– June 1, 1927 Police Commissioner Warren announced yesterday that he was in favor of fewer “extraneous” parades in this city. He made this known in discussing the disorders incident to the Memorial parade when two Fascisti were killed on their way...
May 25, 1921 “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 station early on...
Tammany Hall Sweep New Police Shake Up Hits 37 Detectives7 Captains Shifted The New York Times, November 11, 1923 NYT Article – Case Description Police Commissioner Enright caused another stir in the Police Department yesterday afternoon when he sent...
The Dumbbell Murder The Murder That Became a Media Circus — And a Famous Movie – Case Description The bungled crime featured an affair, a murder and a planned insurance scam. It also included the first photograph of an execution at Sing Sing Prison. Return to...
Ferris Wheel Disaster – Case Description Six persons were killed and twenty seven are known to have been injured many of them dangerously, when a Ferris wheel, seventy-five feet in diameter, was blown over in Clason Point Park late yesterday afternoon in the...
