Harbor View Farm’s Affirmed continued to show who’s boss in the dramatic rivalry he’s been waging with Calumet’s Alydar by capturing the $112,000 Futurity yesterday before 25,500 spectators at Belmont Park.
The victory, the third by Affirmed in four meetings was scored by a nose. And it was a winning effort that made another rematch between the colts seem all the more inviting.
In triumphing, Affirmed outlasted Alydar in a tense stretch duel in which both jockeys put their mounts under sustained pressure.
Even after the race was finished, Eddie Maple, who had the leg up on the runner-up, refused to concede that Affirmed was Alydar’s master. The winner was ridden by 17-year-old Steve Cauthen who continues to lead jockeys in the two week old Belmont meeting.
NYT Strauss 9/11/77
Sunday, September 11, 1977
Friday, September 09, 1977
Father of Berkowitz Seeking Role As Conservator of Son’s Property
The father of David R. Berkowitz, the man accused of being the Son of Sam killer, has moved to become conservator of is son’s property.
If Mr. B is appointed conservator by the court, he would control all income, assets and investments derived from literary and film contracts based on the life of the 24-year-old Yonkers mail clerk.
In his affidavit, Mr. B mentioned attempts by Philip Peltz, a former lawyer for his son, and other unidentified people who “entered into contracts with David purportedly for the purpose of representation and the making of tape recordings, which are ultimately intended to be sold through various literary agents.”
Excerpt from Marcia Chambers Sept 9, 1977 New York Times
If Mr. B is appointed conservator by the court, he would control all income, assets and investments derived from literary and film contracts based on the life of the 24-year-old Yonkers mail clerk.
In his affidavit, Mr. B mentioned attempts by Philip Peltz, a former lawyer for his son, and other unidentified people who “entered into contracts with David purportedly for the purpose of representation and the making of tape recordings, which are ultimately intended to be sold through various literary agents.”
Excerpt from Marcia Chambers Sept 9, 1977 New York Times
Thursday, September 08, 1977
Woman Is Charged In FALN Blast
A 22-year-old woman identified through a fingerprint found at the site of the August 3rd bombing that killed one person and injured several others at the Mobil Oil Building in Manhattan was charged with the bombing yesterday.
The suspect was identified as Marie Haydee Beltran Torres. She and her husband, Carlos Alberto Torres are being sought by the authorities.
Commissioner Codd’s description Mrs. Torres, delivered in a flat tone of voice, was all the more dramatic for its brevity.
“She’s 22 years of age,” he said. “Her present address is unknown, and she is married.”
Police sources say the bomb set off at the Mobil Building’s street level employment offices was concealed in an umbrella placed on the coatrack at about 9:10am. It exploded at 10:42am killing Charles Steinberg, a partner in an employment service.
Chicago police found more than 200 sticks of dynamite and other material in the Torres apartment last November.
NYT Lubasch 9/8/77
The suspect was identified as Marie Haydee Beltran Torres. She and her husband, Carlos Alberto Torres are being sought by the authorities.
Commissioner Codd’s description Mrs. Torres, delivered in a flat tone of voice, was all the more dramatic for its brevity.
“She’s 22 years of age,” he said. “Her present address is unknown, and she is married.”
Police sources say the bomb set off at the Mobil Building’s street level employment offices was concealed in an umbrella placed on the coatrack at about 9:10am. It exploded at 10:42am killing Charles Steinberg, a partner in an employment service.
Chicago police found more than 200 sticks of dynamite and other material in the Torres apartment last November.
NYT Lubasch 9/8/77
Suspect in 37 LI Motel Burglaries Found Dead In His Apartment
A 47-year-old former publishing executive who was arrested three weeks ago by the police in East Hampton LI as a suspect in 37 motel burglaries, was found dead yesterday, apparently of a drug overdose, in his East Side Manhattan apartment, the police reported.
The police identified the dead man as John Rodney, a former executive at Conde Nast (most recently advertising director with American Home magazine.
A note with a formal apology to his victims and family was found alongside his body in his apartment at 166 East 63rd Street. In the robberies $550,000 in jewels and other valuables were taken.
Shortly after 1 AM on August 20, detectives who had staked out a motel where there had been a rash of robberies said they saw Mr. Rodney trying to enter several motel rooms. He subsequently entered a room rented by the police as a trap.
But the most recent so-called “cat burglary” occurred in Southhampton the weekend Mr. Rodney was being detained by the police.
Excerpt from John McQuiston Sept 8, 1977 New York Times
The police identified the dead man as John Rodney, a former executive at Conde Nast (most recently advertising director with American Home magazine.
A note with a formal apology to his victims and family was found alongside his body in his apartment at 166 East 63rd Street. In the robberies $550,000 in jewels and other valuables were taken.
Shortly after 1 AM on August 20, detectives who had staked out a motel where there had been a rash of robberies said they saw Mr. Rodney trying to enter several motel rooms. He subsequently entered a room rented by the police as a trap.
But the most recent so-called “cat burglary” occurred in Southhampton the weekend Mr. Rodney was being detained by the police.
Excerpt from John McQuiston Sept 8, 1977 New York Times
Wednesday, September 07, 1977
50% of 176 Cited In Looting Held Full-Time Jobs
Of the 176 persons indicted on looting charges after last month’s blackout, almost half had full time jobs and less than 10 percent were on welfare, according to DA Gold.
Mr. Gold said the breakdown belied statements made earlier by President Carter and others that the looting had been committed by hungry people.
70% had prior arrest records and 43% prior convictions. 73% were black, 23% Hispanic and 4% white.
Not poor and needy – stats show job holding criminals.
Mr. Gold said the breakdown belied statements made earlier by President Carter and others that the looting had been committed by hungry people.
70% had prior arrest records and 43% prior convictions. 73% were black, 23% Hispanic and 4% white.
Not poor and needy – stats show job holding criminals.
Saturday, September 03, 1977
Muggers Pick on Magician and Are Taught a Trick or Two
22-year-old slight of hand expert, Sony Echavarri, wearing a big blue button stating: “I Believe in Magic,” related his tale as he awaited the arraignment of three suspects.
Mr. Echavarria said that at 6:40pm Thursday, he was on the corner of 45th and Broadway getting ready to perform when he was grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground and tried to grab is money bag. He tugged the bag away from them and gave chase. They were waiting for him in parking lot wielding nail-studded planks. “We’re going to kill you,” one of the assailants reportedly threatened. But suddenly the magician said, he flourished a scarlet silk scarf and warned it could hurt them, and turned it into a medal cane – a feat, he said, that left the muggers gawking in astonishment and backing away.
“I couldn’t let them get away with it. A magician has to have respect. If I ran away it would get around.” Mr. E, who is 6 foot 1, 185 pounds, (with a large afro and mutton chop sideburns, broad collared open shirt and jacket.) said he was surprised that anyone would select him as a victim.
Echavarria an admirer of Phillipe Petit the French aerialist who walked a wire between the twin towers, claimed that on September 12th, he will attempt to “extricate himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside down from a helicopter hovering above the World Trade Center 1500 feet above the pavement”.
Excerpt from Leslie Maitland Sept 3, 1977 New York Times
Mr. Echavarria said that at 6:40pm Thursday, he was on the corner of 45th and Broadway getting ready to perform when he was grabbed from behind and knocked to the ground and tried to grab is money bag. He tugged the bag away from them and gave chase. They were waiting for him in parking lot wielding nail-studded planks. “We’re going to kill you,” one of the assailants reportedly threatened. But suddenly the magician said, he flourished a scarlet silk scarf and warned it could hurt them, and turned it into a medal cane – a feat, he said, that left the muggers gawking in astonishment and backing away.
“I couldn’t let them get away with it. A magician has to have respect. If I ran away it would get around.” Mr. E, who is 6 foot 1, 185 pounds, (with a large afro and mutton chop sideburns, broad collared open shirt and jacket.) said he was surprised that anyone would select him as a victim.
Echavarria an admirer of Phillipe Petit the French aerialist who walked a wire between the twin towers, claimed that on September 12th, he will attempt to “extricate himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside down from a helicopter hovering above the World Trade Center 1500 feet above the pavement”.
Excerpt from Leslie Maitland Sept 3, 1977 New York Times
Thursday, September 01, 1977
Hanging of “Birdman” in Bronx Pet Shop Break-In Is Being Investigated
“It’s like Agatha Christie,” said Pat Sasso, the detective working on the murder of “the birdman,” who was found hanged in a dilapidated pet shop in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, his hands and feet tied with twine.
The 400 pigeons he was guarding, the only animals in the shop were he was “night watchman”, were gone. The police don’t know how the intruders got into the “fortified” pet store, why the killed 61-year-old Olin Wardlaw, or why they chose hanging.
“I would really like to know who did this, said Wardlaw’s sister/roommate. He was such a nice “boy.” Everybody loved him.” Wardlaw retired last year from a Buick assembly plant in Buffalo and had been filing in for the regular night watchman. (A fill-in night watchman at a pigeon store).
Despite a sign in front advertising monkeys, fish and poodles, the pigeons (and some bird feed were the only things in the store. A hundred of the pigeons were of the homing variety and belonged to the regular night watchman. The others, according to police, were being boarded at the store. Total value was put at $400 – one dollar per bird. The homing pigeons have little value other than to their original owner since they can’t be trained to return to a new coop. The other birds are useful as breeders, or to lure wild birds.
The police doubt that they will end up as squab, and a nearby poultry market reported no new source of supply or increased competition.
The 400 birds are not easy to identify if their leg bands are removed. “It’s like any other animal,” said Charles Herin, a spokesman for the American Racing Pigeon Union. “If you’d had them long enough, you could recognize them, but there’s really no proof.”
Detective Sasso thinks they could be hidden “in a vacant house or down in a basement and they will be purchased.” Even if the original owner recognized his bird, “it would never stand up in court,” he said. The Detective said there were some suspects in the case but would give no details.
The pet shop is still open, selling yellow and brown chicks, which a hand-lettered sign on cardboard taped to the window says are 50 cents each. But the phone was disconnected in mid-July, and the landlord says that for several months the owner, Charles Lehnert has been paying only part of the $275 rent.
“He claims he’s not doing any business because he’s been broken into many, many times,” said Mikita Drakotos. “IF it was anyone else,” he added, “he would have packed it in long ago.” Detective Sasso believes Mr. Lehnert, who he says is 71 years old, will close the store soon.
The 400 pigeons he was guarding, the only animals in the shop were he was “night watchman”, were gone. The police don’t know how the intruders got into the “fortified” pet store, why the killed 61-year-old Olin Wardlaw, or why they chose hanging.
“I would really like to know who did this, said Wardlaw’s sister/roommate. He was such a nice “boy.” Everybody loved him.” Wardlaw retired last year from a Buick assembly plant in Buffalo and had been filing in for the regular night watchman. (A fill-in night watchman at a pigeon store).
Despite a sign in front advertising monkeys, fish and poodles, the pigeons (and some bird feed were the only things in the store. A hundred of the pigeons were of the homing variety and belonged to the regular night watchman. The others, according to police, were being boarded at the store. Total value was put at $400 – one dollar per bird. The homing pigeons have little value other than to their original owner since they can’t be trained to return to a new coop. The other birds are useful as breeders, or to lure wild birds.
The police doubt that they will end up as squab, and a nearby poultry market reported no new source of supply or increased competition.
The 400 birds are not easy to identify if their leg bands are removed. “It’s like any other animal,” said Charles Herin, a spokesman for the American Racing Pigeon Union. “If you’d had them long enough, you could recognize them, but there’s really no proof.”
Detective Sasso thinks they could be hidden “in a vacant house or down in a basement and they will be purchased.” Even if the original owner recognized his bird, “it would never stand up in court,” he said. The Detective said there were some suspects in the case but would give no details.
The pet shop is still open, selling yellow and brown chicks, which a hand-lettered sign on cardboard taped to the window says are 50 cents each. But the phone was disconnected in mid-July, and the landlord says that for several months the owner, Charles Lehnert has been paying only part of the $275 rent.
“He claims he’s not doing any business because he’s been broken into many, many times,” said Mikita Drakotos. “IF it was anyone else,” he added, “he would have packed it in long ago.” Detective Sasso believes Mr. Lehnert, who he says is 71 years old, will close the store soon.
Excerpt from Matthew Wald Sept 1, 1977 New York Times
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