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1906 NEWS
Brooklyn Standard Union
17 OCTOBER 1906
DASHES VITRIOL ON THE MAN SHE LOVES
Young Woman's Revenge for Being Jilted-Tries to Kill Herself in Cell
Infuriated because the man she loved had wedded another woman, Annie
JASNER, a pretty young woman, armed herself with a fruit jar of vitriol and
showered Ernest WILDMAN, the bridegroom, as he came from his home last
night on Staten Island. The victim fell writhing to the ground and the girl fled.
The jilted girl tried to-day to beat out her brains against the sides of a
cell in the Stapleton police station. She had to be bound to keep her from
killing herself.
Miss JASNER heard that WILDMAN had married another girl last month and was
living with his bride on Staten Island. Filling a fruit jar with sulphuric
acid she went to Staten Island.
18 October 1906
TRIED TO JUMP TO DEATH FROM TRAIN
Henry BECKER, 20 years old, of 152 Lewis street, Manhattan, was arrested by
Patrolman James O'DAY and Roundsman HOGAN, of the Coney Island police
station at the elevated station at Fifth avenue and Thirty-sixth street,
charged with disorderly conduct. BECKER had just lost his job and was on
his way to Coney Island, when after the train had left Sixteenth street, he
tried to jump from a window.
There was a great commotion and it was with difficulty that he was held by
several citizens until the train reached the Thirty-sixth street station.
When the police arrested him he refused at first to be taken to the station
house. In the Butler street court this morning Magistrate TIGHE fined him $3.
OVER THE OCEAN
Abandoned in England, Wife Finds Him in Brooklyn With Another Woman.
Her Bigamy Charge Fails
Handsome Widow He Won Won't Prosecute Him
Only one wife appeared before Magistrate DOOLEY in the Gates avenue court
to press a charge of bigamy against Philip KORBACHENSKY, 35 years old, of
644 Stone avenue, this morning, and Magistrate DOOLEY refused to hold the
man. His wife Sarah, of 137 Thatford avenue, then charged him with
abandonment and he was held in $1,000 bail for examination to-morrow.
The story of KORBACHENSKY goes back to Wilmer, Russia where the woman who
appeared in court this morning alleges that he married her on Oct. 4,
1900. She says he abandoned her in London on Nov. 1, 1904. He is charged
with having since married Becky STROSKY, a widow with whom he is said to
be living in 644 Stone avenue. It is said that he even contemplated another
marriage with a Brownsville belle, but she learned that he had at least one
wife, and said that she thought that one wife was enough for one man.
Wife No. 1 heard that her spouse had come to this country and tracked him
through the mazes of the city and located him in Brownsville. There,
through friends she learned that KORBACHENSKY had married again and was
living at 644 Stone avenue.
Wife No. 1 was advised to consult a lawyer and went to Joseph GOLDSTEIN of
137 Thatford avenue. He advised her to press a charge of bigamy against her husband.
GOLDSTEIN learned that KORBACHENSKY is an iron worker. He asked him to come
to his office last night to give an estimate on some work that he wished
done. KORBACHENSKY went to the office and as he entered the door saw his
wife. He drew back in amazement, according to GOLDSTEIN, and dramatically
said: "What! You here?"
She was there all right and angry. Detective CONLIN, of the Brownsville
station was summoned and placed KORBACHENSKY under arrest. Both wives were
at the station house and claimed the man as their husband. In court this
morning wife No. 2 failed to appear. Wife No. 1 made a complaint against
the iron worker, but as the second wife was not on hand Magistrate DOOLEY
said that he could no hold him. The charge was then changed to abandonment.
Mrs. Sarah KORBACHENSKY is 28 years old, and has one child and would not be
considered a beauty. The widow, Beckey, who is alleged to be wife No. 2,
is said to be a handsome woman. KORBACHENSKY is not handsome. The second
wife also has a child.
BOY INVENTOR LOSES ARM EXPERIMENTING
Morris SCHAEFFER, the eighteen year-old Brooklyn inventor, who sailed for
France with his secretary in the latter part of August to make experiments
before the French naval authorities with his latest discovery, a marine
searchlight cabled to The Standard Union to-day saying that he had lost his
left arm in the course of the experiments. SCHAEFFER reports, however
that his experiment was successful from a practical and scientific standpoint.
Details of young SCHAEFFER'S latest discovery are meagre, but it is a
marine searchlight with revolving rays which he claims can e focused on an
enemy's battleship without disclosing whence they come. In other words,
the appliance would enable the ship having it to reconnoitre and obtain a
perfect view of the enemy's movements in the blackness of night without
being discovered.
SCHAEFFER will return to Brooklyn in the first week in November,
accompanied by his secretary. The loss of his left arm will possibly prove
a severe handicap to the future efforts of the youthful genius. It is
believed, however, that the fighting spirit that has characterized his
previous efforts to obtain recognition will not allow him to become
discouraged on account of his misfortune.
OLD TICKET TAKER TOO FOXY FOR LAWYER
Eden MASON, 73 ye4ars old, a ticket taker employed at the Manhattan Beach
end of the Marine Railroad who lives at 23 Park Row, Manhattan, was charged
with assault in the Coney Island court this morning by Frank TAYLOR, 25
years old, a lawyer living at 557 Brookklyn avenue.
Taylor says that when he was at Manhattan Beach on Aug 19 last, accompanied
by Frank SHEA, Annie JORDAN and May JORDAN, MASON ordered him to close the
door he had opened in the station, which he refused to do. The old ticket
taker thereupon attacked him, he says, and attempted to choke him.
TAYLOR admitted in the court this morning that the reason he had brought
this suit against MASON was that he might learn the name of the company
employing him and bring suit against it. The old man was too foxy,
however, and TAYLOR couldn't get the information he wanted. Magistrate
VOORHEES reserved decision.
ENGLISH TEACHERS WILL BE HERE ABOUT NOV. 1
The White Star Line steamer Baltic which arrived to-day from Liverpool and
Queenstown, made the run in 6 days, 20 hours and 56 minutes, at an average
speed of 16.85 knots per hour, the best run the Baltic has ever
made. Amont the passengers of whom there were 724 in the cabin and 1,080
in the steerage were Sir Alfred MOSLEY, head of the National Educational
Commission, who says his first party of teachers will arrive here about
Nov. 1; Miss Cecilia LOFTUS, who says she has a new one-act play and will
not appear in vaudeville until December, when she joins WEBER;
Hon. C. S. ROLLS, who won the tourist auto car race in the Isle of Man;
John M. BOWERS,
the Rev. L. G. BROUGHTON,
William J. CHAMBERS,
Lee COUNSELMAN,
E. E. COLT,
the Rev. James O. D. FINDLAY,
Mrs. Paul L. FORD,
Shrimant Jaisingrao GAIKWAD,
Richard HAZELTON, M.P.;
Capt, C. E. HUTTON,
A. D. GUILLARD,
Col. Theodore KITCHING,
J. M. KETTLE, M. P;
Hugh SELIGMAN,
Stephen H. TYNG,
Mrs. John WESTERVELT and Eugene KELLY.
YOUTH ATTACKS 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL
Flatbush Child Is Later found Dazed, Miles From Home.
POLICE HUNT ASSAILANT
Young Woman Waylaid Last Night-Many Other Cases
The police of the Parkville station are at work upon the case of Jeanette CASTLE,
4 years old, who was assaulted by an unknown boy last Monday morning.
The little girls mother sent her from her home, 481 East Twenty-first
street, to the dry goods store at Frederick A. LIPPOLD, 1120 Flatbush
avenue. She walked along in company with a neighbor who saw her safely to
the store. Whe Jeanette did not appear home within an hour her mother
became worried and about noon notified the police. Several hours
afterward the child was picked up in a dazed condition at Thirty-ninth
street and Twelfth avenue. There were marks upon her throat and neck,
where the assailant had choked her; and it is believed that whoever it was
that had seized her became frightened at her fainting away and left her
where she was found by the police. When she was asked who hurt her
Jeanette said that it was a "big boy."
While she was returning to her home late last night, Miss Jennie SHIELDS,
of 247 East Twenty-third street was seized by two men and dragged screaming
and fighting to a vacant lot. She managed to grasp one of the assailants
by the neck, however, and caused him to cry out with pain. William
HENDRICKSON, of East Twenty-eighth street and Canarsie lane, attracted by
the noise, ran to the rescue of the young woman and the men ran
away. HENDRICKSON assisted her to her feet and took her to her home. She
was unable to give much information to the police last night owing to her
frightened condition.
There have been many hold-ups in Flatbush and its vicinity during the past
few weeks and few young women venture out at night. Nurses of the Kingston
Avenue Hospital say they have been held up on their way to and from that
institution. One night recently, Mrs. Mary DOOLEY, the superintendent, was
attacked but her outcries frightened off her assailants.
Woman parishioners of the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Nostrand avenue
and Malbone street have reported to the police that they have been attacked
by men on their way from services.
A HOME WEDDING
There was a home wedding last evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick DOUGLASS, 74 Lawrence street when their youngest daughters,
Freddie DOUGLASS, was married to George LILDIE. The parlors were
beautifully decorated for the occasion. Cora CLARK was maid of honor and
Willie BOWER acted as best man. The bride was given away by her
father. Dr. William T. DIXON performed the ceremony. The bride was
handsomely gowned and carried a beautiful bouquet. After the ceremony, the
guests enjoyed themselves dancing until time to repair to the dining room
where a splendid collation was served. The presents were numerous and
useful. At a late hour, the happy young couple left amidst showers of rice
for their new home, 212 West Sixty-first street, Manhattan. They will be
at home to their friends next Sunday.
TARANTULA IN BANANAS BIT C.H.S. WAITRESS
Nora MURRAY, 28 years old, a waitress in the lunch room of the Commmercial
High School, Albany avenue and Dean street, was bitten yesterday on the
thumb by a large tarantula which was concealed in a bunch of bananas. It
was feared for a time that Miss MURRAY would lose her arm as a consequence.
Mis MURRAY'S arm was swollen to almost twice its size when she received
treatment at the St. Mary's Hospital. The thumb was lanced and antiseptic
dressings were applied. It is said at the hospital that she is in no
danger of losing her arm.
GARRETT P. SERVISS HOME FROM EUROPE
Among the passengers who arrived to-day on the steamer Konigen Luise from
Genoa, Naples and Gilbraltar were: Dr. Harlow BROOKS, Baron Paul DE
MATHIES, Garrett P. SERVISS, Frank H. SEVERENCE, George Winslow THATCHER
and Prof. Willisten WALKER
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS AFTER TRY AT SUICIDE
After Shooting, One Man Plunges Downstairs, Another Run Over by Ambulance
One man is dying and two others are in a serious condition in consequence
of the serving of dispossess papers against Christ MEINKE, 55 years old of
84 Coffey street, last night.
MEIKE attempted to take his own life; one man in trying to save him fell
headforemost down a flight of stairs and another man was run down by the
ambulance in which MEINKE was being removed to the hospital.
MEIKE lost his position a few weeks ago through sickness. He was unable to
pay his rent and yesterday was told that he must pay or move.
Shortly after 6 o'clock this morning the tenants were aroused by the sound
of a shot coming from the yard in the rear of his house. Several men ran
to ascertain the cause of the shooting and in the rush one James HOPE
missed his footing and fell down a long flight of stairs.
He sustained painful lacerations of the scalp and slight contusions. An
ambulance was summoned and MEINKE was hurried away.
HOPE was attended by his physician. His condition is not serious.
As the ambulance hurrying at top speed with the dying man swung around the
corner of Henry and Union streets, Richard MALONEY, the driver, was unable
to stop the horse in time to avoid running down William JOHNSON, 60 years
old, of 6 Henry street.. JOHNSON was stunned and suffered severe scalp
wounds. Ambulance Surgeon CRANE and MALONEY lifted the injured man into
the ambulance and removed him to the hospital also.
ACCUSED OF STRIKING POLICEMAN HOOLAHAN
James J. LANGDON, of 229 Concord street was charged in the Adams street
court to-day with assaulting Patrolman John J. HOOLAHAN, of
Manhattan. HOOLAHAN says LANGDON struck him in the face while he had a
prisoner in custody. The hearing was set down for Oct. 23.
LEG CUT OFF BY TRAIN AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY
Boarding a moving trains caused the injury of a man this afternoon who it
is thought will not survive, one of his legs having been cut off just above
the knee. The injured man is Henry MC GINLEY, 23 years old of Little Falls
who has been stopping at Sheepshead Bay for a short time. he was going to
the races at the Belmont Park race track this afternoon and was to take the
racing special on the Long Island road that leaves Sheepshead Bay in time
for the first race. He got to the station just as the train was pulling out.
Running down the platform he swung aboard the train which by this time was
moving pretty fast. he got on the train but his body was not inside the
line of the fence which surrounds the end of the platform, and as the train
passed it he was hit on the back and knocked off, falling under the
cars. His body was very badly crushed and right leg was cut off just above
the knee. He was rendered unconscious.
A wagon was secured and the injured man was hustled off to the Kings County Hospital.
HOWARD-HEATH--
Married on Oct. 13, 1906, by the Rev. Chas BAYLES,
Josephine HEATH to Leonard HOWARD both of Brooklyn.
19 October 1906
BOYS IN FIERCE FIGHT OVER GIRL
One Ends Battle by Drawing Knife and Slashing His Rival's Face
With the sight of his left eye destroyed and his face gashed, Riuzzo
SABASTINO, 18 years old, of 249 Havemeyer street, appeared in the
Children's Court to-day to press a charge of assault against 15-year-old
Anothony BILO of 14 Havemeyer street. The assault was the result of a
quarrel and fight last night over a girl at Nassau and Lorimer streets.
The boys first quarreled a week ago. When they met last night they resumed
hostilities. SABASTINO was getting the better of BILO when the latter
suddenly whipped out what looked like a shoemaker's knife.
With this he repeatedly jabbed and slashed his antagonist until SABASTINO
dropped to the sidewalk.
Then BILO ran to the house at 905 Lorimer street in which a Mr. MURRAY
lives. He shouted for entrance, declaring that he "had killed a man."
Failing to be admitted, the boy ran to a woodshed in the rear and was found
hiding there by Patrolman GILROY of the Stagg street station. The police
say BILO admitted stabbing SABASTINO. He pleaded not guilty, however, in
court to-day and will be given a further hearing on Oct. 25.
LITTLE GIRL SERIOUSLY INJURED BY WAGON
Four year old Sadie EPSTEIN of 233 Ellery street was knocked down in front
of her home by a wagon belonging to the Angler Biscuit Company of 71
Bowery, Manhattan, last night and received injuries to her spine and
probable internal injuries. She was taken to Bushwick Hospital where it is
said she is in critical condition.
FENDER SAVES HIS LIFE BUT BREAKS HIS LEG
While crossing Fulton street near York early to-day, Terrence WATERS, 43
years old of 43 Fulton street was struck by a Gates avenue car and received
a fracture of the right leg. he was removed to the Brooklyn Hospital. The
fender saved his life.
ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING ON BAY RIDGE TRAIN
Frank GORMAN, who lives in Forty-eighth street was held for examination by
Magistrate TIGHE in the Adams street court to-day on a charge of assaulting
Vernon LINCOLN of 11118 Fifty-seventh street. The youths were passengers
on a Bay Ridge elevated train and a quarrel arose over some
misunderstanding. While they were fighting, Detective HUGHES, who was also
a passenger on the car, arrested GORMAN.
DRIVER BADLY HURT IN COLLISION WITH CAR
Frank MASON, 28 years old a driver living at 189 Hudson street, Manhattan,
was taken to the Cumberland Street Hospital last night, suffering from
dislocation of the right hip and contusions of the right leg. MASON was
driving a team owned by David HOWARD of 708 Greenwich street, Manhattan,
last evening when he was struck by a Crosstown trolley car at Washington
avenue and E street, Wallabout Market.
SORE-EYE EPIDEMIC AT NAVY YARD
Workmen in the local Navy Yard are suffering from an epidemic of sore
eyes. Many of the men in the shops are forced to work all day long under
electric lights and many of the men in the dry docks are forced to work at
night when orders are received to rush repairs on a boat. This makes their
eyes weak and peculiarly susceptible to this epidemic, that is believed to
be somewhat similar to "pink eye."
VAN IDERSTINE WED WIDOW DAY WIFE GOT DIVORCE
The publication of the announcement of the divorce of Adelaide VAN
IDERSTINE from William P. M. VAN IDERSTINE last night serves to unlock the
secret that on the day the divorce was granted in September VAN IDERSTINE
was married to Kathryne SIBLEY WITHSTANDLEY, a young widow well known in
the Stuyvesant Heights society. Friends of Adelaide VAN IDERSTINE, who is
the daughter of Charles H. REYNOLDS, a wealthy real estate man say that her
feelings were sorely tried by the marriage of VAN IDERSTINE on the day she
divorced him and that his brought about the publication of the
divorce. Mr. VAN IDERSTINE said yesterday he never tried to make a secret
of the wedding and that only recently he sent out the wedding announcements
to his friends.
20 October 1906
AUNT FEARS NIECE IS WANDERING ABOUT CITY
A general alarm has been sent out for 17-year-old Margaret HACKRADT
reported missing from the home of her aunt, Mrs. Adolph KOETTJEN, of Bay
Seventy street and Cropsey avenue, Bath Beath, since Monday. The girl was
subject to nervous spells and it is feared by her aunt she may be wandering
about the city partially demented by her affliction.
The girl came to live with her aunt from Germany last December. Four or
five weeks ago distinct signs of a nervous breakdown were noted and
Margaret was sent to the German Hospital, Seventy-seventh street and
Lexington avenue, Manhattan, for treatment. One day last week she returned
home as cured. On Monday she disappeared, leaving no trace.
MISFORTUNE HAUNTS GIRL LIKE NEMESIS
Victim of Odd Accident Leaves Hospital to Find HOme Gone and Husband in Jail
Louisa MC MAHON a 19 year old girl, walked in the Vernon avenue station
to-day and gave herself up. She said she was homeless and asked the police
to send her to some home. When questioned the girl told a pitiful story.
She said she had lived with her step-father at 734 Myrtle avenue and at one
time worked in a braid factory on Washington avenue. One year old she had
her hair caught in a machine in the factory and the entire scalp was torn
from her head. She was taken to the Kings County Hospital and has spent a
year in the institution. Yesterday she was discharged.
The girl further stated she was married two years ago to a man named
NEFTY. When she was discharged from the hospital yesterday she immediately
went in search of her husband and then for the first time learned that he
had been convicted of burglary and is now serving in the penitentiary.
The girl told the police that she was unable to obtain employment now that
she has lost all her hair. Wherever she went she said she was laughed
at. She was made a prisoner and later taken to the Lee avenue court where
she was held for a further hearing. In the meantime she is in the care of
the probationary officer.
BROOKLYN VETERANS HAD NARROW ESCAPE
WASHINGTON, Oct 20-The three hundred veterans of the old Fifth, Tenth and
Fourteenth New York Volunteer regiments, en route to Manassas battlefield
to witness the unveiling of a monument in their honor, are congratulating
themselves to-day on the narrow escape they had last evening as their
special train was drawing into Washington.
It was derailed on a thirty-foot embankment just after emerging from the
Virginia avenue tunnel, but the cars were held from plunging down the
embankment by the side girders of a bridge at that point. No one was
injured. The trip to Manaassas was resumed this morning.
WALKED A MILE FATALLY STABBED
James Morrow Says Mulatto Girl Plunged Daggar Into Him
NEVER SAW HER BEFORE
Detectives Unable to Locate His Assailant
Shortly before daylight this morning a well-dressed man staggered into the
Eastern District Hospital and told Dr. SNYDER that he had a stab wound in
the abdomen. The man described himself as James MORROW, 25 years old of
251 Clifton place. He refused to tell how he received the stab wound and
pleaded with the doctors not to question him to tell how he was stabbed. He
finally consented, and in a semi-conscious condition he said he had been
visiting friends at Marcy avenue and Lorimer street last night and remained
with them until early this morning. He went to the corner of Lorimer
street and Marcy avenue to wait for a Marcy avenue car.
Whilewaiting a pretty young mulatto girl approached Morrow and introduced
herself. She said she was Gracie SMITH 18 years old and that she lived at
172 Lorimer street. Gracie became quite chummy with MORROW and invited him
to accompany her to her home. MORROW refused and ordered the girl away
from him. The girl became angry and according to MORROW, whipped out a
dagger from under her waist and stabbed him twice in the abdomen.
MORROW claims he remained prostrate on the sidewalk for several
minutes. He finally picked himself up and wandered along Marcy avenue and
landed in the Eastern District Hospital. When the doctors heard MORROW'S
story they immediately communicated with the police of the Clymer street
station. Detectives MINNERLY, CONNOLLY and MC GAUGHAN set out in search of
GRACIE but they were unable to locate her.
MORROW'S condition is serious and the doctors at the hospital fear he will
not recover.
How MORROW could have walked from Lorimer street and Marcy avenue to the
Eastern District Hospital which at Bedford avenue and South Third street ,
a distance of a mile, its a mystery to the police and doctors. A general
alarm has been sent out for the SMITH woman and the police are searching
throughout the city for her.
23 October 1906
ITALIAN WOMAN BULLIED INTO WITHDRAWING CHARGE?
Christina PEROOZA , of Naptuna Avenue, today in the Adams Street Court,
withdrew the charge of grand larceny which she had made against Ernest
MARRIONA "satisfaction having been given." Detectives VACAKEY and MEALL,
who had been to a good deal of trouble to locate MARRIONA, were nettled at
the turn affairs had taken. It is believed that friends of MARRIONA
frightened the woman into withdrawing her complaint, which was that
MARRIONA withheld a valuable gold watch belonging to her.
24 October 1906
KNIGHTED DANE IN COURT FOR ASSAULT
With Fist He Resented Insult of Rival German Inventor
Sir George KIRKEGARD, knighted last week by the King of Denmark for his
scientific inventions, who has a palatial residence at 23 Lenox road,
Flatbush and who is rated the foremost Dane in Ameria, was today in the
Centre street police court, Manhattan, on the complaint of Herr Gustav
KOCH, a German of 1 West One hundred and Eleventh street, Manhattan, who
accuse the Danish knight of assaulting him today in front of 514 Pearl street.
Both men are inventors of international repute.
The German inventor accuses Sir George with having stolen one of his
inventions. Carl FISHER-HANSEN, counsel for the Dane, told the magistrate
that his client had been driven to the assault by the complainant who had
hailed him with "Hello humbug, cheat, swindler."
The men almost came to blows on the bridge and KOCH refused to listen to
suggestions that he withdraw the complaint.
Counsel for the Dane then asked for an adjournment to prove by witnesses
that his client was justified in striking KOCH. The case was adjourned
till tomorrow. Sir George being paroled in the custody of his lawyer.
SMALL BOY LOT ON WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE
A small boy wandering back and forth over the Williamsburg Bridge early
this morning attracted Policeman NEUSCHAFFER, of the bridge station. The
lad said he was Joseph BELIKOFF, 14 years old. He was unable to give any
address except New York. He was taken to the station house and transferred
to the shelter of the Children's Society.
SEAMAN ADDRIFT ON PLANK FOR 108 HOURS
On board the steamer C. F. TIETGEN, which arrived today from Copenhagen,
was a shipwrecked seaman named HOECK. HOECK was one of the crew of the
schooner Oliver S. Barrett, which sailed from Port Royal on Sept. 9 for New
York. She capsized in a squall Sept 14. HOECK is thought to be the only
survivor. He was picked up at sea by the Danish steamer Texas from New
Orleans for Copenhagen after he had been adrift on a plank for 108
hours. He was in an exhausted condition and has not been in his right mind
since. He was landed at Copenhagen whence he was sent here by the United
States Consul. HOECK is a German. He was very surly and refused to give
any information about his experience.
SCHOOL MA'AM ASSAULTED, OBJECTS, GETS ARRESTED
"I'm a bachelor lady, Judge, a church singer, and have been a teacher in
the public schools all my life," said Miss Frances SWEENEY, of 380 Halsey
street, when se appeared before Magistrate FURLONG, in the Gates avenue
court this morning on a charge of disorderly conduct. Two detectives, one
sergeant and the matron of the Brownsville police station were in the court
to give their testimony.
According to them, Miss SWEENEY entered the Brownsville station and wished
to make a complaint against some Brooklyn Rapid Transit employee at the
Canarsie Depot, whom she alleged had assaulted her, striking her on the arm
and in the face. She was told by Sergeant DULFER that the Canarsie Depot
was not in that police precinct, and he advised her to make her complaint
at the Canarsie station. Miss SWEENEY did not see the necessity of doing
this and so told the Sergeant, adding a few personal remarks about the
party who sat behind the desk. She insisted that the police at that
station do something for her. Finally, going out on the steps of the
police station, she began to revile the police in general. She was asked
by the Sergeant to move away and refusing was arrested by Detectives MC
GOEY and CONLIN.
Miss SWEENEY showed her arm to the court and it was seen that she had
sustained a large contusion on the forearm. She admitted that she had
talked rather hasty but was angry over the apparent neglect on the part of
the police to do anything for her.
Magistrate FURLONG said that whenever a woman entered a police station to
make a complaint she should be treated with respect, but he thought that
she caused an unnecessary disturbance. He dismissed the case and Miss
SWEENEY walked out of the courtroom with her head high in the air.
Miss SWEENEY'S name does not appear in the Public Schools Directory.
AUTO HITS SMALL BOY AND SPEEDS AWAY
Man in Theatre Crowd Bowled Over Refuses to Prefer Charge Against Driver
A big red automobile going at a high rate of speed came through Fulton
street last night just as 8 year old Henry NOEBEL, of 103 Hale avenue, who
was playing tag with several companions, started to cross the street at
Norwood avenue. Several persons yelled to the boy as he ran directly in
front of the oncoming car but he did not hear in time, and the auto hurled
him into the air, his head striking the curb.
Instead of stopping his machine the chauffeur put on more speed and dashed
away. The boy was carried into a drug store unconscious.
Dr. ALBERTS, of the Bradford Street Hospital, found the boy was suffering
from concussion of the brain and it was said at the hospital today that he
had a possible fracture of the skull, though his condition is not
dangerous. The police have no clue to the owner of the auto.
While crossing Bedford avenue at South Eighth street last night just as a
crowd of people were entering Blaney's Theatre E. J. MORRISON, 42 years
old, of 476 Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was knocked down by an automobile
owned and driven by R. A. JONES, of 61 West Seventy-sixth street,
Manhattan. Ambulance Surgeon KIRSCHBAUM of the Eastern District Hospital,
found that MORRISON had sustained a sprain of the left ankle and a cut over
the right eye. He refused to prefer a charge against JONES and went home.
HERO LIST AND DATE OF THEIR FEATS OF BRAVERY
Thirty-one life savers lined up in the Borough President COLER'S office, in
Borough Hall, yesterday afternoon, and each one, besides other honors
conferred, was the recipient of a silver or a bronze medal. These tributes
to bravery were conferred by the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps,
One woman, Miss Elaine GOLDING, the champion girl swimmer of Bath Beach,
alone received a medal.
The ceremonies accompanying the presentations were interesting. Jame R.
HOWE, president of the Life Saving Corps, presided and made a brief
speech. Mr. COLER, then addressed the candidates for medals,
congratulating them for the part each had played in saving lives. He said
that he was glad to see that the association of which Mr. HOWE is the
active head is taking up the work of te4aching the art of swimming. Mr.
COLER commented on some of the more daring of the rescues that ha been made
by those present, for which the medals were presented.
The room was full of spectators who showed much interest in the
ceremonies. At the end resolutions were passed thanking Mr. COLER for the
interest he had taken in the presentations.
Miss GOLDING was given a medal for saving Miss Vern JOHNSON from drowning
July 18, 1905. Miss JOHNSON had been swimming with friends at the foot of
Twenty-second avenue when she became helpless after swimming out a
considerable distance, Miss GOLDING reached and sustained her until help arrived.
Those who were rewarded yesterday saved persons from drowning during the
past two years. The Life Saving Association had many other instances of
the saving of life on record, but only the most meritorious were awarded
medal honors.
The persons to whom medals were presented the place at which each rescue
was made, and the date follows:
Silver Medals-
CARROLL, Chris-East River, June 26, 1904
THORMANN, Theodore-Coney Island, July 17, 1905
DRISCOLL, Hugh-East River, April 11, 1906
REILLY, John-East River, Dec. 8, 1905
MC GRATH, M. J.-East River, Nov. 19, 1905
MARSDEN, Spencer-Narrows, Aug. 16, 1904
SHAW, Donald (Policeman)-East River, Aug. 11, 1905
JOHNSON, John P.-East River, Nov 9, 1905
SWENSON, Charles A.-East River, Nov. 5, 1905
HEALY, Edward F.- East River,Sept. 17, 1905
GOLDING, Elaine-Bath Beach, July 18, 1905
MARION, Sidney-Rockaway, July 18, 1905
BRISTOL, Frank-Coney Island, July 15, 1905
HILL, Cornelius K.-East River, April 8, 1905
MC GRATH, John (Policeman)-East River, July 21, 1905
Bronze Medals-
SCHWENKEWITZ, John-Hell Gate, Aug. 13, 1905
COURTNEY, William-Coney Island, Apr 19, 1906
CAIRNS, John-Prospect Park Lake, Dec. 20, 1905
WHEATON, William J. (Policeman)-New York Bay, July 21, 1905
CARTER, George-East River, Oct 11, 1905
ROACH, Arthur-Coney Island, Sept. 17, 1905
BROWN, Clarence-Hell Gate, Aug. 13, 1905
BRAUM, G. W.-Bath Beach, July 25, 1905
MILLER, James-Narrows, July 21, 1905
NEILL, John O.-East River, July 16, 1905
NEIL, John O.-East River, April 27, 1906
MITCHELL, Charles Jr.- Coney Island, Sept 8, 1905
KNIGHT, Lester B.-Bath Beach, July 15, 1905
RUBENSTEIN-Harry-East River, June 13, 1906
WILEY, William-Jamaica Bay, May 17, 1905
MARRA, Frank-Coney Island Creek, July 24, 1905
BOURKE, John P-New York Bay, June 11, 1905
25 October 1906
GIRL WHO HAD TWO LOVERS IS MISSING
Mrs. Margaret LYNCH, of 75 Fourth avenue, notified the police today that
her 18 year old daughter Catherine has been missing since Monday. She left
the house Monday to go to work. She was seen in a Fulton street department
store on Monday afternoon, and at a theatre on Tuesday. She is described
as 5 feet 2 inches tall, and weights120 pounds. She has blue eyes and a
fair complexion. Her hair is brown. she wore a black skirt and jacket
with a brown hat and white waist. Mrs. LYNCH said today that her daughter
had been keeping company with two young men, and that she may have eloped.
Mrs. LYNCH is almost prostrated.
DOUBLE ELOPEMENT; ONE COUPLE MARRIED
Wiliam CADDOO, who is connected with the Prudential Insurance Company, was
escorting his sweetheart, Miss Maud M. FROST, of 128 Crystal street, to a
party at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. W. APPLETON, 861 Halsey street,
when they met another young couple. All were friends and some on
challenged the rest for a double elopement and marriage.
The challenge was accepted at one and the four set out for the home of the
Rev. Charles L. ALLEN, in Marion street. It was Saturday night and he was
at home.
Neither couple felt inclined to take the initiative, but at length Mr.
CADDOO and Miss FROST agreed to blaze the trail, and the ceremony was
preformed. The solemnity of it and the fear of a good, round scolding from
her mother caused the other young woman to back out.
Weeping, she declared she was afraid to take the step, and thus broke up
the double combination.
The parents of Miss FROST hesitated with their forgiveness but relented
after a time and are now preparing to give the young couple a fine
reception in the hear future.
26 October 1906
Worth a fortune, yet living in an abandoned butcher shop and using the ice
box as a sleeping room for six children! This was the disclosure made in
the Long Island City police court this morning when John VEPREKE, 38 (?)
years sold, and his wife Fannie, 31 years old, were before Magistrate
SMITH, charged with improper guardianship.
The complainant was John LUDUKE, agent for the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Shildren. Some time ago Agent LUDUKE received an anonymous
letter asking the society to investigate the way the VEPREKE family
lived. They occupied an old meat shop at 399 Hunneywell street, Long
Island City. Beside the couple and their six children, Agent LUDUKE found
VEPREKE'S aged parents were also living in the tottering building.
To all outward appearances the family was destitute and seemed to be living
in abject poverty although every member of the household who is able to
turn in a penny is working. The children in the family are: Antonia, 10
years old; Fannie, 9; William, 8; Charles, 5; Otello, 4; and Mary, 2. The
elder of the children either work or go to school, the four younger ones
being cared for by the grandparents while the mother went out washing.
Agent LUDUKE says he discovered that the family were worth at the very
least $50,000. This property consists of improved and unimproved real
estate. How much more the family is worth Agent LUDUKE was unable to learn
but he is satisfied that their possessions will foot up to quite $100,000.
Armed with a warrant Agent LUDUKE , accompanied by Court Officer Frank
FRELINGSDORF, visited the house yesterday afternoon and brought away the
four younger children. Although not suffering from want of food, yet the
little ones Agent LUDUKE says were woefully in need of care. They were
dirty and scantily clothed. Toward evening, when Mrs. CEPREKE came home
and found her children missing, she lost no time in getting to the police
court. Instead of getting her children she was taken before Magistrate
SMITH and paroled until this morning to await the appearance of her
husband, VEPREKE works in DEVOE'S tin shop in Long Island City and it was
not until late evening that a warrant was served on him by Court Officers
FRELINGSDORF and Owen KAVANAGH.
This morning the parents with their brood of six children were before the
magistrate. The family own the butcher shop in which they live. They will
either be compelled to place the building in proper repair or else move
into better quarters. To permit them to do this Magistrate SMITH postponed
the hearing to Monday. Meantime the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children will continue to care for the younger members of the family
until it is satisfied that a proper place has been provided for them.
HEARST MAN EMPTIES A CAR WITH A GUN
Lands in Tombs On Charge Of Trying to Shoot County Detective
Benneditto SCRIBO, 30 years old, a coal and ice dealer, of 124 North Ninth
street, Brooklyn, was held on $500 bail today in the Centre street court,
Manhattan, charged with attempted felonious assault by County Detective
Edward J. REARDON, on a Fourteenth street car, in Manhattan, early today.
Detective REARDON told Magistrate STEINERT that SCRIBO ran amuck on the
car, brandishing a revolver in the face the passengers, who stampeded for
the door. Several women fainted.
"Me Hearsta man. Hoora for de Tammanh Hall!" yelled SCRIBO, who was full of
Fourteenth street booze. The detective made a grab for SCRIBO, who at once
put the muzzle of his gun in the middle of REARDON'S vest. The detective
gave SCRIBO'S wrist a twist and rolled into the street with the
Italian. SCRIBO pleaded guilty in the police court and was sent to the Tombs.
BAKER SWINDLED BY THE OLD CHANGE GAME
Andrew FRIEDLANDER, a baker living at 151 Tompkins avenue, complained to
the Vernon avenue police today that he had been swindled out of $5 by the
old change game last night by a well-dressed young man.
LITTLE CRIPPLE ASKS FOR GRANDPA SHE NEVER SAW
Last Heard of in Greenpoint-A Mystery Even to His Own Daughter
In a hospital at White Plains is a little cripple, 9 years old, who
repeatedly asks its mother, Mrs. Esther SWINBURNE BONIN, this question:
"Have you heard anything about grandpa?" Mrs. BONIN herself, having been
brought up in an orphanage, never knew the man in question. He was last
heard from some fifteen years ago as a longshoreman in Greenpoint. If yet
alive, Robert SWINBURNE is about 65 years old.
Mrs. BONIN'S first recollection is that her mother visited her in the
Amityville Orphans Home when she was a very little girl. Her sister,
Annie, two years her junior, was in the home with her. Annie died in St.
Catharine's Hospital, Brooklyn, in 1886. Esther SWITBURNE left the
Amityville home in 1888 when she was about 14 and earned her own living
until she married Emil BONIN, a carpenter, ten years ago. They now live at
156` Broadway. Their eldest child, Catharine is the little cripple who
wishes to see her grandpa. She is a victim of the dreaded hip
disease. Selina 2 1/2 years and Emma, 8 months are the two other children
who will joy the heart of Robert SWINBURNE if he is found. Esther
SWINBURNE learned her family history through a nun who had been an inmate
of the Amityville home and was a second cousin of Esther SWINBURNE although
the relationship was not known to either child while there.
BOYS SAY THEIR BOSS MADE THEM REGISTER
Two 16 year old boys, Benjamin MOSKOWWITZ and Ely YUSEN, who work in the
stable of Solomon GITZ, 9 Avenue D, Manhattan, were held in $1,000 bail in
the Centre street court today for having registered in the Fifth Election
District of the Sixteenth Assembly District, Manhattan. The boys said that
they were paid $6 a week, $4 of which was kept back for board. They slept
in a hay loft. They claim that they had been employed by their employer to
register under threats of losing their situations.
The young prisoners were arrested by deputies from the Superintendent of
Elections office.
AGED WOMAN BOWLED OVER BY JAMAICA TROLLEY CAR
Mrs. Mary WRIGHT, 60 years old, of Westford, NY who was visiting at the
home of Dr. Melvin DIX, principal of the Bayside Schoool, was struck by a
trolley car yesterday on the Jamaica line of the New York and Quenns County
Railway, while on the way to visit friends in Jamaica but not run over.
David BUSH, the motorman was placed under arrest.
GIRL OF FOURTEEN IS STRANGELY MISSING
Joseph SCHULE, of 293 Marion street, has asked the police to find his
daughter Emily, 14 years, 160 pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, light complexion,
brown hair and eyes who wore when she disappeared last Saturday a brown
skirt, blue waist, gray jacket and brown hat.
TWO BOYS OVERCOME BY GAS; ONE IN HOSPITAL
John and Frank SMITH, aged 17 and 16 years respectively, who roomed
together at 213 Wyckoff street, were partially asphyxiated by escaping
illuminating gas this morning while in bed at that address and John had to
be taken to the Long Island College Hospital in an ambulance for treatment.
MANY OFFENDERERS SENTENCED IN SPECIAL SESSIONS
In the Court of Special Sessions today six cases of automobile speeding
were adjourned until Nov. 16 sentence in seven cases was suspended.
On a charge of assault, Nicholas BOOTHS was sent to jail for ten days,
while Charles BARNES and John COOPER got the same penalty for petty
larceny. Oscar CARLSON, 19 years old, was sent to the Reformatory on
Hart's Island for six months and Herman FERESI was sentenced to three
months in the penitentiary for carrying a loaded revolver.
UNFORTUNATE WOMAN AGAIN IN POLICE NET
Ida LAWRENCE, a woman who was once charged with shooting and killing her
husband when they lived in Pearl street and who has since been arrested on
various charges of larceny, was brought into the Adams street station this
afternoon very much under the influence of liquor. She denied emphatically
that she was drunk and when taken to a cell
shrieked so loud that she could be heard a block away. When tried for
shooting her husband she proved that it was accidental. her husband, while
intoxicated, pointed a pistol at her. She pushed back his hand and the
bullet lodged in his mouth, killing him instantly. Since her husband's
death Mrs. LAWRENCE has had a checkered career. She gave her address as
114 Ashland place.
THREE MEN IN BRAWL IN WOMAN'S SALOON
A drunken brawl in a saloon at 1120 Myrtle avenue, owned by Mrs. P.
SHERLOCK, resulted in the arrest of three men who were held at the Vernon
avenue station. Charles BLUM, the bartender, was struck on the head with a
beer glass. The excitement attracted a policeman who arrested Percy CLAYTON
of 123 Willoughby avenue; Louis DIETRICH, of 37 Buschwick avenue and Jacob
MILLER of 221 Madison street. This morning in the Lee avenue court they
were discharged wit ha warning to keep away from saloons.
HALED TO COURT FOR ILLEGAL REGISTRATION
Policeman JOYCE, of the Clymer street station, today arrested Peter
CHIEFFO, 29 years old , of 550 Wythe avenue on a charge of illegal
registration. It is alleged that CHIEFFO registered in the Seventh
election district of the Fourth Assembly District, although he had only
been living in the county for two months. CHIEFFO was held for examination
in the Lee avenue court.
28 October 1906
STABBED TWICE BY HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW
A quarrel last night between two Italians resulted in Joseph PISANO, one of
the contestants, 24 years old, of 196 Prospect street, being stabbed in the
left breast and the abdomen with a knife, by Vincenzo PALITO, his
brother-in-law, at the latter's home, 143 Hudson avenue. The injured man
was attended by Dr. PETRAID, of 181 Sands street and went to his home. His
assailant escaped.
ATE GROUND GLASS AND LEAPED INTO RIVER
After eating ground glass, Daniel SULLIVAN 26 years old, wanted to make
sure he would be successful in his attempt to end his life, and jumped into
the East River at the foot of East Sixteenth street, Manhattan. He was
rescued by two boatmen and taken to Bellevue Hospital, a
prisoner. SULLIVAN lives at 119 East Forty-seventh street.
30 October 1906
DELIRIOUS INVALID AN UNINTENTIONAL THIEF
Madly delirious from a severe attack of pleuro-pneumonia. George GIRDTS,
28 years old, of 222 Lefferts place, arose from his bed this morning about
4:30 o'clock, dressed himself, and left the house unknown to his
family. He walked through to Fulton street, where the first thing to
attract his attention was the bakery wagon of Wilton H. PERRY standing in
front of the store at 1187 Fulton street. In answer to an insane desire to
take an early morning drive, GIRDTS jumped into the wagon and drove off
like mad. He was stopped and placed under arrest some distance down Fulton
street by Patrolman James HOLLAND, of the Classon avenue station, who saw
that he was in an irresponsible condition.
Mr. PERRY made a charge of grand larceny against GIRDTS in the Myrtle
avenue court this morning but on hearing what the young man's condition was
when he took the horse and wagon, offered to withdraw the
complaint. Magistrate GELSMAR, however decided to hold the defendant in
$1,000 bail for examination. Still delirious, the young man was bailed out
by his father, John Hl, a well-to-do merchant in Wallabout Market and taken
home in a cab.
BULLET KILLED DOG AND LODGED IN "COP'S" FOOT
Patrolman George MYERS of the Fourth avenue station, today shot a vicious
dog which was snapping and snarling in front of 873 Fifty-fourth
street. The bullet went through the animal's head and lodged in the
"cop's" foot. MYERS was taken to the Norwegian Hospital.
SHOT IN SALOON ROW; ASSAILANT ESCAPES
In an altercation today in the saloon of Carlo Ro??, 22 Second avenue, the
proprietor shot Ton? MASINO, 43 years old of 32 Carroll street in the neck,
then he made his escape. MASINO is dangerously wounded.
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SMALL BOY FALLS INTO TUB OF BOILING WATER
Little Frankie SCHREINER, 2 1/2 years old, of 263 Floyd street, tumbled
into a tub of boiling water at his home yesterday and was almost scalded to
death. his mother carried him to the home of Dr. SCHAEFFER at 257 Vernon
avenue, who advised her to all an ambulance. Instead the mother took her
son home and tried to dress his injuries herself. Last night when the
boy's father came home he realized his son's condition and took the lad to
the Vernon avenue station where the police call Dr. HUBER, of the
Cumberland Street Hospital, who took Frankie to the hospital in a critical
condition.
SHE DANCED HORNPIPE ON A POLICEMAN'S HAT
Denying the charges that she was a common drunkard, Mrs. Mary MURTHA, of
989 St. John's place, appeared in the Gates avenue court today and asked
that she be given another chance. Magistrate FURLONG adjourned the case
until Friday. "When I went to arrest this woman," said the court officer,
"she refused to come to court, knocked off my hat and danced a sailor's
hornpipe on it."
Mrs. MURTHA said this was an accident.
CIGARETTE-CRAZED BOY TRIES MURDER
Young DOWD Chokes Mother and Beats Father With Chair
SIX "COPS" TO SUBDUE HIM
Has Been in Flatbush Asylum Twice in Few Months
After a savage attempt to murder his mother had been thwarted, an eighteen
year old boy last night made an attempt to kill his father. He seized a
heavy chair and brought it down on his father's head, rendering him
unconscious. The boy was finally arrested and overpowered by half a dozen
policemen who took him to the Lee avenue station. The boy is James DOWD,
of 4 Nostrand avenue. he is a cigarette fiend and has been in the Flatbush
Asylum twice.
DOWD has caused his parents no end of trouble during the past few
years. On June 3, he acted so strangely he was taken to the Flatbush
Asylum and detained for a month. He was released and again in the latter
part of last month he was taken back and detained for two weeks. Since his
release from the institution. DOWD has gone back to his old habit of
smoking cigarettes, and last night he began to act queer.
After his mother, Mary, had retired for the night, DOWD sneaked into her
room and grabbed her by the throat. The woman was awakened and her cries
startled her husband Michael a leather worker. He grappled with his son
and succeeded in downing him. After DOWD had turned his back to attend to
his wife, his son grabbed a heavy chair and brought it down on his father's
head. The blow stunned DOWD, who reeled and fell to the floor
unconscious. Neighbors who had been awakened by the excitement ran into
the street and called a policeman. The latter tried to arrest young DOWD,
but he put up such a stiff fight it was necessary to call five other
policemen who clubbed the boy into submission and then took him to the Lee
avenue station where he was held on a charge of felonious assault.
An ambulance was called from the Williamsburg Hospital and DR. MC COY, who
responded, found the elder DOWD suffering from a severe scalp wound and
shock. He dressed his injuries and let him in the care of friends.
This morning in the Lee avenue court DOWD was taken before Magistrate
FURLONG and remanded for a further hearing on a charge of felonious
assault. In the meantime his sanity will be inquired into.
1 November 1906
LOST GIRL IS FOUND; ABDUCTION CHARGED
Geraldine De WHITE, the 15-year old girl who disappeared from her home,
50 Dean street, on Oct. 26, was found to-day by Detectives HUGHES and BUSBY,
of Brooklyn headquarters, in a house at 155 West Sixty-sixth street, Manhattan.
She was with Samuel WILDER, who is said to live at 298 Pennsylvania avenue.
The house is kept by Sadie STONE, who is said to be single.
Mrs. BREE, the girl's mother, is on the verge of insanity over her daughter's
disappearance and has threatened to shoot the man who lured her away.
She said she feared the girl had fallen into the hands of cadets off the
East Side. Geraldine was employed in Manhattan, but recently became
infatuated with a stage career, and had often expressed her intention of
joining a theatrical company.
WILDER and the STONE woman were arrested charged with abduction, and will
be brought to this borough for trial.
SCHOOL POLE-VAULTER BREAKS HIS ARM TWICE
Hugh ROGERS, 16 years old, a pupil at Erasmus Hall High School, while pole
vaulting yesterday, fell when he pole broke and had his arm broken in two places.
PILOT LOST HIS ROLL; ACCUSES TWO WOMEN
Helen BATES, 21 years old, and Bessie MURPHY, 23 years old, who said they
lived at 1077 Flushing avenue, were held in $3,000 bail each for examination
on a charge of grand larceny made by Matthew GRANT, a coast pilot, of
37 South street, Manhattan, in the Myrtle avenue court to-day by Magistrate HYLAN.
The two women met GRANT in a Park avenue saloon early this morning, and
evidently sized him up as a cinch. According to the pilot's story,
the BATES girl, while they were drinking in the saloon, stole $80 from him.
It is said the BATES woman escaped from Raymond street jail some time ago
by means of a rope which she made from the sheets on her bed.
MEET AT A WEDDING; MARRIED IN A WEEK
Meeting for the first time at a wedding last Sunday, Benjamin GRIFFENHAGEN,
21 years old, son of Alderman GRIFFENHAGEN, and Miss Einstein KAFFEL decided
since that time that they could not be happy unless they also were married.
They went to the home of the Rev. Morris HARRIS, pastor of the Temple Israel,
at Tenth avenue and Twenty-fifty street, Manhattan, to-day and asked to be
married. Rabbi HARRIS learned who the young man was, and on the pretext that
he wanted to summon witnesses informed the boy's father. When he arrived he
gave his consent and the young couple were married.
Greenpoint-MANY GUESTS AT SILVER WEDDING CELEBRATION
A most enjoyable time was spent at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander SPEERS, 95 Norman avenue, the occasion being the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. A reception was held from
8 o'clock until 10 o'clock, after which the guests went to the dining room,
where a bountiful collation was served. Dancing followed and was kept
up until long after midnight.
Brownsville-WILLIAMSBURG MAN TAKES BROWNSVILLE BRIDE
At Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue and Watkins street,
last Tuesday evening, Miss Etta BECKER, of 35 Amboy street, and
Jacob SCOLMAN, of Williamsburg, were married by Rabbi RABINOWITZ.
Miss G. ?EFFLER was bridesmaid, and Arthur SELINGER best man.
After the couple return from Washington, D.C., where they will spend a
honeymoon of two weeks, they will reside in the Brownsville section.
2 November 1906
In the basement of John W. DOHLEHER's cigar establishment at 228 Union
avenue this morning, a lighted match set fire to a bale of leaf tobacco
which formed part of the proprietor's stock and an extremely smoky fire resulted.
The damage was less than $500.
When the cry of fire was raised through the building, John UNGER, 35 years old,
of 2 Morton street, rushed into the cellar and tried with hands and feet
to extinguish the smouldering tobacco. He did not succeed very well and was
severely burned on the face, neck and arms. Considerable hair was also singed
from his head and he inhaled enough smoke to render him unconscious. He was
found lying on the basement floor by the firemen, and was hurried in an
ambulance to St. Catherine's Hospital. He may not recover.
Bessie NEWMAN, 3 years old, of 243 Moore street, while playing in the kitchen
of her home early this morning, was badly burned about the arms and body by
hot coffee from a pot which she overturned. She was attended by Ambulance
Surgeon TIETZ, of the Eastern District Hospital.
While playing about a bonfire in front of her home, Annie ALINO, 3 years old,
of 842 Hopkinson avenue, came in contact with the flames and her dress caught
fire. Before the blazing clothing could be torn from the child's body by
neighbors, the little girl was badly burned about the body and legs.
Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN was summoned from St. Mary's Hospital and
attended the child.
While playing around a bonfire in company with a number of other child in a
vacant lot at Sixth avenue and Forty-seventh street, this morning, two-year
old Anna MCCORMICK, of 601 Forty-seventh street, fell into the fire and was
severely burned before she was pulled out and the fire extinguished by an
unknown man who was passing at the time. He carried her to her home and an
ambulance was sent for. Dr. STRATMAN, of the Norwegian Hospital responded,
and seeing that the child was in a critical condition, removed her to the
hospital with all speed. Little hope for her recovery is held out.
During a fire at 334 to 340 Stanton street, Manhattan, this morning, two watchmen,
hemmed in by flames on the fourth floor, were saved by a pneumatic extension
ladder, recently introduced in the Fire Department. Had the old-fashioned
ladder been used the men would have perished. The new ladder was shot
into position like a bullet. A minute after the men were rescued the
roof of the building collapsed. $100,000 damage was done.
A fire broke out at 12:15 this morning on the first floor of the two-story
building at 137 Bay Ridge avenue, occupied by Policeman Thomas O'KEEFE, of the
Fort Hamilton station. The blaze was caused by an overheated stove. Damage $700.00.
The home of Mrs. Katherine NAUBAS, at 548 Lexington avenue, was damaged to the
extent of $500 by fire this morning. The fire started in the kitchen.
WANT OLD BURIAL GROUND FOR PARK
Demanding more public parks for Brooklyn, a host of Brooklynites stormed the
Board of Estimate meeting in the City Hall, to-day. Most of those present
were there to advocate the laying out of a public park bounded by
Knickerbocker avenue, Putnam avenue, Palmetto street and a new street to
form the southwesterly boundary of said park; in other words, on the old
Union Cemetery site.
Jared J. CHAMBERS, president of the Twenty-eighth Ward Taxpayers' Protective
Association, headed the delegation, which represented thirteen
Brooklyn civic bodies.
Mr. CHAMBERS did all the speaking, because when he got through the Mayor said
Mr. CHAMBERS had fully enlightened the Board, Mr. COLER adding that there was
apparently no opposition. Mr. CHAMBERS said in part: "We are here to advocate
a public playground for the Bushwick and Ridgewood section, on the old
Union Cemetery site, in the Twenty-eighth Ward. Our ward is composed mostly
of tenement houses, and many of the parents who occupy them can ill afford
to send their children to the country in the summer, and the time after school
hours and before dark will not permit the child (even if their parents would
allow them) to visit the playgrounds and large parks in other parts of our borough."
"In 1896, notwithstanding our ward, the Twenty-eighth, was the largest in the
old City of Brooklyn, the authorities purchased a small plot of ground, three
and one-half acres, for a park. This park, Irving Square, is one of the
smallest in the borough, and the children have no room in it to play.
In 1897, the first year of the consolidation, the Union Cemetery, right in the
heart of a congested district of the ward, was sold, and the bodies were
removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery. The ground was left in a terrible condition,
and it is worse to-day than ever. This large plot is surrounded by large
tenements, some of them containing eight familes."
"In view of the fact that this congested section, known as the
Bushwick-Ridgewood district, has no park or playground, and that this site
presented an ideal place for a playground, where the children could play,
exercise and having a breathing place, and as this was unimproved property,
we started a movement to secure a public playground on that site. According to
the census of 1900 the ward numbered 77,913, and so rapid has been the growth
that to-day we have a population over 100,000, and still increasing. A large
part of the Twenty-seventh ward and a portion of the Borough of Queens which
borders on the Twenty-eighth ward would be benefited by this playground, as it
would be very close to them."
4 November 1906
PICKED UP AT SEA LASHED TO A LOG
Thomas ANDERSON's Terrible Experience for Sixteen Hours Off Florida Coast
TELLS STORY AT LIVERPOOL
Says 139 Comrades on Houseboat Were Swept to Death
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 4 - With the arrival here, Saturday night, of the
Harrison liner Barrister from Galveston, it was learned that one more of
the supposed victims of the terrible tornado which swept Florida on Oct.
18 had been saved. On board the steamer was Thomas ANDERSON, one of the
employees of the Florida East Coast Railroad Company, who was swept out
to sea on a barge during the storm. He was picked up miles off the
Florida coast, after he had endured hardships and sufferings which rival
those of John RUSSELL, who was landed in New York on Oct. 23, by the
steamer El Paso, which picked him up after he had been thirty-six hours
on a frail raft.
ANDERSON clung to a single log for more than sixteen hours before he was
rescued. He was buffeted by the waves a score of times and was on the
verge of giving up in despair and cutting the rope with which he lashed
himself to the log, preferring death at once to the lingering torment of
his awful postion. When picked up the man was so weak that fears were
entertained he would die. He rallied, however, and was in apparent good
shape when he landed here last night.
ANDERSON's story is a tale of the horrors of shipwreck which has seldom
been equalled. He was one of the 140 laborers washed out to sea on a
houseboat which had been anchored off Long Keys. The storm swept down
on the little island near which the houseboat was anchored without
warning. Before the occupants of the boat realized their danger they
were far out on the sea. The shaky craft, which had never been intended
for anything was but housing the men in quiet waters, did not long
withstand the attacks of the mountainous waves. It soon went to pieces.
ANDERSON was able to pick out a good-sized log to which he lashed
himself. When the frail houseboat finally collapsed the log kept him afloat.
For sixteen hours he was lashed to the log and during every moment of
that time he faced death. He was without food, or water and there
seemed scant hope of rescue. On the day following the wreck of the
houseboat, the Barrister, staggering through the sea, sighted the log
with its human burden. The captain had encountered numerous pieces of
wreckage, and believing it possible that some one might be afloat on
some of the drifting logs had kept a careful lookout. Noting the
peculiar "bump" on a particular log while it was still far off the
steamer's course was altered to pass near enough to give a good view.
ANDERSON had barely enough strength to wave his hand as a signal of his
distress. At great risk a boat was put out and he was pulled aboard the
Barrister.
ANDERSON is confident that practically all his comrades on the houseboat
were lost in the wreck, as he saw scores of them drowned before his eyes.
THREE NEAR DEATH AT GRADE CROSSING
Three persons narrowly escaped death last night when the wagon to which
they were riding was demolished by a B.R.T. train at the Fresh Pond road
crossing, Queens. The horse was killed and the occupants of the wagon
were thrown out of the path of the swiftly moving train.
August FISHER, 42 years old, who lives in Evergreen, was driving with
Charles KOSSLER, 18 years old, and 4-year old Leo KESSLER.*
Dr. HULTZHEIM, who was summoned, dressed the KESSLER boy's wounds and
they were sent home. FISHER was removed to the German Hospital
seriously injured.
*articles lists the names as KOSSLER and KESSLER.
BROTHER STABS WOMAN AND HER HUSBAND
Passing down Twentieth street late last night, Policeman James FARLEY
heard excited cries and yells, and running in the direction of the noise
found a lot of Italians near the house of Tony MORRELLO, at 192
Twentieth street. Going into the house FARLEY found MORRELLO, and his
wife Marie lying on the floor of a room suffering from several stab
wounds. The woman had been slashed across the face a number of times
and was partly unconscious when the policeman arrived.
He summoned an ambulance from the Seney Hospital, and Dr. Hutchison,
responding, sewed up the wounds and the injured. In the meantime,
FARLEY arrested Leo MARAGO, 25 years old, who lives next door, a brother
of the woman. MORELLO and his wife identified MARAGO as being their
assailant, but they refused to make a charge against him. The police,
however, decided to hold MARAGO on a charge of felonious assault. As he
was being taken away, the woman became hysterical, yelled at the top of
her voice and tried to take the prisoner away from his keepers. It took
six patrolmen to subdue her.
OLD MILL NOTES
Joseph WILEY, of this place, was awarded a medal by the United States
Volunteer Live Saving Corps for saving a man from drowning in Jamaica
Bay at the risk of his life in August, 1905. These awards are made
annually after a rigid examination. Joe is displaying his medal with pride.
TUGBOAT CAPTAIN RESCUED FROM BAY
Capt. Thomas HANNA, of the tugboat Maurice, lying at the foot of Bay
Ridge avenue, fell from the ???? last night. James MAHONEY and Olaf
GUNNELDON, employed on the lighter Corcoran, rescued Capt. HANNA with
great difficulty, and it required nearly half an hour to revive him.
5 November 1906
SEIGLE-LUSTER NUPTIALS AT AMERICAN STAR HALL
Miss Fanny LUSTER, of 121 Snediker avenue, and Charles SEIGLE, of 1832
Pitkin avenue, were married last night, by Rabbi GOODMAN, of the Chester
Street Synagogue, at American Star Hall. The bride was attended by her
sister, Miss Etta LUSTER, and Abraham COHEN was best man. After a short
honeymoon in Boston the couple will reside in Brownsville. The
ceremony, which was followed by a reception, was attended by more than
five hundred.
ITALIAN GIRL SHOT BY HER JEALOUS SWEETHEART
Yesterday afternoon during an altercation Grace Omono REVEGIO, 36 years
old, of 92 West Sixteenth street, was shot in the left arm by her
jealous sweetheart, Gaspinio PANERELLO, 35 years old, of 285 W. Sixteenth stt.
The girl fell screaming to the floor and in the excitement PANERELLO escaped.
The reserves from the Coney Island police station were summoned and
searched the Italian colony, but failed to find their man.
Ambulance Surgeon McQUERRY, of the Kings County Hospital, attend Miss
REVEGIO, and she was left at her home.
MAN'S LIFE SAVED BY AMPUTATING HIS ARM
The recovery of Joseph CLEFF, 23 years old, of 49 Tenth street, Long
Island City, who was the subject of an unusual operation in St. John's
Hospital in that city, Saturday, is looked for. He had his left arm
amputated above the elbow and was conscious throughout the entire
operation. Cocaine was used instead of ether which took the operation
out of the ordinary.
CLEFF was one of the men who was burned by the explosion of a tank of
grease in a factory on Tenth street, Long Island City. In his endeavor
to escape from boiling water that flooded the floor and the scalding
steam he broke his way out of a window. In doing so he ripped the flesh
of his left arm open to the bone fro the wrist to the elbow. Then he
started on a run to St. John's Hospital, several block away, but fell
exhausted in the street and was picked up by an ambulance.
EIGHT INTOXICATION CASES AT CONEY
Eight persons, five of them women, were in the Coney Island court this
morning, charged with being intoxicated. Most of them were dismissed.
Annie BURKE, 28 years old, and Joseph ROSE, 60 years old, both of
Eleventh avenue, and Twenty-six street, were fined $10. Joseph LYNCH,
30 years old, of 165 Bay Thirty-first street and William WILSON, of 144
McKibben street, were found guilty of being drunk and disorderly, and
sentence was suspended.
REPORTS HER SISTER, A FACTORY GIRL, IS MISSING
Mrs. Annetta SHARP reported to the police at the Fourth Avenue Station
this morning that her sister, Katie L. THOMPSON, 16 years old, of 355
Fifty-eighth street, has been missing since last Saturday morning. She
left home at that time to go to a candy factory in Twenty-seventh
street, between Second and Third avenue, where she worked, and failed to
return home.
MADMAN TRIES TO LEAP FROM BRIDGE
Poised on Rail of Williamsburg Span When "Cop" Drags Him to Safety.
HORRIFIED CROWD LOOKS ON
Insane Youth Fights Rescuer and is Sent to Asylum.
The terrifying antics of a madman, who perched himself on the iron
railing of the Williamsburg Bridge, seventy-five feet above the sidewalk
and prepared to leap to his death caused an awe-stricken crowd to stand
spellbound under the bridge this forenoon. A mighty shout arose when a
bluecoat was seen to rush along the roadway of the bridge and clutch the
coattails of the would-be suicide just as he was poised for the spring.
The officer yanked the luncatic to the roadway, but could not subdue him
until he had been assisted by several other "cops."
Samuel STROSKY was the name given by the man when he was taken before
Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM in the Lee avenue court. He gave his age as 21,
his occupation as that of a tailor and his address, 217 South Third
street. He was committed to the Kings County Hospital to be examined as
to his sanity.
Attention was first attracted to the demented man shortly before noon
to-day as he walked along the footpath of the bridge, just over Berry
street. He was waving his arms wildly and shouting incoherently.
Suddenly he leaped over the railing onto the trolley car roadway. He
ran alongside a car loaded with passengers and essayed to board it.
This was what attracted the attention of Policeman O'BRIEN, of the
Williamsburg station, and he ran after the man.
He was not a moment too soon in getting close to STROSKY, for just as he
ran up the latter had crossed over the roadway and was climbing the
railing. The crowd which had gathered below shouted a warning and
several women averted their eyes from the horrible sight that was
promised. But the "cop" was in time, and grasped the tail of STROSKY's
coat. Luckily the goods were new and held. The officer had to fight
with STROSKY, who was possessed of a madman's strength, and three or
four other officers were called into requisition to subdue him.
Ambulance Surgeon TIETZE pronounced the man insane and he was dragged,
kicking and shouting, to the Lee avenue court, where Magistrate
HIGGINBOTHAM committed him to the insane ward in the Kings County Hospital.
WEALTHY BREWER RESCUES A GIRL
Locked Along in Home by Mother, She Plays With Matches
SETS HER BED ON FIRE
Rescuers Have to Break in Door to Save Her.
Six-year old Eva WAGNER, daughter of Mrs. Anna WAGNER, is dying in the
Bushwick Hospital as a result of terrible burns she received this
morning while playing with matches in her home, 346 Pulaski street.
Julius SCHARMANN, the wealthy proprietor of a brewery across the street
from the little girl's home, was one of the first to discover the blaze
and rushed across the street to her rescue. He broke down the door to
the apartment and dragged the child from her cot. He was also burned.
Mrs. WAGNER left her home this morning to make some purchases at the
corner grocery, leaving little Eva in bed. She hadn't been gone long
before the girl got hold of some matches and had set fire to her bed. A
passing letter carrier, Louis MEANY, attached to Station A, who was
delivering mail in the house next door, was startled to see a woman
rushing from the apartment in which the WAGNER's live, shouting "Fire!"
At the same time, Mr. SCHARMANN became aware of the blaze across the
street. He and MEANY rushed up the stairs, and breaking in the door,
were just in time to snatch the golden-haired girl from her fiery couch.
Both were burned about the face and hands. A call had been sent in to
the Bushwick Hospital, and when the surgeon arrived he said that the
little girl had been burned so severely that she may die. The mother
was distracted.
INTERFERED WITH QUARREL AND GOT WORST OF IT.
Thomas McGARRY, 42 years old, of 185 Hopkins street, was held for
examination in the Lee Avenue Court today on a charge of having
assaulted Henry KALKUS, a neighbor, with a heavy piece of pipe.
According to witnesses McGARRY was quarreling with his wife when KALKUS
asked him to stop shouting. This caused the two men to get into an
altercation and resulted in McGARRY seizing the piece of pipe and
striking KALKUS over the head with it. KALKUS' skull was fractured. He
is in the Williamsburg Hospital in a critical condition.
FIRE DRIVES TENANTS OUT IN NIGHT DRESS
The tenants of the four story double brick apartment house at 530
Nostrand avenue were thrown into a panic shortly before 3 o'clock this
morning by a fire which started in some unknown manner in the apartments
occupied by George PARKER, a dentist on the second floor front.
The blaze was discovered by Sergeant George E. HARRINGTON, of the Gates
avenue police station, who was passing at the time, and who, after
turning in an alarm, aroused the sleeping tenants, all of whom were
assisted safely out of the burning building.
With the arrival of the Fire Department the flames were quickly gotten
under control and extinguished with a total damage of about $5,000,
nearly all of which is covered by insurance.
The individual losses on furniture and personal effects is as follows:
James BUTLER, grocer, first floor, $500; George PARKER, second floor
front, $150; Mrs. E. S. BIEBINS, second floor rear, $150; H.T. HILDRETH,
third floor front, $500; John MARELL, third floor rear, $100; E.A.
MARELL, fourth floor front, $300, and Otto DAHLBERG, fourth floor rear,$150.
The building was damaged to the extent of $2,500.
6 November 1906
ELECTION ARRESTS
Arrests by the police for alleged illegal voting and illegal
registration on complaint of watchers and also on warrants already sworn
out were quite frequent during the day. The following men were arrested
by the police stationed at the polls:
Bernard KROGER, 30 years old, of 56 Concord street, in the Eleventh
Election District of the Second Assembly District.
Henry ROLOF, 26, 114 Ashland place, Sixth Election District, Tenth
Assembly District.
James O'BRIEN, 48, of 423 Thirty-ninth street, First Election District,
Ninth Assembly District.
Alfred RUGIN, 32, of 113 Franklin street, Nineteenth Election District,
Fourteenth Assembly District.
William CONDON, 40, of 100 Mangin street, Twelfth Election District,
Thirteenth Assembly District.
Giuseppe GUARTELLA, 41, of 270 Scholes street, Eighteenth Election
District, Thirteenth Assembly District.
Isaac KOLISKI, 33, of 46 Varet street, Eleventh Election District,
Twenty-first Assembly District.
George ALLY, 27, of 5611 Third avenue, Eighth Election District, Ninth
Assembly District.
Albert LASSER, 44, of 133 Coffey street, Eighteenth election district,
Third Assembly District.
Thomas POLLOCK, 31, of Hegeman avenue and Union street, Eighteenth
election district, Twenty-second Assembly District.
Morris FRANK, 35, of 373 Sackman street, Eighteenth election district,
Twenty-third Assembly District.
Nathan CROKEL, 47, of 166 Pitkin avenue, Twenty-eighth election
district, Twenty-second Assembly District.
Morris LANG, 41, of 404 DeKalb avenue, Fifth election district, Eleventh
Assembly District.
James ROBERTS, 84, of 231 Gates avenue, Eleventh election district,
Twenty-second Assembly District.
Charles SMITH, 38, of 564 Central avenue, Eighth election district,
First Assembly District.
Walter J. MORTON, 58, of 67 Columbia Heights, Second election district,
First Assembly District.
Michael SULLIVAN, 59, of 3 York street, Second Election District, First
Assembly District.
Cornelius BAVIETT, 53, of 70 Summit street, Twelfth Election District,
Third Assembly District.
Benjamin TOBIAS, 50, of 276 Stockton street, Twelfth Election District,
Sixth Assembly District.
Martin FROKEL, of 2166 Pitkin avenue, arrested and paroled for
examination in Gates avenue court.
Morris FRANK, of 373 Sackman street, arrested and paroled in Gates avenue court.
John F. WELLWOOD, of 439 Enfield street, arrested and discharged in
Gates avenue court.
Isaac KISSEN, of 370 Watkins street, arrested but allowed to go at
station house, as he had not cast his ballot when arrested.
PASSERBY SAVES FALLING MAN FROM INSTANT DEATH
Workmen were hoisting a large iron safe for the purpose of getting it
into the second story of the Liberty Building, 199 Montague street,
yesterday, when a man fell from the top of the safe and was saved from
instant death by alighting on a pedestrian. The falling man came down
head foremost. Both men dropped in a heap on the sidewalk, the man who
acted as a buffer being the most injured, as well as the most
astonished.
There was a brief duet of exclamations and sympathetic onlookers
congratulated the man in overalls, who had escaped a journey to the
Morgue. One real estate dealer with a sense of justice congratulated
the buffer, saying: "It's a mighty good thing for that fellow that you
happened along. If you had been a second sooner or later he would have
been killed."
REVOLVER MISSED FIRE, SO COMPLAINANT LIVES
Christopher SINNOTT, of 66 Hudson avenue, was held by Magistrate GEISMAR
in the Adams street court to-day in $1,000 bail to answer a charge of
felonious assault. Frank FARRELL, of 240 Front street, alleges that
SINNOTT pointed a loaded revolver at him in front of his home and pulled
the trigger. Luckily, the weapon missed fire.
7 November 1906
STRANGE WOMAN GOT THEIR BABY
Took It From Father at "L" Station and Was Lost in Election Crowd
POLICE SEND OUT ALARM
Parents Hope It Was Mistake But Fear Child Was Stolen
The police of the Greater City are looking for a woman in black who
early to-day carried off the 20-month old baby of Joseph BUTTERFASS, of
18? Eldridge street. The parents have the name of the woman and her
Brooklyn address in Twenty-third street, which the woman in black gave
Mrs. BUTTERFASS just before she disappeared with the BUTTERFASS baby at
the foot of the stairway of the Park Place downtown station of the Sixth
avenue elevated road in Manhattan, as the election crowds were making
for their Brooklyn homes from the Tenderloin. It may be a case of
kidnaping, but the parents of the missing baby are hopeful that it is
all a mistake and that the woman in black who took the baby missed them
in the election throng and is to-day looking for the BUTTERFASSES to
claim their child.
Mr. and Mrs. BUTTERFASS had been on a visit to relatives in Manhattan,
and after midnight boarded the Sixth avenue "L" train at the 104th
street station. They say that the woman in black got on the train at
the Fourteenth street station and began noticing the BUTTERFASS baby,
smiling and cooing at it and finally engaging in conversation with the
father and mother.
When the train reached the Park Place station the BUTTERFASSES and the
strange woman got out and started toward Broadway. They had gone less
than a block when Mrs. BUTTERFASS recalled that she had left a package
on the train. Handing the baby to her husband, she ran hurriedly back
to the station. Mr. BUTTERFASS and the woman stood waiting and while
talking the woman gave him what purported to be her card. They talked
and Mrs. BUTTERFASS did not return. Finally Mr. BUTTERFASS became
anxious. The woman volunteered to hold the baby while he went to look
for his wife. Mr. and Mrs. BUTTERFASS returned in a few minutes to find
the baby and the woman gone. They stood for a moment dumbfounded. Mrs.
BUTTERFASS became hysterical and the crowd that was pouring down the
stairs from another train gathered about the couple. Policemen were
called and they searched the crowd for a woman and a baby, but found
none. Mr. BUTTERFASS ran through Park place to see if he could not
catch the woman and the baby on their way to the Brooklyn Bridge, and
when he returned without the child his wife fainted. When Mrs.
BUTTERFASS was revived she went weeping with her husband to the Church
street station and reported the loss of the baby to the police. An
alarm was at once sent out for the missing baby and woman.
SERVANT FINDS BUTLER OVERCOME BY GAS
Mary BROWN, a servant in the employ of Richard L. BREWSTER, of 126
Lefferts place, while passing through the hallway on the third floor
last night, discovered Emile GARGON, the butler, unconscious from
illuminating gas in his room.
RUNAWAY HORSE DASHES INTO BAKESHOP WINDOW
Morris EINBINDER, of 680 Union street, was driving a horse attached to a
butcher's wagon yesterday afternoon, when the animal ran away, turning
the corner of Fourteenth street and Seventh avenue. The maddened equine
dashed into the show window of a bakeshop owned by Mrs. BENNETT, on the
corner of Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue. The horse was badly cut.
Policeman HEPSTEAD, who caught the animal as it was backing out of the
broken window, sent a boy for a veterinary surgeon and the cuts of the
bleeding house were attended to and a bullet saved. The beast was so
badly gashed that the patrolman thought he would have to put it out of
the butcher business.
FLAMES FROM BONFIRE BADLY BURN LITTLE GIRL
Playing around a bonfire yesterday afternoon little Eva LANG, seven
years of age, of 214 Ralph street, got her dress on fire. She is now in
the German Hospital, suffering from severe burns on the body. Her
condition is critical.
8 November 1906
INSANE BARBER EATS GRASS IN TOMPKINS PARK
Children at play in Tompkins Park, at Tompkins and Greene avenues,
noticed a man acting queerly in the park yesterday afternoon. His
actions caused a crowd of children to gather, and when the man went
on all fours and crawled about on the grass the children howled with delight.
After a time the man began pulling handfuls of grass and eating it.
The crowd of children attracted a policeman. He summoned an ambulance
and Ambulance Surgeon PALMER, who responded from St. Mary's Hospital,
said that the man was insane. The doctor learned from the man that his
name was Joseph NARILLO, and that he lived at 708 DeKalb avenue. He was
removed home and there it was learned that NARILLO was a barber, 38 years old,
and that he had been acting queerly for some time.
STOWAWAY ATTEMPTS TO SWIM ASHORE
Harry BESFAELEN, a stowaway on board the steamer Petersburg from Libau and
Rotterdam, jumped overboard and attempted to swim ashore this morning.
The alarm was given, a boat lowered, but the man was picked up by a rowboard
from the Quarantine station and transferred to the steamer's boat.
BESFAELEN was discovered after leaving Rotterdam, where it is thought
he stole on board. He was without funds.
9 November 1906
South Brooklyn-WALKED TO BROOKLYN FROM KINGS PARK ASYLUM
The police of the Fifth avenue station had a lively time yesterday
afternoon with an insane man who, it is said, escape on Wednesday from
the Kings Park Insane Asylum. He was captured near his home on Ninth
avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets by Roundsman BRADLEY
and three patrolmen and taken to the Fifth avenue station and held
waiting the arrival of the officials of the asylum. The man told the
police that after making his escape he walked the entire distance to Brooklyn.
South Brooklyn-MAN FALLS INTO SHIP'S HOLD AND BREAKS SKULL
Frank DUNN, 28 years old, of 76 West Sixteenth street, Coney Island, is in
the Long Island College Hospital, suffering from a compound fracture at the
base of the skull. He will probably die.
DUNN, who was employed on the steamship Berwind, at Pier 35, Atlantic Dock,
was crossing the gangplank when he fell into the hold of the ship. When
taken out he was unconscious and was removed in the ambulance by Dr. CROANE.
South Brooklyn-JOHN SMITH STRICKEN WITH APOPLEXY IN STREET
While walking along Fifth avenue last night, John SMITH, 46 years old,
of 445 Third avenue, was taken suddenly ill and removed to Seney Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon HOWELL, suffering from apoplexy.
Brownsville-WOMAN PUTS HER HEAD THROUGH A CAR WINDOW
While Mrs. E. COHEN, of 1497 Gates avenue, was standing in a car of the
Ralph avenue line yesterday afternoon, at Sutter and Rockaway avenues,
the car gave a sudden start, causing her to lose her balance. She fell,
her head going through one of the windows. Ambulance Surgeon ALBERS,
of the Bradford Street Hospital, was called and pronounced her suffering
with concussion of the brain and a severe scalp wound. She refused to
be removed to the hospital, so he removed her to the home of her son,
Harry, who is better known as Kid GRIFFO, at 149 Sackman street.
LONG MISSING FLUSHING MAN FOUND IN NEWARK
Cared for at YMCA - Mind a Blank from Time He Collected Debt
Word has been received in Flushing that Wilfred L. JONES, who has
been missing from his home there for the past four weeks, is in Newark,
NJ under the care of the Young Men's Christian Association of that city.
He was picked up there by a member of the association two or three days
after his disappearance from home and as he appeared to be in a dazed condition,
was taken to the headquarters. Mr. JONES is a member of the association
and had his membership card with him, so that additional interest
was taken in his case.
Mr. JONES is about 35 years old, and is a member of the real estate
firm of JONES & MAURER, whose office is in Amity street, Flushing.
He is unmarried, and makes his home with his aunt, who lives on Boerum avenue.
Four weeks ago he went to Manhattan on a business trip. He collected
$1,000 from a client, the money belonging to him and not to the firm,
and what he did after that is a mystery to himself and his friends.
When found in Newark he still had the money he had collected and it
was evident that no attempt had been made to rob him. Mr. JONES,
according to the report received from Newark, was unable to tell how
he came to be in Newark. He was he remembered collecting the money in
New York, but after that his mind was a blank.
TUMBLED INTO HOLD AND BROKE TWO RIBS
Salvator TARALINA, 29 years old, of 64 President street, while at
work this morning on the steamship Theslir, of the Lamport and Holt
line, at Pier 9, fell from a ladder into the hold of the ship. Two
of his ribs were fractured. He was removed to the
Long Island College Hospital.
ESCAPED LUNATIC IS SENT BACK TO ASYLUM
William WALSH, of 282 Ninth avenue was recommitted to the Kings Park Asylum
today by Magistrate TIGHE in the Butler street court. WALSH escaped
from his cell last night, slid down the water spout to the ground and
made his way to his wife's home in Brooklyn. Mrs. WALSH's sister
informed the police of WALSH's whereabouts and he was arrested.
Although he tried to kill his wife a year ago by strangling her, Mrs. WALSH
pleaded pathetically for her husband in the court today. She said that she
loved him and that he was perfectly sane.
TROLLEY CAR HITS MAN AND BRUISES HIM BADLY
Suffering from serious lacerations of the scalp and painful
bruises about the body, William GERITTY, of 332 Scakett street,
is in Long Island College Hospital. He was taken there late
last night by Ambulance Surgeon CRANE, after having been
knocked down by car No. 473 of the Smith street division
of the Coney Island and Brooklyn line. GERITTY will probably recover.
RELIEVED SCHOONER IN DISTRESS AT SEA
The Hamburg-American steamer Armenia, which arrived today from
Hamburg, brings a distress story from the sea. On
Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock a schooner was sighted showing
signals of distress. The steamer was headed that way and brought
to a stop. A boat was launched from the schooner with two men,
who rowed along side and clamborerd to the bridge. They said
their little vessel was the Nova Scotia schooner, M.L. Lewis,
bound for St. Margaret's Bay. She was a coasting craft blown off
her coast and was short of provisions and water. There were five
men on board very weak from hunger and thirst. The Armenia supplied
them with provisions and water for twenty days and gave them some charts.
The Hamburg-American line steamer Pennsylvania, which arrived
today from Hamburg, Boulogne and Plymouth, brought two lions,
several deer and a number of crates of woodcock and other birds.
One child of 5 years, a steerage passenger,
died of contraction of the larynx during the voyage.
Among the passengers were
H.W. MILLER,
Ernst A. KNOBLE,
John B. MEYER and Charles WILSON.
10 November 1906
BRIDE OBJECTS TO OTHER GIRL AND IS DESERTED
Anna SIMPSON, an attractive bride of two months, who is 19 years old,
living at 22 Moffat street, was in the Manhattan avenue court today and
asked Magistrate O'Reilly to have her husband, Philip, who is 20 years old,
arrested for non-support.
Mrs. SIMPSON told the court that they had not been married a month before
her husband began paying attention to another girl. SIMPSON persisted
in his attentions to the other young woman, and told his wife that if
she would consent to his "keeping company" with the other girl, he
would continue to live with her. To this the wife would not consent
and her husband left her early in October.
A warrant was issued for his arrest today.
YOUNG BOY CAGED LIKE WILD BEAST
Inhuman Parents Arrested On Charge of Cruelty Lad's Mind Unhinged
Moving about on all fours and uttering inarticulate cries of joy at his
escape from captivity, the 6-year old son of Peter and Annie
NELSON, of North Hempstead, was rescued yesterday from a horrible
fate by Detectives LAWLOR and BOLTON, of the Flushing police station.
Neighbors had complained that the child had been imprisoned for
months in a corncrib on his father's farm and the two detectives
were sent to investigate. They found the little fellow locked in
the crib, clad only in rags, his hair matted and unkempt, and his
tiny body blue with cold.
When the "cops" entered the crib the child jumped around on all fours,
clawing at the officers' clothes and chattering like a monkey, happy
because he had been released. He was evidently demented. The crib
itself presented a miserable aspect. About the walls of one corner
were nailed strips of carpet and oilcloth to partially shut out the cold
and biting winds. On the floor lay a small, dirty mattress;
while from the roof hung a rope to which the neighbors assert
the boy was frequently tied.
The detectives arrested the parents on the charge of inhuman cruelty, and
they were held on $500 each by Magistrate CONNORTON, of Flushing. They will
be given a hearing on Nov. 16. The child was placed in charge of the
Children's Society of Brooklyn.
Peter NELSON, the boy's father, is considered the wealthiest farmer in Flushing.
His farm alone is valued at $45,000. He is a Dane and has been married
three times. He is now about seventy years old and is considered very
penurious by his neighbors.
11 November 1906
TWO WEDDINGS AT FIRST SWEDISH BAPTIST CHURCH
Wedding bells rang out last evening for two young women members of
the First Swedish Baptist Church, Dean street, near Carlton avenue.
The first couple, Miss Carrie BRANDT and E. Walter JOHNSON,
were married at 7 o'clock. The bride was accompanied by Ella WALQUST
and Ellen BREDEN as bridesmaids. Reghied PETERSON was matron of honor,
and the ushers were Gustav PETERSON,
Eric OLSEN,
Edward BREDEN,
William BRANDT and Ludwig SMITH.
Mildred WALQUST was flower girl.
The bride's gown was of white satin over white chiffon, and she carried a
shower bouquet of orange blossoms.
The bridesmaids were blue gowns and carried bouquets of pink roses.
The matron of honor was dressed in pink silk and carried a bouquet of pink roses.
After the wedding a reception was held at 476 Eleventh street,
the home of the groom's parents. After a trip to Washington and the South,
the couple on their return will reside on the Park slope.
The second wedding, which took place at 9 o'clock, was that of
Selma WALLSTROM and Ernest LINDMARK. The best man was Carl BRUWALL
and the bridesmaid was Esther WALLSTROM. The ushers were Carl USTERLING
and William OLSEN.
The bride's gown was of oyster white silk, and she carried a bouquet of
lillies of the valley.
The bridesmaid's gown was of white satin, and her bouquet was of pink roses.
After the ceremony the bridal party and guests repaired to the hall attached
to the church, where the wedding supper was served.
The pastor of the church, the Rev. O.J. ENGSTRAND, officiated at both ceremonies.
12 November 1906
PULLED STILETTO AND DEMANDED MONEY
Timely Arrival of Policeman Saved Florist from Man He Had Discharged
The timely arrival of Policeman Albert FARRINGTON, of the Clymer street
station, at Bedford avenue and Broadway, last night probably saved
George LASKUS, a well-known florist of 28 Broadway, from being fatally
stabbed by one of his former employees, George AGELOPOULAY, a Greek,
living at 109 Cherry street. The Greek was discharged two weeks ago,
and when he met LASKUS last night at Broadway and Bedford avenue,
AGELOPOULAY, it is claimed, pulled out a stiletto and demanded $3.
While LASKUS was struggling to get possessionof the knife Policeman
FARRINGTON appeared, and AGELOPOULAY took to his heels and ran down
Broadway with the "cop" in close pursuit. As the Greek was about to
run into the ferry-house of the Roosevelt Street Ferry at the foot
of Broadway FARRINGTON grabed him and took him to the Clymer street
station. Thismorning in the Lee avenue court AGELOPOULAY was held
in $300 bail for Special Sessions. The knife was in his hand
when he was arrested.
TWO LARGE WEDDINGS CELEBRATED SUNDAY
Miss Esther SCHWARTZ, of 236 Liberty avenue, and Benjamin WEISER,
of 316 Delancey street, Manhattan, were married last night by Rabbi RABINOVITZ.
The ceremony, which was performed in American Star Hall, was attended by
300 guests. Miss Ross ROSENTHAL was bridesmade and David LEVY was best man.
The couple, after a short honeymoon, will reside with the bride's parents
on Liberty avenue.
Metropolitan Saenger Hall was also the scene for a very pretty wedding
last night when Miss Lena COHEN, of 554 Stone avenue, was married
to Max GOLDMAN, also of the Brownsville section. The hall was
handsomely decorated for the occasion. Rabbi LEVINSTEIN, of the
Sackman street synagogue, officiated before more than 500 guest.
The couple are well known through Brownsville, and after a honeymoon
to be spent in Washington D.C., they will make their home at 199
Belmont avenue, where the bridegroom has furnished an elegant home.
Miss Edna SCHAFEUR was the bridesmaid and Alexander HORWITZ acted as the best man.
BRIDEGROOM SLAIN AT WEDDING FEAST
Police Find Him Dying in Arms of Bride - Guest Mortally Wounded
JEALOUSY THOUGHT MOTIVE
Assassin Escapes After Breaking Up Italian Celebration
Within two hours of the time that he had been married, Augustino SYLVESTRO,
20 years old, of 17 Garfield place, was shot and killed last night.
It was at a time when the merrymaking was at its height that the trouble
occurred, during which SYLVESTRO was stabbed and one of his guests was shot.
There was a long list of guests at the festivities at the bridegroom's house,
following the ceremonies that made SYLVESTRO and Marie ARNESTINO,
the belle of Garfield place, man and wife. It was just about midnight,
after the hours had passed serenely and quietly, and a crowd had
gathered outside SYLVESTRO's home to listen to the singing and see the
dancing figures flit by the windows, that the neighborhood was thrown
into excitement by reports of a number of pistol shots. Men and women
fled from the house in a panic. Someone sent word of the shooting to
Capt. MAUDE, of the Fifth avenue police station. With all the reserves,
Capt. MAUDE hurried to SYLVESTRO's house, which he found in darkness
and apparently deserted. The crowd had scattered from before the premises.
With drawn revolvers the police made their way into the house. After
lighting the gas, they perceived the young bride seated on the floor,
holding her husband in her arms. He had been stabbed in the stomach,
through the arm and through the shoulder. Near them lay Pedro DEPATINO,
554 Carroll street. He had been shot through the chest and again
through the right arm.
The wounded men were hurriedly removed to the Seney Hospital, where
both were at once operated on. Within half an hour, however, SYLVESTRO
had died of his wounds. The doctors stated that DEPATINO cannot recover.
The cause of the fight is shrouded in mystery. Detectives searched all
night for Antonio SYLVESTRO, a brother of the dead man, but they refused
to state whether they thought he had taken a hand in the crime.
Gaetano FERREOLLI, arrested on suspecion of doing the stabbing, was held in
Myrtle avenue court today.
Some of those who were at the nuptials declare that jealously was at the
bottom of the fracas. Earlier in the evening Louis CALISINA, 14 Garfield place,
fought with Louis NOBLE, who lives in the same house, and cut him on the arm
with a razor. It is said that NOBLE was formerly a suitor for Miss ARNESTINO's hand.
It is also said that the fight between NOBLE and CALISINA resulted because
the former attempted to be one of the wedding party, to which he had received
no invitation.
ALARM IN SCHOOL FOR A FORMER PUPIL
Principal RAFFERTY of Public School 19, Keap and South Second streets,
had a notice read in all the classrooms of his school yesterday that
Annie YOUNGFEST, 19 years old, of 457 Keap street, formerly a pupil at
No. 19, has been missing from home since Aug. 20. Six of the missing
girl's brothers and sisters attend the school, and Principal RAFFERTY
had taken a personal interest in the search for her.
The girl's mother is heart-broken over the disappearance of her daughter,
and is in a very serious condition. A few days ago one of Annie's sisters
who was her constant companion when she was at home was sent away to the
Catskills because of her mourning for her sister.
Annie is the daughter of William YOUNGFEST, a wheelwright, and when she
disappeared was employed as a servant in the family of Dr. GALLAGHER at
Lenox road and Flatbush avenue.
FATHER, IN RAGE, BROKE HIS LITTLE GIRL'S NOSE
John FOLEY, who is said to be in the last stages of consumption, but
does not look it, was held for Special Sessions in the Adams street
court today on a charge of assaulting his 12-year old daughter, Harriet.
The girl swore that her father broke her nose with a stick of wood.
14 November 1906
WAR VETERAN RUNS WHEN WIFE USES BROOMSTICK
Joachim BESEN, who says he is a Spanish War veteran and lives at
295 Ellery street, in the Lee avenue court today, accused his wife,
Millie, who lives with friends at 265 Floyd street, of having assaulted
him with a broomstick. BESEN produced a bunch of discharge papers
and proudly told Magistrate HIGGINBOTHAM that he had fought for his
country and was willing to stand the firing of an enemy, but he was
unable to handle his wife when she had a broomstick.
Mrs. BESEN told the court that her husband was only a tin soldier.
Then she said he never supported her and she had to use a broomstick
on him to keep him away from her home. At this point BESEN agreed
to give his wife $1.50 a week for her support and the case was dismissed.
SHOCK OF ARREST MAKES WOMAN ILL
When Husband Deserted Her She Pawned Goods She Bought on Installment
Deserted by her husband and accused of a crime, Mrs. Jennie MEYERHOEFFER
is lying today in the German Hospital ill from hysteria.
Mrs. MEYERHOEFFER, who is 21 years old, has with her year-old baby, been
boarding at 585 Hart street. Her husband left her some weeks ago. They
were keeping house then. On Oct. 29 she bought a clock, four rugs,
two comfortables and two pairs of lace curtains, all valued at $28.38,
from an installment house and gave a chattel mortgage on the goods.
When her husband deserted her, to keep herself and her child from starvation,
she says she pawned the goods.
The installment house sent the police after her, and Detective-Sergeant GILLAN
found her at 583 Hart Street. When she was accused, she denied her identify,
declaring her name was Jennie TISSELL. Finally she broke down and admitted
she was the woman who bought the goods and pawned them.
When she was taken to the Hamburg avenue station to be locked up,
Mrs. MEYERHOEFFER broke down and became so hysterical that she was removed
to the German Hospital.
Magistrate O'REILEY adjourned the case until Friday, when the doctors say
she may be able to appear in court.
WAFFLES FULL OF DIRT: VENDER IS ARRESTED
Gerard CALABRESE, of 287 Hudson avenue, a waffle vender was in the Myrtle
avenue court today charged with violating the Health law. John PRICE,
of 138 North Oxford street, yesterday afternoon bought some waffles of
CALABRESE. He said they were so full of dirt and dust that he carried
them to Policeman Charles PETO, of the Flushing avenue station, and had
him arrest CALABRESE. The peddler was held in $200 bail for Special Sessions.
TWO BADLY BURNED BY BENZINE EXPLOSION
Mrs. Julia KADISH, of 261 Seventeenth street, attempted to light a fire i
n the kitchen stove about 2 o'clock this afternoon. The heat caused
a bottle of benzine on the kitchen shelf to explode. Mrs. KADISH's
clothing was ignited, and she screamed for help.
Her husband, Louis, who was in the front room, ran to her assistance
and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. He was severly burned
about the face and hands. Mrs. KADISH was badly burned on the
body and arms. An ambulance surgeon was summoned who dressed their
wounds. The fire caused about five hundred dollars damage.
S. Brooklyn-BRAVE FIREMAN GETS CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL
Philip C. PREGENZEL, a fireman attached to Engine Company 144, Coney Island,
was called before Fire Commissioner LANTRY yesterday, and in the presence
of Chief CROKER and others of the department complimented for his bravery
in saving two lives at Coney Island. The Commissioner pinned on PREGENZEL's
breast the Congressional medal which had been awarded him by the
Volunteer Life Saving Association.
PREGENZEL, when in swimming at the Island on Aug. 2, 1904, rescued
Mrs. Annie GERAGHTY, of 3017 West Twenty-third street, Coney Island,
from drowning. He nearly lost his own life in so doing. On Aug. 23, 1905,
PREGENZEL rescued ex-Police Capt. Adolph HASSLACHER from the water off Sea Gate.
Brownsville-FAIR SEX IN FLUTTER OVER COMING WEDDING
The fair sex are in a flutter in anticipation of the wedding of
Miss Rebecca RATNER, of 341 Stone avenue, and Abraham SPIGELGASS,
of Bristol street, which will take place Thanksgiving night in the
Ohev Sholom Congregation Synogogue on Thatford avenue, and will be
followed by a reception in Metropolitan Saenger Hall, Pitkin avenue
and Watkins street. Mr. SPIGLEGASS is a well known attorney, with
offices on Pitkin avenue, and Miss RATNER is quite prominent in the
social as well as the charity world of Brownsville. She is at
present secretary of Queen Esther Temple of the Rathbone Sisters,
as well as secretary of the Young People's Auxiliary of Brownsville
to the Jewish Hospital of Biden.
*In article name spelt Spigelgass and Spiglegass.
BROADHURST-JUHRING
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1906, at the residence of the bride's parents,
396 Hancock st., Brooklyn, NY,
by Rev. Robert J. KENT, Alice Louise JUHRING,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis JUHRING,
to William Channing BROADHURST, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John T. BROADHURST, of Brooklyn.
15 November 1906
MR. AND MRS. B. CARLOCK DECIDE TO SEPARATE
The separation of Mr. and Mrs. Benton CARLOCK, of
703 Manhattan avenue, became known to-day when Mr. CARLOCK
publicly announced that he would not be responsible for any
debts contracted by his wife. Mr. CARLOCK declared to-day that
attention of some Greenpoint men was responsible for the separation.
Mrs. Ruby CARLOCK, according to Mr. CARLOCK, is now living at
the home of her mother, Mrs. DEVOE, of Herkimer street. Mr. CARLOCK
said that his wife and himself were unable to agree and after
considering the matter decided to break up their home at 703 Manhattan
avenue, which they did last Saturday.
HURT IN STREET FIGHT; MAY LOSE EYESIGHT
James MUCCIO, of 480 Court street, and George BELLATORI, of
459 Court street, fought in the street near their homes last night.
MUCCIO was arrested and BELLATORI was fixed up by an ambulance
surgeon and taken to the Seney Hospital. His eyes were blackened
and bleeding and his face was badly scratched. MUCCIO was in the
Butler street court to-day held for examination. The doctors say
that BELLATORI will probably lose the sight of one or both of his eyes.
16 November 1906
Girl Got Married To Avoid Working
Dreading the thought of work, and arriving at the conclusion that the
only way to avoid it was to marry some thrifty fellow, Anna DEVLIN, a
pretty, demure little miss of 17, of 1410 Sterling place, took the advice
of some of her associates and married Thomas CASEY, 19 years old, of
582 Baltic street, a sporty appearing fellow whom Anna met on the night
of Nov. 5. Whether she will regret her hasty decision is the thing that
is now worrying her parents, and judging by the tears shed by her mother,
Mrs. Jennie DEVLIN, and Anna's little sister, Cora, in the Gates avenue
court this morning, they have grave fears that she will.
Anna and young CASEY were married by the Rev. William NICHOLS, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Cchurch, Bond street and Atlantic avenue, who was
deceived by the young couple and their two witnesses, in regard to Anna's age.
After the marriage ceremony all four left and went to CASEY's home,
where the young married couple were found a week later by Cora DEVLIN,
who had been looking for her missing sister.
When Cora entered the CASEY home she found the house full of company
having an uproarioous time. She learned the pastor's name, and the
following day the Rev. Mr. NICOLS was summoned to court. He swore that
Anna had given her age as 18, as did the witnesses. The mother clearly
proved that her daughter was only 17. Then Terence O'BRIEN, a witness of
the marriage, admitted that he had deceived the pastor.
Mrs. Devlin to-day asked Magistrate FURLONG if something could not be done
so she could have her child back home once more. She said that Anna was not
a bad girl, but that her girl companions had influenced her to do as she did.
The Magistrate placed Anna on probation under the care of Mrs. TEITJEN, and
told CASEY to come back to court on Dec. 24.
Laborer, Hit By Car, Loses His Legs and Dies
While pushing a cart loaded with iron across the car tracks at East New York
avenue and Bristol street, yesterday afternoon, Phillip COHEN, of 1825
Prospect place, was struck by a car of the Ralph avenue line and run over.
The wheels passed over both legs, and when he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital
by Ambulance Surgeon CORWIN, it was found that they both had to be amputated.
COHEN died a few hours later.
Boy Born in Ambulance Hurrying to Hospital
Mrs. Anna TRAPPIN, 24 years old, of 26 Thatford avenue, becaame ill
yesterday afternoon in her home, and Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN, of
St. Mary's Hospital, was called. Upon his arrival the surgeon removed
Mrs.TRAPPIN to the ambulance, after which he instructed the driver to make
haste and go to St. Mary's Dispensary on Dean street. While on the way to
the dispensary a little boy baby was born to Mrs. TRAPPIN. The surgeon
delivered his two patients to the head nurse at the dispensary, and it was
announced last night that the mother and child was getting along nicely.
Qualifies For Job He Has Held Four Years
David BERGER, who recently passed the Civil Service examination for police
interpreter, tendered a dinner to his many riends last night at his home,
15 Sherlock place. Mr. BERGER has acted as interpreter in Magistrate
FURLONG's court for four years, and a number of his friends will be surprised
to hear that he passed the examination only a few days ago. Some of those
present were Magistrate FURLONG, David ROSENBERG, W. CONNOLON,
Joseph CONLY, Floyd ADAMS, Jake LEVY, Jacob BOLOWITZ, Samuel MARATCHUCCK,
Arthur MERORGER, William COLE, Abraham MICHAEELEN and Chas. BOWER.
Woman Hit By A Car And Seriously Hurt
While Mrs. Nasser GLICK, 55 years old, of 47b Rockaway avenue, was crossing
the street yesterday afternoon in front of her home she was knocked down by
a Ralph avenue car. Ambulance Surgeon GRIFFIN, of St. Mary's Hospital, was
called and he removed her to that institution suffering from a severe
scalp wound and internal injuries.
Factory Workers Head Split Open In Fight
Frank OHLER, of 150 Meserole street and Edward RYAN, of 348 Fifty-third street,
got into an altercation yesterday afternoon in the factory where they are
employed at 30 Boerum place. OHLER struck RYAN on the head with a piece of iron,
opening his scalp.He was arrested, and RYAN had his would dressed by an
ambulance surgeon. He was unable to appear in the Adams street court to-day,
and OHLER was held for the Grand Jury by Magistrate DOOLEY.
Accused By Blind Man Of Withholding Pension
George WILLIAMS, colored, totally blind, was the complainant in the Gates
avenue court to-day against John CORNEL, also colored, of 1784 Atlantic avenue,
with whom WILLIAMS lives and whom he charges with unlawfully retaining $33, part
of his pension fund. WILLIAMS claimed that he had given CORNEL $33 to hold for
him and when he asked for it CORNEL refused to part with the cash.
CORNEL claimed that WILLIAMS was a boarder at his house and that he owed the
money for back board bills. He was held in $100 bail for further examination.
17 November 1906
December Wedding
Cards have been sent out for the wedding of Miss Emmie HAND, of 1559
St. Marks Avenue, and Max SHIEDLE, of Manhattan. The ceremony will be
performed by Rabbi RABINOVITZ, on Sunday evening, Dec. 16, in Metropolitam
Saenger Hall. Miss HAND is a member of several social and charity
organizations of Brownsville. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in
the banquet hall, after which the young couple will depart for a short honeymoon.
Four Men Injured by Collapse of Wall
Report That Many Had Been Killed Drew Big Eastern District Crowd
Four men were injured in a cave-in of a foundation wall at 38 Leonard
street this forenoon. They are Thomas DEMARO, 43 years old, of 221 North
Seventh street, internal injuries, probable fracture of the skull and
contusions about the body; Adam REINGOLD, 28 years old, of 216 East Third
street, Manhattan, cuts on the face, legs and arms, and Tony AHRENS and
Joseph MUNSON, both of 34 Withers street, who sustained painful contusions.
The four laborers were members of a gang of twenty-five working on the
foundation of what is to be a double-decker tenement house, to occupy 36 and
38 Leonard street, corner of Seigel, now being built by Morris DENBROWSKY. A
half dozen of the workingmen were placing props in position against the stone
foundation of a frame building abutting on the lot, for the purpose of
shoring it up until sufficient of the new foundation should be built to act
as an adequate support for the frame building.
Shortly after 11 o'clock, as the men were straining every effort to
prop up the foundation of No. 34, the wall caved in. The men scattered in all
directions, shouting in Italian. Four of them were caught and pinioned under
the stones. They were dragged out after a few moments work.
In less than five minutes a crowd of fully six-hundred men had
assembled from the thick populated Jewish section, and calls were sent in to
the Stagg street station for the reserves, and another to St. Catherine's
Hospital for an ambulance. It was rumored that a building had caved in and
scores of persons hurt.
DEMARO and REINGOLD were taken to the hospital by Dr. FILLMORE. The
crowd was dispersed, orders were issued by the police for the tenants to
vacate the frame house, and the Building Department was notified.
Lid Off; Coal Gas Overcomes Girl
Miss Duda SHESKER, 25 years old, of 677 Knickerbocker avenue,
accidentally left the lid off the kitchen stove last night before retiring.
She was found this morning in an adjoining room overcome by the coal gas
fumes. She was taken to St. Catherine's Hospital, where she is in a serious
condition.
Man Who Wore Gems Punched An Inspector
Henry C. FLOGEL, who had a big roll of bills and wore a diamond scarf
pin and a diamond ring, smilingly paid a $10 fine imposed by Magistrate
GEISMAR to-day in the Adams street court on the admission of disorderly
conduct. Arthur A. HASTINGS, a railroad inspector, employed on the Broadway
Bridge, made a charge of assault against FLOGEL last night, but changed the
accusation to disorderly conduct to-day.
FLOGEL was on a bridge car coming toward Brooklyn at 11 o'clock last
night. His language was such that HASTINGS ordered him off the car. As he
left the car, it is alleged, he struck HASTINGS on the nose with his fist. He
was arrested by Bridge Policeman Luke B. DURYEA.
FLOGEL, who said he lived in First avenue, Manhattan, admitted that
he had been drinking and used bad language.
Blew Dog's Head Off With Old Musket
White Bull on the Bridge Had a Fit and Frightened Walkers
If it had not been for an old army musket, which Patrick FLYNN keeps
in the small shelter near the Manhattan tower of the Brooklyn Bridge for
emergency, several persons might have been seriously injured this morning
when a white bulldog tried to bite every one within reach on the Bridge
promenade.
About 9 o'clockthe "cop" was standing near the Manhattan tower when he
heard a woman scream and looking around saw a crowd of pedestrians huddled
near the railing about a hundred yards away from him. He ran up to see what
was the cause of the disturbance, and what he saw made him draw his
revolver, for lying on the ground was a large white bulldog evidently in a
fit and foaming at the mouth. The first shot FLYNN fired hit the dog in the
ear and evidently brought it to life, for the animal jumped up with a snarl
and made for the officer, who fired again. The shot went wild, and the dog
began to run down the promenade toward Manhattan with the officer in pursuit.
FLYNN kept on firing and when he had exhausted his ammunition thought of his
musket and made for the shelter. Fortunately when the dog reached a spot near
the shelter it had another fit. This gave FLYNN time to secure his gun, and
with one shot he blew the animal's head off.
No one seemed to know where the animal came from. Some say it was seen
coming from Brooklyn.
Rival Barber In Jail As A Thrower
Frank PASSANNANTI, of 734 Flushing avenue, was arrested to-day under
an indictment charging him with having thrown a bomb into the barber shop of
Frank MESSINEO, of 280 Bushwick avenue, at 2 o'clock on the morning of Nov.
4. He was committed to Raymond street jail and will be arraigned Monday
morning.
PASSANNANTI at one time was employed by MESSINEO, but owing to a
disagreement opened a shop of his own at 734 Flushing avenue, and shortly
afterward MESSINEO began to receive threatening letters demanding $1,500 the
writer declaring that a member of the gangg was in jail and they wanted
$5,000 for his defense of which sum $3,500 already had been raised.
Threats of blowing up MESSINEO's shop were made, and on the night of
the explosion the shock was so great that nearly every window in the vicinity
was smashed and two men standing half a block away were knocked to the ground.
Bensonhurst Man Gives Cat Funeral
Henry DREYER, proprietor of a hotel in Bay Thirty-second street,
Bensonhurst, invited his friends to view the body of his "late departed
companion Abbey Dreyer" yesterday.
The expressed surprise, knowing DREYER as a confirmed bachelor. When
they arrived at the hotel they saw no emblem of death on the door nor any
sign of mourning within.
DREYER met them and insisted that his company should eat, drink and be
merry. He then conducted them to the bier of Miss Abbey, an aged Maltese cat,
which had been in the DREYER household seven years. Abbey was laid out in a
tiny white casket which reposed in the middle of the room. At the head of the
casket stood four lighted candles. A silver plate bore the inscription,
"Abbey, at rest."
DREYER and this cat had been inseperable friends. Abbey followed her
master like a dog, and always slept at the foot of his bed. She died
yesterday from poison. Grieved at the death of his four-legged friend, DREYER
determined to give the animal a funeral.
Detective Had Narrow Escape From Death
Morris ELISCHER, who says he lives at 268 Avenue B, was arrested last
night and identified to-day as one of the men who tried to rob a woman in her
home at 140 Henry street, Manhattan, last week. When Detective DUGGAN grabbed
ELISCHER at Fourteenth street and Second avenue, there was a scuffle and
ELISCHER tried to shoot DUGGAN. He pulled the trigger of his revolver twice,
but it missed fire.
Refuses To Support His Mother-In-Law
In the Manhatten avenue court to-day Mrs. Rachel LEVISON had her
husband on a charge of abandonment and non-support, and when LEVISON told his
story to Magistrate O'REILLY the latter sagely remarked: "Yes, yes, the old
story-the deviltry of a mother-in-law."
Mrs. LEVISON, who said that she and her husband were married five
months ago in Toronto, Canada, coming to Brooklyn in September, is a handsome
brunette. LEVISON is a baker. They live in Bushwick avenue, near Grand
street. He is willing to support his wife but objects to supporting her
mother. He was held in $300 bail for further examination on Monday.
Like Pickled Peaches
If one does not happen to have any pickled peaches for the Christmas
dinner she can make so excellent a substitute as to deceive an epicure. Take
a pound and a half of sugar and a half cup of vinegar, and boil them with a
tablespoon of whole cloves tied in a bag and three sticks of cinnamon. When
the sugar is dissolved and the syrup has cooked five minutes, drop in some
large fine apples, peeled, cored, and quartered, only enough to fill the
surface of the syrrup well; cook them until they are transparent, and take
them out on a skimmer. Cook the syrup down till it is thick annd pour it over
them. - Harper's Bazaar
East New Yorkers Want SCHENCK Mansion Saved
Will Urge That Historic Building Be Kept in New Park as Museum
It was evident from the tone expressed at last night's meeting of the
Twenty-sixth Ward Board of Trade, held in Penn-Fulton Hall, that no more bona
fide landmarks in East New York will be removed without the citizens stirring
up heaven and earth to prevent it. The matter came up when Mr. WESTON called
attention to the fact that Park Commissioner KENNEDY had made a remark to two
members of the board that he considered that no house now standing on the
strip of land the city recently acquired for park purposes, adjoining
Highland Park, was of enough value to render it worth while to keep it in
repair, and so the Commissioner thought the best thing to do was to tear down
all these houses. It happens that one of these houses is the old SCHENCK
mansion, which, Mr. WESTON declared was more than 250 years old, and might be
as old as 300 years. While this house was never occupied by Gen. WASHINGTON,
so far as any positive proof can be had, Mr. WESTON said it had been
established that some of Washington's officers had it for their quarters
there, and after the retreat of the American army from Long Island in the
Revolution, the British and Hessian officers had it for their headquarters.
Mr. WESTON said this mansion was really about the only one of the landmarks
left to East New Yorkk in the march of progress, and on Mr. WESTON's motion a
resolution was unanimously adopted to the effect that this building should be
preserved in this new park, where it could be used as a museum or for other
purposes, as the house itself was in a fairly good state of preservation.
18 November 1906
Last Chance To Save Old SCHENCK Homestead
Park Commissioner KENNEDY has appointed Tuesday, at the Litchfield
Mansion, Prospect Park, as the time and place for a hearing upon the matter
of preserving the old SCHENCK homestead, in Highland Park.
As this property is advertised for sale at public auction on Nov. 28,
it is of the utmost importance to all who have interested themselves in the
matter of saving this quaint old building, which is said to be 300 years old.
A. H. WESTON, known in East New York and adjacent communities as the
"father of Highland Park," has sent out notices of the meeting and East New
Yorkers are urged to either attend the hearing or write Mr. KENNEDY.
Happy Family Reunion in East New York
Monday night at their residence, 187 New Jersey avenue, Mr. and Mrs.
John F. FLYNN celebrated their silver wedding. Many relatives and friends
joined in makin the event a happy one, and an elaborate musical programme
affoeded sufficient entertainment to compel the wishes on the paart of the
guests that the hosts might celebrate the golden anniversary equally well
when it should come around. There were a nu mber of talented musicians in the
party, and they vied with the orchestra in rendering the most praisewworthy
relections.
The house was fancifully , yet tastefully, decorated from top to
bottom. Not the least among the enjoyable features of the evening was the
elaborate supper that was spread. There were, of course, dozens of handsome
gifts. Among those present were Mrs. S. E. TRASK,
Miss Mary E. TRASK,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GREEN,
Mrs. G. N. LENFESTER,
Miss Maud PURTELL,
Miss Annette HARRIGAN,
Alexander PROCTOR,
Robert TRASK,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey COTY,
Mr. MARTIN,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert JACOBS,
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. HEBB,
Miss M. L. HEBB,
Mr. and Mrs. DAVENPORT,
Miss Jessie CHECKLEY,
Bert SMITH,
John FREDLAND,
Mrs. Amy STOKER,
Miss Ruth STOKER,
the Misses Anna, Edna, Dorothy, Alice and Ethel FLYNN,
and John and Arthur FLYNN.
Boy Who Went To Two Schools Has Vanished
Henry WERNER, of 189 Sands street, a pupil at Public School 1, at
Concord and Adams street, is missing from home. A short while ago his father
was surprised to learn that Henry had been attending both day and night
school since the beginning of the school year. At first he was regarded as a
precocious pupil, who seldom studied. He was rated at the head of his class.
Mr. WERNER had no idea that his son was performing double school
duties until he received a notice yesterday that if Henry wished to continue
at the head of his class in night school, he had better review his studies at
the earliest opportunity.
A week ago Peter WALSH, of 148 Nassau street, a chum of the missing
boy, met him on Court street. Henry said he was looking for work. He has been
missing about three weeks.This the second time that he has run away from home.
Boy Accused Of Highway Robbery
Harry NEWMAN, an errand boy, 16 years old, who gave his address as 62
Eldridge street, Manhattan, was arrested yesterday afternoon by local
headquarters' detectives, on complaint of Mamie CASSIDY, of 1050 Fifty-ninth
street, who said he snatched her pocketbook while she was walking on Fulton
street. The pocketbook was thrown away by NEWMAN, it is claimed, while he was
running away from the police. The accused was locked up in the Adams street
station on a charge of highway robbery.
Youths Held For Train Rowdyism
Three Kensington youths were arrested yesterday afternoon, charged
with dissorderly conduct on a Culver line car. They are Joseph URELL, 17
years old, of 420 Avenue E; Langdon GARNER, 17 years old, of 214 Avenue E ,
and Archibald BOYD, 17 years old, of 711 East Third street. They were
arrested on complaint of Stephen FITZGERALD, a guard employed by the B. R. T.
FITZGERALD said the lads boarded his car at Bridge street and
congregated on the rear platform, where, he alleged, they raised a
disturbance, singing, dancing, using profane language, and finally breaking a
window. Their cases will probably be heard before Magistrate TIGHE in the
Butler court to-day.
19 November 1906
Police Search In Vain For Abducted Girl
Two Women and Three Men Charged With Knowledge of Her Whereabouts
For almost two weeks the police of the Hamilton avenue station have
been endeavering to locate Annie GOTTAPLANE, the 17-year-old girl who it is
charged was spirited away from the home of her parents, at 149 Broome street,
Manhattan, and taken to a house of ill repute at 206 Hamilton avenue.
In the Butler street court to-day Jennie GOTTAPLANE, the mother of the
girl, appeared as complainant against two women and three men, whom she
charged with having to do with the girl's abduction. The defendants were
Samuel BOOKMAN, 22 years old, of 227 Rivington street, Manhattan; Freda
SIEGAL, 29 of 36 Stanton street, Manhattan; Mary BATTENELLI, of 206 Hamilton
avenue; Nicholas SAMONA, of the same address, and "Tony" MURI, of 200
Hamilton avenue.
BOOKMAN and the SIEGAL woman were each held in $1,000 bail for
examination, charged with abduction, and the others were held in $200 each,
charged with harboring a minor in a disorderly house.
The girl disappeared from her home Nov.7 and was located at 206
Hamilton avenue on the following Friday night.
When detectives went there the next day she had disappeard again. As
yet they have not found the girl, and they believe she is being held in some
Italian colony until the affair blows over.
Trouble Piles Up For Man Wife Accused
When summoned before Magistrate NAUMER in the Myrtle avenue court this
morning on a complaint of not supporting his wife, William RYAN, 42 years
old, a bartender of 686 Sackett street, became so violent that at the order
of the magistrate it took five court officers to put him in the pen to cool
off. Later, when he had calmed down somewhat, he was brought up again and
held in $1,000 bail for the Special Sessions on a charge of disorderly
conduct and for good measure was also given "$10 or ten days" for
intoxication.
Woman Screams And Sleuths Get Burglar
Christopher CHRISTENSON, 32 years old, of 132 Maryland place,
literally fell into the hands of the police last night and in consequence
was held in $1,500 bail in the Butler street court to-day charged with
attempted burglary.
While Mrs. Alice McGUIRE was sitting home alone in her home at 99
Fifteenth street last night, she heard someone enter the hall by way of the
window from the fire escape. She crept quietly to the door and saw a burglar.
He saw her at the same time and ordered her to be still, but she screamed and
the man fled.
Detectives FENNELL and HUSSEY heard her cries and ran up in time to
see CHRISTENSON on the fire escape. As he dropped they captured him. At the
station house two jimmies, a sheath-knife and twenty-eight pawn tickets were
taken from him.
Lineman Falls Forty Feet From a Pole
While climbing a pole in front of 220 Wyckoff avenue to-day, William
McFADDEN, a New York and New Jersey Telephone Company lineman, fell to the
ground, forty feet. He received a possible fracture of the skull and
concussion on the brain. He was taken to the German Hospital in a critical
condition. He is 26 years old and lives at 49 Albany avenue.
Two Supposed Italian Blackmailers Held
Pasquale CHRISTIANO, 22 years old, of Harrisburg, Pa., and Luigi
MAZZITELLI, 27 years, of 238 Columbia street, were held in $500 bail, on a
charge of blackmail made by Mizabbelli DONATI, of 98 Skillman street, for
examination to-morrow, by Magistrate O'REILLY in the Myrtle avenue court.
They were arrested Saturday night by Capt. REYNOLDS, of the Flushing avenue
station, at Bedford and Flushing avenue, where they threatened to shoot the
complainant if he refused to give them $500, it is claimed.
Mounted "Cop" In Mile Chase For Runaway
A horse attached to a sulkey and owned and driven by Walter BENNETT,
of 258 Conover street, ran away on Ocean Parkway, at Avenue O, yesterday. He
was stopped by Mounted Patrolman John O'BYRNE, of the Coney Island station
after a mile chase. BENNETT was thrown out, but was unhurt.
Claims She Was Thrown In River
Mary O'CONNOR Tells Strange Stories To Physicians In Hospital
Says Assailants Beat Her
Then Denies All and Delclares It Was Accidental
The many different statements by Mary O'CONNOR, the domestic who was
rescued from the East River at the foot of North Eighth street early
yesterday morning, have caused the detectives of the Bedford avenue station
to begin a rigid investigation. The woman's condition in the hospital is
serious. Her entire body is a mass of bruises, both her eyes are blackened
and she has a deep gash in the back of her head. She is unable to tell how
she received there injuries. Thomas SHORTELL, the fireman who rescued the
woman from the dock says he heard no talk on the dock before he saw the woman
in the river.
It was at first thought that the woman had attempted suicide. Fireman
SHORTELL, who is assigned to the fire boat, David A. BOODY, at the foot of
North Eighth street, heard a splash, and when he ran to the dock he saw a
form in the water. SHORTELL threw off his coat and dived into the river. When
he reached the form in the water he discovered that it was the O'CONNOR
woman, and he got hold of her. She struggled with SHORTELL and tried to free