Rochester, Monroe, NY
Rochester Daily Union
Apr. 6, 1855
POLICE REPORT - Yesterday afternoon a girl named Ellen CARTER was arraigned, charged with having stolen a cape
and sundry other articles from John McVEAN, of Wheatland. She was committed to Jail to await further examination,
when witnesses shall arrive.
Joseph NORTH, Samuel CROFT, Mary Ann NORTH and Ann Elizabeth ANDREWS, were charged with receiving property from
Lemuel LEE, knowing it to have been stolen. These persons were recently arrested on Spring street, in this city,
and taken to Syracuse for trial. It turned out, however, on examination, that they did not steal the property,
but that a man in that city stole it and brought it to Rochester, and here, it is alleged, put it into the hands
of the persons in custody. The crime, if it has been committed, is therefore punishable in this county. Justice
MOORE sent a Policeman to Syracuse yesterday and bro't the prisoners back. After an examination they were committed
to Jail, to await the action of the Grand Jury.
Three drunken men were arrested last night and discharged this morning.
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A Blind and Aged Female Burned to Death
Coroner HILTON yesterday held an inquest at No. 121 Mulberry street, upon the body of Mrs. Elizabeth MURPHY, who
died on Tuesday night from the effect of burns received a few hours previous. It appears that deceased, who was
68 years of age, and had for four years been perfectly blind, lived with her daughter at the above number, and
was supported by her, she being employed in an establishment down town. On Tuesday, while alone in her room, the
deceased, feeling that there was too much fire in the grate, undertook to take off some of the wood, when her dress
caught fire. She immediately started for the door, but being blind, was unable to reach it until she had in her
attempts, fallen several times; finally, her screams brought the neighbors to her assistance, and one of them threw
a pail of water over her and extinguished the flames. A physician was then sent for, but his efforts to save her
life proved unavailing.-
Previous to her death she narrated to her daughter the above facts in relation to the cause of the accident. A
series of misfortunes seems to have attended this family. A few years ago they were wealthy, but a commercial crisis
ruined the father, who died soon afterwards, leaving his wife and two children in indigent circumstances. About
three years ago, the only son, Geo. T. MURPHY, was fatally stabbed while endeavoring to prevent a fight between
several Germans on the corner of Grand and Centre streets. A man named James MALONY was arrested at the time, charged
with being the person who inflicted the fatal wound; but, for want of evidence of his guilt, was subsequently discharged.
After the death of the son the mother and daughter were supported by the labor of the latter, who is now, by the
painful accident which destroyed her mother's life, left alone in the world. - (N. Y. Tribune, 5th.)
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