Show LONG ROLL Of PREY PIThY UN IN CRIME WAVE IN N OLD NEW NEW YORK Aug 8 A 8 A partial listIs list listis listis is here given of the feminine victims victim of the tidal wave of assault that has been sweeping over the five five boroughs of New y rk Most of them are children children chil chil- dren then ranging in ago from 5 to 12 years A mite of a a. girl 4 years old was the object of one attempt In a brutal attack by two men a woman of 60 was the victim In some cases ses the yOung girl O or child died from the injuries inflicted Many of the assailants escaped the clutches of the law aw Others were cap captured and dealt with in in the Magistrates Magistrates' Magistrates Magistrates' Magis Magic co courts or held for a higher tribuna tri tri- buna Public feeling against this class of crimes has been reflected in in several instances in mob attacks on men caught in the commission of them or only accused S This record covers a period of about three months but in it are included those with which the poli police e have been called to deal Many victims or or the parents of them shun the publicity that attends attends' a report to the authorities May 19 Minnie 19 Minnie Luck 5 years old was attacked in a brutal manner at a lonely spot not far from the scene of the murder of Amelia Her Hera a assailant managed to escape at the time although a crowd chased him Leon Len Graham 20 years old was arrested arrested ar ar- rested and charged with the assault June Jun 16 16 Mrs Bessie Mendel a gray- gray haired feeble widow of 60 years living at No Rivington street streett was the victim of a savage attack She She was was returning returning returning re re- turning to her home at night when two men set et upon her She resisted them and they beat her mercilessly Her injuries were so severe that she was taken to a hospital J June ne 20 Mrs Mar Mary Goss of No West Seventy fourth street was attacked attacked at at- tacked at night in her home Her cries for help alarmed the neighborhood which is a very quiet one but Mrs Goss GOSS' assailant apparently was not alarmed This was one of the most daring attacks of which the police have record A man n named med Christopher Rogers was arrested June 21 Rosie 11 years yeal'S old of No East Eleventh street was the victim The child who was ill ill- treated had been coax coaxed a. a away from her home by presents of candy Joseph V Vale le was arrested May 22 Amelia Amelia C. C 15 years old daughter of a well well well-to-do to do farmer was assaulted by bI a man man in an open field at Elmhurst Queen B Borough rough and stabbed to death Henry Becker was arrested charged with the crime and is in jail He admits that he is guilty the detectives say say but the grant grand g an jury of 01 Que Queens ns failed to indict him Victim of a a. Strangler S June 21 Viola Viola Boylan 8 years old of No 2290 Second avenue was assault assault- assaulted ed and strangled t to death Tl The child had been missing several days days- from her herh h home nie There Ther was wab not the slightest inkling inklin ink ink- lin ling of the fate fat that had befallen her until her body was found in the cellar of the house where sh she lived It is supposed that two men en had a hand band in inthe inthe inthe the murder and that th they y put the body in tie the cellar The police have been working on a clue that points to two Italians as the Slayers These men had been annoying the girl for some time before she disappeared One arrest has been made in the case but the prisoner was discharged June 25 Louise Louise Schmidt 16 years old was the victim of a brutal assault in her home at No Melrose avenue the tho Bronx Her assailants were two negroes They found her alone in the house The police have hunted bunted for the roe negroes in vain July 2 Susie Susie Clark 4 years old of No 1684 Avenue A was rescued from froma a man who was was lurin luring her away with candy He attacked ed the childs child's rescuers res- res cuers and escaped arrest The attempt was made near the childs child's home July 4 Elsa Elsa Von Dessaur of No Amsterdam m avenue was beaten so severely severely severely se se- se- se verely that she died from her injuries Elgina of No 11 Decatur street Brooklyn was the victim of a I drunken assailant in the street He beat her and leaving her half con l. l made his escape July 4 Marguerite 6 years old of No No East hast Ninety fifth street was going on an errand for her par parents when she was attacked and beaten Louis Friedman was arr arrested sted July 4 While While her parents were watching a fireworks display Mildred Lov Lovell hi H 4 years old was seized by a negro when near her home at N No 16 West ninth Ninety-ninth street The negro was chased and arrested He said he was William H. H Buss of No East seventh Ninety-seventh street July 16 Olga Olga 8 years old was maltreated by an unknown man in a lonely spot in Dyker Heights Brooklyn July 18 Lena Lena 7 years ol old of No avenue was vas attacked Her assailant entered her home where the child was at play James McCarthy Mcarthy was arrested sted July 18 Miss Miss Catherine Duall an aged spinster of Winfield L. L I. I was taken to St. St Johns John's hospital as the result re reo re- re suIt sult of an attack made on h her r r. two ni nights earlier She identified a Frederick Fred erick enick as her assailant He lIe was arrested Miss Duall was found almost unconscious in in a field by two men who heard her screams July 19 Elsie Elsie Schneider 10 years old of No Knickerbocker avenue Brooklyn was attacked by an tn unidentified unidentified tided man He Ho lay in hi in wait for the child hild near her home to which she was returning just after dark H Her r assailant assailant assail assail- ant has not been found Attacked Girl in Elevator July 19 Benjamin Benjamin Williams a young West Indian negro was arrested at No East Seventy fifth street charged with attacking Sadie Schaeffer a white girl of No East H Houston uston street t. t The alleged assault was wap committed inan in inan inan an elevator which the negro ran in a building at No 16 West Nineteenth street July 20 During During the twenty four hours of this date eight girls and young women were attacked and treated ill on the highways Early in the morning Miss Vera Maxwell Maxwell Max Max- Maxwell well of No no West Thirty ninth street alleged that she was at second Forty-second street near by a young man who said that he was Frederick Bolton a draughtsman She says that he stopped her and seized her arm She repelled his advances and screamed Detective Hughes appeared and arrested Bolton Mrs Annie of No 93 street went with her two sons cons Abie and Morris l in the morning to the water front in Hook park While the boys were were engaged in play thet heard beard their mother scream She had been attacked by three men while sitting by a wagon Mrs Krupke's Krupke a face was bruised and bleeding Mrs Mary of No Morris l avenue complained to the that police a ai I Iman man had come into her yard and attacked at at- tacked her old year daughter The mother went wept at the man with a chair He got A half dozen away de detectives de- de were assigned to hunt for the man I Michael Gorgone 47 of No St. St Anns Ann's avenue the Bronx was arraigned I before Magistrate Butts in the Morrisania Mor Mor- court charged with assaulting two little girls Mary Alary Keilly 9 an and Catherine Powers 11 He lIe was held in 1500 bail for examination The man span denied the charge and said that he could prove an alibi Corroborative evidence against the Italian was furnished furnished fur fur- by two hv other girls Catherin and Alice Powers wert S si sisters ter of the complainants July 21 Police Police rescued from several sever l Italians a woman who said she was Estella Hallow Halloway y of No 21 Granite street East New York The attack upon her was committed in a chant shanty I at Montgomery street and New York avenue to which her assailants had bad dragged her from the street July 21 James n.-James James Curry who gave No 85 80 Broadway as his address was was' accused accused accused ac ac- of attempting to assault assaults assault Amelia Wells 7 1 years old of No 2409 Second avenue He was held held for trial Curry it t was charged had dragged the girl into a hallway from the street July 21 Nora Nora Gillespie 11 years old of No 1 Daly avenue the tie Bronx accused accused ac ac- Michael of No 20 Elizabeth street with attempting to assault her July 22 Nicholas Nicholas Bora was accused ac ac- ac cus d of assaulting Irene Mascolo Mascoro 10 years old of No 78 18 Bartholdi street the Bronx Coral Said the charge was false but he was held in iii 2000 bail in the Morrisania police court July 23 Jacob Jacob of No East New York avenue was arrested on complaint of Rosie Bosie Bloom of No Hopkinson avenue that he had seized her when she was passing his home and maltreated her July 23 Mrs Julia of Decker avenue Staten Island was attacked and roughly us used d by an Italian who attempted to drag her into the woods Nicholas Court who said he lived at No Frost street Brooklyn was arrested as as the assailant July 24 Virginia Virginia F. F Barish 17 11 years old of No East Seventy Seventy ninth ninth street was attacked by nine men at North Beach The girl had disappeared from her home and was found running half clad along North Beach A p policeman overtook her and the story of her hEl experience was obtained She is is now insane as a result of the treatment to which she was subjected July Agnes Agnes Merry 5 years old was attacked by four boys in the cellar of her home No Sixtieth l street treet Brooklyn July 26 Annie Annie nnie 5 years old of S. S I. I who had he been en missing from home three days returned She told her bet mother that a man had led her away She could not tell where he had taken her Josefa a workman was arrested The Tl-e child identified him as her as as- July 26 Helen Helen OShea 5 years old of No East Eighty eighth street ran screaming to her mother saying that a man employed in a butcher shop near by had coaxed her into a hallway and had frightened her The man she accused is Jacob Newman Newman New New- man 52 years old of No East fourth Eighty street Just as a policeman police police- man aJ appeared to arrest him Newman was seized with an epileptic fit He was n taken to Bellevue a a prisoner July 26 Louis Louis Leopold 17 years old of No Bushwick avenue Williamsburg Williams Williams- burg was held on a a. charge of enticing Dora Daucher 15 15 years old ole from her home at No 85 Bartlett street Wil- Wil July 2 20 Vitto Vitto Florio 33 years old of No West Eighteenth street was was as locked up in the West Twentieth street station on on ona a char charge e of attempting to assault Martha 15 years old of No Tenth avenue The girl says that Florio followed her into the cellar of the house in which she lives Her made him run away July 27 An An attempt was made to assault Josephine Horgan 6 years old of No 1821 Second avenue The child was accosted by a man but her screams drove him away July 27 Irene Irene Mastolo 8 years old of No 78 Bartholdi street was the vic vie victim tim thu o of an assault The man she ac ac- ac- ac has not been caught He lured i hoi her some distance from her home by gifts of candy and pennies July 29 Mary Mary 7 I years old was at play in front of her home at Stat tato and Furman streets Brooklyn when Charles Sheppard 58 of No 19 Huntington street came a along afong ong First the girls girl's playmates missed her next they heard Marys Mary's screams and Sheppard Shep Shep- Sheppard par pard fled out of the hallway followed by the childs child's s 's mother Sheppard was held in in 1500 bail Mrs Hans Swanson of No East EastOne EastOne EastOne One Hundred and Twenty-third Twenty street was attacked by bj four men Her lIer assailants assailants assailants assail assail- ants threatened to kill her husband if he be reported the tho affair to the police and he did not do so A neighbor however I informed the police of the East One OneHundred OneHundred OneHundred Hundred and Twenty-sixth Twenty street station sta eta tion who are looking for a man answering the description supplied by Mrs Swanson July 29 George George A. A Schmidt a giant blacksmith of No 1473 Second Second avenue was held in the Yorkville police courton court courton on a charge of attacking Catherine Kennedy 11 years old also of No 1473 Second avenue The child was saved by the bravery of her aunt and nd the faithfulness of her fox terrier July 29 Pedro Pedro Fernadez teacher of languages of No West One Hundred Hundred Hundred Hun Hun- dred and Ninth street and N. N T. T Cullen one of his pupils who lives at No 6 Manhattan avenue were fined 10 each for annoying Mrs Joseph George of No 16 West One Hundred and Ninth street July 29 Anthony 29 Anthony Berger of No 89 Manhattan s street reet was was held on a charge of attacking Gertrude 12 years rS old of No West One Hundred and aid Sixteenth Sixteen h str street et In in Morningside park Detectives saw Berger conducting hims himself himself him him- s self lf in such a manner that they arrested him July 29 Carmello Carmello of No East One Hundred and Eighth street was arrested on a charge of or assaulting Jennie Farano 18 years old of No East Twelfth street The girl alleged that haJ Galluci dragged her into a house in East Thirteenth street and bound and gagged her July 29 Vincenzo 29 Vincenzo a shoemaker shoemaker shoe shoe- shoemaker maker of No 1444 Boston road was road was arrested arrested ar ar- ar rested on complaint of Ethel Whiting 7 years old The child said that while she was in shop he assaulted her July 30 Tony Tony Galante of No Market street Newark was locked up upon upon upon on a charge of disorderly conduct in inthis inthis inthis' inthis this this' city Two little girls who did not appear aga against the prisoner had charged him with abusing them Before Before Be Be- fore the police took him in charge Galante was wail beaten by a mob that had heard the girls' girls accusations July 30 Alessandro Alessandro Piccolo of No East Thirty-second Thirty street was locked uP ur charged with attempting to assault Lillian 4 years old of No First avenue Piccolo it itis itis itis is said had given the child candy and taken hgr r into a hallway Another little littIe little lit lit- tle tIe girl made an outcry and a policeman arrived just in time to nab the alleged assailant July 31 Mamie Mamie Goodman 5 years old of No Na Third avenue was the victim of an assault by a man un un- un- un known Strangled to Death Au August st 1 Katie I.-Katie Katie 8 years I old of No East Thirteenth street I maltreated and strangled to death August 1 Anthony I.-Anthony Anthony di Lasso of No East Seventeenth street was arrested arrested ar ar- rested on a charge of attempting to assault assault assault as as- sault Rose Eose Walsh 13 years old of No East Seventeenth street The Tb girl said she w was s walking near Gramercy park when Di Lasso grabbed her by the shoulder and clasped his hands I over her mouth She succeeded in freeing freeing free free- ing herself her assailant fled Au August Angust st 1 Virginia Hoy lIoy 11 years old in the Morrisania court accused Capo Salvino of One Ono Hundred and First street and Walton avenue of trying to entice her into Cedar park She says he be offered her 25 cents to go with him into the park The prisoner was held for examination August 1 J John John ohn Garin 40 years old of Bay Ridge Eidge was arrested on a charge of enticing Alva Olsen 10 years old old and Alice Anderson 8 8 away from irom their homes in Gravesend and leading them to the Coney Island swamps A mob attacked the tho man and he was taken to the tho Norwegian hospi hospital tal a prisoner August 1 John I.-John John Warda of No East Sixtieth street was arrested on complaint of Margaret Mararet Jordan 15 years vears old who lives in the Young Mens Men's Democratic club house where |