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2 SEPTEMBER 1931
Veteran Quits Army at 70, Given Easy Chair by Friends
Ozone Park man had been civilian employee last forty-three years
Fifty-three years after he joined the old third of U. S. artillery at Fort 
Hamilton, Frank W.  Krause, of 9717 81st Street, ozone Park, Long Island, 
was placed on the retired list today at Governors Island upon reaching the 
statutory agent of 70.
For the past forty-three years he has been on duty as a civil service 
employee on Governors Island, the last eleven of which has been as an 
attache of the office of the ordinance officer of the second corps area.
Congratulatory messages reached him during the day from scores of army 
officers to whom he was affectionately known.  These included letters from 
Major General William Crozier, formerly chief of ordinance for the Army, 
and Major General Samuel Hof, present head of the ordinance department at 
Washington.  His retirement papers were handed Mr. Krause by Lt. Col. 
Norman F. Ramsey, ordinance officer of the Second Corps area.  Associates 
presented him with an easy chair.
During his long government service Mr. Krause served in the Fifth Artillery 
at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and at Castle William on Governors Island as 
an enlisted member of the regular army.  When he joined the Third Artillery 
at Fort Hamilton in 1878 the post long since grown obsolete as a fortified 
garrison, was an important point in the coast defenses of the city.  In 
August, 1888, Mr. Krause became a civilian employee at New York arsenal and 
soon afterwards was transferred to Governors Island.

4 September 1931
CHARLES SISCO, 70, FOUND IN STREET
 Detectives of the Bedford avenue station are trying to find the home 
of Charles SISCO, 70, who was picked up unconscious at Broadway and 
Havemeyer street late last night.  Conflicting reports were that 
he had been thrown from an auto after being beaten and that he 
was a victim of a hit-run driver.
 He was carried into a store where his name and age were learned 
from a card in his hat-band, but there was no indication of his 
address.  He was taken to St. Catharine's Hospital where he 
was in a serious condition.

Title of article cut off
(It concerns the "shaking down" of speakeasies)
 Information that several ex-patrolman were "shking down" (as written) 
proprietors of speakeasies in Brooklyn came to the detective 
division today following the arrest of 
James CAHILL, 25, of 122 East 31st Street and 
Walter HERWIG, 24, of 338 Linclon place, on charges of extortion.
 CAHILL, dismissed from the department two years ago on an assault 
charge and now out on $2,500 bail on a grand larceny charge, 
is said to have presented himself, with HERWIG, as coming from 
the chief inspector's staff and to have obtained 
$15 from William McPHEE, a restaurant keeper at 228 Ashland place.

BRONX MAN SEIZED AS QUEENS BANDIT
Charged with assault and robbery, Anthony SAVIA, 28, of 49 Morris avenue, 
Bronx, will be given a hearing in Ridgewood magistrate's court today.

According to police he is one of two men who on Aug. 19 waylaid 
John B. FURLONG, realtor, in front of his home at 109-10 Penbrooke 
place, Kew Gardens, threw a bog over his head and carried him off 
in an automobile.  They then robbed him of a watch and chain and 
$25 in cash and threw him from the car.

8 September 1931
PHONES POLICE, THEN VETERAN TAKES POISON
Jobless Man Tries to End Domestic Troubles But May Recover
 Patrolman John McKILLOP, attached to the telegraph bureau at Brooklyn 
Headquarters, plugged in on a telephone line early today and was told by a 
man at the other end of the wire that he was going to commit suicide.
 "I wouldn't do that," urged the patrolman.  "You'll probably get a job if you 
happened to be out of work".
 "Well, that's what I'm going to do", said the man at the other end of the 
wire.
 The man hung up the receiver when McKILLOP had another officer plug in to 
find out where the call was being made form.  But by that time the other 
patrolman had obtained the number.
Two patrolmen of the Ralph avenue station later forced their way into an 
apartment at 712A Monroe street, where they found Alonzo GEDNEY, 30 a World 
War veteran lying on  the floor.  He apparently had swallowed the contents of 
a small iodine bottle lying on the floor beside him.  He was taken to the 
Kings County Hospital, where his condition was said to be critical.
 He left notes to his mother, in whose apartment he was found and also to his 
wife Ann, who lives at 870 Macon street. 
The letter read:
"Dear Ann - 
I don't want a military funeral because heroes don't kill themselves".
 In the note to his mother he wrote:  "I wanted to be a big shot".
Police say domestic trouble prompted the alleged suicide attempt.

BOY SHOT IN PLAY WALKED 6 HOURS
 After walking about the streets for 6 hours with a bullet embedded in his 
abdominal wall, Oscar ANDERSON, 16, of 2821 West 17th street, is in Coney 
Island Hospital today as the result, he says, of the accidental discharge of 
a gun in the hands of a friend.
 According to the story ANDERSON told police of the Coney Island station, he 
and Peter SCALO, 16, of 2816 West 15th street, where playing with a small gun 
in the laundry of the Atlantic Baths at the foot of W. 8th street, when the 
weapon as accidentally discharged and the bullet grazed ANDERSON's stomach, 
lodging just beneath the outer layer of skin.
 That happened at the 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon and at 11:30 last night 
ANDERSON called up his uncle Rudolph HILLEBRENNER, a plumber of 2623 East 
11th street, for whom he works and said that he would not be at work in the 
morning because he had been shot.

WOMAN INJURED IN TRAIN FALL
 Returning from a week-end vacation, Gladys MILNER, 25 of 87 3rd street, 
Mineola was injured by a Long Island Railroad train at the Jamaica station 
when she fell between the train and the platform.  Conductor R. W. MATHEWS 
called Dr. STILLERMAN of Jamaica Hospital, who found the women had sustained 
fracture of the ribs and right fool.  She was taken home.

COIN BOX THEFT IS LAD TO PAIR   
A man and a woman were arraigned before Magistrate Steers in the Coney Island 
court yesterday on charges of petty larceny in staling nickels and coin box 
telephones in the Washington Baths, West 21st and Boardwalk, Coney Island.
 The man accused of having stuffed the coin chute with a piece of paper and 
later extracting the obstruction with a wife,  Four nickels, which were 
marked by Sigbert BUSCH an investigator  of the New York Telephone Company, 
where pocketed by Angelo RAULLI, 28, of 161 W. 36th street, whom he had 
arrested.  RAULLI pleaded not guilty.
 The woman beyond giving her name ad Ethel FERGUSON and her age as 35 refused 
to give her address.  She was also accused of stuffing the coin box and later 
removing it and getting several nickels.

YOUTH BEATEN, TWO ARRESTED
Charged with assault Sigmund OLESKI, 18 of 21 Driggs avenue and John 
KARBOWSKI, 20 of 341 Kingland avenue, will be give a hearing today in Bridge 
plaza court.
 They were arrested last  night on the complaint of Matthew J. CALE, Jr., 21, 
of 4511 40th street, Woodside, who says that the two defendants jumped on him 
and beat him at the corner of Calyer and Oakland streets.  CALE was treated 
for his injuries by an ambulance surgeon of Greenpont Hospital.

HOMEWARD-BOUND HOLIDAY AND VACATION CROWDS JAM TRAFFIC LANES INTO CITY
Train Service Taxed  --- Autos Creep --- Many Mishaps Result
 The rear guard of the vacation army was still headed homeward today.  
Automobile arteries were heavy with traffic while the railroad depots 
continued crowded with labor Day weekenders coming in and going out.
 Continued good weather accelerated the general bustle and if persons (who 
could afford it) were loath to settle down to the everyday grind.  While it 
is estimated that 2,000,000 persons and participated in the lats hegira of 
the season, the cost was heavy in twelve deaths and scores of injuries, 
mostly the result of automobile accidents in the metropolitan area.
 This borough maintained a dignified calm all day yesterday, the streets 
downtown being deserted until the evening hours approached when the tide of 
returning vacationists began to sweep over the bridges.  Prospect Park was 
thronged, but not unduly so, and only the usual holiday crowds on the B. M. 
T. were reminders that the beaches had received their quota of holiday 
business.
 Figures as to the amount of business on the railroads were comparative, the 
Long Island Maintaining, that his year held up remarkably well with last.
    AIRPORT DRAWS MANY
The ferries to Staten Island and Rockaway ran at full quota during the entire 
week end , but the most noticeable pickup was at the Floyd Bennett Flying 
Field and at the other fields in Queens and Nassau.
 Air ferries running from Newark Airport to Brooklyn conveyed 500 person and 
turned away 312.  Other hundred made the recently started ferry circuit of 
North Beach, Newark and Floyd Bennett Field.
 Brooklyn's theaters, moving picture and legitimate did good business last 
night.  Flatbush avenue extension and Fulton street representing Times Square 
on a small scale.  Manhattan was a bee hive all day and far into the night, 
the number of tourists arriving from out of town to take in the sights being 
estimated at 500,000.  The streets were crowded and the restaurants and 
theaters all reported good business.  Reluctance to leave accounted in large 
measure for the traffic today.
 Two hundred additional members of the Nassau County police force remained on 
duty directing an almost continuous stream of automobiles.  The traffic was 
unusually heavy on the Sunrise highway.  Nassau boulevard, Jericho turnpike 
and various connecting roads.  The police departments of the villages also 
aided in handling the close packed lane of cars.

STATE TROOPERS BUSY
State Troupers patrolled the roads under the jurisdiction of the Long Island 
State Parkway Commission including the Sourthern State Parkway and the roads 
leading to Jones Beach.
 More than 100 extra patrolmen were assigned ot the main traffic highways and 
approaches to the ferries and Hudson Tunnel in Jersey City.  In addition, to 
watching traffic, detectives were on the lookout for known gangsters passing 
trough.
 Each detective had photographs and descriptions of "wanted" men and it was 
believed some of these would be apprehended on their way back to the city 
after vacation.
 One boy was drowned in the metropolitan district, but there was a marked 
absence of drowning among bathers.  The weather was too cool to attract other 
than the most hardy swimmers.

Rudolph PELATTI, 19, living on Jerolemon street, and 
Margaret DOUGHERTY, 15, of 1210 82nd street, 
sustained fractures of the skull when an automobile crashed into three 
others on Riverside drive and 184th street, Manhattan, last night.  
Both are in Jewish Memorial Hospital.

Six firemen were injured last night when a truck of Engine 212 responding to 
a false alarm, collided with a commercial truck on Franklin street near 
Calyer street.
They were:
Captain James A. WALSH, 43, of 15 Gelston avenue, the Bronx.
Fireman Francis DIECK, 39, of 252 Grove street.
Fireman Walter A. McGUIRE,  29, of 2114 Crescent street, Long Island City.
Fireman Albin McNAMARA, 41, of 321 Bainbridge street.
Fireman Thomas F. MORGAN, 32, of 285 Leonard street.
Fireman Stephen McDERMOTT,  48, of 206 Monitor street.  

The commercial truck, owned by the Horton Ice Cream Company of 126 East 131st 
street, Manhattan, was driven by John DSIMONE, of 260 19th street.  he was 
not injured but faces several charges.

Eight persons ere injured last night when two automobiles collided and 
overturned at Rockaway and Linden avenues.  
Samuel GREEN, 23, of 1186 East 180th street, Bronx and 
Peter CASSINI,  39, of 9812 Farragut road, 
were taken to Brownsville and East New York Hospital.

The others injured were Mrs. Ann ROTHMAN, 50, of 1505 East 31st street.
Louis her husband.
Helen HOCHBERG, 18, of 579 Pennsylvania avenue.
Her sister, Ida, 24.
Helen CASSINI, 11.
Eva DE PAOLA,  38,  of 1058 Remsen avenue. 

Three persons were injured when two automobiles collided at Willoughby and 
Tompkins avenues.  They were Irving WEINER, 30, 351 Rockaway parkway;  
William WILENSKY, 27, and his wife Mollie, 24, of 1764 President street.

TROLLEY RAMS AUTO
Two persons suffered fractured ribs and four others were cut and bruised when 
a trolley car struck an automobile at Junction boulevard and Polk avenue, 
Coronoa.  They were 
Mrs. Italia FONDI, 57, of 407 East 116th street, Manhattan,
Mrs. Francis FARALTONE, 44, of 241 East 113th street, Manhattan.

Four persons were injured last night when the automobile in which they were 
riding overturned and caught fire in Rockaway parkway at Avenue J.  They were 
Walter SMITH, 34, of 807 Atlantic avenue, driver of the car;  
Mabel SMITH, 33, his wife:  
Evelyn SMITH, 14, their daughter
Richard ASHBY, 54, of 41 Underhill avenue.

An automobile yesterday ascended the rising leaf of the drawbridge between 
Long Beach and Island Park, successfully hurdled a six foot gap and landed on 
the leaf on the other side only slightly damaged.  Two person who were 
passengers in the care were hurt.

John CONWAY, 58, of the 401 East 154th street, Manhattan, suffered slight 
bruises form the shock of the landing.  Mrs. Nellie CONWAY, 52, his wife 
suffered a broken right arm.  The driver of the car was Orizio LASAGINA, of 
1002 Ocean Parkway, was unhurt.

9 September 1931
FOUR CAPTURED IN GAY TOGS AS HOLDUP GROUP
Payroll Suspects Seized Cruising in Car With Stolen Plates
 Four men wearing golf togs were arrested by police of the Astoria precinct 
today in connection with the theft of a $2,500 payroll in the holdup on Labor 
Day of Meyer LIPSCHITZ in construction shack at 415 Lefferts avenue.
The men said they were:
CHARLES TUCKER, 31, of 135 Amboy street.
GEORGE ELLIS, 23,  of 1255 Blake avenue.
EDWARD GRUBERN, 22, of 2374 Crescent street.
HERMAN KOTTLER, 29, of 2167 33rd street.
TUCKER said he was a peanut vendor, explaining he owned and maintained 
peanut-vending slot machines in candy stores in Brooklyn and Queens.  The 
other three said they were tailor's helpers.
 Detectives said that for the last two or three weeks the four men have been 
riding around Greenpoint, Long Island City and Astoria in an automobile 
bearing stolen license plates.  They wore sport sweaters of baby blue with 
golf sox to match; knickers in pastel shades, and two-colored sport oxfords.
 The detectives said they waited until today to arrest the four men because 
heretofore all four were seldom found together in the automobile.
 The men were questioned at the Astoria staitonshouse regarding the allegedly 
stolen license plates found under the rear seat of the automobile.  From 
information obtained by the detectives, it was thought advisable to summon 
LIPSCHITZ and when he saw the four men according to the Detectives, he 
immediately identified them as the men who held him up, although 
they denied it.
 All four were taken to Manhattan Police Headquarters to appear in a lineup 
and were to be arraigned later in Flatbush court.

STRIP AUTOMOBILE, HELD IN LARCENY
Stripping an automobile of tires and tools resulted in the arrest of Frank 
VARUZZI, 21, of 250 Frost street. and Michael GARUSI, 19, of 78 Cornelia 
street, yesterday by Patrolmen MERGENTHALER and FOLEY, of Bedford avenue 
station, after a three-block chase.
 Arraigned before Magistrate FOLWELL in Bridge plaza court on a charge of 
petit larceny, they pleated not guilty and were held in $500 bail each for 
examination next Tuesday.
 The machine is the property of Anthony VIOLA, of 155 9th street, stolen from 
in front of that address yesterday.  The youths were found removing the tires 
at North 7th street and Union avenue.

PATROLMAN HURT GIVING SUMMONS
 When Patrolman Frank FILLER, 51, of the Wilson avenue stations, tried ot 
serve a summons on Mrs. Mary GERICI, who conducts a fruit and vegetable store 
at 176 Decatur street, last night, the woman's, son, John 19, struck the 
policeman over the head with a club, the latter charges the policeman was 
taken to the Wyckoff Heights hospital with severe head injuries.
 Mrs. GERICI was arrested and the police are looking for her son.  The summons 
was for an alleged violation of the sanitary code.

SCHOOL DELAY REFLECTED IN REGISTRATION
Parents Hold Off With Two More Weeks of Paralysis Safeguard
 Public school doors opened today for registration and the new school term 
officially got underway as the supervising and clerical staff reported for 
work.  The first meeting of the Board of Education since the summer recess 
will beheld later this afternoon.
As the public school children have thirteen more days of freedom form 
lesions, owing to the deferred opening of schools as a precautionary measure 
against the citywide epidemic of infantile paralysis.  It is believed that 
today's enrollment will not be heavy.  Pupils may register on any day up to 
the opening of school Sept. 22.
 It is expected that about 20,000 new pupils, most of them six or seven years 
old, will be registered for the fall term in the elementary schools.  The 
high schools are expected to enroll about 5,000 more students, bringing the 
total of 42 higher grade institutions to 190,000.  The expected increase is 
attributed largely to the scarcity of jobs for boys and girls who would 
otherwise by employed.

CAR OVER CLIFF WITHOUT RIDERS
A speeding automobile hurtled off 168th street near 116th avenue, Jamaica, 
down a 15 foot embarkment late last night and persons in the vicinity heard 
an agonizing scream.
 In a few minutes Police Emergency Squad 17 from Richmond Hill at Jamaica 
Hospital ambulance and fire apparatus were at the scene.
 A search of the wreckage failed to reveal any injured persons or any sign 
that anyone had been injured.
 The license plates of the care indicated Frank TIAMI of 223 24 106th avenue, 
Queens Village, is the owner.

10 September 1931
MOTORMAN HELD IN FARE DISPUTE
George DILLON, 25, of 142 Manhattan avenue, a motorman on a Nostrand avenue 
trolly line, was before Magistrate FALWELL in Bridge Plaza court yesterday on 
a charge of disorderly conduct.  He was paroled for a hearing on Sept. 21.
 Patrolman Charles DWYER of Emergency Squad 16 said the motorman abused him 
when a ten cent piece he was handing to DILLON as fare fell to the floor and 
he failed to pick it up qich enough to satisfy the motorman.

GREENPOINT BOY MAKES 25TH EXIT
For the 25th time Edward SALKOWSKI, 10 of 190 Green street, was reported 
missing last night at the Greenpoint station by his father, Anthony 
SALKOWSKI.  He said that the boy suffered from wanderlust and always wanted 
to be in the open.
 At 3 A. M. today John CALFORD, of 145 Bedford avenue was crossing through 
McCarren Park at Driggs avenue and Lorimer street and found the boy fast 
asleep upon a bench with a little fox terrier "Gyp", alongside.  He was 
turned over to the police of the Greenpoint station and later taken home by 
his father, protesting when "GYP" was detained at the stationhouse to be 
turned over to S. P. C. A. today.

GREENPOINT WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED
Mrs. Margaret OLCESHO, 49 of 315 Oakland street, is in a serious condition 
today in Greenpoint Hospital, suffering form burns about the head and body.
 While cooking the evening meal last night Mrs. Olcesho's clothing caught fire 
and she ran into the hallway.  Her husband, Frank, tore the flaming clothing 
from her body.  He was burned on both hands.  Patrolman Anthony SLOTAK of 
Greenpoint station administered first aid pending the arrival of Ambulance 
Surgeon BERKOWITZ of Greenpoint Hospital.

11 September 1931
ALLEGES COP STRUCK BOY
Police Inspector Edward QUINN today ordered an investigation of charges that 
Patrolman Martin MILANI of Bedord avenue station brutally struck Louis 
SILVERSTEIN, 16, of 210 Ross street.  The hearing is set for next Wednesday.  
According to the complaint, Louis and his brother, Irving, remained at a game 
of craps in the yard of P. S. 19 raided by the patrolman last Friday.
 It is alleged that Louis was struck by the patrolman's nightstick on the 
right leg, requiring hospital treatment.  The boy is still under the care of 
a private physician.
 Mrs. SILVERSTEIN, the boy's mother, said she gave the shield number of the 
patrolman to the desk lieutenant at Bedford avenue station, but the later 
refused to accept the complaint.
 
FLATBUSH GIRL OVRECOME BY GAS
Beatrice SINGER, 21 of 1531 East 27th street, was overcome by gas poisoning 
today when a coffee pot boiled over on the kitchen range of her home and ex- 
(as written) found by her brother.  Emergency Squad 12 and an ambulance 
surgeon from Coney Island Hospital worked over her for an hour.   She was 
revived and remained at home.

12 September 1931
BABY DROPPED BY GIRL AS SHE SHUTS WINDOW
Falling from the arms of her ten year old sister Frances, who was closing the 
third story window of their home at 173 Sackett street, today, Catherine 
PARITE, one year old, dropped to the rear yard and suffered a fractured skull 
and internal injuries.  The baby is dying in Long Island College Hospital.

14 September 1931
WIFE CLINGS TO PIRACY TALE AS POLICE GROPE FOR CLUES
Attack by Lunatic and Girl Revenge New Angles in Sound Mystery
by Dixie Tighe
 A fantastic tale, three blankets and a green canoe compose the "evidence" 
assembled by Nassau County authorities in the case of Benjamin COLLINGS, said 
by his wife to have been hurled overboard from their cruiser, The Penguin, by 
two unidentified men who she claims subjected her to an incredible water 
kidnapping.
 The crop of new and partially dissipated rumors that were hailed as keys to 
the stubborn locks included hitch-hikers, two escaped lunatics and the 
possibility that Mr. and Mrs. COLLINGS were the victims of an irate male 
parent who sought to avenge his daughter's honor - and slipped up on the 
identity.
The outstanding and nearest approach to a clue in the mystery, which still 
lacks the interesting element of an established crime, is the hookup of a 
blanket and the fact that Mr. and Mrs. F. C. COLLINGSBORNS of Stamford -  
registered at the Charles Hotel, Springfield, Mass., on Aug. 2, 1930.  One of 
the blankets which Mrs. COLLINGS claims was tossed to her when she was 
marooned on the Bo Peep is Stamped "Hotel Charles".
 Hitch-hikers are also involved in this feature.  Two men who stopped at the 
Hotel Charles shortly after the COILLINGSBORNS were there are believed by the 
hotel to have absconded with a blanket corresponding to that held in evidence 
by the Nassau authorities.
NOT HIS SIGNATURE
 The supposition that the COLLINGSBORNS were really Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin 
COLLINGS was virtually blown up yesterday when a comparison of the 
photostatic copy of the signature on the hotel register with that in the log 
of the Penguin written by COLLINGS was made.
 "So far as I can see there is no similarity in the two handwritings".  
Inspector KING, in charge of Nassau County detectives, said yesterday adding 
that he was not handwriting expert but that such experts will be summoned to 
study the writings.
 That temporarily pigeonholed, the next of the week-end flares of "important 
findings" to demand attention was the theory that Mr. and Mrs. COLLINGS, 
whose quiet lives were plunged into interesting mystery early last Thursday 
morning, were attacked by madmen.  A check up on the reocrds recently escaped 
lunatics is underway.
 The idea that lunatics were the offenders is entirely in keeping with the 
wild story, that sounds as if it were conceived and executed by decidedly mad 
people.  A man hurled overboard for no good reason a woman dragged from a 
cruiser and placed in a canoe, an attempted assault and a five year old child 
left adrift in a darkened boat - all these are items not included int he 
usual crime category.
 Four days of practically steady questioning has failed to change the story of 
Mrs. Lillian COLLINGS, who is in the unhappy position of not knowing whether 
she is a wife or widow.  She has told and re-told the strange account of what 
took place on board her husband's cruiser, the Penguin, last Thursday morning 
as they were cruising on Oyster Bay.
 The story which has the ear-marks of being possible, but not probably, is 
believed by District Attorney Elvin Edward of Nassau County to be true.  
Inspector KING, however, classifies his reaction to the woman's story as 
"trying to keep my mind free from premature conclusions".
 The testimony of N. L. NOTEMAN of New Rochelle, owner of the yacht Valentine, 
who found five year old Barbara COLLINGS on board the Penguin early Thursday 
morning, will be heard by Inspector KING today.
 NOTEMAN's story is expected to lend discrepancy to the testimony given by 
Mrs. COLLINGS, who declares her husband's hands were tied behind his back 
before he was thrown overboard from the Penguin.  For NOTEMAN had declared 
that he saw a swimmer struggling in the vicinity of the Penguin.
BOATMAN TO TESTIFY
 The story also carries a death note - for he has described "the distressed 
swimming and the gurgling noice", theman made before he disappeared in the 
darkness and the silence of the night.
 It was about this same time that Mrs. COLLINS declares she was taken from the 
Penguin and placed in the canoe that was paddled for miles that night.  
However neither NOTEMAN nor his companions saw the craft.
 The canoe angle probably offers more of a puzzling aspect to the story than 
any other.  Experienced boatmen have declared they think it is no end of a 
feat of seamanship for two men and a woman to jump from a cruiser into a 
canoe with safety.
 There was supposed to be a fourth passenger in the canoe - a wounded man but 
Mrs. COLLINGS testified she did not see him there.  When the Caning culprits 
came alongside the Penguin late Wednesday night, Mrs. COLLINGS declares she 
heard them tell her husband that they had a wounded man in the craft and that 
he must take them all aboard.
WOUNDED MAN A PUZZLE 
 Inspector KING took the Penguin out yesterday to discover if it were possible 
for Mrs. COLLINGS to have heard this conversation when the motor was going 
and she was in the cabin.  KING could hear no voices but didn't seem to 
consider this proved anything.
 As a matter of fact there seems to be little proof of anything.  No one saw 
COLLINGS drown, no one saw the canoe and whatever facts there are seem to be 
inexplicable.  Theories were advanced that COLLINGS might have staged the 
whole thing in order to disappear and at the same time give his wife the 
impression he lost his life.  But there have been strong testimonials to the 
real devotion of COLLINGS and his wife.  he carried no insurance, was in 
excellent health and spirits when last seen.  And had no eccentricities.
 However, the water-pirates did.  Their conduct as reported by Mrs. COLLINGS 
is a puzzle no master could fit.  They threw COLLINGS overboard, attempted an 
assault on his wife, left their little girl alone on the cruiser but tossed 
her three blankets because of the cold, gray, dawn when they left her on the 
anchored Bo Peep.
 Barbara's testimony will not be considered.  The authorities have discovered 
that the youngster cannot be led into any answer.  She is only five and is 
believed to have slept through a major part of the fracas on board the 
Penguin. 
 Police and public alike are baffled by the fact that Mrs. COLLINGS entered 
the cabin after the men boarded the Penguin but failed to seize a revolver 
that was within easy reach.  Mrs. COLLINGS, admits that she too knew the 
revolver was there, but did not attempt to defend her baseband and child.  
She also admits she made no struggle when they transferred her form the 
Penguin to the canoe - and, the fact that she knew Barbara was to be left 
alone in a lightless, drifting boat makes this a little perplexing.

BOROUGH CHORAL SINGER, 82, COMPETES WITH YOUTHS OF 20
Cups and Other Prizes Won by Groups at Saengerfest
Atlantic City, N. J.  Sept. 14.
 Brooklyn's German Choral singers left this city today bound for home with an 
assortment of cups and other prizes emblematic of success in the choral 
competitions which featured
the 28th national saengerfest of the Northeastern Saengerbund of America, 
held yesterday in the Atlantic City Auditorium.
 The saengerfest was presided over by Dr. Gotthard E. SEYFARTH of Brooklyn, 
president of the Saengerbund, who presented diplomas and cups to the winners. 
 All singing was in the
German language and there was no instrumental accompaniment.  The members of 
the singing societies competing in the contests ranged from 20 to 82 years in 
age.  Rudolph PRENGEL, 82 of the Deutscher Liederkranz of Brooklyn was the 
oldest.

15 September 1931
MAN AND WOMAN TRY TO END LIVES
Two persons are in Kings County Hospital today after alleged attempts ot 
commit suicide, according to the police.
 Shirley JACOBS, 27, was found on the floor of the dining room of her home at 
712 Crown street last night by Anthony PRAGER, who lives at the same address. 
 All the windows were closed and the gas was escaping from three jets on the 
kitchen range.
 Morris GLOSSER, 40, of 4518 18th avenue, is said by the police to have 
swallowed iodine at 4535 18th avenue, near his home.

CONTRACT LET FOR REMOVAL OF OLD INDIAN CEMETERY
BODIES TO BE TAKEN FROM BURIAL GROUND AT LITTLE NECK
Scientist of the Museum of the American Indian, HEYE Foundation, at 155th 
street and Broadway, Manhattan, are preparing to collaborate with the Queens 
engineers in the removed of bodies from the ancient Indian burial ground, 
Little Neck, following the award by Borough President HARVEY today of the 
contract for the work.
 Realizing the scientific possibilities of the excavations, made necessary by 
the widening of Northern boulevard in Little Neck, Borough President HARVEY 
notified George G. HEYE, museum official, on the project.  HEYE expressed 
keen interest in the matter and informed Mr. HARVEY that he would send a 
representative to work with the Queens engineers in the hope that some 
substantial history concerning the Indians of Long Island will be revealed.  
The museum will be represented by Leonidas WESTERVELT or Charles A. 
TURBYFILL, as Mr. HEYE has left for Europe, while Andrew K. JOHNSON, engineer 
in charge of highway construction will supervise the work for the borough 
administration.
 E. K. BURNET, secretary to HEYE, would venture no prediction as to what of 
the aboriginal past might be revealed when the graves are opened at Little 
Neck.
 "We hope to fine pre-Christian burials," Mr. BURNET said.  "Of course, we 
know that many of the Indians buried at Little Neck died after they had 
absorbed the civilizaiton and religion of the white man.  Such bodies would 
have no interest for us as we are all well acquainted with the habits of the 
white man.
 BURNET said care in making the excavations had to be taken so that nothing 
might be lost.  The digging has to be done laterally as well as vertically.

BROKER, BELIEVED DROWNED, TURNS UP WITH MIND BLANK
 Reginald BROWN Wanders Into Friend's Home at Magnolia, Mass.
 Reginald B. BROWN< New York broker who was thought to have drowned while 
swimming June 19, appeared recently at the home of a friend in Magnolia, 
Mass., His wife said today at Atlantic Beach. 
BROWN left his apartment at 242 East 72nd street, Manhattan, June 15; to 
spend a vacation at Ocean Beach, Fire Island.  Four days later he went surf 
fishing with Austin FAIRMAN, an actor, his companion on the vacation.  
FAIRMAN reported BROWN kicked off his hip boots and said he was going to swim 
out to a sand bar.
 As BROWN swam out, FAIRMAN heard him cry for help and looked up to see BROWN 
struggling in the water, carried away by a strong current.
 Wide search was made up and down the coast by life guards in the vicinity, by 
Fire Department members, by the Coast Guard and finally by airplane.  BROWN"s 
body was not recovered.  His wife, the former Virginia DUNN, a dance of 
Meriden,Conn., thought him dead.
 Claims for the insurance on BROWN, amounting to more than $200,000 where made 
with the two companies in which he held policies.  Then, on Sept. 3, BROWN 
walked into home of a friend, Jacob D. COX, in Magnolia, a summer resort near 
Gloucester.
 He said he could remember nothing that had transpired since last Christmas, 
except a vague recollection of narrowly escaping being run down by an 
automobile in Boston. 
 He could give no explanation of where he got his clothes or how he got to 
Magnolia.

16 September 1931
MAN IS ATTACKED ON LUMBER BOAT
 A riot call at the Stagg street station early today sent the patrol wagon and 
an emergency squad to a lumber boat at the foot of Stagg street where they 
found Louis SOLOMON, 33, of Alabama, in a semiconscious condition.  While 
alone on the boad he had been attacked by four of five men, he said.  
Passerby heard the screams when re resisted, and put in the police call.
 He was treated by an ambulance surgeon of St. Catherine's Hospital, after 
which he was taken to Kings County Hospital with lacerations and bruises of 
the face and body, and a possible fracture of the right arm.  He furnished 
the detectives of the Stagg street staion with a fairly accurate description 
of his assailants.

25 WOMEN TRAMPLED IN RIOT AS 5,000 RUSH BARGAIN SALE
THRONG IN FULTON STREET KEEPS EXTRA POLICE BUSY FOR HOUR
 More than 5,000 women jammed a retail store at 510 Fulton street a few 
minutes after it opened its door today, surged around in bewildering 
maelstrom outside the doors of the store, broke two large window panes and 
threw clerks in the store into a mild panic for three quarters of an hour 
before they were brought under control by extra attachments of policemen.
 At least 25 women in search of bargains, were trampled on but only three were 
injured severely enough to require medical treatment.  Dr. R. J. CARO of 
Cumberland Hospital was on hand in the store to give first aid and was 
assigned by two police emergency squads on duty outside int he street.  Two 
ambulances were required to carry injured away to hospitals.
 The store was descended upon gradully by the women customers until one half 
hour after is opening.  There was a perspiring mass of femininity trampling, 
elbowing and shoving each other in their rush toward the choicest of the 
10,000 articles of wearing apparel which were on sale.
 Outside, thirty extra policemen and four mounted policeman charged into the 
swirling crowd of women fighting to get into the store, the policemen on 
horse riding the crowd back time and again only to have it surge toward the 
store once they had reined in their horses.  The policemen were uner the 
supervision of a Deputy Commissioner John A. LEACH, who rushed to the scene a 
few minutes after the store opened.
 For 45 minutes form 9:30 to 10:15 A. M., the crowd was definitely out of 
control, despite all the extras from widely separated precincts in Brooklyn 
which they could assemble, but at 10:30 there were signed in was in check.
 Patrolman Benjamin KEENEY of Emergency Squad No. 15 was kicked in the right 
ankle, while Loretta McDEVITT, 17, of 631 East 51st street, fainted from the 
shock of being caught in the crowd.

TWO STILL LOOSE IN ASYLUM BREAK 
Two of five inmates who walked out of Central Islip State Hospital for the 
insane last night were still at large today.  They escaped when one of them 
obtained a master key capable of unlocking every door of the hospital which 
houses 5,000.
 Those still at large are Nils JHENBERGER, 26 and Alfred DINN, 40.  Robert 
CORTEZ, 25, was found on the hospital grounds half an hour after the escape 
was discovered;  Joseph SMITH was apprehend by State police, and Michael 
MONACO was turned over to authorities by relatives.

'KIDNAPPED' BOY FOUND IN PARK   
Rumors of the kidnapping of Edward VIELANSKI, 10, of 190 Green street were 
dispelled today when the boy was found sleeping on a McCarren Park bency by 
Patrolman WAELASKI of the Herbert street station.  The boy's mother Mrs. 
Fannie VIELANSKI, reported his disappearance to the police last evening.
 Edward told police he had not been kinaped but had been lost and wandered 
around until he found a bench in the park, which was best place he could find 
to spend the night.  The family had recently moved to Greenpoint and he did 
not know his way around.

17 September 1931
O'DWYER OFF FOR GALWAY WITH PATRICK CANNON'S MAP
"Pa" Hasn't Seen Ireland in Thirty Years, But his Memory's Good
 William O'DWYER, a well known Brooklyn attorney with offices at 26 Court 
street, sailed last night for Ireland.  With him he carried instructions for 
a visit to one town, and those instructions are explicitly, as "Bill" point 
out, just before he bade good bye to the host of friends that went to the 
pier to see him off.
 The instructions were drawn up by Patrick CANNON, long a member of John H. 
McCoy's Madison Club and father of four sons, each over six feet in height 
and one of whom is Sergeant Martin CANNON attached to the office of District 
Attorney GEOGHAN.  It was "Sergeant Marty" who brought the diagram of 
instructions from his dad, and they cover a visit that "Pa" CANNON declares 
"Bill" O'DWYER must make to the town of Galway where "Pa" CANNON first saw 
the light of day, back more than three score years ago.
 On the diagram, carefully drawn are marked the streets and roads that "Bill" 
O'DWYER is to follow to the house of Mike CANNON in the town of Galway, 
Ireland.
 "Tell Bill,"  "Pa" CANNON instructed his son, Sergt. Mary CANNON, "that if he 
follows that drawing, he won't get lost, and tell him Mike CANNON's house is 
just 100 feet from the corner of Nawport road".
 As the boat was drawn from its pier with Bill O'DWYER and the CANNON diagram 
of instructions, Sergt. Marty CANNON remarked "I forgot to tell Bill that Pop 
has not been to Ireland in over thirty years. But at that the diagram is a 
masterpiece.

18 September 1931
GIRL FALLS THREE STORIES IN VAIN DASH FOR FREEDOM
Inmate of "Good Shepherd" Fractures Skull - May Not Recover
Attempting to escape from the fifth floor of the House of Good Shepherd, at 
Dean street and Hopkinson avenue, last night Eleanor CUSACK, 17, of 147-27 
31st street, Whitestone, Queens, fell three stories and struck on the roof of 
a two story brick extension of the building.
 Her right leg was broken in two places, apparently she suffered a fracture of 
the skull and internal injuries proved so serious that it is not believe she 
will live.
 The girl has been committed to the home as a wayward minor.  She proved so 
troublesome, authorities said, that she was restricted to the fifth floor 
with other unruly girls.
 Apparently the girl attempted to slide down a drain pipe to effect her escape 
when she slipped and fell.  A scream she uttered as she fell brought 
authorities of the home who called Dr. CRADDO of St. Mary's hospital.  He 
took her to Kings County Hospital.

21 September 1931
GIRL 13, FOUND OPERATING STILL
Flora MARINO, 13, who operated a still for her father, Anthony, 31, of 1071 
Myrtle avenue, faced a Children's Court hearing today, while he was to appear 
before Magistrate HAUBERT in Bridge Plaza Court on a charge of maintaining a 
fire hazard.  Arraigned before a US Commissioner in Federal Court yesterday 
on a charge of violating the Volstead act, the elder MARINO will be give 
another hearing Friday.
 Following a complaint of a fire hazard, police broke in through a fire escape 
on the top floor of the Myrtle avenue address and found the girl alone 
operating the still.  Detectives seized her father on the first floor.

MAN NEAR DEATH FROM STAB WOUND
 Joseph DOMSKI, 28, of 250 South Second street, is dying in Greenpoint 
Hospital from a stab wound below the heart.  His assailant, William 
LOADHURST, 27, of 192 South First street, is to be arraigned before 
Magistrate HAUBERT of Bridge Plaza court today on a charge of felonious 
assault.
 The stabbing resulted from an argument in front of 240 South First street, 
during which LOADHURST is said to have drawn a jackknife from his pocket.  
DOMSKI fled after the blow but was caught after a chase by Patrolman Edward 
CAMPBELL of the Bedford avenue station.

22 September 1931
WOMEN COLLAPSE IN TRAP OF AUTOMATIC ELEVATOR
Maze of Buttons Proves Too Much for Two Hysterical Ladies
Two terrified to regain her wits and press the right button, Mrs. Alice 
STIEGLITZ, 42, rode from the roof to the cellar of her apartment building at 
343 101st street, in the Fort Hamilton section, in a self-operated elevator 
early today, so many times that an ambulance surgeon
had to remove her to Kings County Hospital for further treatment.
 Mrs. STEIGLITZ, who has lived in the 101st street apartment house only two 
weeks and has not become familiar with the operation of the elevator, stepped 
into the car with a friend at 1:30 A. M. today.  She lives on the third 
floor.
 She pressed a button and instead of descending, the car climbed to the 6th 
floor.  She hastily pressed another whereupon the car traveled to the cellar.  
Terrified, she pressed blindly and the car journeyed to the roof.  By the 
time Mrs. STIEGLITZ and her friend were to panic stricken to do anything but 
scream for help and press button after button.
 Tenants in the building, attracted by the cries for help, notified the 
police.  The emergency squad from the Fourth avenue station was rushed to the 
scene, but meanwhile, one tenant sought and found the emergency button 
pressed it and stopped the car.
 When the police arrived Mrs. STIEGLITZ and her friend had been taken from the 
car, the former unconscious and the latter hysterical  Dr. BURGHARDT of 
Norwegian Hospital treated both women and took Mrs. STEIGLITZ to Kings County 
Hospital.

BROTHER AND SISTER MEET AFTER SEPARATION OF MORE THAN 40 YEARS
 Brother and sister met yesterday after forty years separation.
 Mrs. Richard POLICKE, 204 Prospect place, was surprised yesterday when a man 
and woman ran her doorbell and the man said:
 "Hello, Rose,I'm Fritz.  It sure has been a long time seeing one another 
again."
 It developed that Charles F. FEISEL, wealthy California ranch and realty 
owner, decided after 40 year toil to take his first vacation.  Leaving 
Hollywood, with his wife he came to Brooklyn to look up his sister.  They 
were separated in 1893 after coming to American from Germany.  With a capital 
of eight dollars. Mr. FEISEL started West, reaching Los Angeles in 1895.  Mr. 
and Mrs. FEISEL are stopping at the Hotel McAlpin.

TRIES SUICIDE AFTER HOME TIFF
 After twice failing in attempted suicide, Peter SUTTON, 36, of 19 Macon 
street, is today in Kings County Hospital observation ward.  He jumped into 
Newtown Creek at the foot of Meeker avenue yesterday, but was pulled out by 
passing autoists.  After treatment for submersion by an ambulance surgeon, he 
was told he could go home.  Instead, he tried to throw himself before a 
passing car.  He was pulled away and taken to the hospital.
 He is living apart from his wife, who lives at 1621 East 36th street, and is 
thought this was responsible for a fit of despondency.

ARREST CAUSED BY JEALOUS GIRL
 A girl and three youths were arrested on a charge of violating the Sullivan 
law by detectives who entered an apartment at 45-46 40th street in the 
Thompson Hill section of Long Island City early today.  Information that led 
to arrests was said to have been given by a young woman who admitted she was 
jealous of the girl taken into custody.  The detectives said they found two 
fully loaded revolvers in the apartment.
 The girl said she was Edna LOTT, 16, of 45-56 40th street, Long Island City.  
The youths are John PEARSALL, 21 or 222 8th avenue, Astoria;  Vincent 
SICILIANO, 21 of 203 Grand street, Manhattan and Frank STROLLOR, 22, of 31-21 
96th street, Corona.

COP IS MOBBED MAKING ARREST
 Mobbed by a crowd that interfered as he arrested Frank GEORGE, 14, of 286 
Union avenue, Patrolman Bartley ROSCOE of the Greenpoint station had to be 
rescued by the Herbert street emergency suad (as spelled) before he could 
take GEORGE into custody.
 GEORGE had attacked four year old Henry ROSCOE, it is charged and when 
Patrolman ROSCOE, Henry's father arrested him, GEORGE put up a struggle that 
made passersby incensed at the patrolman whom they set upon.

STANDS ON HEAD  BOY'S LIFE IS SAVED
 Alive today because he learned how to stand on his head, six year old Vincent 
RATHALENIE of 213 Green street is suffering from nothing more serious that a 
sore throat.  Vincent, who recently became adept in the head-stand, was 
choked by a piece of meat that stuck in his throat.  He was strangling.  A 
hurry call was sent to Greenpoint Hospital for an ambulance, but it looked as 
if it would be too late.
 Than Vincent, blue in the face, stood on his head.  The meat responded to the 
laws of gravity.  When ambulance surgeon arrived Vincent was no longer 
choking.

EAGLE-EYE COP GETS HIS 61ST
 Patrolman Fred "Eagle-Eye" SCHWERDTFEGER, of the Classon avenue station, who 
has arrested 59 automobile thieves in ten years on the force, added two more 
today.
 Seeing two youths in a car at Hudson avenue and Fulton street, SCHWERTDFEGER 
checked the license number and found the car had been stolen last April from 
Joseph ROMEO of 115 Adelphi street.  He commandeered a taxicab, chased and 
arrested them.  They said they are Louis FARNO, 17, of 618 Grand avenue, and 
Louis AURIME, 17, of 814 Dean street.
 Patrolman William FORD of the Miller avenue precinct arrested five youths 
whom he saw in a car at Ridgewood and Shepherd avenues, which proved to have 
been stolen from Harold MIDDLETON, of 2145 Albermarle road.  The youths said 
they are Joseph DE MARCO, 1336 St. Marks avenue;  William DE VITO, 1073 St. 
Marks avenue;  Tony DEVITO, 1098 St. Marks avenue;  Claude TRIANO, 146 Bermen 
street and Milton GOTTLIEB, 1677 President street.

PARALYSIS DECLINE IS REPORTED HERE
A definite decline of infantile paralysis was indicated by the Department of 
Health today as cool weather set in and new cases of poliomyelities began to 
seek new lows.  Health officials expressed the believe that the outbreak will 
have subsided entirely by Oct. 15.
 Only 36 new cases and 4 deaths were reported to the Department of Health in 
the two day week end.  Two of the deaths were in Manhattan one each in Bronx 
and Queens.  Brooklyn, where the disease has centered, had no deaths, but 
still lead in the number of new cases with sixteen.  Manhattan had nine, the 
Bronx eight, Queens, two and Richmond one.  The week end figures brought the 
total since July 1, when the epidemic started to 3,508 cases.  Since the 
beginning of the year there have been 3, 542 cases with 413 deaths.

23 September 1931
TWO BOYS INJURED IN RIGHT WITH UNCLE
Frank GUERRIERI, 20, 463 Lake street, and his brother, Michael, 13 are today 
recovering from lacerations of the scalp and cuts about the face.  The two 
called on their uncle, Joseph GUERRIERI, at his home, 241 North Fifth street, 
yesterday.  A fight ensued in which the boys received such injuries that they 
had to be treated by an ambulance surgeon from St. Catharine's Hospital 
before they could go home.  They refused to press charges.

28 September 1931
MAN TORTURED, RUNAWAY WIFE FEARED SLAIN
Avenging Husband Sought Here and In Boston as Kidnaper
 A fugitive wife and her wrathful husband who recaptured her and their son 
from a Manhattan rendezvous were being sought by police in New York and Boston 
today, following discovery of Mario BERRONE, 25, of 53 West 82nd street, the 
wife's admirer beaten and tortured in a vacant house at 104 Jackson street, 
yesterday morning.
 Police were fearful that the husband, James MEROLA, 31, of 104 Jackson 
street, has killed his wife, Margaret 27, as he had threatened her with 
death prior to his kidnaping her and her lover from their Manhattan trysting 
place.  
 According to the story BERRONE told police of Herbert street station, MEROLA 
planned to sail for Italy today either from New York or Boston, apparently 
satisfied that his desire for vengeance had been appeased.
HELD FOR LARCENY
Meanwhile as the search for MEROLA continues in both cities, police are 
holding BERRONE on a technical charge of grand larceny, pending the possible 
capture of the husband.  BERRONE admitted to police
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SKULL FRACTURED HUSBAND SOUGHT
Beatrice HARRIS, 30, is in Kings County Hospital today with a possible 
fracture of the skull, while police seek her husband, George, 31, of 472 57th 
street, alleged to have struck her with a blunt instrument.  It is believed the 
attack at the 57th street address followed a dispute over money matters yesterday 
during a visit of the wife, who lives with her mother at 435 42nd street.  
 Neighbors summoned police of 4th avenue station, but HARRIS had disappeared 
when they arrived.  Dr. BURGHARDT of Norweigian Hospital took the woman to 
Kings County Hospital, where her condition is serious.

LIEUTENANT IS SHOT IN LED BY ACCIDENT
Police Lieutenant Thomas McELROY, attached to the Grand avenue station was 
accidentally shot in the left  leg yesterday when his service pistol fell form 
his pocket as he got out of an automobile at a gasoline filling station at 233 
St. Marks avenue.  He was taken to the Jewish Hospital where it was said his 
condition was not serious. 
Lieut. McELROY, who is 52 was out riding with is wife and three children and 
had stopped to refill the tank of his car.  As he stepped to the roadway the 
pistol fell and was discharged.  He has been on the police force twenty years 
and formerly was a champion amateur handball player.

FIREMAN HURT GOING TO FIRE
Five fireman were injured when a fire patrol truck on which they were riding 
collided with a  hook and ladder truck at Throop and Willoughby avenues early 
yesterday.  Both vehicles were proceeding to answer three alarms, turned in 
for a fire in a three story brick furniture warehouse at 44-46 Rockaway avenue.
The blaze, of undetermined origin, destroyed the interior of the building and 
spread to the home of Angeloe ROSSO, at 42 Rockaway avenue.
Damage was estimated at more than $25,000.
 The fireman hurt are 
Elmer BARKER, 36, of 72-22 67th street, Glendale;  
Edward GOESSDORF, 35, of 39-22 209th street, Queens, 
Walter GARVEYE, 29, of 2060 East 29th street;  
Alexander METAKER, 28, of 273 Cooper street, and 
John AERLEHY, 27, of 2921 Avenue M.

HELD AS FIRST DRUNK FLYER
Student Aviator has "Good Time While it Lasted"  in Zigzag Flight
LONG BEACH, Cal., Sept. 28, (UP) - Well there it is, a story you've been 
waiting for one about a man who witnesses said was a drunken airplane driver.
He appeared first over Los Angeles, Zooming out of the clouds in dangerous 
but beautiful drives over beaches and amusement parks.  Flying over a lagoon, 
the plane wheels split the water.
Army and navy planes with police aboard went up to give chase, but careening 
ship eluded them.
Finally, the pilot landed a Municipal Airport here.  A Deputy Sheriff raced 
toward the plane.  The pilot saw him coming and give his ship the gun again.  
It wobbled into the air, zig-zagged among 1,100 derricks of the Signal Hill oil 
field and crashed into a guy wire coming down in a tangled heap.
Out of the wreckage crawled Don C. SWEPTON, 29, a student flyer.  His nose 
was bleeding.  Otherwise he was unhurt.
"You're under arrest as a drunken airplane driver,'  shouted a policeman.
"O.K." said SWEPTON, "I had a good time while it lasted.  And you'll notice I 
didn't hurt anybody".

WOUNDED IN CHEST, ASSAILANT UNKNOWN
Police of Coney Island station are looking for a man, who stabbed Joseph 
RILEY, 32, of 650 Melrose avenue, while they were fighting at West avenue 
and West Second street early yesterday.  Riley was treated for a chest 
wound and taken to his home.  He told police he did not know his assailant.

EX-COP BAILED IN GUN CHARGE
Henry McGIVNEY, and ex-policeman living at 546 58th street frequently in 
court on petty charges in the last year, faced Magistrate HIRSHFIELD in 5th avenue 
court again today on two counts.  He was charged with threatening Harry HEINZ 
of 830 59th street, in a dispute Saturday afternoon in front of a speakeasy 
and also with ownership of a .32 calibre revolver found by Patrolman James 
CARBERRY of 4th avenue station in an airshaft at 5621 5th avenue.
McGIVNEY was held in bail totaling $1,500 for a hearing Oct. 1.  He has been 
unemployed for some time.

29 September 1931
LETTERS TO TORTURED LOVER NEW CLUE TO MISSING WOMAN
Police Hunt Leads to Jersey, Suffolk and the Bronx
  Failure to discover any clues to the whereabouts of James MEROLA of 104 
Jackson street, who disappeared with his wife Margaret, in a rage after she had 
been kidnapped, did not discourage police of Herbert street station from 
attacking the mystery from new angles.
  Two letters in their possession, the contents of which they would reveal only 
in part, convinced police they had a new clue to work on.  They were written 
by MEROLA's wife to Mario BERRONE of 53 West 82nd street, her admirer, who was 
found beaten and tortured in a vacant house behind MEROLA's home early Sunday 
morning, about the same time the woman was missing, and it was feared she was 
a victim of  violence.
  According to the police, the letters tended to show that Mrs. MEROLA was not 
abducted, but she was kidnapped voluntarily, asking to be taken away from her 
husband, who, she said, was cruel to her.  There was also an intimation that 
she suggested withdrawing $4,000 of a joint $6.000 saving account from the 
Bushwick Savings Bank, an act for which BERRONE was held in $10,000 bail for 
further hearing by Magistrate RUDICH in Bridge Plaza Court yesterday.
  Police scoffed at reports saying MEROLA had taken his wife to Eastern 
Pennsylvania to place her in the white slave trade, saying that it was 
commonly known that MEROLA was genuinely found of his wife and would inflict 
no such harm on her.
  They maintain this belief, although a contrasting theory might be raised in 
the light of the new criminal code recently adopted in Italy which expressly 
exempts from any punishment a murder committed by an injured husband.
  The police hunt for the missing pair let yesterday to Patterson, N. J., 
Suffolk County and the Bronx, all three of which places failed to reveal 
any fresh information as to their whereabouts.

30 September 1931
E. D. POLICE FORGET ROLL-CALL BUT SAVE BABY GIRL'S LIFE
Work Over Child for 90 Minutes in Greenpoint Station House
A frantic fight to save the life of Anna GILLINOS, eleven months, lying still 
from convulsions on a table in the reserve room of the Greenpoint station 
house, ended successfully after 90 minutes work early today.  The child's 
whimpering cry came after four policeman had worked for an hour and a half over her 
limp body, using every known means of artificial respiration.
As she stirred Lieutenant John SHATTUCK turned to the men around him, and 
said,  "That is the most welcome cry in this station house since it was built".
His associates, who had dropped everything else to stand watch over the 
child, said nothing, but there faces were stained with tears, for  (?) since the 
child's mother, Mrs. Anna GILLINOS of 2357 23rd street, Astoria, had rushed into 
the station house at 7 o'clock, crying, "My baby's dead, my baby's dead".  
They had even forgotten the 8 o'clock roll call and the daily turn out of men to 
help her.  A few seconds after she had arrived Ambulance Surgeon REGAN of 
Greenpoint Hospital was on hand to help.
At 8:30, the police of Greenpoint station had turned tot heir appointed 
tasks, and Mrs. GILLINOS, who had originally intended to leave her daughter 
with a friend, in Greenpoint before going to work, joyfully took her back home.

HUSBAND IS HELD AS WIFE BEATER
Mrs. Tillie CAPUTZ of 27 Huron street, was in critical condition in 
Greenpoint Hospital today, suffering form internal injuries and with her is her baby 
daughter Constance, 14 months, suffering from malnutrition.  The husband and 
father of the hospital inmates, August, was at the same time scheduled to appear 
before Magistrate RUDICH in Bridge Plaza Court to answer charges that he was 
intoxicated last night and punished his wife severely in their home.
Mrs. CAPUTZ, who tried to commit suicide last Sunday after a previous 
beating, screamed and neighbors brought in Patrolman John METZGER of Greenpoint 
station, who promptly
arrest CAPUTZ and called an ambulance to take mother and child to the 
hospital.

POLICE PICK UP BOY WANDERER
Samuel AUSCOPCHUCH, 11, was officially classified as a lost boy at the 
Children's Society today, as police of Greenpoint station started to find if he had 
any home or relatives.  He was found wandering at Lorimer street and 
Metropolitan avenue early today by Patrolman Frank STIGER of Greenpoint station, but 
said he could not remember if he had a home or who he was.



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