The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
PREVIOUS RECORD
 UNBROKEN AS KID .DR0PPER BURIED
Army Of Detectives Control 5000 Crowd During
 Services For Dead

1 NEW YORK, August 3O.- Kid Dropper's funeral was what the Kid himself would have called swell racket"
 Seven cannons, or rodmen or guns, as he might have referred to the members of his gang, were arrested by some of the 75 detectives and pa trolmen assigned to control the crowd of 5000 people milling around Saul Rothschild's undertaking parlors.
 The Kids wife walled that he was a good man. just as the widows and mothers of the Kids victims also had walled for their dead in 20 or more funerals on the Lower East Side in the last few years.
 Seven brothers of the Kid, surly and resentful against the breaks of the gang war which had taken off the Dropper, walked beside the cof- fin to the hearse
 And just as the psychological mo- ment when nobody knew whether to expect bullets and bricks from the adjacent housetops or bomb to blow up through a manhole, there came wild changing and shrieking and into the crowd and the intricate traffic of funeral coaches the fire en- zines came charming in response to false alarm.
 Ignorant Of Sons Death.
 The Dropper's father, a paralytic. IS somewhere out in the country, not knowing of his boy, Nathans death. nor knowing either that the devoted son whose most recent generosity was contribution of S40O to the old mans upkeep, was a gangster and the most feared killer on the Lower East Side.
 "oh, why did they do it?" sobbed the widow of the Dropper. as he was hn I.a,.R ,Ir4, laid out in white shroud with n white skull cap on his head, and showed into the hearse. He wasn't what they said he was Oh, why did they do it?" she sobbed again and
 Whether the kinfolk of the men whom the Dropper's gang had killed were represented in the crovyd if was not ascertained. It was certain however that Little Orgie Orgen's gang was represented by a deputa- iIon or young, slouching individuals m III caps, although in deference to a warning that there would be many ponce Tn the region, none of them brought their guns.
 Unnmen Suspend Business.
 IL was purely social occasion and suhmen Of both factions waived b,,si- ness Tor the time. The seven arrested TOT parading in front of the nnder- taxing place, with ostentatious stride Were members of the Dropper's mob ia iae enemy had intended to have a JaAH pand playing next door +o tba funeral during the ceremonies but inc pOlice discouraged that notion. Dron- per $ seven, on the alert, were nIclred up ana held so that they couIdn't start anything. Little Louis Cohen, the sallow. flat chested gangster, who shot inc Dron- per through the back of tbe bcad maS peing arraigned about that time ,1 Un q charge of first degree murder ne severity of the indictment great " annoyed Louis, because he had 3e 3een expecting sometbnE like second oegree manslaughter and five-vear term. His case was eontinued vbep ar II developed that his gang had neg lected to provide him with counsel Prosecutor Active.
 The district attorney, pressinp his auVantage during the temporary de- aiorlllzation mo, of both the Dropper's gang and Orgie' 's-Orgie beine in jail charged with complicitv in the troopers demise-expects to solve several killings which are believad +o pc more or less directly connected With the Wet Wash Laundryhands' strike. The Dropper and his men did
 some work in connection herewith. .L Oiiui lhi Slrl or 16, who threw doWn the Dropper's brother. lzzy kaplan, to take up with Midget Louis Schwartsmann, has disappear ed and the police are believed to have her in their care. The Midget met sudden finish as he was stroll Ing with her. It is believed that Yochkt will be able to give the dis trict attorney some helpful informa- tion.
 Jake Shapiro, convalescent from bullet wounds suffered in a recent gun battle with the Dropper, was ar raigned Thursday for felonous as- sault In the Essex court, outside whose very doors the Dropper mai his death, again was heavily guard ed by reserve nolicemen