New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-22
CAUSES TROLLEY T|E-UP
At REVOLVER'S POINT
Enraged Shopkeeper HaIts Cars
Because They Splash
Water Into Cellar.
WOMEN PASSENGERS FAINT
Big Detail of Police Resort to
Strategy and Finally
Corral Brooklyn
Man on Roof.

Salvatore Lodolce. middle aged
man, of No. s Flushing avenue. Brook
lyn, held up the Flushing avenue car
line at Wallabout Market with a re-
volver yesterday afternoon. caused
several women to go into faints or
Mysteries and had to be corralled like
wild Indian on the war path by the
police. Before his arrest was achieved
the string Of cars on the east and west
tracks was mile long.
Lodolce keeps a fruit shop at the
market. The sewer near his place be-
came flooded yesterday afternoon
While the storm was at its height he
learned that his cellar was filing, and
rushed to save his wares For fifteen
minutes after he arrived he worked
frantically to bail out the cellar with a
pail. Then he noticed that the passing
cars created waves in the flooded
streets, which poured over the side
walk into his cellar and nullified all his
efforts.
Finally his indignation overCame
him. He ran upstairs. got revolver
and stepped out on the roof Of the shed
in front Of his place. In moment an
eastbound car came along
stop" cried Lodolce. and the motor
man, Frank Widdjko, stopped with
jolt that threw his passengers into
each others laps.
John Martino, OF No. Il Flushing
avenue, jumped 10 the street 10 learn
what was up, but when he saw the gun
he got right back and sat down. BY
this time the rest OF the passengers be-
came conscious OF why the car had
stopped, and women began TO faint
One could not be revived and had 10 be
removed TO nearby drugstore. When
she recovered she said that she was
Mrs. Marie Stratton. OF No. II Sands
street.
The next car to come along was
westbound, and Lodolce brought il I'D
with deft gesture with his weapon.
Car after car came 10 a standstill on
each side Of the avenue. until the line
reached 10 Nostrand avenue in one
direction and Sands street In the other.
In the excitement the railroad men
lost their heads. After a time a police
man arrived and sent in a call for the
reserves Of the Flushing avenue sta
tion. The reserves joined the first DO
liceman and helped him watch Lodolce.
who perched on the roof with a great
exhibition of coolness and handled his
gun in way that made them feel that
he meant business
A call was finally made for policemen
In civilians clothes and Detectives
Maine, Battalore. Fennelly and Bird
gets were hurried 10 the scene from
Police Headquarters. They determined
that the battle was TO be won only by
strategy. They put their heads to-
gether and finally decided upon a
scheme. They disappeared into an ad
joining building and I'm a couple or
minutes reappeared upon the roof
n bove Lodolce's head. Their revolvcr9
were in their hands and they concen-
,trated their aim simultaneously upon
the fruit dealer
Hold up your hands" cried Detec-
tive Maine, when all was I'm readiness.
Lodolce sprang to his feet and looked
aloft. The sight OF the four shiny bar
rels within half n dozan feet Of him
seemed TO the spectators to All him
with surprise and fear. His mouth
opened, his fingers relaxed and his
weapon crashed TO the roof. Then,
spasmodically. his arms went up In
true wild West style.
Two OF the detectives jumped down
TO the shed roof and handcuffed the
hold-up man. A moment more and
they had him in the patrol wagon and
on his way to the Flushing avenue po-
lice station, where he was locked up on
the charge of pointing a loaded re-
volver at Widdjko.