The Washington herald., 1920-08-17
New York City
Many Unusual Crimes,
BY o. o. Mcintyre.

Many Unusual Crimes.
New York. Aug. 16.-The police
archives downtown hold records OF
series of most unusual crimes that
have taken place this summer The
details of the majority of them are
unprintable. The district where the
crimes took place centers about Lin
coin square. which is at Broadway
and SiXty-sixth street.
Several streets intersect there.
There are arcades, tenement houses.
cheap studios and a number Of
dance halls where promiscuous
gatherings are held. Night life there
is throw back to the old days on
the East Side when the music halls
rang with songs and ribald laughter
all the night.
1t is said that the district is in
rested with snow runners" the
term used for cocaine sellers. One
dance hall in the neighborhood is
meeting place for drug addicts.
Hostesses' act as procurers and
have books filled with the addresses
of young girls ION call"
TWO opium parlors, camoufiaged
as hair-dressing establishments, arc
said to be running wide open. All
the saloons in the district have gone
out of business, and while there are
plenty of boot-leggers along the
curbs, the demand is for drugs.
Three of the girl victims-moths
lured by the white-hot lights of
Broadway-are now in hospitals,
| They came from the smaller cities
seeking a career, and after a dreary
round of the agencies flung them
selves into the sordid night life with
reckless abandon.
Since steamship travel has been
resumed all classes of criminal de-
generates, fleeing Europe. where
they are known, have settled in
New York. The police are gradu-
ally finding them out. A war has
been started on the corner lizards"
who annoy women, and thirty were
! arrested in one night.
The automobile fiirts, men in
motor cars, who ride slowly up and
| down Fifth Avenue and Broadway
inviting women to drive with them.
are also being arrested by the score.
Her Song Brings Reward.
Down at Wanamaker's store a
| morning concert is held daily. At
ter singing a sentimental song OF
the heart the other day the young
singer went to her locker to get
her hat. Tucked under the door was
an envelope. Inside was a $50 bill
and an unsigned note which read:
Your song touched the heart of a
| lonely stranger passing through.
Please accept this as a slight show
! of gratitude"
Milo Finally Wins Ont.
Milo has been featured in vaude-
] a
| never able to land on Broadway.
! To NIL in a lapse in the show at the
| Century Roof he was engaged. He
ran away with the show. and now
/ his name is in lights. He appears
| in tramp costume after a marvel
! Gus soprano voice is heard from the
wings. He is able to initiate every
! thing from a cricket to a lions roar.
| From SIS week he has become a
! $500 week principal.
Nearly Kills Self in SIeep,
1t was midnight along the River
| side Drive viaduCt. Into the pool
of light made by a bridge lamp step-
! ped Il woman, her arms and breast
/ Gleaming white against the black
/ background. Then she went to the
/ parapet and gazed along into the
maze of railroad tracks below. A
/ policeman saw her several blocks
away and rushed on his tiptoes to
+ thwart what he knew to be sui
| eide. He was nearing her when she
| climbed up on the railing, but he
/ caught her in time. She was taken
/ to the nearest police station in a
| taxicab, and it was not until the
| police physician examined her that
it was discovered she was still
asleep. She was going to the the
atcr with her husband. He was
late and she fell into doze in the
drawing room while waiting.