The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-17
Bent THEIR BACKS
Z TO BREAK FALL OF
I. WOMEN At FIRE
Explosions in Burning House
From Attic Stores of Safe
Blowers.
.. MAN AND BABY KILLED.
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Caught in the Blaze Supposed
to Have Been Started by
Lounging Cocaine Users.
MAN AND BABY KILLED.

Unexpected explosions accompanied
the IRE in the century-ol old house at
Park Row and Roosevelt street last
night. when David Print and child
of Mrs. Rosa Franco were burned 10
death. The police, looking up records.
foSnd that the attic had been long
known a. a hangout for safe-blowers.
II was where Louie" Bolotu and
"Blinkey" Bolott had put up. I'LL
Louie" was captured when running
away. from q safe-cracking job some
months ago in the DE Rosa drug
store in Catherine street by De-
tectives loughlin and Garevan of
the Oak street STATEN. Louie" was
held and he died soon after "3linkey"
and his mother had continued to live
at the old dormer Widowed house.
taking roomers. Lately the gangs had
gone to pieces through the use Of
cocaine. It IL thought to-day that tho
me was accidentally started by IN p
py busters" As the cocaine users are
termed by themselves. who had gone
|. into the Railways for refuge.
SHOUTS FROM CROWD HOLD
FRIGHTENED WOMEN BACK.
The first to escape from the burn.
tng building was JUNO Perini. forty.
WHO isaped feet first into a snow
drift. Shouts from the crowd which
( oathered from neighboring saloons
prevented tho women from jumping
until . group below was formed to
break their falls. 1t would have been
simple for tho firemen to rescue them
with ladders. Of course. but the un-
cleared snow banks kept them from
getting near enough. The women
were on the third story. They dropped
one by ono as the men below bumped
-their backs TO make q cushion. II
was like clockwork. A woman would
hang from the window. drop. bounce
OF the mems backs and into soft
snow. .. g..
Only one. the mother OF the infant
who was burned. was injured. She
DEDICATED hip. but seems well again
to-day. andi is trying to gather money
70 "bury the little one"
Oak street police questioned her
and other dweliers, and then learned
that In the burned house they had
discovered sticks Of dynamite. George
HUT, known a. "Deafy." ono Of the
most expert safeblowers in tho coun-
Try. used to live there. He had been
pupil Of old Mark Shinburn.
"Deafy" had spent nineteen years In
prison. but being q born Fourth
Wsrder. always drifted back there.
He was a boiler maker by trade, and
known as the brains of the Sh,nburn
gang Of craftsmen.
KNEW THE MECHANISM OF eUR.
oLAR.PRooF SAFES.
-Four years ago he was recognized
a. he stood outside this house and
arrested. because the police had in.
formation that ne had been expert.
inenting In the attic with high explo.
slveA They took from his pocket a
cryptograin recording the secret
mschanisms Of forty-eight different
patterns OF burglar proof safes. lie
was not convicted Of crime. but six
months ago In Springfield. Mass, was
taken with Bull" Hutchinson.
Since then. owing to lack Of leader.
ship and liking for cocaine, the
ygangs had been broken and dispersed.
The police think that they must have
left some nitroglycerine and various
chemicals In the attic and that these,
touched or by the IRE. made the can
mobilize reports that blew the roof
go