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Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Union June ?, 1878
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:07:03 EDT
Brooklyn Union June ?, 1878
LOCAL BREVITIES
GEORGE F. CHACE, aged 46 years, resideing at No. 17 Columbia pl. while
under the influence of liquor, fell on the sidewalk. on Fulton st., near the
ferry, and received a scalp wound over the right eye.
EDWARD DELEHANTY, aged 13 was arrested, last evening, on the charge of
stealing $10 from the home of Mrs.GIBB, No. 212 Gates ave.
MARY McNAMARA aged 46, residing at 394 Atlantic ave., was found dead in
bed yesterday afternoon. No marks of violence were discovered, and it is the
general opinion of the neighbors that liquor was the cause of death. The
coroner has been notified.
RICHARD D. ROWARD, of Washington st. sustained a slight wound on the head
this afternoon by falling from a wagon at the foot of Fulton st.
POLICE DISCIPLINE
Officer TERWILLEGER, of the 1st. Precinct, was fined 10 days pay yesterday
by the commissoners for allowing a prisoner to escape and not reporting the
fact at the station-house; and Officer McCUE, of the 13th. Precinct, was
fined 4 days pay for feigning sickness and other charges for neglect of duty.
ABANDONING A PARALYZED SON
EDWARD CUSICK, aged 45, residing in Essex County, N.J., was arrested last
night on a warrent issued by Justice FERRY, on complaint of his sister ELLEN
ROONAN, who resides in Hicks st. near Luqueer, who charges him with bring his
paralyzed son JOHN, aged 16, to her residence, where he adandoned him wirhout
any visible means of support.
A DRUNKARD'S BRUTALITY
JOHN McUNE, aged 50 years, was arrested, last evening, by Officer WILSON,
on complaint of his wife HANNAH, who charged him with assulting her with a
stool, inflicting a severe cut on rhe head and fracturing one of the small
bone s of her left wrist, during a drunken quarrell at hteir residence No. 55
Clark st. her wounds were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon COCHRAN. The house in
which the parties reside had been left in their charge by Mr. DYKEMAN.
A LESSON FOR THE FERRYMEN
WILLIAM T. CONKLING, one of the boat-hands at Catherine Ferry, on the
22nd. of April last, on being remonstrated with by THOMAS BALDRICK, of No.
165 8th. st., a passenger, for shutting the ferry gates in his face, struck
him on the jaw and used foul language. This morning Justice WALSH fined
CONKLING $25 for the assault.
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