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1 OCTOBER 1931   
Delivery Truck Drivers Held Up
Queens Village police are searching today for the man who held up two 
employees of Hearn's Department Store, while they were about to deliver a 
package at 117-20 193rd St., St. Albans and relieved them of $300 of the 
company's money.
The employees are Edward SCHMITT, of 170 Bleecker street, Brooklyn and Howard 
CAST of 87-81 166th street, Jamaica, his helper who claim that the man after 
taking the money entered a car in which there were two other men and was 
driven off toward St. Albans.

Autoist Faces Trial for Having Needle
Matthew HESS, 34, of 46 Knickerbocker avenue, is being held for Special 
Sessions under $1,000 bail on two charges by Magistrate DOWNS, in Jamaica court.
He is accused of driving while intoxicated and violating the sanitary code by 
having a hypodermic needle in his car. On another charge of disregarding a 
police officer's hand signal, HESS was sentenced to two days in jail.

TWO BROOKLYN STUDENTS HURT
Hanover, N.H., Oct. 1 - (UP)    
William J. WALSH of Brooklyn, one of four Dartmouth students injured in an 
automobile accident last night, was reported in a serious condition at Mary 
Hitchcock Hospital today.
His left leg was so severely injured that it was amputated at the hospital. 
He underwent a blood transfusion operation. he also suffered a broken right 
ankle and his name is on the danger list.
WALSH's companions, George M. BLAESI, also of Brooklyn; Samuel C. LOVEJOY, 
New Haven, Conn., and Charles D. STEFFNY, Dayton, O. escaped with minor 
injuries when the automobile in which they were riding was crowded off the 
Lebanon road and hit a pole.

3 October 1931
CHILD IS DYING; STRUCK BY AUTO
John MANZOLILLA 4, of 194 Engert avenue, is dying in Greepoint Hospital today 
as a result of injuries suffered when he was struck by an auto driven by 
William SULLIVAN of 102A Eckford street while crossing the street in front of 
his home last night. The boy received internal injuries, lacerations of the 
scalp and a fracture of the right arm.
SULLIVAN was questioned about the accident, but no arrest was made pending 
the child's condition.

TROLLEY CRASH INJURES FOUR
Four persons were injured, about forty passengers were severely shaken up 
amid a shower of flying glass and six surface car lines were tied up when two 
Graham avenue trolley cars collided at Noble street and Manhattan avenue late 
yesterday.
The collision resulted when Charles RECKER of 99 diamond street, driver of 
the first car, stopped to discharge passengers, only to have his car struck 
in the back by the second car in charge of Patrick MC KINDRY of 656 Leonard 
street, whose brakes would not hold.
Four were treated by Ambulance Surgeon REGER from Greenpoint Hospital for 
contusions and lacerations. They are:
Sophie LEZKAY, 25, of 83 Clay street;
Tessie SWERZEWSKI, 37, of 79 Clay street.
Anna LEITER, 31 of 121 Manhattan avenue.
Estelle WALSH, 21, of 154 Noble street.

GIRL, 5, LURED INTO BASEMENT AND ATTACKED
Mother at Work Upstairs Unaware Till Stranger Escapes
Lured to the cellar of her home at 118-01 Jerome avenue, Richmond Hill, 
Queens, Dorothy REICHTER, five, was attacked by an unidentified man while her 
mother worked unawares upstairs in the kitchen.
After her assailant left, the child managed to make her way to the kitchen, 
where she collapsed. She was taken to the Jamaica Hospital, where she is 
reported to be in a critical condition.
Dorothy's father, John REICHTER, is a reputedly well-to-do plumbing 
contractor. How the child was lured to the cellar or any description of the 
man who attacked her could not be learned.
As the news of the attack spread, mothers called their children off the 
streets and two extra squads of police and many detectives were hurried to 
the section. 
Within a short time, a suspect had been picked up. The police refused to give 
his name. They said he has been arrested once before for following little 
girls in the street.

ALLAH IS ALLAH BUT SLEUTH WANTS TO FIND REAL REASON
Message Around Bird's Neck Led to Belief Girl Was Imprisoned
Detective John GRAZINSKI of Greenpoint station has been delving quietly but 
persistently into a mystery which he was certain would reveal a clue that 
would take him to the rescue of an imprisoned girl. He has lost many hours of 
sleep and several meals.
The matter is still a mystery but the detective has found no imprisoned girl 
is involved. He is anxious to know who is responsible for liberating canary 
birds with tags tied to their necks.
Here's what it is all about:
John WEISBROD of 408 Menahan street and Miss Florence PHILLIPS of 162 Newell 
street were walking through Prospect Park last Sunday when a bird dropped to 
the walk in front of them and then hopped into one of the bushes. They 
retrieved it.
Around the bird's neck was a tag. On it was drawn a square. In the center of 
the square was the name Gertrude LONG. Then there was some writing in Hebrew 
below the name.
A rabbi consulted later made out the address as 193 India street.
On Monday the mystery was brought to Greenpoint station house and presented 
to Lieut. John SHATTUCK who turned it over to GRAZINSKI.
Last night the detective learned the note below the name was a message in 
Arabic. He took the tag to the Arabian quarters in Manhattan last night and 
there learned that the message read:
"My God is your God and your God is my God."
The detective was told by his translator that a woman living in Flatbush had 
been in last week with a similar tag found about a bird's neck in Prospect Park.
Now Detective GRAZINSKI wants to know the purpose of the strange practice.

5 October 1931
WHAT THE MOVING MAN THINKS ABOUT LANDLORDS AND OCTOBER
It is Elevators and rules, Says REILLY, Than Run Bills Up
For years it has been an old Gotham custom to relate what tenants think about 
on moving day, to designate expertly the neighborhoods where the moving is 
going on, put in a broadminded estimate of the number involved in this 
ritual, and let it go at that, but today Raymond V. REILLY, of the firm Peter 
F. REILLY's Sons, movers comes forward with the other side - what the moving 
man thinks about.
One of the things he thinks about says Mr. REILLY, is that many landlords are 
insane about elevator service.
"The increased cost to customers of moving at this time, he said, is caused 
by landlords and their representatives. They compel moving men to use the 
elevator when a tenant on the ground floor moves. Thus the furniture must be 
taken through the basement door, instead of the front door. This adds to the 
moving bill."
"October 1st," REILLY said, "is greatly over-rated as moving day. Many 
tenants fear the wrath of the landlord if they remain past midnight of Sept. 
30, and move earlier. There is a great deal of misunderstanding on this 
question, since many people contend their leases expire at noon Oct. 1, and 
upon looking them up, learn to their sorrow that Sept. 30 is the expiration 
date."
"A great deal of expense and discomfort could be saved the tenants when 
signing new leases, if they would only pay attention to that clause 
pertaining to the expiration time, and also make sure that they will be 
permitted the same service in moving out they would receive moving in."
REILLY suggests that leases should be staggered, and made operative on the 
first of any month applied for instead of being made generally to begin Oct. 1.

7 October 1931
BOY'S LIFE SAVED BY STORE AWNING.
Alexander SULTAN, 12, is alive today because of an awning in front of a 
haberdashery shop below the Marcy avenue station of the Broadway 
elevated line.
Shortly before midnight the boy was climbing outside the station when he 
fell toward the pavement. But the awning broke the fall. A passing 
motorist rushed the boy to St. Catherine's Hospital, where he was treated 
for a fractured right arm, lacerations of the scalp, numerous bruises 
and possible internal injuries.
Despite the effects of his fall he insisted on going home after treatment.

9 October 1931
FORTUNE BRINGS WOE TO FAMILY
Happy until her parents, who conducted a newsstand at Broadway and Hewes 
street, died and left her a small fortune, Mrs. Bertha STARR of 323 Hewes 
street, has preferred charges of disorderly conduct against her husband, Jack.
When the money came the husband demanded Mrs. STARR buy a fleet of taxicabs. 
Mrs. STARR said she purchased one cab.
Threats and beatings followed, the woman said, and recently the husband took 
all of the furniture from the home leaving only a baby's crib.
Magistrate WALSH in Bridge Plaza court held the man in $300 bail for 
examination Saturday.

10 October 1931
BADLY INJURED MAN FOUND ON SIDEWALK 
Martin WALSH, 19, of 806 Washington avenue, was found unconscious on the 
sidewalk at Rogers avenue and Rutland road early today. Dr. KYLE of Kings 
County Hospital took him to the institution, where it was reported he had 
severe head injuries.

BANDIT AUTO OUTRUNS COP'S   
Patrolman Emanuel DOMROE, of Snyder avenue station, who on Thursday pursued a 
bandit for seven miles before he caught him, captured two bandits on Labor 
Day and spent most of the intervening time in a hospital as the result of an 
automobile accident; wasn't quite so lucky early today.
Shortly after midnight DOMROE, who lives at 1766 Dahill road, left to go on 
late duty. As he passed a little candy store at 357 Quentin road, the 
proprietor, Mrs. Rose EPSTEIN, rushed out calling for help and pointing to a 
car disappearing in the distance told that four youths had held her up and 
taken $15 from her cash register.
DOMROE promptly gave chase and pursued the bandits for ten or twelve blocks 
through lower Flatbush, finally losing them in the darkness. Several shots 
were exchanged during the chase, one of which crashed through DOMROE's 
windshield, narrowly missing his head. he turned in a description of the car 
and Mrs. EPSTEIN's description of the men and the city was being scoured for 
them today.

AGED WOMAN RIFLES REFUSE BUT DECLINES OFFERS OF HELP
All Attempts to Learn Her Name or Address Have Failed
	"Mama" is what they call her in Williamsburg. They don't know any other name. 
And she is not telling those who ask her what her name is or where she lives. 
It is none of their business.
But this little gray hired woman, wearing a knitted hat, which fist snugly on 
her head, and her heavy green sweater wrapped tightly about her, can be found 
almost every Monday between 7 and 9 A. M. going about the streets of 
Williamsburg delving through the refuse cans and wastepaper bags.
Often gathered about her are a number of cats. To them she throws, pieces of 
meat occasionally. But most of the stuff taken from the garbage cans and 
paper bags is stuffed into a black bag. She doesn't seem to be in want of 
food. She is stockily build and has high color in her cheeks. Time and again 
some of the women folks have stopped her to offer their sympathies and asked 
her into the house for a meal.
	"I want none of your sympathy, and I'm not hungry, and if you will please 
leave me alone, I'll be happy," she snaps back.
What her purpose is in collecting pieces of bread and meat from the garbage 
cans and old rags and pieces of broken dishes from the wastepaper bags, is 
more than those who have observed her for months can understand.
	Time and again some of the men folks have trailed after her to see where she 
lives and what disposal is made of her daily collections, but she has been 
far too clever for them. She has led them on long walks tiring them out and 
forcing them to quit.
	The attention of policemen have been called to the woman, but they have not 
molested her, feelings she was doing no one harm.

RECLUSE, 93, HOARDING MILLION DEFIES TREASURE SEARCHERS 
NOTE: This story appeared over several days. It has been combined here.
Rare Laces and Gems Found Hidden in Hotel Room
A frail but spirited little lady of 93 years, once the belle of mid Victorian 
days, today stomped her defiance of searchers spurred by discovery of nearly 
a million dollars in currency she hoarded in her hotel room "because she was 
afraid of banks."
They found $400,000 in a little paper bundle a few days ago. Now they have 
found a half million more in $10,000 bills hidden within the folds of her 
voluminous dresses.
Rare laces, gems and period costumes that rate as museum pieces have been 
revealed in trunks within that same room in which Mrs. Ida E. WOOD had dwelt 
for many, many years.
Next week, trunks now in storage will be searched for possible rare treasures 
such as have been revealed daily hidden away in rubbish, under carpets, 
within mattresses and bed clothing and in her own garb of a mode a half 
century old.
    HAD CASH SINCE 1907
Her fortune in currency, it has been revealed, probably has been closely 
guarded since she withdrew it from the banks during the panic of 1907. In 
that year she closed the last of her savings accounts.
Also, she had lost a small fortune some time previously in an investment 
later made good by the J. P. Morgan Company. It was learned today that some 
of the restored money was among that found this week.
Her fear of banks grounded on her experiences of that time cropped out in her 
exclamations to one visitor yesterday:
"What good are banks? What about the Bank of U. S. ? I've still got my money 
but where are the banks?"
Mrs. WOOD has been adjudged incompetent. Her affairs now are in the hands of 
Otis F. WOOD, son of Fernando WOOD who was New York's Mayor in the fifties.
That she resents. She resents and fights off efforts to care for her, for 
during the past four years she has lived alone. None but a favored few were 
permitted to enter her room.
    LOOKS FORWARD TO RADIO
She resisted efforts to take her currency and deposit it in the banks; this 
last $500,000 in fact was removed from her dresses while she slept under the 
effect of a sedative.
Today she looks forward to something new-a radio. It will be place in her 
room at the direction of her nephew, Otis, and so far as is known, will be 
the first she has heard.
Meanwhile the search goes on for treasures she had owned when she danced with 
Prince Edward of Wales, when she attended the Infanta Eulalia ball at Madison 
Square Garden in 1893 and the Empress Eugenie ball in Paris back in 1870. 
They are described in clippings found in her room.
	RELATIVES CLASH ON CONTROL OVER IDA WOOD'S MILLIONS
Eccentric Aged Recluse Protests as Expenses Pile Up - by Dixie TIGHE
	Mrs. Ida E. WOOD in ninety-three years' old, partially deaf and blind and has 
been declared insane-but the old lady, in whose shabby hotel room was 
recently found $900,000, is still able to protest interference by relatives 
and separation from her crackerbox existence.
Solicitous relatives are vieing with each other now to see who will hold the 
custodianship of Mrs. WOOD's aged body and possessions. It is apparent that a 
family feud is about to flare into legal battle as cousins and grandchildren 
present claims to kinship and demand the right to supervise the investigation 
that is not unlike a Midas' treasure hunt.
For years, Mrs. Wood has lived economically, eccentrically, and it now comes 
to light, to her relatives way of thinking, unthinkably. And, their views on 
the manner in which a fabulously wealthy old lady should live is costing her 
money.
When Otis WOOD, the recluse's nephew, was appointed guardian, it became 
evident that he was not going to permit his aged and feeble aunt to maintain 
her home at the Herald Square Hotel. The bond for this guardianship was 
$225,000, but that was in September when the widow's property was valued at a 
mere $161,000. But now WOOD's bond is $1,000,000, because Mrs. WOOD's 
properties have been found, in cash and securities alone, to be $900,000.
    MORE WEALTH REVEALED
Trunks and boxes have been located in the Manhattan Storage Company and will 
be opened and doubtless will reveal another fortune.
Since a hearing yesterday in the Supreme Court before Justice UNTERMYER it is 
now agreed that not only will Otis WOOD be present at these further inquiries 
into Mrs. WOOD's effects but Mrs. Blanche WOOD SHIELDS, a granddaughter, will 
also be present. The conference before Justice UNTERMYER yesterday was 
informal and noisy. It is thought that Otis WOOD's raised bond does not 
satisfy the Shield factions and that they would like to be custodians, or 
have a neutral committee appointed.
It was pointed out by Justice UNTERMYER that although he regards the Shields 
as next of kin, under the New York law he was compelled to appoint the next 
of kin residing in the state of New York - which is Otis WOOD. The SHIELDS 
live in Red Bank, N. J.
The interesting old lady who lived on condensed milk and bacon and toast for 
the major part of her diet is much interested in what is going on around her 
in an effort to separate her from being the possessor and distributor of her 
fortune.
Living in an almost fictional state of miserliness. Mrs. WOOD would probably 
be horrified if she realized the large sums of money that this investigation 
into her affairs is costing. She managed to live on literally a few cents a 
day, beside her room rent, but since people, vested in legal rights, began 
planning a life of safety and happiness stepped into the picture, the figures 
read like this:
Dr. Isaac J. FURMAN of Manhattan State Hospital gave the court a bill for 
$1,675 for his medical services and expert testimony before the Sheriff's 
jury which found Mrs. WOOD incompetent. One telephone conversation cost Mrs. 
WOOD $25.
    DOCTORS COME HIGH
Professional services by Dr. William V. GARRETSON cost Mrs. WOOD, according 
to the bill submitted to the court, $2,200. Dr. L. Beverly CHANEY regarded 
his four days' services as worth $535. And Dr. John EVANS HUTTON, who is said 
to have attended Mrs. WOOD, before and after the discovery of the fortune, 
received but $15.
Detective work cost $7,755.69 - after Mrs. WOOD was found to be hoarding vast 
sums in her hotel room, day and night detectives were put on guard outside 
her rooms.
Mrs. WOOD, according to excerpts from testimony before the Sheriff's jury, 
left notes of large denominations lying around the bathroom floor and 1,100 
shares of union Pacific Railroad stock were found in her bed. Ten treasury 
notes of $500 each, printed a half century ago, were found on the living room 
floor and she mentioned the theft of two earrings, valued at $6,000 each, in 
an utterly casual manner.
Mrs. WOOD is pictured as "feeble and emaciated, weighing seventy pounds and 
bent over like a question mark" - a pitiful old lady who lived in constant 
fear that some one was plotting to rob her. She summoned lawyers and doctors 
and priests only to dismiss them. She thought the Union pacific Railroad and 
Judge O'BRIEN's new firm were in conspiracy to get her stock and generally 
defraud her.
Mrs. WOOD's idea of what to do with money was to hoard it. She refused to 
spend anything on food, clothes or any mental or physical comfort. She went 
around in a torn, thin house dress held up with safety pins and wouldn't wear 
underwear.
Very often Mrs. WOOD wouldn't permit the hotel attendants to bring her food 
into the room, it had to be tossed in over the transom -  meager rations 
always. One of her per charities was an imaginary rat which she thought lived 
on the roof of the Savoy Theater, adjoining the hotel. She would throw it 
fish, explaining that "a man from Orange" had sent the rat. She always 
insisted that the fish be brought to her room with the head and tail on it. 
These she cut off before tossing the fish to the rat.
    SUSPECTS HER ADVISORS
Mrs. WOOD took no personal care of herself and resorted to strange medicinal 
aids. She applied poultices of snuff to her eyes. She used snuff, too, and 
has now taken to smoking cigars.
For a while Mrs. WOOD was partial to Counsel Judge O'BRIEN, but one day she 
called him a "hypocrite" and declared she never wanted to see him again. She 
engaged a counsel named Joseph V. MITCHELL but didn't "like his voice" and 
dismissed him. The person for whom she has the highest regard and whom she 
has personally requested to be custodian of he affairs, is Mgr. LAVELLE of 
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Pages of testimony reveal the old lady as a sometimes querrulous and sometime 
passive woman who one moment was hysterical over an imaginary robbery and the 
next moment at peace with the world - but never generous. She counted 
pennies. She slept days and paced about her room at night. She had no bank 
account and is taunting her custodian with the news that she has money 
elsewhere but refuses to reveal where.  
	Searchers Still seeking Some Hidden Jewels in Storage Trunks
Newly discovered jewels, laces and rare costumes among the treasured 
souvenirs Mrs. Ida E. WOOD have doubled the estimated value of her hoarded 
fortune.
Currency hidden in her clothing and elsewhere in her hotel room where she had 
remained a recluse for many years amounted to $900,000.
Included in the treasured gems found after a determined search of every nook 
and cranny in the frail, ninety-three-year-old former society belle's room 
was a diamond necklace which hung to her waistline.
The hiding place of that most valuable bit of jewelry worn by Mrs. WOOD at 
the Infanta Eulalia Ball in 1893 was not revealed.
It is known, however, that old fashioned radiators in the hotel room had been 
removed, and that stuffing in chairs and sofas had been pulled to bits before 
searchers were satisfied that they had found the treasures mentioned by Mrs. 
WOOD as "stolen."
Some few gems still are missing, and Mrs. WOOD refuses steadfastly to reveal 
their hiding places.
Search today will be confined to additional trunks in storage, which contain 
lavender and old lace, ball gowns she wore she danced with Edward, Prince of 
Wales, and Samuel TILDEN, Democratic candidate for President, a half century ago.

11 October 1931
TWO IN FIGHT TAKEN BY COP
The propritor of a candy store and one of his customers got all tangled 
up in a controversy yesterday and as a result both must face Magisrate 
HUGHES in Bridge Plaza court today.
Anthony SWENSIVESKY 42, who operates the candy store at 300 Wythe avenue, 
was in a dispute with Andrew SAMUELS, 38, of 79 North Seventh street.
SAMUELS heaved a brick through the window of SWENSIVESKY's store and 
departed hurriedly with SWENSVESKY animatedly waving a club a short 
distance to his rear. Patrolman Andrew LANGERT arrested the man on a 
charge of malicious mischief and then arrested the proprietor on the 
grounds that the waving of club constituted a dangerous weapon.

BARGE CAPTAIN ACCUSES YOUTHS
Charges of attempted burlgary were brought against Edward INGRAM,18, 
of 181 Franklin street today, by Charles MARSHALL, captain of Barge 41 
of the Seaboard Transportation Company.
MARSHALL, whose barge is tied up in the East River, at the foot of 
Dupont street, said that shortly before midnight INGRAM and two other 
youths tried to break into the cabin of the boat.
Patrolman Edward DESCHEN of the Greenpoint station chased INGRAM to 
the roof of 10 Eagle street and arrested him.

GIRL, 12, MISSING FOR WEEK SPURS WIDE POLICE HUNT; 
BOOKS, GYM SUIT IN STORE
Proprietor Questioned, Says She Planned to Play "Hookey"
	A twelve-year-old girl missing for a week, whose gymnasium suit and school 
books were found in a candy store at Throop avenue and Ellery street by 
detectives of the Gates avenue station and the Missing Persons Bureau is 
still being sought today.
The girl, Margaret MC CLUSKY, a member of the graduating class of the junior 
high school of P. S. 148, at Throop avenue and Ellery street, although only 
twelve, has the appearance of a girl of sixteen (as printed), with a well 
developed figure and a pretty face seemingly older than it actually is.
She joined school chums on her walk to school last Monday morning, a week 
ago, but left them, as they were entering the school and was last seen going 
into the candy store of Nathan SARAGEN at 178 Throop avenue, diagonally 
across from the school.
With a "So long, see you later," she left her three companions, Anna 
MCCARROLL of 103 Myrtle avenue, Edna ROSE of 163 Throop avenue and Josephine 
PINALDO of 48 Lewis avenue and disappeared into the store.
    SEARCH YIELDS BOOKS
After a week of anxiety her father and mother were in tears today at their 
home at 327 Vernon avenue. Lionel E. MC CLUSKY, 32, an auto mechanic out of 
work for some time, obtained a night job in a Flatbush garage the day his 
daughter disappeared. The mother, Linnie, 29, known as "Billy", has been 
depending upon her accomplishments as a pianist and helping family finances 
along by playing in Long Island and Manhattan night clubs.
The father told Gates avenue police of his daughter's disappearance last 
Monday and Detective CAHILL took up the case. Joined by Detective Frank 
SULLIVAN of the Missing Persons Bureau he visited the SARAGEN candy store, 
which is frequented by girls from the school across the street, where the 
owner was questioned.
A thorough search revealed the missing girl's gymnasium suit under some 
newspapers on a shelf in the rear room. When she left home last week she was 
wearing them under her street clothes. On another shelf was found her books. 
Her rubber soled sneakers, which she was carrying to school in her hand, also 
were found.
A roof-to-cellar search of the rest of the building a four-family three-story 
frame home structure, revealed no more clues. SARAGEN explained the presence 
of the articles in his store by saying that school pupils frequently left 
their things behind. He always kept them until they returned to claim them, 
he said.
It was remarked by police that a cousin of SARAGEN's John ARJENINO, 70, who 
slept on a couch in the rear room where the MC CLUSKY girl's things were 
discovered, disappeared the same day as Margaret. SARAGEN was at a loss to 
explain this coincidence, saying that ARJENINO was too old to take care of 
himself, and had no friends or relatives to whom he could go.
    PLANNED TO PLAY 'HOOKEY.'
SARAGEN was not taken into custody. The MC CLUSKY parents told police they 
knew no reason why their daughter should leave home, and were confident she 
had not run away. The girl told SARAGEN she intended to play hookey and keep 
a date, according to police.
Police are on the lookout for the seventy-year-old ARJENINO and a description 
of the girl has been broadcast. Search of the homes of friends and relatives 
of the MC CLUSKYS has been fruitless.
Margaret is five feet tall and weighs 107 pounds. She has gray eyes, brown 
hair, and a dark complexion. The day she vanished she wore a brown coat, hat, 
and shoes, a black dress, and under these her gymnasium outfit consisting of 
the white middies and black bloomers which were found in SARAGEN's store. She 
carried three school books.

13 October 1931
WOMAN WOUNDED, BLAMES HUSBAND
Patrolman Eugene CALLIGAN, of Bedford avenue station, answered a call to the 
apartment of Mrs. Stell NOLESE, 62 North Second street, and found the woman 
suffering from a cut in the right hand but he could find no knife.
Charged with stabbing, Michael, her husband, pleaded not guilty and was 
paroled for a hearing in Bridge Plaza Court tomorrow. He said his wife cut 
her hand with glass.

OAK TREE GUARDS OLD CEMETERY
Middletown, N. Y. - Oct. 13 - An old oak tree is the guardian of a cemetery 
here which has tombstones dating back to 1799.
The cemetery, the private burial plot of the HULSE family, which sent 
soldiers to the Revolutionary War, is on the edge of a sandbank, which has 
collapsed. One of the graves is Silas HULSE, who was a New York volunteer in 
the war. Fred GILLESPIE, owner of the old HULSE farm, which has been used by 
road contractors to obtain sand, has invited historical societies to 
contribute the funds to preserve the resting place of the HULSE family.
Meanwhile the oak tree, almost dislodged, except for its roots, which 
intertwine in the sandbank just beneath the cemetery, is the only support to 
the bank in which the bodies are buried.

FLASHY BLONDE WHO POSED AS MANICURIST SUSPECTED OF LURING MISSING GIRL, 12
Frequented Candy Store Where Margaret MCLUSKY Was Last Seen
An expensively dressed, pretty blonde, thought to have influenced 
twelve-year-old Margaret MC CLUSKY to leave home by promising her night club 
life and plenty of boy friends, is today wanted for questioning by detectives 
working on the schoolgirl's disappearance.
Police denied that a regular alarm had been sent out for the woman although 
detectives are interested in finding her. She is reputed to have frequented 
the candy store of Nathan SARAGEN at 178 Throop avenue, were the missing 
girl's gym suit and school books were found, and to have proposed to several 
other girls ?? P. S. 148 across the street that they allow her to introduce 
them to a life of independence and luxury.
Several other girls have recently disappeared from home for short periods of 
time, it has been learned. Although their parents did not report the matter 
to police for fear it would destroy their daughters' reputations. The well 
dressed blonde, about 25 years old, five feet four inches tall, weighing 130 
pounds, posed as a manicurist when she frequented SARAGEN's store, he told 
police.
A neighborhood search was made for the woman, and Mrs. MCCLUSKY, the girl's 
mother, is said to have voiced her desire that police look for the 
manicurist, but at Gates avenue station today it was said there were no new 
developments in the case.
The girl's mother, working as a pianist in a Long Island night club, refused 
to see reporters at her home, 327 Vernon avenue, last night.
The girl has been missing since she parted from three friends at the entrance 
to P. S. 148 at Throop avenue and Ellery street, eight days ago, and walked 
across the street to the candy store while her companions entered the school 
building. her gymnasium suit, which she was wearing under her street clothes, 
was found by Detective Frank SULLIVAN of the Missing Persons Bureau on a 
shelf in the closet of a back room of the store.
A cousin of SARAGEN's, John ARJENINO, 70, who slept on a couch in the rear 
room where the clothes were found, has also been missing since a week ago. 
SARAGEN was at a loss to explain his disappearance, saying he has no friends 
or relatives to whom he could go, and that he is too old to take care of 
himself. Police are on the lookout for him.

LOST HAT SENDS SUSPECT TO JAIL
Arrested after detectives found a hat with the initials "J. L." near the 
scene of a holdup, John LOPEZ, 23, of 901 Grant avenue, is being held in 
$25,000 by Magistrate DOYLE in Jamaica court to answer on Oct. 16 in 
Ridgewood court on a charge of assault and robbery.
John DANNHARDT of 84-34 Eighty-seventh street, Woodhaven, said a holdup man 
attacked him with a penknife while another struck him with the butt of a 
revolver. The thugs, frightened when DANNHARDT cried for help, escaped in a 
waiting taxicab.
DANNHARDT gave Detectives Alfred DILLHOFF and Charles PUTNAM of Richmond Hill 
squad, a hat which he said was dropped by one of the holdup men. The 
detectives went to a Brooklyn store, where they learned LOPEZ had purchased 
the hat there, they said.

QUEENS VETERANS HONOR KENNEDY
Queens politicians, Spanish-American War veterans and American Legion men 
were among the thousand guests at the testimonial dinner to Alfred J. 
KENNEDY, Public Administrator, and department commander of the united Spanish 
War Veterans, in the Triangle Ballroom, Jamaica and Myrtle avenues, Richmond 
Hill, last night.
Mr. KENNEDY pledged himself to help all veterans and veterans' dependents as 
long as he lived. S. Bogart FORD, secretary to Borough President HARVEY, 
declared he hoped Mr. KENNEDY might achieve a higher office.
Mr. KENNEDY was presented by Toastmaster William GOETZ, a past commander, 
with a gladstone bag.
Charles H. WENZ, past commander, was chairman of the general dinner committee.

CALL BOY THIEF DURING CHURCH
Chester KURSKA, 14 of 77 Jewel street, who is alleged to have been the 
perpetrator of a series of petty thefts in Williamsburg on Sunday mornings, 
was to be arraigned in Children's Court today. According to police, the boy 
ransacked several homes in that vicinity while occupants were at church.
KURSKA was arrested last night in the home of Mrs. Anna STURM, at 31 Broome 
street, who alleged he forced open the door. She was taking a nap, but awoke 
and screamed and her cries attracted Detective DIXSON of Herbert street 
station. Mrs. STURM said her home had been ransacked last Sunday while she 
was at St. Cecilia's Church.

SECOND THUG GANG SOUGHT IN ATTACH ON BOROUGH GIRLS  
Six Youths Facing Trial Today - Death Threats Told to Police
While six youths, indicted for brutal assaults upon girls found with their 
sweethearts in parked cars, were being put on trial in Flushing court today, 
Nassau County police were combing the section between West Hempstead and 
Valley Stream for a second gang of thugs who are accused of forcing two boys 
to bring women into their clutches.
The six who go on trial today are:
Henry BOEHLE, 18 of 20-20 126th street;
Charles SUSSMAN, 22, of 18-29 126th street;
Andrew VITO, 20, of 18-29 126th street;
George BLUMENTHAL, 21, OF 15-18 121st street;
Anthony MOGAVERO, 18, of 139 Twelfth street, all of College Point;
John DORSEY, 24, of Elmont, Nassau.
All were accused of holding up a couple.
BOEHLE, SUSSMAN and MOGAVERO also are accused of driving away with the girl 
after the holdup and attacking her near the Clearview Golf Club at Whitestone.
    WEDDING PARTY
The two boys who told Nassau County detectives that they had procured three 
girls for the second gang, now being sought, under threat of death, are:
Vito PACE, 20, of 266 Union place;
Joseph SORENTION, 19, of 253 North Eighth street.
They were threatened with death by five "gunmen," they told Detective 
JOHANNEMANN of Mineola, if they failed to "get them some women" and invited 
three girls to accompany them to a wedding. The girls were:
Mary FEINGOLD, 20, of 23 Division avenue;
Rose COHEN, 19, of 28 Division avenue;
Molly GOLD, 19, of 227 Suffolk street, Manhattan.
All five are being held by the police during the search.
    HOLD UP FAKED
According to the story to told by PACE and SORENTINO, they turned the girls 
over to the five thugs at an agreed point on State road outside of Hempstead 
after a simulated holdup. The FEINGOLD and COHEN girls were attacked while 
members of the gang took turns standing guard over the two youths and Miss 
GOLD, who was not molested.
After the attack PACE and SORENTINO took the girl to Greenpoint Hospital who 
authorities promptly notified Herbert street station. Nassau County police 
authorities were called in and all five are being questioned.
A hurried raid on the supposed headquarters of the gang near Valley Stream 
brought no results.

14 October 1931
BLACKMAIL NOTE RECEIVED BY MRS. MC CLUSKY CAUSES POLICE GUARD OVER HOME
Demands $200 for Life of Margaret "Held in Slavery"
A threatening letter, which police believe may be a hoax, sent to Mrs. Linnie 
MC CLUSKY, mother of the missing Margaret MC CLUSKY, 12, spurred police today 
to guard their home at 327 Vernon avenue.
The letter, demanding $200, was written on a plain postal card and enclosed 
in a stamped-envelope. It reads:
    "Mrs. MC CLUSKY: Put 200 D under your ash can in cellar at 4 o'clock 
Wednesday.
We are holding your daughter in white slavery. If you tell anyone you will 
never see her alive."
Underneath this writing are six crosses in a row and then the words:
    "Don't forget what I say."
The envelope is postmarked 8 P. M., Oct. 13, from Station X, at Avenue U and 
West Fourth street in Gravesend, a considerable distance from the MC CLUSKY 
home in Bushwick.
    GIRL'S BROTHER ILL
Captain GEGAN, in charge of the Thirteenth Detective Division, assigned 
Detective Thomas REILLY, once bodyguard to Mayor HYLAN, to act as bodyguard 
for Mrs. MC CLUSKY.
Eugene MC CLUSKY, 11, brother of the missing girl, was reported seriously ill 
with a fever at 102 degrees plus today a condition brought about by the worry 
and excitement over his sister's disappearance.
Detectives under Captain GEGAN made a thorough search of the six story 
apartment building in which the MC CLUSKY's live on the ground floor. 
Fortified with hammer, screw driver and plyer they tapped the woodwork 
throughout the building and made a complete survey of the cellar. They noted 
particularly the two ash barrels in the front and rear of the building.
    AGED MAN EXONERATED
Capt. GAGAN (as printed) had a long talk with John ARJEMINO, 61, who slept in 
the back room of the candy store owned by Nathan SARAGEN at 178 Throop 
avenue, where the girl was last seen on Oct. 5. ARJEMINO, who looks like a 
well dressed banker, satisfied the police as to his whereabouts of the past 
few days. A delegate to Malatia, an Armenian society, he returned today from 
Worcester, Mass, where he had attended a convention.
On Oct. 7, he went to Forty-fifth street and Broadway, Manhattan, he said, 
and boarded a bus for Worcester, where he remained at the home of his 
brother, Krekor ARJEMINO, at 233 main street, until yesterday. He returned at 
10 o'clock last night and reported at Gates avenue station, this morning.

15 October 1931
POLICE QUESTIONING UNCLE ON LETTERS TO MISSING GIRL
George MARTIN Appears at MCCLUSKY Home - Escorted to Station
George MARTIN, uncle of the missing twelve-year-old, Margaret MC CLUSKY, 
wanted by police for questioning for the last twenty-four hours, 
walked into the MC CLUSKY home at 327 Vernon avenue today.
Detective Thomas REILLY of the Ralph avenue station, assigned as a 
bodyguard for Mrs. Linnie MC CLUSKY since she received a threatening 
letter yesterday, took MARTIN to the Gates avenue station, where 
detectives began questioning him.
After seeing his niece for the first time in nine years when he visited 
the MC CLUSKY home for a day only two weeks before the girl vanished, 
it is known that MARTIN wrote her two letters, one of which police 
described as "endearing."
    CHANGED HIS PLANS
In a letter to his brother, Henry, of Bridgeport, Conn., posted from 
Schnectady (as printed), Oct. 6, the day after Margaret's disappearance, 
MARTIN spoke of leaving for his home city, Syracuse, the next day. 
Instead he came to Brooklyn to join the parents of the missing girl, 
whose daughter he had written twice in the last fortnight.
Last Monday he walked out of the MC CLUSKY home at 327 Vernon avenue and 
was not seen again until today. Polcie have been seeking him for questionng 
for the last twenty-four hours, and a general alarm had been sent out. 
Detectives James CAHILL of Gates avenue station and Frank SULLIVAN of the 
Missing Persons Bureau made a hurried.... REST OF ARTICLE IS MISSING HERE!

16 October 1931
ROOMING HOUSE SEARCHED FOR MC CLUSKY GIRL CLUES
Borough Police Try New Angle as All Others Fall Down
A borough wide search of rooming houses is being made today for Margaret MC 
CLUSKY, police declared. Although fear was expressed the girl was dead, it is 
hoped this combing of the borough will supply some clue to the case.
All other leads in the twelve-year old girl's disappearance have proved 
fruitless. Her uncle, George MARTIN, today stood ready to aid the police, who 
are satisfied with his account of himself. Wanted for questioning, he went to 
the Gates avenue station yesterday and underwent hours of interrogation which 
cleared him of suspicion.
Nathan SARAGEN, proprietor of the candy store at 178 Throop avenue, where the 
girl was last seen and where her schoolbooks and gym suit were found, does 
not appear to be implicated. His cousin, John ARJENINO, who sleeps in the 
rear of the store, is also cleared to the satisfaction of police.
The search of all rooming houses in the borough is the only resort left to 
detectives working on the case. The men who went out on patrol at 8 today 
were given orders to look up every rooming house on their beats, and have 
been given descriptions of the missing girl.
She is five feet tall, weighs 107 pounds, and has gray eyes, brown bobbed 
hair and a dark complexion. Although only twelve, she is unusually well 
developed, having the appearance of a girl of sixteen or seventeen.
Eleven days ago, when she parted from three friends entering P. S. 148 at 
Throop avenue and Ellery street and crossed the street to SARAGEN's store, 
she wore a brown hat and coat, a black dress, tan silk stockings and brown shoes.
At 327 Vernon avenue, the girl's home, there was despair today. Lionel MC 
CLUSKY, 32, out of work for several months, had just obtained a job as night 
mechanic in a Flatbush garage the day his daughter vanished. His wife, 
Linnie, 29, who has been aiding family finances working as a pianist in a 
Long Island night club, expressed the opinion her daughter would have 
communicated with her if she were alive and safe. But there has been no word.

CAR HITS TRUCK, THREE INJURED
Three persons were slightly injured today when a trolley car on the B. M. T. 
Eighth avenue line and a ten-ton truck of the Deitz Brothers Coal Company 
collided at Eighth avenue and Forty-sixth street, because of slipping 
pavements.
The truck, with a capacity load of coal, was driven by August HOFFMAN of 
1627 Summerfield street, Ridgewood. The trolley car was operated by Thomas 
DOUGHERTY, 59, of 344 Fifty-eighth street.
The truck driver was not injured. DOUGHERTY suffered a nose bleed in 
addition to lacerations of the scalp. Two passengers, David HOLKE, 24, of 
779 Forty-ninth street, and his sister, Ina, 22, were treated for shock 
and went home.

INDIAN CEMETERY IN QUEENS EXCAVATED FOR BOULEVARD
Scientists Attend Grave-Openings at Little Neck for Data
The scientific researches of aboriginal archaeologists will center today in 
the ancient Indian Cemetery at Little Neck, Queens, where, at the direction 
of Borough President HARVEY, excavations will be started for the removal of 
bodies to provide for the widening of Northern Boulevard.
Officials of the Museum of he American Indian, Heye Foundation in Manhattan, 
were notified by Mr. HARVEY yesterday that the exhumation would begin today 
and announced they would be represented by Leonidas WESTERVELT, who will 
search for relics of Indian antiquity.
The museum officials expressed the hope that the excavations will reveal 
something of the aboriginal past of the Queens section of long island. While 
they realize that the cemetery at Little Neck has been used by the Indians up 
to the present time and that many of the burials are of comparatively recent 
date, it is possible that pre-Colonial interments have been made in the same 
location, it was said.
The opposition of the late Chief Wild Pigeon to the removal of the bodies 
resulted in the delay in the widening of Northern Boulevard in the section 
about the cemetery, while the improvement was completed between Douglaston 
avenue and the Queens-Nassau line.
Chief Wild Pigeon was the last of the Aboriginal sachems adhering to the 
ancient traditions of his fathers. He declared the ground in which his people 
were buried was sacred and threatened, in his opposition to the authorities, 
to unearth the tomahawk buried by his ancestors, whom he claimed were the 
Narragansets, to commemorate their refusal to participate in King Phillip's War.
The late sachem lived in the rear of the cemetery and recited the legend of 
his ancestors coming to Seawanhaka (Long Island many years ago, before the 
coming of the white settler. He said the Little Neck Cemetery had been the 
burial ground of the heroic Indian dead and he would not have their remains 
disturbed.
After Wild Pigeon's death the Corporation Counsel obtained permission to 
remove the bodies, the surviving owners of the cemetery offering no 
objection. The owners are listed as follows: Susan WATERS, Oney WATERS, 
Fannie WATERS SMITH, Rebecca DOWDELL, Emma SECO, Mary SMITH, William DAVIS 
and Adelia HUNTER SANTAGO.
The 1930 United States census fixed the Indian population of Queens at twenty-five.

17 October 1931
"Bill" BROSNAN, Nemesis of Old Brooklyn's Gangs, Is Tripped Up by a Banana
After making a successful stand against four gangs during his twenty-eight 
years on the force, Detective William L. BROSNAN met his downfall today 
because of a lowly banana peel.
Known for his work in breaking up the Bill LOVETT, Red Onion, White Hand and 
Wallet gangs, BROSNAN rests peacefully in St. Peter's Hospital with a broken 
leg. He was walked single-handed into the midst of a Wallet gang meeting and 
got out with his life, but, while he was making an investigation at 134 
Bridge street today, the fruit skin betrayed him.

19 October 1931
GIRL TELEPHONES SHE'S NOT MISSING
"Disappearance" of Ida Lucie FEI, 17, of 72 Waterford road, Island Park, was 
solved today, when she was found to be staying at the home of an aunt 
"somewhere in New Jersey."
The girl left home last Friday to visit an employment agency in Manhattan and 
when she had failed to return home yesterday her parents asked police to 
search for her. Early today the girl telephoned her parents and explained.

M'CLUSKY GIRL BACK HOME AFTER FLING AT MAID'S JOB
Just Tired of Home, She Tells Police Questioners
Margaret MC CLUSKY is home today. The search that combed Brooklyn rooming 
houses, calling into action the patrolmen on their beats as well as numerous 
detectives, is at an end.
Returning home yesterday unharmed after two weeks of attempted independence, 
the girl was questioned at Gates avenue station while her mother, waiting 
outside, broke down after two weeks of iron self-control. The girl explained 
she merely tired of home and wished to earn her own living. She was 
questioned for four hours by Detectives GEGAN and SCHEIDLER and Mrs. Mary 
THOMPSON, Matron at the Gates avenue station.
While her mother, Mrs. Linnie MC CLUSKY, waited outside unable to control her 
agitation any longer, it was learned that Margaret, completely unhurt, had 
spent the past two weeks answering newspaper advertisements for maids, 
staying in the furnished room of a girl she met by chance, and then moving to 
the Hotel Sinclair at Liberty and Fulton streets.
    FIRST STORY SPIKED
According to her first story, after leaving her companions at P. s. 148 Oct. 
5, she entered a car driven by a man who said her father had been in an 
accident, but instead of being taken home was carried to an East Side 
tenement in Manhattan, where she was kept prisoner until her escape 
yesterday. No harm was done her, she said.
Suspicious of the lack of motive in this story, Detective GEGAN, who has 
brought numerous missing girl cases to happy conclusions, continued his 
questions until Margaret told of assuming the name of Betty MC KINLEY. After 
sleeping three nights in a Prospect Park shelter, she met a Naro COYNE, who 
live with her sister Molly at 24 Brevoort place in a furnished room. She 
stayed there two nights and then took a job with Abraham TUROFF of 277 
Amherst street, Manhattan Beach, she said.
Two days found her tired of this job, and while Mr. and Mrs. TUROFF were at a 
movie she took several dresses and walked out, leaving their baby unattended. 
She returned to the COYNE furnished room and after visiting the girls' 
brother with Nora and taking $7 she saw on a shelf, she left Nora and took a 
room at the Sinclair Hotel, where she remained until yesterday.
    PHONES HER MOTHER
She telephoned her home yesterday afternoon, asking for her mother. Mrs. MC 
CLUSKY was then searching Harlem rooming houses with detectives, but 
Detective Thomas REILLY, on guard at the MC CLUSKY home since receipt of 
blackmail and ransom letters, spoke with the girl. She said she was returning 
home, and was taking the elevated from Brooklyn Bridge to the Myrtle avenue 
and Broadway station. REILLY and the father, Lionel MC CLUSKY, started to the 
station when they met the girl, who was at once taken to the Gates avenue 
station.
Once there, her story cleared up all fears she was held by white slavers or 
ransom hunters. After being questioned, she was given coffee and sandwiches 
in the matron's room while her tearful but happy mother sat by.

THREE CHILDREN ILL FROM GAS INCIDENT
Three youngsters were recovering from the effects of illuminating gas 
poisoning at their home today, resulting from the accidental turning on of a 
jet on the kitchen range. 
The three are, James DUNN, 7; his sisters ZEANE, 4, and his brother, John 2. 
All three live at 1820 Stuart street, Sheepshead Bay. Their father, James was 
making some coffee yesterday afternoon and accidentally turned on one more 
jet than he had lighted. Dr. SEITSIVE, of Coney Island Hospital revived the 
children and left them at home.

22 October 1931
BOY JUST LIKE TRUCK VICTIM STARTLES MOURNING MOTHER BY RETURNING FROM MOVIES
Father Identifies Body and Even Starts Plans for Funeral
	Little Norman WELLMAN, 7, is not going to school today. He is sprawled out on 
the floor at his home, 257 Linden boulevard, looking at his pictures in the 
daily newspapers and not just sure why they are there.
	Every once in a while he is called into the bedroom where his mother is 
confined on doctor's orders; she is suffering from shock and hysteria. She 
reaches out her hand and runs it through his curly hair and smiles into his 
blue eyes.
Mrs. WELLMAN will be up and about very soon and Norman will go back to his 
classes at P. S. 161 tomorrow.
    BELIEVED KILLED
But today is their day together, for yesterday evening, Mrs. WELLMAN believed 
her son to be dead - killed by a truck. The father, Max WELLMAN, identified 
the body in the morgue and started funeral arrangements.
Three persons, Max WELLMAN, Rose WELLMAN and their seven year old son,
Norman, were the principal parties in one of the strangest cases of mistaken 
identity.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. WELLMAN decided to take Norman to a moving picture 
theater at Nostrand avenue and Eastern parkway. When they reached the theater 
she left the little boy in the lobby while she went across the street to the 
drug store.
While she was gone a motor truck driven by Richard WEINSTEIN, of 615 Academy 
street, Long Island City, struck and killed a boy as he was crossing the 
street in front of the theater.
Emerging from the drug store and seeing a crowd gathered around the prostrate 
form in the street, Mrs. WELLMAN rushed to the outer fringe and frantically 
worked her way to the center.
    LOOKS AT BODY
She took one look at the dead boy, with his curly chestnut hair and blue 
eyes, she noticed his corduroy jacket, brown tweed trousers, and black 
oxfords. "It's my boy, it's my boy," she screamed, and fainted.
The body, pronounced dead by an ambulance surgeon from Jewish Hospital, was 
taken to the Kings County Hospital morgue. Mrs. WELLMAN, revived and taken 
home, summoned her husband, Max, who is employed by the Penn Fur Company at 
142 West Thirty-fourth street, Manhattan, telling him that their son had been 
killed by a truck.
Mr. WELLMAN hurried to the morgue. He, too, glanced at the curly head and 
noticed the clothing which his son had worn that morning on his way to 
school. He identified the body as that of his son.
With his head bowed with grief he went home and told his other children, 
Selma, 16, and Lawrence, 12, of the fate that had overtaken their brother. He 
began making arrangements for the service of an undertaker.
As he was doing this the telephone rang. The manager of the Kameo Theater, 
Nostrand avenue and Eastern parkway, was at the other end of the wire.
"Your son, Norman, has been waiting in the lobby for some time for his 
mother," said the manager. "I thought you might want to know about it. He is 
very excited and is afraid something may have happened to her."
"I am not in the mood to be kidded at a time like this," said WELLMAN.
"I am not kidding you," said the manager. "The boy is here. I saw him 
standing in the lobby for such a long time I spoke to him about it. I will 
let him speak to you."
    CALLS HIS FATHER
Norman then took the receiver and said, "Hello, Daddy."
Still skeptical, Mr. WELLMAN asked the boy to tell him "where your Daddy 
works."
"He works at the Penn Fur Company," the boy replied.
Mr. WELLMAN was convinced that he and his wife had made a mistake in 
identifying the body of the boy killed as that of their son. He instructed 
the theater manager to send his son home in a taxicab. A few minutes later 
Norman arrived and was in his parents' arms.
    IDENTITY ESTABLISHED
The boy who was killed was later identified as Theodore MARK, 9, of 143 
Sterling street. His identity was established by his cousin, Richard BARTLE, 
who, accompanied by a brother of the dead youngster, Peter MARK, reported 
Theodore missing and was taken by police to the morgue.
At her home today, Mrs. WELLMAN said that the resemblance between her son and 
the dead youth was "amazing."
"They were dressed just alike. You couldn't tell them apart. It was so 
terrible. I feel awfully sorry for the family of the dead boy. I know how 
they must feel. it was a terrible shock. Of course, we are happy now, but it 
was a terrifying experience."

24 October 1931
MOTORCYCLE COP INJURED IN CRASH
Patrolman William J. HUBBARD, 35 of 315 Eldert street, attached to Motorcycle 
Squad 2, was critically hurt early today when his motorcycle collided with a 
taxicab driven by William J. DONOVAN of 626 Sixtieth street.
The accident occurred at Avenue C and Ocean parkway. The patrolman was flung 
from his vehicle and suffered a fractured skull, lacerations of the scalp and 
had his left arm broken in two places. He was taken to Coney Island Hospital. 
Police report that at the time of the collision, the patrolman was chasing a 
speeding automobile.

KILLING CHARGE CONFRONTS TWO
A charge of homicide is faced today by Frank TURSI, 52, of 20 First place, 
and Ettori HUTTOR, 40, of 130 Forsythe street, in connection with the death 
of Ceasar LANFONTE of 116 East Twenty-seventh street, Manhattan, whose body 
was found wrapped in oil cloth dumped in the street before 163 Sixth street, 
Aug. 18.
The pair were arrested by Detective SWIFT of the Homicide Bureau, who has 
been working on the case since discovery of the body. Both men denied the 
charges when questioned, but were taken to the Manhattan line-up and are 
scheduled to appear in Homicide Court later today.

26 October 1931
TWO VICTIMS OF QUEENS JAIL BATTLE DYING
Five in Hospital After Chapel Riot - Three Keepers Hurt
Long Island City Jail was quite today following a bloody riot which broke out 
there yesterday which resulted in five prisoners being carried off to the 
Department of Corrections Hospital on Welfare Island, two of them in a dying 
condition, while a sixth prisoner is nursing a badly smashed nose and three 
guards are badly bruised.
The injured are:
Andrew VITO, 20, of 13-29 125th street, College Point, deep wounds of the 
chest and back, condition critical, awaiting trial for assault and robbery.
Benjamin ROGOWSKI, 20, of 145-43 Lincoln avenue, South Ozone Park, possible 
fracture of the skull and head lacerations, condition critical, awaiting 
sentence on a burglary charge.
George WISHEFSKY, 19 of 325 East Twentieth street, Manhattan, wounds of the 
right arm and chest, condition serious, awaiting trial for assault and robbery.
William ABEL, 19, of 29 national avenue, Corona, stab wounds of the chest and 
abdomen, condition serious, awaiting sentence on a petty larceny conviction.
John NOUARSKI, 19, of 155-10 Schyler road, Jamaica, contusions of the scalp, 
condition serious, awaiting trial on a robbery charge.
    RIOT AFTER SERVICES
A prisoner described merely as SURENSKY suffered a badly battered nose, but 
was not taken to the hospital.
The trouble broke out as about fifty prisoners were returning from chapel 
yesterday morning in charge of Keepers Henry O'HARA, John GALLAGHER and 
George BARRETT.
During breakfast which preceded the church service one of the keepers heard a 
prisoner say to another, "I'll get you," and another chime in with the same 
threat. All was quiet, however, until after services, when the prisoners 
filed into the corridor leading to their cells. Suddenly pandemonium reigned 
and the corridor echoed with the thuds of crashing bodies, screams from 
injured men and oaths.
The prison siren blared and guards came running from all parts of the 
building, but it was ten minutes before order was restored, when six men were 
seen writhing in agony on the stone floor.
O'HARA, one of the guards jumped into the melee and took a knife from one of 
the struggling prisoners. They all set upon him at once and he was being 
badly pummeled when other guards and two prisoners came to his rescue.
    RESERVES ON SCENE
Most of the prisoners did not engage in the fight but marched to their cells 
and remained in them until order was restored.
The reserves from the Hunters Point precinct were sent for and arrived with 
machine and riot guns and took, up strategic positions around the prison. 
Doctors from St. John's Hospital across the street rushed over and gave first 
aid to the injured men. They were later, removed to the Welfare Island Hospital.
Two table knives stolen from mess hall were found in the possession of two of 
the prisoners and an inquiry was immediately started to find out how this was 
accomplished.
VITO is one of a gang of seven arrested three weeks ago in Flushing when it 
was charged they assaulted a girl after robbing her escort and throwing him 
into a freight car. Warden FOX is trying to learn all the men who took part 
in the fracas.

THREE COPS NAB ALLEGED CROOKS
Two youths were to appear in Gates avenue court today on charges of holding 
up Abraham FRIEDMAN, a baker of 307 Gates avenue and relieving him of $70 in 
cash and checks, following a chase by three policemen during which four shots 
were fired. They were James LOMBARDI, 22, of 51 north Elliott place, and 
James DE VITI, 22, of 275 Adelphi street, accused of assault and robbery, 
with an additional charge of carrying a .38 calibre revolver made against 
LOMBARDI.
The pair are alleged to have held up FRIEDMAN in the garage at Gates avenue 
and Bedford avenue. He called for help, and Patrolmen Clarence HESSE, 
FERGUSON and BRAVERMAN gave chase and arrested them at Franklin and Putnam 
avenues. LOMBARDI told Detective O'DAY he had been arrested previously on a 
grand larceny charge, received a suspended sentence and was rearrested for 
violation of his probation.

BOOK COMES BACK AFTER 28 YEARS
A book missing from the Brooklyn Public Library for twenty-eight years was 
returned to it today by a second-hand book dealer who found it in a 
collection he had just purchased. The book, Thackerary's "Henry ESMOND," bore 
the library's bookplate and records show that it was purchased by the library 
February 13, 1903, was issued to the extension department and then 
disappeared.
The book is in good enough condition to be placed back in service, according 
to Milton J. FERGUSON, chief librarian.

GIRL, 16, FOUND BEATEN NEARLY TO DEATH IN E. D.
Unconscious, She Fails to Give Police Any Clue to Assault

Both eyes blackened and closed, her skull terribly fractured and so badly 
beaten that one entire side of her body is paralyzed, little Anna CZAZASTI, 
16, of 42 Diamond street, was found slumped against a fence back of a factory 
at 413 Vandervoot avenue.
this is a most isolated section of Greenpoint, just a block away from the 
spot, now known as Devil's Hollow, where the first torch murder victim was 
found but never identified, three years ago and half a block from where Sam 
SENNER, Greenpoint gangster was shot to death a year ago.
Nunziata AMATO, watchman for the Republic Fur Dying Company heard moans 
behind the plant at 7 A. M. today. He investigated and found the girl. He 
notified the Herbert street station and Sergeant John CUMMINGS, Detective 
Sylvester CLAUER and Patrolman William SCHMIDT responded. The girl was 
unconscious when they arrived.
    MAY NOT RECOVER
Ambulance Surgeon RIEGE rushed her to Greenpoint Hospital where an 
examination showed that she has little chance of recovering. Unconscious most 
of the time, the girl so far has come out of her coma only long enough to 
tell who she was but not what had happened to her. According to Detective 
CLAUER a hasty examination showed no evidence of criminal assault. 
Until a week ago the girl stayed home helping her mother, Fannie, about the 
house. Last week she was given a position as a domestic by David TESLER, 
proprietor of a butcher shop at 112 Nassau avenue. His wife has been ailing 
and each morning about 10 o'clock, little Anna has gone to the TESLER home at 
299 Hopkinson avenue to help Mrs. TESLER with the house work and the care of 
the two children.
    ABSENCE NOT NOTED
She would leave for home between five and six each evening. Yesterday 
afternoon, it was said, she left the TESLER Home shortly before six o'clock 
but never arrived home. Her mother told the police that she had not worried 
when her daughter did not return at the usual hour because she knew Mrs. 
TESLER had been quite ill and surmised that the girl had been asked to stay 
in the role of nurse.
The mother also told the police that her daughter had no boy friends, 
although she had two or three girl intimates, but that she never stayed out 
late.
The main hope of the police is that the little girl will regain consciousness 
sufficiently to allow her to give them some clue to the brutal assault.

27 October 1931
POLICE HONOR BRAVE FIREMAN
In the presence of 300 detectives at police line-up today, 
-Fireman Vincent J. HYDE of Engineer Company 3 received high praise 
from Commissioner MULROONEY for his part in the bandit chase in the 
Bronx Aug. 21, when two patrolmen were shot and killed and seven 
others received wounds in the battle.
HYDE, who recently left Bellevue Hospital, suffered from a bullet in the left 
arm and another in the breast when he picked up the revolver of motorcycle 
	Patrolman Edwin CHURCHILL, who was shot down and gave chase in a 
commandeered taxi.
Presenting him with a check from members of the Police Department MULROONEY 
said HYDE's actions were typical of the members of the Fire Department, but 
also added proudly that HYDE was formerly a policeman.

28 October 1931
FIVE MISHAPS OF VIOLENCE FIND VICTIMS IN BROOKLYN
Man Shot by Shell in Car Truck - Others Fight Casuals
Five accidents, mostly the results of fights, were on Brooklyn police dockets 
today.
The most unusual was a wound in the left cheek suffered by Leo VILLARD of 956 
Lafayette avenue, when a cartridge lodged in a car track exploded through the 
impact of a trolley wheel, projecting a bullet which struck him while 
standing at President street and Third avenue. He was taken to M. E. Hospital.

Louise TUGGLE, Negro, of 179 Navy street, had her hands severely cut in a 
fight with Floyd KENNY,  Negro, of 179 Prince street, in front of her home 
last night, when she struck a window. KENNY was arrested.

Ira WADE of 409 Adelphi street was found lying on the pavement in front of 
826 Fulton street with a possible fractured skull by police who were told he 
had been in a fight with an unidentified man. He was taken home.

Benjamin MORRIS, 13, of 502 Atlantic avenue, was hit on the head with a stone 
while playing at Bond street and Atlantic avenue yesterday, and was removed 
to Holy Family Hospital with a possible fracture of his skull.

Detectives were at the same time hunting for an unidentified man who hit 
Millie FASINO of 714 Avenue W. on the head with a milk bottle in front of her 
home last night, causing her to be removed to Coney Island Hospital with a 
possible fractured skull.

BORO LAD MADE CADET OFFICER
Manlius, N.Y., Oct. 28 - Cadet Frederick William OSWALD III, son of Dr. and 
Mrs. F. W. OSWALD, Jr., of 167 Sunnyside avenue, Brooklyn, has been promoted 
to the rank of cadet first lieutenant in the Manlius School Battalion, R. O. 
T. C. The promotion was made by Col. Guido F. VERBECK, superintendent of 
Manlius, upon recommendation of Capt. Gordon P. SAVAGE, U. S. A., professor 
of military science and tactics.
Cadet OSWALD was a sergeant in the cadet battalion. The Manlius School 
Battalion is made up of three companies of infantry, A. B and C.
Others from Brooklyn who were promoted are Emanuel KLEIN, 921 Washington 
avenue, and A. A. MAC LAREN, son of Dr. and Mrs. Walter A. MAC LAREN of 1104 
Beverly road, each to the rank of sergeant.

29 October 1931
FIEND'S VICTIM UNABLE TO TALK
Fleeting lapses into consciousness, marked by her weakened powers of 
recollection, continued to leave police without definite clues in the case of 
Anna CZAZSATI, 16, of 42 Diamond street, who was found Tuesday morning 
slumped against the wall of a factory building at 413 Vandervoort avenue with 
her skull fractured, both eyes blackened and her body a mass of bruises.
To a detective from Herbert street station at her bedside she has been able 
only to relate that while on her way home to Greenpoint a man driving an auto 
hailed her and told her to "jump in and save a nickel." She did so and was 
beaten when she resisted his advances, finally to be left seriously injured 
by the factory building where she was found buy a night watchman.
An operation performed yesterday removed a bone pressing against her brain, 
but her condition remains serious and she still calls occasionally for the 
two children of the butcher, David TESLER, for whom she worked as a maid at 
his home, 299 Hopkinson avenue.

OLD DIRECTORIES IN DANGER AT BORO LIBRARY FIRETRAP
Collection of Great Value, Dating Back to 1786, Much Used
The large collections of directories of all kinds at the Montague Branch of 
the Brooklyn Public Library is in danger of destruction by fire should one 
start in that sixty-two year old building which has been condemned as a 
fire-trap. Many of these directories, as well as many other books and old 
newspaper files, never could be replaced, Milton J. FERGUSON, chief 
librarian, said today.
The collection of directories for Brooklyn and New York is complete, 
including the first one of 1786 in which Brooklyn and New York are combined 
and the first one for Brooklyn alone dated 1822. There also are early 
directories of Williamsburgh and old directories of many other cities.
    GENEALOGICAL DATA
The last directory of Brooklyn was for 1913, after which it was discontinued. 
since then the library reference department has had to rely on the list of 
registered voters and the telephone directory to meet requests for 
information.
Much use is made of the city directories every day, according to Edward F. 
ROWSE, reference librarian, especially by lawyers and business men. They are 
often used to prove residence in a particular place at a particular time, he 
says, and are of great value in the settlement of estates and in finding 
missing heirs. They also are consulted by many in search of genealogical data.
In addition to city and telephone directories from all parts of the country, 
the library has a large and diversified collection of business and other 
specialized directories, such as those for manufacturers, bankers, attorneys, 
newspapers, wholesale grocers, druggists, doctors, accountants, trade 
associations and many others.
    AWAITS CENTRAL BRANCH
One issued by the u. S. Merchant marine Social Service Bureau tells sailors 
where to go when on shore leave in all parts of the world. There also are 
directories of schools and colleges which are much used to aid prospective 
students.
Removal of the reference collection from the menace of fire at the Montague 
branch must await completion of the Central Library Building, work on which 
again has ceased, according to Mr. FERGUSON, and this, in turn, awaits action 
by the Board of Estimate on the request of Borough President HESTERBERG for 
money to resume work.

30 October 1931
7 COMMUNISTS SEIZED IN FIGHT WITH VETERANS
Held as Disorderly After Refusing to Heed Warning of Cops

Three women and four men, charged with disorderly conduct, are to appear in 
Fifth avenue court today before magistrate HUGHES following their arrest last 
night when police broke up a communist meeting at Fifth avenue and 
fifty-third street in answer to a riot call.
The meeting was held originally at fifth avenue and fiftieth street with 
communists addressing a large crowd from the rear of an automobile truck, to 
which were attached several amplifiers.
In the crow, police say, were several war veterans who objected to the small 
size and inconspicuous presentation of the American flag, which must be 
displayed at all such meetings.
    COMPLAINED TO POLICE
They complained to patrolmen Carl GELTNER and William ZIMMERLAND, Fourth 
avenue station, who were on duty nearby. Officer GELTNER asked the apparent 
leader of the rally whether they had a permit for the use of the amplifiers 
and was told that they had not. He then told the leader that the American 
flag was under the stipulated size for those to be used at mass meetings and 
that it should be more conspicuously displayed. After much arguing and 
bickering the Communists drove their truck away.
About twenty minutes later the Fourth avenue police station received a riot 
call from Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, and immediately sent out their 
emergency truck. Patrolmen GELTNER and ZIMMERMAN were notified.
When police arrived on the scene they found the same band of Communists 
fighting with a group of non-sympathizers, who apparently had been heckling 
them from the crowd.
At the sight of the bluecoats, it is charged, they stopped fighting and 
charged Commissioner MULROONEY'S finest, shouting, "Down with the police." 
"Down with the oppressors," and "Give it to them." 
	They resisted arrest, police say and began to fight. However, they were soon 
restrained. No one was hurt and there was no call for an ambulance, as seven 
the alleged cop fighters were taken for a ride to the Fourth avenue station.
At the precinct house they described themselves as:
Louis De SANES, 39, of 1272 Fifty-fifth street;
John FERRARA, 28, of 220 East 125th street, Bronx;
Max SCHNOT, 27, of 902 Forty-fourth street;
Otto OSTERMAN, 37, of 869 Thirty-ninth street;
Esther CARROLL, 25, of 89 Je?? street;
Fannie JACOBS, 45, of 21087 Un?? street;
Hannah SCHEER, 34, of 318 Sterl?? street.

TRAPS MURDER SUSPECT, ILL
Seriously ill with pneumonia, and facing a charge of murder, Michael MURPHY, 
36, of ?23 Fifty-first street, is a prisoner today in Kings County Hospital. 
He was arrested last night in connection with the killing of Harry LASER of 
191 Ross street in a Manhattan restaurant.
MURPHY was recognized through a police circular bearing his photograph, which 
Patrolman Charles FARRELL of the Bath Beach station carried in his pocket. 
FARRELL, who was off duty say MURPHY on the street at Thirteenth avenue and 
Seventy-ninth street, recognized the likeness and questioned him. he admitted 
the identity but denied knowledge of the murder.
He went to the Fort Hamilton station without a struggle and was there booked 
on a murder charge, after which it was found he was suffering with pneumonia, 
and he was removed to the hospital under arrest.
MURPHY�s brother Edward, and Patrick REYNOLDS are already in the Tombs in 
connection with the slaying, which took place in the restaurant at 90 Pearl 
street, Manhattan.

MOTHER STABBED FORGIVES HER SON 
In a critical condition in Flower Hospital today, the mother of Thomas LYDEN, 
21, an electrician�s helper out of a job, has forgiven him for stabbing her 
with a carving knife.
She walked out of their apartment at 1040 Third avenue, Manhattan, Las night, 
hailed a taxi and collapsed on entering Flower Hospital. She had a wound in 
the left lung, inflicted when Thomas became angered at being upbraided over 
not having a job. Detective William MURPHY found him still at the dinner 
table, with the carving knife at hand.

ATTACKS DOCTOR, JUMPS FIVE FLOORS
After jealousy caused her to attack Dr. Sabro EMY, a Japanese physician, with 
hammer early today, Mrs. Mary BOBB of 233 West Eighty-third street, 
Manhattan, jumped from a window of his fifty-story apartment at 315 East 
Eightieth street, eluding the police who had just placed her under arrest.
Taken to Bellevue Hospital, where it was said her injuries were not serious, 
she said she and Dr. EMY had been friends for several years.
She is said to have waited outside his apartment at midnight until she saw 
another woman enter the apartment, and following, began a dispute that ended 
in the attack.

DESPONDENT WOMAN IN DEATH ATTEMPT
Despondent over ill health and failure to secure employment, Mrs. Jean ZYSK, 
18, of 65 Kent avenue, stabbed herself twice in her home last night and 
required medical treatment by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital. 
She was able to remain at home.

BOYS SAVE WOMAN IN SUBWAY, BUT FEAR LATENESS IN SCHOOL
Press Her Under Station Platform as First Car Passes By
Two unidentified schoolboys are heroes today. After dragging a woman to 
safety from in front of the screeching brakes of a Broadway and Canarsie line 
subway train at Atlantic avenue early today, they disappeared with a "Gee, 
we�ll be late for school," when Patrolman MURRAY of Brownsville station asked 
them their names.
Herkimer street, (as printed) was standing on the double platform when the 
crowd urged forward as a Manhattan bound train of seven heavy steel cars 
roared into the station at Atlantic and Snediker avenues.
Forced off the platform, she dropped several feet to the ties below. Her left 
leg was broken. AS she lay there, powerless to move, the crowd gaped 
open-mouthed, too terrified to aid her.
    TRAIN PLUNGES ON
Two schoolboys, about fourteen or fifteen, dropped their books, pushed 
through the crowd and jumped onto the tracks. They saw the train rounding the 
curve and knew there was no time to lift the woman to the platform. The 
crowd, as if paralyzed, stood still.
But the edge of the platform has a slight overhang. The schoolboy pair pulled 
the woman close under it and waited. The platform crowd at last awoke to 
action and frantically flagged the motorman.
He applied his brakes full force and the heavy cars ground to a stop. But the 
first car had passed the spot where the trio pressed themselves under the 
platform.
    ALL THREE SAFE
Patrolman MURRAY pushed through the crowd to find all three safe.
Miss WASSERSTEIN was raised to the platform. She collapsed from shock, and as 
MURRAY carried her to the waiting room he turned to the boys. "Don�t go," he 
said. "I want your names."
They collected their scattered books, and when MURRAY turned around again a 
Brownsville-bound train was rumbling out of the station. The boys were on it.

2 November 1931
TRAFFIC COP STOPS RUNAWAY
    Hundreds of shoppers and storekeepers along Pitkin avenue were thrown
into a mild panic late yesterday when a runaway horse frightened by a horn
galloped through the street from Howard to Hopkinson avenues, a distance of
eight blocks, careening as it grazed several autos until it was brought to a
halt by Patrolman Rudolph SCHMITT of Traffic K, who grabbed the reins from
the running board of a commandeered taxicab.
    Throughout the wild ride, Max BRODY of 490 Herzy street, driver of the
laundry wagon, sat helpless on the seat, with the reins dangling at the
horse's feet but was catapulted to the street as the patrolman stopped the
horse.  He was treated for cuts on his head and right hand by Dr. ROSEN of
Unity Hospital.
    During the dash, the careening wagon crashed against a parked auto
belongs to Jacob KOSARSKY of 142 East Fifty-second street.  Patrolman
SCHMITT was not injured.

4 November 1931
CHILD ESCAPES FIEND ATTACK
    Hundreds of mothers in the Bedford section are aroused and police cars
are cruising the neighborhood following an attack early this afternoon upon
a seven-year-old girl now in Kings County Hospital suffering severe shock.
    Geraldine BUFOGLE, 7, a student at P.S. 44, Throop and Putnam avenues,
was returning to her home at 452 Lexington avenue when a strange man offered
her some candy and led her into the hallway of a six-family apartment at 508
Throop avenue.  Screaming, kicking and scratching, the child somehow managed
to break away, and ran to the street.  The man fled along Throop avenue,
running north, while the child made her way back to the school.
    She was taken to Kings County Hospital.  Detective Lieut. Joseph
SCHEIDLER and ten detectives were rushed to the scene and cruised in police
cars on the lookout for the man.
    Although descriptions of him were meagre, police thought it possible he
might be the same person who attacked Olive DAVIS, ten-year-old colored girl
of 14 Decatur street last May 5 in the hallway of 1450 Fulton street.
Another ten-year-old colored girl, Sarah BORROWS, was found murdered in the
cellar of her home, 279 Halsey street.

5 November 1931
DETECTIVES SEEKING FIEND IN CHILD-ATTACK BAFFLED
Geraldine BUFOGLE, 7, Recovering from Brave Battle With Negro
    While seven-year old Geraldine BUFOGLE recovers today in Kings County
Hospital from the attempted attack upon her by a light-skinned Negro
yesterday afternoon, members of the Thirteenth Detective District under
Capt. James GEGAN are seeking clues to the assailant.
    A police guard was stationed around the BUFOGLE home at 452 Lexington
avenue last night, in the fear that the assailant of the child having failed
in his first attack upon her, might return and harm either her elder sister,
Anna, 10, or the girl's mother, Mrs. Emma BUFOGLE.
    Capable of telling a more detailed story today as she recovered,
Geraldine related how the tall, well dressed man about thirty-five lured her
into a hallway at 508 Throop avenue with offers of candy, and then made his
attack.  The child evidently kicked and fought fiercely, for there was blood
in her fingernails, and in her struggle she kicked both shoes off and fled
to the street in stocking feet.
    She was returning home from Public School 44 at Throop and Putnam
avenues when she was molested.  Doctors at the hospital say she suffered
severe mental shock, but is recovering today.

TWELVE INJURED IN TROLLEY CRASH
    Twelve persons were injured, three seriously when a one-man Bronx
trolley car crashed into another at University avenue and Brandt place, this
afternoon.
    Passengers were being discharged when the one-man trolley, believed to
have defective brakes, struck the standing car, hurling them to the street
and to the floor.
    Among the injured were Mrs. Mathilda LOPEZ, 32, whose small daughter,
Gloria, was killed several weeks ago in the course of taxicab bandit chase
across the Bronx and upper Manhattan and whose husband was blinded in one
eye at the same time.

BUSINESS PARTNER INJURES WOMAN
    When police of Bedford avenue station arrived at the home of Mrs.
Josephine TURKIS, 38, of 387 Grand street early today, they found her
nursing two black eyes and a badly battered face, but were reassured her
injuries were due to a "slight misunderstanding" with her business partner.
    Inquiry failed to reveal who her business partner was, and the police
told her if she wanted action she would have to go to court, and dropped the
case.  She was treated by Ambulance Surgeon FOX at St. Catherine's Hospital.

JUMPS IN RIVER TO OFFSET SPREE
    Edward WINOCK, 56, of 24 Newell street, went down to the pierhead at
North Tenth street early today to "cool off" from the effects of a spree,
and whether the cooling off involved either a swim or a bit of air, he was
found a few minutes later floundering in the oil-stained waters off the pier
by boatsmen who heard his lusty cries for help.
    Patrolman Andrew LANGERT of Bedford avenue station administered first
aid, and he was removed to Greenpoint Hospital, where he stood the
possibility of developing pneumonia.

6 November 1931
WOOD TRUNKS YIELD RELICS
    A six-volume set of "The Works of Mr. William Shakespeare" is among the
latest of the treasures found in the trunks of Mrs. Ida E. WOOD, millionaire
recluse, which are being searched by contestants in the will of her husband,
Benjamin WOOD.
    Printed in 1732 "For Jacob TONSON in the Strand" the calf-bound books
are limited to 150 subscribers.  They contain a foreword by Ben JONSON, "To
the memory of my favorite author."
    Each of the volumes bears the crest of "George ARNOLD, esquire, one of
the gentlemen of his majesty's most honorable privy chamber."
    An autograph album bearing the name of the late former President Grover
CLEVELAND, with names of other notables of about the same period, was among
the treasures.
    Several books by Edgar Allen POE, believed to be first editions, also
were found.
    Other articles included more of Mrs. WOOD's old gowns and other articles
of clothing, bolts of cloth, many copies of the defunct New York Daily News,
and many cakes of soap, gathered from hotels, railways and shops here and abroad.

7 November 1931
THUG SNATCHES $776 PAYROLL FROM GIRL
    Police of Charles street station, Manhattan, are looking for the bandit
who, shortly before noon, snatched an envelope containing a payroll of
$776.40 from Florence GORDON, 24, of 1451 Fifty-second street, employed as a
bookkeeper in the firm of Kaplan and Lapan, 330 Hudson street, Manhattan.
The robbery occurred a few doors from the office as she was returning with
the money from the Central Hanover Bank, Varick and Clarkson streets.

10 November 1931
POLICE SEEK CLUE TO COMA VICTIM
    Detectives of Bedford avenue station were trying today to establish the
identity of a man found unconscious on the sidewalk in front of 146
Metropolitan avenue shortly after midnight today by Patrolman Cornelius
MULRANEY.  He was attended by an ambulance surgeon from St. Catherine's
Hospital and removed to Kings County Hospital.  The reason for his condition
has not yet been determined.
    The man is about 60 years old, five feet six inches tall, weighs 140
pounds, with black hair, and was wearing a black suit of clothes, black
overcoat, black shoes and socks and is smooth shaven.  His eyes are blue.

TEN ARE SEIZED IN HOFBRAU RAID
    Ten prisoners, seized in a prohibition raid on JANSSEN's Hofbrau, at
1680 Broadway, Manhattan, last night, were to be arraigned before a U.S.
Commissioner today on charges of possession and sale of beer and liquor.
The raid was made by five Federal agents during the dinner hour at the
Hofbrau, when about 150 patrons were dining.  They were permitted to pay
their checks and leave.
    Those arrested included:
Albert ABREVAYA, 40, of 85-32 159th street, Queens, the manager.
Charles GEIBER, 44, of 61 Olans road, Lynbrook, L.I., head waiter.
Herman ELLENBERG, 49, of 1514 Grand Concourse, the Bronx, captain of the waiters.
Harry TRIMBORA, 27, of 461 Forty-sixth street.
BARTENDER ACCUSED IN GREENPOINT RAID

    James KIERNAN, 50, 1066 Putnam avenue, who says he is a bartender, was
scheduled for a hearing in Federal court today on a charge of violating the
Volstead Act.  He was taken into custody late last night in an alleged
speakeasy on the first floor of a three-story brick dwelling at 2 Lombardy
street by Federal Agent Fred KEATING.  A quantity of supposed whiskey and
wine was confiscated and taken to the Herbert street station house.

DETECTIVE SEEKS GUN VIOLATORS
    Continuing the drive against storekeepers in Williamsburg who have
revolvers without permits, Detective Harold FATTING of the Main Office
Squad, yesterday, entered the bakery of Giromonco LICARI at 522 Marcy avenue
and said he found an unloaded .32 calibre pistol in a rear room.
    LICARI, 39, was arraigned before Magistrate CASEY in Bridge Plaza court
on a charge of violating the Sullivan law.  He pleaded not guilty and was
held in $500 for a hearing next Wednesday.

RUBBERS PREVENT DEATH IN SUBWAY
    A pair of rubbers worn by Joseph KAZACMORSKI, 42, a chauffeur, of 219
Avenue A, Manhattan, saved his life, when he fell on the third rail of the
Fourteenth street subway line at the Driggs avenue station at 3 A.M. today.
    KAZACMORSKI was standing on the edge of the platform when he was seized
with an attack of vertigo and fell to the tracks.  His right hand fell
across the third rail.
    John WARDERMAN, of 7112 Sixty-seventh place, Glendale, called to others
for help, and they were able to get KAZACMORSKI back on the platform in time
to prevent him from being hit by the train which roared into the station.
He was attended by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital for second
degree burns on the hand and lacerations of the right eye and scalp.  He was
able to go home.

11 November 1931
MANIAC SOUGHT FOR THIRD FIRE IN TWO YEARS
Thrilling Rescues Made as Sleepers Are Trapped by Flames
    Five persons lost their lives, eight persons were burned or injured, and
six firemen and a like number of policemen were forced out of action in a
fire which partially destroyed an antiquated frame tenement at 217-219
Throop avenue, early today.
    THE DEAD
Mrs. Esther CHUDOW, 36
Natalie CHUDOW, 3, her daughter
Lawrence CHUDOW, 13 months, her son
Mrs. Lena WEBB, 35
Ethel WEBB, 7 months, her daughter
    THE INJURED
Morris CHUDOW, 41, fractured right ankle, to hospital
Fanny CHUDOW, 10, his daughter, burns, to hospital
Beatrice CHUDOW, 8, another daughter, burns
Anthony NICOTERA, 34, burns, to hospital
Catherine NICOTERA, 26, his wife, burns, to hospital
Fred NICOTERA, 4, burns, to hospital
Anthony NICOTERA, Jr., 18 months, burns, to hospital
Thomas WEBB, smoke, to hospital.
    FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN OVERCOME
Fire Lieut. Frank ROSS
Fireman Edward BRANT
John GILROY
Elmer BROWN
Joseph HUGHES
Herman VOORHEES
(All of Engine Company 102)
Sergt. Elmer JOSEPH
Patrolman John BURNS
Joseph KASLOWSKY
John KURZAKE
Emil EHFELDER
John SALAYKA
(All of the Clymer street station)
    This is the third fire in two years in this building.  All started in
baby carriages parked in the rear of the hallway.
    Police, convinced of the incendiary origin of the blazes, are making a
searching investigation.
    The fire broke out at 1:30 A.M. today.  One of the three baby carriages
in which it started was parked against the rear dumb waiter shaft, the door
of which was open.  The blaze was not discovered until flames and smoke had
shot up the shaft and mushroomed out on all four floors of the building.
    The first fire apparatus arrived on the scene almost immediately and a
second alarm was turned in.  Fireman, aided by patrolmen from the Clymer
street station dashed again and again into the smoke filled hallways and up
the darkened stairs, arousing the fifty or more tenants of the building.  In
several cases the occupants of an apartment were all unconscious from smoke
or paralyzed with terror and it was necessary to break down doors to get at
them.  The were carried down extension ladders.
    Three emergency police wagons as well as those from the Brooklyn Union
Gas Company and the Brooklyn Edison Company were rushed to the scene and
emergency first aid depots were set up in nearby stores.  Oxygen was
administered to those overcome by smoke.  After all had been carried out it
was discovered that five were beyond human aid.
    Of one whole family of six, that of Morris CHUDOW, three were dead and
three were injured.  CHUDOW himself, when he found himself unable to succor
his family and believing them all dead, leaped from the third story window
and broke his right ankle.
    Firemen later forced their way in and carried out the others.  Others
leaped from lower floors but escaped serious injury.
    Ambulances were on the scene from Beth Moses, Cumberland, St. John's and
St. Catharine's hospitals, and afterward, carried those needing hospital
treatment to Kings County Hospital.  No account was kept of other tenants in
the building who had to be treated for smoke.
    The damage was estimated at $15,000 and the entire rear of the building
was destroyed.
    Fire Marshal Thomas BROPHY and police officials are making a thorough
investigation of the cause.
    TENANT'S OWN STORY
    "I was awakened shortly after one this morning by my wife, Mary," said
James CASO, who lives on the first floor right.  "She said she was choking
and that there must be a fire some place, because the house was filling up
with smoke."  I got up, went into the hallway, and found the rear of the
building in flames.  In picked up my two children, Thomas, 9, and Arthur, 5,
and pushing my wife in front of me, made my way out of the building,
shouting "fire" at the top of my voice.  When I tried to get back in the
building after leaving my family with friends, I was unable to do so because
the smoke was so thick, and the flames had spread to every part of the lower
floor.  I never saw a fire spread so quickly.
    According to Assistant District Attorney Sigismund TRAPANI, who is
making an investigation, five fires have started in the lower hallway during
the past three years.  Whether they were of incendiary origin he was unable
to say.
    "This information comes to me from neighbors," said the Assistant
District Attorney, "and I am checking up on it thoroughly, to learn whether
or not someone has been setting the fires.  They may have been accidents,
but it doesn't look that way to me."
    Arthur DRUMMER, 14, who lives on the second floor, said he heard the
cries of CASO, awakened his family, and assisted them into the street.
    OTHER EYE-WITNESSES
    "Before we could reach the street, we had to fight out way through smoke
and flames," he said.  "I thought I was going to be lost, for I began
choking and my head began to swim, but I kept going and finally collapsed on
the sidewalk."
    James J. Farrell of 226 Throop avenue, diagonally across the street from
the fire, said he was seated in the front room of his home when he saw smoke
coming from the top of the building followed a minute later by a tongue of
flame.
    "I ran into the street, and up the stairway, and was able to help out
some of the tenants before I had to quit because I was choking with smoke,"
he said.  He further stated that after recovering from the effects of the
smoke that he assisted volunteer rescuers in applying first aid treatment to
those overcome by smoke, until the arrival of the firemen, policemen, and
ambulance surgeons.
    Lost in the fire was a prize dog, owned by CASO, named "Teddy," which
was trapped in a kitchen closet.

SEVEN QUEENS VILLAGE STORES SWEPT BY FIRE
    Fire of undetermined origin late last night swept seven storerooms in
Queens Village, one of them being on Ninety-first avenue and the others on
Rocky Hill road.
    The fire, for which only one alarm was turned in originated in the
butcher shop of Martin RICH, at 242-01 Rocky Hill road.  From there the
flames spread through the block, gutting the tailor shop of Samuel BURG at
242-03; the vacant storeroom at 242-05; John MARRIANO's barber shop at
242-07; Louis MARRIANO's fruit market, at 242-09, and John RIMMEL's store at
242-01.
    All were one-story brick and frame structures.  The fire also spread to
a two-story frame building at 242-02 Ninety-first avenue, the ground floor
of which was occupied by Rubin DOCKSTEIN as a tailor shop.  The second floor
was unoccupied.
    All seven buildings were owned by Dorothy DOCKSTEIN, of 8652 Saratoga
avenue, Bellerose, L.I., wife of Rubin DOCKSTEIN.
    The fire was discovered at 10:50 and was not under control until after
midnight.    The damage was estimated at about $50,000.

PROBE LABOR TROUBLE IN THEATER BLAZE
    An investigation was ordered today into a fire in the Lincoln Square
Arcade Building, at Broadway and Fifty-sixth street, Manhattan, which tied
up midtown rush hour traffic for two hours and endangered 300 patrons of a
theater in the structure.  Damage was estimated at $25,000.  The picture
house patrons, most of whom were children, filed out in an orderly fashion,
under the guidance of the manager and ushers.  Reports of labor trouble led
the investigation.

14 November 1931
NIECE OF ONE-TIME PROSECUTOR MAKES FIND IN ATTIC
    When Miss Annie GIBNEY, of 172-12 Ninety-third avenue, Jamaica, niece of
the late Judge John FLEMING, leaves on the Ile de France today to begin her
European tour she will do so with a clear conscience.
    Lieut. Gustave SEEGARS, presiding behind the desk in the Jamaica station
house, almost jumped from his chair when Miss GIBNEY walked in shortly
before 9:30 P.M. last night, placed a neatly wrapped package on his desk and
declared:
    "Those are murder weapons, lieutenant."
    Miss GIBNEY explained that her uncle was District Attorney of Queens
County in 1883 and later became a judge in Special Sessions.  She stated
that these weapons, some of them used in famous murder cases of that day,
had been in her uncle's possession as mementos after he had prosecuted the
cases.  Two weeks ago as she was preparing for a trip abroad she came across
an old safe in the attic of her home and found these weapons, dusty and
rusty, on one of the shelves.
ODD ASSORTMENT
    Too busy to turn them over to the authorities, Miss GIBNEY decided to
turn them over to the police last night.  In the package was an iron mallet
weighing about five pounds, an eight inch bread knife in a leather sheath, a
pair of brass knuckles with spikes, a small pair of scissors, a five-inch
butcher knife and a short stubby screw driver.
    The most interesting weapon in the collection, Miss GIBNEY said was the
iron mallet.  It was used back in '83 by a Negro named Charles RUGG to kill
the MABIE sisters on their farm near Hempstead, L.I. at that time a part of
Queens County.  Authorities at the time also claimed that RUGG had used the
same weapon to kill the ROSAMBLANCE sister and brother and an unidentified man.
    RUGG was captured shortly afterward and after being convicted with Judge
FLEMING as the District Attorney, was placed in the Queens County jail to
await execution.  He escaped by striking the keeper over the head and was
subsequently captured in a church steeple by an Astoria constable.  RUGG
paid the penalty when he was hanged in the Queens County jail by Sheriff MONTAVOY.
OTHER EXHIBITS
    A piece of pink faded ribbon held a small slip attached to the meal
knuckles.  It read:
    "Exhibit No. 2 - Identified as taken from Emil SCHUTTO on the morning of
Aug. 25, 1888 - John G. SCHEFRE, Justice of Peace, Queens County."
    One of the knives simple said "BAHR Case."  Miss GIBNEY could throw
little light on this case but said that her uncle had told her of the crime
but she couldn't recall the details.
    When Miss GIBNEY left the station house she said that she was relieved
because the presence of the weapons in the house made her nervous.  Asked if
Friday the 13th had anything to do with her decision she said that it hadn't
and besides it was her lucky day.
    Judge FLEMING made a remarkable record while district attorney on the
bench.  He died in 1918 at the age of 73.

16 November 1931
TWO BOYS HURT IN MOVIE MELEE
    John VANVITTA, 17, of 1659 Eighty-sixth street, was in United Israel
Zion Hospital today with a slight stab wound in his neck and John SASANO,
18, of 8707 Eleventh avenue, was at home nursing slight stab wounds in his
left arm, the result of a fracas in the lobby of Loew's Borough Park Theater
late yesterday.  The theater was located at 46 New Utrecht avenue.
    The fight, which is believed to have been started by neighborhood
hoodlums, was over almost as soon as it started.  Dr. GROVE treated both
youths and removed VANVITTA to the hospital.

WOMAN, 305 POUNDS, TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
    Police worked more than an hour today carrying a woman heart-trouble
patient down three flights of stairs from her home and placing her in a
Bushwick Hospital ambulance.  She weighed 305 pounds.
    When the woman, Mrs. Louise WEST, 58, suffered an attack early today,
her husband, Frederick, summoned Patrolman John SCHURGA from the Gates
avenue station to the home on the fourth floor of 790 Gates avenue.
    Emergency Squad 15 carried the woman downstairs in a chair, while Dr.
WARREN, from Bushwick Hospital, directed them.

BELLE OF OLD WILLIAMSBURG SEES MODERN GIRL SLIPPING
Mrs. OLIVER Blames Speed, Cigarettes and Can Opener Age
    Speed, and plenty of it, with a cigarette or cocktail breakfast, dinner
and supper with a "canned meal hot from a delicatessen store," is ruining
the young women of the present generation, in the opinion of Mrs. Mary
OLIVER of 114 Harrison avenue.
    Today the young woman makes a companion instead of a sweetheart of her
husband, they see very little of each other and when they are together for
any great length of time they are bored with each other," she said.  "I am
not against the present style of dress for women if it were not carried to
extreme."
    Mrs. OLIVER and her husband, George, are celebrating their golden
wedding anniversary.  They reached their half century of happiness on Nov.
1, and at that time a big celebration was held at the home of their married
daughter, Mrs. Frank TREMMER, at 622 Twentieth street.
    But it seems that was only the beginning of a series of fetes in honor
of the event.  Every night since there has been a crowd of well wishers at
the home of the couple and a reception is held.  Last night there was
another reception, and Mrs. OLIVER says she is sure that it will end the
celebrating.
    SHORT, MERRY LIVES
    Mr. OLIVER smiled blandly at his wife and said that he agreed with every
word she said about the young women of today.
    "I am afraid that the old-fashioned woman is becoming extinct," he said.
"The young women of today spend most of their time running from one
amusement place to another.  They have no time to think about motherhood or
taking care of a home.  Their lives are short and merry ones."
    Mrs. OLIVER admits, blushing a bit, that she fell in love with her
husband at first sight.  And here is how it was:  They were at a dance.  She
was going after her wraps.  She looked at her husband, who was with a group
of young fellows.  She tripped and was falling when he caught her.
    They were married at the Church of the Annunciation at Havemeyer street
and Metropolitan avenue.  Nine children blessed their union.  Four are still
living.  Besides Mrs. TREMMER they are Mrs. Frank LEVENS, Mrs. George SMITH
and John OLIVER.  There are nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
    WORKED WITH McCOOEY
    Mr. and Mrs. OLIVER were born in the old Fourteenth Ward.  Mr. OLIVER is
72 years old and his wife is seven years his junior.  They are in the best
of health.  Mr. OLIVER worked alongside the late Senator P.H. McCARREN and
Democratic County Leader John H. McCOOEY.
    Up to eight years ago he held a responsible position with a Manhattan
iron foundry.  He was injured one night on his way home.  His left leg was
broken by an automobile and he was compelled to retire.  The driver of the
auto kept on going and was never apprehended.
    Mr. OLIVER says he has witnessed all the changes made in Williamsburg,
and while he was sorry to see the old buildings go and replaced by modern
structures, he realized that the campaign of progress knows no sentiment.

17 November 1931
Habitual Drinker Adopts Homeless Sister as Court Opens Way
    Two women were united in the common cause of helping each other today,
after their aimless paths brought them together before Magistrate SABBATINO
in Fifth avenue court.
    One of them, Mrs. Mary BRACKEN, 65, had committed no crime or
misdemeanor.  She simply had no home and no food, for she had outlived three
children from whom support might have come, so her greatest wish was that
the magistrate would send her away for six months for vagrancy to spare her
the hardship of another winter.
    Meanwhile Mrs. Nellie KENNEDY, also 50, was waiting in court to be heard
on a charge of intoxication for the sixty-third time since 1914.  Jail held
no horrors for Nellie, for she had spent nine of the last seventeen years of
her life in jail, all because of her love for the cup that cheers.
    Interested, she said to the magistrate, "Judge, may I make a
suggestion."
    "Sure, Nellie," he replied.
    "Well, judge," she said, "I have a good home.  I know I'm going away.
Why don't you let this woman stay in my home?"
    "Nellie," Magistrate SABBATINO said, "you're not going away, when you
make such a suggestion as that.  Will you take care of this lady and see
that she gets food and sleep?"
    "Indeed, I will, judge," she said.
    "Sentence suspended."  Whereupon the two, Nellie, presenting an odd
picture garbed in a man's coat, a cap and sneakers, left together.

20 November 1931
TWO BORO MEN WIN AWARDS IN SAVING OF LIFE
Telephone Employes Use Schaeffer* Method to Rescue Pair
    Miles REDMOND of 292 Maple street and Fred BENTE of 3613 Avenue D,
employes of the Plant Department of the New York Telephone Company, received
awards for first aid work from the National Safety Council at a luncheon
yesterday at the Granada Hotel, Ashland place and Lafayette avenue.  The
awards were presented by A. DEMUTH, division plant superintendent of the New
York Telephone Company.
    The president's medal of the National Safety Council was awarded to
REDMOND and BENTE for outstanding cases of resuscitation by the Shaeffer*
method of artificial respiration after the victims' breathing had entirely
stopped.
    Miles REDMOND was in the basement of the apartment house at 115 Willow
street when the superintendent of the building informed him that
illuminating gas was coming from the apartment occupied by Collins B. SCOTT.
Opening the door he found Mrs. SCOTT lying on the kitchen floor apparently dead.
    After turning off the gas, he carried Mrs. SCOTT and placed her near an
open window and began to apply artificial respiration, her breathing being
entirely suspended.  By the time an ambulance and emergency police arrived,
Mrs. SCOTT was breathing again and shortly regained consciousness.  The
ambulance surgeon was very favorably impressed by REDMOND's presence of mind.
    On July 13th, Fred BENTE was visiting his family at Beach Lake, Pa, when
he learned a young man had been pulled out of the lake and was unconscious.
    BENTE ran for his first aid kit and hurried to the beach.  A quick
inspection showed that the man had a large cut on the top of his head and
that breathing had stopped.  BENTE then ordered an ambulance and immediately
started artificial respiration.  Doctor arrived and seeing what BENTE was
doing told him to keep up the good work while he patched up the man's head.
    After an hour and a half, BENTE began to tire but could find no one to
relieve him.  The doctor observed signs of breathing and told BENTE to try
to keep it up.  After another twenty or thirty minutes, the man was able to
breathe and in a short time could talk.  The man died later of a broken neck
sustained while diving into the lake.
    Both BENTE and REDMOND were presented with American Red Cross
certificates of merit during this past summer.

24 November 1931
    Mrs. Percy R. GRAY of 12 Clark street was hostess to the members of the
National League for Women's Service, of which Mrs. Walter GIBB, now of 920
Fifth avenue, Manhattan, is chairman.
    Plans were made for the league's chief event of its year, the annual
theater party.  This winter it is to take place on the night of Tuesday,
Jan. 26.  This theater party, which is one of the most widely known in New
York and has been given each winter for a number of years, is for the
purpose of raising funds for the work of the league, now undertakes the
providing of comforts and luxuries for the ex-service men now in government
hospitals close to New York, veterans of the World War, who though fifteen
years have passed since the Armistice, are still uncured.  The league has a
special committee for visiting these hospitals frequently.
    There were present at this league meeting :
Mrs. Walter GIBBS, 
Mrs. S. Edwin BUCHANAN, 
Miss Minnie Belle GEARY, 
Mrs. Edward C. BLUM, 
Mrs. Walter Monfort MESEROLE, 
Mrs. Robert Gerard WILLIAMS, 
Mrs. Cromwell CHILDE, 
Miss Mabel T. CROSBY, 
Mrs. Percy R. GRAY.
    Plans were made not only for the theater party but for a tea, to be held
at Mrs. GIBB's home on the afternoon of Dec. 7.  This tea is to further the
work of the theater party.  A feature of this year, in connection with the
league's work, is the establishment of a new active committee, which will
consist of twenty-five Brooklyn and Manhattan women. 
 	The chairman of this active committee is Mrs. Walter Monfort MESEROLE.
Others of note in the league, which, so far as is known, is the only
feminine organization of Great War times still functioning, are :
Mrs. S. Edwin BUCHANAN, 
Mrs. John ANDERSON, 
Mrs. Thomas L. LEEMING, 
Mrs. Henry H. ESSELSTYN :
	(who is chairman of the ex-service men's committee, 
	 which visits the hospitals), 
Mrs. Harrison CADY, 
Mrs. James Guthre SHAW, 
Mrs. Burt Foss NICHOLS, 
Mrs. Frederick D. MacKAY, 
Miss Caroline Deming CAMP, 
Mrs. Lewis Mills GIBB, 
Mrs. Jacob H. SHAFFER, 
Mrs. William Hamlin CHILDS, 
Mrs. J.J. Broes VAN HEEKEREN, 
Mrs. Edward T. HORWILL, 
Mrs. Eugene J. GRANT, 
Mrs. Charles E. SPRATT, 
Mrs. Edwin Moore CRAGIN, 
Mrs. Charles A. HOUGH 
Mrs. Spencer A. JENNINGS.

25 November 1931
COAST ARTILLERY PARADES FOR SPANISH WAR VETERANS AND GIVES SERVICES MEDALS
5,000 Persons Present at Tribute in Sumner Avenue Armory
    The presentation of sixty-one regimental long service medals and 119 100
per-cent duty bars, and the awarding of two regimental trophies featured the
first review of the Guard season for the 245th Coast Artillery, tendered
last night to the United Spanish War Veterans of Kings and Queens Counties
at the artillerymen's armory, Sumner and Jefferson avenues.
    The review, an annual tribute to the Spanish War veterans of the old
Thirteenth Regiment, was taken by Alfred J. KENNEDY, department commander of
New York.  More than 5,000 persons jammed the balcony and floor as the 900
men and officers, comprising the present day regiment, and about 500 Spanish
War veterans paraded before the reviewing stand.
    The khaki-colored service uniforms of the artillerymen contrasted
sharply with the distinctive veteran's uniforms - blue coats, gray trousers
and blue caps - many of whom also wore the famed "Rough Riders" attire.
                   BAND CONCERT
    The event opened with a concert by the regimental band and then a review
of the troops  Colonel Breyer H. PENDRY, commanding, by Alfred J. KENNEDY.
The veterans were led by Grand Marshall William A. DAWKINS, past department
commander, whose staff included Charles P. SHINN, chief of staff, and
Charles ENDERLE, adjutant.
    The review, which was very short, was followed by infantry drill
competition consisting of picked squads from each battery.  The crowd then
witnessed an exciting half mile inter-battery handicap relay race.  Evening
parade by the regiment under Lieut.-Colonel Robert P. ORR, followed.
    At the conclusion of the evening parade the Colonel PENDRY trophy, for
general efficiency during the last summer period at Camp Wright, was awarded
to Battery L, commanded by Captain William PABST.  The Artillery trophy, for
the highest score at target practice last summer at Camp Wright, was given
to Battery C., Captain Herman F. HEESCH, commanding.
                         MEDALS AWARDED
    Recipients of the long service medals for 10, 15 and 20 years service
were as follows:
    Captain Walter P. ALEXANDER, Battery H, 20 year medal.
    Captain E.J. RICHARDS, Battery F. and Sergeant Joseph A. McMAHON,
Headquarters Battery, received 15 year medals.
    The ten year medals went to:
    Captain Charles W. ROEDE, chaplain.
    First Lieut. Vincent A. BATES, Battery I.
    Technical Sergeant Claude A. WHITE, Headquarters Battery.
    Staff Sergeant James BOYLE.
    First Sergeant Sidney A. ADLER.
    Sergeants John DUDLEY, Joseph A. WALKER and John J. LEWIS, all of Battery C.

    There were 49 five-year medals and 119 regimental one hundred per-cent
duty bars distributed amongst the members of the various batteries.
    At the close of the review there was dancing on the armory floor and
officers and their guests reception in the officers' quarters.  Department
Commander Alfred J. KENNEDY retired to Battery L quarters where he had a
reunion with the Spanish War Veterans with whom he served.

27 November 1931
CIRCLE TO DINE LAW GRADUATES
    Nine members of the Myob-Fict Circle are to be honored by the members of
the association at a testimonial dinner in the Roof Garden of the Hotel St.
George next Sunday evening.  Vincent DiGUIDA is chairman of the dinner
committee.
    The six young men who have recently completed their professional studies
for the practice of law are:  
John P. BALONE, 
Anthony CINAO, 
Frank LEUCI,
Anthony J. LUONGO, 
Frank P. LUONGO, and Angelo PISANI.

Peter DiBRIENZA, Vito L. LUONGO and Samuel RUMORE have entered their
practice of medicine.  Plans for the dinner include speeches by Supremen
Court Justice Mitchell MAY and Edward M. CORSI, U.S. Immigration
Commissioner.  The toastmaster will be Magistrate Gasper J. LIOTA.

FOOTPADS ATTACK COUPLE IN STREET
    Two unidentified men, wielding bludgeons, made an unprovoked attack upon
James SHERAN and George MODI, both of 975 Washington avenue, on Hudson
avenue, near DeKalb avenue early yesterday.  After first aid treatment at
the scene of the attack, SHERAN was taken to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment
of a severe head injury.  MODI went home after a laceration near his left
eye had been patched up.

28 November 1931
CUTS HER WRISTS AT PARK ENTRANCE
Mrs. Egoohy VARTERESIAN, 40, and separated from her husband, attempted
suicide this afternoon at the Ocean avenue entrance to Prospect Park, by
slashing her wrists with a razor blade and drinking a bottle of poison.  A
patrolman heard her screams, summoned an ambulance, and sent her to
Caledonia Hospital.  There she said she wanted to die.  She was taken to
Kings County Hospital.
        Mrs. VARTERESIAN lives at 1122 East Thirty-fourth street.

ONE DROWNED, FIVE RESCUED AS CAR PLUNGES IN GOWANUS
Boys Failed to Heed "Dead End" Street Warning
    One boy was drowned and five others were rescued suffering from exposure
and submersion early today when the automobile in which they were riding
went through an eighteen-inch stringpiece at the foot of Degraw street and
into the Gowanus Canal.
    The dead boy is William Gilmore, 17, of 672 Hancock street.  Rescuers
worked from shortly after midnight when the accident occurred, until about
10 A.M. to locate the boy's body.  It was taken to Butler street police
station for official identification.  The five rescued and taken to Kings
County Hospital for further treatment of their minor injuries are:
        Duncan MAGGIO, 18, of 674 McDonough street
        Morris GILL, 18, of 721 Jefferson avenue
        Peter MURPHY, 17, of 752 Jefferson avenue
        Nicholas PROCE, 18, of 873 Halsey street
                Basketball Team
    The six boys were all members of a basketball team recruited from the
Bushwick section and were all... (article ends here)
[transcriber's note:  only four names were listed even though the articles
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