The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-08-26
Crime North and SOuth.

Crime North and South.
We pick up New York newspaper
at random-the first one that presents
itself-and we look over its columns to
sec if any goody-goody land human pas
sion has sway; If crime is committed;
if the law is violated.
And what do We find in this single
paper picked up at random, and bearing
date August 18th? 1t is a daily paper,
and theforc gives only one days record
l. A young man named Armstrong.
20 years old, whose mother is away, &C.
cretes himself in his step fathers house,
and when tho step father comes home
at night shoots him with pistol and
kills him because he does not furnish the
young man with as much money~as he
wants. The detectives trace the crime
to him, and he confesses. And this
does not occur in the slums, but three
story brown-stone house in a fashiona-
bic part Of the city Of New York.
2. Burton T. Beash, New York law
yer, swindles friend out Of $3.50. and
his aunt out Of $40 and skips. Burton
belonged to the creme de la creme.
8. Ex-City Librarian Barclay and
man named Lacky fight on the street
with fists and sticks. When the fight
begins Lucky has lady on his arm.
4, We quote in full:
Two girls named Cora Guild and
Flora Shaid. aged respectively II and
IL years were playing under shade
tree at Bedford Park, in the Twenty
fourth ward, yesterday, when tramp
came along and sat down beside them.
In few minutes the girls ran home
screaming, and tho tramp walked down
the road. When the children told their
mothers about the conduct of the tramp
all excited crowd Of women was gather
ed, they started after the tramp. They
chased him at the top Of his speed
across the fields to u wood lot. and there
he cluded them. The police were after
ward notified, but the tramp was not
found.
S. We quote again:
A policeman found an unconscious
man on, last Monday evening on the
pavement in Sullivan street. near Canal.
He was bleeding from confusion on tho
forehead. He was taken to Bellevue
Hospital, wher he died on Tuesday
night.
6. We quote again:
Screams were heard early yesterday
m"rnins from the first floor of the rear
tenement $40 West Thirtieth street.
A scutfliny was heard, and then pistol
shot. A woman rushed from tho room
into the courtyard and across it into .
narrow alley leading to the street. Az
ter the woman q man ran with smoking
pistol in hi 'hsnd. The woman ran TO tho
Thirty seventh street police station and
said she was Pauline Vanderbilt, and
that her husband, Frederick Vanderbilt,
had shot her. He was jealous without
cause. she said Mrs. Vanderbilt was
taken in an ambulance to the Roosevelt
Hospital.
| z. We quote again in full:
Mrs. E. Delnamhtrove, residing on
Tenth avenue. College Point, was ava
kened at 2 O'Clock yesterday morning by
a burglar near her bed. She caught
him by the hair and screamed to her
husband for help. Her husband fired a
revolver at him, but the fellow released
himself and ran out Of the honsc.
Blood spots were afterward found on
the sloop. 4 few small articles were
missed.
8. We quote again in full {:
Irma Balars.a sixteen-year old Hun.
garian girl, threw her baby into vault
at her home =. 80 Clinton street yester.
day. The child was found dead. Tho
mother was put under arrest, and remov.
cd to Bellevue Hospital as prisoner.
This is one days record in the city Of
New York, as reported oy one newspA-
paper. The whole record occupies less
space than the Ne,cs and Courier gave
to the slrby row, aud scarcely one-fifth
the space occupied by the little haxco
/ with the slnigrant agent n Waterioo.
There Is material enough in the above
record to o'firaisk bur esteemed cpntem.
i porary with rlawlessnessa articles FOL