Four Things That Happened in the New York City Metropolitan Area on April 4, 1876
a daily briefing from the archives of the New York Times:
- “Some boys were annoying August Levin on St Paul’s avenue, Jersey City Heights yesterday, when he picked up a stone and, throwing it with great force, struck James Gorman, aged ten years, in the mouth, knocking out several teeth and badly disfiguring him. Levin, how had just completed a term in the Penitentiary, was committed for trial.”
- “Charles Jackson, a colored man, accidentally shot and killed himself at Englewood, Bergen County, yesterday, while carelessly handling a gun.”
- “Coroner Ellinger held an inquest yesterday in the case of Hezekiah Stephenson, who died at the Chambers Street Hospital from the effects of a pistol-shot wound accidentally received at the hands of Thomas Connors. The jury rendered a verdict of accidental death, and censured Connors for ‘going into the room where Stephenson was, as he had no business there.’”
- “Charles Gilbert, an Orange newsdealer, stole $500 from his wife’s trunk yesterday, and, it is supposed, has gone to Europe.”
