Friday, May 30, 2008

Sold Another Man's Wagon

New York, 1895

Charles Ruland of Islip was sent to the county jail for sixty days by Justice Griffith Saturday, for appropriating to his own use a wagon belonging to Abrew Bros. Ruland borrowed the wagon and drove across the island. Getting short of cash he sold the wagon.


Boyling's Wife is Missing

Letter Carrier Robert H. Boyling, of Long Island City, on Monday. asked the police to help him find his wife, Kate, who he said had deserted him and his four little children, the youngest only seven months old. Boyling said his wife had been missing since February 14.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 1.

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