DEATH OF JAMES S. JOBES - After a long life, marked throughout by
honesty, integrity, industry and the most exemplary piety, this good man has
passed from our midst. His reward awaits him after a life which brought
little of this world's benefit to him. He died last evening at his residence
in East St., of inflammation of the heart. A wide circle of friends and
relatives will mourn his loss, and ever hold his memory in loving respect.
DESPICABLE VILLAINY - On Thursday morning at one o'clock a train was
partially thrown from the track of the Lake Shore Railroad near Buffalo, by
some ties placed on the track. The accident did not prove serious. Two men
were seen near the place, who ran away after the train stopped. It is
supposed that they expected a bad smash up, and intended to take advantage
of it to plunder passengers. When they found that no one was hurt they fled.
ACCIDENT IN A CHURCH - On Friday last, as a new German Catholic Church on
Dickinson st., Buffalo, was being dedicated, a part of the floor in front of
the alter gave way and about sixty persons, mostly children, were
precipitated into the cellar. Strange as it may seem, only five were injured
so as to require attention, and none fatally.
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DIED
On the 9th inst., Nathalie E., youngest daughter of Rufus and Phoebe
KEELER, aged 26 years.
-Friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from the house,
64 South St. Paul street, at 1 1/2 o'clock, and from St. Paul's Church at
2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Rochester, N.Y. Daily Democrat
Dec 21, 1866
THE MURDER OF THE JOYCE CHILDREN
(A dispatch to the World from Boston says:)
There is some reason to believe the skeleton found recently in Needham woods that of the murderer of the JOYCE children.
The bones have been examined by a surgeon, who thinks they have remained there several years. Immediately after
the murder of the JOYCE children in Buzzy's woods, Roxbury, every effort was made to apprehend the perpetrator
but without success, when an effort was made to fasten the guilt upon a State prison convict known as "Scratch
Graves," but it was subsequently shown that he was not in the vicinity at the time of the murder. The supposition
now is that the real demon, immediately after committing his hellish work, took to the woods to escape detection,
and after weeks of wandering about, living on roots to sustain life, he finally perished from starvation and fear.
A quantity of hair was found by the side of the skeleton, which resembles that worn by the man who was last seen
near the spot where the terrible affair took place.
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COURT RECORD
POLICE COURT - BRYAN, P. J. - Dec. 19 -
Amelia McGOFF - arrested for burglary. Committed for further Examination.
Wm. CALEY - drunk and turning his family out of doors. Fined ten dollars or ninety days.
Louis PROVINE - lodger. Discharged.
Ellen DONIVAN - drunk. Bail for good behavior.
Thursday, Dec 20.
Michael CAMPBELL - a vagrant boy. Discharged.
John BUSH - drunk and breaking windows. Fined five dollars.
Martin CUMMINGS - arrested on a warrant for an assault on a woman. Held to bail.
Ellen Jane FOWLER - drunk. Ten dollars or ninety days M. C. P.
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