Thank you Don for your thoughtful questions. Yes, I do want to know the circumstances because there were varying stories in the newspaper and my mother told me an entirely different story. The father of these children was killed in an auto accident almost exactly two years after the first child died. He fell off the back of a truck while working for the NYPD. There were many moves between the time of the children's deaths and the time of the father's death 2 years later but there were many moves prior to the deaths also. Veronica > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:34:54 -0400 > From: "Don Krieger" <akadonnew@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Bronx District Attorney Files > To: <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <11F74C95DB3545B498A0641544175688@e4610fe2cc97b1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi Veronica, > > This is one of those things where the first question you need to ask > yourself is do you really want to know? > > If so, I see 2 potential avenues of investigation. The first is obvious > legal one. What are the legal steps which might have been taken and which > if any would have been recorded. For instance, perhaps there might have > been a coroner's hearing which would have left a public record. You could > contact a criminal attorney with a New York license to ask a few questions. > Or if that proved too expensive, you could contact someone teaching in one > of the law schools in the state and put your questions to them. > > The 2nd avenue is to find out what happened to the remaining members of the > household afterward. This is likely something on which you already have a > start. But from this point of view I would look for signs of emotional > distress, for example lots of divorces, psychiatric hospitalization or > criminal activity. > > > Don > > Don Krieger - Pittsburgh, PA > http://www.DonsList.Net - Always fast. Always free. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nyc-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nyc-roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Veronica Malmberg > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:08 PM > To: NYC-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Bronx District Attorney Files > > In 1921 three young siblings of my father died within a few days of each > other of acute gastroenteritis. The Medical Examiner report says the case > was referred to the District Attorney. The family lived in The Bronx. I > have the ME report, death certificates, and several newspaper reports. I am > wondering if there is any way to find out if the DA acted on the case and if > there is a file somewhere. All suggestions as to how I might proceed are > welcome. > Thanks, > Veronica > >