The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-20
City IntelIlwenees

Tee Case ISfANTIc,oe -Uorcner ives yesterday
founA in the possession Of Henry cappcr BY officer Don
nelly OF the Second ward the circumstances of which We
sorts essmpation q the body and found that the UNI
blca cord bad been severed and neglected to bs pro
perry tied whereby the child possibly bed to DEATH II
was the opinion OF the doctor that the child born
alive aud its death caused by criminal neglect. Henry
Capper was examined and eftsd that be resides at No
SS Sixth avenue he has been in this country three
years and engaged clerk in the drug storeonei OF
Christopher street and Greenwich avenue; that he had
eeen absent In this country come eighteen months from
his wife, and during that time she had become encien
and on her arrival in this country delivered OF the
sgtmste child as above deecrioed The jury on the
evidence rendered the following verdict That the
child to It's death BY criminal neglect the part
Of the mother on the 10th Instant Tue mother
has bee placed under the sreiance Of the police and
Henry Caprer the hubard disc harged from custody
by the Coroner.
FiREs.At quarter past five o'clock ?. NJ yesterdays
fire was dscoyered in the house 90 West Broadway. IL
quickly extihguished by Hose Company No z TIE
damage arising more from water than otherwise Yester
day morning at about quarter past five o'clock A. a
fire was discovered on the premises No 49, avenue D. IL
commenced in the entry and for time caused great
siarm but il quickly exnguished before any mate
rial damage effected This fire Is supposed TO be the
work OF an incendary.
FATAL RAILRoAp ACCIDENT. John Gardner, of tho
brakemen employed on the Harlem Railroad lost his
stepping round the OF the baggage from the
platform to the side rail the passing
under Wass0ic bridge when came in contact with the
side Of the latter, and almost Instantly expired.
ANoTarR ACCIDENT AS the Croton Falls train yester
day morning coming down the Harlem Railroad
short distance above williamsbridge accident
CURED to Of the trucks which rendered necessary
to obtain assistance from the city to set matters to rights
thereby causing delay gilmore than three hours in the
arrival Of the train
ACcibfsTs.-A man named Henry Burke. while engaged
building of Thirty first and Tenth
avenue accidentally fell from the fourth story 10 the
ground breaking leg and other ~ise internally injur
ing himself Ho was conveyed to The hospital by po-
Nctman
A man named John Mclaughlin hand board
the steamboat General Scott white attemp iing TO jump
on board canal boat lying at the foot of Amos street.
fell into the river and drowned before assistance
could be rendered His body has yet been overed
lie leaves wife TO mourn his loss
named Richard PHILIPPE fell in the river foot Of
Ch1isoph street about three o'clock e. NJ Monday.
He cued from drowning by citizens and
veyed to the hospital
SUSPICIOUS DEATH The dead body of an unknown man
appaI emily German by BIRTH found the bottom
OF embaDkment amongst rocks at the of
Sixth and Fifty sixth street 1t presumed that
the deceased must have been thrown off the embanment
amongst the rocks it does not probable he would
walk Of The body taken in charge by the Nine
teenth ward police and Coroner Ives notified 20 hold
inquest.
TIE INSTANTANEOUS AFsAR.-We requested to
state that tie Boy arrested the steamboat Kncker
booker Sunday morning last, is not the Boynton of
Adams Express, who runs on that boat.