Curran Committee Report on Police Bureaus Sparks Strife
Section 3 of Curran Aldermanic Police Investigation Committee’s final report accuses the Detective Bureau of corruption and framing burglaries. Deputy Commissioner Dougherty denounces the findings as politics while urging reform proposals for the entire Police Department and calls for civilian control of many staff roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curran Aldermanic Police Investigating Committee
Henry H. Curran
Tammany
Dougherty
Detective Bureau
Surgical Bureau
Esterbrook
Alderman Shipley
Tammany Group
Alderoorn Curran
Folks
Hamilton
Shipley
Curran
Benjamin Levy
Baker
Waldo
Department of Bridges
Police Department
Bureau of Repairs and Supplies
School For Recruits
Telegraph Bureau
Proprty
Mt Sinai Expands With New Buildings Funded by Lewisohn
Trustees of Mt Sinai Hospital acquire two five story houses at 21 and 23 East Ninety Ninth Street from Max S Korn to enlarge the block bounded by Fifth and Madison Aves and Ninety Ninth and Tenth Streets. Adolph Lewisohn funds the project. New facilities will include a pathological laboratory a children s dispensary a children s hospital and a special clinical building designed by Arthur W Brunner. Construction will connect to the old structures via a tunnel and could start after summer plans are drawn.
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Mt. Sinai Hospital
Adolph Lewisohn
Ninety-ninth Street
Max S. Korn
Fifth and
Madison Avenues
Ninety-ninth and
10Th Streets
Madison Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Arthur W. Brunner
Unnel
LITTmAN PROMOTION CASE CALLED TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
Gov Sulzer asked Attorney General Carmody to probe Samuel Littman a Brooklyn lawyer who alleges Col Henry Barthman of the Forty seventh Regiment denied him promotion from First Sergeant to Second Lieutenant on racial grounds. A hearing is set for June 19. The Brith Abra ham Grand Master Justice Leon Sanders urged the inquiry at a recent city convention. Littman resigned from the National Guard in February after eight years of service.
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Gov. Sulzer
Municipal
Leon Sarders
Carmody
Samuel Littman
de Kalb Avenue
Brooklyn
Henry C. Barthman
Forty-seventh Regiment
National Guard
Independent Order of Brith Abraham
Justice Sanders
Littman
Convict Dows with Suspended Sentence at Trial
David Dows faced trial for assault on Alva Johnston of The New York Times in a case that featured character witnesses including Frank H. Platt and Ogden Mills Reid. The court convicted but suspended sentence, releasing him conditional on good behavior for one year.
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David Dows
Court of Special Sessions
Alva Johnston
New York Times
Johnston
Dows
James R. Ely
Witesses
Frank H. Platt
Senator Platt
Ogden Mills Reid
Whitelaw Reid
James E. Smith
Mr. Ely
Mr. Smith
Ely
Pratt
Justice Zeller
Deuel and McInerney
Smith
Mr. Dows
Madison Square Garden
Mr. Johnston
Mr. Johnston Hs
Yale student Dows named in court dispute with civil action urged
The court heard a case involving Mr. Dows, a 1908 Sheffield Scientific School alumnus of Yale, with Justice Zellerae noting civil action as appropriate. Dows’s friends and character witnesses left as the matter remained unsettled. Mrs. Dows is identified as Gwendolyn Burden.
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Justice Zellerae
Suly
Meadow Bronx
New York
Dows
Gwendolyn Burden
Goodale Frightens Women With Diagonal Balloon Flight
Aviator Goodale piloted the Pali sade dirigible from Palisades Park across the Hudson to Times Square then downtown over the Astor roof during the New York Federation of Women's Clubs Summer reception. The balloon dipped near spectators and gusts sent it off course before returning to safety. Thousands watched the dramatic display.
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Frank Goodale
Palisades Park
Hudson
New Jersey
129Th Street
Goodaie
New York
Seventy-second Street
New York Federation of Women’s Clubs
Hotel Astor
Goodale
Times
Times Square
Fiftieth Street
Astor
Palisade
Empire Hotel
Printer Milward Arrested in West Side Burglar Gang
Walter Milward a printer of 2474 Eighth Avenue was arrested as the suspected leader of a burglary gang active on the upper west side and Harlem. He and accomplices James Bentz Frank Brandin and May Walsh are accused in a May 5 break in at Gibson of Hoffman Arms Fifty ninth Street and Madison Avenue with $1000 in valuables taken. Bentz Brandin and Walsh are held on $2500 bail for examination next Monday. Detectives Donnelly L Heureud and Quinn say the gang used hangers to carry out numerous burglaries.
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Walter Milward
Eighth Avenue
Upper West Side
Harlem
West 100Th Street
James Bentz
Frank Brandin
May Walsh
Gibson
Hoffman Arms
Fifty-ninth Street
Madison Avenue
Bentz
Brandin
West Side Court
Donnelly
L’heureud
Quinn
West named chauffeurs in fatal accidents in Manhattan area
A seven year old boy, Peter Dobbs Jr., died after being struck by a car driven by William H. West of Manhattan. Police linked other incidents to drivers named West and Wey, including Walter West and two injured riders on Pelham Parkway. Minie Goldberg was injured by Frank Timmers in the Bronx with skull fracture suspected. No arrests reported.
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Amsterdam Avenue
Manhattan Street
Peter Dobbs, Jr
West 133d
J. Hood Wright Hospital
William H. West
West Sixty-ninth Street
Republic Motorcar Company
Fifty-seventh Street
Seventh Avenue
Joseph E. Ward
Charles Welch
Rochelle Park
New Rochelle
Pelham Parkway
City Island Road
Walter West
Liberty Motorcar Company
Eleventh Avenue
Wey
First Avenue
Seventieth Street
Minnie Goldberg
Bayard Street
Frank Timmers
Dawson Street
Bronx
Hast River
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Laos
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MT. Sinai
99Th Street
Littman Inquiry
Sulzer
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Stern
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Norfolk
Palisades Aviator
Remsen St
B’kiyn
Holmes Protective Agency
Norman
East Seventy-third Street
East Sixty-seventh Street
Michael McGarry
Hapgood
Fr. M.gidding & Co
Fifth Avena
O'Neill-Adams
Sixth Avenue
Aldus Shakespeare
Our Sein
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Charles Dickens
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