Craps

Craps

– Case Description “Rolling the bones” in a police station comes high. Patrolmen Henry Flattery, John Maloney, Francis Neylon and Francis Rogers, all of the Parkville precinct, were each found guilty of having played craps in the bathroom of the...
All 46 Saved At Sea as Fire Destroys Army Transport

All 46 Saved At Sea as Fire Destroys Army Transport

  The New York Times Tuesday, January 13, 1948 Joseph V. Connoly Survivors Rescued After 13-hour Tossing in Storm 1,000 Miles Out   PLANES SPOT LIFEBOATS Wrecked Ship, Which Brought Home First War Dead, Was Taking Coffins to Antwerp   1934 Passport...

Family Fugue

Family Fugue Brooklyn Daily Eagle January 21, 1936 Duelist — Acting Detective Captain Henry Flattery, head of the Jamaica squad, recently shared in a citation for “excellent police duty,” in connection with the arrest of the Rifle Gang of bandits who received long...
Juneteenth, 1935

Juneteenth, 1935

Three Boy Slayers are Fingerprinted Leader Balks at Signing Record, but Finally Yields, Saying ‘the Cops Are My Pals.’ HOMICIDE HEARING TODAY June 19, 1935 The three schoolboy-bootblacks of Jamaica, Queens, who have confessed they murdered a man last...