Rader recounts wagon thieves network and police links
Mrs. Isidore Rader, wife of a confessed wagon thief leader, met with Assistant District Attorney Moscowitz to add details of payments to police. She accused officers of corruption, while authorities say Rader controlled the theft ring and reduced robberies by 90 percent after his arrest. Four associates and several receivers named, including firms on Eldridge Street and in Rockaway, N J, are identified as part of the scheme.
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Columbia Street
Moscowitz
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Moe Rader
Mr. Moscowitz
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Rockaway
N. J
Lower Broadway
Orchard Street
Rivington and
Delancey Streets
Sexton
Crain
Zerillo
Seaman Kills Self After Refusal to Return to Ship
In Savannah this morning T Eaton a sailor aboard the U S S Tacoma killed himself in a public square rather than be arrested for deserting his vessel. Surrounded by captors he drew a revolver and died within minutes after pressing the weapon to his chest and uttering defiant words about tea.
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Bavannah
T. Eaton
U. S.S. Tacoma
Walsh Funeral Held For Ex Police Captain
The body of ex Police Captain Thomas W. Walsh was buried at Calvary Cemetery after a mass at All Saints Church. District Attorney Whitman attended at Mrs Walsh’s request and praised Walsh for his service to the community. The service drew relatives, department officers, and about 400 mourners.
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Thomas W. Walsh
Harlem
Penitentiary
Calvary Cemetery
All Saints Cheurch
Madison Avenue
120Th Street
Whitman
Mail truck blast sparks Fifth Avenue fire scare
A United States mail van on its way to Grand Central exploded near Thirty third Street and Fifth Avenue startling shoppers. Driver Joseph Stewart extinguished the flames with sand after a carburetor leak caused the blast. No mail pouches were damaged and the engine was ruined.
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Fifth Avenue
Thirty-third Street
United States Mail
Grand Central Terminal
Joseph Stewart
Waldorf
Kennedy
Stewart
Court House Board Faces Design Clash Over Lowell Plan
The Court House Board discussed Supreme Court criticisms of Lowell’s circular design, with no reply issued yet and a committee to meet critics. The board hopes Borough President McAneny and Controller Prendergast attend. Separately, award delays on property condemnation and court site limits justify postponing a $6,000,000 award as city finances tighten. Justice Goff issued an injunction over a sidewalk area near Hallenbeck Printing to protect a $40,000 damage suit related to subway work.
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Supreme Court
Om. Lowell
Lowell
Court House Board
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Prendergast
Board of Estimate
Abram Ilkus
James J. Coogan
Henry Schneider
Court House Committee
Goff
Hallenbeck Printing
Public Service Commission
City
Bradley Contracting Company
Hallenbeck
Resolutions Defend Yosemite Park From City of San Francisco
The New York Zoological Society executive committee met at 11 Wall Street and adopted resolutions opposing surrender of Yosemite National Park to San Francisco. They argued the park is dedicated to the people of the United States, and its loss would harm the nation.
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New York Zoological Society
Wall Street
San Francisco
Yomame National Park
United States
Sierras
Beecher Centenary Observances Mark Beecher Birth
In Brooklyn ceremonies at the Beecher statue in front of Plymouth Church hall flowers were laid by the Henry Ward Beecher Mission Band committee and an American flag placed atop the statue by Mrs. Horatio C. King. Grace Hornby and Clara King Litchfield served on the committee as a Beecher memorial building rises on Orange Street nearby for a fall centenary celebration.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Beecher
Brooklyn Erwke Yy Hall
Plymouth
Rockefeller Arrives in Cleveland for Summer at Forest Hill
John D. Rockefeller arrived in Cleveland to spend the summer at his Forest Hill home. He was accompanied by Mrs Rockefeller, her sister Miss Lucy Spelman, and a squad of servants.
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Cleveland
John PD Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Mrs. Rockefeller
Lucy Spelman
Police Save Tenants From Fire In Brooklyn Tenement
Police from Gates Avenue station earned praise after rescuing twelve people from a three story tenement at Tompkins and Greene Avenues. Sergt Hugh Reynolds alerted residents and helped supply a canvas sheet lifesaving net for dropping children to safety. Fire damaged the building about seven thousand dollars.
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Brooklyn
Tompkins and
Greene Avenues
Sergt
Hugh Reynolds
Henry Leeder
Patrick Shanley
Abraham Hoch
Ben In Hoch
Mary Hoch
Benjamin
Harry Freedman
Sergt. Reynolds
Shoemaker Fined in City Court for Kicking Terrier
Gaspar Rotolo of 202 West Eighty fourth Street appeared before Magistrate Corrigan on a complaint by Mrs. Rubie Johnson of 203 West Eighty fourth Street alleging he kicked her small bull terrier Rex and bruised her arm. Rex reportedly ate only ladyfingers. Rotolo claimed the dog caused the mishap. The court fined Rotolo one dollar, finding no justification for kicking the dog or injuring the owner.
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West Side
Gaspar Rotolo
West Eighty-fourth Street
Corrigan
Rubie Johnson
Rex
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Open Bids for Subway Section in Brooklyn Transit Project
Bids were opened by the Public Service Commission for the Broadway subway between Houston and Bleecker Streets and the southern end of Union Square. Nine firms submitted proposals ranging from 2.58 to 3.05 million dollars, with Dock Contractor Company likely to receive the award after engineer review.
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Public Service Commission
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Broadway
Houston
Bleecker Streets
Union Square
Trinity Place
Morris Street
Blecker Streets
Dock Contractor Company
Rector Street
New York City
Oscar Daniels Company
Degnon Contracting Company
Wall Street
Underpinning and Foundation Company
New York
CUE
Sgree Mason & Hanger Company
van Co
Fourth Avenue
Booth & Flynn
Ciity
J. F. Cogan Company
Woolworth Building
Segregation of Feeble‑M minded Children Urged by Alienist
Dr Henry H Goddard at a Chicago convention argues that slow and weak minded children should be segregated and given special education to curb crime He claims 25 percent of criminals 50 percent of prostitutes and 70 percent of reform institution inmates come from mentally deficient backgrounds and urges early separation.
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Chicago
Henry H. Goddard
Vineland
N. J
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