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...realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful out of funds, came to the conclusion to go to the poorhouse . . . didn't like it much and concluded...
...that 23 canvases stored in the cellar had been ripped by a slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, by Academy Founder Charles Willson Peale; had hacked at the 22 other paintings and finally hauled off at a marble group of Columbus discovering America, chipping it severely...
Pursuing the case to nearby Harrisburg, where Watchman Cassidy had formerly lived, sleuths found a store of Academy art decorating the homes of some of Cassidy's cronies. For four months, Watchman Cassidy further confessed, he had bundled out a few paintings each weekend for flattered friends. Value of the stolen art, all of it rejected paintings submitted for the annual Academy show, officials placed at no more than $800. But Cassidy's cuts on the "second and third rate works" in the Academy storeroom had reduced their worth by "thousands of dollars...
Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...third for up-and-diwn movements. In 1928 the Department set up a seismograph in the basement of the Geological Museum. However, the instrument was so delicate that an earthquake was recorded whenever a class was dismissed or a truck rumbled by. Even the movements of the night watchman could be traced on its record...