WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:11.759 Pmkuler Calm, Buffalo, New York, November twenty sixth, nineteen twenty. 2 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.519 Abraham Yellen, proprietor of a second hand store at number 3 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.879 one ninety four Seneca Street, said the three men entered 4 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:24.399 the store and asked to try on some overcoats. Frank Barnes, 5 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.480 he asserted, was the first man to try on a coat. 6 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:31.960 When told the price of the garment, a disagreement occurred 7 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:35.240 over the payment of the coat. Barnes drew an automatic 8 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.640 revolver from his pocket and told the proprietor of the 9 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:42.240 store he would take the overcoat and everything else. The 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.799 latter said Yellen grappled with the gunman and was shot 11 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:50.840 three times. One of the bullets struck Yelling on the wrist, 12 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.600 the other entering his chest near his heart. The two 13 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.679 companions of the man with the gun stood by and 14 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:02.039 watched the struggle. According to Yellen, when the proprietor fell 15 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:05.239 to the floor, the three men ran from the store. 16 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.359 The trio ran through Seneca Street, turned into Butler Alley, 17 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:15.000 and disappeared. Patrolman Condon heard the shots while standing in 18 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.799 Michigan Street and caught them in as they hurried along 19 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:25.760 Seneca Street. Less than fifteen minutes after the shooting, three 20 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:28.319 men were arrested single handed at the point of a 21 00:01:28.359 --> 00:01:32.920 gun by patrolman Daniel M. Condon at South Division and 22 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:39.079 Pine Streets. Here's the captures, told in Condon's own words. 23 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.319 I was walking in Michigan Avenue near Seneca Street when 24 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:47.000 I heard two shots. I ran towards Seneca Street, but 25 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:49.599 before I reached the corner, a fellow yelled to me 26 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.439 that three men had run out of Yelling's store and 27 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.560 up Butler Alley toward Myrtle Avenue. I doubled back, and 28 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.920 when I got to Myrtle Avenue, I saw the three 29 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.760 men running down the atne. When they saw me, they 30 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.480 ducked into the yard at number forty four Myrtle Avenue 31 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.120 and were headed towards Swan Street. They gained on me 32 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:10.360 and getting over the fence, and I saw them heading 33 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.080 up Swan toward Chestnut Street. When I reached the street, 34 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:17.159 I ran to the corner, and mister Webber, who owns 35 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.960 a hat store, told me the three men ran up 36 00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:23.479 Chestnut to North Division Street and then turned west toward 37 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.840 Main Street. I saw an auto coming along, and I 38 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:29.719 yelled to the driver to take me in. I jumped 39 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.080 on the running board and had him drive up Chestnut 40 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.199 to North Division to Michigan and around the block, but 41 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.039 could find no trace of the trio. I made up 42 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:40.520 my mind that they couldn't have gone far and were 43 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.120 in hiding, and jumped from the auto and ran into 44 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.360 Lindsay's store at number one sixty nine North Division Street 45 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.479 and phoned police headquarters to send a squad down. As 46 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:52.719 I turned from the phone, I saw the three men 47 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.520 slinking along the other side of the street, and I 48 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:59.280 started across the street. I was within fifteen feet of 49 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.039 them when they saw. Brown slipped back into an alleyway 50 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.280 and I saw an automatic in his hand. Drop it 51 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.439 or I'll drop you. I said, here, you can have it, 52 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.599 he said, as he handed it over to me. I 53 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.240 marched them over to Lindsay's store and waited for the 54 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.599 police to come. That's all there was to it, unquote. 55 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.879 They were taken to South Division Street police station. The 56 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.680 men gave the following names, Frank Barnes twenty two years old, Newark, 57 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:33.439 Roy Brown twenty eight and John C. Smith twenty three 58 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:37.080 years old, and, according to the police, identified by Yellen 59 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:41.080 at the hospital last night, as the trio who entered 60 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:45.639 his store. No charge will be preferred against them until 61 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.719 it is established whether Yellen will live. The police state 62 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.960 that when arrested, Barnes had a thirty two caliber revolver 63 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.719 in his possession, from which three bullets had been fired, 64 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:01.240 and that Brown had a twenty five caliber automatic fully loaded. 65 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:06.240 Abraham Yellen is still in critical condition at the Columbus Hospital. 66 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:20.240 His chances for recovery are slight. It is said. November 67 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:28.199 twenty seventh, nineteen twenty Lily and Gussie, twenty two years old, 68 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:32.079 self confessed accomplice of the three men being held on 69 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.879 a murder charge in connection with the shooting of Abraham Yellen, 70 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:39.319 a second hand clothed dealer in his Seneca Street shop, 71 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.519 was taken before Justice Charles B. Sears in Supreme Court 72 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:46.920 today and ordered held as a material witness on twenty 73 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.680 five hundred dollars bail and default of the bail. The 74 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.639 woman was taken to the jail. Following the fixing of bail. 75 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:58.879 The Gussie woman was taken before Assistant District Attorney hoff Hines, 76 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:02.480 who said she he made a lengthy statement concerning the 77 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:07.480 alleged burglarous activities of the three men. She was arrested 78 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:10.800 by detective Sergeants Murphy and Perry, who were sent to 79 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.199 the room occupied by Roy Brown, one of the trio, 80 00:05:14.879 --> 00:05:19.360 whose correct name was given as Raymond Moulford. The correct 81 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.240 names of the other two men are Harold Weber alias 82 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.800 Jack Smith, and Floyd Slover, twenty one years old. Slover 83 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:33.839 gave his name as Barnes. Thursday morning. When arrested, the 84 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.680 men said they'd been staying at the North Division Street 85 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:41.560 address yesterday. Chief of Detective Zimmerman ordered Murphy and Perry 86 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.920 to search the room. They found the girl and brought 87 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:48.560 her to headquarters. Following her statement, she was booked as 88 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.600 a material witness and locked up at the South Division 89 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:56.040 Street station. The girl is being closely guarded in the 90 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.600 women's section of the jail. She said she is twenty 91 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.759 two years years old and married. She said that she 92 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.600 left her husband to go with Barnes and does not 93 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:10.319 know where he is now. Missus Gussie told how several 94 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:14.800 months ago, while working in an Exchange Street restaurant, she 95 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:18.920 first met Brown, who was a railroad switchman. She said 96 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:21.639 that a short time before that she had left her husband, 97 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.279 who she described as a hard working, steady man. Quote. 98 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.319 I was discontented with my husband. There were no children 99 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.000 and I wanted a baby. I guess that's why I 100 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:38.639 left him. Unquote. Missus Gussie related her story for newspapermen 101 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.160 and police officers yesterday at Number two police station, where 102 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:47.319 she was held following her arrest. Quote. It was last 103 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.319 July that Brown and I became acquainted at the restaurant. 104 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.959 She continued, pausing once in a while as her voice 105 00:06:53.959 --> 00:06:57.240 trembled with emotion. We made a date to go to 106 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.439 Crystal Beach, and that same night we had several drinks 107 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:03.600 in company with a lady friend. We missed the boat 108 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.879 and returned to the rooms occupied by the friend and 109 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:10.160 had several more drinks. By the time we were ready 110 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:11.839 to leave, it was too late for me to go 111 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.800 to my room, so Brown rented a room and stayed 112 00:07:14.839 --> 00:07:18.600 there that night. Shortly after that, I went to erie 113 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.800 with him, and there he did his first job. It 114 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:24.040 was a home and he was rewarded with only a 115 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:27.160 few cents. He told me about it and asked me 116 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.519 if I objected, and I asked him what use was 117 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.199 there to object? In Ashtabulah, we broke into two stores 118 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:38.439 after which we went to Cuyahoga Falls and Akron. He 119 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.600 broke into several places and hit on the idea of 120 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.639 taking me along to ward off suspicion. From there, we 121 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:48.480 came back to Buffalo, and after we robbed a place 122 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.079 at Gardenville, we jumped to Saint Louis, then to Vandalia, Missouri, 123 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.720 then to Alton, Illinois. When we ran short of money, 124 00:07:56.759 --> 00:07:59.759 Brown would pull a job for Malton. We went to 125 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.560 Dapolis on the train. Brown lost all of his money 126 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.720 playing cards, but he broke into more stores. He was 127 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:13.160 not very successful, getting little besides groceries. At Cleveland. I 128 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.720 got a job in a restaurant on East ninth Street. 129 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:19.720 There we met Slover and Weber. That was about three 130 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:23.319 weeks ago. One morning, a little while after, Brown came 131 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.279 in the restaurant with a black eye, saying that the 132 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.439 gang had jumped on him. He made me quit my job, 133 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:32.639 but I sneaked back and got my money. After Brown 134 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.000 and four other men held up a drug store and 135 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:38.759 broke into another place, we came to Buffalo. He and 136 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.639 I got here Monday, the other two coming along the 137 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:45.320 next day. Unquote. When asked why she did not leave 138 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:49.080 Mulford alias Brown. The girl sobbed that her things were 139 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.720 in pawn most of the time, and that her trunk 140 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.480 was always checked somewhere where she couldn't get at it. Quote. 141 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.200 I often asked Brown to get a job and be honest, 142 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.720 but each time I suggested it, he would hit me. 143 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.279 When I get out of this, I'm going to Corey, 144 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:06.559 Pennsylvania and live there with my sister. I don't suppose 145 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.200 I'll ever go back to my husband, for he'll probably 146 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:14.039 get a divorce unquote. In her confession, she described to 147 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.440 hold up the men are alleged to have made on 148 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:21.360 a William Street jewelry store Tuesday night. She says Molford 149 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:24.200 threatened to kill her if she ever left him. In 150 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.840 spite of this, she intended to leave on the night 151 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.799 preceding the shooting of Yellen, but said that Moulford had 152 00:09:29.799 --> 00:09:33.639 prevented this by keeping her keys. She states that she 153 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:38.519 was sworn not to divulge Moulford's real name, and describing 154 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:41.399 the actions of the three men, the girl said they 155 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:45.159 had not been working together very long. She said Weber 156 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:48.679 joined the other two last Sunday, and Moulford and Slover 157 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.320 have teamed together for three weeks. She said that she 158 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:55.080 was still in the rooming house when Yellen was shot 159 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.519 and knew nothing about it until later. Assistant District Attorney 160 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:03.000 Hoffhanm said he will ask the local police to check 161 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.480 the activities of the three men as described in the 162 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:11.480 girl's alleged confession. The trail of hold ups, as described 163 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.799 by the girl, extends from Saint Paul, Minnesota, almost to 164 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:21.840 New York City and includes Detroit, Cleveland, Saint Louis, Lancaster, 165 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:28.440 Niagara Falls, Gardenville, Akron, Ohio, and Toledo, Ohio. According to 166 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:32.559 her story, they choose jewelry stores and business houses as 167 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.240 their quarries. When the stage was set for a hold up, 168 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:38.919 the girl said she would take a position outside of 169 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.840 the building and act as a lookout while the three 170 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:47.519 men went inside and committed the thefts. One time, in Gardenville, 171 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.440 Lilian said that she fired two shots at a man, 172 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.759 and she is confident that one struck him. At another time, 173 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:57.320 she took a couple of parting shots at one of 174 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:01.240 their victims. In Lancaster, the girl said that she and 175 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.600 her three companions had discussed when and where they would 176 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.320 pull the next job and had decided that Thanksgiving Day 177 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:11.399 would be a good day. She said that the three 178 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:14.679 men were looking for a desirable jewelry store when they 179 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:19.519 entered mister Yellen's place on Seneca Street. The girl said 180 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.039 she was in her room Thursday morning when the three 181 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.519 men started out to get some money. Their intentions were 182 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:29.200 to stick up a jewelry store. The girl admitted she 183 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:31.559 does not know how they came to enter the second 184 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.399 hand store and shoot the proprietor. The Gussie girl will 185 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.279 be questioned further today. In the meantime, photographs of the 186 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:42.240 trio have been sent to every city mentioned by the 187 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.440 girl in an effort to connect the trio with many 188 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:50.720 crimes committed recently. Following the death late yesterday afternoon of 189 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:54.240 mister Yellen, the three men were turned over to Assistant 190 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.759 District Attorney Hoff Hinds, who put them through a stiff grilling. 191 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.799 They told conflicting store and were sent to the jail 192 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:07.039 on charges of assault first degree and attempted robbery. They 193 00:12:07.080 --> 00:12:11.639 were held without bail. Charges of murder were later placed 194 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:20.240 against them. Overcome with rage at the man who is 195 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.480 alleged to shot their father, Abraham Yellen, Jack and Max 196 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:28.120 Yellen attempted to beat up Floyd Slover, twenty one years 197 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.159 old in city court. Today, the Yellen boys are all 198 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.480 well known here. Jack, who is best known as a 199 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:40.240 popular songwriter, is also a former newspaperman. He wrote the 200 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:44.360 hit song Are You from Dixie. Max is a lawyer 201 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:49.679 and graduate of Cornell University. Hiram is a physician. The 202 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:54.320 other sons are Irving Morris and Samuel. A daughter, Martha, 203 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:59.759 also survives the deceased. Abraham Yellen was a leader in 204 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.960 real religious and philanthropic work in the East Side community. 205 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.840 Although himself a businessman, he was well known as a 206 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.639 Talmudic and Hebrew scholar. At the time of his death, 207 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:14.279 he was the head of the Chevret Michionet, a biblical 208 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:20.039 society at Brith Sholom Synagogue. Mister Yellen was forty seven 209 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.480 years old. His wife, Bessie Yellen, died only four months 210 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.960 ago at the age of forty six. The couple, with 211 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.320 their three oldest children, came to this country from Russia 212 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:36.360 in eighteen ninety six, having fled to escape the persecutions 213 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:40.279 of the Russian government. That year, mister Yellen opened a 214 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.039 shoe store at Number one ninety four and a half 215 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:47.080 Seneca Street. He later opened a clothing store next door, 216 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.600 and was in business continually in that section for twenty 217 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:53.399 four years. He was one of the founders of the 218 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:57.360 Buffalo Hebrew School and several times an official of Brith 219 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:01.960 Sholom Synagogue. He was a liberal contributor to Jewish charities, 220 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:07.360 particularly in more relief work. Max said that his mother 221 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.360 had died a few months ago, and the death of 222 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.480 his father was a blow he could hardly stand. He said, 223 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:22.759 quote it was nothing but cold blooded murder. Fully, two 224 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.960 hours before the trial, the two Yellen boys and a 225 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:30.639 third brother, doctor Hiram, paced restlessly in front of the courthouse. 226 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.399 According to the police, word was given to probationary Officer 227 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:39.960 Chase that doctor Hiram Yellen, another brother, was standing in 228 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.679 the corridor outside the courtroom door. D h. Yellen was 229 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.240 standing outside the courtroom door with a revolver in his pocket. 230 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:53.000 The police were notified and doctor Yellen was escorted to 231 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:56.679 the District Attorney's office, where he was searched by Assistant 232 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:01.000 District Attorney Marvin Marcus. It has led that the revolver 233 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.600 of the army type was found in one of the 234 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.320 man's pockets who was taken away from him, and he 235 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.799 was not held after producing a permit to carry the gun. 236 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.879 City Hall deputies were hastily called and were stationed at 237 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:19.120 vantage points throughout the corridor leading to Part five of 238 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:23.840 the building where the arrangement was held. As the men, 239 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.720 one of them handcuffed the Chief of Detectives, Charles F. Zimmerman, 240 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.320 and the other two handcuffed together were led into the 241 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:34.759 City Court building. The Yellen brothers stepped out from the 242 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:40.240 crowd police say and struck Slover in the face. Patrol mccasey, 243 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:43.759 who was in charge of the two handcuff prisoners, Raymond 244 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:47.360 Mulford and Harold Weber, grabbed the two Yellen brothers and 245 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:51.519 quieting them allowed them to enter the courtroom. The trio 246 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:55.320 were arranged on murder charges before Judge Hartzell, while the 247 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:58.120 Yellen brothers sat in the front rows of seats in 248 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:02.480 the courtroom, surrounded by friends uns. The court proceedings were 249 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:06.519 very brief as the men stood before the bar. Judge Hartzell, 250 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.320 in a modulated tone, told the men that they were 251 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:12.720 charged with murder first degree. He asked, how do you 252 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:17.399 plead guilty or not guilty? Not guilty was the response 253 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.159 from all. Then the court arranged for an adjournment for 254 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:23.679 a week. When one of the prisoners said that a 255 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:28.000 week would be satisfactory to him, Max Yellen, losing control 256 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:31.159 of himself, asked what right he had to say about 257 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:35.720 the trial arrangements. The case was adjourned until next Friday, 258 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:39.960 and the officers with their prisoners made preparations to leave 259 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.120 the room. Just as they were passing through the gate 260 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.360 in the wooden railing that divides the court room, court 261 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.600 attendants say the Yellen brothers leaped up and rained blows 262 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:55.080 upon Slover's face and head. Before the enraged brother could 263 00:16:55.200 --> 00:17:01.080 be controlled, Slover received a severe battering, was bleeding. He 264 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:04.880 received a cut below one eye, and his eyes were blackened. 265 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:09.000 Patrolmen Casey and Condon were ordered to arrest the Yellen 266 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.200 brothers on charges of contemptive court, and several minutes later 267 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:17.119 they were arraigned and discharged by Judge Hartzell. The two 268 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:19.759 men pleaded that they had been blinded with rage at 269 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:22.240 the man who was alleged to have fired the shot 270 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:25.519 that resulted in the death of their aged father, and 271 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.000 as their mother had died less than a year ago, 272 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.960 they became filled with anger at the man. The men 273 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:38.319 were reprimanded, police say, and then discharged. Extra precautions were 274 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.480 taken by the city court authorities to guard the prisoners 275 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.759 from the wrath of the friends of the dead man. 276 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.880 During both attacks, the handcuffed men were powerless to defend 277 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:51.359 themselves from the raining blows, which fell with a vengeance 278 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.640 upon their bare heads. They attempted to shield themselves behind 279 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:58.640 the patrolmen who were guarding them, but the attack was 280 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:01.079 said to have been so suddenly that the guards were 281 00:18:01.079 --> 00:18:04.880 caught unawares. For several minutes, the courtroom was in an 282 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.319 uproar as the crowds of friends of the elderly yelling 283 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.799 called for vengeance on the three men accused of the crime. 284 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:17.319 Patrolman Daniel Condon, who had brought the trio to the courtroom, 285 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:19.599 was about to lead them out of the room, which 286 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:23.759 was filled with spectators. Max Yellen, who had been standing 287 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.960 near the rail with flushed face, cried out the dirty skunks. 288 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:31.240 As he uttered these words, they stepped forward and made 289 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.720 a lunge at Whitey's slover, the man who was alleged 290 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:38.000 to have shot his father. He swung at the men 291 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:41.160 several times before Patrolman case he could get through the 292 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:46.599 crowd and stop him. Meanwhile, Jack Yellen, popular songwriter who 293 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.319 had been outside, wedged himself through the crowded doorway and 294 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:53.599 struck Whitey a blow in the face that discolored his 295 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.359 eye and started the blood flowing from his nose. Then 296 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:02.119 Detective Chief Zimmerman stepped forward and probationary Officer Chase took 297 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:05.960 hold of Jack. The court was in an uproar during 298 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:12.319 the performance, many cheering the attackers. Judge Hartzell ordered the 299 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.519 Yellens held in the judge's chamber until they had cooled. 300 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:20.119 The prisoners accepted the charge against them as if it 301 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.640 were a common offense. They were brought into court handcuffed 302 00:19:24.640 --> 00:19:29.720 to Chief Zimmerman declared, Judge Hartzell, I sympathize with you 303 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:32.839 in your grief, but the law has to take its course. 304 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.599 The contempt charge was dismissed later when both sons of 305 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:42.440 the dead man apologized to the court. After the prisoner 306 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:46.079 had returned to the county jail, the Yellens were dismissed. 307 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:52.359 In the courtroom corridor, Jack Yellen met Patrolman Condon. Congratulations, 308 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.880 old man. He said, that was a fine catch. The 309 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:01.200 officer modestly acknowledged the word with a smile. The demonstration 310 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.759 in the courtroom this morning was not the first one. 311 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.519 On Thanksgiving night, the prisoners were beaten up by the 312 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.799 Yellens and their friends and the lobby of the Columbus Hospital. 313 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:15.240 Police were unable to cope with the situation until after 314 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:19.640 bodily harm had been done to the prisoners. They previously 315 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.319 had been identified by mister Yellen as he lay on 316 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:27.839 his deathbed in the hospital ward as his assailants, Captain 317 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:32.160 Crehan and Detective Parry and Murphy finally quieted the youths 318 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.839 down after they had beaten the prisoners severely. 319 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:41.000 To avoid future commercial interruptions, visit us at www dot 320 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:46.279 patreon dot com slash true Crime Historian. For as little 321 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.200 as a dollar a week, you can enjoy full access 322 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:54.200 to the true crime historian Dusty Vault, exclusive episodes, and 323 00:20:54.319 --> 00:21:01.680 whatever personal services you require. That's www dot Patreon slash 324 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:03.240 true Crime Historian. 325 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.640 While civil service rules have their good points, even the 326 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.640 most ardent supporters of the system are numbered among the 327 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.160 citizens of Buffalo who feel that prompt promotion of Patrolman 328 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:23.119 Daniel Condon of the second Precinct is the most fitting 329 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.759 reward for his stellar performance of Thursday, when he caught 330 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:29.960 three men now held on a charge of murder for 331 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:34.559 the alleged shooting of Abraham Yellen. The capture by Patrolman 332 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:39.480 Condon is unexcelled in local police annals. Coming at a 333 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.440 time when the morale of the police department, because of 334 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:48.000 recent developments, is indisputably weak, and when public confidence is tottering, 335 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:51.559 his lone capture of three men who have confessed to 336 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.119 bad records has had the effect of reviving trust and 337 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.640 reliance in the police. It has also stimulated the pride 338 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:03.799 in the not alone among outsiders, but among the uniform 339 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.759 men as well. In the promptness and alertness of mind 340 00:22:07.799 --> 00:22:12.079 which Patrolman Condon showed in making the notable capture, he 341 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:15.920 has shown a nobility for higher position and responsibility that 342 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.400 the Buffalo Police Department, for its own sake, should take 343 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:20.119 advantage of. 344 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:21.160 It. 345 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:26.799 Combined quick action, alertness of mind, perseverance and gameness essential 346 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:40.759 qualities of the real cop. November twenty ninth, nineteen twenty. 347 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.640 Don't worry, father, we will get the men who killed you. 348 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:50.680 They won't live long. These were the words spoken in 349 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:54.480 a voice of strong emotion by doctor Hiram S. Yellen 350 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.400 as he stood by the open grave of his father, 351 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.599 Abraham Yellen, shot by bans on Thanksgiving Day. As the 352 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.680 sun made the vow, hundreds of mourners gathered around at 353 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.079 the burial wept in sympathy with the berough sons, whose 354 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:15.079 father had been torn from them by the hand of 355 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:21.480 robber assassins. Three thousand persons assembled to pay tribute to 356 00:23:21.559 --> 00:23:26.039 the memory of Abraham Yellen. The funeral procession was the 357 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.000 largest in the history of the East Side Jewish community, 358 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.559 where the victim of a murderer's bullet resided for twenty 359 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.559 four years, and where he was regarded as one of 360 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:40.759 the leading citizens of Orthodox Jewry in the city. Long 361 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:44.240 before the hour set for the funeral, an immense throng 362 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:47.400 gathered in front of the Yelling residence in Cedar Street. 363 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.359 Sidewalks and street were jammed, while hundreds of automobiles lined 364 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:57.000 the curb for blocks in the immediate vicinity. The crowd 365 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:00.640 finally became so great that a squad of police were 366 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:06.319 detailed to the scene. Traffic in William Street was temporarily 367 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:10.319 suspended as the procession passed from the family residence to 368 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.680 the Brith shol And Synagogue in Pine Street. Behind the 369 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.920 hearst trudged hundreds of aged men and women. A crowd 370 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.599 of fifteen hundred stood outside the synagogue when the doors 371 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:25.400 were closed, because every inch of standing room had been 372 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:30.440 filled inside. Imprecautions and cries for vengeance on the cold 373 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.799 blooded murders of the innocent victim mingled with the wailings 374 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:39.759 of the mourners. The synagogue, which had been gaily decked 375 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:43.240 in honor of the Zionist convention, was stripped of its 376 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.640 festive regalia for the sad event. The body was carried 377 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:51.240 into the house of worship, a privilege which, according to 378 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:55.240 Orthodox Jewish custom, is accorded only to men of great 379 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:59.480 piety and prominence. In the history of this synagogue, the 380 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.440 oldest on the East Side, this privilege has been extended 381 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:08.519 on only one other occasion. The Reverend H. Singer, for years, 382 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:13.119 an intimate friend of the deceased, and Rabbi Nekin, prominent 383 00:25:13.240 --> 00:25:17.759 Zionist of Columbus, Ohio, delivered the funeral orations in which 384 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:23.079 the decease was eulogized for his philanthropy and piety Canter 385 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:28.480 Samuel Arluck chanted El Molum Rochman Prayer for the Dead, 386 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:34.319 repeating it on behalf of the congregation Chevre Kadesha, Chevre Kadesha, 387 00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:40.799 Chevrey Nishnaios and Chevre to Helim Synagogue, societies with which 388 00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:44.440 the decease was closely identified. He was the teacher of 389 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:49.279 the Chevre Mishnaios, a society for Talmudic study, and founder 390 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:52.559 of the Chevre to Helim. The latter organization will stand 391 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:57.000 as a unique monument to mister Yellen's memory. Originally founded 392 00:25:57.079 --> 00:25:59.680 as a prayer group which had laid emphasis on the 393 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:02.839 Song of David under his guidance, it developed into a 394 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:07.240 charity organization which used the funds accumulated through dues and 395 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:12.039 contributions to assist needy individuals by means of unsecured, interest 396 00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:17.079 free loans. The nominal dues, amounting to several pennies a week, 397 00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.519 have grown to a fund of several thousands of dollars, 398 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:23.559 which has proved a blessing to many a poor man 399 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:28.680 in the hour of financial stress. Mister Yellen was laid 400 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:31.799 to rest in the breath Stoleham Cemetery at Pine Hill, 401 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.079