22. A young man named
Matthew Ryan, absconded with
$1,250 in cash, and a check for
$75, the property of his
employer, Mr. Chauncey Shaffer.
The offender was subsequently
arrested in Boston, with $1,000
of his ill-gotten treasure in
his possession.
26. A serious riot
occurred in Centre-street, while
the posse of officers were
conveying Thomas Kane from the
U.S. Court in the Park, to the
City Prison. Five policemen, and
six of the rioters were severely
wounded. Perry Bensley, while
waiting for a person in the
premises No. 40 Elizabeth
street, fell asleep in the entry
leading to the curled hair
factory of Dennis Horam, in the
same building.
The latter in ejecting
Beasley into the street, so
severely injured him as to cause
his death.27. During a military
review on the Battery, a
disturbance took place, in
consequence of some rowdies
breaking through the lines and
rescuing one of their party who
had been arrested. The military
had to render the police
assistance in quelling the
riotous proceedings. Officer
Hugh O'Bryan, of the Eighth
Ward, was dangerously stabbed by
Edward Chamberlin, on attempting
to quell a disturbance in which
the latter was implicated.
30. Christopher Dorly,
aged 18 years, arrested on a
charge of embezzling a check for
$500, the property of Mr.
McIntyre, of No. 80
Sixth-avenue.
Aug 1. One hundred and
twenty-five kegs of gun-powder
seized at the foot of
Hammond-street, where they had
been left exposed on the pier.
2. Thomas Collyer, the
principal owner of the steamer
Henry Clay, arrested and held to
bail in the sum of $10,000.
4. Joseph L. Jessup.
Clerk of the Henry Clay: Edward
Hubbard, pilot and John
Germaine, engineer of the same
steamer, arrested and held to
bail, each in the sum of
$10,000. Alexander Coones,
Samuel Williams, Robert White,
Robert Bell, John Arnold and
William Collins, (six sailors,)
were arrested on a charge of
having committed an extensive
robbery of diamonds, gold
watches, &c., in France.
5. Garratt Hyde and
William Sembler arrested for
being concerned in stabbing and
otherwise maltreating Samuel
Bloomer.
7. Conklin Titus was
arrested on a warrant issued by
Justice Stuart, charging him
with keeping a disorderly house
in Leonard-street. Justice
Bogart demanded the release of
Titus, but Capt. Carpenter, who
had him in custody, refused to
obey the orders of Justice
Bogart, in consequence of which
a great excitement was
occasioned among the "fancy."
8. Mary Falcon, an Irish
girl, arrested for the murder of
her infant, by throwing it into
the sink rear of a house in
Mercer street.
9. A serious affray
occurred in Eleventh-avenue,
near Forty-seventh-street. Some
police officers, on proceeding
to the spot to quell the
disturbance, were assailed with
clubs, stones, brickbats, &c.,
and several of them were
severely injured by the rioters.
15. A disturbance took
place at Fort Hamilton, between
a portion of the troops
stationed there and the waiters
at the hotel. Several on each
side were injured in the fracas.
17. John Cook and Henry
Morris were arrested on a charge
of stealing $600 worth of pipe
and gas fixtures from Dexter D.
Force & Co., of No. 80 Duane st.
Elias Brandos, arrested for
attempting to shoot sundry
citizens at the corner of Ann
and Gold streets. Joseph Carmel
and Joseph Dodd were arrested on
a charge of having entered the
Episcopal Church in
Wooster-street, and stealing
there from all the hymn and
prayer books, and bibles; also,
the silver-ware used for
communion services. John and
James Hodmeyer arrested for
passing spurious coin.
20. Dr. Theodore Peitman
and Antoine Garvacel. Prussians,
arrested on a charge of
counterfeiting and uttering a
large amount of Prussian
Treasury notes.
25. Charles Baxter, a
private watchman, employed on
board the packet-ship Thomas
Watsos, was shot by one of a
gang of burglars, whom he
detected robbing the vessel, at
the foot of Oliver-street.
Nicholas Howland, alias Howlett,
Jack Edwards, and Wm. Saul, who
were shortly afterwards caught
robbing another vessel, were
subsequently tried and convicted
of the murder of Baxter.
29. A serious riot
occurred in the Bowery, near
Sixth-street, between Engine
Companies Nos. 6 and 41. Owing
to an old grudge held against
No. 41 by No. 6. the latter made
an attack upon the former, when
stones, brick-bats, and other
missiles, were hurled in all
directions, to the imminent
danger of life and limb; and for
some time the most intense
excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood.
30. Ex-Assistant Alderman
James Ackerman, of No. 284
Hudson-street, was attacked by a
gang of rowdies, one of whom
stabbed him five or six times in
the breast and face, and then
left him in a precarious
situation.
Sept. 10. Charles N.
Leslie obtained lodgings at the
Astor House, and during the
night robbed a Mr. Ball, who was
asleep in the same room, of
$210, and then, under pretended
illness, endeavored to leave the
house; but the real facts of the
case being suspected, Leslie was
detained, and the stolen
property found in his
possession.
13. Augustus Reiderick
found, about 10 o'clock P.M.,
lying in the gutter in
Fortieth-street, near
Sixth-avenue, covered with
blood, having been stabbed by
some unknown villain.
15. William Campbell
entered Clinton Hotel, about 3
o'clock in the morning, stole a
trunk containing property valued
at $200, was caught locked up,
and the same day indicted by the
Grand Jury, tried, convicted and
sent to the State Prison for
three years.
21. Henry Masterson shot
and dangerously wounded by John
Sheriden, corner of
Seventh-avenue and
Fifty-eighth-street. The latter
having got married in the
evening, the former and some
acquaintances resolved to annoy
him with tin-pan music, &c.,
which so enraged Sheridan that
be seized a loaded gun and
discharged it among his
tormentors, which resulted
seriously.
22. A young Italian,
named Lewis Camenzini, while
passing through Gold-street, was
violently assaulted by two men.
Subsequently meeting with Daniel
McCrodden, with whom he had an
altercation, and mistaking him
for one of the parties who had
previously assaulted him,
stabbed McCrodden in the abdomen
a number of times, causing his
immediate death. Camenini was
acquitted of the charge of
murder.
26. A desperate affray
occurred about 1 o'clock, P. M.,
at the saloon of Peter Barlow,
corner of Broadway and Prince
street between Abraham Rickett
and James Crepsy. The quarrel
had reference to the division of
some money received for some
services rendered at a primary
election.
Oct. 1 An inquest was
held on the body of a man named
Thomas Parish, who committed
suicide, in a state of delirium.
A riot took place between Engine
Companies Nos. 44 and G, in
Grand street. Several were
wounded, but no lives lost.
2. Augustus Arnold, a
clerk in the employ of Hudson &
Smith, absconded with the sum of
$600. Edward Topp, a negro
waiter in the Metropolitan
Hotel, abstracted a pocket-book
containing $300, the property of
William D. Butler. A quantity of
costly jewels, valued at $5,000,
were seized at a dwelling house
in the Eastern part of the city,
supposed to be stolen from the
store of D.B. Castles.
4. A defalcation in Wall
street came to light, by which
the house of Brown Brothers &
Co. were losers to the amount of
nearly a quarter of a million
dollars. The parties implicated
were Augustus G. W. Bowen,
Caablor, and David A. Comstock,
a broker, as confederate, who,
after several examinations, were
discharged, as not guilty of an
offence within the law.
6. A female named Lucy
Jackson, at No. 139 Washington
street, was charged with
stealing diamonds from Miss
Fanny Henry, of England, value
$2,000. The dead body of a man
named David McMahon was found in
Tinpot-alley. The Jury returned
a verdict that the deceased was
murdered by some persons
unknown.
7. Two men, named George
Foote and E.B. Mitchell, were
committed for a robbery of
diamond breastpins from the
store of Tiffany & Ellis,
Broadway, value, $1,000.
9. A young man named
Francis Wilson, in the employ of
the Erie Railroad Company, was
arrested on a charge of stealing
$1,000 in cash from the dispatch
bags. During the months of June,
July and August, several sums of
large amount had been stolen
from the bag by Wilson and an
accomplice named Wm. Gillelan.
Quincy Stowell, a keeper of the
Blackwell's Island Penitentiary,
and his son Charles, were
arrested as concerned in the
robbery of a valuable breastpin
and purse of $52, from Mr.
Summers, on board the Francis
Skiddy, Aug. 5. The Five Points
was the scene of a bloody affray
among several negroes, in which
two, named Anthony Schenck and
Cyrus Johnson, received wounds
likely to result in death. Two
desperate characters, named
George Williams and Henry Smith,
were arrested.
12. A blind man, named
David O'Brien, residing at No.
418 Eleventh-street, actuated by
jealousy of an intimacy between
his wife and Henry Maloney, a
neighbor, fired a pistol at the
latter, as he stood in the
doorway. The shot took effect in
his side, inflicting a severe
wound.
15. Mr. Wm. Lawrett, of
Ogdensburg, was relieved of $400
in money, and a gold watch, by a
Miss Ada Byron and her
accomplices, whose intimacy he
had courted at a house of Ill
fame in Duane street.
16. Seven deserters from
U.S. sloop of war Cyanc, were
arrested.
Thomas Cook committed suicide at
No. 5 State-street, while in a
deranged state of mind....A
middle-aged man, named Edward
Shepherd, was arrested on charge
of forging two checks on the
Broadway Bank.
20. A notorious rogue
named James Walker was arrested,
while burglarlously entering the
house of Mr. Vincent, No. 220
Cherry street. He stabbed
officer Bridge and a citizen who
assisted in the villain's
arrest.
21. A man named Richard
B. Cadmus was arrested on a
charge of forging a bill for
$672, in the name of Leslie D.
Roberts, Brooklyn, on the
Tradesman's Bank, New York.
22. Adam Bower, confined
in the Twentieth Ward
Station-house for drunkenness,
committed suicide by hanging
himself to a beam with his
cravat.
29. The execution of
Charles Scudder, colored, for
the murder of Mrs. Robbins at
Comac, L.I., in February, took
place at Riverhead, L.I.
Nov. 1. Two men named
Francis Colton and Matthew
Stewart were committed for
passing counterfeit $10 notes,
on the Merchant's Bank, Mass.
Three men named Timothy
Reynolds, Thomas Riley, and
Edward Kehoe, were committed for
a murderous assault upon officer
Gillon of the Twentieth Ward.
4. Wm. Logan, of the
First Ward, and others, were
committed for illegal
voting....A young lady named
Verplanck committed suicide, by
poison, while suffering from
depression of spirits induced by
disappointed love.