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I wrote up a transcription of the New York Times article on this event, which exists as a fairly degraded PDF. http://bæta.net/resources/documents/ocr_nyt_hw.txt Some interesting snippets: Violence: > Harry Gerber, 25, of 69 East 115th Street, went to Harlem Hospital for treatment for injuries received in fighting off straw hat vandals at 115th Street and Park Avenue. When a crowd of boys tried to seize his hat he put up a fight and was badly beaten and kicked. Courtroom drama: > A. Silverman was sentenced to 3 days in jail by Magistrate Peter A. Hatting, in the Night Court. On Thursday Magistrate Hatting had given warning that he would impose jail sentences upon any one brought before him on the charge of smashing straw hats. Abraham Birnbaum of 522 Lavionia Avenue, Brooklyn, appeared in court as the complainant against Silverman. > Just before he sent Silverman to jail, Magistrate Hatting discharged Sikeowitz, the youth arrested at 116th Street and Lexington Avenue. The Magistrate was about to send Sikeowitz to jail despite the intercedence of Oldbaum, the complainant, when the sight of the prisoner's gray-haired mother, 70 years old, caused him to relent for her sake. > "But I'll sent the next one to jail," said the Magistrate. "I intend to see that citizens are protected in their property." Silverman was the next one. A range of ages: > Patrolman James Sheehan of the Oak Street Station arrested two boys whom he saw smashing a straw hat at First Avenue and Seventh Street. The boys said they were Walter Shulka, 13, of 102d East Seventh Street, and Abraham Silverman, 12, of 94 East Seventh Street. They will be arraigned in the Children's Court today on the charge of juvenile delinquency. An hour later Patrolman Sheehan arrested Abraham Moses, 15, of 810 East Nineteenth Street, at Tenth Street and Avenue A, on the same charge. |