Brooklyn Daily Union-Argus
2 January 1878

TANGLED FEET-ONE OF THE DISENCHANTMENTS OF NEW YEARS.

        Persons Arrested on Charges of Intoxication in the City of
Churches--A Painful Chapter of Bad Beginnings.

     Some people "see the old year out and the new year in" one way and some
another.  The police make mention of the following persons who resorted to
whiskey and other kinkred {actual spelling :^) }souruts ti ebabke tgen ti
"keep" the occasion in a manner suitable to their tastes:

         MISPLACED CONFIDENCE
    James HUGHES, a watchman, of 44 Lexington avenue, while befogged last
night sought to steady himself by appealing to that proverbial friend of the
unsteady, a lamp-post.  The lamppost stood at the corner of water and Main
streets, and stands there still, a monument of inhospitableness; for when
Hughes sought to embract it, it came in contact with his forehead,
inflicting a slight gash.  Then the police arrested HUGHES.

        An Intoxicated Man Run Over
    Owen CONNORS, aged forty-two, of Kent avenue and Wallabout street, while
intoxicated yesterday afternoon was run over in Bedford avenue, near
Wallabout street, by a light wqgon, but escaped serious injury.  The driver
did not stop.

      Didn't Know How He Came By It.
    The police were notified last night that a horse and wagon, belonging to
Adam BONNER, of No. 70 Beaver street, had disappeared from in from of a
saloon corner of Ewen and Meserole streets.  At half-past 2 o'clock this
morning, William C. HINES, a watch-case maker, of No. 89 Throop street,
drove up to the Thirteenth Precinct in the missing wagon.  He was
intoxicated, and could give no account of himself.  He was held for intoxication.

                Break Door Whiskey.
    Saunders FLOOD, of 182 Troy avenue; James MEELEY, of1682 Warren street,
and Patrick HALLING,  of Troy avenue, were arrested after midnight this
morning in the Twelfth Precinct charged by Mrs. Mary PARDILL with having,
while under the influence of liquor, maliciously broken in the door of her
residence, corner of Douglass street and Rochester avenue.

          "Drunks" All Over The City
    The police returns of to-day also contain the following arrests for
intoxication, made between 6 A.M. yesterday and 6 A.M. to-day:

    FIRST PRECINCT-
James COLGAN, 25 Clinton street, 
Wm. V. MULLEN, finisher,189 Classon avenue; 
Luke S. WILSON, fish dealer, 29 Tallman street; 
John CROGHAN, laborer, DeKalb avenue; 
Richard CLEMINS, laborer, 146 Fourth street; 
James HUDSON, liquor dealer, Rockaway L. I.; 
Hugh O'?ag?an, laborer, Twenty-second street, N.Y.; 
Charles STRONG, laborer, 198 Hudson avenue, 
Alex COCHRAN, pilot, 357 Pearl street; 
Joseph HIGGINBOTHAN, clerk, Staten Island;
Martha H. KETTS, servant, 18 Kawrebce street; 
Albert BRECHTEL, clerk, 418 Fulton street.

SECOND PRECINCT:  
Mary McDERMOTT, servant, Porchester; 
Elizabeth FISHER,servant East New York; 
Elizabeth COULAGUE; Ellen MURPHY, 42 Mott street, N.Y.;  
Thomas BARRY, broker, 137 Degraw street; 
James DUNBAR, laborer, 29 Hart's alley; 
Andrew BRADLEY, machinist, 128 Hudson avenue; 
James HUGHES, watchmaker, 44 Lexington avenue; 
Thomas HANLEY, laborer, 85 Prospect street;
Michael HENRY, bartender, 48 Oxford street; 
Terence BRADY, laborer, 61 Front street; 
Hugh TIMANS, laborer, Gold and Water streets.

THIRD PRECINCT:  
George MORMAN, laborer, 47 Union street; 
Michael BOULGER, Blacksmith, 295 Baltic street; 
John TODD, 128 Butler street, aged twenty-two; 
Patrick HIGGINS, laborer, 481 Blatic street; 
Thomas STACK plumber 590 Hicks street; 
James GANNON, laborer; 59 Nelson  street.

FOURTH PRINCINCT:  
Bernard McMAHON, laborer, Grand avenue; 
Fank WILLIAMSON,carpenter, 1121 Fulton street; 
James WARREN, laborer, 10 DeKalb avenue;
James SMITH, batter, 54 Cumberland street; 
Philip WEBBER, laborer, 64 Vanderbilt avenue; 
Peter QUINN, laborer, DeKalb and Kent avenues;  
Geo. W.BRUNDAGE, bookkeeper, 348 West Twenty-second street, NY; 
Mary MADDEN,single, 44 Myrtle avenue; 
Chas. FORD, blacksmith, 126 Grand avenue.

FIFTH PRECINCT:  
Ed. McLAUGHLIN, laborer, 56 North Second street; 
Hugh QUINN, laborer, Cannon street, N.Y.; 
Denis MARA; 
Michael McCANLEY, pedler,6 Grand street,
Anna ROURKE, 266 North Seventh street.

SIXTH PRECINCT:  
Annie CARR, single; 
Mary HAGGERTY, single; 
John BOEMAN,laborer, 301 Devoe street; 
Alvis SCHNEIDER, laborer, Graham avenue; 
John BARRETT, laborer, Seigel street.

SEVENTH PRECINCT:  
John TIERMAN, boxmaker, 140 Dupont street; 
Ed.FITZSIMMONS, laborer, 145 Union place; 
William DARCY laborer, Ash street;
Edward HEALY, laborer, 117 Union street; 
Charles BUSH, 114 Union place;
William McVEY, laborer, 108 Orchard street; 
Joseph HAIG, laborer, 188 Greenpoint avenue.

EIGHTH PRECINCT:  
John GOLDEN, laborer, Fifty-third street; 
Edward ROBSON, carpenter, 172 forty-third street.

NINTH PRECINCT:  
Thomas GORDON, driver, Flatbush; 
Ed. GALLAGER, blacksmith,308  Franklin avenue; 
Thomas CURRAN, plasterer, Bedford avenue.

TENTH PRECINCT:  
Mark DAILEY, polisher, 103 Fulton street; 
Mary FAY, single;
Charles JOHNSON, tinsmith, 688 Atlantic avenue; 
William POLLOCK, plumber,228 Bedford avenue; 
John CAIN, coadhman, 293 Twenty-third street; 
Benjamin WALSH, ice dealer, Park place; 
Thomas LYONS, shoemaker, 264 Bergen street.

ELEVENTH PRECINCT:  
John McGUINN, laborer, 196 Sacket street; 
Thomas H. CLIFFORD, laborer, 832 Van Brunt street; 
Dennis OWENS, laborer, Fourth place; 
John McNAMARA, laborer, 80 Fourth street; 
William MORRIS, tinsmith, Centre street; 
Michael GROW?EY, laborer 35 Huntington street
Thomas McGREAVY, laborer, 35 Huntington street; 
Richard LAWRENCE, laborer, 676 Hicks street;
Fred. LUK, boatman, 112 Sackett street; 
Patrick GRAHAM, boatman, 103 Imlay street; 
Ellen ANDERSON, 803 Navy street; 
John MORAN, proter, 104 Imlay street.

TWELFTH PRECINCT:  Peter RYAN, laborer, 196 Herkimer street.

THIRTEENTH PRECINCT:  
John CHRISS, laborer, 31 Varet street, 
Charles STAMMER, locksmith, 155 Hopkins street; 
John D. HODGES, laborer, 620 Flushing avenue;
William C. HINES, watchcase maker, 89 Throop avenue; 
Ann JOHNSON, housekeeper.

                    Greenpoint Items

    Joseph RUSHAN, alias "Peanut Joe," was arrested on Monday night for
assaulting Jacob KOCH, who lives at Manhattan avenue and Kent street, with a
club, which was found in the prisoner's possession when arrested/

    One hundred persons yesterday received a quart of soup and a loaf of
bread each from Thomas CARTER, the restaurant-keeper of 119 Franklin street.
The same quantity was distributed to-day to the worthy poor of the 'Point.

    A public installation of the recently elected officers of Barbara
Freitchie Post Will take place to-morrow evening.

    Officer DUGAN had his hand seriously cut and knee injured yesterday
while stopping a runaway horse belonging to Joseph SCHNORR, 207 Green street.

A FATAL DRAUGHT
    A Child Drinks Poison By Mistake.
        August PLATT, aged nine years, of No. 16 Walcott street, went to his
mother's closet this morning, and seeing a bottle which he thought contained
brandy, drank from it.  The bottle contained carbolic acid, and although Dr.
SHERIDAN was called in, the little fellow died in twenty minutes.

A SCUPTER CHISELS
Charles R. BURKE, a sculptor, of Bleecker street, near Sullivan, New York,
was arrested on Monday night by Detectives FROST AND CORR, charged with
stealing a gold chain valued at $35, from William a WISE's jewelry
establishment in Fulton street, near Concord.  Detective CORR alleges that a
woman was with the "sculptor" when the alleged theft was committed.

FLIGHT OF MICHAEL GALLAGHER's TIME
John MULVEY, aged twenty-nine, of No. 25 Carroll street, who is
characterized by the Third Precinct police as a "notorious thief," was
arrested yesterday by Officer TRAVERS, Third Pricinct, charged with having
stolen a ten dollar watch from Michael GALLAGHER, of 44 Flushing avenue,
while the latter was in James FARRELL's tailor shop, 19 Carroll street.  The
property was found on him.

A VERY LIVELY BROTHER
James TORPEY, a fireman of No. 28 Summit street, was arrested last evening,
charged with inflicting with a bowl several severe wounds on the head of his
brother Peter.  The injured man was removed to St. Peter's Hospital.

A POLICEMAN INJURED
Officer Robert WALKER, of the Fourth Precinct, had his right foot severely
injured this morning while returning from post by falling off the front
platform of Myrtle avenue car No. 130.  He was taken to the City Hospital.

A POLICEMAN BEATEN
A crowd of ruffians at three o'clock this morning beat Officer WOOLSAKE, of
the Fourth Precinct, while he was doing special duty in citizen's clothes at
the corner of Myrtle and Hudson avenue.

BURGLARS IN FULTON STREET
Two burglars at two o'clock this morning broke a $20 pane of glass in
GOOLD's music store, No. 266 Fulton street.  They got nothing and escaped.

HOTEL THIEF IN NEW LOTS
David HENSHAW, a boarder at the Metropolitan Hotel, East New York, had $65
worth of clothing stolen from his room last night by a lodger who left the
building at an early hour in the morning.

SECOND-STORY ROBERTY
Mr. A.F. CARMAN, of No 469 Waverly avenue, reports this on the evening of
the 28th ultimo (?) his residence was entered through a second-story window
and robbed of jewelry valued at $8.

THROWN FROM A CARRIAGE
Alfred WARD, of 146 Atlantic avenue, by his horse running away, was thrown
from his carriage in Atlantic avenue last evening, sustaining a fracture of
the left leg.  Removed to St. Peter's Hospital.

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HIMSELF
By the accidental discharge of his own pistol yesterday P. KRAMER, carpenter
on the steamer Hudaon, laying at the foot of Court street, slightly injured
his left arm.  Dr. GILLIGAN dressed the wound.

SHOT BY AN UNKNOWN PERSON
Peter CLOD, aged twenty-five, of 32 Thornton street, was shot in the hand by
some unknown person and seveely injured while walking in Broadway, near
Thornton street, at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday morning.  The ball is
supposed to have been discharged from someone celebrating the advent of the
new year.

A CORPSE ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
Mary LYONS, aged forty, a lodger, was found dead in bed yesterday in Eliza
MOOD's house, 78  Washington street.

DROWNED DURING A FIT OF DELIRIUM
Peter O'KEEFE,  aged twenty-eight, wandered from his residence, No. 2
Harrison court, on Saturday in a fit of delirium.  Yesterday his body was
recovered from the river at the foot of Jay street.

A FATAL RUPTURE
John GOODWIN, aged thirty-six, mate of the brig Normand, lying fott of
Partition street, ruptured a blood vessel yesterday afternoon, and in
fifteen minutes was a corpse.

DEATH IN A BACK BASEMENT
Alice FAY, a single woman, aged twenty-five, residing in the back basement
of the tenement, No. 318 Hicks street, died suddenly last evening.

MARY WATSON's SAD NEW YEAR
Mary WATSON, aged eighteen, single, homeless and destitute was found
wandering in the street at two o'clock this morning by the Third Precinct
police.  She carried a six months old infant in her arms, not knowing that
it was dead.  It had perished for want of sufficient nourishment and warmth.


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