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1 638 Homicides Occurring in Buffalo: 1902-1936 1 638 Homicides Occurring in Buffalo: 1902-1936 Current Chart: 5/28/2013 The following table includes all of the homicides reported by the Buffalo Police from 1902 to 1936. An exact transcription is replicated from the yearly Annual Report Board of Police. These reports were submitted after the year had ended which allowed the police to often include information generated after the arrest. In 1927, there were two additional categories, “officers shot by crooks” and “persons shot by police.” Two of the latter resulted in fatalities. These have been included in the table. Additional information, found from other sources, follows the information supplied by the police. That information is in italics. The homicides are listed in the following manner. Before the date, a number from 1 to 638 has been placed in bold type. The date listed is when the incident that caused the homicide occurred. In a small number of incidents the death occurred on a later date. If more than one homicide occurred during the same incident, each is counted. After some of the numbers, letters appear, capitalized in bold type. If there is nothing in bold after the number, then none of the conditions mentioned below occurred. The following abbreviations have been included: HS-Homicide Suicide: The perpetrator committed suicide after killing one or more people. AS-Attempted Suicide: The perpetrator attempted to commit suicide. LEO-Law Enforcement Officer related: Either an officer was murdered or one or more citizens was killed by the police. E-Executed: The convicted murderer was put to death for the listed murder. I-Insane: The perpetrator was declared insane and institutionalized. CBH (Confirmed By Hearn) means that the execution was found in Legal Executions in New York State: A Comprehensive Reference, 1639-1963 by Daniel Allen Hearn (McFarland & Company, Inc.: Jefferson, NC) 1997. The information about the execution is included in quotations with the page(s) cited. The following are caveats: The names of those involved may have a variety of spellings, even within the original police report. Case #199 is an example of this. The names were sometimes different when found in other sources, such as newspapers. There are a number of reasons. Some of those arrested did not use their real names. They may have been illegally in the country or adopted aliases because of criminal activity. In addition, many had Italian or Slavic surnames. These names were often written down phonetically by police and reporters. First names were often”Amercanized” in an attempt by the individual to be more acceptable to the dominant culture. I have included all the variations of the names encountered, unless surety of the spelling was established, to aid those conducting additional research. The ages of those mentioned in police and newspaper reports were often estimates. Nobody carried identification with their birthdate on their person until driver’s licenses were required for those who wanted to drive motor vehicles. I have placed some additional information at the end of the table. This explains the circumstances of incidents not in the table but that have some relationship to violent events occurring during these years. 1-7 I: 1/12/1902: Joseph Supkowski set fire to a dwelling No. 1047 Broadway occupied jointly by himself and a family named Pearlstein. The Pearlstein family consisting of father, mother, and five children burned to death. Sukowski’s object was to defraud Insurance Company. He was arrested, held for the Grand Jury, adjudged insane while in jail, and was committed to Mattewan prison. Supkowski’s arson for profit caused the death of the Pearlstein family(father (Harry), mother(Fanny), five children, John, Albert, Simon, Rosina(spelling ?), and Hiram). He had over-insured the building for $8000. The floor burned from under the family. Five children from 1 ½ to 12 YOA. 8: 3/26/1902: Joseph Carlino, an Italian saloon keeper at 112 Main street shot and killed James Basso, alias Moore. Basso began a row in the saloon shooting indiscriminately at the persons in the saloon, wounding Charles Clark, bartender, and Albert Morgan and Thomas Carroll. Carlino was discharged by the coroner’s jury, the verdict being 2 self defense. 9 HS: 6/4/1902: August Wolf shot and killed Mrs. Sophia McGiveny at No. 2 Hudson street at the same time committed suicide by shooting and both were dead when discovered. Wolf, who was a married man, was intimate with Mrs. McGiveny who was separated from her husband. 10: 6/17/1902: On the evening of June 17th, Marion, the 6 year old daughter of Cornelius Murphy was reported missing from her home, 257 West avenue. June 27th her body was found in Lily Pond in Forest Lawn Cemetery, the body being almost nude with the hands and feet tied and the autopsy showed that she had been strangled and outraged, investigation led to the arrest of Charles Wee, a Chinaman who operated a laundry at 285 Hudson street in the immediate vicinity of the Murphy home; the evidence being circumstantial was not convincing and he was discharged by the Grand Jury. Chapter 7 in my book The Postcard Killer examines this murder in detail. 11: 6/28/1902: About 11:40 P.M., this date, four men entered the saloon of Austin J. Crowe, 85 Chicago street, as Mr. Crowe was in the act of closing his place, he managing a grocery in connection with his saloon, drinks were ordered and a controversy arose over the payment of same. Mr. Crowe endeavored to eject the men and in the struggle he was shot and killed, the men escaping at the time. Charles Green and John Doyle, alias Fred Mercer, alias Timmy, both parolled men from reformatories were suspected of being implicated in the murder. They immediately left the city, later they were located in Denver, Col., where Green with another of the suspects, John Richards, was arrested. Doyle escaping, Green and Richards were extradited. Green was tried before Judge Kenefick in the Supreme Court and acquitted, Richards was discharged. Crowe’s body was lying on the floor in front of the bar with two bullet holes. Crowe, 38, was killed about 11;40 Saturday night. Three men ran out of the saloon and up Chicago Street. A fourth man dove through the glass in the upper part of the door and then followed the other men that were fleeing the scene. On June 30th, the Board of Aldermen posted a $1,000 reward for the apprehension of the men that killed Crowe. 12: 7/1/1902: William Rossman stabbed and killed his son-in-law, Charles Happ, at 892 South Division street. They both lived in the same house and the stabbing was the result of a family quarrel. Rossman was sentenced to Auburn prison for 7 years. On September 25, 1902, a jury brought in a verdict of second degree murder with a recommendation for mercy. Rossman in a drunken rage stabbed Happ (33) in front of his wife and daughter (Happ’s wife). Happ died in a few minutes. 13: 7/8/1902: During a quarrel among the employees of Forepaugh’s Circus showing here at the time, Dennis Bowen shot and killed Lee Bruce. Bowen was arrested by Detective Sergeant Henafelt and Sergeant Gilligan convicted of manslaughter 1st degree and sentenced to Auburn prison for 7 years. Bowen had missed hitting his intended victim, J.K. Shumate, the Superintendent of Horses, who had just reprimanded the watchman. The murder occurred as the afternoon crowd was leaving the circus tent. Three shots were fired with one striking Bruce in the head. Two detectives had to retrieve Bowen from the crowd. They had already put a rope around his neck and he was badly beaten. 14: 9/1/1902: Charles Callahan, a ticket broker at 161 Exchange street, struck Patrick F. O’Brien with his fist, felling him to the ground. O’Brien’s skull was fractured and he died the same evening. Callahan was indicted on the charge of manslaughter 2nd degree, case awaiting trial. On September 5th, judge found that the blow was thrown “in the heat of passion, and not in a cruel and unusual manner.” O’Brien was killed on Labor Day over an argument concerning the price offered for an unused portion of an excursion ticket. 15: 10/9/1902: At the Hotel Badge, 42 Broadway, Ernest Stanton, a negro, shot and killed Edna Conrad, a negress whose lover he was. He escaped after the shooting but was caught at Niagara Falls the next morning. Convicted of murder 2nd degree and sentenced to Auburn for life. 16 HS: 10/18/1902: George J. Williang shot and killed Mrs. Elizabeth Morton at 145 Eagle street, with whom he was intimate, he then shot himself and lingered until December 23, when he died in the Emergency Hospital. George Jerome Willing, a molder, shot Mrs. Elizabeth G. Morton, his housekeeper, twice in the head. He then shot himself three times in the head. Jealousy was the supposed cause. Willing had come to Buffalo from Detroit several years ago. 17: 11/16/1902: Herman Julius of 192 Lemon street was struck and knocked down by Joseph Davis; his skull was 3 fractured and he died November 24th. Davis was discharged in the Police Court and the case was placed in the hands of the Grand Jury for their action. 18 HS: 11/19/1902: Christ Willis of Bath, N.Y., shot and killed Miss Mary Ferguson at 138 Swan street, and immediately committed suicide by shooting himself. They both belonged in Bath and were here to visit Miss Ferguson’s relatives.
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