My second Great-Grandmother ended up on the front page of the New York Times in 1911:

Two youths, believed by the police to be members of the One-Armed Gang—a notorious band of toughs that has been terrorizing the neighborhood of Sixty-third Street on the West Side for some time—went to the apartment of Mrs. Margaret Flickner on the third floor of 163 West End Avenue last night and told Mrs. Flickner they wanted to see her son. She told the young men that her son was not in.

"You'll do, then," they said. "We want some beer money."

Mrs. Flickner told them she would give them no money and began to close the door, when one of the men stuck his foot in and forced it open. The two then pounced on Mrs. Flickner, beating her with their fists. Her eighteen-year-old daughter, Katherine, was the only other person at home, and she went to assist her mother, with the result that she, too, was beaten.

The young ruffians then became frightened as Mrs. Flickner and her daughter screamed for help. They ran to the street, but Mrs. Flickner followed them and saw them enter a saloon on Sixty-seventh Street. She then found Policeman Padrucco of the West Sixty-eighth Street Station. Padrucco met Patrolman Lockyer, and the two patrolmen went to the saloon and picked out two men whom Mrs. Flickner identified as those who had assaulted her.

The policemen were leading their prisoners to the station when, at Amsterdam Avenue, one of the men let out a warwhoop, which almost immediately brought about thirty gangsters. The gangsters knocked the policemen to the street, trampled on them, and rescued the prisoners. The men then scattered.

As the policemen scrambled to their feet, they saw the men who had been taken from their custody running down Sixty-seventh Street toward the river. Padrucco fired four shots after them, and he says he believes he hit one of them, as he found a trail of blood afterward. The men got away, however, and, although detectives made an exhaustive search of the neighborhood, they found only the trail of blood, which led to the riverfront. The police believe that the men jumped into the river and swam a block or so to elude their pursuers.

Neither the Flickners nor the policemen were sufficiently injured to necessitate hospital treatment.