New-York tribune., 1912-04-08
PIGEONS PUT IN JAIL
Police of West Hth Street Sta
ton Have Busy Day.
LIEUTENANT IN DESPAIR
Stream of Visitors, from Boys
Charged with Gambling to
Girls Lost in Storm.

Lieutenant Ross, on duty at the west
9Th street police station, last night just
before midnight looked UP from the nioI'ei'
mopped his forehead with an already damp
! handkerchief and quoted;
"Oh. that a man might know the END or
| this days business ere II come
The occasion Of this shskespearian pnii-
osophy on the part Of the lieutenant was
written on seven pages of the olotter osIor'
! him. Beginning early in the evening KOS"
! acted as host for a constant stream Ut
visitors ranging all the way from crap
shooters" who. had been arrested after
| over-roof chases to little girls protesting
| they were lost. and wild individual WHO
| had been arrested for beating his VIE
| twice in the same evening.
! The cycle of events began TO reVoNe
! about o'clock, when Ross was confronted
| by fifteen youths. Of as many ages natoh-
slities and appearances, who had been ar
rested by Detectives Barnett and Brady
| charged with playing craps. The arrests
! followed a long series Of complaints from
| persons living In the precinct VINO said
| that the boys insisted upon gambling III
| full view OF those going 10 and returnlhS
| from church on Sunday.
| Five Of the prisoners were arrested only
| ? fter they had led the detectives merry
| chase over the housetops at Nos. i2l ana
| l23 West SD street When surprised by
| Brady and Barnett the FIVE had dashed into
! the hallway OF No. 421 and ascended TO the
| roof. mailing the scuttle board down. so the
detectives had 10 retrace their steps and
| reach the roof through No. 423.
Score Of Pigeons Arrested.
Just as Ross's fingers began 10 bend
with writer's cramp from taking down the
prisoners names and the charges against
| them Patrolmen Hogan and Fitzgibbons
entered the station house, carrying two
| large market baskets.
well, bring your prisoners M to the
desk here and give me their pedgrees.
ordered the lieutenant.
! With one movement Hogan and titzgib-
! bons opened the covers Of their baskets
and the room was instantly filed with q
score Of fiutterng, cooling pigeons which
flew about the lleutensnt's head and
! alishted on the chandeliers. After the
| feathery prisoners had been caught again
the patrolmen told Ross that they had capt
ured the birds on the roofs Of No. 4Os west
| 49th street and No. $40 West 5oth street
after having tried TO arrest dozen boys
who had been throwing stones at them.
! Complaints had been made 10 the police
about these boys, who have broken many
windows I'm tho nelghborhood. and when the
polica could not capture the lads they
wreaked their vengeance on the birds.
After taking down tho names OF the
pigeons. Lieutenant Ross leaned back and
! stretched his arms and prepared TO lay
down his pen. He had no sooner assumed
this attitude Of partial repose. than q call
7 for an ambulance at No. 553 West o3d street,
came in. Patrolman Smith was sent ou'
and returned in twenty minutes, 10 re-
port that Patrick Tierney and his wife
Bridget had little difference OF opinion
on some trivial matter, and Patrick began
to beat his wife finding this more ehecuVe
! than moral suasion.
Bridget refused to make a complaint,
sir" said Smith, for you see he had only
thrown Bridget through glass ooor; ana
after DR. Andrews, Of Flower Hospital, haa
patched her up. she told me 10 git OUT
there"
This Time He ls Arrested
Half an hour later Smith was sent out
10 the same address again. II was said
by the police that Patrick had been 50
overcome at Bridgets generosity in not
having him locked up, that he promptly
went out and consumed A large supply OF
10Th avenue whIskey. Thus armed, he pro-
coeded TO complete his work on his wife.
This time Smith returned with Tierney ana
his wife who reluctantly consented TO enter
complaint
Having seen Patrick safely placed in
cell Iieutensnt Ross turned In his chair
ss the door opened cautiously and two
small Italian girls entered. The hsuten-
ant rasped i'm horror. One OF the children
had what appeared TO hs streams Of blood
running down her face. otherwise she
seemed calm
The lieutenant ran from behind the
desk Then he SAL that the crimson stain
on tho little girls face was only colorinS
matter from a bright red shawl she wore
about her head and which the rain had
caused TO run. The tots gave their names
as Pauline Salvio and Mary Muceco. and
said they were lost. After remaining IN
the station house for half an hour until
the rain stopped. the girls announced that
they knew perfectly we'll where they lived.
Nfarv's home was at No. 35i Tenth ave-
nue. and Pauline is her next door neigh
bor. They were taken home.
As the door slammed behind tho little
girls Lieutenant Ross yawned, stretched
his arms and said
We'll. nothin' TO do I'll tomorrow and
only The cooiug OF the captive pigeons IN
their cell answered him /