The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1905-08-16
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NEW YoRK Cry. N. Y.

Annie O'Shaughnessy, pretty girl
OF 20, is prisoner in the Hudson Street
Hospital, charged with having attempt
ed suicide. Disappointment in a love af-
fair is given by Miss 'Shaughnessy as
the cause for her act. She told the po-
lice that she left her home, at 24o West
One Hundred and Twenty-first street,
where she is employed as a servant, de-
termining TO end her troubles in the
river. She went down to Chambers
street, where she boarded North River
| ferryboat. She waited until the boat
had reached point about 900 feet from
the shore, and then jumped overheard.
Michael Nelson was at work on the
deck of a steam lighter and saw the
girl leap. He jumped into the water
after her and reached her in time.
With seven cents in his pocket, the
remains, he said Of fortune of half a
million dollars, a man with flowing white
side whiskers appealed to Commissioner
Of Charities Henry Sharp at New Ro-
chelle to be committed to the Westches-
ter County Almshouse.
The old man said he was J. T. Rape
lee, p years old. He wore a silk hat,
patent leather shoes and frock coat He
was at one time, he said, a New York
broker and the head of a house in Wall
Street. Commissioner Sharp committed
him to the poorhouse as he requested,
but sent him to the institution al
East View in carriage.
HE called me Nan Patterson and ]
slapped his face, Judge" said Louisa
Ehlers, of Jersey City, to Judge Man
ming in Second Criminal Court.
you were justified in doing So" was
the Courts comment.
But she called me Mr. Pewee," said
Thomas McAdams, whom the girl
charged with slandering her.
The dispute was finally ended by dis
missing the whole case, but not before
Miss Ehlers declared her conviction that
Nan Patterson was guilty.
"Mny" asked the Court
Because the papers said So" was the
woman's logical reply.
Coroner William O'Gorman of the
Bronx, who was conspicuous in the
investigation of the General Slocum dis
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under circumstances hardly comfortable
In the first place, he weighs 2s2 pounds
He slipped and fell from his yacht Dada
near Hunter Island, and when he came
UP started to swim ashore, as he thought
But he mistook the route in the dark
and after half an hour struck his heac
on rock near Orchard Beach, ant
was stunned for a moment When he
recovered his senses he walked ashore
in shallow water
"Motorman, you will stop this car, j
you please?" said a mild-mannered anc
smiling man OF about IS years, as ht
poked a gun into the face of Considin'
Watson, crossing the bridge on Third
avenue trolley.
What p exclaimed the motorman.
Right here" said the smiling gur
man, and the motorman stopped. Will
polite thank you, the man with tn,
gun stepped off, walked lightly TO tht
railing and jumped under TO the river
His body has not been recovered.
"You got just what you deserved,
said Magistrate Moss in Essex Marke
Court to Abram Enzwag, who charged
Jennie Katz with stabbing him in tn,
head and legs. THE case is dismissed.
Enzwag was formerly an ironer in ;
clothing establishment at 1897 Defiance,
street, where the girl is employed. Ac
cording to her story, he persisted in an
noyng her and tried to take her arm
when she stabbed him with a pair o
shears.