New-York tribune., 1921-08-10
Police Held on
Shooting g and
MurderCharses
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attached to the Parkville station,
Brooklyn, yesterday arraigncd Adolph
Ulmer siXty-three years cid and a
member OF the Flatbush Democratic
Club, and his son Albert Ulmer, both
OF East Second Street, Brooklyn. be-
fore Magistrate Brown on disorderly
conduct charges. The aged man ap-
peared before the court with both eyes
biackened and swollen as a result. he
charges, of a beating administered by
the policeman with blackjack. The
policeman testified that the elder VI
mer had called him abusive names.
The Ulmers charge that Policeman
Reid, after telling the younger Ulmer
he was under arrest, pulled the aged
father of the prisoner into a dark
areaway and beat him up An at
torney for the Ulmers said he would
orlng charges against the policeman.
Patrolman John Fitzpatrick, of the
Charles Street station, is charged with
shooting of William Fogarty. twenty
five years old, an assistant manager Of
a dance place conducted by William
Gallagher at til Seventh Avenue
The place is known as the Broadway
Gardens. Fogarty, who is in Flower
Hospital with a bullet wound in his
thigh, lives at 106 West 172d Street.
The shooting resulted during free
for-all fight after Fitzpatrick objected
to dinner check for $3.50 In the
struggle the policeman was cut about
the face and was treated at Knicker-
booker Hospital at 3 o'clock yesterday
morning about a half hour after the
tight. The policeman is said to have
fired four shots, one of which hit
Fogarty.
When the check was presented it is
said by witnesses the policeman over
turned his chair and began a bolster
Gus conversation. which attracted Fo-
garty and started general fight in
several parts Of the dining room.
Women screamed and men battled, at
tracing several policemen, who COM
mandeered autos to reach the scene
after a call had gone into the West
Forty seventh Street station when the
shots were heard by pedestrians in the
street.
Fitzpatrick is under suspension by
the Police Department and is held in
$500 bail by Magistrate Peter !. Hat
ting, IN West Side court. Assistant
District Attorney Thomas Rawlinson
asked that Fitzpatrick De held in 81 900
bail.
He is a police officer and agree to
such BALL said the attornev.
NO, sir, bail viii not be $1,000 said
the court. This is Il shooting and the
case is serious one. will make the
DaN 5000 Men, especially policemen.
cannot 60 around in restaurants and
pubic places and promiscuously pull
out revolvers and shoot up the place in
Wild West fashion"
Relatives of Fitzpatrick. including
ms father, were IN court and wore pre-
pared to furnish $1,000 bail When the
bond was fixed at So 500 they left to
arrange for additional security.
Fitzpatrick was returned 10 cell
he refused to make q statement to the
newspapers. The wound in the left
SIDE OF the pollceman's head was said
to have been inflicted by q bottle WELD
ed BY some one during the general ex-
citement
Two men who said they we're de-
tectives and who beat James A. S. Car
penter, OF 10 Sherman Avenue, at the
Polo Grounds during a ball game Mon
/ day, were beng sought by the police
SeSterday Carpenter was called to
Pollce headquarters by Chief Inspect
or Lahey yesterday and was referred
to Inspector Cornelius Cahalane. Of the
First Inspection District. who told him
that efforts were being made to locate
! and Identify the assailants
policeman whose name is with
held by both the Meyer Investigating
committee and the Police Department
pending lnve stigations is under sus
pension by the department and is
charged with having choked and beaten
an aged woman caretaker in tie town
house Of Grenyille Parker, at 139 West
ihirIy-ninth street, three weeks ago
Mr.. Parker's Offices are at 100 Broad
way.
Policeman Frank J. scaalon. attached
to the Sleeps head Bay station, was sus-
pended March 9 of this year. on
Guerin, Of 11l2 Avenue u, Brooklyn.
Policeman Joseph l. Murphy and
Charles Homolka, Of the East Fifty
first Street station, were tried in
Yorkville court February 20 this wear
for an alleged brutal assault on VIII
ham j. Leader, Of 143 East Fifty-fifth
Street. This case was later settled.