New York Sun, April 19, 1937, p.2
1937
“…arrested for the murder…”
New York Post, March 26, 1937, p.9
Synchroflash
Fellig is examining a police wagon to see if there is anything inside that might be worth photographing. He often gets hitches on the back of police vehicles to the scene of a crime or disaster.
Morgan, Willard D., Synchroflash Photography, New York, Morgan and Lester, 1939
“…A New York Free Lance Photographs the News”
Striking Seaman Stanley Sumsky Sits…
Life, November 22, 1937, p. 72
Striking Seaman Sits Down in River
For his own private sit-down strike Stanley Sumsky, seaman, built himself a raft a couple of weeks ago, floated it at midnight down the Manhattan side of New York’s East River…
Life, November 22, 1937 p. 72
“Tenement Tragedy…”
Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24
Life on the American Newsfront: Tenement Tragedy is Senate Object Lesson
Torrential rains fell on New York City, Aug. 11. On a cobblestone alley in a dreary little Staten Island valley they flooded the cellar of a 50-year-old factory which had been converted into a six-flat tenement….
Life, August 23, 1937, p. 24
“Striking teachers…”
Life, July 12, 1937, p. 29
Striking teachers occasioned New York’s liveliest WPA demonstration of the week…
Life, July 12, 1937, p. 29
“Freed in 50-Cent Stabbing”
“They All Laughed”; Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra; Ozzie Nelson; Ira and George Gershwin; Bluebird (B-6873-B); Publication date: March 12, 1937
Daily Argus, March 12, 1937, (Unidentified Photographer)
Freed in 50-Cent Stabbing
Mrs. Anna Sheehan quarreled with her husband, who earned $30 [$599 in Feb. 2022] a week, last New Year’s Eve, because he had spent 50 cents [$9.99 in Feb. 2022] for a beer. In the course of the quarrel [Mr.] Sheehan was stabbed with a kitchen knife. He died of the wound. Mrs. Sheehan, charged with the death, shown with their three children, was acquitted by a jury in Queens County Court, New York City, after five hours’ deliberation.
“Where or When (Donde y Cuando)”; Ruby Newman & his Rainbow Room Orch.; Ray Heatherton; Lorenz Hart; Richard Rodgers; Victor (25546-A); Publication date: March 12, 1937
“It Was Our First Quarrel”
“Mean to Me”; Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra; Billie Holiday; Teddy Wilson; Johnny Hodges; Lester Young; Buck Clayton; Cozy Cole; Allan Reuss; Artie Bernstein; Turk; Ahlert; Brunswick (7903); 1937
“I Must Have That Man!”; Teddy Wilson and his Orchestr; Billie Holiday; Teddy Wilson; John Jackson; Lester Young; Joe Jones; Walter Page; Buck Clayton; Freddie Green; Fields; McHugh; Brunswick (7859); 1937
The New York Post, January 2, 1937 (Photo by Weegee.)
“IT WAS OUR FIRST QUARREL”
Mrs. Anna Sheehan, widow, left police headquarters, her eyes wet from a night of weeping, after being charged with the fatal stabbing of her husband, Joseph, aftermath of a New Year’s party.
3 KIDS DON”T KNOW MOTHER SLEW DAD
Weeping Woman Tells How New Year’s Spending Led to Stabbing
The New York Post, January 2, 1937
“(I Got A Man, Crazy For Me) He’s Funny That Way”; Billie Holiday and her Orchestra; Billie Holiday; Buck Clayton; Buster Bailey; Lester Young; Claude Thornhill; Freddie Green; Walter Page; Jo Jones; Whiting; Moret; Columbia (37495); 1937
The New York Times, January 2, 1937
MAN SLAIN BY WIFE OVER $2 FOR PARTY
New Year’s Eve Celebration Exceeds Budget Outlay and Woman Wields Knife
ACCIDENTAL, SHE ASSERTS
Trips to Tavern Cause Argument That Ends in Tussle and Death in Kitchen
“I’ll Never Be The Same”; Billy Holiday; Teddy Wilson’s Orch.; Malneck; Signorelli; Kahn; Lester Young; Buck Clayton; Buster Bailey; Teddy Wilson; Freddie Green; Walter Page; Joe Jones; Blue Ace (243 B); 1937
Long Island Daily Press, January 2, 1937 (Unidentified photographers.)
Slayer of Husband Sobs Her Story
Mrs. Anna Sheehan, 26, of Manhattan, tells Assistant District Attorney Edmund Rowan of events leading to the fatal stabbing of her husband, Joseph, 30, at a New Year’s party in Flushing. Below are the three Sheehan children, who do not know their father is dead and their mother in jail.. They are, left to right, Joseph, 15 months, John, 7, and William, 2.
Long Island Daily Press, January 2, 1937
“Why Was I Born?”; Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra; Billie Holiday; Teddy Wilson; John Jackson; Lester Young; Joe Jones; Walter Page; Buck Clayton; Freddie Green; Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; Jerome Kern; Brunswick (7859); 1937
“SEIZED AS FIREBUG”
The New York Sun, Monday, April 19, 1937, P. 2 (Photo by A. Fellig)
(On this day in history… 84 years ago today… a prewar portrait published…)
“Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan’s lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared up a series of incendiary fires that have terrorized Bronx dwellers for two years. Firebug Preston carefully guided them, past locations where incendiary fires resulted fatally, pointed only to addresses where no lives were lost. Said the police: “These incendiary fires have caused us more worry than any five murderers.”
Time, April 26, 1937
PM, April 18, 1941
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