NY TIMES 12 August 1864 "BROOKLYN NEWS" A CHOWDER PARTY ON A SPREE. -- A chowder party, composed of the Emmet Social Club, of New-York, stopped at Tunison's Hotel, on the Coney Island road1, yesterday afternoon, and several of the members being rather elevated, got to quarreling. One of the men drew a pistol, intending to fire upon some person of his own club with which he was quarreling, but instead of hitting him, struck two other men in no way connected with the party. The men injured are WM. H. GOODRICH, connected with the Provost-Marshal's office of the Third Congressional District of Brooklyn, who was shot through the foot, the ball lodging in the ankle. The other man, named JOHN COUGH, is a hostler, employed by TUNISON, who was shot in the thigh. The wound is not serious. Mr. T.B. PRENDERGAST narrowly escaped. The ball which struck GOODRICH went through his fingers and caused a slight flesh wound. The party had been to Sheep's Head Bay, and were quite noisy on the return. The proprietor, Mr. TUNISON, closed his house as soon as he ascertained that the party were in the state they showed themselves to be in. The row occurred on the front porch. The hostler was attending to the horses of a party of gentlemen at the time he was shot. Last evening, as the chowder-party returned, the stages which contained them were stopped by the police of the Forty-first Precinct, and a man named WILLIAM RILEY, who was identified as the one who fired the pistol, was arrested, and locked up to await examination. l) Coney Island Plank Road is now Coney Island Avenue http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/articles/10122058.001734/1.jpeg Barb [email protected]