The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-01
BARKS,BOMBS And REDPEPPER
WIDOW ALLEN At WAR WITH A
FEW or HER NEIGHBORS.
MIR. Dyer and His Whis<ers Seesu 70 he an
Issue, Likewise . Capacious Soda
Glass Ma gistrate Takes Couple of
Weeks TO Think Over Assault Charge.

Issue, Likewise CapaciOuS SOFA
Glass Ma gtstrate Takes Couple of
Weeks TO Think Over Assault Charge.
The neighbors OF the Widow Allen, who
| lives at 1880 Manhattan avenue. haven't
got along with her very we'll for the past
two years. Six Of them appeared yesterday
| in the " est Side court complaining about
her and her boarder, John M. Dyer, to Ma gis-
trate Mayo. They wanted both Mrs. Allen
and Dyer arrested for attempted assault.
Besides six men who appeared before the
| Magistrate, there we're twenty or more
women and children, who bpz9ed in an ante
room and regarded Mr.. Dyer scornfully.
exploding at dawn under the widows
windows, snare drums ratified while the
widow dozed, red pepper put on stoops for
the confusion Of neighborhood kids, the
raids Of "Whiskers, a cut telephone wire
and things like these. He gave up and
postponed consideration Of the case until
Sept. 10.
Mrs. Allen Is the widow OF Charles NJ.
Allen, who was superintendent OF the New
York Hospital. She is An invalid, greatly
pestered by sciatica, rheumatism and other
ailments. Her home is one Of an orderly
row OF pretty red brick stone trimmed
houses in Manhattan avenue. near lO8th
street. Dyer has been boarding there.
Sometimes he does the cooking, he says
Mrs. Allen told Of the feud:
Going on two years ago." said she. Il
went into my back yard and saw a nosy
man stringing telephone wire over my
house. know my rights, know them to
r, and told him to 60 away. He tried
to talk soft but ] wouldn't have it. The
wire was being strung for David Hirsch-
feldt's house, at lE. but they hadn't said
anything to me. A day OF two later
looked out and there was the wire all strung
over my nice new roof that / had paid so
for. 1 had that wire cut. and that, sup
pose, was the cause Of the trouble.
Across the street was a family that
owned a small dog. Every evening that
they went out they left that dog IN an upper
room. 1t howled the liyelong night, Well,
l sent Mr.. Dyer to the Board OF Health and
,hs t9 se aHss oys srt sSe way popular
Not very far from me lives a man l
never liked. His wife came to me one day
and wanted to see my doctor IN my own
house. She had black and blue marks on
her FIJI ie. That D.op t ssS. c ds 70 and
wasn't long Before they began to annoy
me. One bunch Of children would wake
up early in the morning 30 they could
shoot Oh fire crackers under my window.
Another boy bou ght u drum that he played
at all hours Of the day and night. When
ever Mr. Dyer went to reason with them,
they called him 'Whiskers" and made
eoatlike noises.
Then the druggist at the corner got
mad at me. Mr.. Dyer and went there one
day for glass OF soda. ltook my own glass,
for am particular about what drink out
Of and it was a little large.
Have you tub at home" said the drug
eist real mean like. and since that day
Mr.. Dyer and have never bought cents
worth there.
These people say that Mr. Dyer Is mean
to children. He isn't at ALL"
Some Of those who appeared In court
against Mrs. Allen, who wasn't there her
self, and Dyer were Charles Shirk Of 1871
Manhattan avenue. W. H. Ebbitts OF 1877,
and David Hirschheld Of IA. Ebhitts said
Dyer hated children 30 much that he threw
ashes on the sidewalk to keep them from
skating and that he was afraid to leave q
garbage barrel outside his house for fear
that Dyer would run to the Board OF Health
and complain. Mrs. David Hendricks. who
lives in the neighborhood, said that Dyer
chased her boy.
Polio eman Kearns OF the West Tooth street
station, who had been called dozens Of times
in the feud and who had attempted to make
The stoop Of 1874 Manhattan avenue, a stoop
the children of the neighborhood played on
a good deal. He took Il to the corner drug
gist, who pronounced it red pepper OF
Viri!ent kind. The witnesses said that
Over nut the pepper there.