THE TERRORS OF ST. FELIX STREET (1898)
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(From the Brooklyn Times Union and the Brooklyn Citizen of Tues., 29 November 1898.)
Harry, Marx and Jacob Hefter, aged 10, 12 and 14 years, were arraigned in the Myrtle Avenue Court this morning.
Mrs. Louisa Selover, of 28 St. Felix street, was the complainant against the lads.
She said they pelted her with snowballs on the street yesterday and also called her unspeakable names.
She stated she had only recently moved onto the street, and that a lady neighbor told her the prisoners were “the terrors of St. Felix street.”
The youngsters denied the annoyance charged.
“The three youngsters,” noted the Brooklyn Citizen, had “decidedly Hebraic countenances,” and “Mrs. Selova was an excitable little woman” who “told her story with a good deal of trepidation.”
The Magistrate gravely warned the boys about converting pedestrians into targets for snowballing and sent them home.
“They live,” noted the newspaper, “at 17 St. Felix Street.”
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