nov. 26, last, in what has
been referred to as a "speakeasy," at 212 Twenty-second street.  The charge
is that an attempt was made to take $60 from the owner.
    BULLETS DROP FOUR
    Whether there was a barroom brawl or a robbery in progress, the fact
remains that there was "shooting" up worthy of the West of the covered wagon
days.  When the smoke had cleared, it was found that De STEIO, MARANO,
ROMANELLI and MORIANO were suffering from bullet wounds.
    Patrolman Dominick GRIFFO, in citizen's clothes, was in the place at the
time.  It was GRIFFO's bravery, it is said, that frustrated the robbery in
the face of the alleged bandits ?ire.
    As the story has been told, the four defendants entered, one of them
flourishing a revolver, and made all stand with there hands raised above
their heads.  GRIFFO, whose identity was not known, had to obey like the
rest.  While one of the alleged bandits with drawn revolver held the patrons
of the place at bay, the other three started the "searching party."
    Patrolman GRIFFO's revolver was taken.  But taking advantage of an
opportunity, GRIFFO snatched back his revolver and using as a shield the mad
who had first relieved him of the weapon, GRIFFO fought it out with the
alleged bandits and finally brought the four to bay and arrested them.
    For this exploit GRIFFO was promoted to the Detective Squad and awarded
the Brooklyn Citizen's medal for bravery.
    The contention of the defense, it is reported, will be that there was no
attempted robbery, but that the fight was started for the company of two
girls who were in the place.

ACCUSE RELATIVE IN SHOOTING FEUD
    Anthony TALAIVIA, 35, of 84 Degraw street, was shot four times in front
of his home last night and was taken to the Long Island College Hospital in
a serious condition.
    Police of Butler street station arrested the brother-in-law of the
wounded man, Michael PALLADINO, of 282 President street, on a charge of
felonious assault as a suspect in the shooting.
    TALAIVIA was shot twice in the neck, once in the chest and once in the
abdomen.  Police asset the shooting followed a quarrel between the two men.

6 May 1931
ABANDONED ON JAMAICA ROAD
Nassau Policeman Shot Approaching Pair In Parked Auto
    Francis (Two-gun) CROWLEY, ex-convict, sought in connection with the
murder of Virginia BRANNEN, dance hall hostess, was the subject of a
redoubled man-hunt to-day when his bullet-riddled, blood stained roadster
was found abandoned in a Jamaica side street, a few hours after the slaying
of a Nassau County policeman.
    The victim was Patrolman Frederick HIRSCH, father of four young
children.  He was shot five times shortly after midnight, when he approached
a parked machine in Black Shirt Lane, near North Merrick, known as a haven
for petters.
    The killer, who fired nineteen bullets, and a girl riding with him, sped
away while a companion patrolman fired six shots after their machine.
    Police of Yonkers who are investigating the Virginia BRANNEN murder,
actively joined the hunt for CROWLEY this afternoon.
CHECKUP BY AIRPLANE
    Police Chief Edward J. QUIRK of that city, joined Assistant District
Attorney Seward K. SPOOR and Detective John KIERNEY at Roosevelt Field
shortly afternoon, and set out by plane for Southampton.  The prosecutor
said they would check information there concerning CROWLEY.
    Brooklyn police, meanwhile, are investigating the killing of two other
men.  One was shot by a detective in front of his restaurant in Flatbush
when, instead of answering questions, he allegedly reached for a gun.
    In Greenpoint, a racketeer was put "on the spot" by the underworld, and
died early to-day of four bullet wounds in St. Catherine's Hospital.
    The dead are:
    Patrolman Frederick HIRSCH, 33, of 305 Hicks street, Bellmore.
    Joseph SCARPATI, 32, of 737 East New York avenue, proprietor of the
Quentin Restaurant, at 3121 Quentin road.
    Morris FISHBEIN, alias Maurice FISHER, ex-convict, shot and killed by
unknown assailants in the apartment of a cousin at 100 Humboldt street.
    MIGHT OFFER REWARDS
    While police sought CROWLEY, it was made known the Nassau Board of
Supervisors and the County Patrolmen's Benefit Association each are
considering posting $2,500 rewards for the arrest and conviction of the
patrolman's assassin.
    District Attorney Elvin N. EDWARDS will ask the supervisors to act when
they meet Monday.  The Patrolmen's Association officers will call a special
meeting this afternoon, they said.
    Meanwhile, as detectives pieced together the story of the battle, they
became convinced HIRSCH met his death because he recognized his killers.
    Captain Emil MORSE of the Nassau Homicide Squad said HIRSCH and
Patrolman Peter YODICE were searching for a truckload of stolen automobile
tires, and inspected the roadster only as a routine matter.
    HIRSCH asked the driver what he was doing.  "Just talking" the driver
said, according to YODICE, and the two patrolmen walked away.  It was then,
YODICE said, that HIRSCH remarked the driver looked like CROWLEY.
    "I'm going back and look at his license.  I'll take another look at his
face, too,"  YODICE quoted.
    WALKS BACK TO DEATH
    HIRSCH went back.  YODICE waited.  A moment later YODICE heard the long
fusillade of shots and the roadster flashed past him, he said.
    YODICE emptied his gun at the car, but it disappeared in the dark around
the corner into Washington avenue.  YODICE found HIRSCH dead.
    The abandoned roadster was located this morning at New York avenue near
the Long Island Railroad tracks. The right side of the windshield was
smashed, there were dents on the dashboard, and a bullet hole in the side
body, blood inside the machine and on the running board, nine cartridge
shells lay on the floor.
    Hospitals were notified to watch for any patient applying for treatment
for a bullet wound.
    Soon after the shooting the Queens Homicide Squad went to CROWLEY's
home, at 134-28 231st street, Laurelton.  CROWLEY had not been seen there in
two months, but the detectives left a guard there in case he should, by any
chance, appear.
    BEATS HIM TO DRAW
    SCARPATO was shot and killed in front of his restaurant in the quiet
Flatbush section at 6 A.M. by Detective Dennis SHEEHAN of the Vanderveer
Park station.
    SHEEHAN and Detective George SEELANDT, on burglar patrol, came upon
SCARPATO talking with a friend, Trygive ANDERSON, 30, of 1737 East
Thirty-sixth street.  The detectives told the two who they were, they said,
and started questioning SCARPATO.
    SCARPATO, according to SHEEHAN reached suddenly for his hip pocket in
which a gun was found later.
    SHEEHAN ordered SCARPATO to put his hands up, he said, and when the man
failed to do so, SHEEHAN shot him.
    The detective summoned an ambulance and SCARPATO was rushed to Kings
County Hospital where he died in half an hour.  A .32 calibre revolver was
found in his pocket.  The dead man's companion, ANDERSON, was not held.
    GANGSTER FEUD VICTIM
    FISHBEIN was slain, police feel certain, in an underworld feud.  The
racketeer - he was known as a muscleman and carried six bullets in his body
from other pistol attacks - visited his cousin, Mrs. Lena ARONSON, in a
second floor apartment at 100 Humboldt street last night.
    Mrs. ARONSON arranged dinner for him.  Later, she went upstairs to visit
a friend in another apartment she told the police, when six quick pistol
reports rang out.
    Not knowing where they had been fired, Mrs. ARONSON started downstairs
while neighbors in nearby houses were putting up windows and going to the
street to see what the excitement might be.
    Mrs. ARONSON found FISHBEIN unconscious and bleeding from four bullet
wounds in his left side.  In the apartment were a .32 calibre revolver, a
.38 and a.25 automatic.  Two bullets had been fired from each.
    Either two or three men or possibly two men and a woman had entered the
apartment quietly, police thought, and shot FISHBEIN, and left before
neighbors had time to realize what had happened.  One of the guns, it was
suggested, might have been FISHBEIN's.
    The racketeer was rushed to St. Catherine's Hospital, where he died this
morning.  He had been unconscious since the shooting.
    QUESTION HIS SISTER
    The ground floor of the house at Humboldt street is occupied by a
poolroom run by Mrs. ARONSON's husband, Barnett.  Assistant District
Attorney TRAPANI quested him and others there until dawn to-day.  He did not
discuss whether he had learned anything bearing on the murder.
    FISHBEIN's police record shows a burglary charge in 1916, a thirty-day
sentence for assault in 1926, violation of the Sullivan law charged the same
year and a few months later an indeterminate Sing Sing sentence for shooting
Meyer LUKOWITZ in a restaurant at ?shing avenue and Boardway, Jan. 10, 1929.
    FISHBEIN was released, but later returned to Sing Sing for violating his
parole.
    Twin since then he has been a traget for underworld bullets.  Six pals
tried to persuade him to enter an automobile in front of 22 Debevoise street
last Dec. 15, and when he resisted put three slugs in him.
    He had hardly recovered at the time, from three others, fired at him
August 26 last, as he sat in a restaurant at 2876 West twenty-seventh
street, Coney Island, not far from the Villa where "Joe the Boss" MESSERIA
was put on the spot.

WOMEN LAWYERS NOMINATE MISS AMY WREN FOR BENCH
Plan Jobless Fund for Members of the Bar
    Miss Amy WREN, president of the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association, was
last night proposed as a logical candidate for one of the twelve new Supreme
Court Justiceships.  The suggestion was made at the monthly meeting at the
Hotel Clarendon.
    Miss WREN was the first president of the organization in 1917.
    In naming their president, the members declared themselves to be in
favor of more women taking part in local civic affairs.  Besides placing a
woman in the field for a Supreme Court Justiceships, they named a committee
to draft a resolution calling for the introduction of women lawyers on the
staff of the prosecution in the Seabury investigation.
    In addition, a resolution was passed called for the use of unemployed
lawyers in both investigations to relieve the unemployment situation.
    Municipal Court Justice Jacob S. STRAHL told the members of the need for
speeding up the work of the municipal court calendar.
    "The jury calendar for the Brooklyn city court is three and a half years
behind," he said.  "Those involved in automobile accidents take advantage of
this and demand a jury trial, hoping that before the time arrives for their
case, it will be hopelessly lost for the opposition, due to the absence or
death of witnesses."
    The speaker also stated that never in the history of this country have
so many lawyers been out of work and facing dispossess.
    Acting on this thought, the association announced that starting June 13,
a series of teas will be held, the proceeds of which are to go for needy men
and women lawyers.

MOTHER OF SIX RESCUED AT FIRE
    The spectacular rescue of a woman paralyzed by fright took place
yesterday afternoon at a fire which for a time threatened the destruction of
a block of three-story frame dwellings at Sixth avenue and Twentieth street.
    The rescued woman is Mrs. Barbara FRITELLA, 48, the mother of six
children.  The children all escaped, but Mrs. FRITELLA was so excited she
had to be dragged out of the house at 677a Sixth avenue, by force.

CHILDREN STRUCK BY TROLLEY CAR
    Edith MINKOWSKY, 8, of 72 South Sixth street, and her sister, Rose, 4,
were struck by a Broadway trolley car at Broadway and Bedford avenue, last
evening.  Their scalp lacerations and bruises were treated by an ambulance
surgeon from St. Catherine's Hospital and taken home.
    The trolley was in charge of Leonard HESSINGER, of 118-12 202 street,
Queens Village.

PATROLMAN HURT IN POLICE AUTO
    Patrolman James McCADDEN, 29, of 315 Schaeffer street, was confined to
his home to-day with serious lacerations and bruises, sustained at 6 o'clock
last night, when a departmental automobile, which he was operating, was in
collision with another car operated by James SANDOW, of 206 Norman avenue,
at Leonard and Richardson street.
    McCADDEN was attended by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital
and taken home.  SANDOW was served with a  summons for reckless driving.

THREE YOUTHS SEIZED DURING STORE HOLDUP
Give Up After Short Pistol Battle With Police - Clerk Without Pants
    Three youths are being questioned to-day in the Fourth avenue station in
connection with a series of store stick-ups during the past few months in
the Bay Ridge section following their arrest last night by two policemen who
charge them with holding up a drug store at 5301 Seventh avenue, taking $110
from the cash register, and engaging in an exchange of gun fire before
giving themselves up to the police.
    Shortly before midnight Patrolman Joseph CONTI, attached to Coney Island
station, started from his home at 7-2 Fifty-fourth street, to go on a late
tour of duty.  The rear of his home adjoins the rear of W.K. TEGELSEN's drug
store at 5301 Seventh avenue.  CONTI detected the three youths in the drug
store and, drawing a gun, went to investigate.
    BULLET MISSES COP
    At this time patrolman Thomas MULVEY, attached to the Poplar street
station, drove by on his way to work.  He saw CONTI with his gun drawn,
stopped his car, and joined him.
    CONTI knew that there was no rear exit to the drugstore and both
officers stationed themselves at the front door. "Come out of there" CONTI
shouted.  A bullet whizzed over his head and buried itself in the door below
the transom.  CONTI fired into the rear of the store and a minute later a
.32 calibre revolver was thrown at his feet as the three youths gave
themselves up.
    They gave their names as Mario PUCCI, 16, of 185 Bay Nineteenth street;
Michael CICCARELLI, 19, of 1031 Sixty-fourth street; and Vincent DeCICCO,
21, of 209 Bay Twenty-third street.  According to police PUCCI had $110 in
his pocket which had been taken from the cash register.  Jack PACK, clerk of
1781 East Tenth street, told the police that the three bandits had entered
the store, held him up at the point of a gun, forced him to the rear of the
store, and relieved him of his trousers.
    The three youths were taken to the Fourth avenue station where
questioning revealed, police say, that they have six other holdup jobs to
their credit.  They will be charged with assault and robbery.

FIREMAN SAVES NEGRESS; THEN RESCUES DOG
Flames Sweep Frame Building in Brownsville - Two Alarms Called
    Fire shortly after midnight swept through a two-story extension in the
rear of a three-story frame building at 105 Thatford avenue, in Brownsville.
The ground floor of the structure which was afire was occupied by Julius
RUGAK, of 97 Riverdale avenue, as a candy store, and the second floor by the
Worker's Center, as a headquarters.
    The fire was in a congested tenement house district, and when the first
firemen arrived, under Acting Battalion Chief Martin MANGELS they turned in
a second alarm. Deputy Chief Garrett LANGDON arrived with the second detail
of firemen.
    Mrs. Lillian CRAIG, a Negress, living on the top floor of the three
story building in front of the burning structure, was trapped by smoke which
poured into her apartment, and Fireman William RAPPOLD, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 120, climbed up a 25-foot ladder and rescued her.  He then
returned and rescued the woman's police dog.
    The fire was confined to the building in which it originated, after
spreading from the first to the second floor.  The building is owned by
Jacob RAHAINSKY, of 1612 Eastern parkway.
    Police of Liberty avenue station estimated the damage at $10,000.  The
cause of the fire was not determined.

BOYS ARE HELD IN ASSAULT ON BORO CLERK
Alleged to Have Entered Car of Bay Ridge Owner
    Two of the Manhattan boys who came to Brooklyn and allegedly tried to
steal the automobile of Frank ROBERTS, of 411 Fifty-eighth street, beating a
city employe who stopped them, are being held in $1,000 bail to-day on a
grand larceny charge.  The third is out on parole on a juvenile delinquency
charge.
    The boys are Thomas GANGI, 16, of 77 Monroe street; Emilio CARUSO, 16,
of 98 Monroe street, and Lawrence TERTITTA, 15, of 64 Rutgers street.
    When the youngsters started the motor of ROBERTS' car, Harold A.
SWANZEY, of 645 Fifty-seventh street, a clerk in the office of Borough
President HESTERBERG, asked if they owned the machine.  In reply young GANGI
drove it onto the sidewalk and then kicked and punched SWANZEY.  Patrolman
Reginald ROWLAND, of Classon avenue station, off duty at the time arrested
the trio.

TEN FELLED, THREE HURT BY CAR; DRIVER FACES HIT-RUN CHARGE
Woodhaven Man Also Accused of Driving Drunk
    August GUHL, 45, of 88 Pitkin avenue, Woodhaven, will appear before
Magistrate Thomas DOWNS to answer charges of driving while intoxicated,
reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, following a smashup
last night in front of 137-05 Liberty avenue, Jamaica, in which ten persons
were knocked down and three of them injured.
    The injured are Miss Mary JOST, 23, 436 East Eighty-sixth street,
Manhattan; possible fracture of the right leg, lacerations of the head and
contusions of the body.
    Miss Paula DREYFUSS, 23, of 151 East Eighty-fifth street, contusions of
the body and a possible fracture of the left foot.
    Herbert FRANK, 21, 14 Lloyd road, Jamaica, contusions and lacerations of
the face, arms and legs, possible fracture of ribs.
    The excitement which prevailed shortly after the light roadster jumped
the curb enabled the driver to walk away.  A citizen who witnessed the
accident from the opposite side of the street followed the driver and
pointed him out to Detectives SABATINO and BRAUGHTIGAN of the Jamaica
precinct.  He was locked up for the night.

MEDAL DETECTIVE, HOLDUP HERO DEFENDS TWO OF HIS PRISONERS
Changes Story Now to Say Pair Were Forced by Leader
    Two of the youths, who took part in the attempted robbery in an alleged
"speakeasy" at 212 Twenty-second street, were forced at the point of a
revolver into becoming bandits, according to the testimony of Detective
Dominick GRIFFO before County Judge McLAUGHLIN and a jury.
    The ones on trial are Raffaele DeSTEIO, Frank MARANO, Louis ROMANELLI
and Frank GRANESE*.  It was because of his arrest of these four that GRIFFO
was promoted to the rank of detectives and awarded the Brooklyn Citizens'
medal for bravery.
    According to GRIFFO, ROMANELLI and GRANECE* were forced by DeSTEIO to
search the patrons of the place of which GRIFFO was one at the time.  GRIFFO
under cross-examination testified that DeSTEIO had threatened to "blow their
brains out" if they did not search the patrons.  In this testimony GRIFFO
changed the story he told on his direct examination by Assistant District
Attorney Samuel GOLDSTEIN.
    In his direct examination he had testified that after DeSTEIO had
ordered all in the place "to stick em up," ROMANELLI and GRANESE* began to
search the patrons on word from DeSTEIO and that they knew what to do.  He
also testified that ROMANELLI and GRANESE* did start to search to patrons.
Under cross-examination he testified he did not see ROMANELLI and GRANESE*
do any searching.
    GRIFFO also asserted that the place in which the alleged attempted
robbery occurred, was not a "speakeasy" and that no prohibited drinks were
sold there.  He admitted that a blue print of the premises submitted by
Attorney Samuel LEIBOWITZ was a correct drawing of the premises.
    This blue print showed that in order to get into the place, entrance had
to be gained through four doors.  Moreover, according to Assistant District
Attorney GOLDSTEIN, identification of the intending patron had to be made
through a hole in the last door before admission was granted to the place
where the "refreshments" were served.  GRIFFO maintained the place was a
"club."
    Judge McLAUGHLIN directed Assistant District Attorney GOLDSTEIN to
produce all statements taken from GRIFFO and the defendants following the
arrest, so that opportunity might be given attorneys for the defense to
cross-examine GRIFFO on these statements.  He also directed that ROMANELLI
and GRANESE* be kept in the Queens County jail until the trial is completed.
* as spelt in article.

Veteran Brewer Sees "An American Tragedy" In Making of Near Beer
    Washington, May 6 (U.P.) - Benny DESSAU, who learned the brewing
business in the United States nearly forty years ago and now owns big
breweries in Denmark, has come back to find what he calls "an American
tragedy" in the breweries that once were turning our real beer.
    This description was inspired by a trip the other day to a brewery near
New York where he learned his trade, and which now is producing "near beer."
DESSAU, who is a delegate here to the International Chamber of Commerce
convention, also was a student of brewing methods in Milwaukee and St.
Louis.
    DESSAU expressed a hope that real beer would be manufactured in the
United States when he returns here next year for the Chicago World's Fair.
He sells the United States large quantities of near beer now.

7 May 1931
FRIEND RESCUED BY UNDERTAKER
    John SENKO always was a man to put friendship before business.  So last
night he forgot all about his undertaking establishment and called an
ambulance when he found John GRICO, 29, unconscious from gas in his home at
102 North Seventh street.
    SENKO, who lives at 137 North Seventh street and is an undertaker, went
to GRICO's apartment about 10:30 and there found GRICO stretched out on the
floor and gas escaping from a jet on a small stove.  An ambulance surgeon
from Greenpoint Hospital revived GRICO and he remained at home.
    According to the police, GRICO had dozed while preparing some coffee.
The coffee boiled over and extinguished the flame of the stove.  Roused by
the gas GRICO had attempted to open the door of the apartment, but fell
unconscious from the fumes.

TRIED TO END HIS LIFE IN STREET, SAY POLICE
    Frank REDDEN, 29, of 1734 East Twenty-seventh street, is in Kings County
Hospital suffering from the effects of what police said was an attempt at
suicide in front of 2050 Nostrand avenue early to-day.  According to police
of the Snyder avenue station REDDEN swallowed a quantity of formaldahyde.
CROWLEY WON'T HURT HELEN, SAYS MOTHER OF MISSING GIRL
Mrs. WALSH Believes "Two-Gun" Frank is Nice Boy
    "I expect my daughter home any minute.  I am positive that she is alive
and that Francis CROWLEY would do her no harm."
    With these words Mrs. Jeremiah WALSH, mother of sixteen-year old Helen
WALSH, who Nassau County police believe has been murdered by Francis
(Two-Gun) CROWLEY because she knew too much, expressed her belief that a
kind Providence will guard the welfare of her daughter.
    Mrs. WALSH lives at 69 Nassau street, one door from Adams street, in a
three-story and basement frame and brick building, of shabby exterior.
    NEIGHBORS CURIOUS
    A reporter called on Mrs. WALSH this morning.  Up and down Nassau street
curious neighbors could be seen peering from behind curtains as police and
other visitors approached the WALSH home.
    In the front of the house is a small plot of ground which features a
lone geranium plant and on the roof near a brick chimney could be seen a
home-made radio aerial.
    A young girl answered the doorbell.  The reporter later learned that she
is Margaret WALSH, a sister of Helen.  She refused to talk to the reporter
and said, "On your way, on your way.  We won't talk to anyone.  Especially
reporters and their dirty, rotten scandal sheets."
    A short time later the daughter, Margaret, was seen leaving the house in
the company of a detective from Poplar street station.  The reporter
returned and again rang the doorbell.
    MOTHER NOT WORRIED
    Mrs. WALSH, a motherly, gray-haired woman, opened the door.  She said
that she didn't care to say much except that she expected her daughter home.
    "My daughter met Francis CROWLEY several years ago down at the Island,"
said Mrs. WALSH.  "She only went out with him a few times but he was always
so nice to her.  I, too, met him and he seemed to be such a nice,
respectable boy.
    "I am sure that he would not harm Helen.  We never knew any of the
things that they are saying about him and I know that my daughter will be
home any minute."

FIREMAN HURT SAVING BOY, TWO TENANTS INJURED IN APARTMENT HOUSE BLAZE
Dog Loses Life in Smoke-Filled Building
    Three persons were injured, a boy was rescued with an aerial ladder
after dangling in mid-air three stories above the street and a small dog
lost his life when fire swept the rear of a three-story brick apartment
house at 541 Pacific street early to-day.
    Patrolman James MALONEY, of Bergen street station, discovered the fire
shortly after 4 A.M. and sounded the alarm, after Henry SMITH, 40, manager
of the house who lives in the basement, had extinguished a smouldering pile
of kindling in the cellar and returned to bed four hours earlier.  MALONEY,
seeing flames in the rear of the building and smelling smoke, roused all the
occupants who were not awake, and shouted to several hysterical occupants on
the second and third floors to wait for aid from the Fire Department.  He
assisted several tenants on the first floor to the street.
    On the top floor, John WHEELER, 14, who lives with his brother, Walter,
29, became hysterical, and climbed out the window to jump, until his brother
held him.  Fireman Francis J. DOWLING of Hook and Ladder 105 climbed a
ladder and grabbed the younger WHEELER, but at the moment he did, the ladder
turned slightly and he was pinned against the wall of the building.  He was
treated for a wrenched left shoulder, and was able to remain on duty, after
effecting the rescue.
    In the meantime, the older WHEELER, Edward JOHNSON, 33, and Charles H.
JOHNSON, 36, both of whom live on the second floor, descended ladders to the
street, as did the family of Benjamin BURKE, second floor tenant.  BURKE and
SMITH, manager of of the building, who cut himself breaking glass to get out
of the burning celler, were treated by a doctor from Holy Family Hospital
for cuts, bruises and smoke poisoning and then taken to the hospital.
    Smoke from the fire was carried over to adjacent buildings and routed
out several tenants.  The stairway in the house was completely demolished,
and smoke damaged several of the rooms.  The fire was attributed to a
burning rubbish heap in the basement.  The damage was about $10,000.

CAPTURE CONVICT IN BROWNSVILLE
    Morris SHAPIRO, a junk dealer who has spent 19 of his 48 years at Sing
Sing prison, was captured yesterday by detectives of Liberty avenue station,
under command of Lieutenant Thomas MULVEY, who had been hunting for SHAPIRO
since the junkman walked out of the penitentiary at Welfare Island, December
17, 1930.
    SHAPIRO, whose home address is 471 Avenue Y, had almost completed his
term for possessing burglar's tools at the time of his escape.
    Ten days ago, he was seen in Brownsville by Detective Harry BECK of
Liberty avenue station, but managed to elude the detective after a chase,
during which the latter fired five shots.
    He was captured yesterday by five detectives at Dumont* avenue and Herzl
street, following a short chase.  He was taken to Manhattan to-day and
returned to Welfare Island authorities.

ESCAPE CONVICT GOES BACK TO ISLAND
    At large for more than four months, following an escape from Welfare
Island Dec. 16, Morris SHAPIRO, 48, of 471 Avenue Y, arrested by detectives
of Brownsville station at Dupont* and Herzl streets last night, was to
return to fill out his unexpired term to-day.  SHAPIRO was sentenced to
Welfare Island on March 30, 1930, on a charge of possession of burglar
tools, for a term of two years.  He had been convicted three times on
larceny charges.
* as spelt in article

MEDAL COP's BANDIT ROUNDUP JUST DRUNK BRAWL, COURT TOLD
GRIFFO Only One With Gun, Says Defendant
    Further charges that there was no justification in the awarding of a
police department hero medal to Patrolman Dominick GRIFFO for his arrest of
four alleged robbers in a speakeasy at 212 Twenty-second street in which
several people were shot, came to-day from County Court when Frank MARANO,
24, of 97 Williams avenue, one of the four youths arrested, took the stand
before Judge McLAUGHLIN.
    MARANO, who is being defended by former County Judge Reuben L. HASKELL,
said that there was no robbery or attempted robbery on his or his
companions' part and that the fight was the usual speakeasy "brawl."
    "We got in the place," said MARANO, "because they knew us and we wanted
to buy a drink.  We were drinking at the bar and there was an automatic
piano playing at the time.  GRIFFO was dancing with a girl.  The piano
stopped and I put a nickel in it to start it again and went over to ask the
girl with GRIFFO for a dance.
    "GRIFFO gave me a shove when I asked her for a dance, and then reached
for his hip pocket.  At that time 'Chick' MORIANO, who is the brother of
'Joe,' the guy that owns the place, picked up a beer bottle and struck me
over the head four or five times.  I had to have sixteen stitches taken for
the wound.
    "A free-for-all started and GRIFFO began to shoot.  The four of us were
fighting to try and get to the door and get out of the place and that is how
all the trouble started and some people got hurt.
    "There was no attempt to stick up the place and GRIFFO was the only guy
with a gun.  He just got mad because I wanted to dance with the girl."

BANDITS SEIZE STORE'S CASH, CLERK'S PANTS
Williamsburg Holdup Third in Month - Victim Goes Home in Overalls
    For the third time in a month Stanley LITTAUER, of the Silver ? store at
367 Bedford avenue, was held up early to-day.  But this time he lost his
pants as well as the contents of the cash register.
    LITTAUER, who lives at 717 Avenue O, Manhattan, and Murray HECHT, of 874
East 167th street, Manhattan, were closing the store for the night shortly
after midnight when two well-dressed men about 21 entered and asked for a
package of cigarettes.
    When LITTAUER started to unlock the case where the cigarettes were
stored for the night, the spokesman of the two pulled a pistol and ordered
the manager and his clerk into a rear room.  There they forced both men to
remove their trousers, and one of the bandits carried away LITTAUER's.
    They also took $50 from the cash register, LITTAUER said, and $13.62 in
his trousers pocket.  Police of the Bedford avenue station, when notified of
the robbery, broadcast a general alarm from the good description the store
manager gave, and provided LITTAUER with a pair of overalls so he could go
home.
    LITTAUER said the store, which is located just below the Brooklyn end of
the Williamsburg bridge, has been robbed twice before by gunmen within the
past month.

BABY INJURED IN TRUCK CRASH
Joseph COLLARO, one year old, of 2372 East Third street, was cut by flying
glass yesterday when an automobile truck driven by James O'SHEA, of 677
Fourth avenue, mounted the sidewalk and crashed against the wall of a
building at 543 Clinton street.
    The baby was in a store at that address, and the glass was from a plate
glass window, shattered by the truck.  Dr. DOWNING of Long Island College
Hospital treated the child for lacerations of the scalp.

TRAFFIC LIGHT
    Miss Amanda HAMILTON intends to start a movement for a traffic light or
traffic policeman at the junction of Lorimer street, Bedford avenue, Berry
street and Nassau avenue, she said to-day.
    A petition will be circulated.  When enough signatures are obtained the
petition will be sent to the traffic bureau of the Police Department.

MUCH MARRIED TAXI DRIVER'S WOES INCREASE
Perjury Added to Charges Against Man With Three Wives
"I'm Peck's bad boy," sighed Joseph May, 37, taxi driver, of 442 Atlantic
avenue, as he sat in his cell to-day in Raymond street jail with the enmity
of three women, all his wives, turned upon him.
    For bigamy May is probably facing a long term in prison.  To this
charge, according to Assistant District Attorney GEOGHAN, will likely be
added one of perjury.  In as much as the alleged perjury was committed in
the Surrogate's Court and Surrogate WINGATE is known to deal severely with
such cases, it now looks as if MAY will have quite a stay as an involuntary
guest of the State and where the company of the ladies is not to be had.
    MAY, before County Judge Albert CONWAY, pleaded guilty to two
indictments for bigamy.  On the motion of District Attorney GEOGHAN, Judge
CONWAY held the defendant in $20,000 bail for trial.
    Back in 1917 MAY, at the age of 23, he married his first wife.  She died
in 1921. That same year MAY married Rosa DeVAULT, and of this union one
child was born.  Toward the end of 1923 he deserted this wife, and in
September of 1929 he married Elizabeth BRIGGS, of 442 Atlantic avenue.
    On April 22 last, he felt the urge for another new face in his
matrimonial picture, and went and married Helen FILLO, of 107 Sixth avenue.
Of course he did not bother about getting free of one wife before he married
another, and all three wives are living.  Further than that District
Attorney GEOGHAN said to-day that he has been informed that somewhere on
Warren street there is another Mrs. MAY.
    The expose of MAY did not come through any of his wives, but only after
he deserted his own child and then, with the connivance of a woman, whom he
represented to be his wife, although she was not, legally adopted a child
whom he later abused, it is charged.
    The abuse of this child, a 4-year old youngster, brought the Children's
Society into action.  According to evidence gathered by Superintendent
Charles WARNER and Agent Charles HARSTED of the Children's Society, MAY,
before his third marriage, took up with another woman whom he did not marry.
To Surrogate WINGATE MAY declared himself married to this woman, and offered
what was the certificate of his first marriage as proof of his marriage to
this woman.  MAY commited this perjury in seeking the adoption of a child.
After all the legal requirements had been met, Surrogate WINGATE permitted
the adoption of the child by MAY and his alleged wife.
    The parents of this adopted child are separated, the mother living on
Staten Island and the father in Columbus, Ohio.

COPS SURROUND HOUSE ON WEST 90th STREET
Borough Girl Companion Believed Alive - Cop's Gun Missing
    Nearly one hundred uniformed police and detectives, reinforced by two
Emergency Squads, were thrown around the block containing an apartment house
at 303 West Ninetieth street, Manhattan, at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon in
the belief they had Francis (Two-Gun) CROWLEY, cop-killer, trapped there.
    Headquarters was informed shots had been fired from the windows of an
apartment at detectives surrounding the place.  Police were reported
preparing to charge the place with machine guns and tear gas bombs.
    The search for Francis "Two-Gun" CROWLEY as the killer of Frederick
HIRSCH, Nassau patrolman, turned toward Oyster Bay this afternoon.
    District Attorney EDWARDS directed squads of Nassau detectives to that
area when he was informed a youth resembling CROWLEY begged an automobile
ride near there early yesterday from Arnold P. KOHLER, Superintendent of
Highways of North Hempstead.
    The hitch-hiker's right arm was bandaged, KOHLER said, and the youth
asked a number of questions about the habits of county police before getting
out near Roslyn.
    KOHLER remembered the youth when he read about the patrolman's murder a
short time later, and notified the District Attorney.
        Chauffeur Gives Clue
    A young man who described himself as Frank FESTER, a chauffeur living at
1608 East Ninety-sixth street, entered the Bedford avenue police station at
2:30 P.M. and told Lieut. John DURKIN he had just seen CROWLEY leave a
Canarsie-bound subway train at the Bedford avenue station.
    FESTER said he saw the man board the train at Union Square, Manhattan.
He remained standing, he said, until the train reached the First avenue
station in Manhattan, when he took a seat near the door and kept looking
about the car.
    The chauffeur said the man was carrying a newspaper with a picture of
CROWLEY in it and of the WALSH girl.  This he glanced at from time to time.
FESTER said he also had a paper and he made a close comparison of the
picture in it and the man seated opposite him.
    He followed the supposed CROWLEY out of the train at Bedford avenue,
(missing a line) red coupe with a New Jersey license standing there.  The
driver of the car, FESTER said, had his coat pulled about his face and his
hat jammed down over his eyes.
    FESTER attempted to take the license number, he said, but a trolley car
blocked the view.  The first two numbers were either 73 or 74, he said, and
the initial was either E or L.
    Patrolmen and detectives in the station house were assigned on the
search for the red car, which was headed in the direction of the
Williamsburg Bridge when last seen.
        BELIEVES GIRL ALIVE
    Mr. EDWARDS also announced he now believes Helen WALSH, the Brooklyn
girl who was in CROWLEY's machine when he fired nine bullets at HIRSCH
Wednesday, is alive and unharmed.
    It was disclosed to-day at the prosecutor's office that HIRSCH's gun is
missing, although he had one when he approached his death in Black Shirt
lane.
    Detectives suggested HIRSCH reached inside the car toward his killer,
aiming the gun, and dropped it when a bullet hit his arm.  This would
account also, they suggested for the bloodstains on the machine.
    Mr. EDWARDS did not discuss the two bullets found embedded on the inside
of the foredoor, which led Inspector Harold KING of Nassau Detectives to
decide CROWLEY had shot the girl after escaping from HIRSCH's brother
policeman and had hidden her body to protect himself.
    The prosecutor seemed certain, however, that she is neither dead nor a
captive.  He said he will ask the Grand Jury to indict her as a material
witness, unless she communicates with him by to-morrow.
    The prosecutor's confidence was echoed to-day by Mrs. Jeremiah WALSH,
the girl's mother, who said she is sure her daughter will come home.  Mrs.
WALSH lives at 69 Nassau street.
    Miss WALSH lived part of the time with her mother, part of the time with
her father, Jeremiah, at Roosevelt, L.I. and she met CROWLEY Tuesday night
at a party he joined in the home of Mrs. Amanda DAVIS on Meadowbrook road,
North Merrick, where once he had boarded, police learned.
    Nassau authorities are convinced CROWLEY shot her and hid her body
somewhere along his line of flight to protect himself from her possible
testimony.  She was the only witness to the earlier killing.
    The girl was Helen WALSH, 16 years old.  She lived part of the time with
her mother at 69 Nassau street, part of the time with her father, Jeremiah,
at Roosevelt, L.I. and she met CROWLEY Tuesday night at a party he joined in
the home of Mrs. Amanda DAVIS on Meadowbrook road, North Merrick, where once
he had boarded, police learned.
        HEARD THE FATAL SHOTS
    Only an hour before the shooting CROWLEY took four young people,
including Mrs. DAVIS' son Clinton, 19, for a ride, police said to Black
Shirt lane, known as a petter's haven, and parked.  Another youth, John
McCAHILL told police he argued against the WALSH girl's association with
CROWLEY, and was ordered out of the machine with young DAVIS and another
girl, whose name was not disclosed.
    McCAHILL, DAVIS and the girl went back to the party, and were telling
Mrs. DAVIS what had happened, they said, when they heard the nineteen pistol
reports from the grove nearby.
    Mrs. DAVIS, her son, and McCAHILL were held in the Mineola jail as
material witnesses, Mrs. DAVIS in 10,000 bail; the young men in $15,000
each.
    Detectives became convinced the WALSH girl was killed when they found
CROWLEY's machine abandoned in Jamaica and discovered two bullets embedded
on the inside of the foredoor.  They had not pierced the door.  Inspector
Harold KING of Nassau decided they must have been fired from near the left
seat and lost their velocity passing through a body.  There were confirming
bloodstains on the floor of the roadster and on its running board.
    "Meanwhile the hunt for CROWLEY enlisted detectives by squads, and
scores of volunteers, who are systematically going over every possible
hiding place on Long Island.  An airplane was pressed into service by
District Attorney EDWARDS of Nassau yesterday to hasten an interview in
Southampton with a young woman named Billie DUNNE, said to have known
CROWLEY.
    Detective Harry BUTTS, ballistic expert of the New York Police
Department examined the bullets which killed HIRSCH, under a comparative
microscope.  They came from the same gun, he said, as those which killed the
BRANNEN girl, and link the owner with the shooting two months ago of the
Bronx detective.
    CROWLEY, only twenty, has a two-year crime record behind him, police
said, and of late has turned definitely from larceny to violence.  The youth
had tacked on himself the name "Killer" and "Two Gun" CROWLEY.
(NOTE: SEE 8 May 1931 8 May COURT)

MAN HELD FOR BEATING RIVAL TELLS OF FLEEING DESERT PRISON
Relates Hardships in Hike to Family Here
    A trek across the desert in a flight to freedom, with death from thirst
and starvation dogging his trail, was told to-day to County Judge MARTIN by
James KRAWCZYNSKI, 30, of 328 West Twenty-eighth street, Manhattan.
    KRAWCZYNSKI was called before Judge MARTIN by Assistant District
Attorney Harry S. SULLIVAN for trial on a charge of assault.  He pleaded
guilty.  He admitted that he had struck with some blunt instrument Michael
FURMANSKI, of 63 North Seventh street.  He claimed that the trouble between
them arose over attentions be believed FURMANSKI was forcing on his wife.
    KRAWCZYNSKI's flight for freedom was from the prison gang of Tombstone,
Arizona.  In March of 1928 he was sent away for from 15 to 20 years for
taking part with three others in the hold-up of an automobilist on the
highway.  The hold-up brought a return of six dollars.  At the prison
KRAWCZYNSKI was made a trusty and put on road work.
    TELLS OF ESCAPE
    "It was in the afternoon of a very hot day," KRAWCZYNSKI related, "and
as I was out there on the road with nobody near me, I got an awful longing
for my wife and two children back in Brooklyn.  With fifteen years in prison
before me all hope seemed lost except in a try for freedom.  I thought, "If
I am caught, what difference will it make with fifteen years in jail to stay
anyhow."
    "I looked around.  Nobody was near.  I started for the East.  I walked
for thirty miles across the desert.  The ongue was burning in my head and I
was weak from hunger.  It looked like death was just hanging over me when
three Mexicans came along in an old flivver.  I asked them for a ride.  I
didn't care where, just so long as I could get to some water.  My feet were
covered with blisters, and every muscle and bone in my body ached.  I
suffered as I never expect to suffer again for the rest of my life.
    "The Mexicans drove, and I didn't know where they were going, but I
figured they would make for Mexico, and I thought that somewhere along the
trail I could pick up the road to El Paso.
    DROVE PAST JAIL
    "I was stiff with fright when I suddenly found that they were driving
right past the prison from which I had escaped.  And not far away they
stopped at a gas station the road alongside of which I had helped to build
as a prisoner, and the woman who owned the station knew me.  I slunk down in
the "flivver" and she did not see me.
    "At Tucson I left the Mexicans.  I picked up with another fellow who was
driving to El Paso.  He offered to take me along if I could drive a car.  I
told him I could.  I drove 200 miles of the way he drove the other 200
miles.  He gave me two dollars.  I stayed in El Paso just long enough to get
a night's rest and a bath.  The next day I started for Brooklyn and
hitchhiked it all the way.  I got to my wife and children.  I hope I don't
have to go back."
    "I hope not, too," said Judge MARTIN.

8 May 1931
GYPSY MOTHER JUMPS IN RIVER
    Despondent because she was unable to find her husband and nine children,
Mrs. Rose ADAMS, a gypsy, jumped into the East River at the foot of Atlantic
avenue, near the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry terminal yesterday.
    Mrs. ADAMS and her family had lived at 25 Atlantic avenue, where a gypsy
camp was established.  When she returned there last night after having been
away all day, the camp had broken up and none of her family or friends could
be found.
    Harry MARTIN, of 432 Prospect avenue, a dock worker, saw the woman jump
into the water and he leaped after her and rescued her.  She was taken in an
ambulance to Kings County Hospital, suffering from exposure.

TERRIER MISSING, FEAR FOR OWNER
    A little black and tan terrier is needed at the home of Mrs. Lillian
SCRIBNER, of the Mayfair Apartments in State street, Flushing, to help in
her recovery from a serious heart ailment.
    Mrs. SCRIBNER is being treated in the Flushing Hospital.  While she was
away, her closest companion, "Skippy," the dog wandered from home.
    Friends who feel that "Skippy's" absence if discovered by Mrs. SCRIBNER
may seriously affect her condition have offered $100 reward for his return.
On the collar is the license number X754.

SMALL BOYS PLAY WITH LOADED GUN
    Patrolman Frank MEYERS of Rockaway Beach, saw several little boys
playing with a big revolver on Beach Sixty-third street, Arverne, yesterday
afternoon, and when he took it away from them he found that if was fully
loaded.
    It is believed the weapon was discarded by rum runners chased by Coast
Guardsmen within the last week.  There has been a great deal of activity
against rum runners by police and coast guards in the Rockaways recently,
following the seizure of four boatloads of liquor in Jamaica Bay, valued at
$175,000.

9 May 1931
WO GLENDALE GIRLS SOUGHT, FIEND FEARED
Ridgewood Cellars Searched for One; Romance Calls the Other
    Glendale detectives continued today to explore cellars of several houses
in the Flushing avenue section of Ridgewood in their investigation of the
disappearance of Mary SEIBT, 14, of 1506 Flushing avenue, but without
finding any trace of her.
    The girl, who is the daughter of Mrs. Anna SEIBT, disappeared from home
at 9 A.M. on May 3, but it was not until yesterday, at the instance of her
mother, that the police sent out a general alarm for her.
    At the same time the Glendale station sent out a general alarm for Lena
HALFEN, 16, of 68-43 Seventy-fifth street, Middle Village, who has been
missing from her home since 3 P.M. Thursday.  She is the daughter of Harry
HALFEN, and the police were told that she left home following a tiff with
others of the family who had protested against her keeping company with
certain young man.  The girl has been employed in an infant's wear factory
in Manhattan.
    Lieut. John G. STEIN, of Glendale station, ordered that the cellars in
the vicinity of the SEIBT girl's home be searched, on the theory that she
may have been the victim of a maniac.  He gave no information to show the
basis of this theory, however.
    The SEIBT girl is described as being five feet tall, weighing 114 pounds
and having blue eyes and brown hair.  When she left home she wore a blue
coat with brown fur trimmings, a black pleated dress, tan stockings and
black oxfords.
    The HALFEN girl is described as being five feet five inches tall,
weighing 130 pounds and having brown hair and brown eyes.  She wore a brown
spring coat, a brown dress, a black felt hat, tan stockings and black
oxfords.

ENNETTS GO IN SECLUSION
    The family of Attorney General John J. BENNETT, whose Bay Ridge home at
115 Ninety-fourth street was placed under guard several days ago because of
gang threats, appeared to-day to have gone into seclusion.
    Inquiry developed the fact that the guard over the BENNETT home has been
withdrawn.
    Through reports that Mrs. BENNETT and the Attorney General's three young
children had gone into hiding were branded as "ridiculous," it appeared that
Mrs. BENNETT and the children had left their home in Bay Ridge.  Their
present whereabouts was not publicly known.
    The gang threats are said to have followed the opening of Mr. BENNETT's
campaign against "Legs" DIAMOND in the Catskills.

GUN MISFIRES, BANDIT FELLED BY COP'S BLOW
Man Captured at Long Island Depot After Hotel Holdup
    Two policemen owe their lives to-day to a defective hammer-spring in a
.32 calibre gun in the hand of a bandit who was captured early to-day in
front of the Long Island Railroad depot, Flatbush and Atlantic avenues,
following an exciting five-block chase through a dense fog in which the
policeman fired several shots.
    The prisoner, Fred STAFFELDT, 26, of 25 South street, Manhattan, which
is the Seaman's Institute, will be given a hearing in Flatbush court later
to-day on a charge of assault and robbery and violation of the Sullivan law.
    STAFFELDT, police say, entered the Lafayette Hotel, 25 Lafayette avenue,
at about 3 o'clock this morning and held up the night clerk, Robert HURLEY,
taking $9.  As he ran from the hotel Patrolman Albert A. LAZZARO, of Bergen
street station, ordered him to stop.
        PISTOL MISSES FIRE
    The man, LAZZARO says, wheeled about, pointed the gun at him and pressed
the trigger.  The piece did not fire.  The man then turned and ran with
LAZZARO in pursuit, firing several shots in the air.
    The gunman ran down Lafayette avenue and turned into St. Felix street.
There was such a dense fog that LAZZARO could not see more then five feet in
front of him.  However, the loud noise of the gunman's hobnailed boots
striking the pavement enabled LAZZARO to keep on his heels and follow him
closely as he dodged in and out of the streets in the vicinity of the
Academy of Music.
    The chase continued until the man reached the Flatbush avenue side of
the Long Island depot and started to enter a parked taxicab.  In the
meantime Patrolman John TORMY, Bergen street station, had heard shots fired
by LAZZARO and joined in the chase.
        COP SCORES KNOCKOUT
    Both patrolmen, with drawn guns, closed in on the fugitive as he stepped
into the taxicab.  He suddenly turned as the policemen came within five feet
of him and, aiming his gun, pressed on the trigger.  Again the piece missed
fire.  TORMY leaped forward and swung a terrific smash to the man's jaw,
knocking him unconscious so that he had to be carried to the station house.
    At police headquarters he was revived and told the police that he was
Fred STAFFELDT, 26, of 25 South street, Manhattan.  Ballistic experts at
headquarters said that the gun slightly dented, indicating that an
detonating primer in each shell was slightly dented indicating that an
attempt had been made to fire all five.  They said that the hammer-spring
appeared to be defective.

KILLER RESIGNED TO FATE - COUNSEL ASSIGNED OVER PROTEST -By Dixie TIGHE
    Francis "Two-Gun" CROWLEY, confessed killer, will be moved from Nassau
County Hospital to the Nassau County jail either this evening or to-morrow
morning, officials said late to-day.
    CROWLEY was informed to-day that he would probably be moved and
remarked:
    "That's great.  The more moves the better.  I like to ride."
    CROWLEY was arraigned to-day on a charge of murder, first degree, as he
lay on his cot in the Nassau Hospital at Mineola.  The arraignment was made
before County Judge Lewis J. SMITH, who went to the hospital accompanied by
District Attorney Elvin N. EDWARDS and Herman SCHOLEY, clerk of the County
Court.  No one else was present when CROWLEY was arraigned, Mr. SCHOLEY
said.
    CROWLEY lay in bed slightly propped up with pillows and listened to the
reading of the indictment.  He then entered a plea of not guilty.  Judge
SMITH asked him if he had means with which to provide himself with a lawyer.
He replied that he did not and that he did not want a lawyer.  Judge SMITH
informed him that he would have a lawyer, whether he wanted one or not, and
appointed Charles R. WEEKS, former district attorney, to defend him.
    The arraignment required only a few minutes.  While it was being done
guards paced up and down outside CROWLEY's door and under the window of the
room in which he is detained.
    Rudolph DURINGER, caught with him, killed Virginia BRANNEN, dance hall
hostess, for $300, not love, according to the story told to District
Attorney Elvin N. EDWARDS of Nassau County by Salvatore RUSO*, 19, of North
Hempstead.
    RUSSO*, held in the Nassau County jail as a material witness against
CROWLEY, blasted DURINGER's assertions that he killed the Bangor, ME., taxi
dancer because she loved another.
    He said DURINGER and CROWLEY boasted to him the day after the murder
that they had been paid $150 each by a vice syndicate to dispose of the girl
so she could not testify before the Seabury inquiry.
    RUSSO told of meeting CROWLEY and DURINGER in a car on the east side of
Manhattan the day after the murder.
        SHOW CASH AS PROOF
    "There was blood on the seat, still wet," RUSSO said to the District
Attorney.  "CROWLEY and DURINGER told me they had bumped off Virginia.  I
told them I didn't believe it.
    "CROWLEY then reached in his pocket and pulled out $150 in bills.
DURINGER had the same amount. They said they had been paid that for the
killing."
    And the youth who drove around town twenty-fours hours later in the
blood-stained car in which he has aided a murder, lay to-day on his bed in
Nassau County Hospital while another of his victims, valiant Patrolman
Frederick HIRSCH, of the Nassau police, was being buried with all honors of
the police department.
    HIRSCH's body was escorted from his home at Hicks street, Bellmore, to
St. Barnabas' Roman Catholic Church by 700 policemen.  The body was laid to
rest in the Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury.  Before 10 o'clock, the hour set
for the funeral, a crowd of several thousand gathered in front of the HIRSCH
home.
    At the close of the requiem mass Police Chaplain Francis HEALY, of
Garden City, paid a tribute to the hero, who is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Freda HIRSCH, and four small children.
    The church was crowded with people of many denominations.  Chaplain
HEALY said:
    "He was a real policeman.  He was a perfect policeman.  His one thought
was of his wife, his children and his home.  It has been said that he died
with his murderer's name on his lips.  If he did you may rest assured it was
a prayer and not a curse, for he was courageous and strong."
    "Three pictures come to me as I consider his death.  That of the
crumpled body of the policeman lying dead in the dirt because of his honor
and sacrifice; that of his widowed wife and her children.  And that of the
boy, still adolescent, who committed the murder."
    "He had a clear mind and a firm determination.  He hated the police, and
in his oath to hate them he was a menace to civilized society."
    "Is there a definite cause for the lawlessness of to-day?  If so, the
solution must be found."
    "Is it prohibition?  If so, in the name of God, decency and in the name
of every American citizen whose right it is to have life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, let us repeal or modify prohibition."
    "Is it the fault of the school?  If so, find the remedy."
    "Or is it because the death penalty is regarded by the lawless as an
easy way out?  Would it be better if we have, as they do in Italy, lifelong
imprisonment with solitary confinement?"
    "Or is it the influence of gangster pictures on the unsteady, the
abnormal and the subnormal?  If so, modify these pictures."
    Chaplain HEALY commended New York's police, saying:  "The New York
police are the finest and the noblest anywhere in the world."
    At the close of his eulogy the casket was carried to the hearse, laden
with exquisite wreaths and sprays of flowers.  Following the family cars
were many fire department trucks, piled high with flowers, testimonials from
the policeman's relatives and many friends in and out of the police service.
The police band played "Nearer My God to Thee" as the casket was placed in
the hearse.
    CROWLEY, who boasts of being a "cop-killer," but declines to eat meat on
Friday, is the latest devotee of the new school of independent lawlessness
that has shooting, love and jocularity as its chief subjects.
    CROWLEY, known incongruously enough as "Shorty" and "Two-Gun" killed
Patrolman HIRSCH early Wednesday morning when that officer recognized him in
a stolen car on the North Merrick road, L.I.  With CROWLEY was the girl he
protests to love, Helen WALSH, of 69 Nassau street, who has turned State's
evidence and denies she loves the killer.
        PROUD OF LAST BATTLE
    CROWLEY was trapped in his hiding place on Thursday and is distinctly
pleased with the fact that it took a siege by 300 policemen to roust him
from his lair at 303 West Ninetieth street.
    Despite Helen's denials of any more than just being "fond of Francis,"
the girl was found in the hideaway flat with CROWLEY, as was Rudolph
DURINGER, who was indicted yesterday for the murder of Virginia BRANNEN.
    CROWLEY is perfectly positive that his fate is the electric chair and
has expressed himself to the effect that he will greatly appreciate
expedition of his execution.  He would like to go to trial as soon as
possible and outside of this request and a desire for a good meal his only
other request was made to District Attorney EDWARDS.
    "Please, sir, before it's all over, may I see her once?"
    The "her" is Helen WALSH, the sixteen year old girl, who probably saw
more shooting Thursday afternoon than most Western movie heroines see in a
career.  CROWLEY is inclined to blame the murder of HIRSCH on the fact that
Helen refused to become a Bronx-bride.
        TURNS TO LOVE WOES
    Flippant Francis, with more than one man's share of bragadoccio, talked
of his shooting and his loving yesterday as he rode in a fancy ambulance
from Bellevue Hospital to the Nassau Hospital.  His head emerging from
layers of lavender and pink blankets, the young boy whose life is as good as
over, according to District Attorney Elvin EDWARDS, spoke indifferently of
his killing and emotionally of Helen WALSH.
    "Helen promised to marry me about a year ago and then she turned me down
at Christmas time.  Before she changed her mind, I stopped 'playing around.'
(CROWLEY apparently disregarded a few thefts and considered recent minor
shootings of no importance.)  But Helen wanted me to keep out of the Bronx
and I wouldn't.  So she refused to marry me.  Then I started down hill."
    The young WALSH girl, finding Francis preferred the Bronx to his
possible bride, suffered pangs of pride and struck young CROWLEY from her
beau list.  CROWLEY some way heard that Helen was to be at her father's
cottage on the North Merrick road last Tuesday and drove out to see her.
    And, this young man who fired seven death shots into Patrolman HIRSCH is
now being characterized by the State as "boyish, frank, jocular and polite."
    Apparently in a polite and courting mood, CROWLEY drove with Helen along
the Merrick road early Wednesday morning and when HIRSCH asked him for a
driver's license he pulled out a revolver and fired death to the patrolman.
HIRSCH pulled twice on the trigger of his gun, it clicked - it did not
discharge - and CROWLEY fired a shot that fatally wounded HIRSCH.  Then
CROWLEY seized the patrolman's gun and when he pulled the trigger it worked.
    "For all I know, I might have emptied both guns into HIRSCH - I'm not
sure.  I was firing both of them at once -"
    He hasn't once said he was sorry, and he hasn't pulled the "cry-baby"
act that has become so popular with young killers.  He boasts of his
virtues, saying:
    "I've never smoked, nor taken a drink, nor touched drugs."  And, Francis
CROWLEY became enormously indignant when someone tried to link his name with
Dutch SCHULTZ's beer racket.
    He has been unofficially characterized to District Attorney EDWARDS by
Dr. Means GREGORY of Bellevue as "sane."  And, EDWARDS regards him as
"absolutely sane beyond the shadow of a doubt."
    Helen WALSH spent Thursday night with Francis CROWLEY at the Ninetieth
street rooming house.  She was wearing a wedding ring.  The ring, according
to EDWARDS, was probably worn to fool the landlady because both Helen and
Francis protest the virtuous protestation of "a bride in name only."
        DEFENDS HELEN'S NAME
    EDWARDS pointed out to CROWLEY that if he really wanted to help the girl
he would be absolutely truthful in regard to any illicit relation he might
have had with the girl.  CROWLEY stoutly maintained:
    "I am much too fond of Helen to have hurt her that way.  There was
nothing between us and I am telling the truth."
    Helen was also rigidly questioned and denied that there was any reason
for her mother and police believing anything other than that she is a "good
girl," according to her phraseology.
    There will be no formal charges against the girl - she will be called as
the State's principal witness, and it is her testimony that is expected to
send CROWLEY to the chair.  She has made no request to see him, but EDWARDS
will undoubtedly grant CROWLEY's request to see her.
(News goes into month of June. Be sure to check Court Section)

11 May 1931
4-YEAR OLD CALLS ENGINES FOR FUN
    Where there's a will there's a way.  So thought little four-year old
Richard MOYLIN.  Richard likes fire engines and it so happened that none had
been our recently when he was around to see them.
    He secured a box, climbed up so that his tiny fingers could just reach
the handle of box 832 at Irving avenue and Palmetto street, just down the
block from 297 Palmetto street, where the lad lives.
    The fire engines arrived and Richard was in his glory until the firemen
discovered that this mite had dragged them our for his own amusement.  He
was gently paddled by half-angry, half-amused firemen and sent home, with a
warning not to do it again.

THREE IN FAMILY OVERCOME BY GAS
    A man and his two sisters were taken to Kings County Hospital to-day
after they were found overcome with gas in an apartment at 1930 Fifty-second
street.
    The man is Voldmer JOHNSON, 35, who lives with his sister, Elvira, 31,
at the Fifty-second street address.  They were both overcome with another
sister, Elaine, 33, of 854 Forty-second street, who was visiting them, when
a coffee pot boiled over and extinguished the flame on a gas stove.

AUTO HITS POLE, THREE ARE HURT
    Two young women and a man were injured when an automobile in which they
were riding crashed into an electric light pole at Death Curve on Foxhurst
road, Oceanside, yesterday.
    Those hurt were Miss Grace SUMMERS, 21, of 419 West Thirty-four street,
Manhattan, and Miss Alice MACHUSKI, 20, of 6 York place, Merrick.  The
driver of the car was Arthur OLDRIDGE, 23, of 191 Foxhurst road, Oceanside.
    Mahlon BROWER, chief of the Oceanside Fire Deparment took all three to
the South Nassau Community Hospital in Oceanside, where it was found they
were suffering from severe injuries on legs, face, head and body.

SOLDIER STRUCK BY AUTO, DYING
    John KING, a soldier attached to the Sixty-first service squadron at
Mitchel Field, was struck by an automobile at Hempstead last night.  He was
brought to the Nassau County Hospital, at Mineola, where it was said that he
is seriously injured.  Louis HIRN, of 186 South Franklin street, Hempstead,
was the driver of the truck, according to police.

BULLET
While his wife and her alleged "boy friend" were in Queens County jail
awaiting the outcome of a bullet wound at the base of his spine, John
CONLIN, caterer, of Astoria, was still in a critical condition to-day in St.
John's Hospital, Long Island City.
    Mrs. Amy CONLIN, his wife, and Edward DE PEW, with whom she had been
friendly, are held on charges of assault and robbery, as a result of the
holdup of CONLIN in the hallway of his home, when he was shot, on an early
morning three weeks ago.  The States accuses Mrs. CONLIN of having conspired
with DE PEW to commit the robbery, to obtain money with which Mrs. CONLIN
could go to Reno and obtain a divorce.  She denied this, however.
    "There has been no change in his condition; he is still on the danger
list," it was said at the hospital.  If CONLIN lives it was said, he will be
paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.
    Immediately after the shooting, he expressed his great love for his
wife, but when he learned from other patients in the hospital that his wife
had been associating with DE PEW and that the State accused her of
conspiring against her husband, he declared he never wanted to see her
again.

WANTAGH HOTEL RAIDED FOR BEER
    The Wantagh Hotel, rendezvous of prominent persons here because it
specializes in real German food, served with near-beer, was raided by
Federal prohibition enforcement agents, headed by John KELSEY, early
yesterday.  The hotel is located near the Long Island Railroad station in
Wantagh.
    Hugo HERMAN, 33; Joseph MEIER, 45, and Wilhelm KAISER, 39, waiters, were
arrested on a charge that they were selling beer having an illegal alcoholic
content.  Justice of the Peace Wilbur BOUTHARD of Bellmore released the trio
in nominal bail for hearing before a United States Commissioner in Brooklyn
to-day.

ROUNDUP OF 5 BANK BANDITS WINS PRAISES
Detectives Lauded by Mulrooney as Victims Identify Prisoners
    Describing the arrest as one of the "finest pieces of police work
performed in many months," Commissioner MULROONEY to-day lauded a group of
Manhattan detectives at the police lineup for their capture of five men who
were identified yesterday at Police Headquarters as members of one of the
most daring and successful bands of bank robbers to operate in the country.
    The men, all held on charges of assault and robbery, are James FOLEY,
40, of 11 Broadway terrace; Sam RUBEN, 38, of 114-27 208th street, St.
Albans, Queens; Barney NIEFIELD, 35, of 162 West Fifty-sixth street; Joseph
F. FLYNN, 26, of 4715 Forty-seventh street, Brooklyn, and Robert MAPLE, 41,
of 12 West Seventy-first street.  All except MAPLE have police records.
    In fifteen months, police say, the five obtained $88,123 in seven raids
in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including the $31,623 holdup of
the Seward National Bank, 681 Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan, last Dec. 20.

Sea Cliff Welcomes The Happy Songsters To Aerial Bungalow
    South Sea Cliff's best liked summer visitor, an oriole, is back for his
sixth season with Mrs. Oriole, at Sea Cliff.
    The oriole, which spent three years in its hanging nest in a tree owned
by Mrs. Howard SCHLEICHER, and then moved into another tree nearby, when its
old tree decayed and was cut down, returned yesterday and immediately went
to work on a new aerial bungalow.  Last year the birds arrived May 6.

COP MISTAKES WIFE FOR THIEF AND SHOOTS HER
Had Been on Alert After Six Apartments Were Looted
    "If they come in here, I'll kill 'em."
    That was Patrolman Jeremiah CONNELLY's comment to his wife, Mary, last
night, when she told him a sixth tenant in the apartment house at 345
Lefferts avenue, where CONNELLY lived, had been robbed yesterday.  And
CONNELLY put his service gun under his pillow to have it handy.
    Early this morning CONNELLY heard some one moving about in the
apartment.  He grabbed his gun, aimed in the dimness and fired.
    But it was a woman who screamed and a moment later the horror-stricken
husband was lifting his wife from the floor.  The bullet had struck her in
the arm and had gone through her side.
    Mrs. CONNELLY was rushed to Kings County Hospital where it was said her
condition is not serious.
    CONNELLY meanwhile explained the circumstances to detectives, who
revealed to him what his wife hadn't known - that the two fugitives who had
been allegedly robbing tenants in his house had already been caught, and
that they were two young boys.
    The two, Joseph MASSINE, 15, of 538 East New York avenue and Vincent
PARENTI, 13, of 381 Lincoln road, were arrested by Detective John HOGAN
yesterday morning, charged with stealing $1,000 in jewelry and cash from the
apartment of Lester SCHULTZ.
    The boys have confessed looting six other apartments in the house, HOGAN
said.  They are to be arraigned to-day.

INJURED BY TROLLEY
    Pauline GOLDBLUM, 14, of 206 119th street, Manhattan, was caught between
an elevated pillar and a trolley of the Broadway line at Broadway and
Havemeyer street.  She was extricated with much difficulty.  She was
attended for lacerations, bruised and possible internal injuries and taken
to her home.

SEIDERMAN-SCHNEIDER WEDDING CARDS ARE OUT
Cards have been sent out announcing the wedding of Miss Eller SCHNEIDER,  
of 428 Hopkinson avenue, to Samuel SEIDERMAN, one of the best known
young lawyers of Brownsville with offices in the State Bank Building, Pitkin
and Stone avenues.
The ceremony is to be performed by Rabbi FINKELSTEIN of the Ohav 
Sholom Congregation at Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and
Watkins street, on Tuesday evening, June 5.
The wedding will be one of the leading social events in Brownsville this year,
as the parties are well known, and more than five hundred invitations have
been issued.

USES NOVELTY, TRAPS SUSPECT
    Detective James DWYER, of Fifth avenue station, introduced a bit of
novelty into the thief-catching business by trailing his man through the
want ads in newspapers, and to-day his quarry, Anthony KRAMER, 59, of 202
East Twenty-second street, was held without bail by Magistrate HIRSCHFIELD
in Fifth avenue court on a charge of grand larceny.
    It is charged that as he has a police record extending back to 1896,
studded with burglary and unlawful entry charges, KRAMER probably has seen
his last day at liberty.
    Mrs. Dorothea PERRY, of 596 Seventh street, wife of William A. PERRY,
proprietor of the drug store in the Pulitzer Building on Park Row, hired him
on April 23 as a handyman, and on April 28, after she had paid him, he
decamped, she said, with $300 worth of silverware, clothing and jewelry.
    She told Detective DWYER about it and explained she had hired him under
the name of Andrew HAUSER from a newspaper advertisement.  DWYER watched the
want ads and found one that promised results.  He answered it and made a
date with and arrested KRAMER, who is said to have confessed and was
identified by Mrs. PERRY.

12 May 1931
BROOKLYN GAS COMPANY OPENS FLATBUSH HOME
Hesterberg Praises Beauty of Structure at 19 Duryea Place
    Borough President HESTERBERG officiated yesterday at the formalities
with which the Brooklyn Union Gas Company opened the new home of its
Flatbush office, at 19 Duryea place.
    The borough head cut a narrow red ribbon, which barred the main
entrance, the ends of the ribbon being held by two officials of the company,
President James H. JOURDAN and Vice-president A.F. STANTFORD.
    "All of our public utilities are keeping pace with the growth of
Brooklyn," the borough president declared.  "This is especially true of the
place we know as "the garden spot" of Brooklyn - Flatbush."
    Mr. HESTERBERG declared that utility companies in Brooklyn have
out-distanced the city administration in the erection of new buildings, a
fact which he attributed to the ability of companies to speed construction
when necessary, whereas governmental projects involve "a certain amount of
necessary red tape."  He congratulated the officers on the beauty of the new
structure.
    "We of Flatbush are very proud of this new building," he said.  "It is a
tribute of the community."
    The Borough President was introduced by T.B.J. MERKT, newly appointed
manager of the Flatbush Branch.  His address was followed by a talk of "Home
Service and Our Customers," given by Miss Ruth SOULE, director of the Home
Service Division of the gas company, and a demonstration showing how to
prepare and serve a planked fish dinner, given by Miss Martha Louise GRANT.
    The opening week festivities were continued last night when a fashion
show was presented.  The evening program included a talk by Mrs. D. Graem
McDOUGALL, fashion director of the Abraham & Straus department store, on the
latest news from Paris.
    Special programmes will be held every afternoon at 2 o'clock and
evenings at 8 o'clock during the remainder of the week.  This evening Miss
Jessica OGILVIE will discuss "The Care of Your Hair."

VOORHIS AT 102 AGAIN A SACHEM
    The Tammany Society of New York has continued John R. VOORHIS, who will
be 102 years old on July 27, as Grand Sachem of that organization.
    Mr. VOORHIS presided at the meeting of the society at which nine
Sachems, re-elected last month, were installed.  
They are former Gov. Alfred SMITH, John F. CURRY, 
Tammany leader; George W. OLVANY, 
Surrogate James A. FOLEY, Louis F. HAFFEN, Daniel E. FINN, 
Daniel L. RYAN, W. UNGER and Dr. Thomas DARLINGTON.

ROY QUITS FORCE; WORKS FOR SMITH
    Detective William ROY, a member of the Police Department since 1902, and
known to everybody who came in contact with Al SMITH since the latter became
Governor, is out of the department to-day, having retired at midnight.
    Detective ROY, who always acted as SMITH's body guard when the latter
was in New York and who toured the country with him during the 1928
presidential campaign, was born in 1878 in the old Fourth Ward in Manhattan
and went to school with SMITH.  He lives at 392 Madison street.
    Retiring with a pension of $1,500 a year, ROY will have command of the
special police in charge of the Empire State Building.

CHURCH SEEKS BAN ON ORNATE GRAVE STONES
Campaign Intended to Beautify Calvary, Holy Cross and St. John's
    The Roman Catholic Church is campaigning for the removal of hundreds of
thousands of large and costly copings and monuments from its cemeteries here
and throughout the United States, it became known to-day.
    Thousands of families owning burial plots in Calvary, in Holy Cross,
Flatbush and St. John's in Queens have been notified they must remove
granite and marble rails and replace elaborate monuments with smaller
memorials to their dead.
    In many instances when owners of grave sections could be reached in no
other way, cemetery officials have fastened waterproof tags on the
monuments, so that relatives might be advised when they visited the graves.
    In addition, a booklet explaining the campaign has been mailed to owners
of plots bearing elaborate monuments, and to all new applicants for grave
sections.
    In Brooklyn and New York, the ruling affects only single grave sections.
It does not prohibit larger monuments in appropriate settings.
    AIM IS TO BEAUTIFY
    Mgr. John B. GORMAN of the Church of St. Catherine of Genoa and director
of the movement for Holy Cross and St. John's Cemeteries, explained to-day
that one aim is to protect visitors to the cemeteries from danger presented
by ponderous monuments which have settled and tipped through the years, but
the main objective is to beautify the burial grounds by removing forests of
closely packed granite angels and ornate stones.  New monuments on such
sections are limited to a height of five feet and copings are not welcomed.
    The greatest difficulty is met, Mgr. GORMAN said, in communicating with
owners of the older cemetery sections.
    "Most of those who took grave sections fifteen and twenty years ago," he
said, "have moved several times since.  That is why we have adopted the
monument markers.  The campaign is not new.  It has been going on for Holy
Cross and St. John's since 1922, and for about the same time in the West.
Now the work of beautifying Holy Cross is nearly accomplished.  We hope to
have finished it in another year."
    MUCH STILL TO BE DONE
    A great deal more of this ornate stonework was erected in St. John's
Cemetery before the rule was enforced strictly, and there remains much to be
done there still.
    Even more is to be done in the four divisions of Calvary Cemetery where
the profitable life product of three generations of stone masons rests in
too-close ranks of spires and figures.
    Superintendent CUNNINGHAM in the Cemetery office pointed out the
foundations for the monuments have in addition, embarrassed families by
eating up space in their sections.  Families thinking they had space for
sixteen graves, found room for only nine or ten.
    "And do you think," CUNNINGHAM added, "those masses of polished stone
improve the scenery?  All of them combine to shut off the view of greensward
which should lend dignity to the spot."
    SIZE NOW REGULATED
    All cemeteries in the East have restrictions as to the size of
headstones and markers, Harry C. ZAIL, a director of the Brooklyn Cemetery
Superintendent's Association, explained.  But none of them have asked owners
of plots to replace monuments erected before the rules were made, except
officials of the Roman Catholic cemeteries.
    Mr. ZAIL is superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery.  He cited its rules as
fairly representative of the others.
    For single graves, only headstones are allowed, and these must be not
more than two feet high, six inches thick and two feet wide.
    The plots are one, three, four, six, nine- and twelve-grave sizes.
    For the three grave sizes, the one most often taken, a monument with a
base of five feet by two and a half feet, and five feet tall is allowed, but
no coping.  Granite corner markers must not be more than six inches above
ground.
    On the twelve-grave sections, shafts may be erected twenty feet tall,
but no chapels are allowed in the cemetery.
    These rules and those of other cemeteries were made about five years
ago.
    The rules are formulated by the local superintendent's associations,
which in turn are united in state associations and a National group.  Twenty
members of the Brooklyn Cemetery Superintendents Association will go to
Utica next month to attend the convention of the State group.

BABY BOY EXPLORES SUBWAY AS POLICE SQUADS HUNT HIM
Two-and-a-Half Year Old Cause of Kidnap Scare
    Blue-eyed, blond and curly-haired little Robert LANDGRAF is safely back
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony LANDGRAF, at 157 Monroe street,
to-day, with the satisfaction of knowing that for a few hours at least he
had almost as many policemen looking for him as searched for Two-Gun
CROWLEY.
    Meanwhile, his parents and the police are trying to figure out how a
two-and-a-half year old boy with no money in his pockets, could travel from
the Bedford section to a Manhattan subway station.
    graf (as in paper) went to the street in front of her home to call her
son, who had been playing on the sidewalk a few minutes before.  He was
gone.
    A week ago Helen BURROWS, a ten-year-old colored girl, was attached and
strangled in the cellar of her home, 279 Halsey street, and the day before
another colored girl of about the same age was attacked and left unconscious
in the hallway of her home, 1450 Fulton street, all in the same section.
        NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCHED
    Consequently when a hurried search failed to reveal the youngster's
whereabouts, the mother was frantic.  LANDGRAF, who maintains and
undertaking establishment at the Monroe street address promptly notified the
Gates avenue station.  Lieut. Joseph SCHEIDLER hurried to the scene with
five detectives, but as soon as he heard the details of the case he sent for
Captain James GEGAN in charge of the Thirteenth Detective Division, who
brought thirty-two more detectives, every man he had available.
    Aided by the members of Emergency Squad 15 and the powerful seachlights
with which they are equipped, the entire neighborhood was searched,
including roofs, areaways, courts and elevator shafts as well as street
excavations.
    Meanwhile, Capt. GEGAN and Lieut. SCHEIDLER, who had established
temporary headquarters in the LANDGRAF home, notified Manhattan police
headquarters and a description of the boy was immediately broadcast by
radio, sent to every precinct in the city and all patrolmen on posts were
notified.
    The search continued in vain for three hours when the officers received
a call from the Oak street station in lower Manhattan.
        FOUND IN MANHATTAN
    "We think we have the youngster over here," the commanding officer of
that precinct reported.
    GEGAN, accompanied by the now almost frantic father, raced for
Manhattan, in a department car, and in the station house they found young
Robert, surrounded by a large group of admiring coppers, adorned by a police
cap, vigorously trying to handcuff two nightsticks with some adoring
officer's handcuffs, while he waved a third stick around to emphasize his
remarks.
    Patrolman Edward WALSH, on his way to report for duty had found the
youngster in the Brooklyn Bridge station of the I.R.T. subway, trying vainly
to climb into one of the large refuse cans with swinging tops placed there
for newspapers.
    Efforts, both by the police and his father, to learn how he got that far
away from home, were useless.  To every question as to how he got there and
whether alone or not brought only the answer "Train" in halting baby talk.
Police are at a loss to determine whether the youngster in some mysterious
way was able to get by eagle-eyed subway guards, because of his diminutive
size, or whether an attempt was made to kidnap him.

LAW STUDENT, CRIME GENIUS, SHOT IN CAFE
Worked Auto Racket - Was Waiting Trial in Gem Theft Case
    A volley of shotgun slugs, apparently fired by rum racketeers, took the
life early to-day of Roy SLOANE, 26-year-old prodigy and former student at
Columbia University, whose various exploits at Sing Sing Prison attracted
national attention.
    SLOANE was shot to death as he stepped out of a waterfront speakeasy at
the foot of Dyckman street in upper Manhattan.  In his pocket police found a
false mustache, a fake police badge and a fake driver's license.
    The young genius who spent his prison days studying law in order that he
might plead his way to freedom, had been drinking in the cafe, according to
Jimmie DELUCIA, who was arrested on a charge of possessing liquor.
    DELUCIA said he left his establishment, known as the Mad Dot Boat Club,
at about 12:30 A.M.; and that at that time three young men were at the bar
with SLOANE, who had been suspicious of the trio, it was said, and told the
bartender that he didn't like the looks of them.  He asked the bartender
not to serve them anything but beer.
        GANGSTER OPEN FIRE
    Finally the three men walked out and apparently got into a sedan parked
across the street.  SLOANE walked out and the shotguns started blazing.  He
was shot in the abdomen and his thigh was badly torn.
    Though they have no direct evidence in support of it, police believe
SLOANE had entered the rum running business and was put on the spot, by
gangsters.
    Patrolman John PERAGLIA, who detected the faintest sign of life in
SLOANE's frail body, took him to Jewish Memorial Hospital where he died soon
after being admitted.
    SLOANE, who was out on bail awaiting trial on a charge of participating
in a gem robbery barely two months after he gained his release from Sing
Sing, was the son of Mrs. Anna BOGENTOLM SLOANE, B.A.M.A., Ph.D., founder of
the National Arts and Crafts Institute at Washington, D.C., a former
investigator for the Department of Labor and author of several books.  She
had stuck by her son throughout all his difficulties.
    SLOANE was convicted six years ago on a charge of stealing an automobile
in Mount Vernon.  When it was discovered he had served a sentence in
Pennsylvania for two similar offenses, he was sent to Sing Sing for ten
years.
    Hardly had the gate of the prison shut behind him than this paradox of
prodigy and profligate began to study two exits from Sing Sing.  One was
through the law.  The other, over the walls.  His study of the latter was
interrupted by a vigilant keeper.
    The keeper, who had received word of an escape plot, searched SLOANE's
cell and found a strangely filed tool, a guard's cap and the blue coat of a
prison band uniform.
    The State contended the tool was a set of brass knuckles, possession
of which, in SLOANE's circumstances, constituted a misdemeanor.  SLOANE
maintained it was a key with which he intended to escape.
        CONDUCTS OWN DEFENSE
    Although the youth had been assigned an attorney by the court, he
insisted on conducting his own defense.  Still clad in prison denim, SLOANE,
arose in court and announced he was ready to prove the ambiguous tool was a
key - if the prison guards would produce a screw driver he had hidden in his
cell.  The guards, who had thought they previously had removed everything
from the cell, searched the cubicle again and found not only the promised
screw-driver but two chisels as well.
    Blandly, he showed how the tool could be used as a key.  Then he rested
his case.  For six hours the jurors deliberated.  Then they brought in the
verdict that while the instrument was a key, it could have been used in the
manner of brass knuckles.
    So seven more years in prison were added to his previous sentence.  But
on his return to Sing Sing, prison authorities would take no chances with
the slippery genius.  They put him in solitary confinement.  In solitary,
the you avidly resumed his study of the law.
        OBTAINS NEW TRIAL
    Five times subsequently he sought to obtain an appeal of his second
conviction.  Then one day, prison authorities said they discovered that
SLOANE and two desperate long term prisoners had planned a wholesale break
in which his mechanical talent was to be used in crippling the prison power
plant.  SLOANE and his confederates were placed in the death house for
safe-keeping, precaution taken only a few times in the history of the
prison.
    Despite his complete separation from prison society, SLOANE continued
his bid for freedom by legal means.  Finally, the youth won a new trial on
the automobile theft charge.  He conducted his own case - and did it with
the shrewdness of a first-rate criminal lawyer.
    He produced two fellow prisoners, both long terms, as his main
witnesses.  They testified they had stolen the car in question and that
SLOANE had been framed.  The jury acquitted him.  But the brass knuckles
sentence was still against him and he was sent up to Dannemora.
        FINDS LEGAL LOOPHOLE
    At Dannemora, SLOANE finally discovered a legal loophole which might win
him his freedom.  He argued that since he had been acquitted of his last
motor car theft he was only a first offender under the law.  The Court of
Appeals agreed with him and he was resentenced on a reduce charge,
misdemeanor, to a maximum penalty of one year.  Since he already had served
four, his release was automatic.
    SLOANE went to work in a New York law office.  Nine weeks after his
return to society he was arrested, identified as one of three armed men who
held up a manufacturing jeweler.  SLOANE was indicted and was out on bail
when the shotgun slugs put an end to his career.

CHURCH SEEKS BAN ON ORNATE GRAVE STONES
Campaign Intended to Beautify Calvary, Holy Cross and St. John's
    The Roman Catholic Church is campaigning for the removal of hundreds of
thousands of large and costly copings and monuments from its cemeteries here
and throughout the United States, it became known to-day.
    Thousands of families owning burial plots in Calvary, in Holy Cross,
Flatbush and St. John's in Queens have been notified they must remove
granite and marble rails and replace elaborate monuments with smaller
memorials to their dead.
    In many instances when owners of grave sections could be reached in no
other way, cemetery officials have fastened waterproof tags on the
monuments, so that relatives might be advised when they visited the graves.
    In addition, a booklet explaining the campaign has been mailed to owners
of plots bearing elaborate monuments, and to all new applicants for grave
sections.
    In Brooklyn and New York, the ruling affects only single grave sections.
It does not prohibit larger monuments in appropriate settings.
    AIM IS TO BEAUTIFY
    Mgr. John B. GORMAN of the Church of St. Catherine of Genoa and director
of the movement for Holy Cross and St. John's Cemeteries, explained to-day
that one aim is to protect visitors to the cemeteries from danger presented
by ponderous monuments which have settled and tipped through the years, but
the main objective is to beautify the burial grounds by removing forests of
closely packed granite angels and ornate stones.  New monuments on such
sections are limited to a height of five feet and copings are not welcomed.
    The greatest difficulty is met, Mgr. GORMAN said, in communicating with
owners of the older cemetery sections.
    Most of those who took grave sections fifteen and twenty years ago, he
said, have moved several times since.  That is why we have adopted the
monument markers.  The campaign is not new.  It has been going on for Holy
Cross and St. John's since 1922, and for about the same time in the West.
Now the work of beautifying Holy Cross is nearly accomplished.  We hope to
have finished it in another year.
    MUCH STILL TO BE DONE
    A great deal more of this ornate stonework was erected in St. John's
Cemetery before the rule was enforced strictly, and there remains much to be
done there still.
    Even more is to be done in the four divisions of Calvary Cemetery where
the profitable life product of three generations of stone masons rests in
too-close ranks of spires and figures.
    Superintendent CUNNINGHAM in the Cemetery office pointed out the
foundations for the monuments have in addition, embarrassed families by
eating up space in their sections.  Families thinking they had space for
sixteen graves, found room for only nine or ten.
    And do you think, CUNNINGHAM added, those masses 
of polished stone improve the scenery?  All of them combine to shut off 
the view of greensward which should lend dignity to the spot.
    SIZE NOW REGULATED
    All cemeteries in the East have restrictions as to the size of
headstones and markers, Harry C. ZAIL, a director of the Brooklyn Cemetery
Superintendent's Association, explained.  But none of them have asked owners
of plots to replace monuments erected before the rules were made, except
officials of the Roman Catholic cemeteries.
    Mr. ZAIL is superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery.  He cited its rules as
fairly representative of the others.
    For single graves, only headstones are allowed, and these must be not
more than two feet high, six inches thick and two feet wide.
    The plots are one, three, four, six, nine- and twelve-grave sizes.
    For the three grave sizes, the one most often taken, a monument with a
base of five feet by two and a half feet, and five feet tall is allowed, but
no coping.  Granite corner markers must not be more than six inches above
ground.
    On the twelve-grave sections, shafts may be erected twenty feet tall,
but no chapels are allowed in the cemetery.
    These rules and those of other cemeteries were made about five years
ago.
    The rules are formulated by the local superintendent's associations,
which in turn are united in state associations and a National group.  Twenty
members of the Brooklyn Cemetery Superintendents Association will go to
Utica next month to attend the convention of the State group.

13 May 1931
SIX DOLLARS AWAITS OWNER'S PROOF
    Six $1 bills are lying on the lieutenant's desk in Bergen street station
to-day awaiting someone to prove their ownership following rescue early
to-day from the sidewalk in front of the Long Island Railroad Depot,
Flatbush and Atlantic avenues.
    The greenbacks were found by Patrolman John TRIHY, a former Vice Squad
officer, who, on completing his tour of duty at 8 o'clock this morning,
turned the money over to Desk Lieutenant Michael HAGEN.

BROTHERS BEATEN, THREE MEN HELD
    Three young men accused of having beaten Stanislaws and Frank
GIALAMELLA, brothers in the rooms of the Orient Social Club, at 720 Shepherd
avenue, on Monday night, appeared before Magistrate BLANCHFIELD in
Pennsylvania avenue court to-day on a charge of felonious assault.
    Salvatore GREIFFANINO, 18, of 1080 Blake avenue, and Albert SANTORE, 19,
of 2387 Pitkin avenue, were held without bail for further hearing Friday.
The third man, Anthony MAFFETORA, 18, of 357 Linwood street was held in
$2,500 bail.

SWEEPSTAKES WINNER CALLS GIRL'S CHARGES 'FRAMEUP'
"Knew I Won $149,000 Wanted Slice,' Says DOUGHERTY
    His arrest on a charge of having had an illegal operation performed on
Betty FINT, 18, a stenographer, of 166 Meeker avenue, is just a scheme to
separate him from part of his $149,000 winnings in the Irish Sweepstakes
lottery a year ago, Edward DOUGHERTY declared to-day after he had been
released in $2,000 bail for hearing May 18 in Gates avenue court.
    Dr. Everett WINTER, 57, whose office is at 240 Hull street, also was
released in $2,000 bail for hearing on the same date on the charge of
performing the operation.
    "They know I've got money," DOUGHERTY said, "and they want a slice of
it."
    Dr. WINTER also denied performing any such operation.
    "I never did any such thing," he said.  "I am a family physician, in
practice for thirty years."
    Dr. WINTER gave real estate as bond, but young DOUGHERTY put up two
$1,000 bills.
    Both were taken into custody early to-day.  DOUGHERTY as he parked his
sport car in front of his home and raced across the sidewalk to get in out
of the rain and Dr. WINTER a few minutes later at his home.
    According to Miss FINT, she met DOUGHERTY last December at a downtown
dance hall.  She scorned his attentions, she says, and he followed her in
his automobile all the way to her home in Bushwick.  She finally agreed to
see him and eventually she became his "steady girl," according to her story.
    On Feb 13, she says, he took her to Dr. WINTER's office and the doctor
told her to come back in a week.  On Feb. 23, she says, she returned to Dr.
WINTER's office, where the operation was performed.  Returning home, Miss
FINT became ill and, fearing her mother would sense what was the matter with
her, ran away from home, remaining away for five weeks.  When she returned,
her mother questioned her closely and found out what had been the matter
with the girl.
    Both DOUGHERTY and Dr. WINTER emphatically denied the charge.

STABBED FOUR TIMES IN GREENPOINT ROW
    Konstante BUBLIO, 38, of 194 Green street, is in Greenpoint Hospital
to-day suffering from four stab wounds in the back, and an alarm has been
sounded for his assailant as a result of an argument in the home of George
MOROWSKI, of 217 Green street, last night.  BUBLIO's condition is not
serious.

THOUGHT SLEUTH WAS HOLDUP MAN
    For the first time in his police career, Detective Charles HEMENDINGER
of the Clymer street station who has received the highest awards in the
department for captures of bandits was mistaken as a hold-up man himself
when he attempted last night to question two men acting suspiciously at
Bedford avenue and Taylor street.
    The men ran five blocks before he succeeded in capturing them and when
they were brought back to Clymer street station they confessed being afraid
of a hold-up.  They gave their names as Marshall BROUSSARD, 30, and Frank
DECOSTA, 28, both living at 61 A Bainbridge street.  Detective HEMENDINGER
found 100 pairs of loaded dice on their persons, which they explained were
used for "musceling" in on dice games.  They were booked on vagrancy
charges, and are to be arraigned before Magistrate HUGHES in Bridge Plaza
court to-day.

78 ARRESTS IN TWELVE HOURS BREAKS THIRTY-YEAR RECORD
Police Dragnet Draws in Victims of All Degrees of Crime
    Brooklyn police left their dragnet out in the rain last night, and
discovered this morning that 78 fish had wandered into it - a record haul
for the borough's blue-coated fisherman.
    There was no official order to clean up the borough.  It just happened
that between 4 P.M. yesterday and 4 A.M. to-day, what is believed to have
been the largest number of arrests for any twelve-hour period in thirty
years was recorded.
    The crimes laid to the 78 defendants range all the way from peddling
without a license to arson and one automobile homicide.
    Of the number arrested, 28 are accused of felonies and attended the
criminal lineup in Manhattan Headquarters this morning.  The remaining 58
were taken directly to magistrate's courts on misdemeanor counts.
    USE 12 PATROL WAGONS
    Twelve patrol wagons were kept busy for three hours this morning
transporting the prisoners.  Four were assigned to take the felony cases to
the lineup while eight transported the misdemeanor defendants.
    The defendants represent every color and station of life.  Negroes and
Orientals were in the group which included one peddler, a woman arrested for
arson, a man charged with killing a person with his automobile, two gypsies
taken to the lineup and a number of sailors who celebrated shore leave too
joyously.
    The three police stations that lead in the number of arrests are Liberty
avenue with thirty-three prisoners, four of them for felonies; Gates avenue
with fifteen prisoners, including ten for felonies and Empire boulevard with
thirteen prisoners, but only one charged with a felony.
    The Brooklyn headquarters telegraph bureau, which broadcasts reports of
all arrests and crimes in the borough, ordinarily has only one man on duty
during the twelve-hour period.  Last night it was necessary to place three
additional patrolmen in the bureau to handle the rush of work.
    Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas F. CUMMINGS, in charge of the borough's
police, stated when he came to work to-day that he was gratified with the
showing made last night, particularly in view of the fact that no order had
been given to clean up the borough.

34 YEARS A COP, CARMODY QUITS
    Deputy Police Inspector Cornelius J. CARMODY, of the Tenth Inspection
District, which takes in the Coney Island, Bath Beach, Fort Hamilton, Fourth
avenue, Parkville and Sheepshead Bay stations, was retired from the force
to-day by Police Commissioner MULROONEY at CARMODY's request on the grounds
that "my health isn't the best and I have seen sufficient service."
    CARMODY has been in charge of the Tenth Inspection District for the past
four years, the length of time he was an inspector.  He was formerly a
police captain attached to Snyder avenue station where he served for two
years and is probably best remembered for the many years he put in as a
lieutenant, at the Parkville station.
    CARMODY served on the force 34 years and 4 months.  He has nine children
and lives at 830 Seventieth street.  One son, Cornelius CARMODY, Jr., is a
detective at Poplar street station.  CARMODY told newspapermen he was not
going into business but would "remain retired."

JILTED IN LOVE, TRIES TO QUIT
    Because he had been jilted in love, Peter RUSSELL, 21, of 108 Union
avenue, stepped out of a taxi in front of his home early to-day and after
paying the bill of $2.50 stepped to the curb, and with the words I'm
through," proceeded to drink a quantity of iodine.  His purpose was
defeated, however, with the arrival of Patrolman Benjamin LISK of Stagg
street station, who administered first aid.
    After treatment by an ambulance surgeon from St. Catherine's hospital
RUSSELL was able to remain at home.

SIX DOLLARS AWAITS OWNER'S PROOF
    Six $1 bills are lying on the lieutenant's desk in Bergen street station
to-day awaiting someone to prove their ownership following rescue early
to-day from the sidewalk in front of the Long Island Railroad Depot,
Flatbush and Atlantic avenues.
    The greenbacks were found by Patrolman John TRIHY, a former Vice Squad
officer, who, on completing his tour of duty at 8 o'clock this morning,
turned the money over to Desk Lieutenant Michael HAGEN.

BROTHERS BEATEN, THREE MEN HELD
    Three young men accused of having beaten Stanislaws and Frank
GIALAMELLA, brothers in the rooms of the Orient Social Club, at 720 Shepherd
avenue, on Monday night, appeared before Magistrate BLANCHFIELD in
Pennsylvania avenue court to-day on a charge of felonious assault.
    Salvatore GREIFFANINO, 18, of 1080 Blake avenue, and Albert SANTORE, 19,
of 2387 Pitkin avenue, were held without bail for further hearing Friday.
The third man, Anthony MAFFETORA, 18, of 357 Linwood street was held in
$2,500 bail.

78 ARRESTS IN TWELVE HOURS BREAKS THIRTY-YEAR RECORD
Police Dragnet Draws in Victims of All Degrees of Crime
    Brooklyn police left their dragnet out in the rain last night, and
discovered this morning that 78 fish had wandered into it - a record haul
for the borough's blue-coated fisherman.
    There was no official order to clean up the borough.  It just happened
that between 4 P.M. yesterday and 4 A.M. to-day, what is believed to have
been the largest number of arrests for any twelve-hour period in thirty
years was recorded.
    The crimes laid to the 78 defendants range all the way from peddling
without a license to arson and one automobile homicide.
    Of the number arrested, 28 are accused of felonies and attended the
criminal lineup in Manhattan Headquarters this morning.  The remaining 58
were taken directly to magistrate's courts on misdemeanor counts.
    USE 12 PATROL WAGONS
    Twelve patrol wagons were kept busy for three hours this morning
transporting the prisoners.  Four were assigned to take the felony cases to
the lineup while eight transported the misdemeanor defendants.
    The defendants represent every color and station of life.  Negroes and
Orientals were in the group which included one peddler, a woman arrested for
arson, a man charged with killing a person with his automobile, two gypsies
taken to the lineup and a number of sailors who celebrated shore leave too
joyously.
    The three police stations that lead in the number of arrests are Liberty
avenue with thirty-three prisoners, four of them for felonies; Gates avenue
with fifteen prisoners, including ten for felonies and Empire boulevard with
thirteen prisoners, but only one charged with a felony.
    The Brooklyn headquarters telegraph bureau, which broadcasts reports of
all arrests and crimes in the borough, ordinarily has only one man on duty
during the twelve-hour period.  Last night it was necessary to place three
additional patrolmen in the bureau to handle the rush of work.
    Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas F. CUMMINGS, in charge of the borough's
police, stated when he came to work to-day that he was gratified with the
showing made last night, particularly in view of the fact that no order had
been given to clean up the borough.

KNOWS ENEMIES, BUT KEEPS MUM
    The underworld reached out for Louis MARELLA, alleged Coney Island
alcohol racketeer, to-day and missed.  MARELLA, 30, with a police record,
turned up at Coney Island Hospital with a bullet in his left leg.
    He told Detectives Frank LIEVMANN and John HARRINGTON three men in a
sedan pulled up alongside him as he walked home early to-day and opened
fire.  He knows who they are, he told the detectives, but he didn't care to
tell about it.
    MARELLA lives at 2640 East Twelfth street.  His condition is not
serious.  According to HARRINGTON he served a term for grand larceny in 1924
and another on Welfare Island in 1929 for impairing the morals of a child.

HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT IN ALARM
    A general alarm was sounded by police of the Bedford avenue station
to-day for a hit-and-run driver who struck Vito KASLITIS, 17, of 67 Ten Eyck
street, at Keap street and Broadway early today.  KASLITIS told police at
the station house that he had been treated for lacerations of the scalp and
body bruises by Dr. A.J. WOLUCK, of 161 North Sixth street, after the driver
continued on in his car following the accident.

14 May 1931
TEACHERS NAME MRS. CHISHOLM
    Mrs. Mary G. CHISHOLM, of Public School 41, Manhattan, was re-elected
president of the Brooklyn Heads of Department Association yesterday
afternoon at the annual meeting held at the Botanical Garden, 1000
Washington avenue.  Margaret R. CAMPBELL was chairman of the nominating
committee.
    Other officers chosen were:  
Leonore M. TIERNEY, P.S. 185, vice-president; 
Edith C. WHITE, P.S. 58, Queens, second vice-president;
Alice HARTICH, P.S. 24, recording secretary; 
Anna D. REICHHARD, P.S. 109, Queens, corresponding secretary; 
Bertha D. DANGLER, P.S. 118, treasurer,
Ellen A. CONSTABLE, P.S. 109, Queens, trustee of the Alice H. STORY 
  Memorial Fund. 

COPS' SHOTS END MACHINE CHASE
    The hopes of Eugene EDMOND, 19, of 1012 Manhattan avenue, for a long 
joy ride in an allegedly stolen car ended in Bridge Plaza court to-day, 
after his possession of a car was abruptly curtailed in a chase during 
which five shots were fired.
    Shortly after Henry CAHILL, of 6 Clifford place, had reported the 
theft of his car, Detective Robert BARRON, of Greenpoint station, claimed
he saw EDMOND in the car at Clay street and Manhattan avenue.  EDMOND 
climbed out of the car, according to the detective, and started to run.
    Five blocks away at Dupont street, BARRON assisted by Detective 
John DEMPSEY and Patrolman Lou McCARTHY, of Greenpoint station, 
arrested EDMOND.  He was to be arraigned before Magistrate HUGHES 
in Bridge Plaza court on a charge of grand larceny to-day.  His 
previous record showed three arrests, and no convictions.

15 May 1931
COUPLE HELD IN AUTO THEFT
    A woman and a man are being held to-day without bail for a hearing next
Friday on a charge of criminally receiving a stolen automobile.  They are
Mrs. Marcella RANDAZZO, 16, a pretty brunette, of 315 East 112th street,
Manhattan, and Joseph CIPOLLA, 22, of 306 Seventh street, both of whom were
arraigned before Magistrate HIRSHFIELD in Fifth avenue court yesterday on a
short affidavit by Detective TRACY, of the Auto Squad.
    According to police, Mrs. RANDAZZO sold an automobile owned by Jack
SIEBURG, of 441 Ocean avenue, to CIPOLLA for $100 on May 7, both of them
knowing the machine had been stolen.  The car, valued at $550, was taken
from in front of 8615 Fort Hamilton parkway on April 11.
    Mrs. RANDAZZO, according to the police record, was arrested on a drug
charge in January, 1926.  Bail in this case was forfeited by the Court of
Special Sessions on Feb. 24, 1926.  In January, 1928, she was convicted of
another narcotic charge by Judge THATCHER, of the U.S. District Court and
sentenced to the Industrial Institution at Alderson, W. Va.

BRAINS, BEAUTY, COOKING, CAPTAIN'S JUBILEE SYMBOL
50 Years of Married Life Happy to Fireman
    Choose a wife for her cooking ability as well as for her brains and
beauty, is the formula for fifty years of happily married life, as
prescribed by Fire Captain John J. MAGUIRE, who last night celebrated his
golden jubilee anniversary at the Elks' Clubhouse, 110 Livingston street,
with his wife and twenty-five friends and relatives sitting with him.
Captain MAGUIRE proceeded to hand out philosophy between dances.
    Captain MAGUIRE retired from the department in 1912 after serving
thirty-three years.  To the boys, he was known in the closing years of his
active service as Father John.  Both he and his wife were born in the
Fifth Ward, where, as the fire fighter said last night, all the good Irish
come from.
    A veteran of almost every big fire that has visited Brooklyn in the past
half century, the captained named 1881 as his luckiest year.  In that year,
he declared, he married, was appointed to the Fire Department, and met
Edward CONROY, now also a captain and his best pal.  The latter was
appointed at the same time.
    The couple have four children, Thomas, Hugh, Joseph and Mrs. Ann KEEFE.
They have one grandchild, Gerald, the son of Mrs. KEEFE.

EXPOSURE VICTIM TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
    Found unconscious on the sidewalk at Washington street at Myrtle avenue,
James HOPKINS, 35, of 437 First street was sent to Kings County Hospital
to-day.  Doctors said he was suffering from hunger and exposure.

INDIAN GRAVES TO BE REMOVED
    Anthropologists of the Museum of the American Indian will participate
with Queens engineers in the removal of bodies from the ancient Indian
Cemetery at Little Neck, it was announced by Borough President HARVEY, who
ordered preparation of the contract for the work.
    The removal of the bodies from the Indian Cemetery, rich in aboriginal
legend, is necessary in order to complete the widening of Northern
boulevard, between Jesse court and Cornell's Lane.  The cemetery encroaches
upon the sidewalk and road area.
    According to the engineers, there are about forty bodies buried in this
cemetery.  These will be removed under the direction of Andrew K. JOHNSON,
chief engineer of Highway construction, and reinterred in a plot, purchased
at a cost of $1100, in Zion Cemetery, Douglaston.
    George G. HEYE, of the Museum of the American Indian, HEYE Foundation,
Broadway at 155th street, Manhattan, has been invited to be present.

REPORTED MISSING
    A general alarm has been sent out by the Missing Persons Bureau for Ida
BRUNO, 14, of 376 Wallabout street.  She went out for a walk Tuesday night
and has not been seen or heard from since.  She was reported missing at
Clymer street station.

16 May 1931
TWO HURT IN QUARREL AGREE TO CALL QUITS
Two men, both held on short affidavits charging them with felonious assault
on each other, were freed yesterday in Fifth avenue court when they told
Magistrate HIRSCHFIELD they would not sign complaints.  They are Juan
BARRAN, 29, of 154 Columbia street, and Oscar GONZALES, 27, of the S.S.
Breen-queen, tied up at the foot of Pacific street.  GONZALES was accused of
knifing BARRAN in a quarrel at Van Brunt and Union street, while BARRAN
allegedly plunged an ice pick into the other's abdomen.  GONZALES was taken
to the Kings County Hospital after police found him on the sidewalk.

ACCUSED MOTHER PLEADS FOR CHILD
    Pleading for her child, Mrs. Anna PATRICK, 36, of 58 Stagg street, was
yesterday held in $1,000 bail for the action of the Grand Jury by Magistrate
HUGHES, in Bridge Plaza Court, on a charge of felonious assault.
    It is alleged that when her daughter, Aldona, 9, failed to obey her on
the evening of April 9, Mrs. PATRICK threw a carving knife, cutting the
child on both wrists.  The case was prosecuted by the Children's Society.

BADLY INJURED IN WINDOW WALK
    William COFFEE, 30, of 868 St. Johns place, walked out of an open window
on the second floor of 7 Lafayette avenue yesterday by mistake.  COFFEE had
visited several of the classrooms of a business college there and it is
believed that he walked through the open window in the belief it was a door.
He was taken to Holy Family Hospital, where he is suffering from internal
injuries.

BEATEN BY THUGS AND COLLAPSES
    Samuel VODOLARCUS, 34, of 543 Metropolitan avenue, was in Kings County
Hospital in a critical condition to-day suffering from a compound fracture
of the skull, lacerations of the scalp and contusions of the face and body.
He was taken from his home last night where he collapsed.
    According to what he told detectives of the Herbert street station,
VODOLARCUS was on his way home late Thursday night when at North Fourth
street and Bedford avenue, two men attempted to rob him.  He resisted and
was brutally beaten.  The would-be bandits fled without getting anything and
VODOLARCUS went on home without medical attention.  He stood his injuries
without realizing how serious they were until last night.

GIRL THROWN FROM TAXICAB
    Thrown from a taxicab when she refused a kiss, Miss Alice DEMAREST, a
dance club hostess, 19, of the Hotel Victoria, Seventh avenue and
Fifty-first street, Manhattan, was picked up early to-day by a policeman at
Brooklyn and Tilden avenues.
    She was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she was treated for
bruises of the body, and was able to return to her hotel.
    Miss DEMAREST, a girl from the country, said that last night she met a
patron in the Ball and Chain at 66 East Seventy-second street, Manhattan,
where she is employed.
    He was so nice, she said.  He talked about the spring 
weather and how
it made him think of the birds and flowers, and how he wanted to get away
from the noises of the city and the bright lights.  He asked me to take a
taxi ride with him out on Long Island, but when we got to Brooklyn and
Tilden avenues he got too affectionate and the next thing I remember was
being picked up by the policeman.  I'll stay in the bright lights on the
Great White Way after this, it's safer.

18 May 1931
YOUNG ELOPERS GET BLESSING
    Warmed by the paternal blessing and the assurance that all charges
against them would be dropped, James BROOKMAN, 28, and his 16-year-old bride
of six weeks, who was Gertrude MARINO, were back to their honeymoon lovenest
to-day, their legal troubles over.
    Mrs. BROOKMAN (nee MARINO), disappeared from her home, 225 South Third
street, six weeks ago, and her father, Joseph MARINO, deciding to turn
detective, finally located his daughter living with BROOKMAN at 19 West
108th street, Manhattan.  He promptly charged the younger man with abduction
and his daughter with being incorrigible.
    In Bridge Plaza Court yesterday Mrs. BROOKMAN displayed a marriage
certificate, told the court they had been married in Jersey the day after
she left home and that she was very happy with her new husband.
    The father relented, refused to press the charge against his son-in-law
and the smiling couple left the court room arm in arm.

SAYS PAIR TOOK $1,900 AND AUTO
Charged with assault and robbery, Harry RASZEKA, 16, of 1650 DeKalb avenue, 
and William HIGLER, 23, of 200 Starr street, were to appear in Bridge Plaza 
court today before magistrate STEERS following their arrest last night by 
Detective MCCARRON of Stagg street station.
They were arrested on the complaint of Philip HYMAN, who runs a grocery store 
at 27 Knickerbocker avenue, who accuses the pair of entering and robbing him 
of $1,900. He adds they escaped in his automobile parked in front of the 
store. The charges are denied.

IN CAR CRASH
A southbound Flatbush avenue trolley car jumped a switch at Atlantic avenue 
at 1:30 this afternoon and collided head on with a northbound Seventh avenue 
car, crushing in part of its front vestibule and injuring five women 
passengers and a child.
The accident blocked traffic through Atlantic avenue for a half hour. 
Ambulance Surgeon HADENBERG of Holy Family Hospital, treated the six and 
others suffering minor cuts from flying lass, in the waiting room of the Long 
Island Railroad. Neither of the motormen Maurice PETERSON, 366 Forty-first 
street, of the Seventh avenue trolley, and Frank UCCI, 43 Avenue T of the 
other car was injured.
The injured:
Mrs. William HANNON, 35, 490 Third avenue, shock.
Mrs. Estelle MC GRANE, 30, 1857 East Twenty-sixth street, 
	possible internal injuries.
Mrs. Bridget MCINERNEY, 40, 1639 East Fifty-first street, 
	possible internal injuries.
Mrs. Catherine FINN, 58, 1358 East Fifty-eighth street, 
	contusions of the chest.
Mrs. Margaret MURRAY, 60, 703 Vanderbilt avenue, lacerations of knees.

RUNAWAY WIFE DENIES KIDNAPING
Juanita ERVIN, 17, and mother of a baby she left behind with her husband, in 
Miami, Okla., wept on the witness stand in Bridge Plaza court today and 
denied she had been kidnaped. She came to New York, she told the court, 
because she wanted to work here and couldn't stand her home life.
But despite her pleas Magistrate STEERS held Frank RONZO, 25, of 5936 
Palmetto street, Ridgewood, in $1,000, on a warrant charging him with 
violating the Mann act in bringing Juanita here, pending extradition 
proceedings.
The warrant was issued by Sheriff Harry AUSTIN of Ottawa County, Oklahoma. 
RONZO admitted he met Mrs. ERVIN in her home in Miami, but insisted, and she 
corroborated him, that she had come East alone. His attorney, Samuel 
LIEBOWITZ, contended Magistrate STEERS had no jurisdiction in the case, but 
he was overruled.

DOWNTOWN MAN AMUCK WITH GUN
Joseph PENNOCHION, 24, of 105 Fulton street, was scheduled for a hearing in 
Adams street court today on charges of felonious assault and violation of the 
Sullivan Law, brought by his father, Richard.
 Yesterday, according to what police were told, young PENNOCHION tried to 
shoot his father, mother and brother with a .25 calibre revolver. His father 
grappled with him and finally, aided by the other two, wrested the gun away 
from the boy. Detective O'HAGAN took him into custody.

NEWLY-BORN BABY ABANDONED BY GIRL IN HEIGHTS HOTEL
Police Seek Comely Blonde Registered from Connecticut
 Detectives of the Poplar street station are looking for an attractive blond 
young woman, who rented a room in the St. George Hotel yesterday, gave birth 
to a healthy eight-pound baby girl and left surreptitiously some time 
afterwards, leaving the baby.
 The young woman, who appeared to be about 21 or 22 and was well dressed, 
registered at 8 A. M. as miss B. WILSON of Connecticut. She was offered a 
room on the third or fourth floor, but asked to have one on the second 
instead. She was assigned to room 248.
 After she had been upstairs a short while the clerk noticed that she had only 
given her State and not her town, as the law requires. He called her up and 
she promised to stop on her way to church and rectify the omission. She 
failed to do so, and the clerk forgot about it. In the evening a new clerk 
discovered that the omission had not been corrected, and he, too phoned the 
room.
Receiving no answer, he sent two maids, Jean METHLIN and Martha WILLIAMSC,
(as written), to investigate. They entered with a pass key and found the baby 
alone.
Detectives John CORCORAN and John O'HAGAN of the Poplar street station were 
assigned to the case and the baby was taken to the foundling ward at Kings 
County Hospital.

COP NEAR DEATH IN JAMAICA SPEAKEASY ROW OVER WOMAN
Pal Faces Charges and Patron Is Shot
Two patrolmen are suspended, one of them near death from a bullet wound in 
the neck, and a citizen is in Mary Immaculate Hospital with a bullet in his 
shoulder as the result of a fracas over a woman in "Sloppy Joe's," a 
speakeasy modeled after its Havana namesake, at 95-12 150th street, Jamaica, 
early yesterday.
The wounded patrolman, William O'CONNOR, 25 of Traffic P was shot 
accidentally, according to patrons, when he tried to disarm his friend, 
Patrolman George E. MC DONALD, 28, of Jamaica, after MC DONALD had shot the 
patron, Mark COSTELLO, 45 of 192-89 Hollis Avenue. She was with COSTELLO, and 
another couple, Patrolman MC DONALD had gone over to their table and 
upbraided her for being out without her husband. And this impelled COSTELLO, 
witnesses said, to crash his chair down on MC DONALD's head.
    PROPRIETOR ARRESTED
After the brawl was over another patrolman arrested "sloppy Joe's" 
proprietor, Joe HARRIS, also known as WEINSTOCK. He was held in $1,000 bail 
by United States Commissioner Nicholas M. PETTE, charged with possessing 
liquor and maintaining a nuisance. Hearing was set for June 1.
Assistant District Attorney Stephen FRONTERA questioned sixteen witnesses to 
the affray, which burst forth at 4 A. M., and reconstructed from their 
stories the following account:
O'CONNOR and MC DONALD entered the speakeasy together they said, and sat down 
at a table, but a moment later MC DONALD, got up and walked over to the table 
where Mrs. BOULTON sat with COSTELLO. Arthur COSGROVE of 104-05 120th avenue, 
Ozone Park, and COSTELLO's sister, Edna.
MC DONALD spoke to Mrs. BOULTON, then returned to his own table. The two 
patrolmen a few moments later again went over to the table where she sat.
Suddenly their voices rose in argument and neighboring couples turned to 
listen. They saw COSTELLO rise, grip his chair by its back and crash it down 
on MC DONALD'S head, they said. The glancing blow staggered him, but he 
recovered, drew his service revolver and fired a shot in the air.
Those of the other patrons who hadn't already started for the door said 
COSTELLO raised the chair furiously and swung it again. there were two 
deafening reports. COSTELLO whirled about from the impact of a bullet in his 
shoulder. Patrolman CONNER, who had stepped close to MC DONALD, reaching for 
his gun, went down with a bullet in his neck.
More couples raced for the door, others crouched under tables. Two women were 
screaming. The uproar brought Patrolman Edward MASTERSON from his post a few 
blocks away.
Friends had already sent COSTELLO to Mary Immaculate Hospital. MASTERSON 
arrested the two patrolmen, and sent CONNOR to Jamaica Hospital, then looked 
around in the speakeasy, saw two barrels of alleged beer and arrested the 
proprietor.
Deputy Police Commissioner John A. LEACH suspended both patrolmen pending 
investigation.
    HELD IN $10,000 BAIL
MC DONALD was given a hearing in Jamaica Court today before magistrate 
Benjamin MARVIN on two charges of felonious assault and held in $10,000 bail 
for examination Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were 
made in separate short affidavits by Detective John MAGNA, Jamaica precinct.
Bail of $7,500 was fixed in connection with the charge as it related to the 
shooting of Patrolman William O'CONNOR, who is in Jamaica Hospital in a 
critical condition with a bullet wound in his neck, and bail of $2,500 was 
fixed in connection with the shooting of mark COSTELLO, 45, of 190-10 
Woodshull avenue, Hollis, who is in Mary Immaculate Hospital with a bullet 
wound in his left shoulder.

4 HELD IN RAIDS BY DRY AGENTS
Four men arrested by Federal prohibition agents in raids on two Lindenhurst, 
L. I., hotels Saturday were held in $2,000 bail each for further hearings 
when arraigned in Federal Court Today. All were charged with possession and 
sale of liquor.
Two of the men were arrested at the Linden Grove Inn on Vernon avenue. They 
are Joseph T. SPINDLER, 34, handyman, and Philip DAUFKIRCH, 49, alleged to be 
the owner. U. S. Commissioner FAY held both for hearing May 27. The agents 
claim they found 29 half barrels of beer in the place.
Bologna John's Victory hotel on Thirty-eighth street was the second place 
visited by the agents and yielded, according to them, six half-barrels of 
beer. Arrested at Bologna John's were Philip LEONARD, 38, the alleged 
bartender, and William HENRICH, 25, alleged to be the manager. U. S. 
Commissioner EPSTEIN held them for a hearing June 8.

DETECTIVES SEEK MAN'S ASSAILANT
Gashed and cut about the head, Ignatz GOTOSKY, 48, of 118 Siegel street, 
walked into Stagg street station today and asked the lieutenant on desk duty 
to help him find out how he received his wounds. He says that he doesn't 
remember where he got them.
Following treatment by an ambulance surgeon from St. Catherine's Hospital, 
GOTOSKY was told by detectives that they would try to ascertain the source of 
his injuries. 

GIVES MILLIONS TO NEW LIBRARY
Edward S. HARKNESS, financier and philanthropist, has pledged funds for a 
library at Columbia University designed ultimately to house, 4,000,000 books 
- more than there are in the New York Public Library. 
Mr. HARKNESS' benefactions to Columbia and allied institutions of the Medical 
Center have already exceeded $3,6000,000. He is said to have made worldwide 
gifts last year of more than $31,000,000, and his total benefactions are 
estimated at more than $55,000,000.

REPORTS SWELL TIME IN RUSSIA
Miss Fay GILLIS, pretty young woman flier who leaped from a damaged airplane 
in the air at Roosevelt Field on Labor Day, 1929, is enjoying herself in 
Moscow, where she is living in a "redecorated" stable, according to a letter 
from her just received by miss Viola GENTRY, of 507 Archer street, Freeport, 
herself an aviatrix.
Miss GILLIS said she and her sister Beth are "having a swell time" at Moscow, 
where their father is an engineer in the employ of the Soviet Government.
"We don't know many persons here, as the Russians don't like to associate 
with foreigners," Miss GILLIS wrote. "American are not popular here for many 
reasons. But this is an interesting country and it would be fun to know the 
people better. They have such different ideas about the pursuit of happiness; 
heaven only knows where they got them.
"We're living in a redecorated racing stable and have plenty of room. 
Besides, we get the true Russian atmosphere."

FALLS TO STREET FROM "L" STATION
George MCPHERSON, 36, of 285 Quincy street, was taken ill while standing on 
the eastbound platform of the Lexington avenue elevated at the Nostrand 
avenue station yesterday afternoon and fell thirty feet to the street. He 
received severe body injuries and lacerations on the scalp which were treated 
by Dr. MEISEL of St. John's hospital. after which MC PHERSON went home.

To Sail June 1
The Rev. Dr. Hugh W. JONES, who recently resigned as pastor of the Greenpoint 
Presbyterian Church, will remain in Greenpoint until June 1 when he plans to 
sail with his daughter for California via Panama Canal.

HONEYMOON DELAYED
Married only two weeks, Harold CHRISTOPHER, 28, of 15 Garnet street, was 
sentenced to three months in the Work House by magistrate HIRSHFIELD after 
being found guilty of a disorderly conduct charge brought by Mrs. Margaret 
OWENS, of 725 Hicks street, in Fifth avenue court. According to Mrs. OWENS, 
her husband, Harry, and Christopher came to her home at 3 o'clock in the 
morning and kicked in the door after the latter said he was a federal 
officer. CHRISTOPHER said he was intoxicated at the time. OWENS waived 
examination on a third degree assault charge and is being held for trial by 
the Court of Special Sessions.

THIRTY-DAY TERM
Henry LOPEZ, 27, of 39 Hamilton avenue, who was found guilty of disorderly 
conduct after he had punched his wife, Louise, because she did not have his 
dinner ready when he came home, was sentenced to thirty days in the Work 
House by magistrate HIRSHFIELD in Fifth avenue court.
	One boy is being held without bail and two others in $5,000 bail each by 
Magistrate HIRSHFIELD in Fifth avenue court for a hearing tomorrow on a 
charge of grand larceny. They are Stanley WISNIEWSKI, 17, of 390 Fifty-fourth 
street, held without bail, and Joseph SANSONE, 17, of 889 Fourth avenue, and 
Sylvie TODARO, 18, of 363 Eighteenth street. They were arrested on complaint 
of James MCGEENEY, of 170 Eighty-first street, whose sedan they allegedly 
stole from Ovington and Third avenues.

BOLOGNA MAKES CHILDREN ILL
Jennie HORSTEIN, 18 and her brother, Michael, 12, of 187 Sutter avenue, are 
in Kings County Hospital, suffering from ptomaine poisoning, believed to have 
resulted form eating bologna.
Another child, Helen, 14, was also made ill yesterday but remained at home 
after she was treated by an ambulance surgeon Dr. MERCETTI of St. Mary's 
Hospital.
Louis HORNSTEIN, father of the three, said he has been unemployed for 
sometime and last Wednesday night the family made a meal of some bologna 
purchased in a neighborhood shop. All were stricken soon afterward and have 
since been ill, but not until yesterday did their condition prompt him to 
notify police of Liberty avenue station, who summoned the ambulance.
The two in the hospital will recover. Police are investigating the source of 
the bologna.

COMPLAINS WOMAN STOLE HER SOUL
Mrs. Elizabeth MC CLELLAN, 40, of 41-13 Twenty-fifth avenue, Astoria, was 
arrested on a charge of felonious assault last night after she is alleged by 
the police to have made an attack upon Mrs. Fannie BARNEY, 54, with a 
vegetable paring knife in front of the latter's home at 41-11 Twenty-fifth 
avenue.
Mrs. BARNEY was stabbed in the head and the back, and Mrs. MC CLELLAN 
received a cut on the right hand in a struggle between the women for 
possession of the knife. Both remained at home after treatment by Dr. 
LEVINSON, of St. John's Hospital, Long Island City Magistrate's Court today.

19 May 1931
BROOKLYN MARINE CAPTAIN'S WIFE GETS $10,000 PRIZE CASH
Mrs. Walter SWEET Has Good uses for Her money - by Dixie TIGHE 
(staff correspondent)
Winston-Salem, N. C., May 19 - Mrs. Walter SWEET, of Brooklyn, 
is going home today with a check for $10,000 because she won 
second prize in the Camel contest. She's going home with the check, 
and what's to become of it is no problem to the wife of Marine 
Captain Walter SWEET stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Three youngsters are the answer. The $10,000 is to be put away 
as an educational fund for their three sons and its very apparent 
that the SWEET family has no other plans for the R. J. Reynolds 
Tobacco Company check.
Mrs. SWEET, who admits that the longest period of her life was 
from the time she heard she had won some award until she actually 
discovered what amount, has been entertained so extensively since 
she became a prize winner-hasn't increased her daily allotment of 
cigarettes although she has probably acquired more packages of 
Camels in twenty-four hours than she expected to have on hand for 
some months to come.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon Mrs. SWEET will have what is pleasantly 
known as cash on hand to the extent of $10,000, and when she gets 
back home she will not only have the business of endorsing a check, 
but the little matter of writing answers to congratulatory letters 
that have come from Shanghai, to say nothing of Nicaragua. You know 
how it is with a marine captain and his wife. They don't stay put.
	SOON HOMEWARD BOUND
Before Mrs. SWEET attends the check party this afternoon, she and 
the other contest winners will make a trip through the R. J. 
Reynolds Tobacco Company's factories. At 4:30 Captain and Mrs. 
SWEET and all the gala entourage that came down for an interesting 
and entertaining trip will be homeward bound.

TINY GIRL STRAYS INTO L. I. DEPOT
Police of the Bergen street station are trying to find the parents of a tiny 
girl, apparently about 3 years old, who was found wandering about the long 
Island Railroad station at 10 A. M. today by John SICILIANO, of 115 St. marks 
place, who turned her over to Patrolman O'CONNOR, of the Bergen street 
station.
The youngster, who will say nothing but "train", has black hair, brown eyes 
and was dressed in red and white rompers, a white sweater, and white shoes 
and stockings.

STRAY BULLET STRIKES WOMAN
While at work in the kitchen of her home, at 159-57 Greyland avenue, 
South Jamaica, last night, Miss Mildred MAC LEOD, 26, was shot in the 
left shoulder by a bullet which came through the rear window.
She was treated by Dr. WALKER of Jamaica Hospital and remained at home. 
The wound is slight. Police believe it was a tray bullet that struck the woman.

CAR OVERTURNS, 4 ARE INJURED
Two men and two women were injured yesterday when an automobile in 
which they were riding overturned after striking the curb on Cross 
Bay road, near the Channel Bridge, in Goose Creek. All were taken 
to Rockaway Beach Hospital.
The injured were 
Stanley ECKMAN, 27, of 135-18 Ninety-fifth street, Ozone Park, 
	dislocation and fracture of the left shoulder; 
William NAPOLITANO, 28, of 166-18 120th street, Ozone Park, 
	shock and internal injuries; 
Rose KLEIN, 28, of 1635 fifty-sixth street, 
	lacerations of the face and fracture of the collarbone, and 
Anna KATZ, 21, of the same address, shock and internal injuries. 
The automobile was operated by NAPOLITANO.

YOUNG BANDITS ADMIT HOLDUP OF DRUG STORE
Two Await Sentence - Pal, Shot by Cop, in Hospital
After a brief escapade as bandits, two 16 year old Brooklyn youths are in 
Raymond street jail today awaiting sentence.
They are Edward FILIPKOWSKI, of 261 Fifty-third street, and John HARKNESS, of 
242 Fifty-second street. Before County Judge NOVA, they pleaded guilty to a 
charge of robbery, third degree, when arraigned by Assistant District 
Attorney Bernard BECKER.
Their pal, Steve GRAYSON, 18, of 242 Fifty-second street, is in Kings County 
Hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the shoulder, inflicted when 
Patrolman William O'BRIEN "winged" him to disarm him.
Last Friday night, the three youths went into the drug store at 729 Fourth 
avenue, held up the proprietor, Vincent RISPOLI, at the point of a gun and 
took $45 from the cash register. Patrolman O'BRIEN lives just across the 
street from the drug store. He was on his way home with his wife and children 
when he noticed something amiss in the drug store.
He gave over to his wife his five months' old baby he was carrying and sent 
her and the children into the house. He then went over to the drug store. 
There he saw the young bandits at work with GRAYSON flourishing the revolver.
Patrolman O'BRIEN called upon all in the place to "put up their hands." 
GRAYSON turned with the uplifted revolver. O'BRIEN deftly "winged" him with a 
shot in the shoulder. GRAYSON dropped the weapon.
At this point Stuart ANDERSON, a cook aboard a private yacht and a customer 
in the store when the bandits arrived, rushed from a telephone booth. He got 
a slight bullet wound in the calf of the leg, and stopped running to hop 
around on one foot and loudly proclaim his "mistaken identity." He will be 
out in a few days from Kings County Hospital.

SKULL FRACTURE PROVES MYSTERY
Detectives of Poplar street station are at the bedside of James DEAN, 28, in 
Cumberland Hospital today, attempting to learn how he came to be found lying 
in the street at Johnson street and Flatbush avenue extension last night, 
suffering from a fractured skull.
Police were unable to find Dean's home address.

POLICE TO GIVE HIRSCH BENEFIT
A benefit performance in which members of the New York Police Department and 
many theatrical stars who reside on Long Island will take part will be held 
at Freeport on June 5. The beneficiary of the performance will be the family 
of Patrolman Fred HIRSCH, who was killed recently and for whose death Francis 
CROWLEY, young New York hoodlum, is under indictment.
The New York Police Glee Club will be headlined at the benefit.

HUSBAND SHOT BY LOVER SINKS
With the man against whom they joined in mutual affection reported dying in 
St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, Mrs. Amy CONLIN, 34, and James DE PEW, 
were nearer to a possible charge of murder today.
John T. CONLIN, husband of the woman who is held with her lover for shooting 
him as he entered his Astoria home on the morning of April 20, has failed to 
rally since he was taken to the hospital, and physicians there today 
expressed doubt that he would live another twenty-four hours. He has been 
kept alive for weeks through treatments and injections of food. He took a 
turn for the worse Sunday, and late yesterday was reported in a delirious 
condition. 
Mrs. CONLIN and DE PEW have already been indicted for assault and robbery in 
connection with the shooting of CONLIN. In the event of his death, it is 
virtually certain that the indictment will be superseded by an indictment for 
murder.

GIRL BOWS TO SCHOOL QUALMS, DISCARDS PAJAMAS FOR SKIRT
Mother Still Convinced They're Just as Modest
Helen SENFT, seventeen year old student of James Madison High School, bowed 
today to the qualms of an assistant principal who sent her home from class 
because she disapproved of flowered print pajamas - the modified pantaloon 
which Junior Leaguers are sporting these evenings at social functions. Helen 
started for school this morning in the approved skirt.
But neither Helen nor her mother, Mrs. Betty SENFT, who had brought up two 
other attractive daughters, has backed down from defense of the comfortable 
summer attire.
The street going pajamas, favored both by society matrons and one factory 
owner in Lynn, Mass., whose entire force wears them to work, are both 
comfortable and proper in Mrs. SENFT's opinion.
"I've brought up two daughters," Mrs. SENFT said today at her home, 1120 East 
Thirty-second street, "both are fine young women and my success in their 
rearing encourages me to think I may understand a little more about such 
matters than the self-appointed censors of Madison High School.
"But since Miss Dorothy ZEHNER, the assistant principal, insists on skirts, I 
wouldn't put style and a degree of comfort ahead of Helen's education. And so 
she is wearing skirts."
Her daughter said: "I'd rather be almost anything than as narrow-minded as 
people who see something bad in a girl wearing clothes that make her free and 
comfortable but if skirts are de rigueur, skirts it will be."

BURGLARS ROUTED AT BABYLON INN
Two Negro burglars entered La Grange Inn, a pre-Revoluntionary hostelry on 
the Montauk highway, a half mile west of Babylon Village early today, 
frightened a guest, beat a waiter severely, and got nothing. State troopers 
are seeking them.
Miss Edith MILLER HEPBURN, who came here recently from a hospital and was 
recovering her health at the inn, was awakened by the pair in her room. She 
screamed, arousing Mrs. Eugene FREUND, owner of the inn, and Max MILLER head 
waiter. MILLER went downstairs to learn the cause of the disturbance and was 
slugged on the head. The thieves fled.

20 May 1931
ANTI-PARKING DRIVE STARTS   
Police of the Rockaways have started a campaign to bring a halt to a practice 
of many motorists in parking their automobiles overnight in front of their 
homes.
The campaign, directed by Capt. William STREIB, is in line with a movement 
recently begun in police movement recently effected an organization, are said 
to be responsible for the movement.
They point out to Police Commissioner MULROONEY that cars parked overnight in 
front of homes offer a temptation to thieves, that they constitute a fire 
hazard, and what is more important to garage men, they told the commissioner 
that if the cars now parked in the streets were placed in public garages work 
would be provided for thousands of additional garage workers.

TWO MEN SUFFER GASOLINE BURNS
Two men are in hospitals today, one in a critical condition, suffering from 
burns caused by exploding gasoline.
William FRANCES, 29, an employee of the B. M. T., living at 86-33 
seventy-ninth street, was critically burned when gasoline he was pouring from 
a can into a signal light on the elevated structure at Myrtle and Grand 
avenues exploded. He was rushed to Cumberland Hospital where his condition is 
said to be critical.
Thomas LYONESON, 27, a garage mechanic, was burned about the left leg, at his 
home, 946 Forty-second street, when his gasoline saturated jumper caught fire 
from a match he had just lighted. He was removed to Coney Island Hospital.

BROOKLYN GIRL HURT WHEN BUS CRASHES
Washington, May 20 - Four persons were injured, two seriously, when a 
Greyhound bus crashed into a culvert late last night near Muirkirk, Md.  
Among the injured was miss Anna BERMAN, 19, of Brooklyn, who suffered 
lacerated leg. The bus was en route from Washington to Baltimore. All the 
injured are in Washington hospitals.

OLD PRATT MANSION A RUIN, CALLED SERIOUS FIRE PERIL FACES BARRICADE BY CITY
Aldermen May Order Fence to Protect Adjoining Property
The skeleton of Willoughby avenue's old PRATT mansion, the building extending 
from Clinton to Waverly avenues, which a generation or less ago was 
considered on of Brooklyn's residential attractions, is facing the prospect 
of being barricaded behind an official fence.
 When the Aldermen of the Prospect District's Local Board meet this afternoon 
at Borough Hall, according to information which became available today, they 
will consider whether or not a fence of the type sometimes used to enclose 
vacant lots will have to be erected on the property.
A petition, calling for the erection of a fence, is on the local board's 
meeting calendar.
If the petition is adopted by the Aldermen, the residents of Clinton avenue 
and the immediate vicinity, including a number of social registerites, may find 
their view of the one-time home of Herbert Lee PRATT, the Standard Oil 
financier, relieved, in part of least, by a fence that is a six-foot affair 
or one, perhaps, or larger dimensions.
    MAY ORDER HIGH FENCE
The official regulations, governing fences that Aldermen order erected, are 
said to permit of a degree of latitude that runs to fences twenty feet or so in 
height and made of metal.
The expense involved would have to be borne, it is said, by the owners of the 
property.
While officials at Borough Hall were uncertain as to the action the Aldermen 
would take, records on filed in the Bureau of Buildings disclosed that today's 
petition shaped up as the latest of a series of vicissitudes through which 
the one valuable property has passed. An official notice of violation placed on 
the building by the bureau holds that the building, which has long been 
unoccupied, is in an unsafe and dangerous condition.
When the property was built by Mr. PRATT in the days before the penthouse and 
the kitchenette era, it is said to have cost him $200,000. In 1916 it was 
valued by the city for assessment purposes at $167,500. Today, according to the 
figures of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, it is down to $70,000.
At the time of its construction the interior of the building was reported to 
be of costly trim. Hardware finishing, much of it gold-plated and costing 
about $35,000, was reported to have gone into the building. an organ in the music 
room was reported to have cost $30,000. The art gallery included works of the 
old masters.
    WAS SOLD IN 1916
When Mr. PRATT moved to Manhattan he deposed of the property and two years 
later, in 1916, it was purchased by Commodore J. Stuart BLACKTON of the old 
Vitagraph Company from the Ridgewood Park Realty Company in a transaction which 
was said to have involved $750,000. The property was subsequently sold again.
In recent years the building had been unoccupied.
Less than a month ago, records on file in the Bureau of Buildings show, a 
notice was served that the bureau had imposed the violation on the building. The 
notice was served on a Manhattan lawyer who is listed as representing the 
owners.
The violation imposed by the Bureau of Buildings asserted the building was in 
an unsafe and dangerous condition. The Building Bureau's report asserted 
the building was unoccupied; that doors and windows were open and unprotected 
and easily accessible to malicious, undesirable and unauthorized persons; that 
all the stair balusters were broken down or removed; that all elevator shaft 
doors were removed; that an open hatchway in the attic was unguarded; that an 
iron marquise over the main entrance was corroded, loosened and liable to 
fall; that several sections of the slated roof had been removed; the plaster 
ceilings and cornices had been loosened and had fallen, partly because of exposure 
to rain and storm and that a brick retaining wall with a heavy stone coping on 
the east side of premises was liable to fall.
    IS CALLED FIRE HAZARD
All this, the bureau's report charges, constituted a fire hazard and an 
unsafe condition.
Edwin W. KLEINERT, the acting superintendent of buildings, served notice, as 
a result, that unless the bureau received an immediate answer he would direct 
the institution of court proceedings to have the structure declared dangerous 
and unsafe and to compel repairs, the expense of which would become a lien on 
the building.
An inspection of the property disclosed today that scores of windows in the 
building had been shattered. The whole appearance of the building is one of 
considerable ruin. An iron fence and a low stone wall front the Willoughby avenue 
side of the property and extend around to the Clinton and Waverly avenue 
sides. There are hedges on Clinton and Waverly avenues, but the rear of the 
property is not enclosed. It is used as an improvised playground by children in the 
neighborhood.
The condition of the property is in marked contrast to the appearance of 
other parcels, mainly on Clinton avenue, where private dwellings and apartment 
houses are located.

21 May 1931
MAN AND ALCOHOL SEIZED IN GARAGE
Samuel COHEN, of 593 Bushwick avenue, was arrested last night and "booked" at 
Wilson avenue station on a charge of violating the Volstead law, and 125 
one-gallon cans of denatured alcohol were seized at the Bushwick avenue address 
when plainsclothesmen visited the place.
The arresting officers, William JUDD and George CARRANA, on the staff of 
Deputy Chief Inspector CUMMINGS, went to the garage to check on information that 
liquor was being moved in the neighborhood. They reported finding a five-ton 
truck loaded with the alcohol.
COHEN, who was in the place at the time, disclaimed all knowledge of the 
presence of the alcohol.

POLICE SEEK GIRL, 12, MISSING WEEK
A general alarm was sent out today by the police missing persons bureau for 
Dorothy CREEGAN, 12, who has been missing from her home, at 230 Hawthorne 
street since 4 P. M. last Friday.
The girl was wearing a tan coat, tan felt hat, low brown shoes and 
flesh-colored stockings when she disappeared, her father, James CREEGAN, 
reported. She is five feet, three inches tall, weighs 110 pounds, 
has dark brown hair, blue eyes and freckles.
Dorothy was a student in the 7-A grade at Public School 92, at Parkside and 
Rogers avenues, and was to be confirmed June 2 at St. Francis of Assisi R. C. 
Church, Lincoln road and Nostrand avenue.

SEES HUSBAND SHOOT HIMSELF
Charles JONAS, 33, of 146-03 Jasmine street, Flushing, is in Flushing 
Hospital in a serious condition as the result of having fired four bullets 
into his body, all in the vicinity of his heart, yesterday afternoon. 
Mrs. Fredericka JONAS and a friend were in the yard looking at some 
flowers when two explosions were heard in the basement. Mrs. JONAS 
ran into the basement, saw her husband standing unsteadily in the 
middle of the basement, a revolver in his hand. As she approached he 
fired three more times. He then collapsed. An ambulance was called from F
lushing Hospital and Dr. HERLITZ stated that four of the five shots had 
entered his breast and near the heart. The fifth grazed the abdomen, 
making a flesh wound. JONAS was for a number of years head bookkeeper 
with an insurance company in Manhattan which was recently absorbed by 
another company. As a result of the consolidation, JONAS was demoted and 
this demotion is said to have preyed upon his mind.

ALL HE REMEMBERS IS STAB BY STRANGER
Leo FRANK 35, of 270 Henry street, is in Cumberland Hospital today with a 
possible skull fracture and several stab wounds. He told police a stranger 
attacked him in front of 149 Washington street at 2 A. M. 
That was all he remembered of it, he said.

HOUSEWIVES BOYCOTT SHOPS; MIDDLE VILLAGE PRICES FALL
Merchants Capitulate and Choice Food is Now Available
Roast beefsteak and poultry are back on the daily menus of Middle Villagers 
today. It is expected that by tomorrow the residents of that thriving 
community will have an ample supply of bread and rolls for dunking purposes.
It all started five weeks ago when the good housewives of Middle Village 
decided that they were paying exorbitant prices for their meats and that 
there was no reason for it. After conferring together they decided to 
boycott the seven butcher shops and two poultry markets in the community.
    BECOME VEGETARIANS
The shopkeepers sat back expecting that a concerted howl from hungry husbands 
would quickly break the strike. Apparently, however, the Middle Village 
housewives are good enough cooks to keep their lords and masters happy, 
for a while at least, on vegetables. Yesterday, their ears tired listening 
for the clang of the cash register that hadn't even clinked in weeks and 
the butchers capitulated.
As a result lamb dropped from 60 to 38 cents a pound, and steak from 55 to 30 
cents. Stewmeat was off 14 cents a pound from the previous day's close of 40 
cents, and quotations on chickens were from 10 to 12 cents a pound lower.
    BREAD ON LIST
Flushed with their success, the housewives then went after the three 
bakeries. One of them, the proprietor of the Morton Bakery, having watched 
his friends the butchers sit around doing nothing, promptly capitulated. 
Rolls were cut 7 to 17 cents a dozen, and bread 2 cents to 7 cents a loaf.
The result was that the owners of the other two bakeries today stood idly 
around while their competitor's cash register kept up a steady tattoo. 
An early fall is predicted (in the price of bread).

SAYS SECRETARY ADMITS THEFT
James M. HAGERTY, 49, secretary and treasurer of the Oceanside, L. I. fire 
district, faced a charge of grand larceny, second degree, before Peace Justice 
Edward T. NEU in Lynbrook today.
Nassau County Detective Robert MCLAREN, who made the arrest, last night said 
that HAGERTY has been treasurer of the fire district for eight years, at a 
salary of $250 a year. He is employed as a bookbinder in the office of the City 
Collector in Manhattan.

BROOKLYN BREVITIES
FELL FROM WINDOW
When she fell from window on the first floor of her home to the rear yard, a 
distance of ten feet, Betty KIRSCHNER, 7 years old, of 3027 Twenty-fourth 
street, sustained a possible fracture of the skull. She was treated by 
Ambulance Surgeon WACKS, of the Harbor Hospital, and remained at home.

LACERATES FOOT
Bathing at Oriental Point, Manhattan Beach, yesterday, John KALKBRENNER, 16 
of 134 Seventh avenue, stepped on a sharp object and suffered a lacerated right 
foot. He was treated by Ambulance Surgeon HAUPTMAN, of Coney Island Hospital.

GANG GETS $4,100 IN FULTON STREET
Four armed men riding in a highpowered car alighted in front of the Arundel 
Corporation, dredging contractors, at the foot of Fulton street, shorty after 3 
o'clock this afternoon, entered the office, and, after backing James SALMON, 
paymaster, and two other employes against the wall, escaped with the weekly 
payroll of $4,100 in a suitcase.
The robbery occurred shortly after SALMON had come from the company's bank 
with cash. The trio fled in the car driven by the fourth who did not enter the 
building.

TWO MEN SHOT, SUSPECT HELD
Police of Bath Beach station this afternoon arrested Frank LOFARO, 38, 1331 
Sixty-ninth street, after an investigation of a shooting in the hallway of 
LOFARO's home two weeks ago, in which two men were seriously wounded.
The suspect, in Coney Island court, before Magistrate SABBATINO, charged with 
felonious assault and carrying concealed deadly weapons, was held without 
bail for a further hearing June 5.
According to Detectives FARRELL and BUCKLEY, who arrested the man, he is 
suspected of having shot and seriously wounding Vincent GASINO, 30, 171 Carroll 
street, and Anthony ZAPPI, 29, 570 Henry street on May 14. GASINO is in the 
Coney Island Hospital suffering from two bullet wounds in his neck.
According to statements given by ZAPPI and GASINO, they were lured to the 
hallway of LOFARO's home by a mysterious person they knew as "Joe."

DROWNING BATHER SAVED FROM BRINY
While bathing in the ocean off of West Twenty-second street shortly before 
noon today Joseph NUZZO, 27, of 77 Second avenue, Manhattan, was seized with an 
attack of cramps. He was pulled out by an unknown bather who left immediately 
following the rescue.
NUZZO was treated by Ambulance Surgeon NEVERS from Harbor Hospital and 
removed to that institution where he is reported to be in serious condition.

22 May 1931
ESCORT ROBBED, WOMAN IS BEATEN
An assault in the dark by three footpads early today found Alex MC CONVILLE, 
30, of 162 India street, home today nursing a fractured nose, a badly 
lacerated face, and a discolored right eye, and Miss Elizabeth QUINN of 3737 
Thirty-seventh street, Jackson heights, his companion, in her home 
treating minor bruises.
The two were walking along Clay street toward Manhattan avenue early today, 
when three men jumped on them, and after administering a severe beating to 
both, took $20 from MC CONVILLE's pockets. The screams attracted Patrolman 
Charles SIEDENBERG of Greenpoint station, who took a description of the trio. MC 
CONVILLE was treated for his injuries by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint 
Hospital.

VETERAN FEARED AMNESIA VICTIM
Belief that Edward L. HARRIS, World War veteran, who disappeared from his 
home at 7129 Fifth avenue, in July, 1925, is the victim of loss of memory 
resulting from injuries overseas, was expressed today by his wife, 
Mrs. Charlotte HARRIS, as she renewed the attempt to find him. Police are 
being asked to assist her.
HARRIS, a veteran of ten years service in the regular army and a year and a 
half with the A. E. F. in France, left his home with only twenty-five cents, 
to take a walk, and never came back. A year later he visited a sister in 
Thompsonville, Ill., but suddenly walked from the house as they were 
talking and has not been heard from since. He was severely gassed while 
fighting in France.
The missing veteran has several hundred dollars due him on his veterans' 
certificate, but no attempt has been made to obtain the money.
HARRIS, who is now fifty-two, returned to the army when war was declared and 
went over as a sergeant. At the time he vanished he was five feet seven inches 
tall, weighed 160 pounds, had blonde hair and blue eyes. He was dressed in a 
gray suit, gray cap and black shoes.

FALLS 3 FLOORS FROM FIRE ESCAPE
Juan QUINONES, 23, of 99 Franklin street, is in Kings County Hospital today, 
suffering from a fractured left leg, lacerations of the scalp and possible 
internal injuries sustained when he fell from the third floor of a fire escape 
in the rear of his home last night.
QUINONES, arriving home to find he had forgotten his key, climbed to the 
third landing of the fire escape, to find the window he hoped to enter locked. 
In attempting to lean over to another window, he lost his balance and fell 
three stories to the ground. He was treated for his injuries by an ambulance 
surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital.

BOY BURNS HIS HAND PLAYING WITH SHELL
While playing with the shell of a shotgun at Hale avenue and Etna street last 
night, Richard LENAR, 11, of 664 Jamaica avenue, was severely burned on his 
right hand with gun powder. He was treated by an ambulance surgeon from 
Bradford Street Hospital, after which he was able to remain at home.

THREE OVERCOME BY GAS REVIVED
Three persons, overcome by escaping gas in their homes, were treated by 
ambulance surgeons, and able to remain at home today. Gas escaping from a heater in 
the home by George ACKERMAN, 30, of 1441 East Thirty-seventh street, overcame 
him, until an ambulance surgeon from Kings County Hospital arrived and 
revived him.
William and Esther TOBIL, of 1622 East Twenty-ninth street, were overcome by 
gas escaping from a jet in the kitchen in their home early today, and after 
treatment by Dr. ANGELO, of Coney Island Hospital, were able to remain at home.

FLATBUSH BEE MENACE GONE
The bee menace in the neighborhood of 1317 New York avenue, has come to an 
end and the pollen bearing flowers which will bloom in that section of Flatbush 
this summer need have no fear of being disturbed by the "honey-makers."
Magistrate DALE in Flatbush Court, dismissed the charge brought against Miss 
Anne von LEHN, of the New York avenue address of keeping bees within the city 
limits. Miss von LEHN told the court that her father. Emil, had sold ten of 
the hives and given away the remainder.
The charge against Miss von LEHN was made by Michael MALONEY, of the 
Department of Health, before Magistrate FOLWELL. At the first hearing several 
neighbors were witnesses and the Magistrate said that although keeping bees 
under the sanitary code was not illegal, it would be better to get rid 
of their apiary before they faced a charge of maintaining a nuisance. 
They agreed.

TRIO CAPTURED IN HOLDUP TRY
Elmer MILAN, 25, of 4314 Eighth avenue, Risto RINNE, 21, and Charles PILHAM, 
20, both of 816 Forty-third street, were arrested early today, charged with 
attempted robbery, waived examination and were held without bail by magistrate 
EILPERIN in Fifth avenue court for action of the Grand Jury.
The charge was made by Mrs. Anilia YOUNG, who lives with her husband, John, 
at 265 Forty-ninth street. According to the story she told the police, Mrs. 
YOUNG was awakened at 2:30 A. M. today by the ringing of her doorbell. She got 
out of bed and went to door. When she opened the door, she says she was 
confronted by the trio, one of whom had a gun. Her husband was awakened and 
when he appeared the youths took to their heels.
Young notified Patrolman THORSTENSEN, of Fourth avenue station, who picked 
them up at Forty-third street and Eighth avenue. All three were identified by 
Mrs. YOUNG.

SAY BORO MAN USED NAME OF GOULD FAMILY
Edward GUBER of Hancock Street Called Fugitive in Larceny
The identity of a "stockateer," now a fugitive, who has been posing as Edwin 
GOULD, scion of the socially prominent GOULD family, was revealed today when, 
through the efforts of Attorney General John J. BENNETT, Jr., a man described 
as Edward GUBER, alias Edwin GOULD, formerly of 44 Hancock street, was 
indicted for grand larceny by the New York County Grand Jury. The indictment was 
returned yesterday afternoon.
The man is charged with the larceny of securities valued at $650 and $350 in 
cash from William CONTENTE, 1384 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, for whom he 
promised to purchase Warner Bros., common stock but never did so.
    NEW STORIES
Another complaint now being investigated by Deputy Attorney General AUSTIN 
involved GUBER in the theft by fraudulent representations of $3,000 for Martha 
TANDLER of 2206 Valentine avenue, the Bronx.
Posing as Edwin GOULD, GUBER used recent news stories concerning the 
philanthropy of the real Mr. GOULD, claiming that he was the financier. He also 
strengthened his claims by employing a January story concerning the will of Harriet 
DICKINSON in which the genuine Edwin GOULD was mentioned as legatee.
At times he used the advertisements of GOULD, AVERY & Co., 39 Broadway, a 
Stock Exchange house, as the basis of a claim that he was the partner mentioned 
in the firm name, when as a matter of fact he had no connection with the firm.
    LONG RECORD ALLEGED
Detective O'CONNELL, attached to the bureau of securities of Attorney General 
BENNETT's office, has ascertained that GUBER forfeited $1,500 bail in Hudson 
County, N. J., on Sept. 26, 1927. He had been held there for uttering a $1,300 
worthless check on the complaint of Harry WEINNEL, of Hoboken. He is also 
wanted in San Jose and San Francisco, Cal., and in Jacksonville for passing 
worthless checks, it is declared.

LIMOUSINE GIFT FOR DE BRAGGA
Joseph H. DE BRAGGA who retired as Republican leader in Queens last fall, was 
presented with a limousine, and Mrs. Eva SCHUMACHER, who was his co-leader 
for a number of years was given a diamond ring at a reception given by their 
friends in Triangle Ballroom, Jamaica and Myrtle avenues, Richmond Hill, last 
night.
The affair was arranged by the Republican executive committee of Queens 
County. Warren B. ASHMEAD, who succeeded DE BRAGGA as leader, presented him with 
the limousine, and Mrs. SCHUMACHER was given the diamond ring by her successor, 
Miss Lillian GARING.
Among those attending were Federal Judge INCH, Supreme Court Justice FABER, 
U. S. Attorney William DE GROOT, magistrate Frank GIORGIO and Congressman 
William BRUNNER.

FIVE LEFT IN G. A. R. POST TO MARCH IN EAST NEW YORK
Only 6 Survivors Among 216 in Famous Group

Only five the the six remaining of 216 members who once made up the 
organization will represent the L. M. Hamilton Post, G. A. R., at the 
annual memorial Day parade and exercises in East New York.
According to James J. MC CUE, secretary, provisions are being made to take 
care of 10,000 persons. At least forty organizations will be represented in
the parade. Commander William BUSCH, of the L. M. Hamilton Post, is grand 
marshal and Capt. Francis J. SINNOTT, marshal of the East New York and 
Cypress Hills divisions.
After a parade which will start at 3 p. m. exercises will be held in National 
Cemetery on Jamaica avenue.

MEMORIAL SERVICES PLANNED IN QUEENS
This Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the Queens County Committee of the 
American Legion will pay tribute to the memory of the World War men at 
"The Grove" in Forest Park, marking the twelfth anniversary memorial exercises.
More than 4,000 legionnaires will assemble with their colors at Victory 
Field, Myrtle avenue and Woodhaven boulevard, Forest Park, representing the 
thirty-five posts in Queens County.
The parade will be led by County Commander Herman J. BORNEMAN, proceeding 
from Victory Field along Woodhaven boulevard to memorial driveway. Among the 
legion bands will be Springfield Gardens Post, Joseph Garity Post from Ridgewood, 
Corona Post and the Woodhaven Post. A number of the posts have bright colored 
uniformed drill teams who will add color to the parade.
The exercises will be opened by James PASTA, chairman of he memorial 
committee, followed with the singing of the Star Spangled Banner by Jeannette 
EBERHARD, formerly of the Chicago Opera Company. The speakers will be Park 
Commissioner Albert C. BENNINGER, Judge Peter M. DALY, County Commander Herman J. 
BORNEMAN and Judge Advocate Joseph J. CONROY of the American Legion. Invocation and 
benediction will be given by the county chaplain, Peter SCHROEDER. Military 
music will be played throughout the service.

590 WAR DEAD TO BE HONORED
In tribute to its 590 war dead, the 307th Infantry, 77th (New York) Division, 
will hold memorial services at 3 P. M. Sunday in Regimental Grove, at the 
east side of the Mall, Central Park, it was announced today by Lieut.-Col. 
Crawford BLAGDEN, commanding the 307th, now a unit of the Army Reserve.
Decoration of the regiment's battle colors with official streamers awarded by 
the War Department for engagements in France will be a feature of the 
exercises. Manhattan Park Commissioner HERRICK, Col. E. A. HOUGHTON, Col. 
BLAGDEN and Chaplain B. A. TINTNER will be among the speakers. The regular 
army band of the 18th U. S. Infantry will come from Fort Hamilton to participate.
The regiment's World War record includes capture of Grand Pre, following 
fighting in the Argonne forest and participation in the engagements around Mervia, 
Revillon and La Petite Montagne in the Oise-Aisne offensive.

23 May 1931
CLUBBED SHOT FIGHTING THUGS
Because he refused to "stick 'em up" when ordered to do so by two bandits and 
pluckily attacked one of them, Peter ROALDSEN, 32, of 253 Thirteenth street, 
lies in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital today with a bullet wound in his side 
and cuts about his head and body from the butt of the gun that wounded him.
ROALDSEN was in his grocery at 537 Fifth avenue shortly before midnight when 
two men entered. One had a gun which he shoved at ROALDSEN and the other 
commanded him to put up his hands. ROALDSEN made a jump for them, his fists flying. 
He caught the foremost bandit on the jaw, staggering him. The man with the 
gun sprang forward and beat ROALDSEN over the head and shoulders and shot him. 
Then, alarmed, they fled, without taking any money.
Two armed men also entered the store of Herman BOOK, 35, at 7617 Third 
avenue, taking money from his pockets and those of his clerk, Charles JANOWSKI. 
They then rifled the cash register, securing a total of $304.

BOY 8 DYING IN FALL DOWN LONG AIRSHAFT
Patrolman Risks Life to Save Lad Who Sought Lost Ball
Anthony IRENE, 8, of 10-47 Forty-ninth avenue, Long Island City, who last 
night fell down a four-story shaft at 10-63 Jackson avenue while trying to 
recover a lost ball, is near death today in St. John's Hospital suffering from a 
fractured skull.
Patrolman George PAVELEK of Hunters Point station risked his life in bringing 
the boy from the bottom of the shaft. The policeman without any previous 
knowledge in climbing down the side of a building, balanced himself on protruding 
bricks to bring the injured boy from the bottom of the shaft.
    FALLS THROUGH SKYLIGHT
Tony, his brother, Jerry, 10, and a group of boys were playing baseball in 
the playground at Jackson avenue and Fifth street, when one of the boys hit the 
ball onto the roof of a group of three four-story buildings across the street.
Tony and his brother Jerry volunteered to retrieve the ball. The two walked 
to the roof and while looking around Tony fell through a skylight and 
disappeared at the bottom of the shaft. Jerry screamed and the boys ran to 
the Hunters Point station where the lieutenant dispatched PAVELEK to the scene.
    ONLY SLIM CHANCE
The policeman could hear the cries of the boy but couldn't locate him. He 
sent a call for the Emergency Squad and with their aid went to the bottom of the 
shaft after he removed the heavier parts of his uniform.
Jerry KALUMBACH, 20, of 32-05 Eighty-first street, Jackson Heights, who was 
passing by at the time Jerry screamed for help also went to the bottom of the 
shaft to help the policeman.
The injured boy was rushed to the hospital where doctors said that he had 
only a slim chance for recovery.

KIDNAPED BRIDE SEEKS DIVORCE    
Helen FISHER DRILL, ST. Paul heiress who attracted national attention 
recently when she was allegedly kidnapped by her husband from a Manhattan 
boarding house, said today she intended to go to Reno to get a divorce. 
Her husband, now in St. Paul, is Harry Hamilton DRILL, nephew of 
Lewis L. DRILL, United States Attorney at St. Paul.
"Harry insists on being dramatic," Mrs. DRILL said, "that's why 
I married him the second time after we had been divorced. He threatened 
to kill himself if I didn't. But I don't think he'll commit suicide 
now if he hears I'm going to Reno."

$5 GOLD PIECES TOSSED AWAY BY IMMIGRANT
Young German Thought They Were Just Worthless Trinkets
Although treasure which wasn't buried beneath a tree in Forest Park was dug 
up yesterday by detectives, there still is the possibility of someone finding 
"pieces of five" in the vicinity of the 102d street entrance to the park on 
Myrtle avenue, Richmond Hill.
Two perfectly good five dollar gold pieces are lying the grass somewhere 
because Hans STEINERT, who arrived in this country from Germany not so long ago, 
thought they were worthless trinkets.
The fact that Hans and thrown, two five dollar gold pieces to the wind 
developed yesterday during his arraignment before Magistrate GIORGIO in Ridgewood 
Court on a charge of grand larceny.
HANS has been boarding in the home of Mr. and Mrs. August CORDES at 101-15 
Eighty-fifth road, Richmond Hill, and on May 10 Mrs. CORDES discovered that two 
watches, a bracelet, some rings, two gold pieces and about $60 in other cash 
had been taken from the CORDES bedroom.
Detectives Herman BOYMAN and Vincent DURNING of Jamaica station decided HANS 
was their man. BOYMAN speaks German and questioned HANS at length, but HANS
insisted he had no knowledge of the jewels or cash.
BOYMAN and DURNING "shadowed" HANS regularly for more than a week. They 
noticed he made several visits to the 102d street entrance of Forest Park. 
Yesterday they approached HANS while he was standing beneath a tree. Questioned here 
he confessed he had taken the stuff, spent the money and buried the jewelry.
A park department employe supplied a shovel and the jewelry was found in a 
small cardboard box, buried about two feet dept. The spot was marked by a white 
stick which HANS had place in the tree branches directly over the burial place.
HANS waived examination after the charge against him had been translated to 
him and was held in $1,000 bail for the action of the Queens Grand Jury.

WOMAN DYING FROM WOUNDS SHIELDS ARRESTED BROTHER
He Also Is Shot, But Sister Insists It Was All Accidental
Mrs. Vincenza LIGUORI, 35, mother of two children, was at the point of death 
in Coney Island Hospital today with a bullet wound in her abdomen, feebly 
insisting she had been accidentally injured and that no one should be 
arrested.
Police, however, skeptical of her story, placed the woman's brother Warren 
PISCOPO, 19 also in the hospital with a bullet wound in his left hand, under 
arrest.
Mrs. LIGOURI, Salvatore, her husband, their two children and her brother live 
at 287 Avenue X, where Salvatore operates a little store.
    FOUND PISTOL
Yesterday afternoon Capt. John J. RYAN, in command of the Tenth Division 
detectives, was told Salvatore was playing an Italian bowling game with 
friends and the woman was tending the store.
Two men got into an argument outside the store, she said, and when they left 
she went outside. She found a pistol on the sidewalk, she said. As she was 
examining the weapon PISCOPO appeared and warned her against handling it. He 
said she should immediately turn it over to the police and started to unload 
the weapon. It was discharged, accidentally, according to their story.
    RECENTLY PAROLED
The bullet passed through PISCOPO's left hand, grazed Mrs. LIGUORI's right 
hand and entered her abdomen, severing the intestines in several places.
Detectives Rocco CAPUTO and Patrick KNOWLES of the Sheepshead Bay station 
were not satisfied with the explanation of the shooting and arrested PISCOPO 
on a charge of felonious assault. They were continuing their investigation 
today. PISCOPO was recently released on parole from Elmira where he had 
been sent for robbery.

PROBE UNDER WAY IN FERRY CRASH
A ferryboat crash which hurled 1,500 passengers to the deck and demolished 
parts of the slip at St. George, Staten Island, was being investigated today.
Nearly all of the passengers were standing, waiting to debark as the ferry, 
Tompkinsville, newest and largest addition to the fleet owned by the Department 
of Plant and Structures, neared Staten Island on its trip from Manhattan. The 
boat was entering the harbor at reduced speed when it rammed into the west 
rack, careened off this and struck the east rack with a tremor that shook the 
entire hulk.
The boat then crashed into the debarking pier and finally came to rest, 
jammed tight against the lower platform of the ferry house. Doctors and ambulances 
were summoned but no one was found to be seriously injured.
Capt. W. J. BOWMAN refused to comment on the crash. However, it was learned 
from the crew that two bells had been sounded for the engineer to reverse 
speed. Whether the bells went unheeded or whether the engines failed to respond 
could not be learned.

25 May 1931
WILLIAM MULDOON 86 YEARS OLD TODAY
William MULDOON, the dean of boxing in New York, celebrated his eighty-sixth 
birthday today by going to work. No birthday party was scheduled and no crowd 
was expected.

MISSING MAN BELIEVED SLAIN
David I. SIEGEL, attorney, told Bronx County Judge James M. BARRETT that he 
believed his client, Matthew CANTWELL, 28, head of a flour trucking 
organization, had been murdered.
When CANTWELL failed to appear to answer an indictment charging extortion, 
SIEGEL said his client had been missing for a week.
"He had not gone to his home, and his family is frantic in the belief, which 
I fear, that he has been murdered," the lawyer said. Judge BARRETT ordered 
CANTWELL's $10,000 bail forfeited.
CANTWELL, who was president of the New York and Brooklyn Flour and Truckman's 
Association, was indicted three weeks ago with two other men and charged with 
extorting $500 from Ike HELD, president of the United Flour Trucking Company.

TWO BOYS NABBED IN STORE HOLDUP
Two youths, one said to have staged a holdup three weeks ago, were arrested 
by Detective TUTTLE and CARROLL of Stagg street station at Moore street and 
Manhattan avenue early today, and charged with assault, robbery and possession of 
a loaded .32 calibre revolver. They are: 
Edward TREADWELL, 16, of 173 Moore street, and 
Irving MALONEY, 16, of 17 Humboldt street. 
According to the detectives he two entered the barber 
shop owned by Louis HARDEN at 25 Cook street three weeks ago and after holding 
up the proprietor, who was alone, escaped with the $25 from the cash register.
One month ago MALONEY was placed on probation by County Judge TAYLOR when 
arraigned on a burglary charge.
Both were to appear before Magistrate EILPERIN in Bay Ridge Plaza court.

SEVEN BURIED BY DIRT SLIDE
Twenty-five laborers narrowly escaped death today when several tons of dirt 
slid into the ditch where they were working in the rear of the Masi Meat 
Packing Company at 171-75 Fort Greene place. Seven of the men were buried, 
but were extricated without serious injury, although one was taken to 
Jewish Hospital suffering with possible internal injuries.
They were dug out by the other workmen and ambulances from Jewish Hospital 
and Holy Family Hospital arrived. BREGGI was taken to Jewish Hospital and the 
other were treated for cuts and bruises. They remained on the job.
While working in a sewer excavation at Nineteenth avenue and Fifty-seventh 
street this afternoon, two men were painfully injured when the banks of the 
ditch caved in and they were buried beneath a quantity of dirt.
Other workmen nearby notified the police and they were extricated by 
Emergency Squad No. 12. The injured are Christopher MARTINI, 29, of 492 
Henry street, who was taken to Kings County Hospital with bruises about 
the legs, arms and chest, and Jack ANGELO, 34, of 10 Union street, who 
was removed to his home with contusions of the legs.

CROWDS VISIT AIRPORT; HEAR BAND CONCERT
MCKENZIE, New Dock Head, Makes Survey Flight - BRADY Hops Off
Floyd Bennett Field, the city's municipal airport on Barren Island, which was 
dedicated Saturday, attracted a large crowd yesterday. Among the visitors 
were many persons who had not had an opportunity to visit the airport Saturday, 
and who desired to see how the once barren waste of swamp land looks, now that 
is has been converted into one of the country's most modern airports.
It was estimated that the crowd late in the afternoon numbered about 10,000.
A concert was given during the afternoon by the Department of Sanitation Band 
in front of the administration building, the music being amplified by WNYC 
loud speakers.
Commercial planes took passengers on flights over the field and all the 
planes were well patronized. About 1 o'clock in the afternoon 100 of the army 
planes, on their way to maneuvers in New England, circled over the airport.
John MC KENZIE, the new Commissioner of Docks, whose department has 
supervision over the airport, was taken on a flight over the field to enable him to 
make a survey of the establishment from the air.
Peter J. BRADY, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Aviation motored to the 
airport in the afternoon, and was met by an Army plane, in which he hopped off 
for Springfield, Mass., where the air armada will hold maneuvers similar to 
those held in New York Saturday.
Mr. BRADY accompanied the fleet to Springfield at the invitation of 
Brig.-Gen. Benjamin D. FOULOIS, commanding the air division of the Army. 
He expects to return Tuesday in time to complete arrangements for the 
dinner which will be given by Mayor WALKER at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 
Manhattan, Wednesday in honor of the visiting Army officers.

PIGEON SOLVE MYSTERY CASE
Detectives of Ralph avenue station are convinced today that their fellow 
worker, Detective Elliott "Sherlock" HOLMES, could give the late Sir Conan DOYLE's 
fictionized hero of the same name a run for his money any day in the week, 
and Ton y SANTELLO, of 2417 Fulton street has thirty-six pigeons to prove it.
Saturday night three men were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. They 
had in their possession thirty-six pigeons and could give no explanation as 
to where they got them. They were released with suspended sentences after a 
hearing before Magistrate CASEY in Gates avenue court yesterday morning.
Detective HOLMES picked out one pigeon which he thought was of the carrier 
type, attached a note to one of its legs and set it free.
The note read: "Whoever owns this pigeon will report at Ralph avenue station, 
Ralph avenue and Quincy street, Brooklyn." Five hours later SANTELLO walked 
into the stationhouse carrying the pigeon. He identified it ad the other birds, 
as belonging to him.
The men arrested Saturday night were Antony CONNORS, 32, of 78? Fourth 
avenue; Frank CHIKOSKY, 30, of 215 Twenty-ninth street, and Joseph Stevens, 37 of 
699 Third avenue. The charges against them police say, were based on vagrancy.


POLICE SEEK BROKER, ESTRANGED FRIEND OF VICTIM, ON SUSPICION OF KILLING IN 
FIGHT OVER LATTER'S WIFE
Police broadcast a general alarm today for Howard BRIDGETTS, 30 OF 1003 East 
Eighteenth street, as the alleged slayer of his second cousin, Dr. Joseph T. 
LOUGHLIN, member of an old Brooklyn family and assistant surgical director of 
the Caledonian Hospital, in a feud which at first led to the belief the two men 
might have had an old-fashioned pistol duel.
Dr. LOUGHLIN's body was found face upward, early yesterday, lying in a marsh 
in Marine Park, South Brooklyn. There was a bullet hole behind his right ear, 
another in his right side near the armpit.
Only a few hours earlier, Dr. LOUGHLIN concluded a hectic day of argument and 
reconciliation with his estranged physician wife, Margaret WALSH LOUGHLIN, be 
leaving her to "keep an appointment with BRIDGETTS", whom he had blamed for 
spreading gossip.
But District Attorney GEOGHAN was not satisfied with the duel theory he said 
this afternoon, and he summoned Mrs. LOUGHLIN to go over with her other 
possible motives for the murder.
"I haven't the least idea on the motive yet," the prosecutor said. "One 
mystifying angle is the absence of any gun. Dr. LOUGHLIN had no permit for a gun. 
He was never known to carry one. 
"It could hardly have been a duel if he was unarmed and his slayer shot him. 
The only information I have as to BRIDGETTS is what he already come out, and 
the fact that he is missing. He was fifty pounds lighter than the doctor. There 
is no information that he had a gun either."
"I want to go over the background of the whole affair with Mrs. LOUGHLIN."
Morris COHEN, of 2048 East Thirty-fourth street, came upon the doctor's body 
at 8A. M. Sunday. There were three .32 calibre cartridge shells a few feet 
from it, and a trail of blood led from the spot three blocks through the marsh to 
a point at East Thirty-third street.
Police believed at first the doctor had been murdered by racketeers, because 
he testified for the Government late August against a group indicted with him 
in an alleged prescription liquor conspiracy. Dr. LOUGHLIN admitted his own 
guilt and was fined $100.
    DUEL THEORY DEVELOPS
But the search turned on BRIDGETTS.
The duel theory was brought out when Mrs. LOUGHLIN and Leon SACHTER, of 44 
Court street, attorney for the family detailed the events of Saturday under 
questioning in the Sheepshead Bay police station.
For two months, Mrs. LOUGHLIN has been estranged from her husband, she said, 
and lived with their four children in the upper part of their home, while the 
doctor occu(pied*) the first floor. Mrs. LOUGHLIN sent for the attorney 
Saturday, to arrange for a separation
SACHTER sat down with the LOUGHLINS at lunch and heard Mrs. LOUGHLIN accuse 
her husband of neglect, of going out on weekend parties, and of neglecting to 
pay taxes on their home. He heard the doctor retort she had nagged him, SACHTER 
said, and charge that BRIDGETTS, his one-time boon companion, had made most 
of the trouble by gossiping with Mrs. LOUGHLIN.
After a four-hour forum peace was effected, and SACHTER left to dress for a 
family reconciliation dinner, but when he returned, he said, there was a new 
turmoil. Police were informed later the doctor had made telephone calls. Mrs. 
LOUGHLIN had gone to the movies and returned with BRIDGETTS, and the doctor had 
invited his cousin into the backyard to "have it out."
    ARGUE ON SIDEWALK
Dr. LOUGHLIN told the lawyer grimly: "Our date is off. I've got something to 
settle with BRIDGETTS at 11 o'clock."
So the three waited until eleven, SACHTER said, then started through the 
door, to meet BRIDGETTS on the sidewalk. The two men confronted each other with 
icy politeness, and suddenly broke into argument.
"You don't have any idea there was anything wrong between me and your wife!" 
BRIDGETTS demanded finally.
"No," the doctor snapped, "she's a good woman, but we'll keep our 
appointment."
And the two drove off, SACHTER said.
But, Chief Inspector John SULLIVAN was puzzled today over several mystifying 
and paradoxical clues. No guns were found at the battle scene, only the three 
empty cartridges. The blood-stained trail led, not from a distance to the 
doctor's body, but from within ten feet of it. And the position of the bullet 
wounds indicated, he said, the doctor had been shot at close range, either from 
behind or from one side.
    BROWN HAT FORMS CLUE
Dr. LOUGHLINS' blue topcoat lay in a rumpled heap ten feet from him. Beside 
it was his derby hat. Near that was a soft brown fedora tentatively identified 
as BRIDGETTS.
If Dr. LOUGHLIN and his assailant both had guns, Inspector SULLIVAN wanted to 
know why the latter should weaken his own case if caught by removing the 
doctor's weapon.
The blood trail led to the road, and indicated Dr. LOUGHLIN's assailant had 
taken an automobile or a taxi, and the inspector, whose men had notified every 
precinct captain to check at hospitals and doctor's offices for word of a man, 
with a bullet wound, thought it strange the assailant, if wounded, had not 
been located.
He hinted the man may have committed suicide by drowning himself in Jamaica 
Bay nearby, or Gerrittsen Creek.
Every known rendezvous of BRIDGETTS had been covered today, SULLIVAN said, 
BRIDGETTS, a commission broker, had many friends and they told police he 
was a likable young man, but high strung and quick to act on his beliefs.
He is the son of John J. BRIDGETTS, is single, and one of four brothers. 
A description of him, given police by his brothers, Thomas and William, 
was included in the alarm broadcast yesterday. It placed him as five feet 
five inches tall, 150 pounds, stocky, with dark hair and clean shaven. 
He usually wore a dark suit and gray cap, the brother said.
(*added by transcriber)

JUMPS FROM CAR TO STOP RUNAWAY
Patrolman Robert SULLIVAN of Bedford avenue station was on duty today, 
although considerably shaken up from his efforts to stop a runaway horse. 
At 6 A. M. he saw a runaway horse bolting along Bedford avenue near 
South Third street, and commandeered an automobile to give chase.
Standing on the running board of the car, he finally drew alongside of the 
horse grabbed for its bridle, and was dragged fifteen feet along the street 
before he brought it to a halt. Although suffering minor lacerations, 
SULLIVAN refused medical attention and remained on duty.

INJURED BY TRUCK
Steven HAUSKA, 34, of 134 Dupont street, is in Greenpoint Hospital suffering 
injuries to the scalp sustained when he was struck by an auto truck at 
Manhattan avenue and Dupont street, in charge of Theodore SOBLEWSKI of 
47 Jewel street, and the property, according to police, of the Wawsaw 
Baking company of 1061 Bedford avenue.

26 May 1931
62,000 HAPPY WEDDED YEARS WITHOUT POMP BUT NOT UNSUNG
Golden Jubilee Couples In Brooklyn Follow Unique Hobby - 
by Faye WATKINS
There are hobbies of bottles, postage stamps and snuff boxes - 
the choice is almost limitless for the collector who devotes himself 
to whiling away hours with a favorite pastime, but so far as is known 
the "wedded happiness" hobby is unique. Many Brooklyn couples have 
so far joined this happiness club, which Mr. and Mrs. W. D. AURAND, 
of Kansos (sic) City, Mo., has established.
A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. AURAND hit upon the idea of recognizing in 
some way the countless happily married couples who never find their way 
into the publicity of divorce court or newspaper columns. A collection 
was started of the accounts of those celebrating their fiftieth wedding 
anniversary, and they soon learned that those who had passed their diamond 
anniversary looked down on the golden weddingers as mere novices on the 
matrimonial journey. 
    MORE LETTERS
Letters from all over the world poured in, and among them requests from 
the younger happily married couples who look forward from only a silver 
wedding milestone to the time when they too, would belong to the Golden 
Wedding Club. The sum total of all the happily wedded years of those who 
have passed the half-century mark of this club is so far 62,000 years, 
and letters are coming in every day.
Among the most recent from Brooklyn are 
Mr. and Mrs. John F. SHEEDY, of 39 Sterling place; 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. BARTRAM, 1654 Ryder street; 
Mr. and Mrs. William D. SHARPE, of 7219 Sixty-seventh place, Glendale, L. I.; 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry CHURCHWARD, of 335 Herkimer street; 
Mr. and Mrs. Julius SAKIN, of 415 East Sixteenth stret; 
Capt. and Mrs. M. W. COLLYER,  of 829A Greene avenue; 
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. DALY, of 651 Fifty-ninth street, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Louis THOMAS of 1943 Ocean parkway, 
all married fifty years, and the  month of June Cupid's season, will 
bring the anniversaries  of many more.
    MARRIED 79 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. BLACKMAR of Columbus, Ga., easily take the honors of 
the longest wedded couple with over seventy-nine years to their credit. 
Nov. 18, 1931, they will celebrate the eightieth anniversary of their 
marriage. Mr. BLACKMAR will be 101 years old in July. 
Mr. and Mrs. John LEWIS of Buffalo, N. Y., are on the honor roll with 
seventy-seven years on Aug. 16. 
Among the couples listed by the AURANDS is Chief Justice and 
Mrs. William A. JOHNSTON, of Topeka, Kan., who exceed the golden wedding 
day by five years. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. WICKS, of Laming Rock, N.Y. have 
been married seventy-one years. There are thousands more who have not 
joined the AURAND Club, and perhaps a few in Brooklyn and perhaps a few 
in Brooklyn might be on the honor roll of those approaching the diamond 
wedding anniversary. If so, they are extended an invitation to write 
for their membership cards.
    CARDS OF GREETING
But the mere listing of the names and records of the couples is the 
smallest part of this hobby, which has given the AURANDS so much pleasure.
"I thought it would give the old couples pleasure and something to look 
forward to know that they were remembered," says Mrs. AURAND in explanation, 
but I find that I have enjoyed this more than many of whom have outlived 
their immediate relatives and  friends.

MARRIED SIXTY YEARS; OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
Surrounded by their six children nineteen grandchildren and great-children 
and a score of relatives and close personal friends, Mr. and Mrs. William
NAGLE last night celebrated their eighty-third birthday. The couple live 
at 91-48 193d street,  Hollis.
Despite their age, the couple enjoy perfect health, and NAGLE 
continues to look after his real estate business in Jamaica. His wife does 
most of the cooking.
Asked if he had any specific recipe for longevity, NAGLE said: 
"Be a good boy, stay home nights and love your wife."
The couple have lived in Queens Borough for the past forty years. 
They have been married sixty years.

MANAGER HELD IN BIG THEFT FROM BROKERS
World War Veteran Short $290,000 in Accounts Is Charged
James M. FAIRBANKS, office manager of the New York Stock Exchange 
brokerage firm of Tucker, Anthony & Co., of 120 Broadway, Manhattan, was  
held today on charges of stealing $250,000 from the firm through manipulation 
of margin accounts.
He is a World Ware veteran and was decorated for bravery by the Italian 
government. His home is in Westfield, N. J. FAIRBANKS, who rose from an 
office boy to his present position at a salary of $10,000 a year, 
expired margin accounts by putting up stock of little value as collateral, 
according to police and drawing against fictitious balances. His 
manipulations are said to have amounted to $290,000 but police revealed 
that about $40,000 of this amount can be recovered.
He was at first asked to resign when alleged irregularities were found 
in his accounts, but when the extent of the deficit was ascertained the 
firm sought his arrest. He was taken into custody by two detectives 
and an investigator for the Employe's Liability Assurance Company.
The stock market collapse, police charge, first gave FAIRBANKS his 
chance to manipulate accounts. When no more margin was forthcoming, 
the office manager would post stock which he would list at about $10 
per share. As an example, police explained that, if the firm needed $5,000 
more margin, FAIRBANKS deposited stocks in which he was interested, which
he would value at $10,000, leaving a balance of $5,000. The customer knew 
nothing of this, thinking his account had been wiped out.
The house manger would then draw a check for $5,000 against this balance, 
police claim, in the name of the customer.

COURT ADMITS MURDER STORY BY NITZSCHKE
Claims Self-Defense in Killing of His Father-in-Law
A statement which Ernest NITZSCHKE, 21, was said to have made to police 
in Detroit when he was arrested on April 3 was admitted in evidence 
before County Judge ADEL and a jury in Long Island City, today, at 
resumption of NITSZSCHKE's (sic) trial on a charge of first 
degree murder.
NITZSCHKE, a counterman, is accused of having beaten his father-in-law, 
Gerard PREDERICHS, (sic) 48 to death with a furance shaked (sic) in the 
cellar of the FREDERICHS' home at 219-09 114th drive, Queens Village, 
on March 16. NITZSCHKE had been separated from his wife and infant son, 
and it is alleged that when he visited the house to see them, FREDERICHS 
refused to permit him to do so. The alleged statement was introduced 
by Assistant District Attorney Anthony BABIAK, conducting the State's 
case. Int he statement, NITZSCHKE was quoted as saying he had quarreled 
with FREDERICHS in the cellar, and when he attempted to go upstairs to 
see his wife, the two struggled and he hit his father-in-law on the head 
with the iron furnace shaker. It was expected the case would be given to 
the jury late today.
	WIFE TESTIFIES
The State placed Mrs. Olga NITZSCHKE, wife of the defendant on the stand 
and she told how she had become separated from her husband shortly after 
their baby boy was born a year before. She said that on the night before 
her father was injured she went to the movies with a man friend, and that 
her husband met  them on the street and threatened her and her family. 
Mrs. FREDERICHS, wife of the victim told the jury that NITZSCHKE had always 
been troublesome and that he had come to this country by jumping ship and 
that she had asked him before he married her daughter to go back to Germany 
and enter legally. Under cross examination of Anthony HOECKSTRA,  who 
with Robert ROSE is defending NITZSCHKE, Mrs. FREDERICHS said that Olga 
was not her real daughter, but that she had been adopted in Berlin 
when she was a little girl.
	DETECTIVE CALLED
Detective John O'KEEFE, of the Queens station, testified he arrived at the 
FREDERICHS' home two hours after the latter had been injured. He said he 
learned from the wounded man what had happened and set out to find NITZSCHKE. 
After a long search he said he located him in Detroit, Mich., and that 
the defendant made a statement in which he admitted striking his father-in-law. 
O'KEEFE said that NITZSCHKE told him that at about 2 A. M., on March 16 
he slipped into the basement of the FREDERICHS' home and remained in hiding 
until 8 A. M. when FREDERICHS came down.
"He told me that he tried to go upstairs and FREDERICHS pushed him back," 
said the detective. "Then he told me that he shoved FREDERICHS and a fight 
started. He said that during the fight he picked up a furnace shaker and 
struck FREDERICHS twice over the head. 

BADLY INJURED IN TRUCK CRASH
Laura PARACINI, 50, of 14 Prescott place, is in critical condition at 
St. John's Hospital following a collision of a small truck, in which she 
was riding, with a coupe at Mc Donough street and Sumner avenue 
yesterday. The truck was overturned and the woman sustained severe head 
injuries. The truck, operated by, Sam CHERRI, also of 14 Prescott place, 
was proceeding south on Sumner avenue when it collided with the 
automobile, going west on MCDONOUGH street, at the intersection of the two 
thoroughfares. The coupe was driven by Julius LEFKOWITZ, 294 Broome street, 
Manhattan, its owner, with Harry LEFKOWTIZ, his nephew, a passenger. 
Neither of the LEKOWITZS nor CHERRIE (sic) was injured, and there was 
no arrests, the police listing the collision as an unavoidable accident.

CAPTAIN INJURED IN THEATRE FIRE 
A fire of unknown origin broke out early today in the cellar of a one-story 
brick building at 1156 Broadway, housing a small motion picture theatre. 
The flames spread, causing much damage, estimated at $4,000 to the 
theatre itself before they were extinguished. While leading his men in 
the cellar of the building, Capt. Henry HOLZBERGER, 40, of 76-02 
Eighty-fifth road, Woodhaven, in command of Engine Company 222, and 
acting Battalion Commander for the night, was overcome by gas and heat 
when an explosion took place. He was carried to the street and Dr. ANHERT 
rushed him to Bushwick Hospital where he is recovering.

WOMAN IDENTIFIED BY GRANDAUGHTER
A woman found wandering aimlessly in Flatbush by police of Empire 
boulevard station was taken to Kings County Hospital where she was 
identified today as Mrs. Mary DOWELL, 50, of 1622 Tenth avenue, by Miss 
Estelle GLENON, her granddaughter, of the same address. She was 
said to have left her home earlier in the day without leaving any 
message as to where she was going.

ROBBED OF $390 ON BUSY STREET
Detectives of Atlantic avenue station are searching in uptown 
Brooklyn for three young bandits who last night held up and robbed 
William RICE, manager of the Five and Ten Cent Store at 247 Utica 
avenue, escaping with $390. RICE closed the store at 9 o'clock and with 
the money in an envelope in his pocket started for the Manufacturers' 
Trust Company at 1455 St. Johns place, near Utica avenue, to make a 
deposit. As he walked along the east side of Utica avenue, approaching 
St. Johns place, three men appeared at his elbow, two of them flourishing 
guns, and hustled him into the vestibule of a two-family house. While 
the two who were armed kept him covered the third reached into his 
pocket, extracting the envelope containing the money.
Warning him to make no outcry, the trio leaped into a car parked at the 
curb and fled. RICE returned to the store and notified police. 
Detective FISCHER was assigned to the case and he sent out the alarm 
for the men, a good description of whom was furnished by RICE.

SKULLS FRACTURED IN STREET BRAWLS
Two patients in Kings County Hospital today are suffering from fractured 
skulls resulting from street fights. Police are investigating the causes 
of both arguments.
Henry SCHULER, 27, of 409 Bay Twentieth street, sustained a fractured 
skull in a fight at Eighth avenue and Twentieth street, and was treated 
by an ambulance surgeon from M. e. Hospital, after which he was taken to 
Kings County Hospital. Detectives of Fifth avenue station are investigating. 
The victim of the second fight at Eighty-sixth street and Fourteenth avenue 
last night was Fortunato  FERRARO, 17, of 27 Bay Fourteenth street.

WOMAN ACCUSES TWO AS THIEVES
Anthony CHILLANO, 26, and Bernard MARDSEN, 24,
who gave their address as the Hotel Taft, Manhattan, 
were to be taken to Fifth avenue court today to face 
charges of grand larceny.
They were arrested yesterday by Detective Edward SWIFT,
of Fort Hamilton station, Ella BRIDGETTS, of 243 Nineteenth
street, charges that on May 20, they took $50 from her purse.

WINDOW SMASHER SUSPECTS HELD
Two suspects in the campaign against window smashers whose
attacks are made on Brooklyn barber shops and hairdressing es-
tablishments which resist attempts at unionizing their employees
were held in $1,000 bail each for hearing Wednesday by Magistrate
RUDICH in Coney Island court today.
The two, Frank LOMBARDI, 25, of 629 Union street, and Peter 
CONSENTINO, 24, of 200 Fourth avenue, were captured early today
by Patrolman Thomas MADDEN, accused of smashing the front 
window of the hairdressing shop at 248 Kings Highway, owned by 
Julian SCHWARTZ.
They were in an auto and MADDEN had to chase them several blocks
in another car before the capture. They are charged with malicious mischief.

27 May 1931
WORKER MADE ILL BY GAS IN SEWER
One of the crew of workmen in an excavation at Sutter
and Alabama avenues, was made ill by sewer gas while
he was at work in the excavation late yesterday but was
revived by other workmen. Police were not called.

HERMIT WITH $9,000 BARRED FROM CAVE
Astoria police are watching a cave in the New York Connecting
Railroad embankment at Twenty-fifth avenue and Forty-eighth 
street, Astoria, to see that John FLECKENSTEIN, an old hermit,
does not return to it.
The hermit was ordered to keep away from his underground retreat
when police received complaints from neighbors who said his un-
kempt appearance frightened the children.
He was ordered to clean himself up and to get a room when Lieut.
August COOK and Patrolman STEFANIA discovered that he carried
three bank books which listed aggregate deposits of $9,000.

GIRL FALLS OUT WINDOW
Dorothy EXTROWITZ, 4, leaned too far from the second story window
of her home at 178 West street, last night and fell. She is in Green-
point Hospital today with a fractured skull and internal injuries.

OUSTED FROM POLICE FORCE, WAGES OWN WAR ON GANGSTERS    
Once a Copy Always a Copy, Says Capturer of Gunmen
"Once a policeman always a policeman, whether or not you are in the 
department"
This was the comment of Salvatore L. FRANZES today. He is out of the
department after a four months probation period. But he is waging a warfare,
all his own, against gunmen.
After successfully passing the examination and making the list, he was sent
to the Police academy. It was while there he was dropped because of some
flaws discovered in his application. He was let out on May 5.
Last Friday while in the vicinity of Metropolitan avenue and Rodney street he
saw three men acting in a suspicious manner. He saw Patrolman James 
FERRARA, of Central Park station, who was on his way home and in civilian
clothes. He told FERRARA of the action of the three men.
FRANZES and FERRARA got Police Sergeant Francie GILL, of Bedford
avenue station. The three men were arrested. Two of hem had guns. They
were charged with violating the Sullivan law and attempted robbery. A 
payroll of $1,200, it was learned, was to be delivered at a nearby factory. It
is said the three men were waiting for it.
"This shows that FRANZES was alert, prevented a holdup and probably 
saved the life of some policeman or one of those carrying the payroll," said
Ernest GILMORE GARDINER, who heads a committee of FRANZES 
neighbors who will make an effort to have him reinstated in the department.

BOROUGH MAN TO GET MEDAL AS FIRE HERO
Telephone Porter Saved Girl's Life - Staten Islander Also Honored
Joseph DEPINTO, of 2218 Dean street, and Joseph N. NILSEN, of 378
Cheeves avenue, Westerleigh, Staten Island, have been selected from 
among 127 employees of the New York Telephone Company to receive
the 1931 Vail medals for heroism.
These medals are given each year in memory of Theodore N. VAIL, late
president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, to employees
of the Bell System who perform acts conspicuously illustrating ideals of
public service.
These two cases, both of which involved the saving of human life, were 
unanimously selected by a committee of twenty employees and three 
officials of the telephone company.
        CLIMBED DRAIN PIPE
Joseph DEPINTO, porter, was awarded the bronze Vail Medal for rescuing
a child from fire early in the morning of April 5, 1930. DEPINTO was awakened
by the screams of a neighbor attracting his attention to a fire which had 
started next door, and was rapidly gaining headway.
After telephoning an alarm he saw two children standing at a window on the
third floor of the burning building. DEPINTO climbed to the roof of a 
one-story extension of the building by means of a drain pipe and called 
to people in the street to hand him an iron fire escape ladder from the 
front of the building. 
It reached the window where the children were penned in. Smashing in the glass
he seized the little girl and carried her down the ladder. Before he could go 
back for the boy firemen arrived and continued the rescue work.
        SMALL BOY DIES
Both children were suffering from severe burns and shock and were without
protection from the cold.
The young girl who DEPINTO rescued recovered from her burns, but the 
brother who had been with her at the window died two weeks after the fire. A 
sister died of suffocation at the fire.
NILSEN, an assistant splicer, on July 12, 1930, saved Patrick J. DEVANEY,
who was overcome in a manhole filled with gas, his face under six inches of 
water. With the aid of passersby NILSEN lifted DEVANEY to the street where
he revived him through artificial respiration.
On April 6, 1930, NILSEN gave first aid to ten hit and run victims of an auto
accident.

CONEY MAN HELD AS STILE 'CRASHER'
Paul KURJEN, 33, of 2059 Sixty-sixth street, was held in $100 bail today for 
Special Sessions before Magistrate RUDICH in Coney Island court, charged
with using a slug in a B. M. T. turnstile at the Twentieth avenue station of 
the Sea Beach line.
He was arrested by Arthur HAGERMAN, a special officer for the railroad,
who said he found ten other slugs in KURJEN's possession. KURJEN said
the slugs had been given him by a man who had said he was penniless and
out of work and begged a quarter from him.

28 May 1931
RESENTED TALK; STABBED IN BACK
Ralph PENARVELAZZO, 30, of 475 1/2 Hicks street, resented
remarks from two men who passed him at Sackett and Van
Brunt street early today and PENARVELAZZO is in Kings County
Hospital, stabbed in the back and stomach.

THREE INJURED AS CAR LEAVES TROLLY RAILS
Homeward Bound Passengers on Smith Street Thrown From Seats
 Three passengers were injured and a number of others were shaken up last 
night when a Smith street surface car left the rails at Dean & Smith streets, 
where subway excavation work is in progress. The street had been boarded
over. The accident occurred at the height of the rush hour and the car was 
well filled with passengers returning home from business.
 John KROUSS, motorman of the car, managed to bring it to a stop after it 
had bumped along the torn up Smith street, but not before some of the 
passengers had been thrown from their seats.
The injured were treated by an ambulance surgeon from Holy Family Hospital, 
close by, but all refused to go to the hospital.
The most seriously injured were:
-Helen STANDBERG, 45, of 743 Church avenue, back and knee
injured;
-Richard MENAGAN, 3, of 412 Thirteenth street, right leg injured;
-Josephine AHEARN, 48, of 17 Third street, right knee & head injured;
The accident tied up traffic on the line for nearly an hour when the
wrecking crew was able to place the car back on the rails.

ROBBERS FAIL IN GEM HOLDUP
Two armed men entered the office of the Reliable Plating Company
on the third floor of 112 Fulton street, Manhattan, just inside the
famous jewelry district deadline, shortly before 2 P. M. today and
attempted to hold up Gerald FRIER, a clerk, and a customer.
FRIER and the customer fought back with such success that the
men were routed without securing anything. Old Slip police 
station was notified and detectives and patrolmen surrounded the
building.
A systematic search was started in the belief that the two would-be
robbers had been unable to reach the street and escape.

TWO ARRESTED IN SOCK DEAL
Two men, charged in an indictment returned at Mineola on
May 22, with having mulcted a Woodmere school teacher of
$1,500 through worthless securities were scheduled for 
arraignment today on charges of first degree grand larceny.
The prisoners are Abraham SILINSKY, a member of the firm
of J. S. FRIED and Company, brokers, and George A. RILEY,
salesman. They were arrested yesterday by Assistant
Attorney General AUSTIN and detectives.
It is alleged that the men got Miss Florence C. DOUDEN, a
teacher at Woodmere Academy, to turn over to them $1,500
worth of International Telephone and Telegraph stock in 
exchange for stock of United Utilities of New Jersey, Inc.

GIRLS' SECRETARY TO BE MARRIED
High School Girl Reserves were guests at a tea dance and sports 
tournament yesterday at the Central Bank of the Young Women's
Christian Association. A farewell ceremony for Girl Reserves who 
are seniors was held. Marion STAFFORD of the Grace Dodge Club
of Girls' Commercial High School, presided. Esther MEROLA spoke
for the seniors and Miss Ruth MACKENZIE, of the Bay Ridge Club, 
and Miss Eleanor HUDSON, of the Erasmus Hall Club spoke for the
new Girl Reserves.
The presentation of Girl Reserves wings was made by Mrs. Richard
YOUNG, Jr., chairman of the Girl Reserve Committee of the Central
Branch.
A wedding gift was presented to Miss Helen ALLEN, associate secretary
of the Girl Reserve Department of the Central Branch, who will be married
to Henry GWINNELL COIT, a member of the editorial staff of the Newark
Evening News, at her home, in Beverly Hills, Cal., in July. She will return
to the Central Branch in the fall.

REWARD FOR 7 IN GORDON CASE
Four police officials were commended and three detectives were
promoted by Commissioner MULROONEY today for their work in
solving the mystery surrounding the death of Vivian GORDON. 
Another detective was promoted for solving the shooting of John T.
CONLIN by James DE PUE in Queens.
The officials commended were Inspectors BRUCKNER and LYONS,
Assistant Chief Inspector SULLIVAN and Acting Capt. Richard OLIVER.
Detectives Raymond HENSCHAW was promoted from third to second
grade with an increase in salary of $200 a year; Detective Raymond 
MC GUIRE was promoted from second to first grade with an increase of
$800 a year and Detective Sergeant Patrick WALSH was promoted from
second to first grade with an increase of $500 a year.

BORO STUDENTS WIN ESSAY PRIZES
Second prize and four honorable mentions were carried off by
Brooklyn and Long Island high school students in the essay 
contest sponsored by the Sons of the Revolution in the State
of New York, it was announced today.
-Leon ROSENTHAL, of James Madison High School, won second
	prize, which consists of $30 in cash and a medal. 
-Honorable mention was given to William W. FITZHUGH, 3d, 
	of Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School; 
-Sidney PRESSER, of Bushwick High School;
-Edward MAC KENZIE, Stony Brook School for Boys, and
-W. Whitney STUECK, of Great Neck High School.
  The contest, open to all candidates for graduation in institutions of high
school grade registered in the University of the State of New York and
consisted of an essay on "European Reaction to the Naval Victories of
John Paul JONES."

AIR FLEET' OVER FLATBUSH LEAVES STINGERS AS SOUVENIRS
Swarm Hums "Something to Remember Us By"
An air fleet - and not the Army's - mobilized over East Fourth Street and
Avenue C this afternoon and picked on "enemies" far from theoretical.
The general impression was that from 5,000 to 5,000,000 bees had taken
a dislike to the neighborhood because it was between seasons and there
were no buttercups.
At 2:30 they attacked the residents, sparing neither the rich nor the poor,
stinging right and left and in several cases the rear, so that within fifteen 
minutes the telegraph bureau at Brooklyn Police Headquarters was flooded
with calls for assistance. Sixteen calls came in together to Acting Captain
Michael GLEASON during the distress peak.
"They're stingin' little children now," one of the scouts pleaded. "They're 
flyin' in and outa windows looking for families. Nothin' seems to satisfy 'em.
Could you send some detectives?"
Acting Captain Michael GLEASON tried to reassure his callers, but admitted
privately he was in something of a dilemma. Detectives do not have training
in catching bees, and although the department was recently equipped with 
extra machine guns, armored motorcycles and tear bombs to war on gang-
sters, none of these were regarded as particularly effective against bees. It 
is not known which way tear gas bothers bees most. What if it made the bees
madder, said Captain GLEASON.
Where the bees came from no one off the scene could guess, and those on 
the scene were too busy to think.

GUILTY VERDICT FOR YOUNG REDS
Four young communists, two of them girls, who were charged with creating a 
disturbance in front of Public School 100, on West Third street, near 
Sea Breeze avenue, the day before May Day, were found guilty today 
by Magistrate RUDICH in Coney Island court and given their choice of 
ten days in jail or a fine of $10 each. All four elected to go to jail. 
The girls are 
Dora COOPER, 16, of 524 Neptune avenue, and 
Sadie BERGER, 17, of 367 Miller avenue, charges with violating a 
city ordinance by defacing the sidewalk. They wrote on 
the walk, "Don't go to school on May Day," and "Drop all tools 
on May Day."
The boys are 
Jacobs COHEN, 16, of 2011 Lafontaine avenue, the Bronx, and 
David PERSILY, 17 of 3171 Coney Island avenue.

FOUND AUTO GIFT TO HUBBY JUST A WOMEN'S STOREHOUSE
Filled With Hairpins and Powder Puffs, Says Mrs. James
"I bought him an automobile thinking to make him happy, but I
found the car practically a storehouse for women's hairpins and 
powder puffs."
So complains Mrs. Edna JAMES of 8606 Forest parkway, Woodhaven
in papers filed in connection with her suit for separation from her 
husband William Robert JAMES, an insurance broker.
Today, Mrs. JAMES asked Supreme Court Justice DUNNE for an
order directing her husband to pay her $30 weekly alimony and
$300 counsel fees, pending trial of her suit. Decision was reserved.
Mrs. JAMES declares in her papers that she returned unexpectedly
from a vacation in 1925 and found the entire house upset, "hairpins on
the floor and bed and shoe polish marks in the bed."
She says she also found face powder powder puffs and empty whiskey
flasks and bottles strewn about the floor. She says she learned there 
had been a party there the night before but that when she asked her
husband about it "he beat and choked me."
"Once," Mrs. JAMES sets forth, "I fell asleep on a divan in the house
while one of my supposed friends and my husband were playing cards.
When I awoke the lights were dim and my husband and this woman
were in bed together."
JAMES denies his wife's charges in toto. The couple were married
Oct. 18, 1916 and have a son, William R., Jr.

SHOW DURINGER AS 'LOVESICK'
A portrayal of Rudolph DURINGER as a lovesick swan aroused
the heavy-set gunman to the first interest he has shown in his
trial on a charge of killing Virginia BRANNEN, the little dancer
from Maine who won his heart.
The jury was completed in Bronx County Court today, opening 
statements made and first witnesses presented.
District Attorney MCLAUGHLIN outlined the case for the State
calling the killing a premeditated crime.
The night of Virginia's death, his counsel said, DURINGER was
so befuddled from excessive drinking that he did not know what
he was doing and became enraged wen Virginia told him she
loved and was to marry another.
Dr. Amos O. SQUIRE, county medical examiner, was the first witness.

BOY BRANDS MOTHER 'TIPPLER' DURING DIVORCE TESTIMONY
Also Charges Night Revelry Kept Him Awake
A ten-year-old boy and his mother flatly contradicted each other on
the witness stand today before Supreme Court Justice DODD and a
jury at the trial of the divorce suit of Charles F. WHITE, of 905 211th
street, Bellaire, Queens, against his wife, Mrs. Julia R. WHITE, of 
64 Seventy-third street, Brooklyn.
Charles E. WHITE, ten years old, son of the couple, who is now residing 
with his father, testified that when he lived with his mother 
several months ago he was frequently awakened at night by the sound
of gaiety from the first floor, made by his mother and men she was
entertaining.
The boy also testified that he had frequently seen his mother drink 
intoxicating liquor. Once, he testified, he saw her swallow a half-
tumbler of whiskey.
WHITE named no co-respondent but made a specific charge of mis-
conduct with an unnamed man at the Buena Vista Hotel, Coney
Island on Jan. 6, 1931. John WEIGART and Herbert COX testified 
they accompanied WHITE to the hotel and there found Mrs. WHITE
with an unnamed man.
Mrs. WHITE, on the stand in her own defense, flatly declared that her son 
had not told the truth. She declared that not only had her son never seen 
her drink liquor, but that she did not use it at all and never had.
She denied her husband's charge concerning her presence in the hotel
and declared that on the day in question he came to her house in 
Brooklyn as she was returning from mailing a letter, wrested the keys
from her, entered the house and took away the son, Charles.
She testified that she then sought a court order to compel her husband
to return the boy. It was brought in cross-examination at he hearing 
on this order Supreme Court Justice DIKE gave the temporary custody
of the boy to the father.
Mrs. WHITE has a counter suit against her husband against her husband
pending, in which she seeks a separation, charging cruelty.

29 May 1931
PILOT IN CRASH BROUGHT HERE
Nathan ARONOWICZ, of 2168 East Twenty-second street, who
was injured in a plane crash at Hicksville, has been transferred
from the Nassau Hospital at Mineola to the Jewish Hospital here.
His condition is still serious, it was said. His skull was fractured 
and he received other injuries.
His companion and the pilot of the plan, Werner ENGEL, of 8312
Grand street, Elmhurst, is still in Nassau Hospital, where he was 
said to be "out of danger."
The plane in which the two men were riding made a forced landing
on a small field near Hicksville when the undercarriage on the plane
gave way last night.

WOMAN IN ATTEMPT TO TAKE HER LIFE
Mrs. Alma BOULE, 55, of 87-18 188th street, Hollis, tried to commit
suicide in her home last night by slashing her wrists and legs with a
razor, according to police of Richmond Hill station. She was treated
by Dr. Thomas LARKIN, of 187-41 Eighty-ninth avenue, Hollis. Mrs.
BOYLE had been melancholy, her husband said, according to police.

WOMAN BURNED GUARDING SON
Mrs. Mary MUZERKEWITZ, thirty-one, has burns on her forearms and 
head and her son, Alexander, 13, is still in bed recovering from an
appendicitis operation, and the kitchen of their apartment at 321 Stone
avenue is pretty well charred, but both are grateful today they're that 
well off; through luck and the good officer Patrolman John CONFREY of
Traffic K.
Mrs. MUZERKEWITZ brought her son home from Brownsville and East
New York Hospital yesterday, and put him in the room adjoining the
dining room. This morning she started breakfast in the kitchen and went
in to see how the boy was getting along.
A few moments later a breeze blew a kitchen window curtain over the 
flame of the gas stove.
CONFREY found Mrs. MUZERKEWITZ unaware of the fire. A moment
later Alexander was carried into the parlor and CONFREY was 
telephoning a fire alarm. Mrs. MUZERKEWITZ was burned trying to pull
down the curtain.

LIFE BELT FOUND IN GRAVESEND RECALLS SINKING OF TITANIC
Lettering Still Plainly Discernible on Salt-Crusted Relic
Black letters, "S. S. Titanic," still discernible on its salt crusted canvas
a circular life saver has been found on the Gravesend Bay beach at the
foot of West Thirty-second street by a boy, it was learned today.
Harry SAOKOLOVSKY, 13, of 2865 West Thirty-sixth street, took it
home with him immediately and brought it yesterday to his teacher, in 
P. S. 188, where he is an 8B pupil. His teacher showed it to the 
principal, Dr. Leon S. KAISER, who told the class of the history of the 
White Star liner, which sank April 15, 192 on its maiden voyage with a
loss of 1,053 lives immediately after striking an iceberg in mid-ocean.
Dr. KAISER has the relic at his home at 3845 Maple avenue, Sea Gate,
and is planning to keep it for the school, he says. He declared that it
appeared to be genuine, saying that it showed evidence of having been
in the water a long time. it is in fairly good condition, although there 
were one or two tears in the canvas, exposing the cork base underneath.

UNEMPLOYED MAN 'LADEN WITH LOOT'
Louis PAGLIANESE, 28, an unemployed longshoreman, of 248 
Fourth street, was arrested yesterday by Lieut. Timothy 
SULLIVAN and Detective Harry WIDDER of the Wilson avenue
station, who found him, they say leaving a building at 286 
Central avenue, laden with loot obtained in a burglary. He was 
locked up on a charge of burglary.
The officers were walking along Central avenue when 
PAGLIANESE stepped from the building. They noticed an iron
bar protruding from one of his pockets, searched him and found 
$30 in small change, some fountain pens and a quantity of 
jewelry on his person.
Upstairs they said, the apartment of George DITTMEYER on the
third floor had been entered and ransacked.


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