New-York tribune., 1900-12-10
A REIGN OF CRIME.
BURGLARS AND RUFFIANs TAKE AID
VANTAGE OF INSUFFICIENT Po-
LICE FORCE IL FIFTY
SECOND PRECINCT
SECOND PRECINCT.

The Fifty-second Police Precinct Brooklyn. in
cluoes within its borders more graGatons OF 50
<iety than almost any other in the city. ATS
xoorsuc St Marks. Brooklyn and New-fork aNes-'
psrk Frospect and Sterling places. and the most
fashionable parts Of Pacific and Dean SITS. form a
district that probably represents more wealth than
any similar ares in Brooklyn. Tho shanties on the
hfTs south ~ Eastern Parkway and 20 the east
Of Utica-ave. are the other extreme. All parts OF
fhe precinct are of course. equally entitled TO
police protection. and al suffer from lack Of H.
when Charles n. Hyde. the lawyer. returned 10
his home al No. S74 Park Place, and found that
everything except the carpets and heavy furniture
even 20 a collection OF postage stamps. had been
saken he reported his loss at the station house
He is stiI waiting for tho recovery of his property
Half a dozen blocks further cast in Park Place
lives poor old Simon Heaney, fn a shanty on the
hills near Rochester-ave when. three weeks ago.
simon lost nine Of his fifteen hens he did not com
plain 70 the police Simon Is old now and thoueh
ne knew whom 20 suspect, IL - not wise TOT nMeh-
-s IN the shanties 70 complain 10 the police Iheir
neighbors don't like Il. on Thanksgiving Eve
when the thieves returned for the remaining hens
old Simon was prepared for them. lie had borrowed
a revolver and he says that he succeeded az least
Al blinding one OF them. The thieves knew Of his
limited supply of ammunition. and as soon as the
revolver was empty they bombarded the house with
stones and broke every window in the place
smou's wife became il after the first visit OF the
thieves; she was taken &c the hospital aiter the
second.
Sterling Place near AIbany-ave. is midway be-
tween the shanties and the houses of the rich.
young woman was sitting on her doorstep one
Sunday evening recently, when two roWoleS- ire
ouenters Of resort al Alhany-ave- ana Eastern
parkway threatened her I'm the most violent Ian
eusee Her big brother rushed 10 her rescue and
gave both rufBans severe trouncing. while some
of his neighbors watched the hghtng safely from
the windows. Not wishing police court notorlety'
this also not reported
HOUSES THAT WERE BROKEN INTO.
f.-l.s hat
have been committed in this precinct recently, be
sides other more or less severe attractions Of law
The house Of Charles H. Hyde, No. Si PARK
Place was entirely cleaned out, the burglars nav
ing lived in tho house all summer Entrance was
secured by forcing the paddock on the grating over
the basement windows.
The house No $50 Bergen-st. was entered on
December ] and robbed, and on the same night
20. G7 Bergen-st was entered. The nat ot Ed
ward d. Fox. No l.5I7 Fulton-st-, was also robbed
Of $500 worth Of jeWelry and clothing The burg
lars forced the door Of The private hall between
2 and 4 O'Clock in the afternoon. Mrs FOX met
,au. dark man coming down the stairs as she was
going up but he escaped before she discovered the
robbery.
The fat 10. 81 Fulton-st was entered No
Nember L. and seoo worth Of clothing and jewelry
was taken.
The pharmacy Of J. L. House. Dean-st and King
Fton-ave. was entered November q and money
and cigars taken.
tered Mr. Lehrs fat. Kingston-ave. and Dean
st and ransacked Il. and the same night nat at
No. 20 Kingston-ave. cleaned out Also. on
STERLING place and AIbany-aye.. was entered and
cigars and money were stolen, ena that mght
Houses drug store, ST. Marks and Albany aVes.,
was broken into
ave, but the burglar alarm aroused the family and
on November 25 Amanda Woody, colored. sixteen
and preFident-gt hy 4 crowd of ruffanS In this
case the police did enleient RpFk ana seven I men
sPoILING GRADES Bs fLCEGAL DUMPING.
The streets running east and west from Albany
south Of ST Marks ere most OF them new.
Nearly all OF them asPhaats5. but some of them
are only graded. The fndbsfilSas contractors who
dig cellars IN that neghborhood have system Of
making money by allowing their cart drivers TO
dump the cellar dirt In the nearest unpaved street,
dump For tRs reason s the sloek between Albany
ana Kingston aNes. IN Sterling Place IS now three
feet above the grade because the contractors who
IN re In the last week earth has been dumped
IN Park Place between Albany and Troy aves.. in
and IN Sterling Place between Kingston and Albany
Tnes' @ IN one instance po1oernan caught the
nstured policeman drove ras team around 10 the
81 understood -ta- at--t.rr 1ronertv owners
vi have 70 pay a Hsa11- tine for grading these
olocks, their tlc EIiEla1T- al be understood
The patroirner = -ts r-ecinct are not wholly 10
blame Tor the ElE1s u- arairs there Two patrolmen
!ste- .itt O. cover al the territory between
FultQn a. ME-hC1t and Albany and Nostrand
ave- 81 Na cET -r-r n duty-that IS over twenty
hlecGs y c-eIioI by avenue blocks in the
s-, s--et - Manhattan police authorities got
SYllQ4 q ne Brooklyn force the mum Der Of men I'm
Wis precinct has been gradually reduced until now
mere II just hair the old force doing patrol duty
sno ne posts are so long that the are said to
ue ohcourageo An old police captain said that the
HWchest way 10 call the police was 10 'open your
MlnuON ano blaze away with revolver" but I'm
-, - pIecinct policeman al one end Of his beat
'estQ NOT Lear atling battery fired al the other
men Mackellar was in control. previous IN con-
sohdauon, he understood the possibilities for crime
m a presnct which included in it's boundaries Tie
ZONES or the very wealthy contiguous TO those on
80. s extremely poor but the present police authori-
care. seiS VI Uo hot