Fatal shooting at meeker avenue boarding house in williamsburg
Gustave Gehring shot widow Anna Fox 45 then was shot by her son Charles Fox printer. Gehring wounded and in hospital, the Fox son arrested. Neighbors crowded as police and clergy attended the scene on 178 Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn.
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Anna Fox
Meeker Avenue
Williamsburg
Gustave Gehring
Kingsland Avenue
Sean Gehring
Jacob Wester
Ali
Gehring
Fox
Wester
Mrs. Fox
Gehring Bean
Butt Fox
Board
Dillon
Gehri
Herbert Street
Putnam Avenue
Queens
Abolish Sing Sing Urged by Prison Association
The Prison Association of New York calls for closing Sing Sing and replacing it with a farm industrial prison. The sixty ninth annual report proposes a State prison system with progression through conditions, honors, and self support. It discusses women felons at Valatie, road work with Wingdale, and a custodial asylum for delinquents, plus administration reforms to cut political influence. Officers include Eugene Smith president and Robert W de Forest among leaders.
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Sing Sing
Prison Association of
New York
Prison Association
State Farm
Wingdale
Dutchess County
Eugene Smith
David H. Greer
Felix Adler
Robert W. de Forest
Eugene A. Philbin
Jacob H. Schiff
Thomas Matt Osborne
John Seely
Ward
Creature Sawyer
O. F. Lewis
Stamford Homicide Theorized as Ballou Murder
Police strengthen theory Waldo R Ballou was killed in Mrs Helen Angle s apartment after gray hairs from Ballou were found on a bloodstained skirt. Investigators say Ballou carried head wrapped in the skirt to the second floor landing, with blood on stairs suggesting a fatal blow occurred in Angles rooms. Recovering witness Mrs Angle may testify at the inquest as Crown officials guard the skirt and await Dr Weaver s confirmation of blood stains.
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Waldo R. Ballou
Helen M. Angle
Brennan
Ballou
Mr. Ballou
Mr. Ballout
Mrs. Angle
Angle
Homer S. Cummings
Angie
Bruce 3S. Weaver
New York
Weaver
Jerseyman Arrests Two Men After Ferryhouse Robbery
Joseph Clark and Frank Morrison were arrested at West Forty-seventh Street Station after being accused by John Corleff of West New York of helping him up near the West Forty second Street Ferryhouse, stealing 75 dollars and assaulting him. A third man fled as police intervened.
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Joseph Clark
West Forty-fifth Street
Manhattan
Frank Morrison
Jackson Avenue
West New York
N. J
West Forty-seventh Street
John Corleff
Corleff
Oliser
Held in Rhinelander Case Forces Chauffeur Arrest
Police recovered part of stolen goods from the Rhinelander home at 31 East Seventy-second Street. Francis Glass, a chauffeur of 1,237 Avenue A, was arrested for receiving stolen property and jailed at East Sixty-seventh Street Station. Items also linked to Otto Horowitz’s home at 1060 East Seventy-third Street. Two men in Rockland County confessed entry to Rhinelander residence and aided Glass's arrest.
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Laura V. Rhinelander
East Seventy-second Street
Francis Glass
Avenue A
Glass
East Sixty-seventh Street
Europe
Crass
Ward
Marino
Juvenile Police Target East Side Business Hangouts
Seventy six candy shop and restaurant proprietors met with East Side Protective Association head Harry Schlaeht at 1 Avenue B after Juvenile Police flagged their venues as hangouts for youths misusing time. He warned they could face District Attorney action if conditions did not improve, while owners pledged to help stop youths and gangsters from gathering and to report violations.
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Harry H. Sehlacht
East Side Protective Association
Avenue B
Schlaeht
Suspected Jersey City gangster shot in hospital
George M. McAlvanah of 32 High Street Jersey City was brought to City Hospital by five men with a thigh wound. He said he was shot late Saturday defending a woman near a hall. police found no shooting at the hall. Special Officer Reddy reported three shots by a gang who attacked him with bricks on Fifth Street below the same hall. McAlvanah remained in custody pending investigation.
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George M. McAlvanah
High Street
Jersey City
Summit Avenue
Reddy
Erie Railroad
Fifth Street
McAlvanah
Detective Offices Sought in Long Island City
Police Commissioner Woods travels to Long Island City this week to select an office for the branch Detective Bureau under the new system to take effect July 1 citywide. Capt. Herbert Graham, former Hunter's Point Station commander, will head the L I City HQ likely near the Queensboro Bridge plaza.
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Woods
Long Island City
Herbert Graham
Hunter's Point
Queensboro Bridge Plaza
Slayer Now Arrested as Thief
Gustave Denzer of 404 East Forty second Street was arrested at police headquarters for attempted grand larceny. He previously jailed for murder of 5 year old Gertrude Hyland, later given new trial, convicted of manslaughter and released on split terms. Police found him attempting to saw lead pipe in a cellar at 147 Amsterdam Avenue.
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Gustave Denzer
East Forty-second Street
Gertrude Hyland
McAllister
West Sixty-eighth Street
Denzer
Amsterdam Avenue
Driver Gillen Poisoned With Iodine On Seventeenth Street
Harry Gillen a driver was offered a drink by a stranger and given iodine to swallow. He was found ill about an hour later on the doorstep at 630 East Seventeenth Street. Dr. Williams of Bellevue Hospital treated him and said he will recover after a few days.
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630 East
Seventeenth Street
Harry Gillen
Dr. Williams
Bellevue Hospital
Gillen
Increase in New York Delinquency and Broken Homes Peak
A report by the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions shows 14,969 children charged with delinquency in 1913, with more than a third from broken homes. Manhattan and Kings County saw large crime increases. juvenile cases dominated by group activity and moral offenses. The study highlights labor, sanitary, and health code violations, plus expanded probation and penalties for neglecting children.
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Court of Special Sessions
Five Boroughs
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Kings County
New York
Manhattan Children’s Court
Queens
Richmond
Max G. Schlapp
Columbia University
Binet
Schlapp
Frank W. Smith
Special Sessions
Committee On Criminal Courts
The
Charity Organization Society
Dennis A. Lambert
Manhattan Children's Court
Robberies at Rockaway target cottages along the shore
William Trokie of 428 Broadway and family were told by a maid that burglars had struck their Rockaway Head residence during bathing. Jewelry worth about 1300 dollars vanished. Earlier, Nora De Hart’s cottage on Maple Place suffered a theft of a gold watch a diamond pin and a bracelet valued at 100 dollars. Police pursued two well dressed suspects seen with two girls but the pair escaped.
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William Trokie
Excelsior Pad Company
Broadway
South Park Avenue
Arverne
Anna
Trokle Cottage
Maple Place
Rockaway Head
Burglars Take $75 From Bronx Church Poor Box
Rev Pasquale Maltese reports burglars entered Mt Anthony Catholic Church on Commonwealth Avenue in the Bronx overnight or Sunday morning. They smashed the poor box before the statue of St Anthony and removed about $75, gaining entry by forcing a side door.
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Pasquale Maltese
Mt. Anthony
Commonwealth Avenue
Mansion Street
Bronx
Bronx Park
St. Anthony
Mother Maltese
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