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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union July 9, 1929 - Court News
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:47:28 -0400
Brooklyn Standard Union July 9, 1929 - Court News
WOMAN, 2 MEN SENTENCED IN CHILD NEGLECT.
Doctor Must Serve Year - Infant Left on Step
Three persons, recently convicted of having willfully permitted the life
and health of a child to be endangered, were sentenced to jail terms of
one year by Judge Lewis J. SMITH today in Nassau County Court at
Mineola. Judge SMITH, however, suspended execution of sentence in two
of the case, placing the two defendants, a man and women, on probation
for a period of two years.
The third defendant, Dr. Henry PFLUG, of 855 Fresh Pond road, Ridgewood,
L.I., will have to serve his one-year term in Westchester County
penitentiary. The man and woman place on probation are Valentine ZAHN,
PFLUG's chauffeur, and Mrs. Anna FITZGERALD, proprietress of the Shelton
Arms, Jamaica, L.I.
It is charged that on April 14, three days after a baby had been born to
Mrs. Tessie NOONAN, a widow, of 2529 Madison avenue, Ridgewood, L.I., Dr
PFLUG, ZAHN and Mrs. FITZGERALD took the child to the home of Mrs.
FITZGERALD's sister, Mrs. Ann ZUPER, at Valley Stream, L.I. If is
alleged the baby was wrapped in a blanket and place on the doorstep of
Mrs. ZUPER's home by PFLUG, ZAHN and Mrs. FITZGERALD, who then went away
without notifying Mrs. ZUPER that they had left the child.
The baby was discovered a little later in the day. The baby is said to
be in good health. PFLUG was a guest at the Shelton ARMS on April 14.
STEEPLEJACK IN COURT
Arraigned before Judge J. THORP in Rockville Centre Municipal Court on a
charge of disorderly conduct, John BOHN, 32, a steeplejack, was held for
trial to-night. When Patrolman Al BUTTNER responded to a call near
BOHN's home he said he found the steeplejack using indecent language and
when he refused to go home, place him under arrest.
Transcribed for the Brooklyn Info Pages by Chris Hendrickson
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