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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Standard Union, August 14, 1928
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:18:39 -0400
Brooklyn Standard Union, 14 August 1928
GAS EXPLOSION STIRS FLATBUSH FAMILY INJURED; BUILDER DYING, WIFE AND DAUGHTER UNCONSCIOUS FROM LEAK IN PIPE; NEIGHBORS IN FLIGHT; BLAST TEARS OUT FRONT OF HOUSE POLICE CARRY OUT THREE INJURED.
Explosion of gas from a leaky meter to-day probably fatally burned Samuel EISENSTAT, 47of 15-97 East Thirty-sixth street, Vanderveer Park, Flatbush; injured his wife and daughter, wrecked their home, jarred scores of members of thirty neighboring families and smashed many windows within a radius of a block.
Reported in critical condition at Coney Island Hospital, EISENSTAT, who is reputed to be a prosperous builder, was unable to tell police just what happened. He is thought to have lit a match when he went into the cellar to hunt the source of the fumes that had annoyed the family. The cellar was filled with gas that had accumulated from a small leak in the meter which police later located.
WOMAN SLAIN, BODY IN GETTER; DEATH MYSTERY; NO MARKS OF VIOLENCE, AND POLICE ADVANCE THEIRY OF POISONING.
Two mysterious deaths, one of an attractive blonde woman, the other of a middle-aged man, were problems for the police to solve to-day.
The young woman, unidentified, about 25 years old, was found dead at midnight at the edge of a gutter in Twelfth avenue, a hundred feet north of Sixty-fifth street, Bay Ridge.
ADVANCE POISON THEORY
Detectives Raymond HONAN and Angelo TREZZA of Fort Hamilton station speculated on the theory that she may have been poisoned and the body carried in an automobile to the place where it was found, a lonely spot, at night. No marks of violence were found on the body and there was no sign anywhere of a struggle.
BODY TAKEN TO MORGUE
The body was taken to Kings County morgue by Dr. FUSSO, of Norwegian Hospital. Dr. Gregory ROBILLARD, county medical examiner, will determine to-day whether or not she was murdered.
The victim was five feet four inches tall, weighed 125 pounds, with blonde, bobbed hair and fair complexion. She wore a one-piece olive-green dress, black underskirt, flesh-colored stockings and black patent-leather pumps.
Michael SIMISCALLO, 18, of 1258 Sixty-fourth street, discovered the body and notified police.
SECOND MYSTERY DEATH
The other mystery death, caused by a skull fracture, occurred at Kings County Hospital, after Frank C. ARMSTRONG, of 1634 Sheepshead Bay court, saw the feet of a man protruding from some shrubbery at Albemarle road and Veronica place. The victim, unconscious, died an hour later. He was identified later as Frank McKNIGHT, 35, no home. Police belie[ve]d thugs had blackjacked the man and cast him into the concealment where he was found. His pockets were empty.
Transcribed by L.H. Crawley
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