100 years ago in The Record
Saturday, Sept. 28, 1918. Troy’s Second Precinct police station is so crowded with prisoners after a raid on an alleged gambling den tonight that “Captain Shaughnessy arriving later had to be furnished with accommodations at the first precinct station.”
In what the Sunday Budget calls a “Sensational Round-Up of Suspects,” the police arrest nine men, four of them heavily armed, at a card game at Joseph Novelleno’s place at Federal Street and Sixth Avenue. Novelleno himself is carrying an automatic revolver “loaded in every chamber” while three card players have revolvers under their seats at the card table.
“The possession of such weapons indicates the character of the men under arrest,” a Budget reporter writes.
Novelleno had been suspected of harboring draft dodgers. As for the men arrested tonight, “Some of them had draft registration cards, and others had not.” Chief of detectives Joseph H. Brophy tells the Budget that two of the men are Philadelphians who were arrested in Troy last year for carrying concealed weapons.
“It was announced that the police mean to follow up raids on alleged slackers and suspicious characters and rid the city of undesirables,” the reporter closes.
Troy’s Monster Parade ToDay
“Under fair skies and with unbounded faith and enthusiasm in the city’s ability to ‘come across’ with a large over-subscription in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, Troy turned out this afternoon to participate in and witness one of the greatest patriotic outbursts seen here in years,” The Record reports. For the fourth time, Americans are called upon to help fund the war against Germany by purchasing Liberty Bonds that can be redeemed with interest after the war. The Collar City has been assigned a quota of $7,334,600 in bond sales. Brigadier General F. DeForest Kemp, the grand marshal, leads the parade in a loop through downtown between Federal and Liberty streets. “A decided martial appearance was given the parade by the presence in line of three companies from the Watervliet arsenal with a large portion of its officers,” our reporter writes. Also marching are the police and fire departments, the Troy High School Cadet Corps, workers from the major collar factories and a number of women’s organizations. The parade is “tinged with solemnity” as word spreads of the deaths of three more Troy soldiers in the 105th U.S. Infantry regiment fighting in France. According to unofficial reports from soldiers’ letters, privates Joseph McGrath, Stephen J. Healy jr. and Joseph McLoughlin all fell last month. McGrath was 24 years old while McLoughlin was 18. Healy, who would have turned 18 this December, was killed instantly by shrapnel, according to Corporal George Murray.