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1906...NEWS..April
Brooklyn Standard Union
1 April 1906
-LONG ISLAND NOTES
-A farewell reception will be given on to-morrow evening to the Rev.
W.H. MCMASTER, pastor of the Elmhurst Methodist Church in the church
parlors by the members of the congregation.
-J. OGDEN ARMOUR, of the Armour Packing Company of Chicago, has
purchased the S.T. BAKER farm of 20 acres on the South Country road,
west of Babylon.
-There are at present thirty inmates at the Oddfellows' Home, Hollis, 22
males and 8 females.
-The Sisters of St. Joseph are to enlarge their academy at Brentwood to
accommodate the large number applying for admittance.
-Long Island duck raisers are just now greatly interested in a new
invention by which ducks are to be plucked by electricity.
-Mrs. JOHN MCCALL, of Commack, whose husband used to be called land
poor, has recently sold to a New York syndicate 1,000 acres of her
holdings for $60,000 and retained 300 acres and the homestead.
-PETER WENNER, of Hicksville, has purchased the old Daniel PETTY farm of
350 acres at Middle Island for $9,000. This farm has been in the PETTY
family since 1772.
-The Rev. W.H. LAWRENCE, pastor of the Morris Park Methodist Church,
will not be returned to his present charge this year, and will preach
his farewell sermon this evening.
SIX SHIPS BRING 8,458 IMMIGRANTS
Steamer AMERIKA Detained on Account of Case of Smallpox on Board.
TWO DEATHS ON WAY OVER
Stowaway Was Discovered on Board LA TOURAINE
Six transatlantic steamers arrived in port yesterday, bringing 8,458
steerage passengers.
The Hamburg American Line steamer PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE came in
after an 18 days' cruise to the West Indies. Her 104 tourists reported
a most delightful voyage in summer seas.
The French Line steamer LA TOURAINE, from Havre, had fine weather,
except the first day out from the Channel. On March 26 a stowaway was
discovered among the steerage passengers. He was a French sailor named
GRIMAULT. The steamer brought 281,325 francs in specie.
The AMERICA, from Hamburg, Dover and Cherbourg, brought 649 cabin and
2,041 steerage passengers. On March 26, W. BRUCE MACK, a saloon
passenger, died of heart disease. His body was brought to port. Mr.
MACK was accompanied by his wife. His home was in New York. A child
died on March 22 and was buried at sea.
The AMERIKA was detained with one case of smallpox in the ship's
hospital. The patient, a young woman, was taken to the Kingston Avenue
Hospital. The passengers who occupied the same compartment in the
steerage were transferred to Hoffman Island for observation and the
steamer disinfected. Among the passengers were:
Frank B. ADAMS
John C. BROOKMAN
W.G. BUSHNELL
J. STEWART BARNEY
Hazen J. BURTON
J.G. BERGQUIST
Albert BOKER
Albro BLODGETT
Alexander BROWN
Allan B. CAMPBELL
J.H. MAYNE CAMPBELL
C.B. DILLINGHAM
Samuel D. DODGE
Paul DANA
Henry C. FLOWER
Amos TUCK FRENCH
Nat GOODWIN
Charles HAYES, vice-president and general manager of the Grand Trunk
Railway
A.W. HITCHCOCK
Duncan B. HARDING
E. HOLLINGSWORTH
John C. KNIGHT
J.R. LOOMIS, Jr.
Gustav LEDERER
Mrs. George W. LAW
Daniel HARRIS MORGAN
Director W. MULLER
W.W. MORRISON
Baroness Von NEUFVILL
Baron NEXKULL
Daniel ODAY
Prince Andre PONISTOWSKI
Alexander N. PHILLIPS
George J.S. PERRY
James W. SINGER
A.M. SHOCK
P.F. SHEEDY
Reginald C. VANDERBILT
Orin S. WILSON
H.C. WHITE
A.H. YOUNG
Among the passengers who arrived on board the steamer ETRURIA, from
Liverpool and Queenstown were:
G. ANTOINE
Walter BROWN
Lionel B. HARRIS
C.W. TARNAY?
Rafael LINDALL
J.G. OLIVER
Bryan ROTHERHAM
A.W. D. SHIPTON
W.A. WHITCOMB
HIT AND SERIOUSLY HURT BY A FALLING CRANE.
While at work in the iron foundry at Rodney and Ainslie streets
yesterday afternoon, Peter BANGLE, a laborer, of 133 North Sixth
street, was hit by a crane and probably fatally injured. The crane
fell from its fastenings and hit BANGLE on the head, knocking him to
the ground. When he was removed to the Williamsburg Hospital by
Ambulance Surgeon BRUNING it was found that he had sustained a fracture
of the skull and other injuries.
FIREMAN BADLY HURT SLIDING DOWN POLE.
Frank SAMPLE, a fireman attached to truck No. 64, at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-third street, was badly injured last night sliding down the pole
in the firehouse to answer a false alarm. He lost his grip on the pole
and landed on his head on the floor. He was taken to the Norwegian
Hospital suffering from possible internal injuries and fracture of the
skull.
IN FEAR OF MOTHER, BRIDE IS LOCKED UP
Girl Who Jilted One Man to Elope With Another Keeps Behind Chained Doors
MET HUSBAND AT A DANCE.
Rumor Says Acquaintance Was of Six Weeks' Duration.
In fear, it is said, that her own mother or her former sweetheart, whom
she jilted to elope with a South Brooklyn baker, may do her bodily harm
should they find her, pretty nineteen-year-old Laurel Adelaide HANSEN
is spending her honeymoon at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Emily
WHITTAL, 442 Third street. Since the wedding last Thursday evening,
the bride has been barred up in the house and no one has been allowed
to see her.
The girl, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. De Lynch HANSEN, of Gates
avenue, was a stenographer employed in Manhattan. About two years ago
she met Robert ECKERT at a social held in the upper Bedford section and
the couple became friendly. Their relationship ripened into love and
they became engaged to be married next June. The match was approved by
Mrs. HANSEN.
All went well until about six weeks ago, when Miss HANSEN, in company
with some girl friends, attended an entertainment and reception in
Lexington Hall, at Gates and Reid avenues, which is but a short
distance from her home. During the course of the evening, according to
the story, she was introduced to a fair-haired young man, Alfred DeHart
WHITTALL, a baker in a shop at 183 Seventh avenue, kept by his aunt,
Mrs. JACHENS. He lives at 442 Third street in a three-story brownstone
dwelling. At the close of the reception WHITTALL volunteered to escort
Miss HANSEN home and she consented.
According to the story, on the pretense that she was going to a
surprise party, Miss HANSEN last Thursday evening met WHITTALL.
Accompanied by his brother, Daniel, and Mrs. J.C. ROE, the party went
to the home of the Rev. Charles R.MCNALLY, pastor of the Sixth Avenue
Baptist Church, where the couple were united. After the ceremony the
bridal party went to the home of Alfred PAYNE, the groom's uncle, at
127 Seventh avenue, where supper was served.
After the supper Mr. and Mrs. WHITTALL went to the groom's home.
The news was carried in some way to Mrs. HANSEN and she became furious.
She threatened to dig her daughter's eyes out, it is said, and to have
her arrested.
This threat was carried back to the bride and she decided to barricade
herself to visitors.
When a reporter called at the WHITTALL homestead yesterday afternoon,
the evidence of the attempt at barricading was apparent. Finding the
door leading into the hallway open, the reporter continued up to the
top floor, where, after frequent knocking, the door was opened a few
inches. A stout chain was fastened from the door to the wall inside.
After much persuasion the door was finally opened and the scribe
allowed to enter. WHITTALL's sister, Hattie, who opened the door
refused at first to discuss the marriage, but she finally consented to
give the bare facts of the case, omitting the elopement.
In the midst of the conversation, the bride walked into the parlor
saying, "Am I going to be arrested? Well I did it and I suppose there
will be no end of trouble," she continued, "but if you will do me a
favor, reporter, you will make the thing big in the paper. That is
make the announcement of my marriage as big as you can. Make a big
bluff and maybe somebody will see it. I hope"----
Here Mrs. WHITTALL checked herself and refused to say who the somebody
was.
"Laurel did a very naughty thing," spoke up Miss WHITTALL. "She
married Mr. WHITTALL although she was engaged to another young man."
"I know I did," continued Mrs. WHITTALL, "but what else was there for
me to do? I met my husband about six weeks ago at a dance and it was a
case of love at first sight. I thought I loved the other young man,
but I guess I was wrong. I am sure I love Alfred and I am sure I will
be happy."
When WHITTALL was seen shortly afterwards in the bakery on Seventh
avenue he was very reticent. He had just come out of the cellar. He
is a good looking young man, about 22 years old. All he would say
concerning the affair was that he had known the girl since childhood,
although she herself had said a few minutes before that she had only
known her husband six weeks.
"I don't want to say anything about the affair," concluded WHITTALL.
"See my wife. She will tell you all. I have only seen ECKERT once and
I don't know whether or not my wife was engaged to him. I sympathize
with ECKERT, for I'll tell you he has lost the best girl in all the
world, but there, that's another story."
Here the young baker disappeared among his barrels in the basement.
MARRIED.....
REEVES-NILSSON -- Announcement is [.....] the marriage of Bertha N.
NILSSON to [ ] C. REEVES, by the Rev. John FLOYD [?], March 28, 1906
ADVERTISEMENT:
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425 Fulton st., near Jay
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2 April 1906
SYRIAN RUG DEALER GONE; WIFE FEARS FOUL PLAY
Luther GUKAYAN, a dealer in rugs, has been reported to the police as
missing by his wife, who lives at 189 1/2 Steuben street. She says he
had $800 in cash in his possession when he left home Saturday and she
fears that something has happened to him.
William SCHWARTZ, 40 years old, has been missing from his home, 677
Marcy avenue, since March 26.
UNION STREET WANTS RATS DRIVEN AWAY.
The latest thing to which Borough President COLER has been asked to
give his attention is the driving out of sewer rats on Union street,
which are said to be causing the property owners between Clinton and
Henry streets on Union a great deal of trouble. The trouble all comes
from a broken sewer in Union street.
B.F. WARREN, of 224 Union street, one of the men who is affected by the
trouble, called on Borough President COLER to-day to solicit aid. Mr.
WARREN said that the sewer broke some time ago and that no steps have
been taken to fix it. As a result of the broken sewer the rats have
been able to burrow through into the street and up to the houses and
have managed to get into the cellars of home places. There has also
been a great accumulation of sewer gas, and of late the odor has been
so strong that people have been compelled to move away in order to
avoid sickness.
Mr. COLER assured Mr. WARREN that he would give the matter his prompt
attention and drive out the rats.
HELPLESS INVALID CAST INTO STREET.
Dispossessed in Manhattan and Driven in Express Wagon to Long Island City.
CARTED AROUND FOR HOURS
Suffers From Effects of Dog Bite Three Years Ago.
Thrown into the street because she could no longer pay her rent, Mrs.
ANNA GILLER, a widow, 46 years old, a helpless invalid, was driven in
an express wagon to St. John's Hospital, Long Island City, yesterday
afternoon. The woman is suffering from chronic ulcers caused by a dog
bite and is believed to be incurably afflicted.
Mrs. GILLER was dispossessed last Saturday from her home at 2131
Madison avenue, Manhattan. Neighbors cared for her that night, but
yesterday morning she was loaded into an express wagon with such of her
household effects as could not be sold or pawned, and driven to the
home of the Rev. Dr. EVANS, a Methodist clergyman, in Jamaica. He has
befriended the woman, but having no way of caring for her, paid the
expressman to drive her back to Long Island City. After the woman had
been carted around the streets for hours, she was taken to the Fourth
street police station and from there to the hospital.
Mrs. GILLER was bitten by a rabid dog three years ago and thought when
the wound had been cauterized that the germs had been killed. A year
later ulcers formed on her legs and her husband spent their savings of
years in a vain effort to have her cured. He died about two months
ago, and what little money he left was soon spent. The rent became
overdue and on Saturday afternoon Mrs. GILLER was cast out into the
streets by her landlord. She was unable to walk and lay on the
sidewalk for nearly an hour before neighbors, touched by her plight,
agreed to shelter her for the night.
HOME LOOTED WHILE FAMILY WERE AWAY
Flatbush Resident Thinks Thieves Lived There Several Days
POLICE HAD BEEN NOTIFIED
Burglars Cleaned Out Larder and Wardrobe
Another in the string of robberies which have startled Flatbush
residents was uncovered in Flatbush on Saturday when Mr. and Mrs.
H.T.J. FUEHRMANN and their daughter returned to their home at 544 East
Twenty-sixth street, after a three weeks' trip to Havana. The burglars
made themselves at home, having finished the contents of a whiskey
flask, and the remnants of various eatables were found on the second
floor. They had not finished their job, as considerable stuff was
found tied up in bundles.
The first suspicion the family had that their home had been looted was
when Mr. FUEHRMANN entered the dining room and found everything upside
down. The sideboards and closets had been stripped of their contents
of silverware, cut glass dishes and crockery. In fact the only things
left were the chairs and table.
Upon investigation on the second floor the same state of affairs was
found, only the robbers had not had time to get away with the booty, as
a number of bundles containing costly bric-a-brac and ornaments were
heaped on the carpet.
In the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. FUEHRMANN a safe had been pried open
with a jimmy, and papers, jewelry and two watches had been taken. One
of the timepieces, a repeating watch, was valued at $425. In one
corner of the room was found a half a can of lobsters, cake, crackers
and burglars' tools.
The closet containing Mr. FUERHMANN's winter outfit had been cleaned
out. The lost articles included three suits, two overcoats, full dress
suit, three hats and various other things. In the place an old hat,
several pieces of underwear and old trousers were left. In the
bathroom several valises filled with his wife's clothing were
discovered all ready to be lugged away.
The thieves had gained entrance through the cellar window and by
forcing their way through the door leading to the first floor. They
had evidently worked at night, as a number of short candles were found
scattered over the floors, but none of the neighbors had noticed any
lights in the windows.
It is thought the burglars may have intended firing the place, as two
towels soaked with kerosene oil were found on the second floor under
some clothing.
Mr. FUERHMANN places his loss at $1,000. When asked if he suspected
anybody, he replied," When my daughter went to get the key from a
neighbor, a mulatto about five feet ten inches and wearing a pair of
trousers that resembled one of the stolen pairs, stepped through the
hedge and walked the lawn. I called to him, but he would not turn
back. As I did not know of anything wrong at the time I thought he did
not hear me. He is the only one that I can suspect in any way."
He added: "Before we left on our short trip I notified the police of
the Flatbush avenue station and also my neighbors to keep an eye on the
house. It seems rather strange that the burglars could really live
here without some one noticing their going and coming. My loss is
covered by insurance."
Acting Capt. John WOOD immediately put his detectives on the case when
he was notified, but they have found no one to direct their suspicions
on as yet.
Mary RICHARDSON, of 1705 Atlantic avenue, reported to the police of the
Atlantic avenue station that two men, one a negro and another a white
man, came into her apartments, and while the negro held a pistol at her
head, the other one went through the bureau drawers. All he got was a
$2 bill. She was afraid to make an outcry she said as the negro
threatened to shoot her if she did.
A thief got into the home of Albert DOANS, at 206 Hewes street,
Saturday night, by way of a rear basement window and stole all the
silver and glassware worth taking off the dining room dresser. An
overcoat which was lying in the dining room was also carted off, but
the thief abandoned it after climbing into the next yard.
Edith TEATS, of 1620 Forty-first street, reported to the police that a
thief got into her house through a rear basement window and stole $150
worth of jewelry and $5 cash.
John WILSON, a trainer at the Gravesend Race Track, reported to the
police that his gold watch, chain and locket, besides $80 in cash, had
been stolen from his clothing, which he had placed in Stable No. 6.
FOUR FALL FIVE STORIES WITH CAR
Elevator Cable Link Breaks and Precipitates Workmen to Cellar
TWO PERHAPS FATALLY HURT
Others Saved by Falling on Their Comrades in Wreck.
Shortly before 8 o'clock this morning, while a large freight elevator,
in charge of Andrew BUCK, of 239 Second street, was ascending to the
upper floor of the large factory building of the Robert GAIR Company,
at the northwest corner of Washington and Water streets, and which had
just reached the fourth floor, the link which connects the cable with
the roof of the car suddenly parted, allowing the car to drop to the
cellar.
With BUCK in the car were three workmen, Wesley THOMAS, of 3 West 135th
street, Manhattan; Neil LAFFERTY, of 99 York street, and Frederick
KRAUSE, of 124 Boerman place, Brooklyn.
The elevator car was wrecked, and the men when taken out were
unconscious.
THOMAS and LAFFERTY had both legs fractured and suffered internal
injuries, besides being badly cut and bruised about the head and body.
BUCK and KRAUSE had evidently fallen on the other two men. They were
injured internally and sustained lacerations and contusions. All were
removed to hospitals, where it was said that THOMAS and LAFFERTY were
in a critical condition.
Members of the firm refuse to discuss the cause of the accident.
SEVERAL HURT WHEN "L" TRAIN BANGS PLATFORM
A three-car train of the Lexington avenue division of the Brooklyn
Elevated Railroad, in charge of Motorman John MCELWEE, on its way from
Manhattan to Cypress Hills, just making the terminal station at Jamaica
avenue and Crescent street, about 7 o'clock this morning, crashed into
the bumper at the end of the tracks. The bumper was splintered and the
motor car smashed into the platform.
The half a dozen passengers in the car were thrown to the floor amid a
shower of broken glass and badly shaken up. Two of them, Samuel
WILLIAMSON, 22 years old, of 73 Division avenue, who was cut about the
face, and Edmund BAREZEY, 53 years old, of 76 Berry street, who was cut
about the left leg and knee, were attended by Dr. SCHLOSS, of the
Bradford Street Hospital, and went home.
SLIPPED ON SIDEWALK; REMOVED TO HOSPITAL
Edwin J. WALLACE, 31 years old, of 62 Hicks street, slipped yesterday
on the sidewalk at Third avenue and Seventeenth street and was badly
injured. He was taken to the Long Island College Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE- BOY TAKES MA'S PART AND PUTS PA OUT OF FIGHT
During a quarrel with his wife yesterday Patrick IRELAND, 44 years old,
of ? Bancroft place, was struck in the head with a tea pot and
sustained a scalp wound. The pot was thrown by his son, James, 16
years old, who took up his mother's side of the fight. The lad escaped
after the quarrel, and his father refused to make a complaint.
3 April 1906
SAYS HE WAS HELD UP AND LATER DENIES IT.
EDWARD B. MURTHA, 30 years old, of 514 Bedford avenue, was found lying
unconscious on the sidewalk at the corner of Bedford avenue and Wilson
street, early to-day. He was bleeding from a bad cut in his forehead.
Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT took him to the Eastern District Hospital,
where the injured man said he had been attacked by a stranger who had
tried to rob him.
When the police of the Clymer street station were told of the man's
story a detective was sent to the hospital to learn more of the
details. MURTHA then denied that he had been attacked, but said that
he had fallen and hit his head on the curb.
SUSPECTED HORSE THIEF CAUGHT OUT OF STATE.
Detective Sergeants BONNER and CULLEN of local headquarters last night
arrested NATHAN SOLOMAN, 22 years old, of 28 Essex street, Manhattan,
in New Haven, Conn., on a charge of grand larceny, preferred by HARRIS
RACHLESON, of 173 Glenmore avenue, this borough, who accuses SOLOMAN of
stealing a horse, carriage and harness valued at $275 from his stable
at 182 Junius street last Friday.
When RACHLESON, who is in the bottling business, went to his stable
Saturday morning his horse, carriage and harness were gone. He told
the Brownsville police he suspected SOLOMAN. That night RACHLESON
learned that SOLOMAN had taken a boat to New Haven.
The Detective Bureau was notified and Sergeant BONNER was sent to
Connecticut in search of SOLOMAN. He found him last night and brought
him to Brooklyn.
In the Gates avenue court to-day SOLOMAN told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM
that he had been hired by a man named JACOBSON to take the horse to New
Haven. The case was adjourned. SOLOMAN was held without bail.
GIRL DRANK KEROSENE OIL BY MISTAKE
ANN TOOMEY, 15 years old, of 188 Rutland road, last evening drank a
quantity of kerosene oil by mistake. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon CUMISKY, of the Kings County Hospital.
WOMAN WHO WANTED TO DIE TAKES PARIS GREEN
Josephine NELSON, 30 years old, attempted suicide yesterday afternoon
at 159 Franklin street, by taking paris green. Ambulance Surgeon
BAXTER, of Williamsburg Hospital, was summoned, and pronounced her
condition as very serious. She was taken to the hospital.
FISHED OUT OF RIVER AFTER A COLD BATH
JOHN WESTON, 27 years old, of 5 Water street, fell from the dock at the
foot of Amity street last night. He was fished out nearly drowned and
removed to the Long Island City Hospital.
WOMAN FOUGHT MEN WHO WOULD SAVE HER.
After creating a panic on Broadway and causing several women to faint,
last night, Mrs. MARY MONTAG, 34 years old, of 59 South Eighth street,
is in the Williamsburg Hospital suffering from burns, with little
chance for recovery. Shortly before 7 o'clock she gathered the rubbish
in the cellar and back yard of her home and set fire to it. A piece of
burning paper blew against her skirt and ignited it. She ran screaming
into South Eighth street and then into Broadway and, crazed by the
pain, she fought the men who tried to stop her and put out the flames
by wrapping their coats about her. She was finally tripped by by
Policeman FARRINGTON, who succeeded in extinguishing the flames with
the assistance of FREDERICK LOHMAN, of 62 South Eighth street, but not
before they had been scratched and torn on the face and hands by the woman.
IRON GIRDER FALL ON TWO WORKMEN
ABRAHAM BENNEFELT, 23 years old, of 473 Hopkinson avenue, and 'LARRY'
COMISKY, 20 years old, of 354 Rockaway avenue, were seriously injured
late yesterday afternoon while at work on a new building on Howard
avenue near Bainbridge street. An iron girder fell on them. BENNEFELT
had his nose fractured and COMISKY sustained a severe scalp wound.
There were attended by an ambulance surgeon and went home.
WON'T IDENTIFY ITALIAN SHE SAID STABBED HER.
Italian reticence and fear are hampering greatly the work of justice in
the case of PHILIP CORETTA, 26 years old, of various addresses, who was
brought before Magistrate VOORHEES in the Coney Island court this
morning on the charge of having cut Mrs. OLYMPIA DE AMBROSIO in the
cheek on March 30 last, at her home, 2858 West Fifty-eighth street,
Coney Island. Although she swore to the detectives on the day of the
cutting that CORETTA was the assailant, in court this morning Mrs. DE
AMBROSIO retracted her words, and declared that she had made a mistake
in her identification, and that CORETTA was not the man who stabbed her.
CORETTA's picture is in the Rogues' Gallery, and the police say he has
been in many shooting and stabbing affrays. Disgusted at not having
been able to secure a positive conviction, Detective CARRAO turned to
the Magistrate, and said, pointing to two Italians in the courtroom:
"There are two people in this room who are working for a settlement of
this case outside of the court; there is one of them, and there is the
other."
The two Italians were summoned to the bench, and after being cautioned
not to interfere in the case, were ordered out of the court. The
hearing was adjourned for one week, during which time the detectives
will do their utmost to gather some real evidence.
SET HOUSE AFIRE AFTER QUARREL WITH WIFE.
But WOLF Doesn't Remember What He Did -- Held on Two Charges.
AUGUST WOLF, a truckman, 29 years old, of 304 Floyd street, was before
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court to-day on a charge of
arson preferred by Battalion Chief BERNARD MATSCHKE. The prisoner's
wife, Kate, was also in court to charge her husband with intoxication.
According to the story told in court, WOLF came home last night in a
state of intoxication and found that his wife had packed up the
furniture. Her sister, Mrs. MARY KINKLE, was with her. When WOLF
asked her why she had got ready to move she said she couldn't stand his
treatment any longer.
The two had some words and then WOLF, it is alleged, picked up the
lighted lamp and hurled it across the room. The blazing oil set fire
to the couch and Mrs. WOLF and her sister ran screaming to the street.
Someone turned in an alarm, and when Battalion Chief MATSCHKE arrived
and learned the cause of the blaze, he notified the Vernon avenue
police station and WOLF was arrested several hours later in a saloon in
the neighborhood.
The prisoner said he had no recollection of what occurred last night.
The magistrate held him in $500 bail on the arson charge and $100 on
that of intoxication, for examination.
BRUNO SPIESS SUSPECTS COACHMAN BLEW OUT GAS.
JANOS MARGET, 29 years old, a coachman employed by BRUNO SPIESS, of 198
Bay Seventeenth street, Bath Beach, was nearly asphyxiated last night.
He either blew out the gas when he went to bed or turned the burner on
after he had turned it off. He was found unconscious in bed this
morning. Ambulance Surgeon BAUMGARD treated him and took him to the
Norwegian Hospital.
FIRE CAUSED BY DEFECTIVE FLUE IN ADJOINING HOUSE.
A small fire occurred this morning in the home of CHARLES R. BUCKLEY,
at 112 Montague street. It started in a store room in the attic from a
defective flue in the house at 110 Montague street. The damaage was
placed at $100.
CROKER HAS INJURED FIREMAN DRAGGED FROM AMBULANCE
Fire Chief CROKER and Patrolman APFEL of the Oak street station,
clashed at a fire under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge last
night, over the removal to the hospital of a fireman overcome by smoke.
CROKER insisted that the man should not be taken away. APFEL called
an ambulance and when the surgeon arrived the unconscious form of the
injured fireman was used as a sort of rope in a tug-of-war. CROKER and
some of his men tried to tear the man away from the police and surgeon.
He ordered his men to drag O'CONNOR, the fireman, from the ambulance
and it was several minutes before he would be persuaded that the man
was in bad shape.
TRUCK DRIVER WITH 50 CLOCKS TO SELL ARRESTED.
CHARLES W. FICKEN, a truck driver for W. L. STRONG Trucking Company,
was in the Butler street court to-day on complaint of Andrew MCCLOUD,
of 1039 Lafayette avenue, a representative of the Waterbury Clock
Company, who charges FICKEN with having stolen fifty clocks, valued at
$50, from the company while carting them from the New Haven Railroad
Company's East River pier to 10 Cortlandt street. It is alleged FICKEN
went into the pawnshop of MITCHELL HARLEN, 264 Columbia street, this
borough, and offered for sale a clock, saying he had forty-nine more of
like design.
HARLEN grew suspicious, and, while he kept his customer dickering, had
a clerk call up the Hamilton avenue police station. Detectives Peter
MCGLOIN and MOLIN arrested FICKEN.
He was held for further examination.
SLAKES HIS THIRST WITH STOLEN TEXT BOOKS.
MICHAEL CONNOLLY, of 314 Hudson avenue, became so thirsty for whiskey
yesterday, that he robbed a school boy of two books and tried to get a
drink on "Two Feet, Four Feet and No Feet." He reserved Eggleston's
"History of the United States" for a future occasion, but was arrested
with his book in his possession. FRANK CONDON, of 333 Furman street,
had just got two of the books from the Library, in Montague street,
when he met CONNOLLY on Myrtle avenue near the Red Onion restaurant.
CONNOLLY snatched the books and made for the nearest saloon. Policeman
STOVER caught him and CHARLES W. FARRINGTON, the librarian, made a
charge of larceny against CONNOLLY to-day.
YOUTHFUL CAR ROWDIES SENT TO INSTITUTION
Two boys who made passengers on a Fulton street "L" train uncomfortable
during the rush hours last evening, were haled before Justice FLEMING,
in the Children's Court to-day. They will be sentenced to some
institution on April 10.
The boys said they were WILLIAM HENNESSEY, 15 years old, of 1087 Wyona
avenue, and ERNEST TROUTMAN, 14 years old, of 265 Milford street.
According to some of those who suffered, the boys had bean shooters
with which they proceeded to test their skill on other passengers'
heads. Tiring of this, they danced about on the toes of the men and
women. Finally they began to fight between themselves and made things
so disagreeable that the police were called to arrest them.
FIVE MORE ROBBERIES REPORTED TO POLICE
The following robberies have been reported at police headquarters:
-While Miss EVELYN HIGGINBOTHAM, of 438 Third street, was attending
Sunday School in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, a thief got into
a cloak room and stole her gold watch which she had left in a handbag.
-JOHN C. REID, of 417 Throop avenue, reported at the Gates avenue
station, that while standing in front of 498 Lexington avenue, late
Sunday night, two men attacked him and while one held him, the other
went through his pockets taking $21 in cash and some other things.
-GEORGE A. FORMAN, of 413 Pulaski street, left his bicycle on the
sidewalk temporarily and a thief made away with it.
-Mrs. E.F. HAVILAND, of 1318 Dean street, engaged a young man who gave
his name as GEORGE WHITNEY, to clean her parlor windows. When he got
through and left, she missed her gold watch and some jewelry worth $150
from the bureau drawer.
-CHARLES E. SHOBER, of 184 Ninth street, Elmhurst, and CARL E. WILHELM,
of 173 Seventh street, Elmhurst, have reported to the police that their
houses were entered by burglars. Mr. SHOBER lost about $75 worth of
silverware and cut glass, and Mr. WILHELM places his loss at $40.
CRUSHED BY IRON BAR; BOTH LEGS BROKEN
While moving machinery in the brewery at 18 Beaver street to-day,
CHARLES KUHPLER, 30 years old, had both legs fractured. A rope broke
and a heavy piece of iron falling pinned him to the floor. He was
taken to St. Catherine's Hospital.
4 April 1906
MOVING VAN IN FLAMES; FURNITURE BURNED.
Furniture valued at $250 was destroyed by flames yesterday afternoon on
a moving van owned and driven by LOUIS BENNINGER, of 113 East 109th
street, Manhattan, at Seventh and Bay Ridge avenues. The stuff burned
so rapidly that BENNINGER had to make a hasty leap from his seat to the
pavement to prevent his clothing from being singed.
The horses were in imminent danger and BENNINGER had both hands
severely burned while unhitching them from the blazing vehicle. He was
attended at the Fort Hamilton precinct station by Dr. BONGARD, of the
Norwegian Hospital and sent home.
BENNINGER was taking the furniture to the residence of GEORGE
DICKINSON, at 2 Bay Twentieth street, Bath Beach, when a pedestrian
called his attention to the mysterious fire. The damaged truck was
valued at $75. The cause of the fire is unknown.
EXPLOSION ON CITY LAUNCH; ENGINEER TERRIBLY BURNED.
One of the coil pipes connecting with the machinery of the Dock
Department launch, "Kill," exploded yesterday afternoon in Sheepshead
Bay near shore, and LAWRENCE J. HALARAN, 31 years old, of 358 East
Twenty-third street, Manhattan, a department engineer, had his face,
arms and hands terribly burned by spluttering naphtha. He became
unconscious and had to be removed in an ambulance to the Kings County
Hospital for treatment. HALARAN was cleaning the machinery when the
explosion occurred.
The damage to the launch was considerable, but it remained afloat.
AN INTERESTING programme was enjoyed by the members of Court Bushwick,
No. 127, F. of A., last evening at the Henschel's Hall, Bushwick avenue
and Cooper street. The occasion was the installation of the new
officers of the lodge. The staff is a popular one and a most
successful administration is anticipated.
Those taking office are:
Chief Ranger - OSCAR H. MOTT;
Sub-Chief Ranger - JOSEPH W. SHEPARD;
Treasurer, GEORGE P. KAISER;
Financial Secretary, WILLIAM E. WILSON;
Recording Secretary, PETER T. MURPHY;
Senior Woodward, G.G. DIETRICH;
Junior Woodward, V. FAGGIANI;
Senior Beadle, D.F. MULLER;
Junior Beadle, P.H. KEEGAN;
Lecturer, JAMES J. WHITE;
Trustee, LOUIS J. ZETTLER;
Physician, FRANK E. WILSON;
Organist, ALBERT E. WILGUS;
Junior Past Chief Ranger, GEORGE PRENTZEL.
ITALIAN WEDS GIRL HE HAD ABDUCTED
When the case of VINCENZO ROMEO, 22 years of age, of 504 East Eleventh
street, Manhattan, who was charged with the abduction of pretty
13-year-old MARIA NUNZIATTA, of 221 Van Brunt street, was called this
morning in Butler street court the pair appeared before Magistrate
TIGHE smiling happily. ROMEO lad before the judge a marriage
certificate signed by the Rev. Mgr. DUFFY, rector of St. Agnes' R.C.
Church, at Sackett and Hoyt street, where the young couple were married
since ROMEO's arrest. The complaint was dismissed.
SOUTH BROOKLYN
'LONGSHOREMAN INJURED AT BUSH DOCKS.
FELIX LUMHURST, 27 years old, of Third avenue and Nineteenth street,
while at work at the Bush docks yesterday afternoon, fell from a bale
of jute and sustained contusions of the head and back. He was attended
by Ambulance Surgeon LIVINGSTON, of the Norwegian Hospital, and went
home.
SERIOUSLY INJURED TRYING TO PLAY HORSE.
SAMUEL ARNOFF, the 16-year-old son of JOSEPH ARNOFF, of 208 Division
street, a furniture mover, was driving a single truck across the
Williamsburg Bridge, loaded with furniture, from Manhattan, at noon
to-day. When the boy had driven as far as the middle span of the
bridge he stopped and unhitched his horse, leaving the wagon standing
there, and started back along the bridge to assist his father, who was
driving a double truck loaded with furniture and was having a difficult
time.
The boy had just started, when a policeman called to him to watch his
wagon, as it had started to roll of its own volition down the incline
towards Brooklyn. He dropped his lines and ran to the truck and got in
between the shafts, trying to stop the wagon. The wagon had gained
such headway by this time, however, that all he could do was to guide
it past the other wagons on the roadway. It kept gaining speed so
rapidly that he could not even get away, and had to keep running. As
it passed the Brooklyn tower several policemen made a vain attempt to
stop it, and when the wagon reached the trolley station at the terminal
the boy was so exhausted he could not guide it, and it crashed into the
side of the station, smashing the wagon and scattering the furniture in
every direction. Young ARNOFF received a fractured skull, and was
taken to the Eastern District Hospital. He was still unconscious up to
a late hour.
ITALIAN SETTLEMENT WORK IS SUCCESSFUL.
Report summarizing the year's work and declaring it successful were
received by the members of the Italian Settlement Society who gathered
last evening at the home of their president, NORMAN S. DIKE, 194
Columbia Heights, for their fifth annual meeting. The year's work, as
discussed by the members, would indicate that the settlement, formed
with a modest membership five years ago, has grown to be a factor in
the life of the Italian people of Brooklyn. The settlement is located
at 29 Front street, and its officers and contributing workers include
many promising residents of Brooklyn. R. FULTON CUTTING sent his name
and contribution to last evening's meeting.
The settlement was founded and is conducted on the principle that any
Italian section is primarily a colony of pioneers in our civic
Eldorado. It divides the Italians into three classes, according to
their status, the highest being the store owners. Secretary and Head
Worker W.E. DAVENPORT read his yearly report last evening. The report
shows a remarkable progress. Three hundred and twenty-five new
students have been enrolled. The daily attendance is 135 and the
evening classes 36. Three boys' clubs have been organized and 200
members are depositors in the settlement's savings bank system.
Sixteen teachers have charge of the work. The receipts for the year
were $2,628 and a balance is left the settlement above expenses. The
institution has as a motto the following: "If our institutions are to
continue unimpaired, it is all important that the foreign population
should believe in our friendship." Mr. DAVENPORT said that one of the
chief stumbling blocks in the way of education was the fact that the
illiterate parents of the Italian emigrant children, never having had
education themselves, do not look on education for their children as
essential. He said that the intellect of the average Italian child was
remarkably bright. When given to understand that good wages may be
earned when they acquire the average education and master the language,
Mr. DAVENPORT said that the rapidity of progress made by them rivals
the progress of the American schoolboy. The following directors, whose
terms expired, were re-elected:
ISAAC H. CARY,
HENRY J. DAVENPORT,
A. AUGUSTUS HEALY,
ANNE E. LUPTON and ELIZA WHITMAN.
A number of contributions were received. Among these were:
Mrs. JOHN BOYLE,
WILLIAM D. MARTIN,
Col. GEORGE A. PRICE,
E.R.L. GOULD,
EVERLY CHILDS,
EDWIN K. ALDEN and FRANCIS JORDAN.
GIRL ACCUSED OF THEFT SUDDENLY GETS YOUNGER
Her Case Is Put Over Because Store Detective, It Is Said, Is to Wed.
In addition to a charge of petty larceny now hanging over her head,
LILLIAN DIAMOND, of 560 Lorimer street, may also be charged with
perjury. LILLIAN, who was a salesgirl in a Fulton street department
store, is charged with stealing money handed to her for cash sales.
She was first examined in the Adams street police court, where she gave
her age as 17. After several adjournments, she was held for Special
Sessions.
Then she said she was only 15, so the case was sent to the Children's
Court, where it came up to-day. She was born in New Jersey, and search
is being made there now of the record of her birth.
Miss IDA BERG, the store detective, requested that the case be
postponed until May 2. Asked the reason for such a long delay, she
blushed and refused to state. It was whispered about the court,
however, that she is to be married in a day or two.
CLAIMS ITALIANS HOLD HIS WIFE PRISONER
Mr. and Mrs. ROCO PROHIA, of Fifty-seventh street and Eleventh avenue,
were in the Coney Island court to-day on a summons issued by Magistrate
VOORHEES at the request of ROCO SREDICE, of Sixty-sixth street and
Fourteenth avenue, who claims that the PROHIAs are keeping his wife,
ANGELINA, a prisoner in their house. He produces witnesses to
substantiate his complaint.
One of the Italians who testified said that he had called at the
Fifty-seventh street house yesterday and had a talk with the alleged
prisoner. She told him, he said, that she had had nothing to eat for a
week and that she was slowly starving to death. He got her something
to eat.
PROHIA and his wife said that Mrs. SREDICE had never been at their
house. The magistrate adjourned the case until Friday morning. In
the meantime the police of the Fort Hamilton station will investigate.
POLICE ASKED TO FIND MISSING OCTOGENARIAN
JOSEPH HEIGERT, 84 years old, of 27 Bartlett street, has been reported
to the police as missing from his home since Sunday morning, when he
went out ostensibly for a short walk.
NOCQUET MISSING; HIS BALLOON FOUND.
Life Saver Discovers Car on Jones' Beach, Near Water's Edge
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND.
No News Received From the Daring Frenchman
The balloon of PAUL NOCQUET, the aeronaut and sculptor, in which he
ascended from the Bronx last night, and was last seen drifting toward
Montauk Point, was found late last night on Jones' Beach, on the south
coast of Long Island, across from Freeport. The aeronaut is missing.
Footprints leading from the balloon indicate that NOCQUET landed
safely. No news has been received as to his whereabouts, not even word
reaching any of his friends in New York, or his residence on
Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan. A telegram has been received from Fire
Island, addressed to M. NOCQUET, and advising him that his balloon has
been found.
While some friends fear that he has been lost at sea, the most
plausible explanation of his disappearance is that he is in hiding in
some village near where his balloon was found, hoping thereby to create
a great sensation for a few days. NOCQUET has declared at various
times that when he made an ascension he would, as he expressed it,
give the people something to talk about. If he has hidden himself, and
contrives to remain hidden for several days, he will certainly have
accomplished his object.
The balloon was discovered by JACOB BALDWIN, a member of the Jones'
Beach life-saving crew. It was ten o'clock last night when he came
across it. He had left the station an hour before and had been
patrolling constantly up and down the shore, so that the presumption is
that the balloon had descended a very short time before it was found.
It was still inflated and was dry, showing that it had not been washed
ashore, but had descended to the ground. There was no coat or other
article of clothing in the balloon, the only thing found it in being a
copy of a New York newspaper of Monday's date.
On finding the balloon BALDWIN at once notified Capt. STEPHEN AUSTIN,
of the Jones' Beach life-saving station, and an investigation was
quickly begun. An examination showed that there were footprints
leading away from the balloon in a north-westerly direction toward
Amityville. There appeared to be two sets of footprints and the theory
is that a fisherman or other person who had been out on the beach had
come along just as the balloon struck the ground and that the aeronaut
had gone along with him, perhaps to get assistance to transport the
balloon to a place from which it could be sent to New York.
From all the circumstances it is the opinion of the lifesavers that the
aeronaut will be found alive and well. At 10 o'clock this morning
Capt. AUSTIN reported that he and his men had made a careful search of
the beach and meadows but failed to find any trace of the missing
aeronaut.
Capt. AUSTIN stated that on the beach near where the basket came to a
halt, a number of newspapers and portions of newspapers were found.
Lying on the bottom of the car a number of buttons were scattered
about, which the Captain believes were torn from the clothing of
NOCQUET in his haste to leave the basket.
NOCQUET made his ascension yesterday afternoon in a specially
constructed balloon from the Central Union gas works, at 138th street
and Walnut avenue, in the Bronx. The course of the balloon up to
nightfall is as follows: Over Jamaica at 7 P.M., Garden City at 7:15,
Wesburty at 7:20, Cold Spring Harbor at 7:50 and Huntington at 8
o'clock.
Members of the Aero Club remained at their headquarters, the Automobile
Club, throughout the night, in the hope of hearing from NOCQUET. A
general alarm was sent out over the police wires, and a patrol was
established along the beaches at Rockaway and Far Rockaway.
NOCQUET has attained distinction as an artist, sculptor and writer, as
well as aeronaut. He came from Paris two years ago, and was considered
one of the most daring members of the Aero Club of France. NOCQUET's
courage had been attested fifteen times in balloon ascensions in his
own country. Two years ago he planned to cross the Atlantic Ocean is a
balloon, but was deterred from his object by his friends.
CARPENTER HURT BY FALL FROM BEAM
THOMAS REDDY, a carpenter, 54 years old, living at 192 Palmetto street,
was removed to the Kings County Hospital to-day with a severe scalp
wound, received by falling from a beam on the second floor of a new
building at Schenectady and Atlantic avenues.
The Rev. CHARLES M. COLLINS, formerly pastor of the Broadway
Congregational Church of Flushing, has accepted a call to the pastorate
of the Reformed Church at Steinway. The Rev. HENRY M. PHIRFER, of
Brooklyn, has received a unanimous call to the place vacated by Mr.
COLLINS. It is understood that he will accept.
The Flushing Cemetery Corporation has elected the following officers:
President, THOMAS S. WILLETTS; vice-president, W.K.MURRAY; secretary,
GEORGE W. POPLE; treasurer, WILLIAM L. JAMES.
Queens-MAYME NELSON IS IN POLICE TOILS AGAIN.
MAYME NELSON, 26 years old, of 1184 Broadway, was before Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM, in the Gates avenue court, to-day, on a charge of
intoxication and malicious mischief preferred by DAVID S. DAVID, of 235
Ralph avenue, who accused MAYME of throwing a stone through a large
plate glass window in his store at the Ralph avenue address yesterday
afternoon.
"Were you ever arrested before?" asked the court of MAYME.
"Oh, yes, a few times, I guess," replied the girl with a smile.
"Three hundred dollars bail for examination on April 11th," concluded
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM.
5 April 1906
CORONER HARBURGER STIRS POLICE TO ACTION
Prompt action of the part of Coroner HARBURGER caused the arrest in the
case of Edward L. BERGER, an express agent who was killed by a Sixth
avenue "L" train while walking along the elevated tracks near Rector
street, Manhattan, last night. When the accident was reported to the
Coroner's office by the police Coroner HARBURGER asked that an arrest
be made.
The police replied that they had no information, as the Interborough
denied the story.
The Coroner then informed the police of the Church street station that
if they did not arrest the motorman of the train that killed BERGER
that he would go before Police Commissioner BINGHAM and prefer charges
against all in the station house.
As a result Joseph CALL, 53 years old, of 107 West Ninety-fifth street,
was arrested and taken before Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street
court to-day on a charge of homicide, and remanded to the Coroner, who
held him in $3,000 for examination on Friday. Wallace E. PALMER,
another motorman, of 17 Lindsay avenue, the Bronx, offered as bail
property valued at $10,000.
SAILORS ON BARQUE ILL WITH BERRI BERRI
Two Norwegian sailors were taken from the barque 'Anita', lying at the
dock in Furman street, last night and removed to the Long Island
College Hospital, where their disease was diagnosed as berri berri.
The barque had come from Sumatra, and was loaded with coffee.
CRACKS SKULL TRYING TO GET LOST HAT
While jumping from a Crosstown car yesterday afternoon, at Washington
and Flushing avenues, Michael NECHKA, a Pole, 34 years old, fell to the
street, lacerating his scalp. NECHKA's hat had blown off and he sprang
from the rapidly moving car to get it. He was taken to the Cumberland
Street Hospital by Ambulance Surgeon SAUNDERS.
BOISTEROUS ITALIAN HAD DIRK AND REVOLVER
John BARONE, of 92 Hudson avenue, charged with carrying concealed
weapons, was held for examination in the Adams street court to-day. He
had a loaded revolver and a dirk when Policeman LYNCH arrested him on
the street for being disorderly.
RIOT FOLLOWS ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP IN BROWNSVILLE
The reserves of the Brownsville station were called out last night to
quell a disturbance at Watkins street and Blake avenue, caused, it is
claimed, by the attempted hold-up of Harry SLOTSKY, 18 years old, and
his brother, Isadore, 24 years old, both of 326 Stone avenue, by three
men, who were later arrested.
When taken to the station house the prisoners said they were Charles
KAPLAN and his brother Jacob, of 321 Livonia avenue, and Abe
FRANKENSTEIN, of 600 Sackman street.
In the Gates avenue court to-day the three prisoners denied having
attempted any hold-up and were held in $200 bail for examination April 12.
GREENPOINT-
WRIST FRACTURED BY CHUNK OF CEMENT
While Arrico DOMINICO, 48 years old, an Italian laborer, who lives at
116 Union street, was carrying cement aboard a barge at the foot of
Oakland street yesterday, his wrist was struck by a large piece of
cement from an overhanging bucket and badly fractured. He was attended
by Ambulance Surgeon DE VERONA, of St. Catherine's Hospital.
SAYS HE WAS CHEATED IN JEWELRY TRANSACTION
Frank L. LAMB, 37 years old, of 258 West Fifty-fifth street, Manhattan,
was arrested yesterday on a charge of larceny on the complaint of Paul
E. BENYAL, of 135 Franklin street. BENYAL claims that he was cheated
out of $8 in a jewelry transaction with LAMB.
SEARCHING FOR MAN WHO STABBED UNCLE
Coroner Henry J. BREWER to-day took an ante-mortem statement from
Pasquale NAVALLO, 36 years old, of 77 Front street, who is in the
Brooklyn Hospital in a critical condition as the result of four knife
wounds in the abdomen, which he received at the hand of his wife's
nephew, Ercola GLANDIO, a young man who boarded with them.
NAVALLO says that on Monday he expostulated with GLANDIO over his
attitude about the house and told him to leave. He says there was no
fight, but that the nephew simple drew a knife and plunged it into his
abdomen.
The police are looking for GLANDIO.
SOUTH BROOKLYN ITEM
CUT HIS THROAT RATHER THAN BE DEPORTED
ZITO SEBASTINO, 26 years old, a native of Genoa, cut his throat
yesterday while waiting to be deported to Italy on board the steamer
'Sicilian Prince', lying at the Bush Stores, Forty-fifth street. He
was taken to the Norwegian Hospital, where it was said to-day his
condition is critical.
TWENTY-TWO GIRLS IN PLOT TO ESCAPE
One of Them Got Nervous and Told the Training School Head
TWO RING LEADERS ARRESTED
Had Clothing Packed and Were Caught in Time
Only just in time was a deep laid plot nipped, whereby twenty-two of
the inmates of the Brooklyn Training School and Home for Young Girls,
at 1483 Pacific street, were to escape last night. None of the
adventuresses are more than 15 years old, and they range from that age
down to 10 years. As a result of the plot, the two ringleaders were
this morning haled to the Children's Court and summarily sent to the
New York Training School for Girls at Hudson, N.Y.
Miss Elizabeth BREWSTER, superintendent of the Training School,
appeared in the Children's Court this morning, as complainant against
the two girls, who, she declared, were the leaders of the plan whereby
they and twenty other girls were to shake the dust of the institution
from their feet. She said the girls were Maud E. JUNIOR, colored, 15
years old, and May WILLIAMS, 15 years old. Both were committed to the
home on complaint of their parents, as disorderly children.
Miss BREWSTER stated that it was only by the "breaking down" of the
twenty-second recruit in the conspiracy that she found out that there
was a plan for the girls to escape. This one, whose name she would not
give, became very nervous and wept when questioned. This was last
evening, a short time before the escapade was to be made. An immediate
investigation was made, with the result that the clothes of the girls
were found to be neatly rolled up, ready to sling on their shoulders
and carry off. Further investigation proved the fact that the plan had
been evolved some time ago and was to be put into effect at the first
favorable opportunity. A system of signals had been planned out by the
JUNIOR girl.
A more strict watch is to be kept over the other girls now to prevent
them from entering into any more conspiracy.
LAUNDRY WAGON AND CAR COLLIDE; DRIVER HURT
Harry YOUNG, of 65 East Fourth street, Manhattan, while driving a
laundry wagon shortly before midnight last night, was struck by a
south-bound car at Manhattan avenue and Huron street and YOUNG was
thrown to the street and received contusions of the body.
SERVANT GIRL SAYS DOCTOR "RUBBERED"
SAMUEL H. WARNER, A.M., Ph.G, M.D., of 475 Franklin avenue, was accused
in the Gates avenue court to-day of flirting with MARGARET MCCARTHY, an
18-year-old domestic, employed at 475 Franklin avenue. The girl said
he was in the habit of making "goo-goo" eyes at her and even
"rubbering" when she passed by.
"What do you mean by 'goo-goo' eyes and 'rubbering'? " asked Magistrate
FURLONG of the girl.
"Why, your Honor, he does this," responded Miss MCCARTHY, who at the
same time smiled and winked at the Judge.
"Nothing of the kind," interrupted Dr. WARNER. "This girl is
slandering me and ruining my practice by going around and telling all
the servant girls in the neighborhood that I am in love with her. I
admit that I have looked at the girl, but that is no crime. I am
privileged to look at any one passing through the streets as long as I
don't molest them."
"I guess you are accusing the doctor of something he is not guilty of,
Miss MCCARTHY," said Magistrate FURLONG. "Case dismissed. Don't be so
touchy, Miss MCCARTHY, and everybody will get along better."
POLICE LOOKING FOR TRIO OF RUNAWAYS
Three boys have been reported to the police as missing from their homes
and general alarms were sent out for them.
Walter JOHNSON, 11 years old, of 170 Nostrand avenue, left home on Monday.
Charles DUTTON, 12 years old, of 63 St. Marks place, went away last Sunday.
John FREVILE, 15 years old, left his home, 388 South Third street, on March 30.
GREENPOINT ITEMS..
BIG MASONS TO CONFER SUBLIME MASTER'S DEGREE
An interesting evening is promised Greenpoint Masons to-night, when the
officers and fellowcraft team of Greenpoint Lodge will confer the
sublime degree of Master Mason on Alfred H. DAY, Charles G. SPRIGADE,
William HEINRICH,
Webster SHELDON
William M. WINSHIP.
W. Earl ADAMS will present the working tools.
During the second section Alfred S. HUGHES, Master of Hyatt Lodge, will
occupy the east, Alfred O. DRESNER, Master of Oltmans Lodge, will
occupy the west, and Edward T. SALESBURY, Past Master of St. Albans
Lodge, will deliver the historical lecture, and George G. B. IRISH will
act as Seafaring Man. The Masonic Quartet, of Manhattan, will render a
full choral service.
SMALLPOX IN CABIN; 1,000 VACCINATIONS
The North German Lloyd steamship "Wurzburg," which arrived last night
from Bremen, is detained at Quarantine with smallpox on board.
Solomon EPSTEIN, a cabin passenger, was taken sick March 24 and
immediately isolated. The disease proved to be smallpox. All of the
seventeen cabin passengers, as well as the 986 steerage passengers,
were vaccinated by the ship's surgeon.
The patient was taken to the Kingston Avenue Hospital. A number of the
passengers are held at Hoffman Island for observation. The steamer was
disinfected and released this afternoon.
HIT INFANT WITH LIFTER IN TENEMENT HOUSE ROW.
John KAY, 28 years old, of 220 Johnson street, was held in $1,000 bail
by Magistrate DOOLEY in the Adams street court to-day, on a charge of
assault. Frank MARINO, a diminutive Italian, and Annie DELANEY, of 319
Hudson avenue, showed bruises which they said KAY had inflicted with a
stove lifter. An infant in arms was also on exhibition with a cut
cheek, received during the quarrel. Mrs. DELANEY says she was trying
to save the baby, which MARINO had in his arms when KAY attacked him,
and got a whack on the cheek herself.
BOY BADLY INJURED BY TROLLEY CAR.
While crossing Myrtle avenue at Sanford street, last night, Louis
BERGER, 6 years old, of 99 Sanford street, was hit by a car of the
Myrtle avenue line and knocked down. He was pinned beneath the fender
and held there for several minutes. When he was taken out in an
unconscious condition he was hurried to the Eastern District Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, who found that the boy had sustained
internal injuries, a fracture of the right foot, and that his condition
was serious.
6 April 1906
POLICE ASKED TO FIND MISSING PERSONS
The police have been asked to try and locate Charles GOEBEL, 19 years
old, who left his home, 350 Chauncey street, on Wednesday.
George RAYNOR, 14 years old, left his home, 203 Stuyvesant avenue, on
March 3, and has not been heard from since.
William SCHIUTEN, 28 years old, of 204 Fifth avenue, Long Island City,
has been reported as missing since March 31.
INFERNAL MACHINE FOR SALOONKEEPER
Harry CARSTENS, JR., a well-known saloonkeeper of East New York, who
conducts a store at Crescent and Glen street, received through the
mails last night an infernal machine about five inches long.
Fortunately CARSTENS grew suspicious of the way the box was wrapped and
opened it carefully. This probably saved him from being blown to
pieces.
The box was three-quarters filled with black powder on top of which was
a small piece of gun cotton. Over the gun cotton was a circular piece
of sandpaper. The cover of the box was coated with a sticky substance,
thought to be paste, and in this substance was stuck eighteen short
matches. The affair was so arranged that should the opener of the box
unscrew the cover, the matches would strike the sandpaper and ignite
and the flame would reach the gun cotton and black powder. A small
portion of the powder was touched with a match and it exploded with a
deafening sound.
The box was sent to the Bureau of Combustibles this afternoon.
STRUCK MATCH ON MANTEL; SET PARLOR ON FIRE.
A blaze on the parlor floor of the four-story brownstone house at 95
South Oxford street, occupied by Lindsley P. BALDWIN, was put out last
night at 6 o'clock after the furniture and hangings had been damaged to
the extent of $50. The fire started by the striking of a match on the
parlor mantelpiece. While on his way to the fire Howard GILL, 17 years
old, employed at 297 Adelphi street, who was mounted on a bicycle, ran
into the rear of a fire engine in Lafayette, near Carlton avenue, was
thrown to the street and was cut about the face. Ambulance Surgeon
WHITE, of St. John's Hospital, administered treatment.
BOY'S DELUSION IS HUNTING INDIANS
George QUINN, 19 years old, of 54 Washington avenue, was committed to
the Kings County Hospital by Magistrate FURLONG in the Gates avenue
court to-day to have his sanity inquired into. He was arrested several
days ago by Policeman THOMPSON, of the Gates avenue station, who found
him wandering in the streets.
QUINN's mother told Magistrate FURLONG to-day that she believed her
son's mind was unbalanced. She said when he was home he was in the
habit of getting out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning and going out
in the street for a half hour or more. When he returns he tells his
parents he has been out West shooting Indians.
The last night QUINN was home his mother said he came into the house on
a run at 4 o'clock in the morning and said he had just shot fifty-six
Indians without killing any of them.
WOODEN INDIAN AND BARBER'S POLE AROUSED THEIR IRE
John ROALEF, 18 years old, of 181 Navy street, and Frederick WALSH, 19
years old, of 467 Carlton avenue, last night got into an altercation
with a wooden Indian standing in front of the cigar store of Louis
MICHNOFF, at 74 Fourth avenue, and ended up by utterly demolishing the
sturdy chieftain. They then turned their attention to a barber's pole
in front of Dominck PALADINO's shop at the same address, breaking it to
pieces. Patrolman Thomas KEENAN, of the Bergen street station,
arrested them and charges of malicious mischief were made against them
in the Myrtle avenue court this morning. They were held in $500 bail
each for the Grand Jury for damaging the figure of the Indian and in
$300 bail each for Special Sessions, for breaking the barber's pole.
CAUSED ARREST OF STRANGE BOY FOUND IN CELLAR
Seventeen-year-old Thomas KEARNS, of 733 Macon street, was held in $500
bail for examination in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge of
malicious mischief preferred by Isaac KASTON, of 966 Brook avenue, Bronx.
KASTON, who is the owner of a flat-house at 813 Hancock street, says he
saw KEARNS coming from the cellar of the house yesterday. He went into
the cellar immediately and found one of the doors in the cellar forced
open. He called KEARNS and asked him his business in the cellar. The
latter was unable to answer, and a policeman placed his under arrest.
STILL LOVES HUSBAND FOR WHOM ANOTHER WOMAN DIED.
The love of Mrs. BARDELEBON for her husband, who had registered with
Mrs. Walter RAWSON, of Philadelphia, at the Palmer House, Chicago,
where she killed herself yesterday, has not bee diminished. She will
welcome him with arms open upon his return to the city.
"I still believe in my husband," said Mrs. BARDELEBEN* to-day, "and I
still believe he loves me. I will not blame or censure his for what
has happened. The tragedy was of the woman's own making. The woman is
always to blame in such matters and not the man." *two different
spellings
HAND NEARLY SEVERED BY BLOW WITH AXE.
While at work in the Fireproof Door Company, at Calyer and Brewer
street, this morning, Isidor SCHOFER, 18 years old, of 61 Pitt street,
Manhattan, almost severed his left hand with an axe. He was removed to
the Eastern District Hospital.
ACCUSES MAN OF BREAKING INTO HOUSE
William JOHNSON, of Coney Island, was complainant against William
AUSTIN, of 34 West Second street, in the Cony Island Court this
morning. JOHNSON says that AUSTIN entered his house and robbed him of
goods valued at $25. AUSTIN was held for further examination.
INVITED DOWNSTAIRS AND HORRIBLY BEATEN
John RYAN, 22, of 491 Court street; Geo. WHITE, 18, of 477 Hicks
street; John WHITE, his brother, 23, and Edward HUGHES, 25, of 161 West
Ninth street, were in the Butler street court this morning, charged
with assault by John and Daniel TEEHAN, brothers, if 477 Hicks street,
who said the prisoners called them downstairs last night, and then
jumped on them and unmercifully beat them. Both were battered up when
they appeared in court.
QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF:
Angelo VENALO, 19 years old, was found at his home, 395 Flushing
avenue, Long Island City, last evening, sick and destitute, and removed
to St. John's Hospital.
SHOOTS WIFE AND TRIES TO KILL SELF
Young FORSTER Wanted Her to Withdraw Abandonment Proceedings.
MARRIED ONLY EIGHT MONTHS
He Is Wounded in Head and May Not Recover
Walter FORSTER, 18 years old, an upholsterer, of 180 Saratoga avenue,
went to the home of Dr. George F. KERN at 207Eldert street, to-day and
shot his wife, Margaret, 16 years old, who was a daughter of Dr. KERN
and was living with her parents. He then turned the revolver on
himself and put a bullet in his right temple.
It appears that the young couple were married eight months ago and went
to live at 979 Madison street. FORSTER did not work steadily and
couldn't support a wife, so they separated and she went to live with
her father. Dr. KERN is a veterinary surgeon and lives in a
fashionable part of the Bushwick section.
She went to the Lee avenue court and got a warrant from Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM for the arrest of her husband on a charge of abandonment.
The case was adjourned till the following Wednesday and changed to the
Gates avenue court where Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM was then sitting. He
tried to reconcile the couple but failed and postponed the case till
next Monday.
FORSTER obtained work in a department store about six weeks ago and
went to board with his brother in Saratoga avenue. About 10 o'clock
this morning he went to his father-in-law's home and, going upstairs,
met his mother-in-law in the hall and asked her where Margaret was, as
he wanted to talk to her. He mother called her and she and FORSTER
went into the parlor together.
FORSTER said: "Margaret, won't you drop the proceedings against me?
You don't want me sent to jail, do you?"
"I'll drop them if you promise to support me. You've been working for
six weeks now, and I think you can," she answered.
He then asked her to kiss him and she asked what for. He said, "I've
decided to end it all now. We can died together." With that he pulled
out a revolver and fired at his wife. She raised her right arm and the
bullet went through the fleshy part of the arm and hit the wall.
Mrs. FORSTER then ran screaming into the room where her mother was and
the two women heard a shot in the parlor. They ran out in the hall and
screamed for help. Neighbors went into the parlor and found FORSTER
lying on the floor with a revolver in his right hand and a bullet wound
in his right temple.
Policeman MILLER, of the Hamburg avenue station, sent in a hurry call
for an ambulance and Dr. AVERY, of the German Hospital, responded.
FORSTER was removed to the hospital in a dying condition. Mrs.
FORSTER's wound is only slight and was dressed by a doctor in the
neighborhood.
FORSTER's marriage was the result of a threat which he made last
August. It is claimed he told his wife that unless she married him he
would blow her brains out and put a stick of dynamite under her
father's house and blow it up. The girl finally became so frightened
that she eloped with him.
7 April 1906
THREE INJURED IN CRASH OF TROLLEY CAR.
A Gates avenue trolley car, in charge of Motorman John YONKER, of 1516
Gates avenue, and a Myrtle avenue car, with Samuel GLUCKMAN, of 305
East Houston street, Manhattan, in charge, and bound in the same
direction, collided at Washington and High street, yesterday afternoon.
GLUCKMAN was thrown over the dashboard of his car and had his spine
severely injured, while John KELLY, a city fireman, who was a
passenger, and Kate WRIGHT, of 194 Powers street, were thrown to the
floor of the car and cut and bruised about the head and body. All were
attended by a physician and left for their homes.
GIRL LEAPS FROM CAB WHEN HORSE RUNS AWAY.
Sidney AUSTIN, a cabby, who was driving Miss Edith ADAMS, of 54
Montgomery place, home last night, had an attack of vertigo and fell
from the box while the cab was on Eastern Parkway, near Flatbush
avenue. The horse bolted and Miss ADAMS, fearing that the rig would be
smashed against the masonry at the Willink entrance of the park, opened
the door and jumped into the street. She landed on her knees and was
severely scratched and shaken up, but not otherwise hurt.
Miss ADAMS was assisted by Alfred BEEBE and John ELINGER, who was
passing in an auto, and after brushing the dust from her dress and
hands, proceeded to her home in a car. The horse continued down Ocean
avenue to Sheepshead Bay, where he was stopped by a policeman.
SAY HE FIRED BLANK CARTRIDGE AT WOMAN
Frank GIBSON, 19 years old, of 403 Hoyt street, was in the Butler
street court to-day charged with attempted felonious assault by Mrs.
Nellie STONE, and with assault by Mary GLEASON, both of the same
address, in behalf of George STONE, 8 years old.
It is alleged that GIBSON while intoxicated started a row in the
apartments of the GLEASON woman, and finally threw a kettle at her
which she dodged, the little boy receiving the blow on the scalp. The
boy's mother, hearing the noise, went to see what happened, and GIBSON,
she alleges, then turned on her and said:
"I'll give you more before I am done," and with that pulled out a
revolver and fired at her, the shot not taking effect, GIBSON said that
the cartridge was a blank, and he had only tried to frighten the woman.
He was held in $1,000 bail for examination.
SHOOTS MOTHER-IN-LAW ON RELEASE FROM PRISON.
Following his release yesterday from the Kings County Penitentiary,
where he had served a year for burglary, Henry DEAME, 28 years old,
went to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary CUOSONE, on Union
avenue, Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, and attempted to kill his wife
and her mother. The women were in bed when DEAME broke open the door.
He answered their cries of alarm by opening fire with a revolver, one
of the bullets smashing Mrs. CUOSONE's jaw and another shattering the
bedpost over her head. DEAME then fled and is now being hunted in the
woods near Crystal Lake.
Mrs. CUOSONE, who is 55 years old, was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
Her condition is critical.
BURGLARS STILL BUSY; POLICE MAKE NO ARRESTS.
Clothing valued at $50 was stolen from the home of William H. HANDS,
who lives on the fourth floor of 662 Park place.
Cut glass and table ware worth $100 were stolen from the home of Mrs.
Annie SCHMACHER, at 129 Halsey street.
Thieves broke into a vacant house at 71 Hooper street and carried off a
large quantity of lead pipe from the cellar. The house is owned by
Gilbert P. TRUSLOW.
Frank HULTZ, of 716 Grand street, reports that his watch was stolen
from him by an unknown thief.
While Joseph NORTH, of 454 South Fifth street, was asleep in the rear
room of a saloon on Broadway, a thief removed a diamond ring from his
finger and the diamond stud from his shirt front.
FEARS BROTHER-IN-LAW WILL MURDER HIM.
A crowd ran all the way from Atlantic avenue and Smith street this
morning, folowing[sic] a policeman who had a prisoner whose shirt
collar was bloody and his left eye swollen and black.
Close behind the prisoner was a young man wearing gold-rimmed
spectacles, under which was a bunch of absorbent cotton. When the
prisoner reached the Adams street station the crowd dispersed.
He was Philip LEPFEL, of 354 Atlantic avenue. The young man was Louis
BLUMBERG, of 284 Atlantic avenue. He told Sergeant KENNEDY that LEPFEL
had drawn a knife on him and threatened to cut his throat.
"He had threatened me before this," said BLUMBERG, "and I an afraid he
will kill me. I had him arrested before, but the Judge let him go. He
attacked me with a knife then."
The men are brothers-in-law, and there is a family feud. They met in
the street this morning and an old quarrel was renewed. Policeman
COOTS arrested LEPFEL.
BLUMBERG was told to come to court in the morning and make a complaint.
LEPFEL was bailed out by a friend.
DETECTIVES MUM ON HUDDLESTON'S ARESRT[SIC]
George HUDDLESTON, 50 years old, a broker of 610 Sixth avenue,
Manhattan, was before Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street court to-day
accused of the alleged larceny of $5,000 from Louis STRAUS, a business
man of 50 New street. Information regarding the exact nature of the
transaction was refused by the Central Office detectives who made the
arrest, on the ground that publicity would defeat the ends of justice.
It was intimated that other arrests would be made in connection with
the case.
Bail was fixed by Magistrate MOSS at $2,000. Pending the finding of a
bondsman HUDDLESTON was locked up in the Tombs.
BROWNSVILLE - YOUTHFUL DRIVER HURT IN LIVELY RUNAWAY
While Joseph OSTER, 15 years old, of 441 Rockaway avenue, was driving a
horse owned by SILVERMAN & HOPKIN, real estate brokers, of 336 Rockaway
avenue, yesterday, the animal became unmanageable at Rockaway avenue
and Osborn street, and ran away. At Pitkin avenue OSTER was thrown
from the wagon and received a fracture of the right arm and right foot.
The horse was caught at Belmont avenue by Policeman KEARNEY, of the
Brownsville station. The boy was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street Hospital, and after his wounds were
dressed he went home in the wagon.
TRIED TO STEAL 85-FOOT CHIMNEY
Army of Boys Has Been Carrying Away What Was Left of Glass Works Ruins
ONE CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Sold Bricks They Stole for 40 Cents a Hundred.
Ever since the fire in the plant of the De Muth Glass Works, at
Gardiner avenue and Newtown Creek, last December, the business has
been at a standstill. Yesterday when Frank DEIS, a superintendent,
visited the buildings he was surprised to find that thousands of
dollars' worth of material had been carried away.
An investigation showed that an army of boys had been at work about the
plant since the fire, and that they had practically torn down and
carried away several small buildings. Bricks, iron and lumber had been
carted away. The brick walls that were still standing were without
doors, and the sashes of the windows had disappeared.
DEIS hurried to the Herbert street police station and told what he had
discovered to Capt. KNIPE. The captain sent Policeman HECKER with the
superintendent to make an investigation. When the two reached the
works they saw a boy on top of the 85-foot brick chimney. He was
busily engaged in throwing the bricks from the top of the chimney.
Policeman HECKER ordered the boy to come down, but the lad refused.
Finally, after some parley, the boy descended from his high perch and
was taken to the station house, where he was locked up on a charge of
malicious mischief. The boy said he and others had been selling the
bricks for forty cents a hundred.
Before Magistrate NAUMER, in Manhattan avenue court to-day, he was
paroled for a hearing.
WOMEN SHOPLIFTERS WORE FIVE SKIRTS
Ten Stolen Shirt Waists Found on Them---Refuse to Give Their Names.
Mrs. Mary KIRCHOLSKY, 22 years old, and Mrs. Mary MILLER, 30 years old,
both of whom refused to say where they lived, were before Magistrate
NAUMER in the Manhattan avenue court to-day, on a charge of shoplifting
preferred by a woman detective of a Broadway department store. When
they were arrested ten shirt waists belonging to the store were found
on the two.
The detective's attention was called to the women by a customer who
told her that she had seen one of them slip a waist under her raincoat.
The detective called in a policeman and the two were taken to the
Herbert street station, where there is a matron. When the matron
examined the prisoners she found that each had on five skirts. The
openings of the skirts, instead of being in the back, were on the side
so that they could be used as pockets.
The inner skirt was arranged so that articles tucked within it would
not fall to the floor. It was beneath this skirt that the shirt waists
were found. Neither woman could speak English and they refused to talk
through an interpreter. They were held in $300 bail each for
examination.
NURSE GET FORTUNE FOR HER KINDNESS.
[Special to The Standard Union]
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, April 7,---Because she cared for them in a
sympathetic manner when they were ill, Miss Esther MARVIN, a trained
nurse of Rockville Centre, has been left a comfortable fortune by Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin RHODES, of Hempstead. Mr. and Mrs. RHODES grew old
without children. When either of the aged couple were ill Miss MARVIN
would always be sent for because her care was more than perfunctory.
When they died recently they left property valued at nearly $75,000 to
the trained nurse. The will has been probated by Surrogate Edgar
JACKSON, of Nassau County.
LIVELY CHASE AFTER BOY BAG-SNATCHER
Harry GOODMAN, 16 years old, who gives his address as Second avenue,
near 107th street, Manhattan, was arrested yesterday afternoon on
Broadway, near Van Buren street, by Special Deputy Sheriff Albert G.
REES, treasurer of the Citizens' Protective League. It seems Mrs.
Julius CLEARY, who lived in Monroe street, near Ralph avenue, was going
along Broadway, when, she says, she saw GOODMAN open the bag of another
woman some distance ahead, who also saw him in the act and tried to
grab him, but he got away. She, however, made no effort to pursue him.
Just then Mrs. CLEARY's own pocketbook, one of the swinging kind, was
jerked away from her by the fleeing boy as he passed her. She
attempted to catch him, but he eluded her, too.
The officer, following a short distance in the wake of Mrs. CLEARY, saw
GOODMAN snatch her pocketbook, and gave chase to the boy, who was then
joined by another who ran with him. GOODMAN dashed around the corner
into LUBIN's stable, on Van Buren street, near Broadway. His partner
fled on. REES followed GOODMAN to the stable and caught him after a
struggle.
REES then took his prisoner to the Ralph avenue station, where he was
locked up.
Mrs. CLEARY said there was $1.95 in her pocketbook at the time. The
confederate of the boy, it is supposed, got the pocketbook. GOODMAN
will be taken to the Gates avenue court this morning.
BROKE HIS THIGH IN SACK RACE AT ARMORY.
Arthur KIRSAAN, 18 years old, of 74 Clifton place, one of the
contestants in a sack race held in the Fourteenth Regiment Armory last
night, fell while making the run and broke his thigh. He was attended
by an ambulance surgeon and taken to his home by some friends.
MANY JUST ESCAPE AS WALL TOPPLES.
Lives of twenty families were imperiled yesterday afternoon by the
collapse of the rear wall of a five-story tenement, at 67 Oliver
street, Manhattan. All escaped injury but one child, a girl of 8
years, whose skull was fractured.
Lizzie PRANNITO, the child who was injured, was playing in the rear
yard when five bricks fell from just under the cornice of the building.
One of them struck her on the head.
Tenants in all the nearby housed were panic-stricken. The neighborhood
is thickly populated with Italians, and it was hours before the
excitement quieted down.
Superintendent of Buildings Edward S. MURPHY made an examination last
night and gave it as his opinion that the fall of the wall was due to
the overloading of the fire-escapes. He ordered that the building
should be razed and a force of laborers were immediately put to work to
pull the building down.
MAN, TANGLED IN BELTING, NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH.
While at work in a leather factory at Bogart and Seigel streets
yesterday afternoon, John CALLAHAN, 33 years old, of 191 Bedford
avenue, got his right leg caught in a belt and had a narrow escape from
death. He was being whirled toward a large fly wheel when another
workman shouted to the engineer to shut off the power. He was removed
to St. Catherine's Hospital with a fracture of the right leg.
LITTLE GIRL RUN DOWN BY TROLLEY CAR.
Irene CONNOR, 6 years old, of 750 Bergen street, while running across
the street opposite her home last night was knocked down by a Bergen
street car. The motorman, James MCGUIRE, stopped the car in time to
save her life, but the fender caught her in the side, causing severe
contusions. She was removed to St. John's Hospital.
SECOND THIEF NOT BEST OWNER THIS TIME.
Christopher EVERS, 16 years old, of 626 Sterling place; Thomas RUSSELL,
same age, of 988 Degraw street, and John O'GRADY, 9 years old, of 986
Degraw street, were arrested yesterday charged with stealing a gold
watch belonging to Krauss SUFFERING, of 825 Classon avenue. The two
larger boys, it is alleged, took the watch from O'GRADY after he had
stolen it. O'GRADY "squealed" and the three were arrested.
WOMAN SEEKS DEATH BY RIVER ROUTE
Caroline WAGNER, 50 years old, of 400 Winthrop street, Astoria,
attempted suicide yesterday by jumping into the East River at the foot
of Eighth street, Astoria. She was rescued in an exhausted condition
and attended by Dr. SCHIREKERT and removed to St. John's Hospital, Long
Island City, a prisoner.
ELOPED AFTER THEY HAD BEEN WED FIVE MONTHS
Pretty Suffolk School Teacher Stirs Gossips and Gives Them the Laugh
RIVERHEAD, April 7.---
A pretty young schoolma'am has solved the problem
of how to get married and still retain her job as teacher. She just
sought out a clergyman who is an insurance agent and was married. The
clergyman agreed not to speak of the wedding until the teacher was
ready to resign from her school.
Miss Elsie SCHAEFFER, the eldest daughter of August SCHAEFFER, a
taxidermist, of Riverhead, and well known among sporting men, taught
school in Baiting Hollow for several years. When she left town a week
ago on the same train with LeRoy REEVE, the son of A.F. REEVE, of Sound
avenue, Riverhead, and checked her baggage to the same place REEVE had
named as his destination, there was gossip. After a week it was
declared to be an elopement, and then the news arrived that REEVE and
Miss SCHAEFFER had been married since last November. They were married
by the Rev. Mr. EAGAN, of Good Ground. The pretty bride said she
wanted to keep her position for a while, and asked that nothing be said
of her marriage until she was ready to resign. She chose April Fools'
Day as the day of her departure, and considers that she completely
fooled her friends. Mr. and Mrs. REEVE have not set a date for their return.
9 April 1906
KEPT MARRIAGE SECRET NEARLY THREE MONTHS
Then "a Friend" Notified Family With an Anonymous Letter
Congratulations of a hundred friends poured in on Mr. and Mrs. John A.
FRAZEE, nee Kathyrn [sic] L. DIBBS, both of St. Marks place, to-day
when it became known that not only were they married but had been so
for nearly three months.
"Just to think of them going away so quietly and we girls just dying to
see a wedding," pouted an old school friend when she heard of it.
It was just to avoid the fuss of a formal church wedding and, perhaps,
any paternal question that might arise as to the youth and matrimony
that the young couple slid away to the Rev. Father MCCARTY, of St.
Augustine's Church, Sixth avenue, on Jan. 21 last. The groom is 23
years old and very popular in the neighborhood. The bride in 19 and a
favorite socially. A well known young man and his sister acted at
witnesses. After the ceremony the party adjourned to New York's best
hotel where supper had been ordered. It was agreed not to divulge the
wedding just to see how long Cupid could keep his secrets. Mr. and
Mrs. FRAZEE went to their homes at 80 and 129 St. Marks place,
respectively. The coy little god held out until yesterday. Then the
astonished Mrs. FRAZEE received the following letter:
"Dear Friend--As a friend of your family I feel as though I should
inform you that your son John and Kathryn DIBBS have been married for
the last three months. If you do not believe this communication just
ask the pastor of St. Augustine's Church or refer to the Hall of
Records, Brooklyn.
"A Friend."
When the parents of the happy pair got over their surprise there was
another wedding supper as well as paternal blessings.
WOMAN HURT WHEN HORSE SHIES AT AUTO
An automobile owned by Dr. George R. KUHN, of 122 Clinton avenue,
frightened a horse driven by Miss Katie MCCARTHY, of 281 Clermont
avenue, yesterday in St. James place. Miss MCCARTHY was thrown out,
her nose broken and her face and scalp cut. She was removed to her
home in an ambulance.
FELL INTO SUBWAY AND CUT HIS HEAD.
James DOOLEY, a switchman employed by the Long Island Railroad Company,
went to the Grand avenue police station at 3 o'clock this morning and
said he had fallen into the subway at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues.
He was suffering from a severe scalp wound and contusions of the hip,
which were dressed by an ambulance surgeon and he left for his home,
599 Bergen street.
-QUEENS NEWS IN BRIEF-
- Harry WURFORST, 35 years old, a farmer of Hyde Park, while driving
across the tracks of the Long Island Railroad on the Union Turnpike,
near the Hoffman Boulevard, Newtown, was struck by a train. WURFORST
had his right thigh broken. He was attended by Dr. NEVINS and removed
to St. Mary's Hospital.
- A one-story frame barn on Vine street, Morris Park, owned and occupied
by William D. BOYD, was set on fire yesterday afternoon by burning
grass, causing a damage to building and contents of $200.
- Joseph VISCHO, a saloonkeeper at 96 Rockaway road, Jamaica, was
arrested yesterday afternoon for violating the liquor tax law and held
for examination.
- At 7:20 last evening fire caused by the falling of a lighted lamp from
the table occurred in the two-story frame house at 14 Washington
street, Jamaica, owned by John LEONARDI, of 410 Fulton street, Jamaica,
causing a damage of $600 to building and $500 to contents. The fire
spread to the adjoining two-story frame dwelling at 16 Washington
street, owned and occupied by Frank SMITH, causing a damage of $250 to
building and contents.
HANDWRITING REVEALS ABUSIVE LETTER WRITER.
Tell-tale handwriting to-day satisfied County Judge ASPINALL that Lucy
HERBERT, a negress living in the Fifth Ward, had been sending
threatening letters to Fannie FITZGERALD, another negress, who lives in
the same vicinity. When called before the judge in the County Court
and asked it she had written a letter full of the most abusive
expressions toward Fannie FITZGERALD, which was handed to her by the
judge for identification, Lucy HERBERT said that she had not.
Judge ASPINALL directed the prisoner to write her name and several
words. Lucy did so and the handwriting was so much like that in the
abusive letter that His Honor was satisfied she was the guilty party.
She was dismissed with a severe lecture.
SILVERWARE STOLEN IN CLERMONT AVENUE.
Silverware worth $26 was taken from the third floor apartment of
Frederick C. NOBLE at 416 Clermont avenue yesterday afternoon. The
theft was reported at the Classon avenue station.
MAKE THUMB PRINTS OF ALLEGED HOTEL SNEAK.
In the arrest of Henry JOHNSON, a negro, last Friday night the police
believe they have captured a clever hotel crook who has been operating
in England.
With two pawn tickets found in JOHNSON's pockets the police recovered
two diamond pins, which were identified as the property of guests of
the Waldorf-Astoria, where JOHNSON was arrested. The police also found
a London newspaper clipping in JOHNSON's pockets which read: "It is
stated that the man who robbed Lady Gilbert PARKER, wife of the auther
[sic], and who was formerly Miss Anna VALENTINE, of New York, of L500
has sailed for America."
The police believe that JOHNSON is the man the article refers to. For
the first time in the history of the police department prints were made
of a prisoner's thumbs. This was done in JOHNSON's case and the prints
forwarded to London.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS OVERCOME BY GAS
Mrs. Jane WICKETT, 40 years old, and her three daughters, Nellie, 17;
Mary, 18, and Nora, 15, were overcome by gas yesterday in a bedroom at
the home of Mrs. Sarah WILLIS, 255 Twenty-first street, the key of a
gasjet having been left partially turned on by one of the occupants of
the room when the mother and her children retired on Saturday night.
Mrs. WILLIS, who is a sister of Mrs. WICKETT, smelled gas escaping and
rose from her bed to investigate. She found her four relatives
slightly overcome by the fumes and later they were attended at the
house by Dr. ZIMMER, who had been summoned from Seney Hospital. None
of the victims was removed to the hospital.
AGED PRIEST REPORTED MISSING FOR FIVE DAYS
The Rev. Father James QUINN, 72 years old, has been missing since April
4 from his niece's home, 31A Stuyvesant avenue. When last seen he was
at the Saranac Hotel, Broadway near Forty-second street, Manhattan, and
wore a clerical suit.
ARREST MAN WANTED FOR MURDER IN SPRINGFIELD
On a request from Police Commissioner DOYLE, of Springfield, Mass.,
Detectives O'LEARY and SULLIVAN, of the Manhattan Detective Bureau,
arrested Clark LANGFIELD, 20 years old, a laborer, of 110 Third avenue,
Manhattan, at the Grand Central Station last night. He is wanted in
Springfield for highway robbery and murder.
REINSTATED POLICEMEN ASSIGNED TO DUTY
Police Capt. HICKMAN and Sergeants WHITE and MCGRATH, of Brooklyn, who
were recently ordered reinstated by the courts, will be assigened to
duty this afternoon by Commissioner BINGHAM.
TAILORS IN A FEUD; BOTH EXHIBIT WOUNDS
Louis BLUMBERG, an Atlantic avenue clothier, who caused the arrest of
his brother-in-law on Saturday, was himself a prisoner in the Adams
street court to-day on a charge of assault made by Philip LEFLER, also
a tailor on Atlantic avenue. When the case against LEFLER was called
yesterday BLUMBERG did not appear and a complaint was filed against him
and LEFLER was discharged.
BLUMBERG said in court to-day that he was too ill to come to court
yesterday.
LEFLER's head was in bandages and BLUMBERG's eye was closed. He says
LEFLER did it with a knife.
Counselor George GRU, who appeared for LEFLER, said to-day that the
feud between the brothers-in-law began after LEFLER married a second
time shortly after the death of his first wife, who was a sister of
BLUMBERG. LEFLER had brought a civil suit for damages against BLUMBERG
for assault, which is pending, and every time the men meet in the
street there is trouble.
BLUMBERG wanted to make a counter complaint against LEFLER, but
Magistrate DOOLEY put him off until Wednesday, when the feud will be
threshed out.
MAY BE REDUCTIONS FOR TWO CAPTAINS.
Police Inspectors Thomas DRUHAN and Elbert O. SMITH, who were retired
by Commissioner MCADOO on grounds of physical disability, have been
restored to duty, and the question now arises as to where they will be
assigned to duty, as there are now no vacancies in the inspectors'
ranks. The last two men promoted to inspectorships are NALLY and
SWEENEY. When a contingency of a similar kind occurred before, two
inspectors were reduced to the rank of captain. Should Commissioner
BINGHAM decide to reduce NALLY and SWEENEY to make room for DRUHAN and
SMITH, there will probably be a suit for reinstatement.
TRIED TO CRACK SAFE WITH $3,000 IN IT
It was discovered to-day that burglars broke into the clothing store of
BROWNING, KING & Co., at DeKalb avenue and Fulton street, Saturday
night or yesterday. They were apparently frightened away after
removing the combination knob of the safe.
The safe stands in the cashier's office on the DeKalb avenue side of
the store. There is a window leading to a vacant lot not far from the
office, and this had been forced. There was about $3,000 in the safe.
A few years ago burglars drilled a hole in the party wall of an
adjoining building and got into the store and carried off several
hundred dollars' worth of clothing.
POLICEMAN REPROVED FOR MAKING ARRESTS
Three young men, employes of the Long Island Railroad, were before
Magistrate FURLONG in the Gates avenue court to-day on a charge of
playing baseball in the street. The policeman could produce no
evidence to prove his charge and the men were discharged.
The prisoners, who gave their names as Daniel TAYLOR, Harry GRAHAM and
Henry DODGE, told Magistrate FURLONG that they were working in the
railroad yards at Atlantic and New York avenues, when a ball was
suddenly thrown over the fence. TAYLOR picked up the ball and threw it
at GRAHAM, who in turn threw it over the fence into the street.
Policeman ROONEY then appeared and accused the men of playing ball and
arrested them.
Magistrate FURLONG told ROONEY he had no business to go into the
private grounds of the railroad company, and then discharged the prisoners.
INSANE MAN WRECKS HOUSE AND TRIES SUICIDE
John SALTUS, of 74 1/2 North Fifth street, became violently insane last
Saturday morning following an attack of the grip. Yesterday he tried
to jump out of the window and fought violently when half a dozen
persons restrained him. attacking the woman whom he boards with, with a
knife. He also tried to cut his throat and finally drove all the
persons in the house to the street and wrecked the furniture. It took
four policeman to get him to the Kings County Hospital.
ACCUSED OF STEALING $25 SET OF HARNESS
William AUSTIN, 34 years old, of West SEcond street, Coney Island, was
held in $500 bail by Magistrate VOORHEES, in Coney Island court to-day
on a charge of grand larceny, preferred by William JOHNSON, of West
Third street. JOHNSON says that AUSTIN stole a set of harness from his
stable valued at $25.
BADLY BURNED BY KEROSENE EXPLOSION
Louis TILLEBAUM, 28 years old, a painter, of 131 Thatford avenue, was
painfully burned about the head and face last night in the cellar of
his home by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil. He was taken to
the Kings County Hospital.
SOUGHT PEACE WITH PISTOL AND RAZOR
Charged with felonious assault on his wife Anna, Frank DISCO, 41 years
old, of 343 East New York avenue, was held in $500 for examination
to-day by Magistrate O'REILLY in the Manhattan avenue court. According
to the woman her husband attacked her last night in the house at
Harrison place and Morgan avenue, where she had been living since she
separated from him several weeks ago.
Mrs. DISCO left her husband because of his treatment, she said, and
yesterday he came to the house and tried to effect a reconciliation.
When she refused he displayed a revolver and a razor. Mrs. DISCO ran
screaming from the house and her husband, who followed her, slashed her
in the left arm with the razor.
FERDINAND FEARED FATHER AND FLED.
Ferdinand OLSEN, 10 years old, took fifty cents from his mother's
pocketbook a few days ago and his sister told him she was going to tell
"pa." This frightened Ferdy and he left the house Friday afternoon.
His mother, who lives at 1668 Forty-second street, has been searching
for him ever since. To-day she appealed to the police and an alarm was
sent out.
DENTIST'S INSTRUMENTS AND GOLD STOLEN
Allen B. MCDONGAN, a dentist, of 456 Fifth avenue, reported to the
police to-day that some person entered his office yesterday and took
several instruments and gold fillings valued at $163.
PICTURE MACHINE EXPLODES AND BURNS THE OPERATOR
Visitors to Coney Island last night were treated to an occurrence of
unusual interest. The incident was a fire, caused by the explosion of
a moving picture machine in the pavilion of Abraham LENT, in Kensington
Walk and Bowery. The pavilion was crowded at the time watching the
pictures showing the life of a fireman, when suddenly there was a flash
and report, followed by an excited rush for exits.
Patrolmen LYNCH, TRAVIS and DOOLEY, who were standing on the Bowery at
the time, ran in, assuring the panicky crowd that there was no cause
for alarm. An alarm of fire had been sounded, bringing Battalion Chief
ROGERS and three companies to the scene. Upon their arrival it was
found that Edward DAVIS, of 233 Bay Thirty-fifth street, the operator
of the machine, had been badly burned about the face and hands. He was
attended by Dr. John W. PIERCE, of West Eighth street, and left for
home. The damage caused by fire was slight.
RUN DOWN AND BRUISED BY CROSSTOWN CAR
A car of the Crosstown line ran down and severely injured Nichola
FRANK, 25 years old, of 21 Prince street, Manhattan, yesterday
afternoon, at North Eleventh street and Driggs avenue. He was taken
home by friends after his injuries were dressed.
POLICE LOOKING FOR JERSEY DAIRYMAN'S SON
The police have been asked to find Thomas GOLDEN, 14 years old, who
father is a dairyman at Elizabeth, N.J. A very touching letter was
sent to Inspector CROSS by the father, who is greatly worried over his
son's disappearance. The boy left home several days ago.
MAN FALLS IN STREET AND BREAKS HIS KNEE.
While William HINKEY, of Sixty-fifth street and New Utrecht avenue, was
crossing the street near his home to-day he slipped and fell,
sustaining a fracture of the left knee. He was taken to the Norwegian
Hospital.
10 April 1906
WOMAN ROBBED WHILE AT PRAYER IN CHURCH
The arrest of a pocketbook thief this morning after a hot chase
interrupted a solemn mass in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, at Sixth
avenue and Carroll street. Shortly after the service had begun, and
all were kneeling in prayer, a shabbily dressed young man carefully
slipped his hand over the top of the seat in front of him and grasped a
pocketbook which a fair worshiper had left there while she knelt.
As he arose and started to tip toe out, a score of persons who were
sitting nearby and had seen the theft jumped up and started in pursuit.
The thief made a dash for the door, and after throwing the purse in
the gutter started down Carroll street, closely followed by the alert
churchmen. On reaching Fifth avenue, the man attempted to board a
passing car, but was caught just in time by Patrolman CARROLL and
Detective GLEASON.
The pocketbook, which contained $28, was picked up afterwards and
identified by Miss Kate MONJO, 25 years old, of 856 President street,
as the one she had with her in church. In the Myrtle avenue court this
morning Thomas MURPHY, of 93 Carroll street, pleaded guilty to the
charge of grand larceny, and was held by Magistrate NAUMER in $300 bail
for the Grand Jury. After making the complaint Miss MONJO told the
magistrate she wished to withdraw it, although she refused to state why.
TWO SCALDED WHEN BOILER CAP BLOWS OF[F]
Thirty Men Flee From Steam-Filled Room- One of the Injured May Die
The cap of a boiler in the Franklin Steam Boiler Works at 13 Franklin
street blew off early to-day when thirty men were in the boiler room.
The steam pressure in the boiler was at 90 pounds, and the cap blew off
with a loud report, filling the room with scalding steam. The men ran
for their lives, and none was seriously burned except Alfred ALLDAY, 49
years old, the engineer, of [3?]3 Meserole avenue, and George O'NEIL,
37 years old, of 117 Franklin street. O'NEIL is in the Eastern
District Hospital terribly burned and may not recover. He was taken home.
The people in authority at the boiler works refused all information and
would admit no one except the police and the ambulance surgeon into the
building. From the police it was learned that the cap blew off last
night and that men worked all night replacing it. This morning steam
was got up and while the men were at work the cap blew off again. The
report was heard for blocks around and people thought the boiler had
exploded.
ALLEGES WOMAN THREATENED TO SHOOT HIS CHILDREN
Mrs. ROBINSON, of Sixtieth street and Eighteenth avenue, was in the
Coney Island court to-day to answer a summons obtained by Hugh
THOMPSON, who lives at Sixty-first street and Eighteenth avenue.
THOMPSON said his neighbor had threatened to shoot his children, and he
feared she might carry the threat into execution.
Mrs. ROBINSON denied making any such threats, and said that THOMPSON's
children were constantly annoying her and that she would like them
warned to keep away from her place.
"The best thing for you two to do," advised the magistrate, "is to go
home and forget this."
OLD COUPLE PLANNED TO END LIFE WITH GAS.
John O'NEAL and his wife, an aged couple living at 1028 Jefferson
avenue, were found overcome by gas in their kitchen to-day. Gas was
escaping from an open burner, and it is believed they planned to die
together. The woman's condition is not serious, but her husband was
taken to Bushwick Hospital.
WOMAN FIVE TIMES WED ACCUSED BY HER AUNT
There was an exciting episode in the Adams street court to-day when
Mrs. Cynthia SEYMOUR, of 184 Bridge street, accusing her niece, Mrs.
Minnie O'CONNOR, of using abusive language. Mrs. SEYMOUR told the
magistrate that her niece had been married five times and only one
husband was living. Mrs. O'CONNOR was discharged.
POOR SHOT WITH KETTLE FIRES BLANK CARTRIDGE
Frank GIBSON, 19 years old, of 403 Hoyt street, who during a brawl
Saturday morning, threw a teakettle at Mary GLEASON, of the same
address, and struck 8-year-old George STONE in the head, lacerating his
scalp, and who also, it is charged, fired a shot at the boy's mother,
who interfered on behalf of her son, was this morning sent to the Court
of Special Sessions on the charge of assaulting the boy. The other
charge was dismissed on the ground that the revolver contained only
blank cartridges.
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF BY SEVENTH AVENUE CAR
Peter FLANAGAN, 35 years old, a machinist, of 35 Prospect street, was
attacked by a little mongrel dog last night in Fulton street, and in
attempting to escape ran in front of a Seventh avenue car, and both his
legs were cut off close to his body. He is not expected to live, and
is at the Brooklyn Hospital. James DUNN, motorman of the car, was
arrested.
STRUCK BY MOTOR TRAIN AND DRAGGED FIFTY FEET.
Isador HANZER, 15? years old, of 50 Chirstopher street, had an
exceedingly narrow escape from death yesterday at Snediker and Atlantic
avenues, where he was struck by a Long Island Railroad motor train, as
he attempted to cross the track under the fast lowering gates.
His first warning of the presence of danger was when he was thrown to
one side by the fender, a projecting rod of which he seized.
When the train stopped after dragging the lad fifty feet, he pleaded to
be taken home, but was first attended by Ambulance Surgeon SCHLOSS, of
the Bradford Street Hospital, whose examination resulted in the
discovery of scalp wounds, severe body bruises and probable skull
fracture.
PASSOVER WINE SPILLED INTO THE EAST RIVER
A push cart filled with Passover wine for residents of the Eastern
District Ghetto was spilled in the East River this morning on the
Williamsburg Bridge when a moving van collided with the push cart. The
wine was the property of Selig WIENER, of 244 Wallabout street. He was
coming over the south roadway and when near the centre of the span the
van driven by Henry ROSSITER, of 244 Havemeyer street, came along.
When near the push cart the horses became frightened and the driver
could not control them. They jumped to the side of the roadway and as
a result the push cart was overturned. The bottles containing the wine
were broken and the liquid flowed into the river. WIENER was knocked
down and bruised about the body.
A horse, attached to an express wagon driven by F. STANBURG, of 18
Mapleton street, Newark, N.J., took fright on the Brooklyn Bridge this
morning and ran away. STANBURG was thrown from his seat and slightly
injured. He refused medical attention, however.
The horse was caught by Policeman NOLL near the Brooklyn end of the
bridge. The wagon was only slightly damaged.
WIFE'S SURPRISE BREAKS UP THEIR HAPPY HOME.
James LYALL, of 714 East Thirty-fifth street, Vanderveer Park, was in
the Flatbush court to-day to answer a charge of abandonment preferred
by his wife, Ida, who is now living with her father, Fred RININSLAND,
at 922 Flatbush avenue. The LYALLs have been married not quite two
years.
They had been living until a few weeks ago, with Mr. LYALL's mother,
Mrs. Catherine WELSARD. She and her daughter-in-law never got along
together and Mrs. LYALL went back to her parents. She was willing to
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HAND AMPUTATED AFTER ACCIDENT IN FACTORY
While at work in the Rotary File and Machine Works at 589 Kent avenue
last night, Bernard MCGUIRE, 19 years old, of 521 Grand street, had his
right hand caught in a machine and so badly crushed that it was
amputated later in the Williamsburg Hospital.
MOTHER DRUNK AND HER CHILDREN NEGLECTED
Harriet FLYNN, of 19 Hicks street, was in the Adams street court to-day
held for Special Sessions on a charge of endangering the health and
morals of her two children who are now at the Children's Society
shelter. An agent of the society testified to finding the mother drunk
and the children neglected.
JANITOR HELD FOR BEATING SON'S CHUM.
Nicholas PICNIC, 44 years old, janitor of the flats at 81 President
street, was this morning sent to Special Sessions by Magistrate TIGHE
in the Butler street court. He was charged with assault by Frank
PICCIRILLA, 12 years old, a schoolboy, of 63 President street, whom
PICNIC is alleged to have kicked while the boy was in the hallway of
PICNIC's flat getting out a bicycle loaned him by PICNIC's son.
GRINNING CELESTIAL GLADLY DID A QUICK SPRINT
James SINGI, a short and thick-set Chinaman, carrying a policeman's
helmet in his hand, pleaded guilty with a broad smile on his face to a
charge of intoxication before Magistrate DOOLEY in Adams street court
to-day, and when told he could go home he made a profound bow with
outstretched hands, turned and ran out of the court like a deer, while
the spectators laughed outright.
SON ACCUSED OF BLACKMAIL; MOTHER'S HARD-LUCK STORY
Mrs. FAXON, mother of Homer HAWKINS, a timekeeper of the Mott Haven
yards, who is accused of blackmailing Louis R. FULLER, son of Dr. Frank
FULLER, the health food man of 61 Fifth avenue appeared before
Magistrate MOSS in the Centre street court, Manhattan, to-day when
HAWKINS was arraigned and told a hard-luck story.
It was the old story of a second wife turning the husband against his
family, adoption of a youngster who became the favored one in money
matters, jealousy and attempt to turn the tide by questionable methods.
Mrs. FAXON declared her son's misbehavior was justified by pity for her
extreme necessity, as he saw one who was reared in luxury compelled to
earn her living as a seamstress, and announced she would appeal to the
doctor in her son's behalf.
Incidentally the family history received an airing.
HAWKINS was held in $2,500 for examination Thursday and in $500 bail
for Special Sessions for carrying a gun. He went to the Tombs.
MADMAN DECLARED HE FEARED FOR HIS LIFE.
After a short visit to the home of his parents, at 134 Vermont avenue,
last Saturday, where his peculiar actions aroused suspicion of his
mental soundness, Samuel SHAPIRO, of 2263 Seventh avenue, Manhattan,
suddenly disappeared, leaving his wife and one child anxiously
endeavoring to ascertain his whereabouts.
A wife from Providence yesterday announced his capture after a hard
struggle with police and railroad officials in the Union Depot of that
city, when he declared he was pursued by persons who were endeavoring
to murder him for his $10,000 life insurance.
Mr. SHAPIRO is engaged in the advertising business, and will probably
be sent to an asylum to-day. His wife is prostrated by the shock of
her bitter experience.
SOUTH BROOKLYN-RUN OVER BY TRUCK HE WAS DRIVING
John DELPHILIPO, 17 years old, of 548 Twentieth street, while driving a
truck along Second avenue at Thirty-seventh street, fell to the street
and the front wheel passed over his left leg. He sustained contusions
and lacerations of the leg. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
LIVINGSTONE and removed to his home.
BROWNSVILLE
Great excitement was caused in the neighborhood on Stone and Pitkin
avenues, yesterday afternoon, when a horse and wagon owned by LEVIN &
DAVIS, two well-known builders of the Brownsville district, with
offices in the State Bank Building, at Pitkin and Stone avenues, ran
away.
The horse, which was standing in front of the building and must have
been frightened by some passing vehicle, dashed up Stone avenue, and
after running two blocks, with a large crowd chasing him, was stopped
at Liberty and Stone avenues by a spectator, who disappeared through
the crowd after he turned the trick.
BADLY BURNED AFTER FALL IN CELLAR.
While entering the cellar of his home yesterday with a lighted candle,
Lewis TITEBAUM, 28 years old, of 131 Thatford avenue, fell at the
bottom of the steps and his clothes caught fire from the candle. He
was burned about the body. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon
SCHLOSS, of the Bradford Street Hospital and not removed.
DRAGGED THREE BLOCKS STOPPING RUNAWAYS
Policeman Walter DODD, of the Herbert street station, was dragged three
blocks in Grand street yesterday afternoon, while trying to stop a team
of horses that ran away. The team belonged to B. WITTSTOCK, of 294
Central avenue, and had been left standing in front of 679 Grand
street. The street was crowded at the time and several persons had
narrow escapes. The policeman's uniform was ruined, but he finally
stopped the animals.
11 April 1906
HORRORS OF MASSACRE WHITENED HIS HAIR
Aboard the steamship 'Dora', which arrived at the Bush Stores in Bay
Ridge yesterday, was one of the survivors of the recent riots in
Odessa, a Russian Jew, whose hair had been blanched by the horrors of
that dreadful revival of barbarism. Relatives and friends he had been
butchered by the then savage Cossacks, and it was only by the merest
chance that he and his family escaped the sword.
Morris LEBKOVITZ was one of the more prosperous merchants in Odessa
before the massacre of Jews began. His store was sacked, his friends
ruthlessly murdered and their effects burned of scattered around the
streets.
LEBKOVITZ, when the first raid was made, gathered his family and a few
friends about him, and took refuge in a cellar measuring 10 by 12 feet.
Forty-four persons were crowded in that underground dungeon for nearly
two whole days, suffering the horrors of the prisoners in the famous
'Black Hole of Calcutta.' They could only stand up, so closely were
they packed into that hole, and for the time of their imprisonment they
had not a crust to eat or a drop of water to moisten their parched
tongues.
When the Cossacks had passed LEBKOVITZ and his friends came from their
place of refuge, and he and his family escaped to Germany, and thence
to this country. LEBKOVITZ's hair turned white as a consequence of his
experience and every member of his family still bears some mark of
those hours of misery.
AGED MAN BURNED BY OVERTURNING OF LAMP
Michael BARBARA, 73 years old, of 614 Manhattan avenue, received severe
burns about the hands and face last night by the upsetting of a parlor
lamp. He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon PRECHT, of the Eastern
District Hospital.
MULKAY FRACTURED HIS LEG AND SHOULDER
While Patrick MULKAY, 21 years old, of 425 Central avenue, was driving
a truck owned by a Manhattan clothing house yesterday afternoon, the
horses became unmanageable at the at the corner of Sackman street and
Dumont avenue, and threw MULKAY from the wagon to the pavement.
He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, where he was attended by Surgeon
PARKER, who found a fracture of the right leg and shoulder.
WEBSTER CIRCLE DECIDES INDIANS SUFFERED MORE.
The Webster Circle held its regular meeting Sunday afternoon at the
Hebrew Educational Society's building, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street.
The meeting was addressed by Jacob ROSENBERG, who made a stirring
speech in which he tried to establish the Congressional form of
debating, and was opposed by the ex-president of the society, Samuel
KOPOLWITZ, who proved that it would not be beneficial. Jacob ROSENBERG
was elected captain of the newly-formed baseball team.
In a debate, "Resolved, That the Indians Have Suffered More than the
Negroes," the affirmative was argued by Joseph BERNSTEIN, and Jacob
ROSENBERG, while the negative was advocated by Hyman COHN, and Isaac
HERCHOWITZ. The affirmative side won after a long discussion.
POLICEMAN INJURED STOPPING RUNAWAY
An exciting runaway occurred on the Williamsburg Bridge shortly after
noon to-day, when a horse belonging to VANNATTA and TARONE, fruit
dealers, took fright near the Brooklyn tower, and dashed along the
roadway in the direction of Manhattan. William VANNATTA was driving
the animal.
When the animal started on its dash over the bridge, the driver leaped
out, uninjured. As the horse neared the runaway gate, a 'white wing'
cast an ash can in front of the animal, hitting him sufficiently for
Policeman O'NEILL to grasp the bridle. The officer was dragged fifty
feet before the horse came to a stop. O'NEILL was quite badly cut.
DYING IN HOSPITAL AFTER FALL FROM CAR
John DALY, 52 years old, of 141 Nassau street, at noon to-day slipped
from a crosstown car at the corner of Kent avenue and Cross street as
he was attempting to alight. He fell on his head and received a bad
fracture. He is now in the Williamsburg Hospital in a dying condition.
HORSE BADLY INJURES POLICE CAPT. WENDELL
Police Cap. Charles WENDELL, while on mounted duty, was seriously
injured to-day by his horse falling and then rolling on him. The
accident happened at the corner of Aqueduct avenue and 175th street,
the Bronx. Capt. WENDELL received fractures of several ribs, and after
being attended by a physician, was removed to his home.
WOMAN DRIVES OFF THIEVES WITH GUN
Mrs. Annie GAVIN, of 771 St. Johns place, found two strange men trying
to pry open her parlor door to-day. She got a revolver and fired a
shot at them. They ran away, and she went to the window and screamed.
Policemen BENNETT and CLARKE, of the Grand avenue station, caught one
of the fugitives, who said he was Gerald WALSH, 18 years old, of 65
Duffield street. His companion got away.
ANOTHER ARREST FOR LIQUOR STORE ROBBERY
Patrick CARROLL, 23 years old, of 69 West Ninth street, was in the
Butler street court to-day on a charge of grand larceny made by Israel
J. ROSENSTEIN, of 240 Hamilton avenue, and who keeps a liquor saloon at
No. 263 on the same street. The crime was committed on Jan. 12 by
CARROLL, Charles NELSON, and Herman BOHNKEN. NELSON was indicted by
the Grand Jury on Jan. 17 and BOHNKEN held for the jury on the 20th.
No trace of CARROLL could be found until yesterday, when Officer
BATTAM, of the Hamilton avenue station, saw his man on Hamilton avenue
and promptly placed him under arrest.
It is alleged CARROLL held up ROSENSTEIN with his own gun, when he and
his confederates de[.....] with twenty-five bottles of whiskey, the
[.......] and $450 in cash. CARROLL was held in $5,000 bail.
HANDWRITING CAUSES ARREST OF PETREZO
On a charge of sending blackmailing letters to Emil AMASTRICO, a
barber, of 5919 Fourth avenue, Vincenzo PETREZO, also a barber, of
Manhattan, was held in the Adam street court to-day. The complaint
says he recognizes the handwriting in several letters threatening him
unless he pays $350 to the "Black Hand" as that of the prisoner. The
latter pleaded not guilty.
CAUGHT YOUTH TAPPING GAS METER IN CELLAR
Tony GRECCO, 17 years old, of Barbey street and Hegeman avenue, was
held for trial in the Coney Island court to-day, on a complaint of Mrs.
Theresa ROONEY, of New street, Coney Island. Mrs. ROONEY said she
found GRECCO in her cellar stealing money from the prepaid gas meter.
DYING IN HOSPITAL; TWO SUSPECTS HELD
Amolo GRINELDI, 45 years old, of West Sixteenth street and Neptune
avenue, Coney Island, and Philip CARRETO, 26 years old, of 261 Fourth
avenue, were held without bail to-day in the Coney Island court to
await the result of injuries to Dife STANASTASIO, 25 years old, of 125
Neptune avenue, who is in the Kings County Hospital. STANASTASIO was
shot last night in a fight at Neptune avenue and West Sixteenth street.
Patrolman William J. GALVIN, who was on West Fifteenth street, heard
the shots, and, running down to Neptune avenue, he saw a dozen men
shooting and slashing at one another. He sent a hurry call and Capt.
HAWKINS, Sergeant SHEEHAN and Detective-Sergeant Joseph DECANTILLIN
came with the reserves.
When they arrived the fight was over. They found a bloody revolver and
a razor, and STANASTASIO unconscious in the street.
The police arrested GRINELDI at his home on West Sixteenth street.
They found CARRETO washing himself, and the front of his coat was
slashed in ribbons. The thumb on his right hand was slashed with a
razor. Both men have bad records.
STANASTASIO was shot three times, and a little finger of his right hand
almost severed. It is believed he will die.
CHARITY A FARCE, SAYS MAN WHO LEAPED FROM THE BRIDGE
NATHAN ISAACSON, Socialist and Atheist, Health Ruined by Hard Work and
Refused Aid, Sough Death in River--Came Near Landing on
Ferryboat--Fished Out and Hurried to Hospital, Where It Is Said He
Cannot Recover--Physician Ordered Him to Take Rest, But to Support Aged
Mother in Russia, He Had to Keep On.
Passengers who were standing on the forward deck of the ferry boat New
York, of the Twenty-third street line, when it was nearly under the
Williamsburg Bridge on its way to the foot of Broadway, this morning,
shortly after 7 o'clock, saw a man leap from the centre span of the
north roadway of the bridge and turn several somersaults before he
struck the water less than ten feet from the boat.
The man landed on his side and the water was splashed onto the deck of
the ferry boat. Joseph BRECKEL, an engineer, of 364 Gates avenue, and
two deck hands, Hugh DRISCOLL and Edward RADIGAN, who were standing
near the forward end of the boat, yelled to Capt. Moses LONGSTREET, who
was in the pilot house, and the bell clanged in the engine room for the
engineer to go full speed astern.
DRISCOLL and RADIGAN ran to the men's cabin and secured boathooks.
When they reached the forward end of the boat again the bridge jumper
had just come to the surface only a few feet away. The deck hands
quickly reached over and grabbed hold of the man's clothing with their
hooks. He was hauled aboard and carried into the men's cabin. He was
unconscious and the engineer was signaled to proceed with all speed to
the Broadway slip.
UNCONSCIOUS AND BLEEDING
When the boat steamed into its berth the man, who was bleeding from his
nose and ears, was carried into the waiting room and attendants went
out to find a policeman. There was no officer in sight, so Police
Headquarters was notified and asked to send an ambulance to the ferry
house. Dr. BAXTER arrived in a few minutes and saw at once that the
man's condition was serious. He hurried him to Williamsburg Hospital.
There an examination of his pockets showed that he had letters
addressed to Nathan ISAACSON, of 66 Rivington street. When the police
made inquiries later at that address it was learned that he has been
known there as Nathan ISAACSON and that he is 28 years old.
It was some time after the man leaped before the bridge police learned
of it. How the man reached the centre of the span on the north roadway
without being seen is a mystery. It is believed, however, that he had
been in the Eastern District and started back to Manhattan on a truck.
Every morning hundreds of Hebrews who live in Brooklyn, go to their
work across the river by riding over on the trucks that cross the
bridge. It is believed that he dropped off the rear of a truck without
the driver knowing it and then climbed up the seven-foot guard rail on
the north side of the structure and plunged downward.
Among the contents of the man's pockets were papers that showed him to
be a socialist and atheist. The man is evidently well educated for
there were several papers written in a good hand, and from the contents
it is certain that he has been a great reader of socialistic and
economic questions. On one card was written:
"The man who is destitute of property can offer nothing but the
productive energy of himself and family." Another read: "The man who
is a man possesses industry, self-denial, endurance, honesty, patience,
temperance, frugality and productive economy."
MAKES BRIEF STATEMENT
Shortly before noon to-day ISAACSON regained his senses in the hospital
for a few minutes and was able to make a brief statement. He said he
came to this country from Russia five years ago and secured work as a
tailor. He worked fifteen to twenty hours a day, and his health became
bad. Recently he went to see a doctor and was ordered to stop work.
As he was supporting his aged mother in Russia he was compelled to keep
working, and last week became so weak that he had to take a rest.
ISAACSON went to see several men who had the reputation of being
charitable, and asked them to aid him. They refused, and the tailor
decided to take his life. Just before he lapsed into unconsciousness
he declared with great bitterness, "Charity is a farce."
The doctors say that ISAACSON cannot live out the day.
ISAACSON lived with a family named KAMBER. He has a well-furnished
room, and that his is a student of socialism was manifested by the
presence in his room of several works on that subject. There was one
by Henry FRANK, "The Shrine of Silence," and another, "The Freeland,"
by Theodore HERKESKA, and several copies of Maxim GORKY's works.
When a servant went to ISAACSON's room this morning, the gas was still
burning, and from all appearances the occupant of a few hours before
had been writing letters, and had left suddenly. ISAACSON was known to
have been greatly distressed for the last few days over a letter
received from a sister in Russia, which stated that his mother was very
ill. This, together with the fact that his brother died a short time
ago, seemed to weigh heavily upon ISAACSON's mind. He talked with the
members of the KAMBER family last night concerning the great work
Maxim GORKY had don in Russia, and expressed himself as being anxious
to see him at the first opportunity.
YOUNG AND PRETTY WIFE GONE; HUSBAND ANXIOUS
Henry HOGAN, of 451 Gates avenue, is looking for his wife Lena, who is
21 years old and pretty. She was last seen at the corner of
Knickerbocker and Jefferson avenues on Saturday night. Lena was a Miss
WEBER before her marriage and Henry thinks she might be going under
that name. The police have been asked to find her.
Louis LANGWILLO [could be LAUGWILIO], 7 years old, has been reported as
missing from his home, 270 Elton street, since yesterday morning.
12 April 1906
MISS IDA BERG WED, HER SISTER BRIDESMAID
Miss Ida BERG, the well-known store detective, was married last night
at her home, on Fourth avenue, to John Wesley GREENE by the Rev. T.J.
LACEY, rector of the Church of the Redeemer. None but relatives of the
family and Miss May FLORENCE, another store detective, were invited to
the ceremony. Miss Grace BERG, sister of the bride, and also a store
detective, was the bridesmaid. The couple will spend their honeymoon
at Atlantic City.
DOG POISONERS AGAIN BUSY IN BATH BEACH.
Dr. Joseph LADENPA, of Eighty-third street and Stillwell place,
reported to the police to-day that last Friday some one poisoned his
two valuable dogs, a St. Bernard and a setter.
Dr. LADENPA is unable to give any reason why any one would wish to
destroy the animals, as they were not vicious and seldom left his
premises.
Every spring there is a number of dogs poisoned in Bath Beach, but the
guilty parties have always managed to avert detection. Last year sixty
valuable dogs were poisoned in that section.
FELL OVERBOARD WHEN FERRYBOAT HIT SLIP
When the ferryboat Virginia, of the Grand street line bumped into its
slip at the foot of Grand street this morning, Edwin ADDLEY, 67 years
old, of 18 Prince street, Manhattan, who was sitting on the railing at
the stern of the boat, fell into the water. ADDLEY was about to go
under when a member of the crew of the tug Henry A. Peck, on its way up
the river, reached out with a boat hook and hauled him aboard. He was
taken to the Eastern District Hospital.
BROWNSVILLE- BUSINESS CARES INDUCE SUDDEN BREAKDOWN
Samuel SHAPIRO, 26 years old, of 134 Belmont avenue, was removed to the
Kings County Hospital yesterday afternoon by several officers of the
Brownsville police station, suffering from brain fever.
SHAPIRO has not been living in the Brownsville district for some time,
and it is said that he contracted the fever through constant worry over
different real estate deals in which he has been engaged recently.
TAKEN SERIOUSLY ILL WHILE IN FACTORY
While working in the wagon shop of SHAPPARD & Company, at 49 Stone
avenue, yesterday afternoon, John LAKEWOOD, 35 years old, became
seriously ill from blood poisoning and was removed to the Kings County
Hospital.
SOUTH BROOKLYN- TWO ROBBERIES REPORTED AT FIFTH AVENUE STATION.
Mrs. Morris HOSCH, of 668 Fifth avenue, reported to the police of the
Fifth avenue station yesterday that some one had forced open a showcase
in front of the store at that address and stolen neckties and shirts
valued at $3. Patrolman John J. REARDON also reported that the
unoccupied house at 199 Eleventh street, owned by John MCINERNEY, of
212 Third street, had been forced open by means of the basement door
and $35 worth of copper and $15 of lead pipe stolen.
BOY SKYLARKING FALLS AND BREAKS HIS LEG.
Charles HARLACKER, 14 years old, of 419 Broadway, while skylarking on
the stoop of 14 Woodbine street, yesterday afternoon, fell and broke
his leg. He was removed to the Bushwick Hospital.
SMUGGLER USED ORANGES TO HIDE HIS JEWELRY
Pietro CORATO, of New Haven, Conn., who arrived yesterday on the
steamer Germania was held in $1,000 bail for trial by U.S. Commissioner
BENEDICT on a charge of smuggling $900 worth of jewelry. The jewelry
was found in three oranges, which CONATO watched so closely, that is
aroused the suspicions of the customs inspectors.
HID LOOT UNDER CLARKE'S WINDOW
Youthful Burglar Cached Cigars and Umbrellas at Court House.
BROKE INTO NEWSSTAND, TOO.
Came Back for Plunder and Was Captured.
Probably the height of audacity in the "trade of robbery" was reached
early this morning when 12-year-old "Patsy" DONOVAN broke open the
enclosed news stand in front of District Attorney CLARKE's office
window and abstracted therefrom fifty boxes of cigars and hid them
under the District Attorney's window in the courtyard between the
County Court House and the Municipal Building. The boy evidently had
no home, and so had no place to conceal the stolen goods. In his
quandary as to where he should hide his ill-gotten gains, he bethought
himself of the District Attorney's office. There, piled up against the
County Court House, was a heap of stone flagging which had been stored
pending the digging of the subway, so "Patsy" tucked the cigar boxes
under the District Attorney's window.
So pleased was "Patsy" with his brilliant idea that he determined to
enlarge upon it, and he forthwith broke into a store in Court street
and stole a number of umbrellas and quickly hied himself to his "safety
deposit vault" under the District Attorney's windows, and then went on
his way rejoicing in the consciousness that he had the law keeping
guard over "his" property.
"Patsy's" plan was to return to this window some time when the police
were not looking and take the plunder to a pawn shop or some other
place where he could dispose of it at a profit. District Attorney
CLARKE, however, has a reputation of "smelling crime a mile off" and
when he entered his office this morning and saw a crowd outside the
window he opened the window and saw the ill-gotten goods. "Patsy" had
returned at an unfortunate time for his plunder, notwithstanding the
fact that is was Good Friday, and in attempting to remove the cigars he
was caught in the act and taken to police headquarters. He will be
presecuted [sic] in due course of time.
HADN'T HEART TO PUNISH MOTHER OF SIX CHILDREN
Peter CURRY, 35 years old, and his wife Annie, 30 years old, of
Ninety-third street, Fort Hamilton, were in the Coney Island police
court to-day, charged by Patrolman SEERY with intoxication, attempted
assault and cruelty to animals. Mrs. CURRY was also charged with
disorderly conduct.
SEERY testified that CURRY abused a horse he was driving in
Ninety-third street yesterday afternoon. When he interfered CURRY
attempted to assault him. While SEERY was taking CURRY to the station
Mrs. CURRY ran up and began to abuse SEERY and she was also arrested.
Magistrate VOORHEES held CURRY in $100 bail for Special Sessions. The
couple have six children, the youngest 7 months ole, so sentence was
suspended in the case of Mrs. CURRY.
Agent SOWER, of the Children's Society, testified that the fathe