New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1923, Page 12

waved the staunch forty in. They trooped silently up the stairs and passed one by one in front of the cof- fin where Kid Dropper's pale, white face gleamed under two waving can- dlelights. The the Kid's wife came up and with a scream reached fo her husband's face: “They killed my darling, they killed my darling! May God hear me, he \ didn't know the man who killed him. They're taking my Jack to his grave, to his grave. Oh, why did they kill that good man!" Aunts Join in Dirge There came the low keening answer of the Dropper's aunts sitting on a bench against the wall of the little chapel. “Comschooldiger schooldiger korbin!™ “A mensch tzuyishen menschen!" “Why did they kill my man?" There was a long delay, feet shuf- fiing nervously, Madison street in its \Flushing. best stiff clothes restlessly pushing in When the Dropper, or all that was | and out of pews and over all the keen- mortal of him, left the asphalt of |ing of the women. At last the ten- New York and passed over the|sjon broke as Rabbi Grossman of Har- Queensboro Bridge he passed over|lem stood up. ‘Welfare Island (Blackwell's TIsland “Control yourselve to the Dropper) with his back turned. | evident nervousness, It was the first time in the Kid's| selves.” history that he missed seeing a| Then as rapidly as possible he re- cited Tefilla La Mosha, a prayer to Moses and the $8rd Psalm of David. Mrs. Kaplan's voice had died to a croon, the rabbl finished and every- body stood up. There was a quick herding out, into the automobiles and cabs and with a motorcycle patrol- | man setting the pace, with detectives | riding back and forward. The Drop- per's body raced toward the cemetery. There was no stopping. Traffic | was held up—three leisurely funerals were passed—four little girls in white, riding to the first communion, were a POLICE ‘FRISK’ ALL AT GUNMAN'S GRAVE Look Tor Concealed Weapons at ; Funeral of “The Dropper” New York, Aug. 31.—Nathan Kap- lan, “Kid Dropper” to the under-| world, finally got away from the police | yesterday afternoon. 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All in the very newest ghades, with large pock- ets. “EID DROPPER"” prison, and this time the automobile hearse of Baul Rothschild, “the iron undertakenr,” of No. 159 West 120th street, sped thirty miles an hour to| carry the dead gangster from ihs ' pavements to the clipped hedge and the hanging cypresses of Mount Hebron. Police Rush Obseguies | 5 i Kid Dropper's funeral and burial, % | once it got into the hands of the police, was speedy beyond decorum. | Fifty detectives of the Third Division, under Acting Capt. Lyons, circulated | through 2,000 persons who jammed | ::Ll;‘::ht;d;j:::e the street and out Ths brothers went white, clutching % woire ot unlfo;med Bian euardva) the seats as If waiting for a fusilade corners and house fronts and a mo- “:iofl;fl:ifl: hordle_dol' d”elc'::es :“Z;e { car sli 0 a ha an e | BT SV u vein, RIL Deop. | oous panio way over. & tew miates der's Essex Street ene‘mles were ag < Cth;nf? tue dikand thejootions B al chief "Liths Augie” tn|p oo YN8 elong Roosevelt. avenus, the Tombs, their little hero, Louis| pamenin s inding undl b passed Cohen, whose bullets last 1"uesday l;;;,e;t: £ p ctwEe g% haun brought about this funeral, was In-|" white, Friedman, Jack Noyer, Yos | 4 plan, a cousin, were lagt 5:":’"9”“]’“ earth was dropped | nonorary pallbearers that walked be- ull;:nwa: T:L;ange ey !hfl,t‘sld$ the Dropper's casl\Pt‘ as it was started from the ancient headquar- " :‘e‘:::gv tgor;!:'open BESOINA row, o térs of the Dropper, the Z. and N.!f ¢ Bl iaucaqy No. 303 Madison | geooeio VRS D0 stage walt Rabhl street. Irene Kaplan, the Kid's| pmpg K fr reciied the Koddisgh..and ENE vai' Helped into m high- rs. Kaplan, choking and weeping, R ilog touriny car by -"Chamyeh” | recited it word for word behind him. Bt Chetayeh, hackman. of gang- A spadeful of earth was dropped upon doks elite. Wn:h ThDA. Who wopt the coffin, four of the dead gunman's sllently at first, were her brothers-';‘sf:,fi:'f:edd“p fhaveingddisovered in-law, Louis, Issy, and Adolph and| rhere we:‘, ::’np;:vrvt:s %6 ad Adolph’s wife. [ this orthodox Jewlsh funeral except Mmmman?u’nortmher «fieg';n“er:\yzh'flw”d ones, blooming profusely, re- R Wcers wers then crammed by: gardless of death—an_d a potted plant fitty of Kid Dropper's old subjects— | carrled by a detective heavily dis: ‘Whitey Friedman, Jack Noyer, Tom | ;‘1\:;‘85 ::r; v;n;u:;:‘:r. Ih badied g"f!:':r bl 4a police, bu e mfl"fi:‘t :Z‘;:cflrz?: ;:?'::\:T:el—r police—and the Essex street enemies teens. In one of these taxis rode ?;r‘:;,de g';;pper——had Sai e tuce Louis Toberman, one bullet-pierced | “The Lord th s foot encased in a tennis shoe, g e ond aivathy 1 - sulaiERebh) The last of Chemyeh's cars held av:::ma;,lessa:(\]d mu:;p l;ord akath twd more brothers of Kid Dropper, | Lord.” 2 MBS oL fhy Harry and Hymie Kaplan, and Yossel | “Somewhere Cohen, friend and adviser. | Kaplan, ‘There was silence in the cab of Hy- | mie and Harry Kaplan at first. Hymie, despite the fact that he Is held in bail | Secretary Davis Greets for possessing a weapon, 1is known - b throughout the East Side as a Poles in Native Tongue Warsaw, Aug. 31.—Secretary of | “'straight guy.” Even the police know it, and there are strong rumors that| Labor James J. Davis recently was in | the raid at No. 1493 Broadway last| this city looking into questions of week was only to get one man—Kid | emigration to the United States, and Dropper—to get him at all costs, astonished Polish officials with the Oites Osborne at Witness | display of unexpected linguistic abill- “They's one thing the reporters| ties. didn’t get about my brother,” Hyman As a young man Secretary Davi Kaplan said suddenly. “I see where| was employed In the iron works of that guy Cotter said he squealed in a Pittsburgh and acquired some knowl- | government case. Well, tell 'em to| edge of Polish from fellow-workmen ask Thomas Mott Osborne what kind | The officials who met him here were | of squealor Kid Dropper was. 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Special Saturday only for Saturday only For undergarments, $1.79 - ||-B8¢c childrens’ dresses EARLY FALL SAVINGS IN here,” sald Hymie “our mother s buried. I don't know just where, now.” Priced Here At Only HAIR AND POWDER RECEIVERS- Made of fine quality grained celluloid Ivoi: HOSIERY FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY — Priced Very Moderate — No. 353—Men's Full Fashion- No. 7 — Children's “Pony” | offered my brother Jack his freedom in their own tongue. Mr. Davis' if he'd perjure himself to dirty Mr. Osborne. They beat him up, they bulldozed him, but Jack stuck Thomas Mott Osborne.” The car reached 120th street, skirted Mt. Morris Park and slowed up as the first fringe of the milling crowd before the undertaker's fell back to give room. | Irene Kaplan ot out first and was led quickly to the cellar entrance Following her came Kid Dropper's aunts—his father's sisters, Adolph, | l2zy and Louis went tn just as a group of detectives spotted Louie To berman and six others in a taxi. There was a quick frisking, but among all the men from Madison street no guns came to the Dropper’s funeral The code and dignity of the time forbade Louis and his mates were carried of and held until the services ended Undertaker is Nervous Saul Rothschild, “the iron taker,” come forth from beneath the eteps of his funeral parlor and sur veyed the forty odd men silently standing in line for admission. Saul was visibly nervous under his iron and irritable. At his slde stood an assigtant, a man with withered arm who chewed gum as if for a living “Hold off Hymie Kaplan Cohen ‘Nobedy Dan comes down.” “I'm the Droppers Hymie “You ain't to me under shouted Saul Harry and gets in here barring Yossel until brother, said said Saul shift. ing away from the glances of Madi-| Mrs | capacity son street Dante! 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