New York Criminal Record for 1852 Part II

 
 
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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.


 

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Article Name: New York Criminal Record for 1852 Part II
Researcher/Transcriber Miriam Medina

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New York Daily Jan. 3, 1853. p. 6 (1 page)
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