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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
14
In a stalled session the Craig and Committee hear petitions from New York Public Library and Zodllogich Gardens workers about higher pay. Mayor Absent. the 20 percent plan faces opposition as board members debate equitable schedules and impact on city departments and education staff.
Seventeen year old Angres employed by Bob Smith & 1 manufacturers was held up in the hallway of the firm’s East Sixteenth Street branch and robbed of a weekly payroll of 1400 dollars. Two men bound him, gagged him and tied him to a standpipe before fleeing. Police reported no immediate information. Also reported is the death of Jacob Numay, 28, from wood alcohol poisoning at Gouverneur Hospital after collapsing in his room on Madison Street.
District Attorney investigators questioned Miss Anderson and a woman known as the woman in gray in connection with Elwell death. Testimony from Jacob Wagstatt placed her at several Madison Avenue locations after the luncheon before Elwell’s demise. Worries persist over possible future testimony and privacy protections for innocent acquaintances as officers pursue leads and examine multiple witnesses across New York.
A race track man is accused of failing to share profits from horse sales and for help in the deal. A man named Hardy says the story she repeated came from a newspaper. The dispute centers on a $5,600 sale and promised profits that allegedly were not honored.
About two hundred families were ordered from tenements on Proome Watts and Thomps Street after a powerful gas fumes entered the area. Firemen and police sealed the streets, evacuated residents, and investigated a seven story warehouse at 521 Broome Street where a three and a half foot high container released the fumes. Consolidated Gas Company experts were summoned to identify the gas as patrols and rescue units remained on scene for hours. Several firemen were hospitalized after exposure and four people were treated at Vincent's Hospital.
Four men escaped from Ellis Island by squeezing through a washroom window on the third floor. They rappelled to a ledge, lowered themselves to the ground, and boarded the Willam C. Moore. Authorities did not release names, but one is said to be an ex convict, another German, one a stowaway, and the fourth a Spaniard with passport.
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