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Riot When Supply Of Coal Gives Out 1917
and The Straw Hat Riot 1922
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Harry Oldbaum of 325 East 103d Street was
surrounded by a crowd at 116th Street and Lexington
Avenue. His hat was torn off. Unlike most of the
civilians subjected to the same annoyance, he showed
fight and chased the youths. He caught a boy who said he
was Morris Sikeowitz, 16 of 224 East 170th Street and
took him to the East 104th Street Station. Morris was
charged with disorderly conduct.
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 Lavonia 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 Sikeowita 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 send the next one to jail." said the
Magistrate. "I intend to see that citizens are protected
in their property." Silverman was the next one. Cohen,
the man arrested for interfering with Detective Brindizi,
denied he had tripped the officer, and was discharged by
Magistrate Haiting. He said he was a special officer
employed by one of Childs' restaurants.
John Sweeney, 10 of 363 West Sixteenth Street, ran into
an automobile driven by John Monfort of 111 East 19th
Street, while John and other boys were enjoying the
hat-smashing sport on Seventh Avenue between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Streets. His right leg was broken. He was
taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
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 302 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 816 East
Nineteenth Street, at Tenth Street and Avenue A. on the
same charge.
At Madison and Thompson Streets a boy knocked off a
man's hat with a long stick. Then other boys kicked the
hat along the street until it reached another boy,
waiting to jump on it. The owner of this hat seized
Salvatore Camellino, 15, of 13 Hamilton Street, who was
taken to the Oak Street Station on the charge of
juvenile delinquency. Patrolman Delehanty of the Clinton
Street station arrested, Louis Silverman, 17, of 218
Madison Street, on the charge of breaking a man's hat in
front of 197 East Broadway.
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