Roaring 20s
NYPD Detective Captain Henry Flattery
1920s
Tammany Hall Sweep
Police received protection money from shopkeepers, rackets surrounded the fish and poultry markets, as well as the docks, and licensing fees for various professions were increased with Tammany Hall middlemen reaping the benefits. Henry Flattery changed all that.
The Dumbbell Murder
The story of the most famous sneak shot photo in tabloid history began with a wink between a woman and a man who should have known better.
6 Dead, 27 Hurt in Ferris Wheel Crash
Six persons were killed and twenty seven injured when a Ferris wheel was blown over in Clason Point Park late yesterday afternoon in the most disastrous storm in the history of New York City.
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 station early on the...