Volume 14 , Issue 5

100 Years Ago Today 30 January 1912

The big headlines topping the page of The World, 30 January 1912, were: "Wilson Tried to Win Col. Harvey Back - Rich Admirer Slashes Youth in flat of Mrs. Dan Reid's mother."

As the news story goes, an aged man slashed boy on visit to Mrs. Carrier, Dan Reid's mother-in-law. It goes on to state that a Porto (sic) Rican staggered from apartment and the assailant was barred from building. The victim was in the hospital. The assailant was D. C. Dwyer, who formerly employed the young man he attacked.

The gossip was abound in this so called splendidly appointed building as the West One Hundredth Street Station investigated the stabbing that occurred in the apartment of Mrs. Fannie Carrier on the tenth floor of the Bennington Corners Apartments, at the southwest corner of One Hundredth street and West End Avenue.

The police information gathered from various sources was that one D. C. Dwyer, an elderly and wealthy man, stabbed and badly injured a younger man while both were visiting Mrs. Carrier the evening of 29 January 1912. The young man was Mr. Dwyer's son, Umberto Roberts, a Porto Rican, 19 years of age, a private secretary of Dwyer.

The impression that he was the son of Mr. Dwyer was gained from the fatherly attitude of the elder man and his assertions to various persons that he looked upon the young man as a son and was willing to legally adopt him.

After Umberto Roberts left the employ of Mr. Dwyer, Roberts took a furnished room at No. 233 West 49th Street. His brother, who was i business in this city, said at that address that MR. Dwyer stabbed Umberto because of some statements about Mr. Dwyer that Umberto had made to MRs. Carrier and refused to retract.

The news article goes on to state, "Interest in the occurrence was heightened today by the actions of MR. Dwyer, who, on several occasions sought to force an entrance to the apartment of Mrs. Carrier but was not allowed even in the lower hallway of the Bennington Corners. Balked in his efforts to enter the house, Mr. Dwyer visited public telephones in the neighborhood, called up the Bennington Corners and breathed threats of his intentions to convey information in his possession to Daniel G. Reid of No. 115 Broadway and No. 875 Fifth Avenue."

It seems that Mr. Dwyer also visited the West One Hundredth Street station and complained that he had been assaulted in the apartment of Mrs. Carrier. He expressed a desire to go tot he West 54th Street Police court and swear out a warrant but did not keep an appointment with a detective who was to accompany him.

Mr. Dwyer was trying to force his way into Mrs. Carrier and bombarding the Bennington Corners with telephone messages, all the while the victim of the stabbing was a patient in St. Luke's Hospital.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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