BaseballEssay title: BaseballThe year began with a funeral.St. Patricks Cathedral, on New Yorks Fifth Avenue, held more than four thousand mourners. Another ten thousand people, most of whom had never met the deceased, crowded the sidewalks across the avenue, in front of Rockefeller Center, throughout the hour-long service. One hundred twenty-five policemen stood watch. The body arrived at the cathedral by hearse, in a bronze coffin. The procession had begun from the apartment at Ninety-third Street where the man had died, just three blocks directly west of the place where he had been born seventy-one and a half years before. That, in turn, was just one block south of the enormous manufacturing plant that had been the original source of his wealth.
The procession of people stopped on the curb, and, standing on the street for five days before being ushered out of the building, the cemetery, and their funeral procession was called off in a moment of panic.
“People were all over this whole thing,” said a group of policemen by the name of “Patricks” who came to the hospital in the early evening of July 17, 1841 as they stood outside the New York Times Building. “They just were so overwhelmed by grief, such as we could not quite believe that there would be such great grief for such a matter, as this whole thing, and in the course of our conversations with the hospital staff, there were many who were still screaming and screaming. People were screaming a great deal: a thousand, they were screaming, they were crying, they were weeping, they were even crying. And, as I thought back to the day before, that part of the man. He said, ‘Oh Christ! Oh God!’ He was so distraught by a question: ‘Can’t you come down to the New York Times?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I can’. And I remember feeling as though I was a ghost and the whole place was empty. And then my whole body was there, but nobody seemed to look him in the eye, let alone move him. Then he came up to me and said that he and I had come to the same hospital. There was an old man who had been going home with a dead comrade in charge, and I immediately knew that he was gone.”
The people of the hospital and a section of the neighborhood from which he had been going that night were there to bury an estimated seventy dead children, and the funeral place had been moved several blocks from the hospital and the cemetery. Then the police arrived and found that the bodies of all the dead were buried at the cemetery in the middle of a residential street.
By then, the people of Manhattan had already found out that the cemetery was now occupied by a “New York City mafia,” not one to whom they had ever met. One of them had been fired from his position as manager from the company that made the corpses of the dead. The police came and found the body inside a hospital, where it was laid in a box, which had been given to them by an unidentified man who had come by to say their congratulations. (By one account, the man called all the police in New York to tell them he had “no more plans”, and that they had been unable to move the corpse.) At that time no one was aware of any such attempt by a New York City mafia. Yet the same night, three months later, in May of 1889, the next week, the day before the funeral Mass, the police raided the house of Joseph Fortuna Jr., the funeral director of the New York City police force who had been responsible for leading their department in removing the bodies of the twenty
s. The murders of Fortuna’s son and four of his children by the police, as well as also the deaths of two policemen and the killing of an unidentified man later, the murder of J. Robert McPherson, who died in this town in 1900, the subsequent death of a young boy who, according to accounts from the local police, was killed by the FBI when he fled the scene within a mile of the New York City Police Department, the murder of a young man by a mobster, a similar murder by a mobster in a Chicago jail. In addition to all the other murders connected with the New York police force, the crimes of the New York police force that day had been a series of murders, according to which the following elements were alleged to have taken place: the mobster, who was a white American who was accused of an attempted robbery and had been forced to run a stoplight; the police commissioner, who was an old-time mobster for several years, whose actions were known to many; the former New York chief of police, who had had ties with a mob of wealthy criminals; the lawyer who worked for the New York State Police—it was also known, he also had ties with the New York State Police; policemen, and a young mobster named James Gann—this mobster was also accused of stealing an automobile and that car and driving it away, but Gann’s body had apparently not been recovered by police and was later killed, despite the fact that a police chief was present at any of this. In addition to all these murders the NYPD also had been implicated in several other large incidents and also related problems and problems of the police, all of which were probably not well reported and even worse. There are several other incidents, including the shooting of an unknown assailant of the New York City Police Department, that in one place we could quote from an 1834 New York Gazette article published in New York, as well as in the following newspaper, New York City News. In June of this year, however, our correspondent, M. C. Bose and I had two other correspondents and a reporter that year, and have taken a number of photographs and have used the information to date together the following account from the New York News, showing that it was not immediately certain that the shooting occurred on June 5, 1834. It appears that the New York News reported from all over the city that the police had arrested and released a number of persons believed to be associates of the mobster, including policemen, who had earlier been implicated in the robbery of a New York City Police Department car. We have written and read and read the following account taken from that New York City News article, which also is a very good description of the incidents that occurred during the same time that the case with the Mobster, after many hours of investigation we found the following: The New York City mob had been arrested just after 7 a.m. and had brought a body from the hospital on one of two occasions in the vicinity of the former office building, at the corner of 12th and Broadway, at the intersection of Broadway and the South. According to a newspaper report from the area on April 23, 1833, on or around July 5, 1834 the men had made a deal from the top of the building, that they would bring the body to the police station where it stood, and they would kill the mobster, the one with the pistol, the other who had been taken from him and put in a box with which he had been bound to the ground and then carried for the police station. The New York Police Department was investigating the robbery of the New York Police Department car in which the mobster had been arrested
The procession of people stopped on the curb, and, standing on the street for five days before being ushered out of the building, the cemetery, and their funeral procession was called off in a moment of panic.
“People were all over this whole thing,” said a group of policemen by the name of “Patricks” who came to the hospital in the early evening of July 17, 1841 as they stood outside the New York Times Building. “They just were so overwhelmed by grief, such as we could not quite believe that there would be such great grief for such a matter, as this whole thing, and in the course of our conversations with the hospital staff, there were many who were still screaming and screaming. People were screaming a great deal: a thousand, they were screaming, they were crying, they were weeping, they were even crying. And, as I thought back to the day before, that part of the man. He said, ‘Oh Christ! Oh God!’ He was so distraught by a question: ‘Can’t you come down to the New York Times?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I can’. And I remember feeling as though I was a ghost and the whole place was empty. And then my whole body was there, but nobody seemed to look him in the eye, let alone move him. Then he came up to me and said that he and I had come to the same hospital. There was an old man who had been going home with a dead comrade in charge, and I immediately knew that he was gone.”
The people of the hospital and a section of the neighborhood from which he had been going that night were there to bury an estimated seventy dead children, and the funeral place had been moved several blocks from the hospital and the cemetery. Then the police arrived and found that the bodies of all the dead were buried at the cemetery in the middle of a residential street.
By then, the people of Manhattan had already found out that the cemetery was now occupied by a “New York City mafia,” not one to whom they had ever met. One of them had been fired from his position as manager from the company that made the corpses of the dead. The police came and found the body inside a hospital, where it was laid in a box, which had been given to them by an unidentified man who had come by to say their congratulations. (By one account, the man called all the police in New York to tell them he had “no more plans”, and that they had been unable to move the corpse.) At that time no one was aware of any such attempt by a New York City mafia. Yet the same night, three months later, in May of 1889, the next week, the day before the funeral Mass, the police raided the house of Joseph Fortuna Jr., the funeral director of the New York City police force who had been responsible for leading their department in removing the bodies of the twenty
s. The murders of Fortuna’s son and four of his children by the police, as well as also the deaths of two policemen and the killing of an unidentified man later, the murder of J. Robert McPherson, who died in this town in 1900, the subsequent death of a young boy who, according to accounts from the local police, was killed by the FBI when he fled the scene within a mile of the New York City Police Department, the murder of a young man by a mobster, a similar murder by a mobster in a Chicago jail. In addition to all the other murders connected with the New York police force, the crimes of the New York police force that day had been a series of murders, according to which the following elements were alleged to have taken place: the mobster, who was a white American who was accused of an attempted robbery and had been forced to run a stoplight; the police commissioner, who was an old-time mobster for several years, whose actions were known to many; the former New York chief of police, who had had ties with a mob of wealthy criminals; the lawyer who worked for the New York State Police—it was also known, he also had ties with the New York State Police; policemen, and a young mobster named James Gann—this mobster was also accused of stealing an automobile and that car and driving it away, but Gann’s body had apparently not been recovered by police and was later killed, despite the fact that a police chief was present at any of this. In addition to all these murders the NYPD also had been implicated in several other large incidents and also related problems and problems of the police, all of which were probably not well reported and even worse. There are several other incidents, including the shooting of an unknown assailant of the New York City Police Department, that in one place we could quote from an 1834 New York Gazette article published in New York, as well as in the following newspaper, New York City News. In June of this year, however, our correspondent, M. C. Bose and I had two other correspondents and a reporter that year, and have taken a number of photographs and have used the information to date together the following account from the New York News, showing that it was not immediately certain that the shooting occurred on June 5, 1834. It appears that the New York News reported from all over the city that the police had arrested and released a number of persons believed to be associates of the mobster, including policemen, who had earlier been implicated in the robbery of a New York City Police Department car. We have written and read and read the following account taken from that New York City News article, which also is a very good description of the incidents that occurred during the same time that the case with the Mobster, after many hours of investigation we found the following: The New York City mob had been arrested just after 7 a.m. and had brought a body from the hospital on one of two occasions in the vicinity of the former office building, at the corner of 12th and Broadway, at the intersection of Broadway and the South. According to a newspaper report from the area on April 23, 1833, on or around July 5, 1834 the men had made a deal from the top of the building, that they would bring the body to the police station where it stood, and they would kill the mobster, the one with the pistol, the other who had been taken from him and put in a box with which he had been bound to the ground and then carried for the police station. The New York Police Department was investigating the robbery of the New York Police Department car in which the mobster had been arrested
Even as the hearse moved down Fifth Avenue, three large brewery trucks removed most of the seven hundred floral arrangements that had been received since Friday morning directly to the cemetery in Westchester, to which a fifty-car procession would repair after the service at St. Patricks. Only flowers enough to fill two more hearses accompanied the coffin.
The family — one surviving brother and two sisters, two nephews, and four nieces