The New York herald., 1921-10-27
Bullied Police at Pleasure
and Ran Wide Open in
35th Street.
CRIMINAL SINCE 1877
Forgeries, Thefts, Assaults
and Sentences in Prison Dot
As Year Record.

Charles Everett Ackron. proprietor
Of the Tivoli in Thirty-fifth street,
west of Broadway, a generation ago
when the Tenderlein ran wide open
and for years the bully of the district
is back at his old tricks.
Broadway and the police had for
gotten him. He was believed to be in
Sing Sing serving life term. None
OF the Broadway veterans who knew
his old place when 1t was one Of the
sights of the town recognized him as
he stood around Broadway and Forty
early yesterday.
The police received a mysterious
message about / O'clock in the morn
ing that two men standing outside the
Claridge Hotel were planning a hold
up on Long Island. Just on suspicion
the two were arrested One said he
was Thomas McGinnis of 761 Nc
Donough street, Brooklyn, and the
other gave the name Of Charles H..
Archibald of 100 Bank street. little
later the latter said he was Everett
Aclron. His finger prints were checked
up at Police Headquarters and he was
put down as the Ackron of the old
Tivoli
Accused of HoIdup.
Ackron had two packages. One con-
tanned NUMBER plates issued to an auto
mobile owner in Port Chester and the
other piece Of chain, wire nippers and
part of an inner tube of an automobile
tire. After a little further checking
up the police charged the two men with
having held up Arnold Degner, a deli
catessen dealer at 839 Seventh avenue,
on October i6 and taking $612 from him.
On the recommendation of the Parole
Board Ackron was released from Great
Meadows Prison last May by pardon
from Gov. Miller after serving nearly
five years of the life sentence. The day
efter he walked out of Jail free he
was arrested in Brooklyn charged with
having entered the home OF Mrs. Rose
Schomaker and stolen two tapestries
and q painting. He said he had pur-
chased the articles for $675 and did not
know they had been stoien' He was
released. Then he disappeared and
nothing further was known of him until
yesterday.
In his day in the Tenderloin Ackron
beat men and women with impunity.
bribed and defied the police, press and
pulpit, declared openly his contempt for
all law and got away with it for sew
cral years. The police finally drove
him out and later he was convicted of
selling fake talking machines bearing
standard names. Judge Dixie in Brook
lyn imposed the life sentence.
Criminal Since 1877.
Aclxron's police record dates back to
1877. when his first offence was robblng
\ clothing house where he was n sales
man. His father saved him and he went
70 Chicago. There he forged checks and
was sent to Joliet prison for two years.
Next he adorned checks in New Jersey
with other persons names and for that
served two and half years in Trenton
State prison. In 1892 he was arrested
for passing bad check. but beat the
case. Once he was convicted of assault
ing lawyer who was thrown out of
the Tivoli He was accused of swindle
In getting furniture for his notorious
dive.
After he was driven out of the Ten
derloin Ackron tried to open other re-
sorts In Manhattan. He finally went to
East New York. where his "Ackron's'
Casino" soon became notorious and the
scene OF nightly brawls. Raiding Ack-
ron was one of the popular pastimes
for the police for years. In 1907 he
was found guilty of swindling the Plym-
outh Interior Company OF $4,000 Three
years later he was convicted of the theft
of $4,000 cigars. for which he served a
term in Sing Sing, and later was ac-
cused of selling bogus bonds of the Nor
folk and Virginia Railway Company.
One of Akrons best acts was to weep
and repent in public every time he got
into trouble. He shed tears so freely
and was SO penitent when caught that
he always made a deep impression on
his court audiences. Good behavior and
tears led the Parole Board to tighten
his life sentance to four wears