Dear List, This was found on my PML list. I hope that it helps someone. Linda Hodge ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Guinness" <guinness@wundow.wustl.edu> To: <LHODGE@NYCAP.RR.COM> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching "Blackledge" > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Union-Argus, May 31, 1878 > > > BROOKLYN UNION-ARGUS > May 31, 1878 > > Obituary Notes. > Annie E. CLARK, aged 21; funeral today, 649 Atlantic Avenue. > Patrick DONOHUE, aged 60; funeral today, corner Bond and Douglas Streets. > Willie WARING, aged 2; funeral today, 54 St. Mark's Avenue. > Joseph N. DOUGLAS, aged 34; funeral Sunday, 407 Bushwick Avenue. > Israel A. SMITH; funeral tomorrow, 93 Grand Street, E. D. > Raymond J. VEGA; funeral today, 49 Smith Street. > > Died. > HUNTINGTON Suddenly, at the residence of her parents, 249 Carlton Avenue, > on Thursday evening, May 30, Alice Lee, beloved daughter of B. H. and Sarah > R. HUNTINGTON, aged twelve years and six months. Notice of funeral in > tomorrow's papers. > > VREELAND On Thursday, May 30, Hattie Beebe, youngest daughter of William > A. and Frances M. VREELAND, aged eighteen years, one month and twenty-four > days. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral > from the residence of her parents, 123 Prospect Place, on Saturday, June 1. > > THE SUICIDAL MANIA. > A BROOKLYN PHYSICIAN JUMPS FROM A STEAMBOAT. > He Leaves His Stateroom on the Drew and Drowns Himself Sad End of a > Promising Life. > The New York police telegraphed to this city that at 4:30 this AM a man > registered as Frederick COOLIDGE, and supposed to be a physician in a > Brooklyn Hospital, committed suicide by jumping into the Hudson River from > the Drew, of the People's Line, while on his way to New York City from > Albany. The body was not recovered. > > Dr. SMITH called at Police Headquarters about noon and stated that the name > of the physician who committed suicide was Frederick Coalridge TALCOT, > Coalridge being the maiden name of the mother of the deceased. > > Attempted to Drown Herself. > While a Grand Street Ferry boat was crossing the East River from New York > yesterday afternoon, a woman stepped over the chains and attempted to jump > into the water. Mr. Thomas A. OAKES, of 24 Patchen Avenue, divining her > intention, prevented her from jumping, and she was taken to the Fifth > Precinct Station, and finally gave her name as Mary ADAMS, wife of an > ex-police sergeant of New York, but refused to give her residence. To > Justice ELLIOTT this morning she stated that she had been suffering from > neuralgia and trouble and must have been temporarily insane. The Justice > thereupon discharged her. Mrs. ADAMS is a fine-looking woman, was neatly > dressed, and did not appear to be addicted to drink. > > A Dose of Arsenic. > Michael MCNAMEE, aged thirty-eight, of 273 Third Avenue, while under the > influence of liquor last night, attempted to commit suicide by taking > arsenic. He was attended by Dr. MATHESON, of 337 Union Street, and removed > in an ambulance to St. Peter's Hospital. > > THE RAILROAD MURDER. > CAPTAIN MACKELLAR ARRESTS A MAN ON SUSPICION. > Grounds upon which the Arrest was Made An Extract from Primrose's Time > Book The Juries, Etc. > Captain MACKELLAR, of the Eighth Precinct, is working energetically and > intelligently to discover the person or persons who placed the tie and > stones on the track of the Prospect Part & Coney Island Railroad Wednesday > night, causing the wrecking of a construction train and the death of the > conductor, brakeman, and three laborers. The scene of the occurrence being > just within the city limits, it devolves upon him especially to do what he > can to ferret out the perpetrators of the diabolical deed, and one step was > taken by him this morning that circumstances seem to have warranted him in > taking. The step was the arresting at five o'clock, through the agency of > Detective DRUBEN, of a laborer named Thomas HYLAND, twenty-six years of > age, married and living at No. 160 Twenty-first Street, on suspicion of > being the guilty party. > > The captain says that HYLAND was for some time one of the construction gang > in charge of conductor George PRIMROSE, and was discharged by him a little > over a week ago for leaving his work to carouse in a liquor saloon. He also > says that at the time hot words passed between them, and that it is stated > that HYLAND left threatening to "get square" with PRIMROSE. According to > the captain, HYLAND upon being informed of the terrible suspicions against > him, treated the matter very lightly. PRIMROSE's time-book shows that > HYLAND worked three days during the week ending May 18, his account closing > on Tuesday. The other members of the gang that week were H. DIERINGER, W. > H. CRAFT, H. MCCARROLL, J. STEELE, P. READLEY, John CLEAR, Owen WARD, J. > GROGHAN, P. COOK, T. TIERNEY, G. ALLARE, P. RYAN, J. CASSIDY, M. CARNES, P. > MCCUE, and D. TOMEY, a list that may prove valuable to the authorities > should they want evidence as to HYLAND's innocence or guilt. > > IN COURT. > HYLAND was taken down to Justice FERRY's Court this morning by Detective > DRUBEN on a charge entered against him. The prisoner seemed to treat the > matter very lightly, especially as no one at present has come forward as an > eye-witness of the dastardly act. The detective believes, however, he has > got the right man. > > As stated yesterday, the inquest will take place next Tuesday evening at > the Morgue. Two juries have been impaneled for the occasion. In the case of > CRAFT, the brakeman, who died at the Long Island College Hospital, the jury > comprises the following: > William COAKLEY, Harrison and Hicks Streets. > W. B. BRADFORD, 23 Wyckoff Street. > John GILCHRIST, 707 Jefferson Street. > Frederick SCHENFELDT, 110 Atlantic Avenue. > William JOGOE, 350 Hicks Street. > Michael MCGLYN, 45 Columbia Place. > John KENNY, 490 Hicks Street. > Michael KENNY, 400 Hicks Street. > > In the case of the four men whose bodies were taken to the Morgue, the > following were impaneled a jury: > Oliver BLACKLEDGE, 521 Myrtle Avenue. > James BENNETT, 530 Myrtle Avenue. > John MCINTEE, 214 Schenck Street. > Charles A. LEFFERTS, 242 Myrtle Avenue. > George BASTEDO, 261 Myrtle Avenue. > Alonzo A. HALL, 151 Clinton Avenue. > E. A. NORTHROP, 594 Myrtle Avenue.. > W. J. FRANCIS, 5 Greene Avenue. > > > THE COURTS. > Sentences in the Court of Sessions. > A number of prisoners were called up for sentence in the Court of Sessions > this morning, but previous thereto, John NICHOLS, who pleaded guilty of > embezzlement some few days ago, was brought up, and Judge MOORE said that > inasmuch as it has appeared that his offence was perpetrated in New York > City, it would be necessary to send him thither to be dealt with as the New > York authorities deemed proper. He was accordingly remanded for that purpose. > > James ARBUCKLE, convicted of burglary in the third degree, was then > sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the Penitentiary. > > An old and dwarfish specimen of a man named Herman GOLDSCHMIDT, who > reminded observers somewhat of RUBENSTEIN, the murderer, was then brought > up to be sentenced for bigamy, and the Court said that, owing to > circumstances which justified a lenient sentence, he would only impose an > imprisonment of fifteen months in the Penitentiary. > > The other prisoners sentenced were as follows: John Fox, assault and > battery, three months in the Penitentiary. > > Wm. VAN WINKLE, petty larceny, ten days in the jail. > > Edward NETHERCOLT, obtaining goods under false pretences, ten days in jail. > > Frank MURRAY, same offence, twenty days in jail. > > John MOORE, Michael MCGREGOR, Patrick MURPHY, and Thomas GROETTY, assault > and battery, one year each in the Penitentiary. John MATHERS, charged with > the same offence, was allowed to go on his own recognizance until wanted.